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Price Wheeler was also invited to attend this prestigious national surfing championship. Price was among only ten East Coast boys invited to compete.
On December 6, the Upper School Robotics Club traveled to the University of Virginia to participate in the FIRST Tech Challenge. Under the team name “Wiglaf ’s Pride,” the team was ranked ninth at the end of the qualifying tournament. “Wiglaf ’s Pride” was also named as one of the three finalists for the “Inspire Award,” the most prestigious award given by FIRST. Cape Henry’s team was nominated because the judges felt the students exemplified the skills and values that FIRST is trying to promote. From a field of 67 teams from all over the state, the judges held up Cape Henry’s as one of the three “prototype” teams that others should strive to emulate. Team members are: Jamie Burke, Connor Bleakley, Carson Delle Donne, Casey Dyckman, Elizabeth Harker, Thomas Hoskins, Yasemin Johnson, Kat Nielsen, Matt Remmie, Dylan Royston, and Maddy Woodson. Congratulations to the all three CHCS Neptune Festival Sandsculpting Teams this year on jobs well done. The CHCS Middle School team won second place in their division, and the Upper School team took first place in the High School division.
Upper School Team
Congratulations go to sophomore Kate Easton who won the SIMA Surfing America USA Girls Longboard National Championship this fall in San Juan Capistrano, California. Kate had several feature articles about her national title in The Virginian-Pilot.
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The Cape Henry Girls Varsity Volleyball Team hosted a Dig Pink match in October in the Alfred T. Taylor Field House in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Girls Volleyball Team raised over $1,800 from gate admissions, donations, and T-shirt sales which were donated to the Side-Out Foundation for breast cancer research and patient services. Paige Wheeler and her beach partner Corrie Sanders (Cox High School) won the Silver Medal in the 18’s division of the USA Volleyball Junior Beach Tour, Atlantic Coast Championships.
On November 22, along with Coach Carol Kerbin, Maddy Woodson, Emily Pettigrew, Jamie Burke, and Sean Poppen traveled to Christopher Newport University to compete in the 9th Annual CNU Regional Mathematics Contest. There were approximately 100 students competing. Our group received a framed certificate for being the highest scoring Independent school. Emily Pettigrew won $50 and received a certificate as highest scoring sophomore. Maddy Woodson has been selected by the faculty as the senior who best exemplifies excellence in the Jeffersonian ideals of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship. She is Cape Henry’s nominee to be a Jefferson Scholar.
Congratulations to Julia LaSalvia and Kelsey Scherrer for being selected as Athletes of the Week by The VirginianPilot. Kelsey was also named National Field Hockey 2nd Team All-American and TCIS Player of the Year.
The Adam Thoroughgood Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizen Award annually recognizes a senior from Cape Henry Collegiate School. The selection is based on personal characteristics as specified by the DAR: dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. Emily Ahern was recognized at a DAR luncheon in December.
Freshman Kayleigh Reed placed second in the girls division at the Cavalier Payton Memorial Golf Tournament. She also participated in the Virginia State Golf Association Junior Championships at Elizabeth Manor Country Club this summer where she came in fourth in the Girls 14-15 age division.
The Optimist International organization recognizes outstanding graduating high school seniors (male and female) based on their demonstration of excellence in character, community service, extracurricular activity, scholastic achievement, and citizenship. Steven Farmartino and Aubrey Northam were recognized at an awards breakfast in November.