05/21/2026
Our Jim Lindsey Leadership Award goes to Owen Kight of Providence Academy!
Owen leads with character, competes with excellence, and consistently makes the people around him better. Owen is ranked first in his class with a 4.38 GPA and a 34 ACT. He has been a two-year captain of our varsity soccer team, earning both all-conference and all-state honors, and competed two years in varsity basketball. Owen’s leadership is not limited to athletics. He has participated in our high school musical theater productions the past two years. He also serves as Vice President of the National Honor Society, is involved in Student Council as both a representative and advisor, serves as Secretary of Rho Kappa, and leads as a Chapel Small Group Leader. Beyond our campus, Owen represented our school as an Arkansas Boys State delegate and participated in the Christian Leadership Institute at Baylor University. He continues to serve others as a fifth grade boys small group leader, a TOP Soccer volunteer, and a junior volunteer at Arkansas Children’s Northwest Hospital.
His head coach, Coach Tree Barnett, described Owen in a way that captures what makes him so rare: “As a coach, you wait your entire career for a student-athlete like Owen, and often they never come along.” She went on to call him “a unicorn,” explaining that Owen is “the epitome of an elite student-athlete,” with the kind of presence, emotional intelligence, authenticity, and consistency that causes others to want to follow him. Coach Barnett often tells the team, “Let’s have an Owen kind of day,” a reflection of the standard Owen sets daily through his work ethic, accountability, composure under pressure, and servant mindset.
Congrats Owen!
