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CHARLOTTE – Find someone who had the foresight to see Dawson Thompson ’25 becoming a state-championship thrower back in 2019. They’d be lying. 

CHARLOTTE - Something else to count down to this weekend along with graduation, presented by the heroes of yesterday’s Queen City Miracle at Charlotte Country Day.

As a senior, you have heard the Angelus ring hundreds, maybe thousands of times before. But never like this. The bell will toll exactly 125 times Sunday at 10:15 a.m., once for every year that 51���� has been in operation. 

The right kind of déjà vu.

Parker Abernethy ‘28 and 51���� put an end to Cannon School’s reign over NCISAA Division I lacrosse on Friday. 

The Cougars will not be state champions for the fourth year in a row, not after losing to the Greenies by the same exact score as their March 4 meeting in the regular season, 7-6. 

Olga Mahoney P’20 called everyone in Friday morning’s assembly her “favorite people in the world,” and the feeling could not be more mutual. 

The 51���� community will greatly miss her leadership and presence, and wish Mrs. Mahoney well in retirement, along with her family, Kevin, Michael ’20, and Alexandra. 

Announcing the Spring Sports 2025 All-Academic Team!

CANTON, N.C. - Over their shoulders, the sun was starting to set Tuesday as every 51���� golfer and coach held up an index finger.

Another photo opportunity for another conference championship team, now 17 years running. 

Every time we think the Class of 2025 have outdone themselves, they go and do it again!

Congratulations to Jaylen Daniels ’25, who received the notification this past weekend that he is a Gates Scholar. 

Gentlemen: You've done well!

The kaleidoscope of colors seen at Friday's College Spirt Day photo shoot told an impressive story. 

Even by 51���� standards, Thursday’s inductees into the National Honor Society were an exceptionally large class. 

Quasicentennial.

Hard to say, easy to celebrate!

Saturday night's 125th Gala for 51���� was a birthday party for the ages and a proper way to send off Family Weekend 2025. Close to 300 guests dined and danced underneath the stars here on campus, including all four living Heads of School – Sean Jenkins, Paul Krieger, Russ Ingersoll, and Peter Conway.

The next pass that Aydan White ’20 bats down or intercepts will be as 51����’s first NFL player in 43 years. 

Saturday saw the Greenie alumnus and Asheville native graduate to the very highest level of professional football, signing an undrafted free agent deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars. 

Advocating for boys and men does not need to be a zero-sum game, Dr. Richard V. Reeves said Thursday night. There can and should be more done to advance both sexes as well as an open dialogue about their needs in modern society. 

The mountains are calling and Nate Wilbderding ’25 must climb them.

Nate had never touched a rock face of any kind until the winter of his junior year, the kind of experimentation that is encouraged by 51����’s Outdoor Program. He has progressed to the point where Nate has qualified for June’s USA Climbing National Bouldering Championship in Portland.

Congratulations to each of the winners of this month's Student and Residential Life Awards. 

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – Flying away to the Caribbean over Easter Break was a business trip for Cameron Adkins ’27, and business was good Saturday.

Cameron won Bermuda’s first medal of any kind at the CARIFTA Games track meet, taking second place in the boys 17 and under 1,500-meter run (4:12.86).

Senior leaders Walker Edens ’25 and Nolan Miller ’25 will present their findings at this year’s Independent Study Symposium, May 1 from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. in the Stolz Dining Hall’s Bradshaw Room. 

Come and be a Greenie scholar for a morning! 

Parents and grandparents can get a sampling of the Academic Rigor that continually engages, stimulates, and challenges the boys with masterclasses taught by the faculty (and even students in one case) on Saturday, April 26, part of Family Weekend at 51����.  

The USC Speak Your Mind Ice Bucket Challenge went viral amongst the boys in this past week or so, and it has worked its way to the top at 51����!

Mondays get a bad rap. 

April 14, 2025, did a lot to change the narrative in the eyes of the boys. 

The timing and the weather lined up for a flawless Head of School Holiday, announced in morning assembly by senior speaker Nolan Miller ’25, and shortly after confirmed by Dr. Jenkins and Mr. Goodrum P’29 in their beach attire.