Nordhoff prioritizes academics and citizenship over athletics. Nordhoff believes athletics can play an integral part of a high school student’s overall development, and Nordhoff strongly encourages the participation of all students with interest in any particular sport. Nordhoff strives to use athletics as a means of promoting the values of teamwork, good sportsmanship, communication, time management, pride in accomplishments, goal-setting and camaraderie. Nordhoff’s student-athletes represent all of Nordhoff High School and the Ojai community in public ways that non-student athletes do not, and therefore they are held to a higher standard of behavior. It is a privilege to represent Nordhoff High School as a student-athlete; it is not an educational right of any student to be a member of a Nordhoff athletic team.

Any Nordhoff student who is eligible for athletic participation by virtue of grades, citizenship, residence and age as outlined by the CIF Blue Book and who meets all of Nordhoff’s Academic and Attendance criteria, is strongly encouraged to try out for any sport offered by the school. Only full-time (defined in the Athletic Eligibility section) Nordhoff students may represent the school and participate in Nordhoff athletics. Nordhoff administration may remove a student athlete from any athletic team for any reason, at any point in the season, if it is deemed the student athlete is not properly representing the school, our teachers, our student body and the Ojai community.