Huntersville, NC October 22, 2025 – The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce has accepted twenty-one area High School juniors in its 2025-2026 Junior Leadership Lake Norman program. The program, administered by the Chamber of Commerce, is coordinated by the 2024-2025 graduates of the Chamber’s Adult Leadership Lake Norman as a service project. Students will learn more about their community during this intensive and rewarding seven-month long program. The leadership development program was specifically created to inform, motivate, and increase the overall awareness of selected high school students through educational seminars and interaction with various decision makers of local businesses, government agencies and civic organizations.

The students were selected based on their previous and potential leadership ability and community involvement. This year’s class (Class XIV) includes students from Mooresville High School, The Community School of Davidson, Lake Norman Charter, Covenant Classical School, and Southlake Christian School.

The students include: Wyatt Baker, Kate Champion, Lulu Comfort, Darcelle Faucette, Brandon Hunt, Natalie Jones, Ava McLean, Audrey McNichols, Emily Morganti, Cady Norman, Izzy Osborne, Remy Peters, Griffin Radford, Madi Reed, Jadan Rounds, Emma Shingleton, Jesse Smith, Lucia Soares, Taylor Stevens, Ashliegh Tate, and Andrew Tautan.

The program kicked off with a retreat at Rural Hill where students participated in a series of team cohesion activities, including an assessment of their personal communication and leadership styles that they will put into application for this coming program year. The retreat was facilitated by a former Lake Norman Leadership participant, Eric Rowles (CEO of www.LeadingToChange.com)

Junior Leadership is presented by Novant Health. Supporting business sponsors include Tenders Fresh Foods (PDQ), Carolina Office Systems, Duke Energy, EnergyUnited, Jason Colvin – State Farm Insurance, Lepage Johnson eXp Realty, Raymer Kepner Funeral Home and Crematorium, Rural Hill, The McIntosh Law Firm, and The Range at Lake Norman.

Caption: The Lake Norman Chamber has accepted 21 High School Juniors in the 14^th Class of Junior Leadership Lake Norman. The students participated in a team building retreat at Rural Hill in Huntersville. Photo by Bill Russell, Lake Norman Chamber.