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08/12/2026

Okay, Class of 2011…we see you!

07/29/2026

✨Pinewood Alumnus Spotlight: Hayden Heflin ‘13

Hayden started at Pinewood in 8th grade and graduated in 2013. After graduation, he attended Spartanburg Methodist College and the University of South Carolina playing baseball at both as a pitcher, finishing 3rd in the Junior College World Series with SMC. Hayden graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2017, with a BS in Sociology.

Afterwards, he attended Virginia Tech to pursue a masters in Instructional Technology and was a member of their baseball team. He remained at Virginia Tech for two years as a part of the coaching staff working with pitchers.

This year, Hayden married Lauren Nix on February 21! They currently reside in Raleigh, NC with their goldendoodle Bali. Hayden has been working in Cybersecurity for the last 4.5 years on the sales end at Varonis. Varonis operates a major regional office and tech hub offering a complete security platform that allows companies to keep innovating, without increasing risk.

Hayden says his time at Pinewood has resulted in many lifetime friends, with 7 of them being his groomsman! His wedding party included: Brothers Austin and Nolan Heflin, Kyle Hair, John O’Shaughnessy, Jake Wall, Cameron Poaps, Andrew Niemeyer, and JD Waite.

07/13/2026

✨Pinewood Alumnus Spotlight: Ryan Moore ‘13, 14-year scholar

Ryan started at Pinewood in K4 and graduated in 2013. From there, he attended the University of South Carolina Honors College, graduating in 2017 with a BS in Biology and a minor in Spanish. He returned to Charleston for medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina, earning his MD in 2024. Ryan is now a third-year internal medicine resident at Duke University Medical Center. He is currently applying to cardiology fellowship, with hopes of specializing in electrophysiology, and his research focuses on complex ablation techniques for treating cardiac arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation.

Ryan met his wife, Caroline Moore, in medical school at MUSC. The couples matched together and now live in Durham, where Caroline is an anesthesiology resident at Duke.

Pinewood gave him friendships that have lasted well beyond graduation. Five of his groomsmen were Pinewood classmates, which says a lot about the kind of community Pinewood built. It also taught him how to compete and work hard, on the soccer field and in the classroom, and he carries that with him every day in medicine.

One of the pictures submitted includes his groomsmen, five of whom are Pinewood classmates and remain close friends to this day. Kyle Hair, Jeff Chickarello, John O’Shaughnessy, Hayden Heflin, and Davis Craig (all Class of 2013)

Go Panthers! 🩺

07/07/2026

✨ Pinewood Alumna Spotlight: Meredith (Putney) Anderson ‘97

Meredith’s passion for journalism began when she was just 10 years old. Hurricane Hugo had devastated South Carolina’s coast. As her family sheltered in their Summerville home with devastating conditions outside, her family’s only connection to the outside world was a small, battery-operated television broadcasting a local news station. That little television sparked her career in broadcast journalism.

And what a career she has had! Meredith officially started her news career at 16 as an intern for WCBD in Charleston. She attended the University of Georgia and earned a degree in broadcast news from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, one of the top five journalism schools in the country.

Meredith is a two-time National Edward R. Murrow Award winner, recognized for her investigative reporting, including exposing an alleged baby-selling scheme involving court officials in Georgia. She has also earned seven Emmy Awards (two just this May!) and multiple honors from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters. She also received recognition for a Regional Murrow Award for her reporting and is in the national competition.

Now, Meredith lives in Augusta, Georgia with her family and has been with News 12 since 2007. She currently anchors the 5 and 5:30 p.m. newscasts while still leading investigative reports.

Outside the newsroom, Meredith enjoys traveling with her family, spending time with her rescue pups, volunteering with the Augusta Jr. Players, and cheering for the Georgia Bulldogs!

Meredith’s advice to our current students is:
“Don’t hand your dream to someone who can’t see it. I’ve had plenty of people tell me what I couldn’t do. Don’t build your life around those voices. Build it around the quiet one inside you that says, ‘Try anyway.’ Start where you are. Work harder than people expect. Learn everything you can. And when someone says ‘you can’t,’ remember: they don’t get the final word. You do.”

Tune in to see Meredith in action tonight! 📺

Source Credit: wrdw.com

06/23/2026

✨ Pinewood Alumna Spotlight: Callie Clarke (‘16, 13-year scholar)

Callie started at Pinewood in K5 and graduated in 2016. From there, she attended Wofford College in Spartanburg for undergrad and graduated in 2020 with a BS in Biology and a BA in Spanish. She came back to Charleston for a year for a master’s degree in medical sciences from the Medical University of South Carolina. Then, she attended The University of South Carolina’s School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2025. Now, Callie is a resident physician finishing her first year of general surgery residency at Trident Hospital.

Callie says, “It’s been a long and arduous journey but I’m so thankful to have come so far in pursuit of my dreams! I have such fond memories from my time at Pinewood and am so grateful for all the teachers and faculty who supported me during that time.”

One of the pictures Callie submitted also includes Brittany Miles, Rachel (Trout) Mcatee, and Summer (Riccardi) Eubank - a few of the lifelong friends she made from Pinewood who were also 2016 graduates! 🥰

06/03/2026

✨ Pinewood Alumnus Spotlight: Joseph Siegel ‘15

Joseph Siegel graduated from Pinewood Prep in 2015. He attended Clemson, C of C, and the University of South Carolina School of Law. Joseph spent the last two years as an associate at two firms, and he is proud to announce the opening of Siegel Law Firm in Walterboro and Beaufort. Joseph is a trial lawyer who serves clients across South Carolina.

06/02/2026

It’s summer time which means…Pinewood’s Annual Alumni Reunion! We loved getting to see everyone last summer and catching up! This year’s event is July 30 from 6-9 p.m. We’ll have beer, wine and appetizers to celebrate the occasion! Tickets are on sale now! If it’s been over 6 months since you’ve been here, you’re going to want to see what’s new!

https://www.pinewoodprep.com/alumni/all-class-summer-reunion.cfm

05/11/2026

✨Pinewood Alumnus Spotlight: Matt Moore ‘06, 14-year scholar

Matt Moore attended Pinewood Preparatory School for all fourteen years and graduated with the Class of 2006. He grew up in Charleston, almost always near or on the water. During his Pinewood years, he raced sailboats in Charleston Harbor, made offshore passages with his father to the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Havana, and taught sailing at the Carolina Yacht Club for $7 an hour and a paid lunch. A few of the friendships from his youth include his future Volare co-founder, Dustin Tupper.

After Pinewood, he studied Physics at The University of the South (Sewanee), then Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, where he met his wife Brittany and overlapped a year with Dustin in the engineering program.

Out of Clemson, he joined Scout Boats. He spent roughly a decade there and ultimately served as Production Manager for the Scout Yacht Division, where he helped launch the division and bring it to scale. The work taught him boatbuilding at every level. Over time he became convinced that day-boaters should not have to choose between clean, quiet electric propulsion and the performance, craftsmanship, and aesthetics expected from a high-end boat.

In March 2022, he left Scout and co-founded .boats with Dustin and a small group of partners.

Today, Volare is shipping its flagship Artemis 23 from their Charleston headquarters and competing directly with the established names in production boatbuilding.

Brittany and Matt have been married for nearly ten years and live in Mount Pleasant with their two daughters, Margot (3) and Rory (5 months). Brittany is originally from Dallas and teaches
chemistry and biology at Trident Technical College. Outside the office, he is most often on the water with his family or on a golf course, though work occupies most of his time.

His motivation comes down to three things: his family, his team, and the chance to build
something the industry has not seen before. Margot, his oldest, keeps the rest in perspective.

05/04/2026

✨ Pinewood Alumna Spotlight: Amy Williams ‘03, Thirteen Year Scholar

Today’s alumna spotlight is out of this world! 🪐

Dr. Amy Williams is an astrobiologist and associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida. She attended Pinewood Prep from the age of 5 through her senior year. She completed her B.Sc. in Earth and Environmental Science at Furman University, M.Sc. in Earth and Planetary Science at the University of New Mexico, and PhD. in Geology at the University of California, Davis. She completed a postdoctoral research position at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center before joining the faculty of Towson University in 2015. In 2018 she moved to her current position at the University of Florida.

Her research focuses on the interaction between microbial life, the geochemical environment, and the rock record on Earth, and how to recognize habitable environments and potentially preserved microbial life on Mars. She has been a member of the NASA Mars Curiosity rover mission since 2009. She currently works with the SAM instrument as a lead for SAM’s TMAH wet chemistry experiment, designed to detect specific recalcitrant organic molecules in Mars’ sediments. She is also a scientist with the NASA Mars Perseverance rover science team, where she is a Long-Term Planner for the mission.

Amy has previously been a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow, a NASA postdoctoral research associate, and a member of the 2023-2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. She currently serves on the National Academy of Science Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science. She received the 2022/2023 UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors and is a 2023 Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe Fellow.

04/27/2026

✨Pinewood Alumna Spotlight: Alex Ginsburg ‘08

After graduating from Pinewood in 2008, Alex continued playing basketball and softball at a collegiate level at Sewanee: The University of the South. She was inducted into Pinewood’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014 for her achievements as a Pinewood Panther. She graduated in 2012 from Sewanee magna cm laude with a degree in Psychology and attended law school at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

At UTK, Alex interned and served as a Student District Attorney in Knoxville in the Child Abuse Unit. Upon receiving her Juris Doctorate, Alex began her legal career as a criminal prosecutor at the Ninth Circuit Solicitors Office in Charleston, where she tried numerous jury cases to verdict involving violent crimes.

Following her time at the Solicitors Office, Alex gained defense experience with litigating professional liability and workers’ compensation matters. Drawn to helping people in their time of need, Alex switched gears and joined Miller, Dawson, Sigal and Ward, LLC (The Thumbs Up Guys) to assist the community in personal injury and workers’ compensation matters. Since her time at the Thumbs Up Guys, Alex was nominated as a 2024 and 2025 Super Lawyers: Rising Star and a Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Attorney in South Carolina by the National Trial Lawyers.

Alex is grateful for the opportunity to be the voice of for our community members who have been involved in life-changing accidents.

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