As a soccer goalie in college and today as manager of a cyber threat detection and response team, Payton Landy is no stranger to excellence in defense. “I feel like as a goalkeeper, my job was, in a sense, to manage the team in our defensive positioning,” said Landy,...
In eighth grade, Daulton Beard, a Florida native, went on a mission trip to Asheville and immediately fell in love with the mountains. “I remember going home from that trip and telling my parents, ‘Hey, I’m going to find a college in the mountains,’” Beard recalled....
When Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022, Andrii Dmytrenko had planned to go to school, but at 5 a.m., his mother woke him up and within two hours they were in the car leaving his hometown of Kyiv and nearly everything he knew and valued. Little did...
When Madelyn (MJ) Blanton was a child growing up in the shadows of the Ozark Mountains in Northwest Arkansas, she was always outside and always barefoot. “My mother likes to remind me of my brothers’ soccer games,” MJ said. “While they were playing, I would hunt for...
By Anastasia Howland The last Wednesday of classes for the 2018-2019 school year saw students and faculty gather for Montreat’s annual senior chapel. This is a time when graduating seniors are given space to verbally reflect on the ways in which they have grown and...
“I’ve lived. I’ve experienced so much heartache,” says Montreat College management and leadership student Sandra Ferguson. “But I never give up.” When Sandra suddenly found herself without a job in April 2018, her faith and determination pushed her to...
