By Devika Agrawal ’13

Winning their first three matches, Charles Wright Academy’s Upper School Knowledge Bowl team started the 2012 season with a bang. The team is very enthusiastic about their upcoming regional competition on March 3 and is working extremely hard towards their goal of winning the 3A state championship for the first time in school history. Read the rest of this entry »

As has long been the tradition at CWA, the hearts of the Tarriers were warmed on Monday afternoon by the annual Holiday Assembly. At the end of the all-school event, students lit candles representing eight different fall and winter religious and cultural celebrations. The CWA community candle was then lit by the oldest Tarrier, senior Sophia Shin, and the youngest Tarrier, Beginning Schooler Max Portnow. Read the rest of this entry »

Upper School visual arts teacher Brian Hutcheson gave his class a unique challenge this fall: Don’t just create 3D art. Animate it! Now the products of their work – created individually and in teams – are on display in the Upper School’s newly christened Ted Sanford Art Gallery and visitors can marvel not only at the creativity of their projects but the ingenuity as well. Read the rest of this entry »

A pair of CWA juniors, soccer player Katie Mayer and football player Beau Iverson Jr., have been named to the highly selective News Tribune all-area teams. This honor recognizes the best athletes in the South Sound, regardless of the WIAA classification in which their schools compete. Mayer and Iverson both made significant contributions to their teams this year. Read the rest of this entry »

It was another busy week around the Lower School at CWA! Check out this Five Photo Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

CWA’s fall sports season was one of the most exciting and most successful in recent years. The boys cross-country team took fourth place at state with two runners on the podium in individual places. The boys tennis team swept through the league and quad-district tournaments defending their quad-district title and setting themselves up to make a run at their third consecutive state championship title in the spring. The girls cross-country team sent two runners to state, both of whom turned in strong performances. Both volleyball and football also competed at the district level. It was the second district appearance in as many years for the volleyball team. It was the football team’s first district appearance in 14 years. As the all-league honors began rolling in for Tarriers on both team, word came that CWA Head Football Coach Mike Finch took Coach-of-the-Year honors for the Nisqually League. Read the rest of this entry »

The Williams women’s soccer team advanced to the NCAA Sectional Semifinals last weekend after defeating Westfield State 2-1. Natalie Weyerhaeuser ’11 is one of ten Williams freshmen on the 23-woman roster. The team has 12-4-3 overall record this year.  Weyerhaeuser leads the team in shots-on-goal percentage. The team now faces Emory on Saturday, November 19, in sweet-16 action. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wright Academy has teamed up with the Emergency Food Network to help sponsor the 2011 Empty Bowls fundraiser and CWA’s student artists are leading the effort by donating their own artwork to the cause. Read the rest of this entry »

Fourteen more members of CWA’s Class of 2012 have been honored by the National Merit Scholarship program for their performance on the PSAT last year.  Three students scored in the top one percent of test takers and eleven students scored in the top five percent. In total, nearly 20 percent of the class scored on the exam in the nation’s top five percent. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s better than a Five Photo Friday? A Six Photo Monday, of course! Here’s some great shots from last week’s activities in the Lower School. Read the rest of this entry »