St. Bernard Preparatory School
| St. Bernard Preparatory School Schola Praeparatoria Sancti Bernardi | |
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| Address | |
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1600 St. Bernard Drive, SE O.S.B. | |
| Headmaster | Fr. Joel Martin, O.S.B. |
| Chairman of the Board of Trustees | Rt. Rev. Cletus D. Meagher, O.S.B. |
| Chaplain | Fr. Bede Marcy, O.S.B. |
| Faculty | 44 |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 163[3] (2018) |
| Color(s) | Navy blue and white |
| Athletics conference | AHSAA |
| Team name | Saints / Lady Saints |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools[2] |
| Publication | St. Bernard Happenings (Alumni Publication) |
| Newspaper | The Saintly News |
| Yearbook | The Bernardian |
| Affiliation | National Catholic Educational Association[1] |
| Website | www |
St. Bernard Preparatory School is a
History
Colonel
In 1891, they also started St. Bernard College on the monastery grounds, educating boys from grades 6-12.[5] The state chartered the school in 1893. While primarily a prep school, it sometimes granted bachelor's degrees.[4]
In 1929 the Board of Trustees added a junior college. In 1949, this became a senior college. In time, the college discontinued the preparatory school and in 1976 merged with a local women's college to become Southern Benedictine College.[4]
Over the years, the school and abbey has also educated candidates for ordination through its seminary programs from high school through graduate studies.[4]
Southern Benedictine College was closed in 1979, however, the institution reopened in 1984 as a
Athletics
As a member of the Alabama High School Athletic Association, the school competes with public and private schools in football, cross country, basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, softball, and tennis.[7]
Boys' sports:
- Baseball
- Wrestling
Girls' sports:
- Cheerleading
- Volleyball
Co-ed sports:
- Basketball
- Cross Country
- Soccer
- Tennis
- Bowling
Soccer games at the school are played at one of the school's newest facilities, Alumni Field, which is located in the athletics area of the school campus.
Basketball, volleyball and wrestling games and matches are played in the central facility of the St. Bernard Prep athletics area, the Fazi-Richard Athletic Center. The facility, completed in the mid-1990s, is complete with locker rooms, weight and training rooms, coaches' offices, a state-of-the-art basketball/volleyball court, and conference room. The Fazi-Richard Athletic Center is a multi-purpose facility as it hosts numerous performing arts, scholastic and alumni events yearly for the school, in addition to the athletic events.
Tennis matches are played at the school's tennis grounds, Blevins Courts, which were renovated and subsequently renamed in late 2008, in honor of the alumni donor who funded the project. Blevins Courts are located adjacent to the Fazi-Richard Athletic Center and the project consisted of the renovation of three existing courts and the conversion of three additional courts from clay-surface to hard-surface courts. Also included in the project was the replacement of the deteriorated fence around the clay courts and the restoration of the fencing around the existing courts.[8]
References
- ^ NCEA. "NCEA School Locator". Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
- ^ AdvancED. "AdvancED-Find Accredited Institutions". Retrieved September 24, 2015.
- ^ "Facts and Figures". St. Bernard Preparatory School. 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "History: St. Bernard's Prep". November 20, 2009. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011.
- ^ "Lost Colleges: St Bernard College". Retrieved February 23, 2022.
- ^ SBP. "St. Bernard Prep History". Archived from the original on December 19, 2006. Retrieved May 9, 2007.
- ^ "Athletics – St. Bernard Preparatory School". www.stbernardprep.com.
- ^ "Saint Bernard Preparatory School". stbernardprep.blogspot.com.
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