Faculty

Mr. Todd Eisenhofer
Mr. Jeffrey Gross
Mrs. Julie McCarthy
Mr. Kenneth Romberger
Mrs. Lori Spohn
Mr. Roger Stafford

Courses

Note: The Health and Physical Education Program encourages students to participate in a variety of physical activities and classroom activities that will enhance their level of fitness and knowledge of physical and mental well-being. Students are required to pass four years of physical education and two years of health education.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Physical Education 10 - 12 enables students to participate in team and individual sports activities. Physical training techniques and physical fitness tests are utilized to help each student determine their level of fitness. The introduction to sports with a high degree of carry-over value in lifetime fitness is emphasized. Skill development, tournament play and competition will be available to students who have mastered the basic skills in certain lifetime sports

Team Sports Activities

• Soccer Track & Field
• Flag Football
• Floor Hockey
• Speedball
• Modified Lacrosse
• Basketball
• Ultimate Frisbee
• Volleyball
• Recreational Games
• Softball

Individual Sports Activities

• Aerobic Exercise
• Tennis
• Racquetball
• Golf

ADAPTIVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION

This program is designed to meet the needs of students permanently or temporarily handicapped or who have functional defects or deficiencies amenable to improvement through exercise. It is integrated with regular physical education where conditions allow.

HEALTH EDUCATION I

It is recommended that this course be taken in grade 9. It provides basic information in the attitudes and pattern of human behavior. Emphasis is on addictive diseases, community health, human growth and development, mental health, and personal hygiene.

HEALTH EDUCATION II

It is recommended that this course be taken in grade 11. It aids and encourages young people to discover their unique capabilities and responsibilities for developing attitudes and patterns of behavior that promote independent and informed decisions concerning their physical, mental, and social well being. Emphasis is on health careers, life support responses, mental health, personal hygiene, marriage and family relationships, and hereditary and environmental influences.

DRIVER EDUCATION, FALL SEMESTER & DRIVER EDUCATION, SPRING SEMESTER

This course emphasizes helping young people save lives. Much material in this course is selected because of its relation to the life or death aspect of driving. Behind-the-wheel instruction is given to those students who desire to take advantage of it. Students who will be 16 years old prior the end of the first semester of 10th grade should schedule the fall semester course. For the behind-the-wheel phase, students must be 16 years of age and possess a valid learner's permit or driver's license. The student arranges for behind-the-wheel training with the instructor. This is scheduled during the student's study halls.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION ELECTIVES

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING

The weight-training program is designed for the student who is interested in improving his/her physical condition. Strength will be enhanced by a program centered around endurance, strength, flexibility, and an understanding of fitness development. Students will keep a record of quarterly attainment, which will provide an over-all picture of improvement in their level of weight training fitness.

PERSONAL FITNESS

The Personal Fitness program is designed so that students will: 1. develop knowledge of, and demonstrate individual development, in physical fitness emphasizing aerobic or cardiorespiratory fitness, to promote lifelong physical activity; 2. assess health-related fitness in relation to the following components: cardiorespiratory, flexibility, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and body composition; 3. achieve health-related fitness through involvement in an individually designed physical fitness program; 4. maintain personal fitness through regular participation in physical activity.

LIFEGUARDING

The Lifeguarding Elective program is designed for the student who is interested in being certified in Lifeguard Training, CPR and First Aid, Waterfront Training, Automated External Defibrillation Training, Oxygen Administration, and Preventing Disease Transmission Training. The approximate cost to the student is $15 for the purchase of a pocket mask and $30 for the purchase of the required American Red Cross Lifeguarding text.

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING FOR STUDENT ATHLETES

This course is designed for the student-athlete to improve his/her personal strength, enhance skill performance through confidence-building weight lifting exercises and prevent injuries by developing strength in the muscles surrounding all joints (knee, hip, shoulder). Strength development will be accomplished through a program centered around endurance, strength, and flexibility. The course may meet before school through first period to ensure enough time to accomplish course requirements.

PERSONAL FITNESS FOR STUDENT ATHLETES

This course is designed for the student-athlete to improve his/her personal fitness through aerobic exercise and enhance their personal conditioning level for skill enhancement and injury prevention. Higher conditioning levels will be achieved through various aerobic and conditioning exercises (all-weather track and fitness room apparatus). The course may meet before school to accomplish course requirements.