Schedule:
12:45PM - Opening Event in Fieldhouse
01:00 - 2:30PM - Move with your team through all ten stations
02:30PM - Closing Event at Fieldhouse
Each team has student captains to help guide and cheer on their teammates! There will be 20 teams total: 10 Aurora, 10 Vesper. Each Aurora and Vesper team carries one of the 10 EA Stripes (for example: Aurora Sportsmanship, Vesper Faith). Team rosters will be shared the week of AV Day.
Team Uniform: Aurora wears white, Vesper wears blue
Bring your own water bottle, towel, and change of clothes (for the Spring Athletics Awards Assembly)
Where: Fieldhouse
What: find your teammates, figure out rosters for each station, rally!
Where: Fieldhouse
Players: Six players from Aurora (three girls, three boys), six from Vesper (three girls, three boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.
How to Play:
Line up single-file with your teammates, at one end of the basketball gym
On "GO," first player dives at the air mattress to move it along the floor & runs back to tag the next player
Next player runs and dives at the air mattress. Then, runs back to tag the next player and so on
Air Mattress may not be moved, kicked, or pushed forward using any limbs
All movement from the air mattress must come from the player's body momentum
Refs reserve the right to reset any questionable air mattress moves
First team to move their air mattress across the finish line wins
Where: Campus Green, in between the Athletic Center and the Library
Players: In pairs, 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.
How to Play:
Line up facing your partner
Throw balloon to your partner
Catch balloon from your partner
If the balloon stays intact, take a step back. Refs may use a rope to determine the line
Keep going until there is one pair standing
Last pair remaining wins for the whole team
Where: Annenberg Library
Players: Six players from Aurora (three girls, three boys), six from Vesper (three girls, three boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.
How to Play:
All players are seated (6 chairs total on each side)
For each question, the first person to stand up gets a chance to answer for the whole team
Ref reads a question (free response)
If answer is correct, the team wins the round
If answer is incorrect, other team wins the round
If no one stands up, the ref continues
Ref reads the same question so that the free response question becomes a multiple-choice question.
If answer is correct, the team wins the round
If answer is incorrect, other team wins the round
If no one stands up, move on to another question
Team that scores higher out of five possible questions wins
Where: Gaga Pit (near LS Playground)
Players: 5 players from Aurora, 5 from Vesper. Both teams must have a member of each grade. Both teams must have at least one boy and one girl on the team.
How to Play:
All players start with one foot & one hand touching the wall
Ball is thrown into the pit by the ref. The ball must bounce 3x before it is active (count together: GA - GA - BALL)
You cannot hold onto the ball
You can only touch or hit the ball once in a row, with only one hand
If it touches your feet or legs, you’re out
If you hit the ball out of the pit, you’re out
Team with last player standing wins
Where: LS Playground
Players: 5 players from Aurora, 5 from Vesper. At least one player from each grade.
How to Play:
All players line up at the top of the metal slides
First players from each team slide down, run the course according to the refs, and run back up the rope/rock climb (next to the slides) and tag the next player
Next player slides down & does the same
Continue until last player runs up the rope/rock climb & tags the first player to finish
First team to complete the course with all players wins
Where: Campus Green, center
Players: 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.
How to Play:
Line up on one side of the rope with your teammates
Make sure middle flag on the rope is aligned with the center cone
On “GO,” pull the rope
Team that pulls their flag past the center cone first wins the round
Best 2 out of 3 rounds
Where: 10th Grade Lounge (First Floor US)
Players: 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.
How to Play:
Table is set up with ten plates on both sides
Every player receives a straw
Line up with your team on one side, with each player in front of a plate
Place skittles on the starting plates
First player uses straw to suck up a skittle from their plate & transfer it to next plate
Each player continues until all skittles are at the end plate
First team to move all skittles to end plate wins. If time permits, best 2 out of 3 rounds
Where: Campus Green, center
Players: Six players from Aurora (three girls, three boys), six from Vesper (three girls, three boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.
How to Play:
Line up single-file with your teammates, behind the cone
On "GO," first player runs to the Connect 4 board, places one piece in, & runs back to tag next player
Both teams play simultaneously
First team with four pieces in a row wins. If time permits, best 2 out of 3 rounds
Where: Campus Green
Players: Eight players from Aurora (four girls from different grades, four boys from different grades). Eight players from Vesper (four girls from different grades, four boys from different grades).
How to Play:
Each player receives two pool noodles and places a cup on top of one of the pool noodles.
Teams begin at opposite ends of the boundary.
On "GO," players can advance and try to knock off the cup of the opposing players.
When a player loses their cup, they are automatically OUT and must leave the arena
If a player steps out of bounds, they are automatically OUT and must leave the arena
Players may not place their hand above the marked yellow line on their pool noodle + cup
Players may not fold their pool noodles
Last player remaining wins the round for the whole team.
Best 2 out of 3 rounds.
Where: in front of the Chapel
Players: 10 players from Aurora (five girls, five boys), 10 from Vesper (five girls, five boys). Both teams must have a member of each grade.
How to Play:
Line up single-file with your teammates
On "GO," first player dunks sponge into bucket with water & passes the sponge back to the next player
Players alternate going over the head & going between the legs to pass the sponge down
Last player squeezes water out of sponge into the end bucket & runs to starting bucket to restart
Repeat until time runs out. Refs will determine total time before the round begins.
Team with more water in the end bucket wins. Refs will use a scale to weigh the bucket
Where: Fieldhouse
What: Final HANDSTAND competition, winners announced
If needed, the handstand competition will count as a tiebreaker between Aurora and Vesper
Categories: Winning Stripe
Winning Team
Aurora or Vesper
What is AV Day?
AV Day is a field day that starts in Lower School. Middle School continues the tradition every Fall and now, we are excited to bring the tradition back for the third time to Upper School. It is a competition of two teams: Aurora and Vesper. Vesper won in 2024 and Aurora won in 2025.
Why Aurora? Why Vesper?
In Latin, Aurora means dawn and Vesper means evening. Vesper also stands for the evening prayer in the Episcopalian Church. Every Episcopal student is sorted into Aurora and Vesper when they enroll.
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