AWARD WINNING FINE ARTS

Academics are not all.  CCA has award winning fine arts.  CCA offers art, voice, piano, chorus, choir, drama, speech, and both beginner and advanced band.  Here are this year’s winners.

Annually, students in the South Carolina Association of Christian Schools compete in art and academics as well as athletics.  This association represents over eighty schools with over 16,000 students.  Competing are some of the brightest minds from some of the elite private Christian schools in South Carolina. 

This year, the upper elementary students at Carolina Christian Academy were tops in the academic areas of science, math, spelling and Bible memory.

In up-state elementary fine arts competition CCA students placed:

Justin Howell             5^th Grade Math               First Place

David Clemenson       4^th Grade Math               Second Place  

Cora Cunningham       4^th Grade Science          Third Place

Not all categories have 1^st, 2^nd, etc. winners.  Some categories are judged Superior, Excellent, Good, and Fair.  Superior is the highest designation given.

The following students received the highest rating possible, Superior:

Mary Bethea              Sacred Piano

Carolina                     Choric Speaking

CCA Choric Cougars   Choric Speakers

Luke Faulkenberry      Polychromatic Drawing

Nathan Fournier          String Solo

Kayla Haynes             Sacred Piano

Kensley Loftin             Scripture Reading

Cora Spuler                 Female Vocal Solo

These students received the second highest rating possible, Excellent:

Jessica Choinski        Digital Photography

Sarah Cottrell             Poetry
Shelby Cox                Female Vocal Solo

Kayla Haynes            Watercolor

Hannah Sims             Poetry

Cara Spuler                Humorous Reading

In statewide fine arts competition, G7-12 students placed:

                     First Place

Sarah Fournier                       N. T. Bible Knowledge

Jonathan Armstrong               String Solo

Sarah Fournier                       Classical Piano

Aaron Fournier                       String Solo

Hope Harris                           Textiles

                     Second Place

Christopher Byrd                    U. S. History

Jonathan Armstrong               Brass Solo

Sarah Fournier                       Sacred Piano

Anna Funderburk                    Watercolor

                     Third Place

Haley Hall                              Spelling Bee

Aaron Fournier                       Expository Preaching