Therefore, we offer the opportunity to participate in team\/individual sports at a young age.\u00a0 In cooperation with our Physical Education department, we provide the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students a chance to play intramural basketball in the winter, while our older elementary and middle school students represent SMS in two interscholastic athletic conferences.<\/p>\n
JPAC<\/em><\/strong> is an athletic conference that consists of private schools and offers soccer, basketball, and girl’s volleyball for 5th and 6th graders.\u00a0 WPAA<\/strong><\/em> is an athletic conference for 7th and 8th grade students and offers soccer, cross country, basketball, girl’s volleyball, golf, and tennis.<\/p>\n Students participating in interscholastic sports must obtain a physical exam and submit a completed physical form along with paying a participation fee.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”6305″ border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”medium”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Athletics are an important element in the development of our students at Statesville Montessori School.\u00a0 We abide by the philosophy, ” a strong mind and a strong body” quoted by our Athletic director of many years, Miss Nell Shull. Therefore, we offer the opportunity to participate in team\/individual sports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4062","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4mVuD-13w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4062\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statesvillemontessori.com\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}