ORLANDO - It’s quite unusual for the two best athletes in a high school’s history to be part of the same graduation class.
But that’s true for Pace Academy, a co-educational, college preparatory private day school in Atlanta’s Buckhead area.
Its 2017 graduation class featured basketball star Wendell Carter Jr. and football star Andrew Thomas. Both went on to become top 10 draft picks in their respective sports. Carter, after a season at Duke, was chosen seventh overall in the 2018 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls. Thomas, an offensive tackle, was the fourth overall choice in the 2020 NFL Draft by the New York Giants after playing three years for the Georgia Bulldogs.