BJA’s middle and high school students have been working hard, not only in their classes, but also in applying their skills and talents outside of the classroom.
Congratulations to the following students for a job well done!
Sports
- Cross Country team: SCACS State Champs (Coaches Laura Uwarow and Macy Baldwin)
- Hank Schwingle: 1st
- Luke Boyd: 4th
- Micah Schaffner: 5th
- AJ Meissner: 10th
- Varsity men’s and women’s volleyball teams: SCACS State Champs (Coaches Beth Ring and BC Christmas)
- SCACS All-Tournament Volleyball Teams
- Tara Wheeler
- Savannah Kelly
- Carissa Ring
- Kaleb Ericson
- Zach Baggett
- Anthony Bednarski
- SCACS All-Conference Soccer Team
- Josh Cancino
- Carson Fisher
- Men’s NACA soccer team: Division I champions (Coach Don Ward)
- Men’s NACA All-Tournament players
- Elias Bryan
- Reid Burgin
- Matthew Hotchkin
Middle School VEX Robotics Competition: Of our 7 teams, these 4 teams qualified for the state robotics tournament in early March. Tim Jones coaches the middle school robotics teams.
- Alpha Omega: Dillon Longworth, Peyton Franco, Jason Gunther
- Light Brigade: Caden Whitcomb, Ben Santopietro, William Miller, Hunter Tuten
- Alpha Centauri: Jack Genco, Tucker Weaver, Gio Candela-Cruz, Chase Kamdar
- Einstein’s Engineers: Noah Dye, Benji O’Neal, Tyler Shuler, Carter Shuler
Art: BJU High School Festival
- Best of Show—Jack Lilly
- 1st place painting (oil/acrylic)—Jack Lilly
- 1st place extemporaneous drawing—Lyvia Miller
- 2nd place mixed media—Jack Lilly
- 3rd place painting (oil/acrylic)—Nico Yezbick
- 3rd place sculpture—Brooke Carrier
Music: BJU High School Festival
- 1st place brass—Sean Hamrick
- 1st place woodwind—Ashley Klaire Darst
- 2nd place woodwind—Brooke Carrier
Winthrop Invitational Band Clinic: Selected students spent three days attending master classes and rehearsals culminating in a concert Saturday evening. The BJA band director is Alex Wright.
- Ashley Klaire Darst—woodwind
- Brooke Carrier—woodwind
- Josie Santopietro—percussion
- Nathan Miller—brass
- Sean Hamrick—brass
Middle School SC Bar Mock Trial Regional & State Tournaments: Students played the roles of attorneys and witnesses using a case provided by the SC Bar. The team is coached by Chuck Nicholas, attorney Ruth DePasquale, and Ryan Parimi.
- Regional competition: 1st Place Team & all 12 of the personal awards
- Reece Kamdar—2 peer & 2 adult judge Best Attorney Awards
- Bryson Beadles—1 peer & 2 adult judge Best Witness Awards
- Grace Meissner—1 peer & 1 adult judge Best Attorney Awards
- Micah Ericson—1 peer Best Witness Award
- Micah Daniels—1 adult Best Witness Award
- Jaleigh Kinard—1 adult Best Witness Award
- State competition: 2nd Place Team
- Micah Ericson—2 peer & 1 adult judge Best Attorney Awards
- Leona Francis—1 adult judge Best Attorney Award
- Grace Meissner—1 peer Best Attorney Award
- Jonathan Washer—1 adult Best Witness Award
- Jaleigh Kinard—1 peer & 1 adult Best Witness Award
- Bryson Beadles—1 peer Best Witness Award
- Callie Campbell—1 peer Best Witness Award
Speech and Debate Team Tournaments: Four 1st and 2nd place sweepstake trophies along with hosting BJA’s 36th speech and debate invitational tournament. Chuck Nicholas, Gail Nicholas, Shawn Chisholm, Lauri Trotter, and Pam Snyder coach the team.
The following students won 1st place trophies this semester.
- Graham Edwards
- Jonathan Kamdar
- Jacobi Chisholm
- Coralee Lawrence
- Lena Poitevint
- Abella Edwards
- Lyvia Miller
- Wesley Wolfe
- Grace Trotter
- Ben King
- Julianna Kovalevich
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