Athletics News

Beating the same opponent four times in one season is not easy.

Christ School varsity soccer hopes the odds are finally stacked in its favor Tuesday when the Greenies (10-7-0) get another crack at Carolinas Athletic Association champion Rabun Gap (16-2-0). The Eagles host the first round NCISAA 4-A state playoff game at 4:30 p.m.

Local television station WMYA (40) rewarded the academics and citizenship of Max Field ’20 and Kiki Alcime ’20 during Friday’s broadcast of the varsity football game between Christ School and Charlotte Christian.

Senior Night carries with it a lot of emotion.

Multiply that exponentially for the Christ School varsity football team with Charlotte Christian coming to campus for a televised game.

The situation and the stakes are simple: One game, winner-take-all.

Varsity soccer earned the right to play for the Carolinas Athletic Association championship by placing second in the regular-season standings – Christ School (9-5-0, 3-3-0) travels to Rabun Gap (14-2-0, 6-0-0) for a 4:30 p.m. CAA title game on Thursday.

WakeMed Soccer Park is known for being a fast course. Andrew Hammel ’20 and Joseph Visconti '20 did nothing to shatter that belief Saturday.

If last week was the wake-up call for Christ School varsity football, then Friday was a chance to sound a few alarms, too

Henry Meulenberg ’23 looked both amused and honored when his Christ School JV football teammates yelled his last name in breaking down Thursday’s postgame talk.

Having already surpassed last year’s total for wins by two games, Christ School varsity soccer is now ready to hit the homestretch of its season.

Senior team captains Andrew Hammel ’20 and Joseph Visconti ’20 have been accepted into the prestigious Nike Race of Champions for Saturday’s Great American Cross Country Festival in Cary, N.C.

For Christ School, the road to a high seed and homefield advantage in the NCISAA football playoffs runs through Charlotte.

Senior Day is normally a cause for celebration.

Christ School varsity soccer made it extra special for ‪Max Redic ‘20, Michael Mahoney ‘20, Aaron Chen ‘20, Kevin Masson ‘20, Connor Hall ‘20, Adam Keever ’20, and their families. There were smiles all around Tuesday after the Greenies took care of business and beat visiting Asheville Christian Academy, 5-0.

Metaphorically speaking, Thomas Garbee ’16 is on the back-nine of his college golf career. And it is shaping up to be a great round.

Christ School cross country’s performance at Saturday morning’s Hare and Hounds Invitational bodes well for the future.

Christ School varsity soccer’s fourth shutout of the season was the sweetest one so far.

Given the heat, keeping everyone fresh with a new-look starting lineup and plenty of substitutions was a luxury for Christ School varsity soccer on Tuesday.

The highest-rated recruit in the history of Harvard University basketball is from Christ School.

Justice Ajogbor ’20 committed to the Crimson on Sunday, telling reporter Evan Daniels from 247Sports, “I’m deciding to play for the next four years at Harvard. Really for me the opportunity to play for coach (Tommy) Amaker, he's an awesome guy. The opportunity to go to a school like Harvard, is an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”

After a week between games, Christ School soccer flexed its scoring muscles Saturday in Matthews, N.C.

What looks to be the fastest cross country team in Christ School history is only getting faster.

Seven of the eight Greenies who raced Saturday morning ran personal-record or season-best times at the Eye Opener meet in Spartanburg, S.C. Christ School placed fourth as a team in the Invitational Boys division with 211 points, the best showing by any North Carolina school in the multi-state field.

Nothing was meant to be easy about Friday’s trip to Murphy.

A multi-hour bus ride to the far western mountains of North Carolina with a defending state champion lying in wait? The difficulty of such a scenario was only compounded when Christ School spotted the Bulldogs a touchdown in the first three minutes.

Christ School will get the chance to play one of western North Carolina’s most storied high school football programs for the first time Friday when the Greenies travel roughly two and a half hours to Murphy.