-: As I've mentioned a few times in our Why Bear Creek series,
we are a liberal arts school.
That tradition is deep and historical
and is aimed primarily at forming virtue through the goods
of the mind and developing those goods.
If we were to go back to say ancient Greece, even
to Plato's Academy, we would see
that we would see students sitting in symposium asking
questions, developing the life of the mind
with the goal being virtue.
But what you might be surprised
to see is they would also be involved in gymnasium.
Yes, we get the word gymnasium from that
because they also believe that the life of the body
and developing that was integral
to developing the life of the mind.
We are a Christian liberal arts school after all,
and so we understand
that the scriptures give us a deeper understanding of why
that is so. It's
because we're made incarnational, we're made in the flesh,
we've been created and designed with bodies,
and those bodies moving through time
and space are part of the way that God has made us.
So why athletics at the Bear Creek School?
Well, it's because many of our students have gifts
and passions in that area, and as they move through time
and space, they feel joy, they feel God's pleasure.
-: I play volleyball, basketball,
and golf, which I love all of those sports. Volleyball,
I love the culture
and I just love that we get to like hang out
and play the sport at the same time.
Super fun. And basketball I love as well
because we've grown immensely.
And then for golf, I love it as well because we get to talk
and we get to learn at the same time as opposed
to just being out of breath like 24/7 being
like, how was your day?
And then it's like, now we actually just get to talk
and like drink Starbucks or something.
It's super fun.
-: I play baseball, golf, and basketball.
I love all three seasons.
I think our coaches are a big factor in that for golf.
Coach Faris, he's awesome.
He loves the game of golf and he loves his players.
And Coach Mendo really wants to build a relationship
with you personally and he loves you
and he pushes you to work very hard.
And I think he really works on building his players into,
into men and people who will thrive in the everyday life.
And then Coach Mike for baseball.
He is really caring of you
and what you do outside of baseball, not just the sport,
but you as a person.
And so I think the coaches are a big reason why I love
to play sports here at Bear Creek.
-: So as you can see, athletics at the Bear Creek School
helps students to exercise their gifts in a supportive
community that helps them to become the individual
that God intends.