Calendar 09-10Awards and Achievements
Track Region -
Swim - Congratulations to Meredith Barrington, one of Covenant Academy’s swimmers, for being recognized in the Macon Telegraph as the All Middle Georgia Swimmer for 2009. On April 14, Macon Telegraph featured Meredith in an article acknowledging her accomplishments this past season.
State Literary - Covenant Academy was represented well at the SY2008-2009 Region Literary Competition and then the State Literary Competition held March 18th at Valdosta State University. Each student that attended the State Competition placed in their event, which helped to accumulate many points with the five students competing. This placed Covenant 4th in the State Competition with fourteen schools competing from Class A schools all across the state. Abigail Jackson placed 1st in State for Girl's Solo and Julie Thomas placed 1st in the Personal Essay event. Andrew Bankson took 2nd place in Argumentative Essay, while Kristen Henning, Piano Soloist, and Stephen Thomas, Boy's Soloist, both placed 3rd in their events.
Region Litereary - At the Region Competition at West Georgia College, the following Covenant students did a great job in the following events: Caleb Timmerman-- Dramatic Oral Interpretation; Caty Hulsey--Spelling; Kristen Henning, Haley Woodard, Lizzy McCullers-- Girls’ Trio; Stephen Thomas, Caleb Timmerman, Chris Mericle, and Caleb Knight--Boys’ Quartet; Abigail Jackson--Girl's Solo; Kristen Henning--Piano Solo; Stephen Thomas--Boy's Solo; Julie Thomas- Personal Essay; Andrew Bankson--Argumentative Essay. Students who place 1st or 2nd progressed on to the State competition. Congratulations to all these students for their dedication, hard work, and willingness to use their talents and abilities to give glory to the Lord!
All-State Chorus - Two Covenant students were selected to participate in All- State Chorus held Feb. 26-28th in Savannah. Eleventh grader Kristen Henning, and 10th grader Abigail Jackson both passed two auditions to be selected for this high honor. Kristen sang in the Senior Mixed Chorus, while Abigail sang in the Intermediate Mixed Chorus. Both choruses were comprised of approximately 300 students from all across the state. Kristen and Abigail participated in many practice sessions with prominent choral directors, and then culminated the event with a performance at the Savannah Civic Center. Congratulations to these girls for being chosen for the 2009 All-State Chorus! Mrs. Deckbar
The Sound of Music - Congratulations! To Abigail Jackson for landing the part of Liesl in Macon Little Theatre’s production of The Sound of Music!
Swim Team - The CA Ram Swim Team jumped into the pool and emerged the state runners up, in the process laying claim to three states titles. The Varsity Girls Relay Team (Adeline Barrington, Meredith Barrington, Caty Hulsey and Niki Johnston started off the meet with a 200 Medley Relay showdown against Kings Ridge and came away victorious with a Michael Phelps type finish -- .03 seconds! The next State Championship Win was in the 100 Fly as Meredith Barrington dominated the field and ended with a time of 1:00.06! In the final race in the meet, the Ram Relay Team again bested Kings Ridge, with a come from behind at the last turn lap by Meredith Barrington, to put the 200 Free Relay State Championship title in their hands, winning by .63 seconds!
Silent March - Our seventh graders participated in the “Silent March” this past week representing CA to bring awareness to pro-life moral issues. Our young people did an excellent job participating in this annual event hosted by Macon’s own Sav-a-Life organization. Ethan Hammock (class president) and Annie Minton (class vice-president) were chosen to lead the hundreds gathered that day by carrying the official banner for the march.
National Young Leaders Conference - Congratulations are in order for two of our outstanding CA students. Miss Kristen Henning and Miss Abigail Jackson both attended the Fall, 2008 National Young Leaders Conference sponsored by the Congressional Youth Leadership Council in Washington, D.C. The NYLC is designed to instruct and enrich promising students in a hands-on, experiential atmosphere while preparing them for a lifetime of leadership. Students are chosen for nomination to the NYLC based on their high academic achievements and their potential for leadership. Congratulations to these two young ladies for their accomplishments.
Piano - Julie Thomas, a ninth grader at CA, has been named the Recital Class Winner in the statewide piano competition sponsored by the Georgia Music Educators Association. She also won the Four Hand Competition with her sister. Julie will go on to play at the GMEA convention in Savannah, GA in January. Abigail Jackson, a tenth grader at CA, placed as the second alternate in the Four Hand competition along with her playing partner. Congratulations to Julie and Abigail!
One ACT - How about a Big Hurrah for our One Act Play! We traveled to The Brook Run Theater in Dunwoody, GA last Wednesday to compete in the Region Competition. Even though our season endured the mishaps of participants dealing with an emergency appendectomy, a torn hamstring, and performance day throat and stomach problems, our students put on the best performance yet. The competition was excellent and although we did not win a trip to the state competition, the day could hardly
have gone better. In addition, our own Stephen Howard came home with a “Best Performer” award. Great job Stephen and congratulations to all involved.
Cross Country - The Covenant Academy Cross Country team did a great job at the State meet yesterday. The girls varsity finished fourth overall and the boys varsity received State runner-up. Our JV runners had their work cut out for them running with AAA teams, but both JV teams had a great showing as well. We had many great times yesterday out of all the runners, but doing especially well were those who made All-State. Among these for JV were Ethan Hammock and Jessica Smith. The All-State runners for varsity were Winter Brown, Luke Hayden and Andrew Swicegood, and winning her overall race was Victoria Coppage!!!
Homecoming Queen - Congratulations to Miss Maggie Sowell for being chosen as Covenant Academy’s first ever Homecoming Queen.
Varsity Football - The Covenant Academy Rams competed in their first ever varsity football game Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at the Ed Defore Sports Complex.