Collegiate School’s Director of Athletics Andrew Stanley, coaches, teammates, and families gathered in Oates Theater to celebrate 13 student-athletes from the Class of 2025 for their commitment to continuing their careers as NCAA athletes. Congrats, Cougars! You make us proud.
Welcome, friends. Please meet the latest class of Unsung Seniors, a group of eight Collegiate athletes who made significant, albeit understated, contributions to the success of their respective teams during the fall of 2024.
A warm November day that rears its ugly head amidst near-idyllic fall weather seems hardly ideal for cross country runners competing in championship races on a challenging course.
In mid-October of 1998, Collegiate’s cross country team traveled to Blue Ridge School to run a dual meet as a prelude to the league championships, which would be contested a month hence over the hilly terrain of the Barons’ home course.
Inscribed with a black Sharpie on the back of Cale McCormick’s kicking shoe is a succinct statement of the credo by which the Collegiate junior strives to live each day, the venue notwithstanding.
As an athlete and coach, Jamie Whitten Montgomery has always done her due diligence, prepared thoroughly, and brought a beginner’s mindset and considerable joy to every endeavor she’s undertaken.
Rob Hershey ’66 and Beth Watlington Marchant ’72, the recipients of this year’s alumni awards, both embody the idea of paying forward the gifts they’ve received on their life’s journey.
Replacing four senior starters who led Collegiate’s varsity girls tennis team to three state and two league championships in the post-Covid years might appear to be a daunting task.
Seven of 11 starters from Collegiate’s 2023 Prep League and VISAA championship soccer team crossed the stage at graduation this past May, so conventional wisdom suggests that the Cougars have a rebuilding year before them.
Collegiate is happy to honor the recipients of the Ann Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Andrew Jackson Brent Award, the Anne Jones Award, the Clarence B. Williams Fund, and the Martha Elizabeth Schwarz Award.
Giles Ferrell vividly remembers that August morning back in 2018 when, as a wide-eyed 7th grader, she arrived at Collegiate’s Robins Campus for her first-ever day of official cross country training.
A blink of an eye ago, Xay Davis was the up-and-coming young athlete, prodigiously talented, possessed of uncommon speed, power, and agility, and eager to make his mark in three varsity-level sports at Collegiate.
With a calculated aplomb for digital media, Nikhil DePalma ’24 began enrolling in Taylor Dabney’s photography classes with the intention of looking at familiar objects in a new way.
Back in the mid-1990s when Jason Archbell competed for Norfolk Academy against Collegiate in football and lacrosse, foremost on his mind was doing all within his power to help the Bulldogs defeat the Cougars.
For two years following her graduation from the University of Virginia, Katie Bo Williams Lillis traveled the world learning the ins and outs of the thoroughbred racing industry.
The Collegiate experience is all about connections, and the best and deepest of those are the treasured, no-strings-attached friendships that last a lifetime.
Andrew Stanley remembers vividly a conversation he had with Charlie McFall almost two decades ago that spoke loudly and clearly to the philosophy of Collegiate’s athletic program.
Collegiate School’s 4th Graders completed their Moving Up Ceremony this morning, celebrating and reflecting on all of the excellence they have exuded thus far.
An almost constant mist punctuated by intermittent rain, variable winds, and temperatures in the low 60s created less-than-ideal spectating conditions for those in attendance at the VISAA Division I track and field championship May 18 at Sports Backers Stadium
Hey, there, folks. Please say hello to the latest class of Unsung Seniors, Collegiate athletes who contributed to the success of their respective teams during the spring season of 2024 but did so often beneath the radar.
Entering her new role as Collegiate’s Director of Sustainability, Sandra Marr is connecting the School’s three divisions through her conservation efforts.
Even as Kevin Coffey was making a name for himself as an athlete par excellence at Benedictine High School in Cleveland, friends who observed the multi-sport star in action told him that one day he would make a very good coach.
In his first college golf tournament, Jack Barnes shot a 67, followed it the next day with a 74 for a 36-hole total of 141, good for second place in the Kinder-Williams Invitational in Harrisonburg.
Back in the fall of 2013, Diamond Welton-Boxley was a high school sophomore, relatively new to the sport of volleyball but already drawing considerable interest from Division I college programs.
Collegiate School’s Director of Athletics Andrew Stanley, coaches, teammates and families gathered in the Craigie Board Room to celebrate four student-athletes from the Class of 2024 for their commitment to continuing their careers as NCAA athletes. Congrats, Cougars! You make us proud.
When Del Harris assumed the reins of Collegiate’s boys varsity basketball team in the spring of 2016, he considered his move from the college and AAU ranks nothing short of a leap of faith.
It was the winter of 1981-82, and Rives Fleming, then a junior at Collegiate, was serving as a student assistant coach for the boys 9th grade basketball team.
Welcome, friends. Please meet the winter 2024 class of Unsung Seniors, a hardy group of Collegiate athletes who contributed to the culture and success of their respective varsity programs but often did so well under the radar.
In the post-COVID years, Collegiate’s wrestling team has struggled to regain its traction following a season of cardio-vascular workouts but no contact, no mat time, no Middle School feeder program, and no competitions.
Collegiate School’s Director of Athletics Andrew Stanley, coaches, teammates and families gathered in the Craigie Board Room to celebrate five student-athletes from the Class of 2024 for their commitment to continuing their career as NCAA athletes. Congrats, Cougars! You make us proud.
When Charlie Blair was 10 years old, his parents sent him to Camp Virginia to listen, observe, learn, and grow from the friendships he’d develop with mentors who, they felt, would change his life in a positive way.
Gilbert Deglau spent the past four falls laboring in football anonymity, which is often the lot in life for those who hold forth in the offensive line.
In his duties as an art teacher, Barry O’Keefe wants his students to consider their work as living things that can exist outside the classroom for a purpose larger than a letter grade.