Spalding Academy
Encyclopedia
Spalding Academy School is a private
, Roman Catholic high school
in Spalding, Nebraska
. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island
.
. They have won the following NSAA State Championships :
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
, Roman Catholic high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in Spalding, Nebraska
Spalding, Nebraska
Spalding is a village in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 537 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Spalding is located at ....
. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island
Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island is a Roman Catholic diocese in Grand Island, Nebraska. It is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha. It was founded on April 11, 1917, after a decree from Pius X in 1912 with the first bishop appointed in 1913...
.
Athletics
Central Catholic is a member of the Nebraska School Activities AssociationNebraska School Activities Association
The Nebraska School Activities Association is the organization which oversees interscholastic competition in the state of Nebraska at the high school level. The mission statement of the NSAA is:-Classification:...
. They have won the following NSAA State Championships :
- Boys Eight-man footballEight-man footballEight-man football is a type of American football, generally played by small high schools. Rules and formations vary greatly among states and even among different organizations, but the one constant is eight players from each team on the field at one time, as opposed to eleven-man football, which...
- 1979 - Boys Six-man footballSix-man footballSix-man football is a variant of American football that is played with six players per team, instead of 11.-History:6-man football was developed in 1934 by Chester High School coach Stephen Epler as an alternative means for small high schools to field a football team during the Great Depression...
- 1993 (Runner-Up - 1990) - Boys BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- none (Runner-Up - 1988)