The Steward School is a

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located in the

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, United States.

Campus

Located in western Henrico County on , the Steward School has six academic buildings, an athletic center, four athletic fields, a baseball field, and eight tennis courts.

Athletics

The Steward School participates in:

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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

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, cross country,

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, swim and dive, and

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. All of the teams compete in the Tidewater Conference for independent schools and the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association. From 2014 to 2023, the Steward School has won 12 state championships. In the 2022-2023 academic year 13 athletes received VISAA DII first or second team all state recognition and six athletes were NCAA-recruited college signees.

Notable alumni

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(2020), basketball player

References

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* {{authority control Private elementary schools in Virginia Private middle schools in Virginia Private high schools in Virginia Schools in Richmond, Virginia Educational institutions established in 1972 Preparatory schools in Virginia