Director of Student Activities
Phone: (802) 652-7005
Michael Jabour
Lynn Kynoch
Our Mission
The mission at South Burlington High School is to understand and appreciate the importance of extracurricular activities in the overall education of our student-athletes. Experiences teach values such as hard work, commitment, leadership, discipline, teamwork, and physical fitness, all within a framework of academic excellence. The coach/advisor should utilize this situation to instill in the students the values that will help them enter society as well-adjusted, useful, emotionally and morally mature individuals. To achieve these values, a coach/advisor must treat all individuals equally while simultaneously realizing the potential and limitations of each individual.
Our athletic teams will strive to win, but the emphasis will be placed on effort, improvement, respect for coaches, teammates, opponents, and officials, and learning to win graciously and lose with dignity. Winning is emphasized more strongly at the varsity level, but never at the expense of healthy attitudes, values, and perspective. At sub-varsity levels, winning remains a goal but is subordinate to participation and skill development. Above all, we want all of our athletes to have a rewarding and enjoyable experience.
Our Goals
The development of student abilities through healthy competition and participation.
To bring about the realization in our students that participation and competition is a privilege that carries definite responsibilities.
To represent SBHS in a manner that brings respect for the school and each individual participant.
To develop a healthy attitude towards opponents, realizing that they deserve our most sincere effort to emerge victorious while simultaneously understanding that their purpose is to defeat us in a healthy, sporting/academic encounter.
To allow every individual the maximum opportunity to participate in an activity while recognizing that some activities and sports, like life, is a competitive situation in which some will excel, some will succeed, some will fail, and all will benefit merely by being participants.