What's your game?
Each year St. Andrew's-Sewanee students take the initiative to organize activities and create clubs based on common interests.
Enjoy writing? Perhaps you would be interested in the school literary magazine. Interested in creating a podcast? Get a slot on the school's radio station. Concerned the environment? Join ECOSAS in their efforts to minimize the school's food and energy waste. Religious fellowship? Politics? You'll usually find others who want to join your efforts. Even if your interests find you all alone at times (accordion hip-hop? ice sculpting?), you can lobby for a club or afternoon program to fit your needs.
Below is a sampling of recent student organizations. You can count on this list being out of date, because someone has organized some friends around another great idea.*Recently active
- Archery Club
- Art Club
- Anime Club*
- Black Student Union*
- Middle and Upper School Book Clubs*
- Boy Scout Troop 14*
- Breakfast (Health) Club
- Car Club*
- Conduct Council*
- Cum Laude Society*
- Dungeons & Dragons Club *
- ECO-SAS*
- Ethics Bowl Team*
- Fitness and Wellness Club*
- Gender & Sexualities Awareness*
- Global & Local Outreach
- Honor Council*
- Interact Club*
- International Student Mentors
- Magic: The Gathering Club
- The Mountain (radio station)
- Mountain Mirror (literary magazine)*
- NASA Projects*
- Operation Smile*
- Outreach & Community Service*
- The Phoenix (yearbook)*
- Public Speaking Club
- Proctors*
- SAS Ambassadors*
- Skateboarding Club
- Spanish Club
- Student Vestry*
- Student Athlete Leadership Team*
- Tea Club*
Weekends!
Weekend activities, while prioritized for boarding students, consistently attract day students as well. Proximity to Nashville, Chattanooga, and Huntsville make those cities frequent destinations. Around campus, down the mountain, or farther afield, there's no shortage of fun. Each weekend also includes specific on-campus activities coordinated by proctors. And of course, you can choose to chill in the Union--play Foozball, watching a movie with friends, or bake in the kitchen.
Recent weekend activities include...
- Shopping in Atlanta
- Cooking international cuisine
- Running a half marathon on the Mountain Goat Trail
- Walking the Mountain Goat Trail for ice cream downtown
- Taking a class with an artist-in-residence
- Selling your art work at the annual Holiday Studio Tour
- Planning an overnight lock-in with your grade
- Traveling to a nearby senior center to share games and music
- Enjoying a dance performance or art exhibit at the University of the South
- Seeing a Major League Soccer game in Nashville
- Attending a dance performance in Sewanee
- Visiting Six Flags Over Georgia
- Exploring a nearby cave
- Enjoying cookies and games at Owen Student Union
- Swimming in the Res (our campus lake)
- Making s'mores over a bonfire
- Having lunch or dinner at a local restaurant
- Snow tubing in North Carolina
- Attending a school dance
- Compete in a Fortnite tournament
- Seeing a Shakespeare production in Sewanee
- Helping distribute groceries at a local food ministru
An SAS student's bucket list
Always something going on
In addition to weekend activities, every year includes unique special events, including dances, camping trips, white-river rafting, and so much more. Mountain biking and hiking are popular on school trails and on the hundreds of miles of nearby trails. Some activities are just for Upper School students and boarders, some are for Middle School students, and some are for everyone.