page_title: Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu / Activities / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: English: Soccer team of Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu
context_page_description: Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, often shortened to Preciosa Sangre, is a coeducational Roman Catholic private state-subsidized day school, serving students in preschool through twelfth grade, located in the commune of Pichilemu, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, Chile.
  It was founded in April 1947 by the Chilean Congregation of the Precious Blood as a girls' school under the name of Escuela Doctor Eugenio Díaz Lira. The school has been fully coeducational since March 1979, and was renamed to its current name in 1986. Cardenal Caro Province newspaper El Expreso de la Costa declared Preciosa Sangre to be "the best school in Pichilemu" based on the results of 2011 standardized tests, while O'Higgins Region newspaper El Rancagüino called the school "a regional icon". It is the largest school in Pichilemu, with 534 students in the 2015 school year.
  The school offers students several extracurricular activities, in the sports, religious and humanistic areas. Cheer C.P.S., Preciosa Sangre's cheerleading squad, has won several national competitions, and has also participated in two international ones.
context_section_description: As of 2012, Preciosa Sangre offers seven workshops related to sports. These sports are run by the Club Deportivo Cultural Colegio Preciosa Sangre (Colegio Preciosa Sangre Cultural-Athletic Club), and include football, tennis, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, cheerleading, and cheerleading for newbies. Preciosa Sangre's athletic club also has hosted tournaments, including CheerPichilemu, a cheerleading competition which, in 2007, had fifteen participating teams. The club has also organized events such as the first family marathon in Cardenal Caro Province (Primera Gran Gorrida Familiar Provincia de Cardenal Caro) in 2011.
  Preciosa Sangre's soccer and volleyball teams, Selección Colegio Preciosa Sangre or CPS Pichilemu,  compete in the Liga Deportiva Cardenal Caro (Cardenal Caro Athletic League), a provincial-level league. The girls volleyball team placed second in the provincial league, in 2009.
  In 2007, Trinidad Segura from the Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre placed first in the Women category of the Campeonato Estudiantil de Surf (Student Surf Championship), which took place in Matanzas beach, in Navidad, and in La Puntilla beach in Pichilemu. In the Primary Students (Men) category, Felipe Sierra and Washington Saldías placed second and third, respectively. The competition was organized by the Commerce Chambers of Navidad and Pichilemu.
caption: Preciosa Sangre's soccer team, in May 2013
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