During Memorial Day Weekend, three Cary Academy seniors: Jack Maxfield, Caleb Norfleet and Pranay Tankala cut their graduation festivities short to participate in the CACS-sponsored American Computer Science League (ACSL) All-Star Programming Contest.

The students earned a perfect score during the intensely challenging programming round, solving four programs in the allotted three hours, while using only one computer and having to call upon all of their collaborative and innovative skills. On the written contest, which is renowned to be extremely detail-oriented and computationally intensive, the students earned a combined score of 32/36 points.

Competing against top programming teams from the U.S., Canada, China, Croatia and Romania, the Cary Academy team repeated as first-place winners of its division.

In addition to winning individual and team plaques, the students were awarded two laptop computers, a Kindle Fire tablet and a Kindle Paperwhite.

The NCISAA Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association has announced its outstanding athletes and coaches for the 2017 track and field season.

Sarah Bodmer (’17) has been named the 3A Female Athlete of the Year.

She will be receiving a letter of recognition and a plaque to commemorate the award.

At the recent NCISAA championship meet for track and field, the CA girls finished as state runners-up, while the CA boys came in third.

Making All-State are:

• Emily Lane – 800m, New School Record – 2:17.14
• Sarah Bodmer – 3200m and 1600m, New School Record in latter at 5:00.90
• Dorrit Eisenbeis, Emily Lane, Olivia Frazier, Sarah Bodmer – 4x800m Relay, New State Record, New School Record, 2017 NC #1 All Schools/All Classifications/NCHSAA/NCISAA – 9:25.92
• Christian Sodano – Pole Vault
• Coleman Mitchell, Tommy Bright, Chase Coley, Ray Faison – 4x800m Relay, New State Record, New School Record – 7:54.26

Ethan Watts (’18) and his CASL Red 00 team won the U17 Division of the US Youth Soccer State Cup this past weekend In Winston-Salem.

In Saturday’s semifinal, Watts scored the only goal in a 1-0 double overtime victory. On Sunday, the team posted a 3-1 win in the final.

CASL 00 Red now moves on to the Region III Championships in June.

This past weekend, the CA girls track and field team won its third straight TISAC championship, 176-161, over Ravenscroft. Sarah Bodmer was named Most Outstanding Athlete of the meet.

The CA boys had their two-year TISAC championship streak ended in a tight battle with DA, finishing runner-up, 114-118.

Both teams will get a re-match next week at the NCISAA state championship in Rock Hill, SC.

Individual conference champions, earning All-Conference honors were:

• Sarah Bodmer, 3200m, 1600m
• Emily Lane, 800m
• Olivia Halferty, High Jump
• Madi Rockett, Pole Vault
• Dorrit Eisenbeis, Olivia Frazier, Hannah George, and Emily Lane, 4x800m Relay
• Christian Sodano, Pole Vault, new Conference Record of 14′ 00″
• Coleman Mitchell, 3200m, 1600m
• Tommy Bright, 800m
• Chapman Fitzgerald, 400m
• Jacob Henderson, 300m Hurdles
• Eddy Sherman, 200m
• Tommy Bright, Coleman Mitchell, Chase Coley, and Ray Faison, 4x800m Relay
• Sam Chow, Jacob Henderson, Joe Niemchak, and Eddy Sherman, 4x200m Relay

Full results are posted on athletic.net: https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/MeetResults.aspx?Meet=313353#9049