First Athletic Director

Coach Lenwood Edwards joined the faculty midway through the first year and was the school’s first athletic director and coach of most sports. Edwards was also the first president of the Piedmont Athletic Conference of Independent Schools (PACIS) and was instrumental in allying Forsyth Country Day School, Durham Academy, Carlisle School, Kernersville Wesleyan, Westchester Academy and North State Academy of Hickory (since closed), in athletic competition.