Athletics News

Since their journey together started 20 weeks ago, the team and its coaching staff had an inkling: They could win it all this year. And they did, thanks to the leadership of 2022 individual state champion Audrey Crowder ’26, a tight-knit team culture and two timely PRs on the day of the state meet. 

This time around, she set a course record; won the tournament by 11 strokes; and drew comparisons to Tiger Woods from one of her longtime teammates.

We have reached the end of the regular season, with all seven fall varsity teams headed into post-season play this week.

Get your green and white gear ready and clear your calendar. There's something for the whole family at Homecoming 2025!

Meet Dr. Hana Baskin, Caleb McMurtry, Marko Saric, Dejah Smith, Carl Sukow, Dr. Harry Thomas and Roberto Escobar '19.

If your early summer plans include travel along Pickett Road, you could be forgiven for thinking that catastrophe has struck the track and tennis courts. In fact, it's exactly the opposite: these athletics facilities are in the midst of a much-anticipated renovation.

Tuesday was a perfect night for Durham Academy Athletics as our varsity teams went 7-0 — including five big conference wins at Cary Academy and our softball team winning twice in the span of just a few hours.

Brooke Hartley Moy ’07, the CEO and co-founder of an AI platform for businesses and developers, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, which has been given every year since 1983. Steve and Teresa Engebretsen will receive the Faculty and Staff Legacy Award — which has been granted annually since 2012 — for their combined 88 years of service to DA as a longtime director of athletics and longtime Middle School French teacher, respectively.

The assembled students, faculty and friends at this year’s Spring Signing Day ceremony in the Durham Academy Upper School Quad saw what felt like an emphatic culmination: of talent, of achievement, of resilience.

We’ve reached the halfway point of the spring athletics season at Durham Academy. With four weeks remaining in our spring regular season, here are updates from all of our DA varsity teams.

Ali Laros ’25 is a state champion. It is no great surprise. Go 8,000 miles westward from Durham to South Africa, and the tea leaves are strewn across the beaches of Cape Town, the towering pines of Tokai Forest, the rugged sandstone of Table Mountain. They were the playgrounds of Laros’ childhood, and family.

These eight Cavaliers — representing alumni student-athletes, coaches and administrators — were inducted into the DA Athletic Hall of Fame on Dec. 13, 2024, in Kirby Gym.

For three Cavaliers, Thursday afternoon’s DA Fall Signing Day festivities marked the culmination of early mornings, long practices and the ups-and-downs of the recruiting process. This fall’s trio of commits to NCAA athletics programs authored singular journeys to their eventual collegiate destinations. Meet DA’s Newest Golden Bear, Wildcat and Hoosier.
 

The fall season has come to a close and our student-athletes have a lot to be proud of on and off the field. Led by our girls golf team’s third straight state championship, our postseason honors include an individual state champion (Jenna Kim ’27, who won her third straight individual state golf title), 10 All-State student-athletes, 28 All-Conference honorees, four conference titles and lots of growth and life lessons.

It is the first DA athletics team in 20 years to clinch a third straight state title.