Congratulations to the following AHS Volleyball players for earning 23-5A All-District recognition:

Most Outstanding Setter:  Kaitlyn Brooks

Newcomer of the Year: Grace Blair

First Team All District: Courtney Walker and Shelby Genung

Second Team All District:  Blair Tillman and Allya Du

Honorable Mention: Nia Johnson

All Academic Team: Molly Knewtson and Katlyn Jonas

Saturday, 4 November 2011, SF Austin NJROTC Unit competed at the Veterans Classic JROTC Drill Meet in Seguin, Texas.  The teams had a strong showing and finished overall 3rd place among the 27 JROTC units.  More importantly, the NJROTC unit finished in 2nd place among the 22 Navy schools, thus qualifying for the Area 10 Manager’s Championship Drill Meet, being held at Texas A&M University, 24-25 February 2012!

Congratulations to all of our cadets on their impressive finish!  

Top finishes include:

1st  Place Academics:  Team CDR-C/CPO Michael Brand

2nd Place Armed Drill Team:  Team CDR-C/LTJG Ryan Pruthi

3rd Place Armed Drill Team Overall:  Team CDR-C/LTJG Ryan Pruthi

3rd Place Obstacle Course:  Team CDR-C/PO1 Britany Orta

Top Meet Air Rifle shooter:  C/LT Shawn Cleary, shooting 282 of 300!  

Kaitlyn Brooks, our volleyball senior setter, has been awarded Memorial-Hermann and Channel 2’s Athlete of the Week!  A huge honor!  Kaitlyn was presented the award here at AHS on Friday, November 4.  The award presentation was filmed and will air Wednesday night (Nov. 9) on Channel 2 News at 10.

The boys cross country team placed 2nd at the district meet on Friday and qualified for regionals.  Meharan Namazkar was the overall champion with a 15:43.  Abhi Kallaur placed 4th in the boy’s race. 

Anita Vinjamuri placed 9th in the girls race and individually qualified for regionals.

Congratulations to our varsity Bulldog tennis team, they are headed to Regionals!

Austin beat Kempner 10-4 to finish Runner-Up in District 23-5A.

Rachel Pham and Yanan Wang won a clutch doubles match against Kempner’s top girl and her partner 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Also coming up big was the boys doubles teams of Andrew Littlefield and Dan Garcia, Aaron Reekie and Sundar Devakottai, and Chase Mack and Aaron Kasnavia as they swept the Kempner boys.

In girls singles, Jennie Ho won her line two match 6-2, 6-1.

Regionals will be played Friday at a place to be determined.

Congrats to the following cadets on their outstanding achievements!!

Shawn Cleary took top Air Rifle Shooting honors at the FBISD JROTC Drill Meet, September 17. 

The team of Shawn Cleary and Michael Brand took 1st place “Golden Eagle” honors out of 24 competitors in Academics at the Prairie View A&M NROTC PT and Orienteering Meet, October 1. 

Britany Orta finished 3rd place out of 36 competitors in female flex-hang competition.

FORT BEND ISD - The recent Bastrop County wildfires that left hundreds of families without homes have brought together communities throughout the state in a strong show of support for our fellow neighbors. Fort Bend ISD students and staff are among those to lend their support by holding clothing drives, collecting bottled water, and making monetary donations to support Bastrop County residents and the Texas Wildfire Relief Fund.

Austin High School’s Student Council held a two-day clothing drive, . . .  See full story here 

FORT BEND ISD – The Fort Bend Independent School District is proud to announce the names of 50 FBISD students who have been named semifinalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. To put that number in perspective, Fort Bend ISD has one of the highest percentages of National Merit Semifinalists among the larger school districts in Texas.

The 50 FBISD semifinalists were selected from more than 1.5 million high school students in more than 22,000 United States high schools who entered the 2012 Merit Program by taking the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

 Fort Bend ISD's 2012 National Merit semifinalists by campus are:

• Austin High School – Zain Admani, Nicole Hill, Carolyn Levert, Christopher Long, Anna Minmier, Aditya Srivatsan, and David Zhao;
• Bush High School – Andy Dao;
• Clements High School – Mathis Benjamin, Shivani Bindal, Vanessa Chen, Siddharth Desai, Abhay Divakaruni, Katherine Du, Christine Ge, Allen Hwang, Michael Jin, Nishika Karbhari, Stacey Lau, Stephanie Lin, Terry Lin, Eric Lo, Margaret Lynch, Rahul Naik, Kevin Pham, Kristen Pownell, Karishma Punjani, Sahar Sawani, Bob Shao, Anne Shen, Siddharth Sridhar, Yu-Ting Toh, Brooke Tolle, Sid Venkataraman, Vickie Wang, Scott Yarbrough and Tyler Yates;
• Dulles High School – Katherine Chan, Katherine Chuang, Julian Duodu, Miles Ohman, and Anh Phan.
• Hightower High School – Neerja Aggarwal, Anita Vasudevan, and Jane Zhu;
• Kempner High School – Jacob Barrios, Jordan Huynh and Meghan Kamath; and
• Travis High School – Sydney Hodges and Albert Zhang.

These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,300 Merit® Scholarship awards valued at $34 million that will be offered next spring.

Congratulations to Jacob Abels who is one of the Houston Chronicle's Top 100 Players in football from the Houston Area!!