Lady Raiders Repeat MAIS Championship Title Win

March 8th, 2017

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Congratulations to the JA Lady Raiders! The team attained its 40th win and the MAIS Overall Championship title at Mississippi College Saturday. The Lady Raiders defeated Kirk Academy 52-39 for the title. Named to the MAIS Overall All Tournament Team were De’ja Bradford, Conley Chinn, Emily McNair, Lauran Sheriff, and Malon Stratton.

The Lady Raiders won 59-25 in Monday’s game against Leake to advance to the second round of the overall tournament. Wins against Oak Forest (58-28) on Wednesday and Marshall (40-15) on Friday earned the team a spot in the championship game.

The boys varsity team advanced to the overall tournament, winning their first round game against Canton Academy 57-48. In the second round, they had a 70-44 win over Riverdale and ended their season in a 63-61 loss to Hartfield in the third round. Micah Morgan was named to the All Tournament team.

National Junior Honor Society Inducts New Members

February 16th, 2017

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On Monday morning the Jackson Academy Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society inducted 13 new ninth grade members and 41 new eighth grade members. Students serving as officers and helping with the event were Nelson Thomas, Anna Katherine Ray, Kennedy Nations, Douglas Noble, Brent Butler, Nicholas Brown, Lily Grace Thigpen, and Virginia Parry.

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Second Quarter Honor Rolls

February 3rd, 2017

Academy Honor Roll

Twelfth Grade
Parker Alexander, Anna Douglas Almand, Alexandra Barlow, Lizzie Bowman, Mary Kathryn Brogan, Grace Cartwright, Conley Chinn, Natalie Ford, Callie Hall, Grace Herfurth, Mary Hunter Johnston, Abbie Knighton, Claire McClure, Milla McCormack, Kassidy Neal, Chloe Owens, Grace Parry, Sahil Patel, Michael Payne, Alexander Schott, Elizabeth Scott, Livvie Strickland, Phillip Talley, Mitchell Tyner, Nancy Usey, Caroline Watson, Dray Willson

Eleventh Grade
Avery Anderson, Janise Bennett, Hadley Brennan, Sam Ciaccio, Kennedy Collins, Hannah Collums, Sophie Creath, Cailynn Gregory, Lacey Irby, Will Laird, Braden Lewis, Dolph Maxwell, Gracie Meck, Blake Mills, Kennedy Neal, Allie Perkins, Emma Ward, Anna Claire Williams

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Lunch to Lead Offers Insight into Leadership

February 1st, 2017

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JA held the first Lunch to Lead for the spring semester last week. Speaker T.C. Rollins, a local attorney, veteran, and JA parent, shared his thoughts on leadership with students. Lunch to Lead has become a tradition at JA where Upper School students gather over sack lunches and listen to a speaker regarding qualities of leadership, developing leadership, and the challenges of being a leader.

Rollins sustained life-threatening injuries while deployed as a Marine in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom when his Humvee rolled over while he was manning the turret machine gun. After retiring from the military and earning a law degree, he established law offices in several Mississippi cities. Rollins explained to the students that because skills are now evolving so quickly what they learn for one job now may be used in a completely different way in the future.