New Athlete Information

The spring sports season came to an end last week, and yesterday we had a wonderful evening in the gym to honor the 126 student athletes who represented Mayfield this season. It was a particularly special evening as family members of Kelley Jones '97 were in attendance. Kelley passed away in 2003, and since 2004, the softball team has awarded the Kelley Jones Spirit Award to one of its members. Maria Dilbeck '22 was this year's recipient and had the opportunity to take a photo with Kelley's family.

After a truncated athletics calendar during the 2020-2021 school year that included six of our twelve sports having their seasons canceled, it seems the entire Mayfield community was looking forward to a return to a more traditional calendar during this school year. The most obvious example of this was the record number of our Cubs trying out for sports during all three of our seasons—from Golf, to Basketball, to Track & Field—it seems as if one of the things that our students missed most was representing Mayfield on the athletic field. And other than the required masks for our indoor sports during the Fall & Winter seasons, sports at Mayfield have basically been back-to-normal for 2021-2022. In fact, better than normal! In addition to the large numbers of athletes competing this school year, we are in the middle of one of the most successful athletic school years in our school’s history. Three teams have made it to the CIF Semifinals: Tennis (for the first time since 1988), Volleyball (for the first time since 2013), and Soccer (for the first time since 1990). Volleyball then continued their remarkable season in the California State playoffs by advancing all the way to the Southern California Finals—the farthest Mayfield has ever advanced. And now as we come towards the end of our spring season, it appears that both the Swim & Dive and Track & Field teams will add league titles to an already incredible sports year. What a return-to-school we have had! Go Cubs!