Congratulations to the following students who competed in the UIL Regional Academic Meet held at Stratford High School this past weekend:

Laura Arteaga

Marilyn Bobbitt

John Paul Carinhas

Cecilia Delgado

Julia Prado

Amy Story

My Tang

Adriana Tovar

A special Eagle Pride “Shout-Out goes to Miss Cecilia Delgado.  Cecy won a medal by placing 6^th in Ready Writing.  Way to go Cecy.

A special thanks to the following coaches who spent their time encouraging and preparing these fine students:

Mrs. Green-Speech & Debate

Mrs. Kresse-Spelling

Mr. Valdez-Journalism

Mrs. J. Davis-Accounting

Pasadena High’s Academic UIL Team Rocks!  Come join us in the fun next year!  

A shout out goes to all of our boys and girls golfers who competed at the District 22-5A Golf Tournament and showed great improvement during the golf season.

An Eagle who soared to new heights is Raquel Trevino who was named First Team All-District and will be representing PHS at the Regional Tournament next week.  Raquel is the first Lady Eagle Golfer to ever advance to the regional Tournament.

Please congratulate her and all of our golfers on a wonderful season.

Coach Kent

The PHS A Cappella Choir competed in Region 19 UIL on Thursday, April 9.  They made a Sweepstakes receiving a 1 on Stage and in Sightreading.  Thank you for your support of these dedicated singers.  How lucky we are to have the privilege of working with such fine students.  Kathy

Congratulations to Skills USA Cosmetology Quiz Bowl

Team they placed third out of twenty-six teams in Corpus Christi

this weekend (4/4/09).

Liz Martinez

Several students represented Pasadena High School last Thursday through Saturday (4/2 thru 4/4) at the Conference 5A, District 22 UIL Academics Spring Meet held at Sam Rayburn HS. Below is the results of the meet.

The Accounting Team placed 2^nd

The Spelling Team placed 1^st

The school placed 3^rd in the Sweepstakes Total

The following students placed in their events:

Accounting

Adrian Tovar 1^st place Advancing to Regional

Mitchelle Castillo 5^th place

Computer Applications

Yazmin Ochoa 6^th place

Journalism Events

Lindsy Rice, Advancing to Regional with

2^nd place Editorial

                1^st place Feature

                1^st place Headline

Informative Speaking

Noe Rodriguez 6^th place

Mathematics

Adriana Tovar 6^th place

Number Sense

Ernesto Ramirez 4^th place

Adriana Tovar 6^th place

Persuasive Speaking

Marcus Puckett 4^th place

Poetry Interpretation

Vince Hernandez 4^th place

Prose Interpretation

Marilyn Bobbitt 3^rd place Advancing to Regional

Noe Rodriguez 6^th place

Ready Writing

Cecy Delgado 1^st place Advancing to Regional

John Paul Carinhas 3^rd place Advancing to Regional

Social Studies

Cecily Wilson 5^th place

Spelling & Vocabulary

The team made a clean sweep of the top four positions and will advance to Regional

My Tang 1^st place

Cecy Delgado 2^nd place

Laura Artega 3^rd place

Amy Story 4^th place

Please congratulate all of these fine students on a job well done.  Well wishes to the students who will advance to the Regional Meet to be held at Strafford HS in the Alief ISD on April 24^th and 25.  Great Job Eagles!

Your Coaches,

Jennifer Davis-Accounting & Computer Applications

David Severin-Calculator Applications & Number Sense

Charles Green-Current Issues

Alfred Valdez-Journalism & Literary Criticism

Mary Green-Speech & Debate

Weimin Zhang-Mathematics

Dr. Barbara Coleman-Science

Marlane Sgro-Social Studies

Angela Kresse-Spelling & Vocabulary

Erika Nations-Assistant Principal

The Pasadena Theatre competed in UIL One Act Play last night.  They worked really hard on making this show great and represented the school well.  Students received individual honors for their performances and hard work they are:

 Emmanuel Quiroz: Honorable Mention All-Star cast

Mai Tang: All-Star cast

Noe Rodriguez: All-Star cast

Enrique Cavazos- All-Star cast

Christian Sanchez- Outstanding Technician award.

Woo Hoo! and Congratulations!  PHS art students Julia Martinez, Steve Gonzalez, Ashley Gonzalez, Erika Hernandez, Masiel Cruz, and Gabriela Rodriguez worked collaboratively to create Hurricane Ike inspired sculptures.  Their sculptures have been accepted in the upcoming Contemporary Art Museum’s Teen Council exhibit titled:  Contents Under Pressure!  The exhibit opens February 26.  Congratulations artists!

Ms. Dickinson

Raquel Trevino, a freshman, finished first yesterday at the Clear Brook Invitational Golf tournament. 

Congratulations Raquel! Coach Kent

12/8/08: The Pasadena Eagles Academic Decathlon team participated in district competition last Thursday and Friday, where they earned the honor of second place team, coming in ahead of South Houston, Sam Rayburn, AND Pasadena Memorial.  They also won second place team in the SuperQuiz competition, behind Dobie.

In addition to the team honors, the Eagle team garnered EIGHTEEN individual medals in various events, as follows: 

Ceci Delgado - 1st in SuperQuiz, 1st in Language & Literature, 1st in Music, 1st in Social Science, 3rd in Economics, 2nd in Essay (total 6 medals)

Adriana Tovar - 3rd in SuperQuiz, 2nd in Language & Literature, 2nd in Music, 2nd in Interview, and 1st in Math with the outstanding score of 657 out of 1000 possible points!!! (total 5 medals)

Selene Reyes - 1st in Art, 3rd in essay, and 2nd in Math with an excellent score of 514 (total 3 medals)

Laura Arteaga - 1st in Language & Literature

Yazmin Ochoa - 3rd place in Speech

Arelie Urbina - 2nd place in Speech

Autumn Bates - 3rd place in Essay

In addition to their medals in individual events, the following students were awarded trophies for scoring the highest point totals in their competition category: 

Ceci Delgado - 2nd place Scholastic with 6517 points

Selene Reyes - 3rd place Scholastic with 6120 points

Adriana Tovar - 3rd place Varsity with 6093 points

The following students also contributed to the overall success of the team:

Diana Morales

Erika Arteaga

Irene Guerrero

Amy Story

Cecily Wilson

All together, these brilliant young ladies earned a team score of 34,674 points (out of a possible 60,000 total).  CONGRATULATIONS EAGLES!!!

The following students participated in the Region 19 tryouts last night.  Results are as follows:

Congratulations to all of these fine singers and thanks for your hours of practicing! 

Mrs. Wright and Mr. Canik

Mr. Krotofil would also like to announce that the 2008 Pasadenian has been selected as a National Semi-Finalist for Taylor Publishing's National magazine -"YEARBOOK YEARBOOK." Many of last year's staff are on the current yearbook staff this year, so make sure you order the 2009 version of Pasadena's award -winning yearbook!

Monday night, Oct. 13th, the following A Cappella women competed in the first round of region tryouts. Amy Story-Alto, Becky Armenta-Alto, My Tang-Second Soprano, and Cheveon Owens, First Soprano. Cheveon and Becky will be advancing to the second level of tryouts on November 10. Two of these students made the Top Ten. Cheveon is number 4 and Becky is number 8 in their zone. Congratulations to these fine singers and sincere thanks for all of their hard work in learning this music. Kathy Wright and Chris Canik