Apprentice
What is called Apprentice?
What are the features of the Apprentice School?
What sports does the school compete?
The Apprentice Builders are the athletic teams of the Newport News Apprentice School, located in Newport News, in the U.S. state of Virginia. The school is unique in that it does not grant degrees and therefore is not a member of either the NAIA or the NCAA, but has regularly competed in multiple sports against other degree-granting institutions in the area. However, the Apprentice School is a full member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association and competes in the Eastern Metro Athletic Conference (EMAC) for men’s and women’s basketball.
The school competes in the following sports:
- baseball;
- men’s basketball;
- women’s basketball;
- football;
- men’s golf;
- wrestling;
- women’s wrestling;
- cheerleading;
- drumline.