Bell signs Letter of Intent with Huntingdon
Congratulations to Senior, Camden Bell, who signed a letter of intent to continue his baseball and academic career at Huntingdon College! Camden will join the Hawks Baseball Team in the Fall!
Fourth Grade History Field Trip
As an enrichment for Fourth Grade Alabama History, Mrs. Johnson’s class took a field trip to learn all about cotton. As a special bonus, the students also enjoyed a presentation about the native Americans who inhabited the very land that we walked on during the field trip. The trip began at the Milstead Gin Company in Shorter, AL. Mr. Joey Scarborough and Ms. Donna Dicks arranged for the students to tour the gin. Mr. Scarborough conducted the tour that started in the upstairs classroom where students “ginned cotton” by hand and learned about the gin and how it worked. Students then toured the seed house, looked at cotton modules, and saw what a finished bale of cotton looked like.
Students then visited Segrest Farms in Shorter, a seventh-generation cotton farm. Students were amazed at the snowy white fields and the equipment that was used to harvest the cotton. The highlight of the trip was getting to walk through the fields and pick a bag of cotton to take home as a souvenir. Mr. Clay Segrest and Mrs. Kellie Sirmon were our presenters at the cotton field.
After picking cotton, students enjoyed a picnic at the Sirmon’s home. They enjoyed lunch and playing outdoors on a beautiful fall day! Lunch was followed with a special presentation on native American artifacts and lifestyles. Each student received a projectile point to keep and made a dream catcher to take home.
A huge thank you goes to our presenters and hosts who have graciously welcomed us for more than 30 years!
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Lady Knights Reach the Final Four
Macon East Lady Knights has made eleven consecutive trips to the AISA finals (winning seven) in 2011-18. The Lady Knights defeated North River in the team’s Elite Eight round. They faced Edgewood Academy in the Final Four and won the first set 25-22, but lost the next three sets 12-25, 13-25, 18-25.
Sara Cochran was honored as a member of the state all-tournament team. Congratulations to the Varsity Lady Knights Volleyball team on another memorable and successful season! These ladies have put in countless hours on and off the court!
Macon East Academy seniors, Anna Glynn Lott, and Kylee Smith represented the Lady Knights in the AISA All-Star Volleyball game on Saturday, October 30th.
Macon East JV Volleyball Team Finishes Season as Runner Up!
Congratulations to the Macon East Academy Junior Varsity volleyball team, Coach Codi Berry and Coach Kambria Darby on an incredible 18-3 season this year! They won the Glenwood JV Tournament earlier this season and finished Runner-Up in the State Championship at Edgewood Academy last week. Mollie Ross and Jamya Powell were very instrumental in leading this team. We are very proud of every player and look forward to a successful future in Macon East volleyball!
Macon East Academy Alumni House – Come Home
The Macon East Alumni Association held a Grand Opening of the Alumni House to kick off homecoming festivities Friday morning. Alumni House welcomed alumni home to view donated Macon Academy and Macon East Academy memorabilia, awards, photos, jerseys, and so much more! Over 100 items were donated to the Alumni House to help preserve and share the history of our school with all generations and enhance our reunion programs. Class of 2015 alumni, Anna Marie Herrington was on hand with her family hosting a pumpkin sale. An alumni tent was set up with food for classmates, faculty, and friends on the softball field to enjoy fellowship during the game. This event successfully brought 225 alumni and their families to campus. At halftime, attending alumni homecoming queens were recognized. Mrs. Martha Hornsby crowned this year’s queen. Alumni Homecoming Queens in attendance were: Georgia Blaze (2020), Kayla Boroff (2019), Bailey Nyberg (2018), Madison McKee (2017), Crystal Tompkins Davis (2002), Katie Gothard McDaniel (2006), Whitney Phillips Brooks (2001), Lauren Lane Bannon (2000), Olivia Cox (1999), Christine Segrest Cook (1988), Missy Lawrence Key (1986), Martha Sheppard Hornsby (1970), and Debbie Doster Barnett (1969).
Ending Homecoming Week, the Alumni participated in the 2nd annual Flag Football game on Sunday. Kirkland Pugh (2021), Cole Pinkston (2012), Kyle Loomis (2005), Dean Bolden (2005), Bubba Pugh (2015), Kyle Dyer (2001), Ryan Gholston (1999), Austin Redding (2012), Kalan POOKIE Sides (2000), and Will Graham (2015) all showed up to support our efforts in building a strong Alumni Association.
The pride, love, and excitement over the efforts to create a home for our alumni was overwhelming and Evan Perry Taylor did a tremendous job in executing the vision.
Macon East Academy Celebrates Homecoming 2022
Macon East celebrated Homecoming the week of September 19 – 23. Events included themed dress up days of America Monday, Tuesday Night Fever, Dress to Unimpress (Tacky Day), Dress Like the First Letter of Your Name, and Spirit Day. The entire school really enjoyed dressing up and showing their school spirit. Other events during the week included a dodgeball tournament, boys volleyball tournament, and a homeroom door decorating contest. The cheerleaders entertained everyone with a fantastic blacklight pep rally Thursday night. The annual upper school tailgate was a time of good food and lots of fun and fellowship. The lower school students enjoyed tailgating as well with pizza, watermelon, and goodies. As the school day ended, everyone gathered in the parking lot for the Homecoming Parade. Each lower school class carried a sign down the parade route. The wee princess, little damsel, and pee wee cheerleaders along with the pee wee football team rode on floats and trailers throwing goodie bags to the crowd. Homecoming attendants threw goodies to the crowd as well from their decorated vehicles. Homecoming Court attendants selected by their classmates were Bentley Graham (7th grade), Megan Hardy (8th grade), Lexi Hagood (9th grade), Alexis Davis & Mattie Pugh (10th grade), Pressley Graham, Lathan Johnson & Jaiden McDowell (11th grade), Mikalah Belser, Hannah Kate Hodges, Madison May, & Lulu Russell (12th grade). At halftime of the football game, Miss Lulu Russell was crowned as the 2022 Homecoming Queen. The Knights played an outstanding game, but Lee-Scott won the battle of the unbeatens 49-7. Gabe Spencer and Deonte Powell led the Knights offensively. Defensively, Dalton Nickles, Zach Brown and Thaddeus McKinney racked up tackles.
Here We Grow! Macon East Knights Multi-Purpose Activity Center
We are excited to expand our campus for the future and offer our students one of the best and newest facilities in the area. Construction has been underway on the Macon East Knights Multi-Purpose Activity Center featuring 7500 square feet of amenities for the entire school. With its initial open-space design, the multi-purpose activity center has an extraordinary opportunity to be the new AISA district host to the spelling bee and science fair, as well as many other school events. It will also be home to an all-sport training facility with indoor, retractable batting cages for baseball and softball. Finally, there will be new, expanded restroom facilities to service the football, baseball, and softball complex.
Headmaster Glynn Lott and the Board of Trustees have been planning this development for several years with the vision of adding academic instructional space as the school grows. The new building has the potential to house eight additional classrooms and will serve as an investment not only in the campus, but in the students and faculty that comprise it. Students in K3 – 12th grade will be able to enjoy the multi-purpose activity center beginning the second semester of this school year.
Headmaster Glynn Lott and the Board of Trustees would like to extend a special thank you to everyone involved in making this vision a reality.
Macon East volleyball standout reaches 1,000 career kills milestone
Sara Cochran reached 1,000 career kills for the Lady Knights volleyball team last night! Just a Junior, Sara is an incredible volleyball standout who has played varsity volleyball at Macon East since 7th grade. “Sara is an incredible player, and we really rely on her to keep the team alive and thriving. She is a great player and a great teammate. She has done wonders for this program.” Coach Codi Berry.
Officials stopped the match Thursday night against Fort Dale to honor junior outside hitter Cochran after she hit her 1,000th career kill and presented her a volleyball signed by the team and coaches. We are very proud of Sara’s accomplishment and look forward to a continued season of growth and anticipate Sara’s senior season will bring more record breaking at Macon East.
Sara joins Madison Kennedy, Class of 2019, Jesi Garrett and Lexi Brantley, both Class of 2016, in the 1,000 Kill Club at Macon East.
Macon East Chapel – Righteous Path in Life
Introduced by SGA Chaplain Ethan Jones, speaker and youth pastor, Dawson Locklier from Macedonia Baptist Church in Union Springs, AL spoke to the students about choosing a righteous path in life. Gabe Spencer and Thaddeus McKinney held up chairs to represent the heavy weight of sin. The 4 chairs pictured each represented the place where all people are in their faith. His message is that he wants all students to be in love with God and choose the path that leads to eternal life in heaven. Macon East chapel services are designed to encourage, educate, and challenge students to pursue a closer walk with God. They play an important role in each child’s education but also in their spiritual development so that they can bring God glory with their lives.
Macon East chapel services are designed to encourage, educate, and challenge students to pursue a closer walk with God.
Gabe Spencer and Thaddeus McKinney held up chairs to represent the heavy weight of sin.
The 4 chairs pictured each represented the place where all people are in their faith.
Anna Watson, SGA Chaplain – Ethan Jones, Madison May, Dawson Locklier, Mary Taylor May, Wade Desmarais, and Mattie Pugh.
K5 Enjoys Camping Activities
The K5 class at Macon East Academy has been enjoying many exciting activities with their beginning of the year camping theme. They constructed camping scenes incorporating their names, read camping themed literature and created characters from the stories, made smores using a solar oven, made campfire snacks using grapes, pretzels, and cheese curls, and learned camping themed songs and fingerplays. It was a great start to a fun-filled school year of learning at Macon East Academy.
