FWCD Earns Fall Season SPC Sportsmanship Awards

For the second consecutive year, FWCD’s varsity boys volleyball team (coached by Patrick Powers ’05) earned the Southwest Preparatory Conference Fall 2022 Team Sportsmanship Award. Individual SPC Sportsmanship Awards went to Harini Mukka ’23 (cross country) and Liam Callahan ’23 (boys volleyball).

“It is a great honor to win the boys volleyball North Zone Sportsmanship Award two years in a row,” said Leigh Block, Director of Athletics. “It’s a credit to Coach Powers, the entire coaching staff and our terrific student-athletes who represent FWCD so well.”  

The SPC bestows two Sportsmanship Awards each season: team and individual. Team awards are selected by SPC coaches. The individual athletic awards are selected by school and two student-athletes at each SPC school (one male, one female) earn them each season. 

“Harini has exemplified all the qualities a coach looks for in a student-athlete: compassion, communication, personality, work ethic and toughness,” said Cross Country Head Coach Jared Connaughton. “Harini improved week-in and week-out through her time with the FWCD Cross Country program, and her spirit has had a profound impact on my experience as her coach.”

Powers is proud of Callahan, who served as captain. “On the volleyball court, Liam always demonstrated himself as a person of high integrity. He encouraged his teammates, played the game fairly and consistently displayed how to be a good leader through example. Liam also completed the requirements to earn the rank of Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America during the volleyball season. Many on the team enthusiastically assisted him with his final project. 

As a league always committed to the best in sportsmanship, SPC launched these sportsmanship awards last year to honor those individuals and teams in the conference who were exemplary in their respect for the games they played and the competitors they faced. 

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