Awards and Honors

The Victora Ludorum Award, first presented in 1968, is given to the senior girl who has made the greatest contribution to athletics at Country Day through excellence of performance and leadership. The award winner is nominated and selected by the coaching staff.

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Since 1964, the Athlete’s Cup has been given annually to the senior boy who has made the greatest contribution to athletics at Country Day through excellence of performance and leadership. The award winner is nominated and selected by the coaching staff.

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First presented in 1990, the Scholar-Athlete award recognizes one senior boy and one senior girl who exemplify what it means to be a student-athlete. To be eligible for this award a student must have a 3.0 grade point average and have lettered in at least two sports. 

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The Jason Walls award is given in memory of Jason Carter Walls, Class of 1993, who died on Christmas Day, 1991. Selected by Upper School faculty and members of the Boosters Club, the winner of the award will be a member of the student body who best demonstrates the attributes that Jason embodied. Jason showed us how to live every day as if it were our last, how to leave a place better than we found it, and how to make a difference in people’s lives.

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The Carl Bolick Coach's Award, first given in 1984, recognizes two Country Day coaches (one Upper School, one Middle School) who, in a given year, best exemplify the qualities of a character builder who develops student athletes into better people. The award is named for the former Country Day athletic director who believed that coaches must be team builders and fully support and reinforce the principles of scholarship, citizenship, and sportsmanship.

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The Wells Fargo Cup, presented and sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank, recognizes overall excellence in high school athletics among North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association member institutions. Points are awarded to schools based on each sport’s placing at the state level. NCISAA 3A schools have been competing for this recognition since 1983.

Country Day has won the award 10 times for our exceptional performance during the following school years: 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1991–92, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2021–22.