KERNERSVILLE — Kienle Valentine, a 2016 Bishop McGuinness High School graduate, has been selected to receive the 2015-’16 NSCAA Girls High School Scholar All-South Region Award. Valentine was one of only 29 players selected from 12 states and one of only five North Carolina players selected for the award.
She graduated with a 4.71 grade-point average and is the second member of the Bishop McGuinness girls soccer program to earn the National Soccer Coaches Association of America award in consecutive years. (Kally Saffar was selected NSCAA All-South Scholar for the 2014-’15 academic year.)
Valentine was selected to the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association 1A All-State Team as a senior. She was named all-conference and all-region Player of the Year as a junior and senior, and she finished her senior season with 16 goals and nine assists for 41 points. Four of her goals were game-winners.
She was a team captain as a senior, leading the Villians to a 17-5-2 record and fifth in the final North Carolina Soccer Coaches Association final Class 1A state ranking.
Valentine is attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
— Kimberly Knox
SALISBURY — Sacred Heart School was recently awarded the Summer Reading Readers’ Cup Award from the Rowan Public Library. Jennifer Nicholas, from the Rowan Public Library, presented the trophy to the school during its morning prayer and assembly program.
Sacred Heart’s approximately 120 elementary students in grades 1-5 read more than 750 hours during the 2016 Summer Reading Program at the library. This is only the second year that the library has given out the Readers’ Cup to a local school for success in the Summer Reading Program.
“Sacred Heart really pushes summer academic enrichment,” said Principal Frank Cardelle. “We like to call it ‘Summer Smart.’ At SHCS, we host several summer camps involving Creative Writing, Lego Robotics, Rocketry, Nature Exploration…even cooking classes. We are always supportive of our community’s ‘Summer Smart’ activities and love RPL’s incentive for reading.”
Librarian Lynn Frank could not be more proud.
“As a mother of four boys, I truly understand the dynamics of helping children to love to read,” Frank said. “That is why we have many reading incentive programs at SHCS. In a world of ever-growing technology, Sacred Heart prides itself on keeping our students focused on the foundational skill that will see them through their entire lives: reading.”
— Robin Fisher