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Last weekend, basketball teams from Cary Academy, Charlotte Country Day School and the O’Neal School joined the Cavaliers in the inaugural four-school, eight-team showcase!

Beyond the Threshold’s goal is a bold one — to raise $6.5 million by June 2024 to support the transformation of the Upper School campus, the reimagination of the Middle School campus and the people and programs that bring those facilities to life. 

While residents of the Emerald Pond retirement community and Durham Academy Preschoolers kept up a pen-pal relationship throughout COVID-19 restrictions, the "magic" of this special partnership returned with Preschoolers' visits this fall.

Three DA student-athletes officially committed to compete in college athletics on Thursday.

On Friday, the cross-country teams competed in the NCISAA state championship meet in Greensboro. Ninth-grader Audrey Crowder finished with a time of 18:27 to claim the individual girls NCISAA state championship.

Fulton thinks sports are a way for kids to learn, grow and develop life skills like confidence, self belief, communication skills and conflict resolution. 

Durham Academy’s girls golf team won the program’s first-ever N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association state championship on Monday. It was sweet success for the program, which has notched five runner-up finishes in the 12 years since it was established. Leading the way for the Cavs was eighth-grader Jenna Kim, who earned medalist honors — the youngest-ever student to win the NCISAA girls golf championship as an individual.

Durham Academy’s fall 2022 athletics season is shaping up to be one for the record books, including the girls golf program’s first-ever state championship and solid postseason runs by the girls tennis, volleyball and boys soccer teams. And it’s not over yet: The Cavs cross-country teams will compete in the state meet on Friday.

New DEE Director Jason Mundy has been busy meeting parents, caregivers, students and faculty/staff.

Congratulations are in order to our girls golf team for winning the TISAC championship!

Both our boys soccer and girls tennis teams captured TISAC championships this past week!

Make your reservations now for the Upper School fall play, The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe. Performances will be held on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 15, at 3 p.m. AND 7:30 p.m.

Come out and support our fall sport seniors!

Masaki Okawa '77 attended Durham Academy for only one year, but those nine months represent decades' worth of impact on his life.

The Middle School Gateway Center marks the second phase in a multi-year, multi-million-dollar reimagination of the Middle School campus on Academy Road.