Our Program

Menlo Athletics complement Menlo School’s college preparatory academics with an extensive offering of highly competitive team sports, providing students the opportunity to develop mind, body and character for themselves, their team and their school. Menlo athletics offers its students, whether they are novice or college-bound athletes, rich opportunity for competition and development.

To accomplish these goals, athletes, coaches and parents work together and strive to:

• Develop a commitment to their team
• Develop the courage to try
• Promote the enjoyment of athletics
• Promote honesty, integrity and fair play
• Promote respect for coaches, officials, competitors and one’s self
• Develop responsibility and accountability for one’s own actions
• Encourage humility in defeat and graciousness in victory
• Develop emotional control
• Develop individual talents to their fullest potential
• Teach rules, strategies and appreciation of respective sports
• Teach the importance of nutrition and physical conditioning