Wildcat Country UIL Math and Science Tournament

CSHS UIL Hosts Wildcat Country UIL Math and Science Tournament

L to R:  Maria Arias, Sinaloa Lopez, Steven Perales, Jean Velasquez, Christian Perez,
Jazmine Velasquez, Jacob Velasquez, Audrey Arroniz

Carrizo Springs HS hosted its first annual Wildcat Country Math and Science Tournament.  The results of the meet are as follows.  The contest was a success and included a visit from 3-A and 4-A schools from the surrounding area as well as 5-A school, Wagner High School.  This is the first time Carrizo hosts this tournament and it is hoped that it continues to grow.  Our Wildcats had an awesome showing in “our house.”

For overall Sweeptakes:  Karen Wagner HS – 1^st place, Carrizo Spring HS – 2^nd place, Dilley High HS –3^rd place.  Individual Awards for our Wildcat UIL are as follows: In Number Sense (Novice) Sinaloa Lopez won 2^nd place, Jean Velasquez 3^rd place.  In Number Sense (Veteran) Jazmine Velasquez won 1^st place and Audrey Arroniz 2^nd Place. First place Number Sense Team went to Sinaloa Lopez, Jazmine Velasquez, and Jean Velasquez. In Calculator Applications (Novice), Jean Velasquez wond 2^nd place.  In Calculator Applications (Veteran), Jazmine Velasquez won 2^nd place while Sinaloa Lopez won 4^th place.  Second place Calculator Team went to Sinaloa Lopez, Jazmine Velasquez, and Jean Velasquez.  In Mathematics (Veteran) Jazmine Velasquez won 3^rd place, Christian Perez won 4^th place, Jacob Arambula won 5^th place, and Audrey Arroniz won 6^th place.  Second place Mathematics Team went to Jazmine Velasquez, Christian Perez, and Jacob Arambula.  In Science (Novice), Maria Arias won 1^st place, Steven Perales won 3^rd place.  In Science (Veteran), Christian Perez won 1^st place and Jacob Arambula won 3^rd place.  The Top Science Scores for the meet went to Christian Perez in Biology and Steven Perales in Physics.­­­­

Mr. D. Valerio and Mr. Escamilla would like to thank the following UIL coaches and students for their assistance with a smooth contest:  Mrs. Flores-Ramirez, Mr. Byars, Mr. Haberman, Ms. Herrera.  A heartfelt thanks goes to Ms. Bernice Romero and Mrs. Janie Garcia for their help with a wonderful hospitality room. Special thanks to Jacklyn Reynolds and Chris Gloria for helping with all aspects of the tournament.

In addition, thank you to the following teachers for allowing us to use their rooms in order to run a great contest:  Mr. D Valerio, Ms. Herrera, Ms. S.  Arroniz, J. Haberman, R. Trevino and Mr. Parra.  Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Chapa and the senior class for hosting the concession stand.

As always thank you to the UIL support staff that work so diligently behind the scenes to make sure all paperwork, supplies, materials, etc. are ready.  These include:  Mr. Alejandro Orosco and his staff, Mr. Marco Mendez and his staff, Mr. Michael Uriegas and his staff, Mr. Jesse Muñiz and his staff, and Dr. Alberto Gonzales and his staff.

Other personnel who contributed to make this contest a success include: Mrs. Ponce, Mrs. Karnes, Ms. Vidaurri, and Mrs. Nesmith. Thanks to Mrs. Gonzalez for coming to show her support on Saturday. Hearty congratulations go out to Mr. Daniel Valerio and Mrs. Victoria Linnard for making sure all the contests ran smoothly.  Last, but not least, thank you to Rosie Lira and Maria Ester Rodriguez, members of our wonderful custodial staff.  How ‘Bout That Awesome Wildcat Brain Power!

UIL Student Activities Conference 2019

CSHS Students Kick Off Their Season At The 

UIL Student Activities Conference

The Wildcat UIL Team traveled to Corpus Christi in order to attend the annual UIL Student Activities Conference.  For most of the schools in Texas, this marks the beginning of the UIL season.  This conference brings UIL students and coaches from all over Texas so that they can learn new strategies and review new material associated with their respective UIL events.  In many cases, there were even demonstrations presented by last year’s state competitors.  “This event is so important, especially for novice competitors.  It gives students a chance to get valuable strategies from UIL state competitors and state directors and coaches,” said Mr. Daniel Valerio, Jr., UIL Coordinator.”

We want to thank all the students (see photo) who woke up very early after a home football game and gave up their Saturday to improve their UIL skills by attending this conference.  We would also like to thank coaches D. Valerio, A. Ramirez. M. Ayala, B. Byars, J. Herrera, J. Haberman, and R. Escamilla for accompanying their students on the trip.  “Everyone seemed to learn a great deal and newcomers to UIL solidified their choice of event(s).  I believe this will be another great season for Wildcat UIL.  How ‘Bout That Awesome Wildcat Brain Power!

UIL STATE CHAMPION!

Gift Owolabi Wins Ultimate Prize And Ends With A Perfect Season

Congratulations to Gift Owolabi who is officially the UIL State Champion in UIL Calculator Applications.  Gift competed against the best in the state at the UIL State Meet (May 3-5) and came away with the ultimate prize, the State Gold Medallion.  This is the ultimate accomplishment for a UIL competitor.   Approximately 900 competitors begin the UIL season in hopes of capturing the gold at state, but only the best will even reach the state competition. Moreover, Gift has done it in fine style, she has had the perfect season.  She won first place at all invitational meets, first place at UIL District (District Champion), first place at UIL Region (Regional Champion), and now first place at UIL State (State Champion).  “It has been a privilege to work with Gift,” said Mr. Daniel Valerio, Jr., UIL Coordinator and Calculator Applications coach.  “To see such dedication and drive is an inspiration not only for myself but for all that know this young lady,” added Mr. Valerio.

“Gift has definitely done something special.  Having a perfect season and capping it off with the state championship is something you don’t see often, if at all; but if you know Gift, you can see why she has accomplished so much” said Ruben Z. Escamilla, UIL Academic Director.   “In addition, knowing the passion and dedication of her coach, Mr. Valerio, makes me so proud that both Gift and Mr. Valerio are what is best of the Wildcat spirit and that of the UIL program,” added Escamilla.

Congratulations to Gift who has brought the ultimate prize in UIL competition home to Carrizo Springs and has made it known that our beloved Wildcat name, emblem and spirit are best in the state.  Thanks to Gift and Mr. Valerio for bringing such honor and pride to our school and community.  Gift is the daughter of Dr. Michael Owolabi and Mrs. Oluwakemi Owolabi—we thank them for encouraging their children to be a part of Wildcat UIL.

As the Wildcat UIL season officially comes to a close and on behalf of Gift, Mr. Valerio, our awesome Wildcat UIL team and coaches; Mr. Escamilla would like to thank all parents of our wonderful students who allow their wonderful and talented youngsters to participate in Wildcat UIL Academics, Speech, and One-Act Play at CSE, CSI, CSJH, and CSHS.  These young people are what is best in Carrizo Springs. They dedicate their time and effort to represent our school and community with honor and pride, often behind closed doors without the sound of applause.  However, the love, support, and encouragement from parents, student body, teachers, administrators, and community are very apparent—thanks to all who support the program.

 

In addition, a special thank goes to all the people behind the scenes who work closely with the UIL program and are a huge part of its success: Mrs. Michelle Gonzalez, CSHS Principal; Mrs. Maribel Guevara and Alejandro Chapa, Assistant Principals; Mrs. Maria Villarreal, CSJH Principal; Ms. Magda Mendiola, CSJH UIL Coordinator; Jose Talamantez, CSI Principal; Jeana Ayala and Linda Estrada, CSI UIL Coordinators; Mrs. Elisa Martinez, CSE Principal; Zina Cruz, CSE UIL Coordinator; Gene Gutierrez, Maintenance and Transportation Director, and his staff; Mr. Michael Uriegas, HR Director, and his staff; Mr. Jose Keubke, Finance Director, and his staff; Dr. Jesse Salazar, Superintendent of Schools and his staff, and our CSCISD Board of Trustees.  Special thanks to the following people for all their help and support: Anna Rocha-Diaz, Dora Garza, Julia Cruz, Ronnie Yandell, Chief Cortez, Lupita Vidaurri, Yolanda Nesmith, Sigifredo Sanchez, Elisa Hernandez, Esperanza Garcia, Frances Deming, Guadalupe Sanchez, Diana Chavarria, Elida Santoya, Karen Marroquin, Sandra Little, Jennifer Karnes, Marta Medina, Anthony Buentello, Mauro Galvan—thanks for going the extra mile to help our program and our great kids.  We would also like to thank two entities with whom we work closely: Botello’s Screen Printing and The Carrizo Springs Javelin—thank you for your help and support and for always helping with last minute items.  How ‘Bout That Awesome Wildcat State Championship Power!

Wildcat UIL Continues State Tradition

Owolabi Wins Regional Champion and Selgado Wins Regional Finalist

Congratulations to Gift Owolabi and Maria Guadalupe Selgado who won UIL Regional medallions at the UIL Regional Academic Meet in Corpus Christi.  Gift Owolabi continues her first place pre and post season perfect record by winning Regional Champion in Calculator Applications and secured her third consecutive trip to the UIL State Academic Meet in Austin—extraordinary accomplishment.  In addition, Gift won the fourth place medallion in Number Sense and tied for sixth place in Mathematics.  Journalism competitor, Maria Selgado, won a fifth place regional finalist medallion in News Writing and a regional finalist medallion in Editorial Writing and secured state alternate in her events.

This marks the thirty-sixth year out of thirty-nine, since a competitor first qualified for state in Wildcat UIL Academics in 1979, that a Wildcat UIL competitor has qualified for state.  “We are so thankful and lucky to have such wonderful and dedicated students and passionate coaches who continue to represent our school and community with hard work, dedication, honor and pride—once again our dear Wildcat emblem will travel to represent at state,” said Ruben Z. Escamilla, UIL Academic Director.

We would like to wish Gift and Maria and their coaches Mr. Daniel Valerio, Jr. (Calculator Applications) and Mr. Ines Valerio (Journalism), the best of luck at the UIL State Academic Meet in Austin which will be on May 3-5.  Awesome Wildcat Brain Power!

Award Winning Show Roosters to Open May 3rd and 5th

Wildcat OAP cast and crew will be presenting their award-winning play Roosters to the public on Thursday, May 3 and Saturday, May 5.  The play has won multiple awards at the District, Bi-District, Area, and Regional level of UIL competition.  Sanchez-Scott’s ‘Roosters’ dives into the ideas of family dysfunction and the love that exists within that dysfunction.  The play blends magic with realism and makes a bold statement against the “machiste” culture.

The play will be performed at the Carrizo Springs High School Auditorium on both May 3rd and 5th at 7:30 p.m.  The admission fee for the show will be five dollars at the door.  Please come and support the award-winning Wildcat Theatre Program as they bring you Awesome Wildcat Star Power!

Wildcat Thespians Win Honors At OAP Regional Competition

Ojeda, Oyervides III, and Rios Win Medallions

Congratulations to Wildcat OAP thespians who won honor medallions at the UIL Region IV One-Act Play contest when the Wildcat UIL OAP production of Roosters competed in Corpus Christi last week.  Lydia Rios won the UIL Honor Crew medallion for state management.  Omar Ojeda won the UIL Honorable Mention All-Star Cast medallion for his portrayal of Hector and Juan Oyervides, III won the UIL All-Star Cast medallion for his portrayal of Adan.

We would like to thank these three thespians and the rest of the Roosters cast and crew and directors for a wonderful journey this past year.  The play Roosters closes the season in the top twenty-four of three-hundred plays in the state in class 4-A.   As your season comes to a close, congratulations on all of your accomplishments and success.  Awesome Wildcat Star Power!

CSHS Wildcat UIL Regular Season Comes to a Close

Cats Get Ready for District Competition­­­

Wildcat UIL Academics has traveled to many invitational meets in order to sharpen their skills to prepare for district competition.  Since October, when the Cats traveled to the UIL Student Activities Conference in Austin to the last regular season March tournament in Somerset, the Wildcat UIL’ers have pawed their way through many a tournament and several competitive schools in order to polish their claws and hone their skill to prepare for the district competition.

­­­­­­At the Laredo Nixon UIL Tournament on December 8 & 9, the Cats had a great showing and brought home individual and team awards.  In Number Sense Gift Owolabi won tournament champion by winning 1^st place while teammate Jazmine Velasquez won 5^th place.  In Calculator Applications, Gift Owolabi and Jasmine Velasquez did an awesome job of winning 1^st place in their respective divisions of 11^th and 10^th grade and newcomer Shawn Perez showed his promise winning 7^th place in the 9^th grade division.  The team of Gift, Jasmine, and Shawn won 1^st place Calculator Applications team.  In Headline Writing Maria Isabel Selgado won tournament champion by winning 1^st place while teammate Lydia Rios won 6^th place.  In Mathematics Gift Owolabi won 3^rd place in the 11^th grade division, Jasmine Velasquez won 3^rd place in 10^th grade division and Audrey Arroniz won 7^th place in the 8th grade division.  The team of Gift, Jasmine, and Audrey won second place team.  In Informative Speaking Sarah Esquivel won 5^th place in her first tournament.

At the Laredo United South UIL Tournament, the Wildcats had a strong showing in the Math and Social Studies events.  In the Mathematics (11^th) Gift Owolabi won 2^nd place.  In Calculator Applications, Gift Owolabi won tournament champion by winning 1^st place while teammate Jazmine Velasquez won the 3^rd place medallion.  In Number Sense, Gift Owolabi won tournament champion by winning 1^st place.  The team of Gift Owolabi, Jazmine Velasquez, and Shawn Perez won overall second place team.  In Social Studies, Audrey Arroniz won the 2^nd place medallion and with the help of teammates Robert May and Diego Reyes, they won second place Social Studies team.

The Wildcat UIL team’s next stop was the Eagle Pass HS UIL Tournament.  Even though this group of UIL’ers was a small one, the Wildcats faced off with 6-A schools in fine style and were in 6^th place going into the last event but managed to pull a pressure comeback from the journalism team to secure a fourth place spot and bring home the 4^th place overall Sweepstakes trophy.  In Calculator Applications, Gift Owolabi won tournament champion by winning 1^st place in the 11^th grade divison, Gift also won tournament champion in Number Sense by winning the 1^st place medallion and rounded out her medal placements by winning 3^rd place in Mathematics.  Jazmine Velasquez won the 2^nd place medallion in Number Sense, 3^rd place medallion in Mathematics and 5^th place in Calculator Applications. Ryan Garcia won 4^th place in Poetry Interpretation.  Sarah Esquivel won 4^th place in Informative Speaking. Christian Perez won 5^th place in Science.  Guadalupe Selgado won the 3^rd place medallion in News Writing and 3^rd place medallion in Editorial Writing.  Lydia Rios won 5^th place in Headline Writing.

During the MacArthur UIL Tournament the Wildcats did an awesome job keeping up with the large San Antonio schools such as Reagan, Lady Bird Johnson, Brandeis and others.  In News Writing Maria Guadalupe Selgado won 4^th place while sister Maria Isabel won 10^th place.  In Feature Writing, Lydia Rios won the 3^rd place medallion.  In Editorial Writing, Lydia Rios won tournament champion by winning 1^st place.  In Headline Writing, Maria Guadalupe Selgado won 8^th place.  The Journalism team of Lydia Maria Guadalupe, and Maria Isabel won 2^nd place overall.  In Number Sense, Gift Owolabi won 7^th place (11^th & 12^th grade division).  In Calculator Applications Gift Owolabi won tournament champion by winning the 1^st place medallion while teammate Jazmine Velasquez won 7^th place.  In Mathematics, Gift Owolabi won 4^th place while Jazmine Velasquez won 10^th place.

After the MacArthur UIL Tournament, the Wildcats would not be denied a top finish and brought home the 1^st place overall Sweepstakes trophy from the South San Antonio UIL Tournament.  The Wildcats held their own against 6-A schools and fought to the end when tied for first with South Side with one event to go.  However, the Wildcats edged out the win in fine style and came home tournament champions. In Computer Applications, Jazlyn Solis won the champion medallion when she won 1^st place while sister,Tianna Solis, won 3^rd place--this was the second consecutive 1^st and 3^rd for Jazlyn and Tianna.  In Number Sense, Gift Owolabi won 3^rd place. In Social Studies, Michael Uriegas, Jozlin Perez, and Audrey Arroniz won 2^nd place team.  In Calculator Applications, Gift Owolabi and Jazmin Velasquez delivered a one-two punch to the competition by winning 1^st and 2^nd place.In Computer Science, Will May put his computer programming skills to work and won 4th place.  In News Writing, Maria G. Selgado won the championship medallion by winning 1^st place. In Feature Writing, Lydia Rios won second place while teammate Maria G. Selgado won fifth place. In Editorial Writing, Maria G. Selgado won 3^rd place and Nadia Riojas won 4^th place. In Mathematics, Gift Owolabi won 2^nd place.  This made it a gold, silver, and bronze medal day for Gift. In Headline Writing, Lydia Rios won second place while Maria G. Selgado won third place.  The Wildcat Journalism team of Maria G. Selgado, Lydia Rios, Nadia Riojas, and Isabel Selgado won the gold as first place journalism team.

The final stop for the Wildcats of the regular season was the Somerset UIL Tournament. The Wildcats wrapped up the regular season with another small group of competitors who held their own against big schools such as Southwest, Reagan, Port Lavaca Calhoun, and others by winning many individual top awards.  In Accounting, William May won the 2^nd place medallion—no one had one a medal in this event in at least 5 years. In Social Studies, the team of Audrey Arroniz, Michael Uriegas, and Jozlin Perez won tournament champions by winning1^st place.  In the newest event, Copy Editing, Nadia Riojas won tournament champion by winning 1^st place.  In Mathematics, Gift Owolabi won tournament champion by winning 1^st place.  In Number Sense ( 9^th & 10^th grade division), Audrey Arroniz won the 2^nd place medal while Jazmine Velasquez won 4^th place.  In Number Sense (11^th & 12^th grade division), Gift Owolabi won 4^th place. In Calculator Applications (9^th and 10^th grade division), Jazmine Velasquez won tournament champion by winning 1^st place. In Calculator Applications (11^th and 12^th grade division), Gift Owolabi won tournament champion by winning 1^st place. The team of Gift Owolabi, Jazmine Velasquez and Abel Ayala won tournament champions by winning 1^st place Calculator Applications team.

Congratulations to all the fine UIL Wildcat competitors and their coaches on an awesome job throughout the regular season.  The Cats will now compete in district competition in Devine on March 22, 23, and 28 where they hope to advance to the regional competition in Corpus. Good luck Wildcats! How ‘Bout That Awesome Wildcat Brain Power!