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Q&A with Greyson Price
Spotlight On 10th Grade Stage Manager for CAC’s Spring Musical: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” Tell us about your background in theater and how you became interested in stage management. I participated in some summer theater camps here in fifth and sixth grade. At the…
Q&A with CAC’s Elementary & Secondary Art Teacher
CAC Spotlight on Chelsea Baber Tell us a little bit about yourself. I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. I have two sisters (I’m the baby of the family). When I graduated high school I wanted to spread my wings and venture out, so I decided to…
Continuing A Legacy: CAC Dad Pat Smith
CAC dad Pat Smith knows a thing or two about wrestling. One of four NCAA All-Americans in a family nicknamed “The First Family of Wrestling,” Smith was the first wrestler in history to win four NCAA Division I individual championships. Now, through the Arkansas Wrestling Academy, Smith has…
Q&A With CAC’s Newest Board Member
CAC Spotlight on Erin McConnell CAC mom and McConnell & Son, Inc. CFO Erin McConnell was recently named to CAC’s board of directors. The wife of a CAC grad, McConnell has been deeply involved with the school, previously serving as the head homeroom mom and PFTA president at NLR…
Q&A With Coach Keith Almond
Spotlight on CAC's wrestling coach Tell us a little bit about yourself. I teach tenth and eleventh grade Bible at CAC and coach wrestling. My wife Angela also teaches and is a coach here. We have twins named Chase and Paige, who are both getting married this December.…
Mustang Choir Returns to FedExForum
After an exceptional performance in January, the CAC choir has been called back to FedExForum to sing the National Anthem as the Grizzlies tip off against the Brooklyn Nets on Oct. 31. The high school choir was invited to appear center court for the first time last winter after…
The Importance of a Handshake
Each morning at CAC’s elementary campuses, a few prekindergarten through fifth grade students approach the stage to lead their peers and faculty in their daily chapel program. After they have led the prayer, scripture, songs and pledge, these students take a seat. It’s at this point during Pleasant Valley Elementary’s…
New Faces For A New Year
The first day of school brought many new things this year — new books, new classrooms, for some, a new campus, and for many, brand-new teachers. We are pleased to have added a number of new faculty members to our teaching staff, and we hope you will join…
Q&A With CAC’s Senior Student Council Officers
CAC Spotlight on Caroline Leverett, Shane Almond and Caden Miller CAC’s Student Council has been hard at work this month helping Mustang Mountain's newest residents at Middle School Day One and developing the school's theme for this year: Called to be Different. CAC's senior STUCO officers sat down with the…
Classmates’ Names to Appear in New Tim Green Novel
It's not every day students get the chance to have their names appear in a best-selling author's book. But it’s even less common for the names of two classmates to appear in a novel alongside each other. On July 9, as the community mourned the recent death of CAC seventh grader…