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GO RAIDERS!

As an independent school, North Cross offers a broad educational experience and encourages students to follow their passions and perhaps develop new interests by participating in a variety of activities, including athletics.  We encourage our students to sign up, show up, have new experiences, develop new friendships as they develop new skills, and perhaps step out of their comfort zones as they step out on our courts, fields, and swim in our pool.  We’re a facility rich school with a broad array of athletic programs to try.  

Make no mistake, our students, teams and coaches enjoy winning and strive for that “W”.  No one likes to lose, but we all know there are more things to learn from a sports experience than just winning.  Athletes learn teamwork, personal responsibility, achievement, and they also learn through disappointment.   Being on a team is important - after all, most people will be on some sort of team in their future, so working together is a life skill they’ll need.  And even if a student doesn’t make the starting lineup, they learn they can and will contribute.

North Cross School was a charter member of both the Blue Ridge Conference (BRC) for our girls’ teams and the Virginia Independent Conference (VIC) for our boys’ teams at the Varsity and JV levels.  In the Fall of 2022, the two conferences combined to become the Blue Ridge Athletic Conference (BRAC), of which North Cross is still a member school.  North Cross School is also a member of the Virginia Independent School Athletic Association (VISAA). VISAA is the state governing body for independent school athletics and sponsors all state playoffs for varsity sports. The program, given its small size, has quite an impressive history: 184 conference titles, and 34 state championships since it began competing in 1974.

We expect a lot from our students, in the classroom and on the field; and they deliver. In fact, 24% of the class of 2025 committed to playing sports at the collegiate level, when the national average is just 6%! 
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:
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2024-2025
May 2025: Jacob Johnson '25 signed to run track at Randolph College.
May 2025: Alejandro "Bob" Almenas-Hernandez '25 signed to play soccer at Sevilla FC International.
May 2025: Nate Bonds '25 signed to play football at West Liberty University.
May 2025: Sander Frogner '25 signed to play football at Roanoke College.
May 2025: Daniel Skoog '25 signed to play football at New Mexico Military Institute.
May 2025: Chris Carter '25 signed to play football at Dean College.
February 2025: Carter Smith '25 signed to play lacrosse at Wagner College.
February 2025: Thomas Greer '25 signed to play lacrosse at Randolph Macon College.
February 2025: Brock Miles '25 signed to play football at Bridgewater College.
February 2025: Kerrigan Chaney '25 signed to run cross country & track at University of Virginia.

2024 Conference Champions in Boys Soccer
2024 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Girls Cross Country
2025 Conference Champions in Girls Indoor Track
2025 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Boys Indoor Track 
2025 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Boys Tennis
2025 VISAA State Champions in Boys Lacrosse

​2023-2024
May 2024: Maddox Haskins '24 signed to play hockey at Rochester Institute of Technology.
May 2024: Lennon Kuehl '24 signed to play hockey at Denison University.
February 2024: Alex Dickenson '24 signed to run cross country and track at Radford University.
February 2024: Ashton Cornett '24 signed to play lacrosse at Bridgewater College.
February 2024: Kamden Johnson '24 signed to play football at Virginia Military Institute.
February 2024: Vivian Pickeral '24 signed to swim at Washington & Lee University.
February 2024: Moritz Mittendorfer '24 signed to play football at Dickinson  College.
February 2024: Jerel "J2" Rhodes '24 signed to play football at Butler University.
February 2024: Jadyn Rhodes '24 signed to run track at Hollins University.
January 2024: Moritz Schmoranzer '24 signed to play football at the University of Pittsburgh.
January 2024: Uzair Mirza '24 signed to play golf at George Mason University.
January 2024: Ashton Shannon '24 signed to play baseball at the Hampden-Sydney College.

2023 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Football
2023 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Boys Cross Country
2024 Conference Champions in Golf
2024 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Boys Tennis

2022-2023
May 2023: Flavia Daniels '23 signed to run track at Monmouth University.
May 2023: Rocio Criado Lopez '23 committed to play soccer at Indian Hills Jr. Community College.
May 2023: Irene Ruiz Gonzalez '23 committed to play soccer at Lewis & Clark Jr. Community College.
May 2023: Kylie Schaefer '23 committed to play tennis at Christopher Newport University.
May 2023: Denzel Marufu '23 committed to play soccer at Roanoke College.
May 2023: Chase Daniel '23 committed to play football at Denison University.
May 2023: Ethan Ferguson '23 committed to play soccer at Dickinson College.
May 2023: Nick Andrew '23 committed to play basketball at Averrett University.
March 2023: Landon Trail '23 committed to play lacrosse at Guilford College.
January 2023: Hannes Hammer '23 signed to play football at Virginia Tech.
November 2022: Ian Cann '23 signed to play lacrosse at High Point University.
November 2022: Will Hoff '23 committed to play lacrosse at Dickinson College.

2022 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Football
2022 Conference Champions in Girls Tennis
2022 Conference Champions in Boys Cross Country
2022 Conference Champions in Boys Soccer
2023 VISAA State Champions in Boys Lacrosse
2023 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Boys Track & Field
2023 Conference & VISAA State Champions in Boys Tennis
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Heard in the Halls

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Jase Rhodes '26
"North Cross is like a second family in many ways. The football team and coaches are easy to relate to on and off the field. You can talk to them any time and they'll help you with your sport or schoolwork. My older brother and sister go to school here too, and we all enjoy participating in athletics."