Harding Academy of Memphis

Our Summer @ Harding campers had an incredible day at Incredible Pizza! They played video games, won prizes, and enjoyed pizza and cookies. Our counselors couldn’t resist the fun as well!

Summer @ Harding 2026 has officially begun! Campers enjoyed a fun first day with a camp carnival, PE, makerspace creative rooms, a Bible lesson, and free play. The rest of this week will feature water play, snow cones, and a field trip to Incredible Pizza. This is the Best. Camp. Ever!

🦁 STATE CHAMPIONS and STATE MEDALISTS‼️

Congratulations to our track Lions on big performances at the TSSAA State Championships this week! Our girls finished as 🥈State Runners-Up🥈, and our boys finished 4th overall. Both were the top team out of West Tennessee!

🥇Pentathlon - Brynne Miller
🥇Long Jump - Brynne Miller
🥇Triple Jump - Brynne Miller
🥈Discus - Onaza Iloh
🥈Pole Vault - Esther Leyshon
🥈100 Meter Hurdles - Emmalee Lentile
🥈Boys 4x400 (Jayden Mays, Trenton Williams, Theo Fadeyi, Reese Baughman)
🥉Shot Put - James Thompson
🥉Discus - Mia Thompson
🥉Long Jump - Kenley Dondeville
🥉200 Meters - Brynne Miller

Additional STATE MEDALISTS
Decathlon - Cole Butler
Pentathlon - Emery Nowlin
Shot Put - Mia Thompson
Discus - Zeke Robertson
Triple Jump - Emery Nowlin
Triple Jump - Bella Rose Austin
Triple Jump - Cole Butler
High Jump - Gray Shatley
High Jump - Truitt Ross
Pole Vault - Muriel Kelly
Pole Vault - Jayden Mays
Pole Vault - Cole Butler
100 Meters - Brynne Miller
1600 Meters - Ryan Demere
3200 Meters - Ryan Demere
110 Meter Hurdles - Gray Shatley
300 Hurdles - Emmalee Lentile
300 Meter Hurdles - Cole Butler
300 Meter Hurdles - Reese Baughman
Boys 4x800 (Mason Reed, Cole Butler, Theo Fadeyi, Reese Baughman)

🦁 Coach Ford represents the best of us! He loves Jesus, students, and athletics, in that order.

This is a beautiful tribute to a quiet, amazing leader. He’s an incredible servant, so, of course, he’s already told us that he still wants to help work track meets next year!

Calkins: You know what's right with the world? People like Joe Ford. At the age of 60, Joe Ford started pole vaulting. And started passing his wisdom along. He’s now retiring as a volunteer coach at the age of 75. But you can bet he’ll still be around.

Little Harding field day had it all!

⚾︎ Wiffle ball toss
👟 Obstacle race
🧣 Silly scarf float
🫧 Bubbles and chalk
🕺🏽 Freeze dance
🏃‍♀️ Racquet ball balance race
🛝 Playground
😋 Popsicles

Even some of our little Lions' parents joined in the fun. What a great way to end the school year as we move into summer camp!

🎓 Join us in celebrating the Harding Academy class of 2026! It has been a blessing and an honor to watch these students grow over the years. They are smart, funny, kind, creative, and faithful. We cannot wait to see what they do next, and we will be cheering them on every step of the way. Class of 2026, we love you!

Our students in grades 3–5 performed their spring program “Celebrate America!” in honor of the 250th birthday of the country. All students wore red, white, and blue, and some even decked themselves out with hats, beads, and glitter. It was wonderful having our parents on campus for this special program in honor of America’s Semiquincentennial.

We had the best time hosting our Super Friends from Riverdale last week! Our upper school students played soccer, shot hoops, ran track, and more with these superstars. Everyone especially enjoyed the tug-of-war and the giant group race at the end of the day. Thank you for spending such a fun afternoon with us, Riverdale!

🏆 STATE CHAMPION! Congratulations to Brynne Miller (11) who was crowned the State Champion in the pentathlon, scoring 3061 points across the five events. Freshman Emery Nowlin earned All-State honors with a 7th place finish and 2310 points. Eighth grader Jordan Butler finished in 13th with 1853 points.

Cole Butler (10) finished 7th in the decathlon to earn All-State honors. He scored 5061 across the two days.

Our track Lions are back in action at next week’s TSSAA State Championships at the University of Tennessee!

📚 Learning lessons about alliteration in literature is lovely! Our Honors American Literature class taught our third grade students about alliteration using Dr. Seuss's book Hooper Humperdink? Not Him! After learning and practicing examples of alliteration, they played a fun game with buzzers that our third graders loved. We are so grateful for these times when our lower schooler students get to learn from our upper school students. Thank you, tenth graders, for sharing your time and knowledge!