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Athenaeum - March 2017
Eagles Soar at Regional Tennis Tournament
March 30, 2017
Another Savio senior is country-bound after an amazing run at regionals!
The boys and girls tennis teams played the TAPPS 1-5A Regional Tennis Tournament at the Waco Regional Tennis Eye on March 28-29, and this year, the tournament was tougher than ever!
Iv new schools were introduced into the tournament for a total of eight teams. Midland Christian, Grapevine Faith, Southwest Christian, Fort Worth Christian, St. Michael's, Regents, Hyde Park, and St. Dominic Savio all fielded players in every sectionalization.
Savio had xvi of its acme players participating in the tournament. Nicholas Butler and Quentin Marshall played boys' singles. Thanh Tran and Isabel Helal played girls' singles. Doubles teams included Patrick Miles, Pedro Untalan, Conor Woods, and Nicholas Bianchi for the boys and Andrea Nguyen, Abigail Staebel, Blaise De Oliveira, and Mikayla Morgan for the girls. Ethan Janecka, Izabella LaPointe, John Paul Frew, and Tulan Le also played mixed doubles for the Eagles.
Nicholas Butler and Thanh Tran are this yr's standouts from the tournament. Both players are seniors who take played since their freshman year with head motorcoach Garrett Pekar. These 2 both played their hearts out and never gave up through all the long matches to achieve recognition for themselves and their school at regionals.
Butler won the regional tournament last year with partner Peter Spangler in doubles, simply singles was a whole new ball game for him. He worked hard all summertime and fall to gear up for a run at singles this year. It took every ounce of that determination to face some of the other top players from the region. Butler won his first circular half-dozen-0, 6-0, and then went on to beat the fourth seed, Kyle Webb, vii-6, half dozen-4. In the semifinal lucifer, Butler lost to the tournament champion, Alex Cooper. He was set for a showdown for 3rd and 4th place with Colson Stokes, a highly busy role player in the USTA super championship division.
Butler played the match of his life! By staying confident and sticking to the plan, he pushed stokes to his breaking betoken. Butler lost the match 4-vi, 3-6, but won a tactical victory by forcing his opponent to play into his manner--something most super champs don't ever do no matter who they face.
Because he had already beaten the fifth place finisher, Kyle Webb, Butler secured fourth place and his state tournament ticket! Fashion to get Nick!
Thanh Tran played some of the all-time lawn tennis of her life at this twelvemonth's tournament, and information technology couldn't take happened at a meliorate time. After non playing in the regional tournament in her freshman year because of a wrist injury, Tran slowly became a tougher and more than committed thespian over the years. She practiced hard, when she did become to practice. As her game improved, her attitude on court changed too. She showed pure determination and focus in this twelvemonth's regional tournament when she was able to turn the tide when she was backside in score a couple of times and nonetheless got the victory. Thanh won fifth identify at regionals by defeating Rachel Whittenburg of Hyde Park 8-6. These ii had some of the longest, nail-biting points always! She is this year'south girls' singles alternate for the state tournament. Awesome job Thanh!
It was an heady and exhausting tournament at the stop with its share of ups and downs. All the players worked hard in their matches and in support of their teammates. The Eagles tennis team represented the school with integrity and sportsmanship at the tournament on and off the court, every bit commented by the tournament manager and TAPPS officials.
Land is coming up soon on April 12-xiii! Permit'due south proceed Nicholas' spirits soaring high to this final run into of his high school career!
Savio Fine art Students Win National Scholastic Aureate Medal
March 30, 2017
From left to correct: Elyse Garcia, Olivia Ramirez and Maddee Miller
The Scholastic Art and Writing competition is the oldest and most prestigious high school art competition in the United States. This year three Savio students take won the Scholastic Art National Gold Medal. We congratulate Maddee Miller, Olivia Ramirez, and Elyse Garcia for receiving this national recognition for their artwork. All three students have been invited to the awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in June receive their official recognition.
As a school, nosotros submitted 60 works of art to the regional contest and won a total of 29 awards. Of those 29 awards, nine were called as Aureate Key awards and were automatically submitted to the national competition. Of those nine, the iii winners, Maddee Millar, Olivia Ramirez and Elyse Garcia received the highest honor. The three students will exist recognized at the next associates.
"I am so proud that our students are existence recognized on this national level every bit the all-time of the best loftier school artists in the state." Mrs. Celeste Robbins, Fine Arts Department Chair
Other recipients that accept received this award include a few well-known artists such as Andy Warhol, Stephen King, Zac Posen, Lena Dunham and Ken Burns.
Iron Eagle Silverbolt Robotics Squad Advances to Globe Championship
March 27, 2017
The Atomic number 26 Eagles Silverbolt Robotics team advanced to the Showtime FTC Globe Title this weekend. The team advanced based on their rank later qualifying match play in the South Super Regional Tournament in Athens, GA. They will exist competing at the World Title Tournament Apr 19- 22 in Houston confronting U.s. and international teams.
Congratulations Atomic number 26 Eagle Silverbolt Team!
Team members left to correct are Mentor Mike Gregorio, Raul Basualdo, Jovan Sigcho, Mackenzie Purdy, Minh Mather, Christine Baticados, Emily Basquez and Michael Schmude.
*Non pictured is Mentor Michael Butler.
Savio boys soccer: TAPPS All-District and All-State Boys Soccer Awards Appear
March 24, 2017
All-Land and All-Commune are postal service-flavour awards presented by TAPPS (Texas Association of Individual and Parochial Schools) in all divisions of every sport. TAPPS is the state able-bodied association of individual and parochial schools that Savio belongs to. Coaches from every TAPPS schoolhouse nominate their individual athletes from their teams that they believe deserve recognition. Recently, TAPPS held All-State and All-District meetings allowing coaches to select certain players to first team, 2nd team, or honorable mention based on their flavor performances and season-ending statistics.
Congratulations to the following St. Dominic Savio Catholic High Schoolhouse soccer players who were elected by the opposing coaches for All-District honors. Five Savio seniors, who helped lead Savio through this record breaking season with an undefeated tape in district play for the get-go time, fabricated first team All-District:
Santiago Sustaeta (Criminal offense)
Cian McGetrick (Midfield)
Preston Noonan (Midfield)
Patrick Miles (Defense force)
Cory Cady (Goalie). Forth with the Savio defense, Cory set multiple goal keeping school records this flavor likewise.
Freshman Nathan French, with 17 goals during the season, was also selected as All-District, and voted top offensive player in the District, and was also selected as Honorable Mention All-State.
Junior Kyle Gonsalvez, Freshman Brendan Mazzurana, and Seniors Mitch Romero and Cameron Henry were selected to second team All-District. Christopher Gonzales, Joseph Figliozzi and Luc Nguyen were selected as Honorable Mention All-District.
TAPPS likewise honors inferior and senior athletes who have demonstrated both athletic and academic (iii.v form point or higher) excellence in their sport through the Academic All State award. Savio had 5 educatee athletes selected for this award amidst the boys soccer team:
Seniors: Cameron Henry, Cian McGetrick, Mitchell Romero, and Patrick Miles
every bit well as Junior: Kyle Gonsalvez.
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Congratulations to the recipients on these well deserved honors, and to the whole Savio Boys Soccer team for a fantastic flavor, their best ever.
Go Eagles!
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Savio Students Celebrate National Pi Day
March 24, 2017
Savio students celebrated Pi Day with a variety of fun learning activities to celebrate the number pi on Friday, March 10th. The students were in their house groups every bit they participated in a diverseness of competitive games that signified the number pi.
National Pi Day is ordinarily celebrated on March 14th, but with the leap pause schedule, students celebrated before break with a Pie eating contest and other fun events where students participated in a variety of games with the number pi. One of the activities included competition amidst the Savio Business firm families to find the person who memorized the well-nigh numbers in Pi.
One Savio student, Jonathan Shoemaker, representing the Padre Pio House family won the competition for memorizing the most numbers in the number pi below:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 20899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955
The Savio Filmworks squad captured the events from the 24-hour interval, view the link here.
https://youtu.be/5DnTFhJBeiw
Savio Personal Finance Grade Gets Real Earth Financial Advice
March 23, 2017
On Wednesday, March 22, the Savio Personal Finance class visited Per Stirling, an investment advisory firm, and spoke with a Certified Financial Planner about investing, risks, and wealth management.
Students built upon their prior cognition about investing money, and took away some valuable lessons and resource almost managing a portfolio. They were also engaged in discussions most unlike philosophies on investing, participated in an experiment demonstrating market efficiency, and asked pertinent questions most the CFP profession and wealth management. These lessons are important equally we continue to form our students into successful servant leaders in the image of Christ.
Savio Wins 20th Almanac HP Codewars Competition
March 07, 2017
Hewlett Packard has been hosting a large computer scientific discipline tournament in Austin for the final xx years. Believed to be one of the top tournaments of the year, the tournament attracts non only all the Austin surface area high schools, but many top teams from around the state including Dallas, San Antonio, and many surrounding areas.
Teams of upwards to iii compete in a 3 hour programming competition in which over 20 problems of various difficulty need to be coded and submitted to be checked against the judges inputs. Each problem has a different point value, and problems ranged from bones cryptography to complicated maze puzzles.
Over sixty high school teams competed in the 20th Anniversary of the CodeWars competition. In that location were ii divisions, novice and advanced, and the elevation five teams in each division were recognized. When the grit settled, the Savio Novice team Giakhanh Hoang, Joel Uong, and Patrick Miles finished fifth. The Savio Avant-garde squad of Emily Shoemaker and Jonathan Shoemaker won 1st place overall, holding off 2nd place LASA and tertiary place Westwood. We earned a prissy trophy for our case and bragging rights for the year.
Congratulations to both of our teams!
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