The Tri-City Hearld named Ben Olp, who graduated from CWA in June, and Dillon Truscott, a rising senior, to the 1A boys soccer all-state list this weekend.  Click here to read the article. The newspaper also named Truscott the state’s 1A boys soccer player of the year.  Olp will play at Westminster College next year and Truscott will return for his senior year at Charles Wright playing soccer and tennis, singing in the school choir, playing in the band and, oh yeah, studying.  Click here for a full list of all the honors and awards won by Tarrier athletes in the past year.

Koby Deitz and Alex Nielsen, both rising sophomores, became the first Charles Wright students to compete at the national level in National History Day earlier this month.  The week-long contest was held at the University of Maryland at College Park, just outside of Washington, DC.  Deitz and Nielsen competed in the group exhibit category against nearly 100 other state-winning entries and they finished in the top half of their division.  Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wright Academy’s largest graduating class ever, the Class of 2009, was honored at the school’s 46th commencement on Saturday, June 6, on the lawn of the Upper School.  The 81 members of this class elected Upper School Math Teacher Jeremy Stubbs as the faculty speaker and they selected Ishmael Stinson, Katie Young and Phil Gardner as the student speakers.  Click here to watch a four minute video with highlights of the student speeches and photos from graduation. Read the rest of this entry »

With 20 winning seasons, ten league championships, four state titles, 25 top-eight individual state finishes and five top-eight teams, and 63 all-league honors, Charles Wright Academy’s athletic program wrapped up another very successful year this week.  Read the rest of this entry »

Construction of the new CWA Language and Performing Arts Center has reached the finishing phase.  The school’s English, foreign language, drama and music teachers are thrilled with their new classrooms, offices and performing spaces.  The acoustics of the new facility are particularly impressive.

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CWA athletes wrapped up the 2008-2009 school year in Eastern Washington last weekend at the state track and field meet in Cheney and the state tennis tournament in Yakima.  The Tarriers performed very well.  The boys track and field team took third place and the girls finished eighth.  State championship titles were won by Max LaBerge in the 3200m run, Nick Smith in the 800m run, Ishmael Stinson in the triple jump and Rachel Williams, Grace Su and Diane Lawrence and Emilee Bell in the 4×100m relay.  In total, 15 Tarriers recorded top-eight finishes last weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Wrights boys and girls golf teams didn’t repeat their 2008 twin second-place finishes at the state tournament in Richland, but all four seniors in the competition played very well today.  Deanna Wade, the only CWA girl to qualify for the state match, took 4th place in Richland.  She scored an 88 yesterday and another 88 today for a total of 176.  The winner of this year’s state girls 1A championship is a golfer from Chelan who scored an amazing 146, beating the second place finisher by 27 strokes.  Deanna finished just four strokes out of second place.  Read the rest of this entry »

CWA’s boys soccer team lost a heartbreaker in the state quarterfinals on Saturday evening.  Alex Benfanti, assisted by Dillon Truscott, scored the team’s only goal in the 2-1 loss.  The Tarriers played very well and Coach Tony Chursky called the end the game the most exciting 20-minutes of soccer he’d seen in a long time.  CWA had a great season and with just two starting seniors graduating, there are high expectations for next year’s team.  Read the rest of this entry »

CWA did very well at the girls tennis district tournament and quad-district track and field meet.  CWA’s doubles team of Sarina Halankar and Megan Kelley won the district doubles title with a score of 7-5, 6-4 in their final match of the day.  Singles player Sara Finkleman plays today for third place and a chance to compete at the state match in Yakima with Halankar and Kelley.  At the track meet at King’s, 15 CWA athletes qualified for Saturday’s finals.  The final round of a few events were held on Thursday and the following athletes have already qualified for the state meet in Cheney May 29 and 30: Jeff Crabill and Max Laberge in the 1600m, Ishmael Stinson in the triple jump and Caitlin Bunning in the javelin throw.

Update: CWA will play Seattle Academy in the state quarterfinals on Saturday, May 23, at 5pm at Franklin Pierce High School.  The teams met once this year in a post-season match-up as they prepared for district and state competition.  That game ended in a 1-1 tie.  CWA is currently 13-0-2.

Charles Wright’s boys soccer team didn’t make it look pretty, but they won their game against La Center today, 3-1, in the first round of the state tournament.  The big story of this game was the excellent work of two freshmen - Andrew Cheney and Justice Nichols.  Read the rest of this entry »