The Girls’ and Boys’ track teams at Asheville School clinched the CAA Championship in dramatic fashion on their home track Wednesday, May 10 after a fantastic afternoon of competition.

With major projects wrapping up and AP exams underway, seniors at Asheville School are coming to a unique realization ­-- the time for life beyond high school is about to commence.

In a downpour of rain, students and faculty members competed in the Mini Mud Run at the Woodfin YMCA on May 5. According to the YMCA of Western North Carolina, the obstacles included a 1-mile run, followed by an army mud crawl, mud hill climb, trail run, mind teaser, hay bale hurdles, tire agility, mud pit and more.

Asheville School’s Director of Admission and Enrollment Management Morgan Scoville joined 22,479 other runners in scorching temperatures for the 116th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 19.

This past weekend, two students and two faculty members from Asheville School traveled to The Bahamas and pedaled their way across 100 miles of terrain to raise money in the 7th annual Ride for Hope Bahamas.

Two Asheville School students tied for second place in the 23^rd Annual Computer Science High School Programming Contest held at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, April 17. Senior Lawrence Waller and junior Jeff Park competed together against several teams of students from AC Reynolds and McDowell High, finishing just behind a first place AC Reynolds team, and tying for second with another team from AC Reynolds.

The Buncombe County Track Championship meet was held at North Buncombe on a stormy Tuesday afternoon. Throughout delays and hard rain, the Blues performed well.

Raffle tickets are available for a handmade quilt of Asheville School t-shirts! Science teacher Laura Lawrence spent many hours making this 72” x 72” quilt. The raffle will take place graduation weekend on Saturday May 26 at 1:00 PM during graduation lunch. This is a one-of-a-kind gift for a graduating senior or Blues of all ages!

Coming from a family completely immersed in all aspects of the film industry, it’s not a surprise that Asheville School freshman Perla Haney-Jardine is headed to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City later this month for the premiere of her latest film: Future Weather.

Asheville School’s Joey Kriegler made the Citizen-Times All-WNC Swim team as a freshman.

Asheville School junior Ian Van Wye (Asheville, NC) has been selected to attend the 2012 session of Governor’s School of North Carolina. He will participate in the French discipline of the five-week session of Governor’s School, which is held on the campus of Meredith College in Raleigh.

Associate Head of School Jay Bonner has been selected to receive the 2012 Hollins University Teaching Award for his role as a Humanities teacher at Asheville School. His former student Nancy VanNoppen, who graduated from Asheville School in 2007 and is currently a senior at Hollins University, nominated him for this award.

Bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley, will speak at Asheville School on Thursday, April 26, at 7:15 pm in the Graham Theater during the school's Founders' Day Convocation.

Three Asheville School football players signed this week to play football at the collegiate level. Running back Malik Risher and quarterback Chad Koehler will play as teammates next year at Presbyterian College, while linebacker Mike Schill has committed to play at The University of the South: Sewanee.

While much of the world catches basketball fever during March, we at Asheville School hope that our school family will catch a little “white and blue fever.”

Six Asheville School freshmen girls are learning how to knit while supporting a good cause at the same time. Along with several other students, these freshmen are knitting premie blankets, surgery dolls, super kid capes, and hats to help clothe premature infants at Mission Children’s Hospital in Asheville.

Asheville School Robotics club members returned from their first competition on February 25 with second place medals in hand.

Congratulations to Asheville School junior Ryan Shiver who is celebrating this week after winning the NCISAA heavyweight championship in Charlotte on Saturday, February 18. Shiver pinned Charlotte Latin’s Toby Okwara within 1 minute and 15 seconds into this afternoon’s finals to claim the state championship title. During the two-day NCISAA wrestling tournament at Charlotte Country Day, Shiver pinned all four of his opponents.

Based on preliminary scores from national testing (PSAT), two Asheville School seniors have advanced to the finalist round in the 57th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Seniors Patrick (P.J.) Eckerd and Lawrence Waller, both from Asheville, NC, are two of 15,000 finalists competing for National Merit Scholarships.

Asheville School’s Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) club has asked students and faculty members to participate in the 2012 Green Cup National Energy Challenge from January 18 through February 15.

For the third year in a row, Asheville School students have demonstrated their impressive mathematical abilities at the Ciphering Time Trials, a national mathematics contest administered by National Assessment & Testing. In the recent 2011 competition, Asheveille School placed 25th in the nation.

Four Asheville School students recently received numerous awards for their artwork in the Regional Scholastics Art Competition in Western North Carolina. Of the 10 award-winning entries, six will go on to compete in the National Scholastic Competition in New York, NY.

Asheville School junior Jack Qualey (Hilton Head, SC) completed the Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Course sponsored by the Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS and IslandWood located on Bainbridge Island, Washington from December 27 - January 6. Qualey is now certified as a WFR and has the ability to make critical medical and evacuation decisions in remote locations.

In addition to juggling all of the responsibilities of being a teacher at Asheville School, Tim Plaehn and Christopher Arbor have found time to share their talents with the Asheville community. Both humanities teachers will present their respective literary works at Malaprop's bookstore in downtown Asheville on February 25 at 7:00 pm.

Asheville School Junior Ryan Shiver showed off his wrestling skills in Charlotte this weekend when he won the heavyweight championship at the Holy Angels Invitational wrestling tournament. During the two-day tournament which finished on Saturday, January 7 at Charlotte Cathlotic, Shiver showed why he’s the state’s top-ranked NCISAA heavyweight wrestler.

Beginning on January 16, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Asheville School will spend a week looking back and celebrating the Civil Rights Movement. The focus will be especially on students, looking at the Little Rock Nine, James Meredith, and the desegregation of Asheville City Schools.

The boys' varsity basketball team at Asheville School will spend part of the December break competing in two holiday tournaments in back to back games for two days in a row.

The Foreign Language Department is pleased to offer a three-week school trip to Urubamba, Peru from June 3 through June 24, 2012.

A sea of Asheville School students, faculty members, parents, and alumni surrounded the Blues players after the game, cheering them on for playing with such heart and never giving up in Friday night's 14-10 loss to the First Assembly Eagles. The Blues claimed the runner-up trophy in Asheville School's first state title game in school history.

Click here to view photos from the championship game.

Down by 3 with 4 minutes left to play, Asheville School senior Malik Risher returned a SouthLake Christian kickoff for 95-yards to give the Blues a 21-17 win and the chance to play for the NCISAA Division II state championship for the first time in school history.

The Blues advance to the second round of Division II NCISAA State playoffs for the first time in school history after defeating Harrells Christian Academy 41-37 at home on Saturday, November 5.

Asheville School's cross country teams performed well in the NCISAA state meet this fall, with the boys’ cross country team placing third overall out of 22 teams.

In a game that went the distance Saturday, the Asheville School Blues dominated and held off an undefeated Christ School Greenie team to claim a 15-9 win in the historic rivalry between the two schools.

Asheville School students will perform Almost, Maine on Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28 at 7:15 p.m. in the school’s Graham Theater.

Four Asheville School fall varsity teams will compete in the state tournament, with three teams entering the first round of the NCISAA tournament tomorrow, Friday, October 21.

Asheville School senior Zach Smith (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia) and freshman Madison Fiedler (Biltmore Lake, NC) were selected to participate in the opening act at the 2011 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Out of the 160 student athletes nominated by their respective coaches, Asheville School seniors Malik Risher (Brooklyn, NY) and Anthony Cammarata (Asheville, NC) were two of the 33 football players selected from North Carolina to play in the Oasis Shriners All-Star Classic.

Twenty-five goats have returned to Asheville School’s natural forest to help eliminate invasive plants on campus thanks to an environmentally safe approach supported by the school’s Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) club.

Asheville School students were greeted by an archway of blue and white balloons in the dining hall this week - kicking off Girls’ Sports Day, an annual celebration of Asheville School’s female athletes. First organized in 1990, Girls’ Sports Day has grown into an enthusiastic weeklong event honoring female sports teams, including all Asheville School girls participating in mountaineering and equestrian.

Community Home Care and Hospice in the Charlotte area named Asheville School senior Kate Fitzsimmons the Volunteer of the Month! She worked at Hospice during the summer break.

Asheville School's 275 students enjoyed dancing together with their peers, their teachers, and their teacher's children during a school-wide square dancing concert Saturday night. Click here to view photos from Opening Day 2011.

Morgan Scoville joins Asheville School this year as the Director of Admission and Enrollment Management. We took the time to catch up with the new member of our community on his background and hopes for this year.

Following Asheville School's graduation, Director of Student Activities Michelle Brooks and her husband took seven students on an adventure through Italy. They have seen Rome, Pompeii, Naples, Umbria, Tuscany and more! They've eaten gelato, and visited many places they had only seen in history books. Click here to read the blogs the students are writing about their trip, or here and here see more photos.

During the 2011 Spring Choral Concert on May 19, Asheville School students performed seven pieces in Graham Theater under the direction of Asheville School’s Director of Music, John Crawley, who also served as the pianist for the show. Click here for a video playlist of the performances or here for the podcasts.

Asheville School's Class of 2011 celebrated Graduation Day on Saturday, May 28 as they received their diplomas on the William Boyd Chapel lawn during the School’s 111^th commencement.

The students in Ms. Lawrence’s Honors Biology class finished their eight-month research project on their plot of Asheville School’s natural woodland. Each group studied an area that is approximately 1/100 of an acre large. Click here for photos.

As Asheville School’s 111th commencement ceremony approaches, the school’s 77 seniors credit their teachers for preparing them to enter some of the most competitive and selective colleges and universities in the world.

After discovering invasive species over-taking parts of the campus forest, Asheville School decided to use alternative methods to take a bite out of the problem.

Please join Mr. Bonner and Mr. Gregory on an epic summer reading adventure. As part of our Humanities Department's focus on the core works of Western civilization, we invite you to read with us the following book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [ISBN-10: 9780143035008]

In a recent Honors Biology research project, students studied beaver behaviors and found evidence of beavers on our campus.

Babies, flowers, butterflies, statues, and more make appearances in the Campus in Bloom photo contest entries on our Facebook page. Anyone can vote, and you can vote for as many photos as you want! To vote for a photo, click "like" under the photo between now and May 20. Winners will be announced on May 23.

Asheville School has been busy with the senior dinner, alumni pinning, prom and more. See photos and videos from the activities that took place this past weekend.

Grab your cameras – Asheville School's campus is in bloom!

If you haven't seen Asheville School's campus recently – it is absolutely beautiful. This spring, our campus is decorated with an abundance of plants in bloom. Here is your chance to experience the beauty of campus – and get rewarded!

Frank Kriegler didn’t have much time to rest during his spring break. The science teacher and swimming coach at Asheville School was too busy training for the biggest swimming event of his life -- a 24-mile marathon swim that covers the entire length of Tampa Bay.

Raising money to provide loans to developing countries may not be on the minds of most teenagers – but a group of Asheville School students have embraced the idea of supporting global entrepreneurship by creating a student-led microfinance society.

Champion sailor, award-winning scholar and bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick will speak at Asheville School on Thursday, April 28 at 7:15 pm in the Graham Theater during the school’s Founders’ Day Convocation. This presentation is part of the Asheville School Pope Series for Humanities, and is free and open to the public, but with limited seating available on a first come first seated basis. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. to the public.

Last spring, Max Hartmann broke the Asheville School long jump record when he jumped 21' 9" - and placed second at the NCISAA 3A State Championships. This year, it only took Hartmann one meet for him to break that record again…and then again.

Until she arrived at Asheville School, Katharine Lannom coached herself every time she prepared for a track meet. But with her first spring track and field season now underway at Asheville School, Lannom points to one reason why she expects to excel — her coach.

Former Asheville School Trustee John Lawrence will speak to students and faculty about his medical volunteer work in Africa on Thursday night, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. in Graham Theater. His talk is free and open to the public with limited seating available.

Asheville School's boys swim team placed 9th overall and the girls finished 15th at the NCISAA 3A state championship meet in Cary, NC on Monday, February 21. Almost every swimmer at the meet earned at least one season best time.

A week after scoring his 1000th career point as a Blues basketball player, Asheville School senior Alex Avery was named to the CAA All-Conference team.

"I am very proud of Alex Avery and his basketball accomplishments over his career at Asheville School. Alex's perseverance through his teams successes and failures is noteworthy," says Chapman Kern, Asheville School Athletic Director. "Alex has demonstrated the desire to compete to the best of his ability in each and every game of his career. His leadership and determination have been recognized, as he was voted Co-Captain by his teammates in both his junior and senior seasons. I am so happy for Alex to have achieved this 1000 point scoring landmark and even more proud of his recent naming to the 2011 Carolinas Athletic Association Boys' Basketball All-Conference team. Alex will be greatly missed as he moves on the play at the next level."

Sophomore Melinda Coker has been skiing as long as she can remember, and her skills certainly set her apart this season as she was named top female skier for the season. A captain on Asheville School’s Ski Team this winter, Coker is credited for the ski team’s overall success this season.

Asheville School students will perform the Pulitzer Prize winning comedy How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Thursday, February 24 and Friday, February 25 at 7:00 p.m. in Asheville School's Graham Theater. The performance is free and open to the public with limited seating.

Asheville School Sophomore Maggie Lindsey may be one of the youngest players on her team, but her age didn't stop her from sinking a record number of 3-point shots for the Blues girls' varsity basketball team.

The players had an accident in West Virginia yesterday and their vehicle is not able to make it to North Carolina. Asheville School hopes to reschedule the play with the company later this year.

Asheville School has some of the best high school mathematicians in the country, as demonstrated by their 22nd place finish in the 2010 Ciphering Time Trials, a national mathematics contest administered by National Assessment & Testing.

During the offseason, Asheville School Senior Will Patton was kicking for swim season to start – literally. Turns out Patton’s broken arm and extra focus on kicking helped his team finish in first place in the Buncombe County Meet on Saturday, January 15 at Asheville School.

Students at Asheville School are quickly becoming experts about the U.S. Constitution — thanks to the Humanities department's emphasis this year on the nation's founding documents.

The school store will have a Holiday Open House on December 2, from 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. to allow students, faculty, and families an extra chance to shop. Please come out and enjoy some light refreshments and support Asheville School.

With the Christ School game a mere three weeks away (October 30), Asheville School is preparing to battle it out against the Greenies. There will be a week-long celebration leading into Christ School Weekend activities.

As part of a communications service project at Asheville School, four of our third formers (Class of 2014) have been participating in a new blog recently launched on Asheville School's website.

The Asheville School Blues football team was recently highlighted by the Asheville Citizen-Times in a front page Sports feature about their upcoming season. The Blues start the regular season this Friday, September 3 at home against Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy. Kick off begins at 4:30 p.m. on Arbogast Field. Click here to read the article. Click here to view photos from a recent practice.

Asheville School Senior Scott Foy (Charlotte, N.C.) won the Waynesville Main Street Mile with a time of 4:22 on August 13, 2010. He competed in the Male 18 & Under category. The Main Street Mile is a benefit race for the Shriner's Hospital for Children in Greenville, SC.

Asheville School's Class of 2010 celebrated Graduation Day on Saturday, May 29 as they received their diplomas on the William Boyd Chapel lawn.

To view 110 photos from the School's 110th commencement day, click here.

Sunday Vespers marked a very important moment in the life of all Asheville School students.

Fifth former Katie Volatile was named to the NCISAA All-State team in the 3A girls’ soccer division on Saturday, May 15, during the closing of the girls’ soccer state championship at Charlotte Latin.

Asheville School’s boys’ and girls’ track teams finished out a strong season this weekend at the NCISAA 3A State Track Championships at Cary Academy, in Cary, NC.

Asheville School's Varsity Boys' tennis team earned a #9 seed in the 3A NCISAA tennis tournament to be held in Greensboro, NC on Saturday, May 8.

Asheville School’s Girls’ Soccer team defeated Shannon Forest 2-1 on Tuesday, May 4 to earn the CAA Conference Co-Championship! The Blues tied Asheville Christian Academy for the CAA title. The girls ended CAA play with a final CAA record of 5-1-4 and an overall record of 7-2-4.