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• Accolades for Pinecrest Academy soccer athletes and coach

  

  Published May 16, 2019

  The Class 1A-Private Area 8 soccer teams were announced, and Pinecrest Academy had five girls and two boys named to the area’s first team and four boys and three girls to the area’s second team.

• Good Shepherd breaks ground on columbarium project

  

  Published March 11, 2019

  CUMMING—About a year ago, Father Diosmar Natad, pastor of Good Shepherd Church, launched a parish survey to gauge parishioner interest in a self-funded columbarium and memorial prayer garden at the parish. The response to the survey was overwhelming. Parishioner Joe Donnelly, who serves as the parish engineer, immediately got to work to design a concept. […] Full Story

• Pinecrest Academy fencers lunge toward the competition with precision

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published January 23, 2019

  CUMMING—It’s a week after Thanksgiving, two days before the fifth fencing tournament of the season, and members of the Pinecrest Academy fencing team are practicing in the fitness classroom at the Old Atlanta Recreation Center in Suwanee. The recreation center, which is four miles east of the school, is the practice site for the fencing […] Full Story

• Pinecrest Academy celebrates 25th anniversary with groundbreaking for new building

  

  Published October 24, 2018

  CUMMING—An estimated 1,000 supporters of Pinecrest Academy celebrated the school’s 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 7 as it embarked on building permanent lower school classrooms. Prayers were said and the ground was sprinkled with holy water as the school broke ground for the building on the campus of the independent Catholic school in Forsyth County. […] Full Story

• Pinecrest’s formation director celebrates 25 years in consecrated life

  

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published September 6, 2018

  CUMMING—In her 25 years as a consecrated woman of Regnum Christi, Kathleen Nichols has joyfully labored in formation and administration in Catholic schools around the world, from Spain and Argentina to the United States and Italy. And in giving herself to Christ and heeding his great commission, the Wyoming native has been rewarded a hundredfold […] Full Story

• Pinecrest Academy names new head coach for varsity girls lacrosse

  Published August 24, 2018

  CUMMING—Mary Alexandra “Alex” Abbey has been named the new head coach for Pinecrest Academy’s varsity girls lacrosse team. Abbey, a graduate of Lambert High School, Suwanee, earned seven varsity letters—four in lacrosse and three in basketball. She received a scholarship to play lacrosse at Shorter University, Rome, where she was a three-year starter. After graduating […] Full Story

• Pinecrest Academy names two new basketball coaches

  Published May 3, 2018

  CUMMING—Basketball season is some six months away, but Pinecrest Academy has named Jonathan Oshinski as varsity girls’ head basketball coach and John Bauersfeld as varsity boys’ head basketball coach. Bauersfeld will also oversee all facets of the boys’ basketball program at Pinecrest Academy, including the middle school and lower school teams. Bauersfeld came from Calvert […] Full Story

• Pinecrest Academy celebrates 25 years

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published February 8, 2018

  CUMMING—A portrait of the late Msgr. R. Donald Kiernan was placed on the right side of the altar for the Founders’ Day Mass at Pinecrest Academy in Cumming Feb. 2—a nod of appreciation for the priest’s friendship to the school community. It was Msgr. Kiernan, then pastor of All Saints Church in Dunwoody, who first […] Full Story

• Pinecrest Academy inaugurates new Athletics Hall of Fame with four inductees

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published September 21, 2017

  CUMMING—Three former students and a coach became the first inductees into Pinecrest Academy’s new Athletics Hall of Fame Sept. 16. The initial inductees include two sisters, 2007 graduate Leanne Cassandra and 2008 graduate Christi Cassandra; 2008 graduate Michael Metz, now an Archdiocese of Atlanta transitional deacon; and the school’s first varsity head football and baseball […] Full Story

• Graduate of Pinecrest Academy explores military career

  

  Published September 21, 2017

  CUMMING—Pinecrest Academy 2016 graduate Jake Mangan, who received a four-year Naval ROTC Marine Option scholarship at Auburn University, spent his summer doing career orientation training, during which he experienced the three major communities of the Navy and the Marine Corps. He had attended Pinecrest Academy from preK through 12th grade. During his time with the […] Full Story

• First & 10 with Pinecrest’s new football coach

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff photographer
  Published August 24, 2017

  CUMMING—Quick out, slant, hook, post and corner are routes all too familiar to Pinecrest Academy’s new varsity football coach, Terance Mathis. The independent Catholic school’s new coach is a former All-Pro NFL wide receiver most people will remember from his eight seasons (1994-2001) with the Atlanta Falcons. During his Falcons tenure, Mathis caught 573 passes […] Full Story

• Pinecrest’s Patota represents Georgia

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published July 6, 2017

  CUMMING–Pinecrest Academy’s Will Patota was one of 20 top juniors in the state selected to represent Team Georgia in the Sunbelt Classic Baseball Series, June 9-14, in Atoka and McAlester, Oklahoma. The Sunbelt Classic has been around since 1977 when it first started as an all-star baseball series between Oklahoma and California. After 1988 other […] Full Story

• Pinecrest names new wrestling program director

  Published November 3, 2016

  CUMMING—Pinecrest Academy recently named Mark Schmidt the director of wrestling at the private Catholic school. The Pinecrest wrestling program debuted in 2015 under the leadership of Coach Martin Podmolik. In its inaugural season the team finished with three dual victories, an eighth-place area finish and a sixth-place finish at sectionals in 1A competition. Schmidt comes […] Full Story

• Aquatically adept St. Pius water polo team wins state championship

  

  By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Photographer
  Published October 20, 2016

  CUMMING—St. Pius X held off a late comeback by the Southern Crescent Aquatic Team of Peachtree City to win 4-3 in the 2016 Georgia High School Water Polo Association state championship at the Cumming Aquatic Center Oct. 9. It was the team’s fifth championship since 2007 and its first since 2012. The St. Pius High […] Full Story

• Music, drama paired with prayer, confession in EPIC youth program

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Staff Writer
  Published July 18, 2016

  CUMMING—EPIC, an evening for youth of live music, drama and dancing as well as adoration and confession, returns Sunday, Aug. 28, to the Warehouse in Cumming. Developed by the youth ministry team and clergy of St. Brendan the Navigator Church, EPIC is for high school students. The teens socialize at the venue’s coffeehouse and vie […] Full Story

• Retiring Irish pastor has embodied title of Good Shepherd, archbishop says

  

  By ERIKA ANDERSON REDDING, Special to the Bulletin
  Published July 7, 2016

  CUMMING—Cars lined the street, filled every available parking space, and took over the Church of the Good Shepherd’s lawn, as thousands filled the church to thank Father Frank Richardson for his years of service. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated the Mass that honored Good Shepherd’s pastor, who is retiring after more than 20 years as […] Full Story

• Creative parishioner answers call of Jubilee Year of Mercy and ‘Laudato Si´’

  

  By CHRISTINE FARRIER, Special to the Bulletin
  Published June 23, 2016

  CUMMING—Once a month, a group of industrious craftswomen comes together in an empty classroom of Good Shepherd Church Parish Life Center. They flatten, cut, loop and crochet plastic bag strips into sleeping pallets for the homeless, but their artistry resembles richly colored carpets, woven of hemp, upon which kings reclined long ago. Karen Blaser began […] Full Story

• Love of classics carries scholar from hybrid academy to Notre Dame

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Special to the Bulletin
  Published June 23, 2016

  CUMMING—Seeking a more intense learning experience, Jim Stewart entered the first freshman class of St. John Bosco Academy in Forsyth County, a parent-inspired hybrid school focusing on classical education. While he experienced the inevitable frustrations of a school in formation, he embraced the format, studying independently and also attending classes three days a week. The […] Full Story

• Pinecrest’s Wind Symphony excels at festival

  Published June 23, 2016

  CUMMING—Pinecrest Academy’s Wind Symphony brought home several top prizes from the Williamsburg Worldstrides OnStage Music Festival held this spring. The symphony earned straight superior ratings at the festival. While only 285 students attend the private Catholic high school, the Pinecrest group won second place overall. “Our group was one of only two high school bands […] Full Story

• Pinecrest senior leaves it all on the court for Special Olympics

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published May 26, 2016

  CUMMING—Zayne Rice has been a three-year starter on Pinecrest Academy’s varsity basketball squad with his 6-foot, 3-inch frame. But it’s when he talks about the Special Olympics that his face lights up. “I’ve played with the same people for the past eight, 10 years. They are basically my second family. It’s a blast doing it. […] Full Story