Aquatics Giving Challenge
About
The month of November provides two distinct opportunities for our community to support charitable organizations and causes: National Philanthropy Day on November 15th and Giving Tuesday on November 29th . The Damien Aquatics Program invites its greatest supporters, our friends, and family, to join in on these opportunities by considering either date (or any date in November) to make the “Damien Aquatics Program” your Charity of Choice.
Who We Are: The Damien Aquatics Program provides opportunities for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development of our athletes, in pursuit of competitive swimming, diving, and water polo. During a given season, our student-athletes learn social skills and life lessons that come through true competition: effort, teamwork, sportsmanship, preparation, integrity, and handling adversity. In every circumstance that comes our way, we strive to exhibit sportsmanship and Christian conduct. In some instances, we fail, but search for opportunities to start again. In other instances, we succeed and aim to honor Christ in doing so. We have learned that the goals and outcomes that are inherent in athletics provide for real-life learning that is necessary for functioning in life. In our pursuit to become men of faith, service, and scholarship, we are proud of the success this Program has achieved along the way. Since its inception on the Damien Campus in the 1980s, (Swim started during the 1981-1982 School Year and Polo started in 1985-1986) the Aquatics Program has seen a combined total of 51 Championships. (35 Championships for Swim, and 26 years in a row with 132 consecutive wins. 16 Championships for Polo, currently chasing their 17th, and vying for the State Win) This is more than any other program at Damien HighSchool.
What We are Fundraising For: The Aquatics Coaches have identified a number of priority needs that we are fundraising for including: double-wide sheds for storage (2), all upgraded lane lines, all new lockers for the locker room, additional miscellaneous locker room upgrades, and LED interior pool lighting, to name a few.