High Point University’s prestigious reputation not only attracts students from all over the country, but it often attracts multiple students from the same families and neighborhoods.
Rhode Island natives Logan and Calvin Lucenti, sister and brother, both chose to attend HPU and were well aware of the university’s notoriety growing up in the Northeast. So were their childhood friends and neighbors, Elise and Carson Conheeny, also sister and brother.
Nearly 700 miles from home, the four students from Portsmouth found their own ways to HPU’s campus. But they all chose HPU as the best university for them and thrived here.
Growing up, the siblings lived across the street from each other. Calvin and Carson were best friends and high school basketball teammates.
When public places in their hometown closed during the coronavirus pandemic, their parents came up with a rule to help keep them safe. They told Calvin and Carson and their older sisters, Logan and Elise, that they could hang out together as long as they stayed in their neighborhood.
The four teenagers ended up playing outside every day. They jumped on the Lucenti’s in-ground trampoline and spent hours shooting hoops on the Conheeny’s basketball goal.
“It was like back and forth every single day,” Logan said. “We were always together.”
Considering how close the two families are, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Logan, Elise, Calvin and Carson attended High Point University together.
Logan, the oldest of the group, graduated in May from HPU with a marketing degree. Elise is a junior majoring in sports management, while Carson and Calvin are sophomores who have gone from playing on the same basketball team to now being Sigma Nu fraternity brothers.
“It’s really nice having somebody you can be yourself around,” Elise said about attending HPU with her brother, who’s 13 months younger than her. “And it’s like a piece of home.”
