Two NJROTC cadets have qualified to compete at the NJROTC National Championship, 12-14 February 2012, at Camp Perry, Ohio. Congratulations to Shawn Cleary (Senior), and Mandi Major (Junior) on their this outstanding achievement! Shawn finished 2nd and Mandi finished 5th in the state of Texas among all Navy schools at this year's Secretary of Navy NJROTC Air Rifle Competition. This will be the second time in three years that Shawn has advanced to Nationals. Over 2,750 cadets participated in this year’s competition with Shawn finishing 12th and Mandi 44th in the nation. On Friday/Saturday, 9/10 December 2011, our NJROTC Unit competed at the Coastal Bend Classic Drill Meet held at Rockport, TX. Our teams finished 2nd place overall among the 15 JROTC units at this meet. The following are the individual team results: Team results: Academic Team: 2nd Air Rifle Team: 3rd Shawn Cleary was 2nd in kneeling, 3rd in standing and was 2nd overall high shooter! Situps Pushups Run Overall Physical Fitness: 3rd 4th 2nd 3rd Female Color Guard 5th Varsity Male Color Guard 7th JV Male Color Guard 12th INSPECTION REGULATION DRILL EXHIBITION DRILL OVERALL Varsity Armed 6th 4th 1st 3rd JV Armed 12th 14th 13th 13th Unarmed 8th 1st 6th 2nd Note: Our Armed and Unarmed Drill Teams had to perform their regulation and exhibition drill in the rain and cold on Saturday. They did an outstanding job in spite of the adverse conditions! Team Commanders: Armed - Ryan Pruthi Unarmed - Jaquala Couch Male Color Guard - Brice Harris Female Color Guard - Megan Schmidt Academic - Michael Brand Air - Shawn Cleary Physical Fitness - Britany Orta, Aaron Callegari, & Megan White JV Armed - Ashtad Boomla JV Male Color Guard - Walker Shores Our next competition will be on 04 February 12 at Tomball HS. Cross Country State Finals 11/18/2011
Mehran Namazkar finished 23rd at the Cross Country state finals. He improved from being the 10th place regional qualifier to 5th in the region. His 23rd place finish is the highest ever for a Fort Bend runner. Way to go Mehran! Orchestra Students Win All State Positions 11/18/2011
Congratulations to the following students for earning All State Orchestra positions! Ankit Shah, bass 12th (3rd year) Blake Awodu, bass 10th (1st year) Federico Venturi, bass 11th (1st year) Travis Yeh, violin 11th (3rd year) Jonathan Yeung, violin 11th (3rd year) Kevin Zhang, cello 9th (1st year) Anne Wells, viola 11th (2nd Year) Jane Lee, Cello 11th (3rd Year) Claire Wood, Violin 10th (2nd year) Mai Ito, Violin 11th (2nd year) 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. Cross Country Qualifies for Regionals 10/27/2011
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. Tennis Team Advances to Regionals 10/26/2011
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. |
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