ECS Alumni

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! Join us at the annual Steve Collums Classic golf tournament to benefit tuition assistance on Monday, September 30 at Windyke Country Club! If you or your company would like to sponsor the event, let us know by this Wednesday. Join us for lunch and bid on some of the fabulous auction items. You could also win $5000 towards a Sandals vacation package with a hole-in-one! It is an excused absence from school for students who golf in the SCC tournament.

Sign up to play or sponsor the event: ecseagles.com/alumni/scc-golf-tournament

Look for your copy of FLIGHT magazine in your mailbox! If you did not receive a copy, please email [email protected].

Second generation ECS students, and they’ve got the jackets to prove it! Freshmen students Eleanor Hays and Adelyn Fisher wore their dads’ ECS lettermen’s jackets to school today in honor of Homecoming! Eleanor’s dad is Ryan Hays (‘99), and Adelyn’s dad is Adam Fisher (‘02).

There’s no better start to our day than to share with all of Memphis our fun ECS Homecoming traditions! Thanks to Ruben Diaz from ABC24 Memphis for coming out to our campus to feature many of our ECS Eagles on ABC This Morning show today.

Our cheerleaders and Champ, the mascot, led us in a cheer and showed lots of school spirit!

Then Head Coach Blake Butler was joined by Steve Heinz of our 1983 football state championship team, whom we are honoring tonight during halftime. They shared about our winning tradition at ECS, tied with MUS for the most (FIVE) football championships in the city! Many of ECS’s football and baseball state titles were coached by Steve’s father and the late Hall of Fame Coach Jim Heinz, who was also honored on the broadcast.

And of course, Homecoming is not complete without our kindergarten clowns who are ready for the parade tonight! New Head of School Scott Hauss shared about this tradition now in its 43rd year!

Finally, Student Leadership Council prefects Ashlee Adams and Kyle Mabie shared many ways ECS students can become involved in campus life.

Especially at Homecoming, IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE AN ECS EAGLE!

It's Game Day and it's HOMECOMING! 🦅🏈
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💡 Student theme: Light it up!

Get to know our new Head of School!

Join us for coffee and conversation with Head of School Scott Hauss tomorrow at 9 am in the Legacy Center Lobby!

Congratulations to Melanie Passons ('07) for being selected as an honoree of the 2024 Future40 Award by Maverick PAC. This distinction recognizes conservative young professionals from across the country who embody the next generation of leadership in the public and private sectors.

MOST FOOTBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS! Did you know that ECS ties MUS with the most high school football state championships in the Memphis area?

Join us for Homecoming on Friday night as we honor our first state championship team from 1983 during halftime.

Did you receive FORWARD ECS, the ECS alumni newsletter, filled with news about upcoming events like Homecoming this week and profiles and updates on ECS alumni? If you did not receive it in your inbox, check your junk mail then email [email protected] so we can send it to you.

Join us for the Steve Collums Classic golf tournament on Monday, September 30, at Windyke Country Club! Enjoy a delicious lunch and take part in our auction, featuring amazing items. Plus, you could win $5,000 toward a Sandals vacation package with a hole-in-one!

Register as a player or sponsor at ecseagles.com/alumni/scc-golf-tournament

We are so proud of our many collegiate athletes who continue to put in the work in the classroom and on the field, court or course. In a previous post, we celebrated our 12 alumni currently playing or coaching college football. Today, we celebrate the following athletes who play other collegiate fall sports. We commend them for their dedication and commitment to their sport and studies. Pictured left to right, these alumni are as follows:

Branden Rogers ('21), Soccer, Delta State University
Maddie Halford ('23), Soccer, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Zoe Smith (22), Volleyball, University of Alabama - Huntsville
Luke Sienkiewicz ('22), Golf, University of South Alabama
Garrett Wilson ('23), Cross Country, Carson-Newman University
Will Porter ('22), Golf, Mississippi College

- Join us!

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Dads, join us as Harvest Lead Pastor and ECS parent Kennon Vaughan shares on "An Unexpected Reset: The Way a Plane Crash Shaped Our Perspective on Parenting."

We live in a day in which fear can easily drive our parenting decisions, and cultural idols are infringing on our family time and values. Dr. Vaughan will speak honestly about these realities, and how we can combat them with gospel-driven parenting. Since surviving a plane crash in 2023, Dr. Vaughan's perspective on parenting shifted. Join us as he shares about the critical importance and strategic intentionality of staying connected to our kids' hearts as they go through each season of life, so that when we launch them at 18, we have divested "control" for "influence."

Register today for the Dads Discipleship lunch at ecseagles.com/discipleship/family-discipleship.

The lineup is set! Join us for Homecoming on September 20!

We are so proud of this recent alumna!

Huge congratulations to Campbell Williams ‘24 for winning Best Lead Actress in a Musical Division II at the 2024 Ostrander Awards!

We loved seeing these familiar faces our would recognize!

ECS alumni and former Eagles football greats Hall Simmons (‘05) and Clint Dowdle (‘01) cheered on the Eagles to a WIN at our season opener last night vs. Goodpasture Christian in Nashville. Hall spoke to the team in the locker room prior to the game.

Both alumni live in the Nashville area now and enjoyed reconnecting with their former coaches which include Coaches Aubrey Boren, David Carter and Alan Durham. Their former teammate and now Eagles Coach Ben Todd (‘02) also joined the reunion.

Join us next Friday night as the Eagles play their home opener on Legends Field vs. Olive Branch.

ECS Alumni, make plans to return to campus for Homecoming on September 20! Alumni dinner is at 5:30, and kickoff is at 7:00. Our 1983 state championship football team will be honored during halftime.

Are you ready for some football? Mark your calendars to come out and cheer on our Eagles this season!

It was a battle to the finish in last night's Legacy League championship game featuring a match-up between some former players vs their former coaches. By a narrow margin of only a basket, the former players came out victorious! Congratulations to Team Shropshire who beat Team Kasper to take home the trophy and win year-long bragging rights! Alumni on the winning team include Mason Shropshire ('22), Caiden Hill ('22) and Jase Aaron ('23). Alumni on Team Kaspar include Steven Kaspar ('11), Hunter Harrington ('11), Micah Teed ('11), Nathan Roelofs ('12), Taylor Collums ('12), Sumner Darlington ('18), plus current parent David Golding and Upper Elementary Principal Luke Matzke. It was a fun season of basketball for all eight teams!

Join us for another pickleball tournament this Saturday, August 3 at the Shelby Farms Campus! Limited spots available! Secure your spot by signing up online at https://tinyurl.com/5aj2r3cn

Calling All Alumni! Have you had a baby in the past year? We want to feature all ECS alumni babies who were born between July 2023 and June 2024 in our upcoming issue of FLIGHT magazine. Deadline to submit is July 19.

Email [email protected] with the following information:

- Name of mother and father with the corresponding graduating class year(s)
- Child's full name
- Birthdate
- Photo of your baby

Loved seeing Zach Baker (‘22), Mason Shropshire (‘22) and Kenny Cox (‘23) back on the diamond at ECS! ⚾️

It was fun to see former Eagles soccer stars return to the pitch to make more memories on Legends Field for our inaugural alumni soccer pickup game last Thursday night! Some of the alumni siblings who played were Reid ('17) and Maddie ('23) Halford, Taylor ('11), Braden ('14) and Chandler ('19) Caughron, and Alex ('19) and Cris ('21) Salazar.

- Join us for a FUN night this Thursday!

Calling all alumni! We're hosting a pickup soccer game this Thursday at Legends Field from 6-8 PM. Whether you're a seasoned player or just want to have fun, come join us! Be sure to RSVP to Jordan Thompson at [email protected] so we can set up teams and fields. See you there!

John Irvine ('07) was among the golfers who helped raise $50,000 to support youth golf while playing 99 holes (and walking close to 30 miles) in one day on the Overton Park Golf Course last week. John, who helped organize this inaugural event called the OP99, runs a golf Instagram account called Golf Gains with more than 100,000 followers.

Read more about their effort at this link: https://dailymemphian.com/subscriber/article/44300/drew-hill-overton-park-99-golf-memphis-fundraiser?utm_source=site_search&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=site_search

Hill: Let's hope the Overton 99 becomes par for the course When a workout nut and a golf addict got together in Memphis, they created one of the city’s biggest fundraisers for youth golf in the city.

Congratulations to Luke Sienkiewicz (‘22) for committing to play golf at the University of South Alabama. Previously, Luke was named to the ASUN All-Freshman Team at the University of Central Arkansas.

Vote for ECS alum Brent Rooker ('13) to be an MLB All-Star! You can help Brent return to the All-Star game again this year by voting up to five times per day.

Vote here: athletics.com/allstar

Celebrating ECS alumni such as Jack Webb, Tracey Henry Bravos, Karen Tashie Jamison, Natalie Mars Milam, Cassie Bierbrodt Ring, Ryan Cummins, Bess Griffin Farris and Christy Selph Vargo.

Clemson University recently featured 2024 graduate and ECS alum Ben Greene (‘20). Read more about his experience at Clemson as an accounting major and student recruiter.

Invested in Clemson: Ben Greene, 2024 graduate All it took was one tour for Ben Greene to decide Clemson was where he wanted his home to be for the four years following high school. But that didn’t