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Girls Track and Field takes conference championship

May 14, 2019

Cary Academy’s Varsity Girls Track and Field team won the Triangle Independent Schools Athletic Conference championship on Friday, at CA’s home track. The Varsity Boys team took second place in the conference.

A number of CA student athletes were recognized by the conference, after the meet:

TISAC Most Outstanding Athlete – Madi Walker, 4-event Champion – 100m, 200m, 4x100m Relay anchor leg, 4x200m Relay anchor leg

TISAC Record

Christian Sodano – Pole Vault, 14-03

TISAC Champions / All-Conference

Kenny Eheman – 1600m

Peyton Gozon – Shot Put

Constantin Zodl – Discus

Christian Sodano – Pole Vault

Madi Walker – 100m, 200m

Thuc Dzu – 800m

Hannah George – 1600m

Katrine Andersen, Lacey Mathis, Sasha Kostenko, Madi Walker – 4x100m Relay

Katrine Andersen, Lacey Mathis, Sasha Kostenko, Madi Walker – 4x200m Relay

Katrine Andersen, Gabby Matejowsky, Thuc Dzu, Alexandra Ellison – 4x400m Relay

Elizabeth George, Cara Messer, Hannah Ward, Hannah George – 4x800m Relay

School Records (this season as of TISAC)

Constantin Zodl – Discus, 132-09.50

Peyton Gozon – 42-10

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Ten Class of 2019 Chargers recognized for athletic commitments

May 14, 2019

Class of 2019 Athletic Commitments

Cary Academy's Athletic Department hosted a celebration for the commitments of ten Charger athletes from the Class of 2019 on Monday, May 13in the Fitness Center Lobby (from left to right): 

  • Jessica Judge – rowing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
  • Amy Chang – swimming at the George Washington University 
  • Cameron Abernethy – soccer at Davidson College
  • Christian Sodano – track and field at the University of Chicago
  • Lacey Mathis  – cheer at William & Mary 
  • Suki Bristol – cross country at Case Western Reserve University
  • Grace Goetz – lacrosse at the University of Connecticut 
  • Lyndon Wood – soccer at Wake Forest University
  • Justin Stone – soccer at Davidson College
  • Not shown – Natalie Timinskas – rowing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Middle School Track and Field races to conference championship

May 9, 2019

Congratulations to both the boys and girls MS Track & Field teams for 3-peating as Capital Area Middle School Conference Champions! The following athletes placed in the top 6th and thus, scored points. Bolded names set the new championship record and underlined names set their personal best.

Boys

50 – Thuy Dzu (1st) CR, Thomas George (4th)

100 – Jared Cooper (2nd)

200 – Jared Cooper (2nd), Thuy Dzu (4th)

400 – Jared Cooper (1st) CRChristian Herrera (5th)

600 – Kevin Kaufman (2nd), Derek Wang (4th)

800 – Arran Swift (1st) CRZan Hagar (3rd), Michael Singleton (6th)

1600 – Kevin Kaufman (2nd), Jacob Farris (3rd)

100mH – Max Li (3rd), Derek Wang (6th)

4×100 – (1st) Thomas George, Max Li, Matthew Ferranti, Thuy Dzu

4×200 – (1st) Zan Hagar, Christian Herrera, Arran Swift, Thomas George

Shot Put – Max Li (1st)

Discus – Max Li (1st) CR, Arran Swift (3rd), Matthew Ferranti (6th)

High Jump – Derek Wang (2nd), Kevin Kaufman (5th), Laiq Nasim (6th)

Long Jump – Jared Cooper (3rd), Thuy Dzu (5th), Derek Wang (6th)

Boys who set at least one personal best this meet: Jared Cooper, Thuy Dzu, Christian Herrera, Matthew Schricker, Kevin Kaufman, Derek Wang, Jacob Farris, Arran Swift, Michael Singleton, Evan Astrike-Davis, Max Li, Trevor Walker.

 

Girls

50m – Maggie Su (1st) CR, Ava O’Brien (3rd), Tanya Sachdev (4th)

100m – Leah Wiebe (1st), Noor Alam (2nd), Ben Natan (3rd)

200m – Maggie Su (3rd), Noor Alam (5th)

400m – Tanya Sachdev (1st) CRLeah Wiebe (2nd)

600 – Tanya Sachdev (1st) CRAva O’Brien (5th)

800 – Elise Boyse (1st), Jenna Pullen (3rd), Laney Bundy (5)

1600 – Elise Boyse (1st), Jenna Pullen (2nd)

100mH – Alex Butulis (4th)

4×100 – (1st) CR Ava O’Brien, Deborah Lemma, Leah Wiebe, Maggie Su

4×200 – (1st) Ben Natan, Tanya Sachdev, Elise Boyse, Noor Alam

Shot Put – Ben Natan (3rd), Alex Butulis (4th)

Discus – Ben Natan (4th)

Long Jump – Ava O’Brien (4th)

Girls who set at least one personal best this meet: Elise Boyse, Laney Bundy, Bela Chandler, Adora Koonce, Debora Lemma, Ava O’Brien, Jenna Pullen, Tanya Sachdev, Maggie Su, and Leah Wiebe.

All meet results may be found at the following link: https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/MeetResults.aspx?Meet=379212&show=all.

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CA’s girls’ and boys’ varsity swim teams surge to State Champion titles

February 12, 2019

Congratulations to Cary Academy’s State Champion girls’ and boys’ Varsity Swim Teams! An astounding THIRTY TWO different boys and girls made it to the Finals and scored. This marks the girls’ third consecutive State Championship title.

Congratulations to everyone (parent supporters and volunteers included) who contributed to two tremendous State Champion wins. We had our share of first place finishes and oodles of personal best swims – most of which were crazy drops in time. But, most of all, congratulations on being two great teams and One Big Family! You swam and cheered to near exhaustion. Your support for one another all season long in inspiring and led to a special evening.

Special Congrats to:

  • Charlotte Hook with TWO State Meet Record swims in the IM (1:59.84) and 100 Butterfly (:54.63) and a first place, individual State Champion finish in the 100 Butterfly
  • Nisma Said with an individual State Champion swim in the 100 Backstroke while lowering her own school record time to 56.24 seconds
  • The Girls 200 Medley Relay State Champion team of Nisma Said, Amy Chang, Charlotte Hook and Helen Chen with a school record setting time of 1:47.25.
  • Jack Todd for being an individual State Champion in the 200 Freestyle with a time of 1:47.14
  • Will Newman setting a new school record in his 2nd place swim in the 50 Free at 21.70 seconds.
  • The boys 200 Medley Relay team who placed 3rd and smashed the old school record with a time of 1:41.81; Kevin Chen, Alex Lim, Nate Alexander and Will Newman
  • The boys 200 Free Relay State Champion team of Constantin Zodl, Quinn Vaughan, Oliver Wang and Will Newman who set the tone for the 2nd half of the meet

A full breakdown of times and finishes will be available soon.

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Why Do We Play Sports?

November 1, 2018

Cary Academy is an academic powerhouse; it’s the San Francisco 49ers of the 80’s led by Joe Montana.  We smash ACT and SAT scores and rightfully flaunt Discovery, Innovation, Collaboration and Excellence.  Our halls are full of students donning the swag of their future: Davidson, Princeton, Cornell, our Triangle schools, and many more prestigious universities.

Our students don’t need sports to go to college, yet they come out in droves.

Last year 534 eligible (grades 7-12) students participated in at least one sport at Cary Academy. That’s nearly 81% of the population, a rate that has held steady for years. Since the inception of the Triple Play Letter (awarded to any athlete who participates in three varsity sports in one season) in 2013, the number of recipients has risen from an average of five to nearly twenty.

So, what’s the attraction?  Why would students pressed for time to complete assignments, study for exams, and meet for school projects take a chunk of their afternoon to run around on an athletic field or court?  From an economist’s standpoint, what’s the cost-benefit?

Physiologically there is no doubting the value of sports and exercise. Aside from staying healthy and in shape, journals are peppered with research providing evidence that exercise improves our mood, helps us sleep, and reduces stress and anxiety. Justin Rhodes, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, noted in Scientific American that the increase blood pressure and flow provide more energy and oxygen to the brain allowing it to perform better:

“. . . working up a sweat enhances our mental capacity in that the hippocampus, a part of the brain critical for learning and memory, is highly active during exercise. The hippocampus is tied to cognitive functioning and memory and the increased stimulation through exercise improves performance in both areas.”

As much as the biology side of me loves this, honestly, I’m not wagering my paycheck that our student-athletes are playing sports to develop their hippocampus.

Then there’s the benefit of character development. Do a Google search and you’ll find oodles of findings indicating that participation on a sports team teaches us how to compete and face adversity; leads to a sense of belonging, responsibility, and self-confidence; and develops discipline, accountability, and time management.

But, being a part of a team is much more.

There’s a sense of pride and dynamic that is only created when all members are working toward a common goal and supporting one another. There is the passion and energy that players feel from the spectators and their teammates.

Did you go to Homecoming and listen to the cheers of X-Factor and our cheerleading team?  Have you been to a Track/Field meet when the team gathers along the inside lane and does pushups or “rows the boat” as the runners approach?  Or, were you at the TISAC championship swim meet when the Triangle Aquatic Center was filled with chants of “CA Breaststroke” by swimmers as the main heat took to the blocks in a battle between CA and Ravenscroft?  If you were, you witnessed that passion and spirit first hand.

There is no doubt that the benefits of health and fitness, character development, and teamwork that sports provide, coupled with the rigors of CA’s academic profile, produce well-rounded students. There’s no doubt that each attribute adds a piece of why our students like to play sports.

But, we may be over-analyzing the whole question, we tend to do that.

Why do our students play sports?  When asked, senior Will Newman seemed to sum it up best in an eloquent and complex fashion – “It’s Fun!”

 

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CA cross-country closes out season with strong showing at state meet

November 1, 2018

Last Friday's state cross-country meet was a wet and sloppy "mud run" in the midst of Tropical Depression Willa. But, in CA style, our boys and girls battled through the conditions and posted outstanding runs and results.

The boys finished 3rd overall behind Providence Day who edged Durham Academy by 1 point. The girls, squaring off against TISAC rival Durham Academy, earned runners-up.   

With more than 100 runners competing in both the boys and girls races, four CA boys and girls earned all-state honors in the sloppy conditions in Hendersonville. Congratulations to Kenny Eheman (6th-boys), Luke Johnson (7th-boys), Keely Murphy (6th-girls), and Lia Lathan (10th-girls)

Congratulations to all the CA runners on yet another terrific XC season! Click here for full final results.

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Varsity Boys Baseball wins ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

August 16, 2018

 
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We are pleased to announce that the 2017-2018 Cary Academy Varsity Boys Baseball team has been awarded the 2018 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award. The award honors programs coached by ABCA members whose teams maintained a GPA over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the entire 2017-18 academic year.

"We're very proud of our team," commented Coach Ray Pope. "Our players practiced and played hard every day and still maintained the level of academic excellence that we expect from our student athletes here at Cary Academy."

 
A record number of teams were recognized with the 2017-18 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award. In total, 292 college and high school programs received this year's award, including 94 high school programs and 78 teams from NCAA Div. III.

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CA athletes sign college Letters of Intent

May 18, 2018

Five students signed National Letters of Intent on Friday to play collegiate athletics. The lunch-time ceremony featured cake and celebration with family and friends.

  • Chandler Cree – Soccer at Northeastern
  • Chase Coley – Cross Country/Track & Field at Davidson
  • Coleman Mitchell – Cross Country/Track & Field at Davidson
  • Sarah Cate Niles – Rowing at UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Athina Zodl – Cross Country/Track & Field at New York University

They join the two other seniors who signed their letters in the fall: 

  • Trey Murphy — Basketball at Rice
  • Olivia Frazier — Field Hockey at the University of Richmond

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Track teams win TISAC titles

May 14, 2018

Big wins for the CA Boys & Girls at the TISAC Track & Field Championship; Boys win by 38 over NRCA, Girls by 80 points over DA, one of the largest margins of victory in TISAC history! Meet results are posted: https://twitter.com/CAXCTF

TISAC Most Outstanding Athlete – Coleman Mitchell

All-TISAC Boys – 

  • Coleman Mitchell – 1600m
  • Coleman Mitchell – 3200m
  • Sam Chow – 300m Hurdles
  • Evan Ehrhardt – Discus
  • Christian Sodano – Pole Vault
  • Chase Coley, Coleman Mitchell, Chapman Fitzgerald, Ray Faison – 4x800m Relay – New TISAC Record! – 7:56.64

All-TISAC Girls – 

  • Olivia Frazier – 800m
  • Thuc Dzu – 1600m
  • Rachel May – High Jump
  • Emma Glosson – Triple Jump
  • Katrine Anderson, Lacey Mathis, Sasha Kostenko, Maddy Walker – 4x100m Relay
  • Katrine Anderson, Rachel May, Sasha Kostenko, Maddy Walker – 4x200m Relay
  • Thuc Dzu, Athina Zodl, Hannah George, Olivia Frazier – 4x800m Relay

 

Team Scores: 

Varsity – Mens

1. Cary Academy – 127

2. North Raleigh Christian Academy – 89

3. Durham Academy – 75

4. Ravenscroft – 44

5. Wake Christian Academy – 39

 

Varsity – Womens

1. Cary Academy – 191

2. Durham Academy – 111

3. Ravenscroft – 105

4. North Raleigh Christian Academy – 91

5. Saint Mary's – 39

6. Wake Christian Academy – 17

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