Bishop Brady High School is a small, private, Catholic

Roman Catholic Church

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 co-educational school in Concord, New Hampshire

Concord, New Hampshire

The city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42,695....

. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester

Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the region of New England in the United States comprising the entire state of New Hampshire...

. The official enrollment is 425 students attending. "A Catholic school, a caring community" is the slogan that adorns their sign and is the principle which has guided the school since its founding in 1963. Brady is a four-year college preparatory program.

The school's motto is "fides, caritas, veritas", translated as "faith, charity, and truth".

History

Established in 1963, Bishop Brady offers a college preparatory program in a supportive Christian atmosphere. The school replaced St. John's High School, which opened its doors in 1930 on South State Street in Concord. (Saint John's building is still in use as Concord's Catholic K-8 school, Saint John Regional School

Saint John Regional School

Saint John Regional School is a Roman Catholic primary school in Concord, New Hampshire serving approximately 250 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.-External links:*...

.)

An expansion and renovation project was completed at Bishop Brady in May 2007, creating a new multimedia center, new guidance suite, six new classrooms, an expanded chapel, and four new administrative offices as well as renovation to the existing administrative area and cafeteria.

The school is named for Matthew F. Brady, a former Bishop of Manchester.

Activities

Robotics
The Bishop Brady FIRST Robotics Team, not funded by Brady, earned second place out of the many teams that competed in the 2008 Manchester

Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, the tenth largest city in New England, and the largest city in northern New England, an area comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It is in Hillsborough County along the banks of the Merrimack River, which...

 Regional Competition. They are currently being led by Commander (Capitan) Minnehan in their preparation for the 2009 FIRST Robotics competition, named “Lunacy”.

Athletics

Brady fields sports teams in NHIAA Class I, and has cross country

Cross country running

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, football

American football

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, lacrosse

Lacrosse

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, baseball

Baseball

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/softball

Softball

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, field hockey

Field hockey

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, ice hockey

Ice hockey

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, basketball

Basketball

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, skiing

Skiing

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 and soccer programs.

The Division V football team have been state champions twice in a row and play their home games at Memorial Field in Concord. The coach of the Green Giants is Gregory Roberts.

Bishop Brady was a New Hampshire high school football power in the late 1970s and early 1980s, winning the Division III state championship in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, and 1984.

Bishop Brady Girls Skiing won the 2008-2009 state championship, with one Brady athlete, Stephanie Siegart, finishing first overall in the Slalom

Slalom skiing

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 event, with run times of 34.51 and 34.82. All 6 Brady entrants finished in the top 20 in slalom, and in the top 22 in the Giant Slalom.

Brady's athletic mascot is the Green Giants. The name was chosen by students in the early days of the school as a reference to a song by The Kingsmen

The Kingsmen

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, and not the brand of vegetable

Green Giant

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.