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Outdoor Adventure Sports

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Since our founding more than 70 years ago, St. Stephen's Episcopal School has maintained a fierce attachment to the land. Our school identity today is bound to the natural environment around us.

Devil’s Canyon Adventure Program (DCAP)

The Devil’s Canyon Adventure Program (DCAP) offers Spartans the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in our gorgeous campus trails and terrain, and explore the beautiful natural resources of Central Texas — above and below ground — in an active, engaging way. Led by a dedicated director of outdoor education, students may participate in a variety of outdoor and adventure competitive sports throughout the year.

With more than 370 acres of land and nearly 400 vertical feet of elevation change, our campus serves as an interactive learning laboratory and a place to enjoy a wide range of educational activities and outdoor adventures. Our Outdoor Education and Adventures Program is designed to develop students’ self-confidence, resilience and self-sufficiency, while fostering in them a deep respect for, knowledge of and engagement in the natural world. 

The program offers students a variety of outdoor opportunities — from mountain biking, hiking and land management projects on campus, to caving, canoeing and rock climbing in the Texas Hill Country and other more distant locations.

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RESPECT FOR THE EARTH

Spartan Outdoor Program Profile

Outdoor Education

Meet the Director OF Outdoor Education & Land Management

Charlton Perry 

B.A. The University of Texas at Austin 

The entire 374-acre campus is Charlton Perry’s classroom. He runs the Devil’s Canyon Adventure Program (DCAP), helps facilitate and support all outdoor field trips and leads all student-focused land management and stewardship efforts. Perry was hired at St. Stephen’s in 1997 as a part-time assistant soccer coach and eventually moved into a full-time role teaching Middle School history. He helped create and operate the St. Stephen’s Soccer Academy and later started helping with the outdoor education programs. He was eventually named the director of the outdoor adventure sports program. Perry is a natural fit for his current leadership role on The Hill.

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