Kent school sports media
Kent School is one of the most widely known co-educational private schools located in Kent in Connecticut, America. Kent School dates back to 1906 when it was established by Reverend Fredrick Herbert Sill of the Episcopal Church. This school has students coming from all across the USA along with 30 other foreign countries. This school offers a curriculum which involves both academics and sports and gives equal importance to both these fields.
Kent School is one of the members of the Founders League and competes in 32 varsity sports categories. The institution has 22 interscholastic sports and 56 interscholastic teams. More than one third of the student population of Kent School is known to participate in these usta kumarhane sporting activities. Several students from Kent School have made news when they have gone on to play in Division I, II and III categories in college and University competitions.
Kent School has a established rowing team called the Kent School Boat Club. This club was founded in 1922 and it has three varsity boats. The fourth boat participates in varsity boat races. They are also known to conduct spring training sessions that take place in the schools spring break. The Crew of this club went to win several challenges such as the Thames Challenge Cup.
They have been consistent in their success in this particular sport and have won 5 times on their participation at Henley. The Kent Girls Crew was founded in 1973 and this team too continues to be as successful as its counterpart. They won the competition at Henley in 2002 and still have also won two National Championships in addition to several New England Championships
The schools arch rival in sports would be the Loomis Chaffe School. Their traditional rivalry culminates every year in the annual Kent V/S Loomis day where both the schools take part in a numbers of sports challenges. Kent School has a very good football team which has been the undisputed leader for six consecutive years in this challenge. The Kent school football team is also one of the first private American schools that will play internationally in the fall. They are invited and sponsored by Global Football that is affiliated to the NFL. The Kent Football team shall compete against the Danish National Junior Squad in a event that is to take place in London in a initiative to market football.
Almost all of the success that Kent School has got in its athletic endeavors can be attributed to its excellent coaches. The majority of the coaches stay on campus and have more opportunities of interacting with students. This familiarity helps the coach to develop coaching methods keeping the students in mind. The school has great training facilities both for indoor and outdoor sports along with a state of the art fitness centre. These facilities include 13 outdoor tennis courts, 13 playing fields, a cross country running course, a 25 yard, six lane, diving pool, squash courts etc. To add to this is the 1200acre campus which includes the Appalachian Trail.