2023-24 Top Athlete and Spring All Conference Honors Announced
Durham, N.C. - The end of year Athletic Awards were announced with Maren Donlan and Rafferty Koontz being named the NCSSM Top Athletes for 2023-24. Maren was a member of the volleyball and women’s basketball teams. She was named all-conference both years in women’s basketball. Rafferty was the Super Six Men’s Cross Country runner of the year and all-conference both years and had top five finishes (2nd (2023) and 5th (2022)) in the Cross Country State Championships. He was also named all conference in track and field in the 4x400 and 4x800.
2023-24 was one of the best years in school history with the following accomplishments:
4 Conference Championships:
- Women’s Cross Country
- Women’s Golf
- Men’s Track and Field
- Women’s Track and Field
2 Regional Championships:
- Women’s Cross Country
- Men’s Swimming
4 Regional Runner Ups:
- Men’s Cross Country
- Women’s Tennis
- Women’s Swimming
- Women’s Track and Field
State Level Acomplishments:
- NCHSAA 2A State Championship - Women’s Cross Country
- NCHSAA 2A State Runner Up - Women's Track and Field
- NCHSAA 2A Individual State Champion Catherine Parker in women's cross country
- NCHSAA 2A Individual Track and Field State Championships
- 4x800 - Charlotte Goebel, Caroline Downs, Erin Bienstock, Catherine Parker
- 800 - Catherine Parker
- 1600 - Catherine Parker
- 3200 - Catherine Parker
- Cheerleading - 2nd Place Finish at State Championships in the Varsity Small Non-Tumbling category
- Wells Fargo Conference Cup for the best overall program in the Super Six conference - three in a row in the Super Six!
All of this with 313 students participating in varsity sports! There were a total of 69 students named to all conference teams with Rafferty Koontz and Catherine Parker being named all-conference cross country runners of the year. Parker was also named women's track and field runner of the year while Payton Xander Bethea and Eleanor Keady picked up field athlete of the year honors.
Women’s golf coach Taylor Greganti, swimming coach Michael Newbauer, women's soccer coach Charles Robinson and track and field coaches Phillip Marcelle and Cindy Peters-Freemand were conference coaches of the year.
2024 Spring Awards
Men’s Golf - 4th Place Super Six Conference, Regional Qualifiers
All-Conference
William Givens
Justin Weng
Women’s Soccer - 2nd Place Super Six Conference, 3rd Round NCHSAA 2A State Playoffs
All-Conference
Dakota Workman
Kaitlyn Jin
Anjali Kshirsagar
Isabella Lowery
Charles Robinson - Women's Soccer Super Six Conference Coach of the Year
Baseball - 4th Place Super Six Conference
All-Conference
Rayhan Brown
Ryoh Saotome
Softball - 4th Place Super Six Conference
All-Conference
Lena Damasco-Trinidad
Julia Layno
Men’s Track and Field - Super Six Conference Champions, Regional and State Qualifiers
All-Conference
Eleazar Amene (4x800)
Zeki Banawan (LJ,4x400)
Payton Xander Bethea (TJ,HJ,4x100) - Field Athlete of the Year
James Dudek (PV)
Philip Harris (D,S)
Aidan Hrynyshyn (4x200)
Rafferty Koontz (4x400,4x800)
Ronald Lovelace, Jr. (4x100)
Henry Neville (4x100,4x200)
Isaiah Nwoko (300H,4x200)
Zain Patel (4x200,4x400)
Kameron Simpson (4x100)
Adrian Tejada (4x800)
Arthur Zhao (800,4x400,4x800)
Phillip Marcelle - Men's Track and Field Super Six Conference Coach of the Year
Women’s Track and Field - Super Six Conference Champions, Regional Runner-Up, 2A NCHSAA State Runner Up
All-Conference
Erin Bienstock (HJ)
Aaliya Carson (S)
Alana Daily (300H,4x100,4x400)
Caroline Downs (400,4x400,4x800)
Annie Fowler (4x200)
Charlotte Goebel (4x400,4x800)
Lillianna Heffner (4x100,4x200)
Eleanor Keady (TJ,LJ) - Field Athlete of the Year
Hollis Mang (4x100,4x200)
Connelly Martin (4x100,4x200)
Catherine Parker (800,1600,4x400,4x800) - Runner of the Year
Anika Raburn (4x800)
Erin Bienstock - NCHSAA Sportsmanship Award
Cindy Peters-Freeman - Women's Track and Field Super Six Conference Coach of the Year
Men’s Tennis - 4th Place Super Six Conference, Regional and State Individual Qualifiers
All-Conference
Glenn McCall