Quasicentennial.

Hard to say, easy to celebrate!

Saturday night's 125th Gala for Christ School was a birthday party for the ages and a proper way to send off Family Weekend 2025. Close to 300 guests dined and danced underneath the stars here on campus, including all four living Heads of School – Sean Jenkins, Paul Krieger, Russ Ingersoll, and Peter Conway.

The next pass that Aydan White ’20 bats down or intercepts will be as Christ School’s first NFL player in 43 years. 

Saturday saw the Greenie alumnus and Asheville native graduate to the very highest level of professional football, signing an undrafted free agent deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars. 

Advocating for boys and men does not need to be a zero-sum game, Dr. Richard V. Reeves said Thursday night. There can and should be more done to advance both sexes as well as an open dialogue about their needs in modern society. 

The mountains are calling and Nate Wilbderding ’25 must climb them.

Nate had never touched a rock face of any kind until the winter of his junior year, the kind of experimentation that is encouraged by Christ School’s Outdoor Program. He has progressed to the point where Nate has qualified for June’s USA Climbing National Bouldering Championship in Portland.

Congratulations to each of the winners of this month's Student and Residential Life Awards. 

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – Flying away to the Caribbean over Easter Break was a business trip for Cameron Adkins ’27, and business was good Saturday.

Cameron won Bermuda’s first medal of any kind at the CARIFTA Games track meet, taking second place in the boys 17 and under 1,500-meter run (4:12.86).

Senior leaders Walker Edens ’25 and Nolan Miller ’25 will present their findings at this year’s Independent Study Symposium, May 1 from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. in the Stolz Dining Hall’s Bradshaw Room. 

Come and be a Greenie scholar for a morning! 

Parents and grandparents can get a sampling of the Academic Rigor that continually engages, stimulates, and challenges the boys with masterclasses taught by the faculty (and even students in one case) on Saturday, April 26, part of Family Weekend at Christ School.  

The USC Speak Your Mind Ice Bucket Challenge went viral amongst the boys in this past week or so, and it has worked its way to the top at Christ School!

Mondays get a bad rap. 

April 14, 2025, did a lot to change the narrative in the eyes of the boys. 

The timing and the weather lined up for a flawless Head of School Holiday, announced in morning assembly by senior speaker Nolan Miller ’25, and shortly after confirmed by Dr. Jenkins and Mr. Goodrum P’29 in their beach attire. 

Bless these branches and bless these boys. 

Students and the faculty were given their own individual palm branch for Christ School's observance of Palm Sunday, highlighted by an all-school service in St. Joseph's Chapel and a family-style advisory dinner in Stolz Hall.

Culture, heritage, and the food! Don’t forget the food.

Saturday’s second annual Global Day brought the Christ School community together to appreciate and celebrate a student body which includes boys from 14 different countries, domestic families with a background beyond U.S. shores, as well as a multinational faculty.

Enrichment this close to home is too good to pass up.

The boys have taken a pair of field trips within the Asheville city limits this week.

Championship culture comes before trophies in Clint Alexander’s playbook, with his essentials to success being the core values of discipline, leadership, and unselfishness.

Coach Alexander has built winning programs and taught, mentored, and coached adolescent boys into men of character everywhere he has been in 29 years with this as a foundation, from large public schools to small independent schools.

Following a competitive and nationwide search, Christ School is pleased to introduce Clint Alexander as our new Football Program Director and Varsity Coach.

Christ School's loss will be Brown University's gain next fall. 

Gardner House Prefect Xander Ring '25 admits in this video profile that he was skeptical about the Long Green Line's brotherhood when he first came here from Tega Cay, S.C., but has since come around to how his fellow Greenies support him and hold him accountable. 
 

Prom Night memories captured in pictures and forever stored away in the memory bank. 

The boys and their dates were dressed their best Saturday, arriving on campus to pleasant weather. The Junior-Senior Prom was a wonderful celebration that made full use of the spacious Patrick Beaver Student Center. 

Krieger Leadership Scholars know inherently that the best version of themselves cannot be found in a predetermined mold. This ambition, curiosity, and desire for self-exploration make up the heart of the Christ School experience, along with demonstrated excellence in the classroom and civic responsibility.

Now in its third year, the KLS program has proven successful in identifying young men who are worthy new members of the Long Green Line. We proudly announce that this year’s scholarship winners are incoming freshmen William “BJ” Houston '29 from Sherrills Ford, N.C., and Danny Samayoa '29 from Plainfield, N.J.

Coaching awards invariably come back to accomplishments by the team. 

And this past season’s Greenies deserve to be in the conversation for the best group to ever represent Christ School basketball. 

The Asheville Citizen-Times announced its All-Western North Carolina team on Tuesday, with Josh Coley winning the WNC Coach of the Year award for the second time in three years. Seniors Mikey Wilkins ’25 and Madden Collins ’25 earned spots on the All-WNC team. 

A growth mindset applies to so many different things at Christ School, including a fledgling Robotics program. 

For the second time in its three-year history, Christ School's team (9298) has qualified for the FIRST North Carolina FRC State Championship, which is Friday and Saturday at UNC Greensboro. 

What a class!

Sixty-five seniors are steadily doing justice to Christ School’s 125th academic year with their college acceptances.