Powell, LaBerge and Kelley commit to college athletic programs
February 3rd, 2010
Today is national signing day for college-bound student athletes and in a short ceremony in the Upper School commons, three CWA seniors this morning formally declared their intent to compete in collegiate athletics at specific schools. Natalie Powell will play Division I women’s soccer for Saint Mary’s College of California. Max LaBerge will run cross country, indoor track and outdoor track for Williams College. Megan Kelley will play women’s tennis for Hamilton College. Proud parents, siblings, coaches, teammates, classmates and school administrators gathered for the signing event. Read the rest of this entry »
“It’s one of the top universities in the world, a place where you can come into contact with genius, where people develop ideas and make decisions that change the world,” says Austin Jung. In just a few short months he’ll be one of those people. The CWA senior has been accepted to Yale. He applied for restricted early action, meaning he could apply early to only one college but wasn’t obligated to accept the offer if one came. Austin, who always knew he wanted to travel and live in places far beyond the Northwest, is about 99% sure he’ll go to Yale now that he’s in. 
CWA will celebrate Winter Homecoming on Friday, January 29. It’s an opportunity for the entire Charles Wright community to come together and celebrate the school’s winter athletes. There will be food, music, jumping, dancing and lots of basketball. 
“Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime too” in CWA’s new Donn Laughlin Theater. Students are preparing for the biggest production yet in the new Language and Performing Arts Center and CWA’s first dinner theater show. Nearly 20 percent of the Upper School’s student body is involved in the production as cast, crew and pit. 
CWA is a college preparatory school from the very first days of Beginning School right through graduation. When students apply for college their senior year, their decisions about where they’ll go next in life are of great interest to the faculty, staff, students and parents in all three divisions. That’s why this year we’re going to bring you the stories of a number of members of the class of 2010 as they decide, one by one, where they’ll go to college. 
It’s been pretty quiet around the Charles Wright campus the past two weeks, but while most teachers and students are on winter break the Upper School boys and girls basketball teams continue to practice and compete. Both squads lost several strong starters last year and this year’s senior class has fewer basketball players than most. None the less, both teams are proving they can be competitive.
Every two years, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) redraws the classification lines for high school athletics. The 2010-2012 classification ranges were finalized this week. Charles Wright Academy is once again classified as 1A, but there are some significant changes among the teams they compete against. 
Aron Roberts, a junior at CWA, has just been selected for the 2010 American High School Honors Performance Series. Acceptance to this elite group is a direct result of the talent, dedication, and achievements demonstrated in his application and audition recording. Next June, Roberts will join other performers from the United States, Canada, and Bermuda for a special performance at world-famous Carnegie Hall in New York, a venue that marks the pinnacle of musical achievement. 
Running is one of the most popular and consistently successful athletic programs at CWA. In the past year, Tarriers have won state championship titles in three events and recorded 16 top-eight finishes. CWA has also dominated the league’s Middle School running events and half the student body in the Lower School belonged to the after-school Running Club this fall. With all that enthusiasm for running, it should come as no surprise that CWA has on its campus one of the fastest runners in the nation. ![photo14[1]](http://cwablogs.org/blogs/wrightblog/files/2009/12/photo141-150x150.jpg)
Charles Wright’s musicians are hard at work preparing for their Winter Concerts. All these events are free and open to the public. Guests are particularly encouraged to attend the Upper and Middle School concerts which can comfortably seat many guests in the new Language and Performing Arts Center.