The members of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee created a bulletin board to recognize seniors continuing their athletic careers in college. The goal is to keep adding student-athletes’ commitments throughout the years and commemorate DV staff who have played athletics in college.
SAAC advisor Mrs. Krystine Thompson was inspired by another school to create the Wall of Fame.
“My friend at Blair Academy is an athletic trainer, and she wanted to start a Wall of Fame for her athletes that are moving on,” Mrs. Thompson said. “I really loved the idea.”
Mrs. Thompson believes it is important to highlight student-athletes who are playing collegiately.
“Not a lot of kids realize how many athletes are moving on to play at the collegiate level, and it matters that they’re going and pushing themselves to play at the next level,” Mrs. Thompson said.
Mrs. Marielle Cohen, a DV alumna and current teacher who graduated from and played NCAA Division I field hockey at Saint Francis University, expressed how the Wall of Fame highlights teachers’ athletic careers.
“This is a way to connect teachers with their athletic past without making them feel arrogant about it, instead just being proud to be a DV graduate and playing a sport in college,” Mrs. Cohen said.
Mrs. Thompson hopes that underclassmen, seeing their peers committing to play college sports, will inspire them to continue to work hard in athletics.
“It’s really good for underclassmen to see that [commitments to college athletics] and think to themselves, ‘If I continue to work hard in my sport, I can go and excel and play collegiately,’” Mrs. Thompson said.
The bulletin board can be found outside the 9/10 cafeteria, and Mrs. Thompson invites anyone who is committed to playing collegiately and not included on the board to visit her in M6 to be added.
