WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES?
These activities can strengthen your mind and make you more successful and focused in the classroom.
They can help you build professional skills, and skills that cannot be learned in a classroom environment.
They can help broaden your social environment and also allow you to pursue your interests.
Dealing with school and extracurriculars encourages and builds good time management skills.
Extracurricular activities provide the opportunity to build well-rounded students with diverse backgrounds.
Van Meter offers a wide variety of athletic sports, fine arts and other extracurricular opportunities for students to
participate in. Below are a majority of them. We add more each year to provide even
more opportunities to support the interests of our student body.
High School Sports
Football
Volleyball
Cross Country
Basketball
Wrestling
Soccer
Track
Golf
Baseball
Softball
Middle School Sports
Football
Volleyball
Cross Country
Basketball
Wrestling
Track
High School
Performing Arts
Marching Band
Pep Band
Jazz Band
Show Band
Concert Band
Concert Choir
Chamber Choir
Show Choir
Musical
Play
Middle School Performing Arts
Jazz Band
Concert Band
Concert Choir
Show Choir
Secondary Speech
Large Group
Individual
Oratorical
Secondary Groups/Clubs
FCCLA
Spanish Club
Student Leadership Team
FCA
Debate Team
Chess Club
Book Club
eSports
Elementary Options
Science Club
Chess Club
LEGO Club
Running Club
Book Club