April 2, 2018
The popular hammock "hangout" at Cary Academy has been expanded — to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This Daily Tarheel article outlines how, in his first year at Carolina, Michael Alberse ('17) brought the idea to the Ehringhaus Residence Hall — just in time for spring.
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March 26, 2018
Ben Humphries ('18) has accepted the Morehead-Cain Scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina. The M-C is the first merit scholarship program in the United States.
Humphries will join Emma Astrike-Davis ('14), Caroline Woronoff ('13), and Izaak Earnhardt ('10) as recent CA Morehead-Cain alums.
A list of all merit scholarships offered to members of the senior class will be posted in May.
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March 23, 2018
NC State Park Scholar Lindsey Wrege (’17) has been featured in Walter Magazine for her work, along with her sister Kailey (’20), running a community dance group for individuals with special needs. Wrege is studying biomedical engineering and has recently expanded her service work by opening up a pop-up coffee shop, 321 Coffee, to provide work experience for special needs adults.
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March 13, 2018
John Guerra ('14) will be playing for NC Central in a First Four game of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The NCCU Eagles won their second consecutive MEAC Championship against top-seeded Hampton, helped by Guerra's 12 points and five rebounds. The winner of Wednesday's contest against Texas Southern gets West #1 Seed Xavier in the first round.
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March 13, 2018
UNCW senior center Rebekah Banks has been named as the winner of the Colonial Athletic Association Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year Award.
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March 1, 2018
Emma Astrike-Davis (’14), far right, and Morgan Goetz (’15), far left, were honored as UNC-CH Athletic Director’s Scholar-Athlete Award recipients at the UNC-CH basketball game against Miami for being the top scholars on their Varsity teams (Emma – XC/Track, Morgan – Field Hockey).
Back in the day at CA: Emma cheering for Morgan, CA Track teammates on the 2013 State Champion 4x800m Relay team!
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February 20, 2018
Morgan Goetz (’15) was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Team for Field Hockey. She was one of six UNC-CH players named to the squad.
The Tar Heels won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, the team’s 20th, and reached the final four for the 22nd time overall and ninth year in a row.
Goetz is majoring in biomedical engineering. She started every game in 2017 and won the team’s Unsung Hero Award.
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December 6, 2017
Cary Academy will have its first alumna address the graduating Class of 2018 at its commencement on May 25.
Lianne Gonsalves (’06) has been with The World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research in Geneva, Switzerland since 2013. As a technical officer, she works on the Department’s sexual health portfolio, as well as on research to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive wellbeing outside of health facilities.
As a Boren Fellow in 2012, she researched integrated population, health, and environment programming while living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Before that, she taught English at a language institute and worked on youth sexual health promotion as a Fulbright recipient in Caracas, Venezuela.
She earned her MSPH in social and behavioral interventions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013 and has a BS in biological sciences and a BA in international studies from North Carolina State University (2010), where she was a Park Scholar.
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October 13, 2017
Congratulations to Emily Lane ('17) for being named Southern Conference Runner of the Week! The Furman first-year student paced her team with a third place finish in the Gene Mullin Invitational.
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