By Tricia Hegedis
CLEVELAND, OH, April 25, 2012—Pioneer® Athletics proudly announces that TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas has been selected as a WINNER of the 2011 Fields of Excellence® Award.
Pioneer understands that excellence in athletic field maintenance goes unrecognized and often, unappreciated. The Fields of Excellence Award Program honors outstanding athletic fields and the hardworking field crews who diligently maintain them. The Fields of Excellence Award Program was established in 1998 and has honored over 535 athletic fields from around the country since its creation.
Colleges, Universities, High Schools and Parks & Recreation Departments from all over the United States submitted photographs, letters of recommendation and application forms describing their institutions detailed athletic field maintenance program. A rigorous judging process yielded 91 winners from a large pool of applicants, with two athletic fields randomly selected as Scholarship Winner’s.
The number of students at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas who receive honors in the National Spanish Examination continues to grow, said David Archer, chairman of the Foreign Language Department.
Of the students who took the 2012 exam, which includes categories for both native and non-native speakers, 94 earned honors for their scores. Of those honored, 24 won Oro (gold), the highest designation.
“We are extremely proud of all of our winners and excited to have had 24 of them win Oro (gold), the most ever of the five years we have been taking the exam,” said Mr. Archer. “Mil gracias to Mrs. Lucy Sobreviñas, Mrs. Sylvia González and Mr. Steve Landkamer for preparing these students.”
Besides the 24 gold winners, 21 students earned silver distinction, 19 earned bronze and 30 received honorable mention. Students who earned honors in the 2012 exam are:
Premio (honorable mention)
Spanish 1
Jorge Ballester
Emilee Bassett
Jack Chance
William Cruse
Carlos Gonzales
Zachary Jackson
Edward Kim
Sydney Masterson
Grace Metz
Spanish 2
Dillon Bishop
Gerrick Cantrell
Kalani Garza
Elise Notzon
Matt Tawil
Spanish 3
Fe-María Cajiga-Peña
Steven Constantin
Jack Gallaway
Phillip Greenfield
Kevin Harari
Charlotte Kelly
Blake Mery
Paige Nebens
Armando Martínez
Víctor Martínez-Cortés
Zack Rosenberg
Emily Schlosberg
Seeley Stephens
Spanish 4
Nicolás Hernández
Jennifer Martínez
Bruce Quinn
Bronce (bronze)
Spanish 1
Christopher Bernier
Stephany Kiesz
Haley Leyendecker
Spanish 2
David Embs
Eduardo Cárdenas
Michelle Fis
Leo Solís
Elba O’Ward
Spanish 3
Naomi Chalk
Travis Haiduk
Johanna Küllenberg
Matt Oldfather
Christopher Pietraszkiewcz
Brenham T. Pozzi
Annie Urooj
Spanish 4
Keely Gómez
Daniel González
Mustafa Mohammed
Jesús Suday
Plata (silver)
Spanish 1
Joaquín Castillo
Spanish 2
Ana Amsler
Juan Díaz Sada
Nicolás Gutiérrez
Gabriella Jeffords
Kelsey Lansdale
Jacqueline McCullick
Victoria Renée Santos
Melissa Schlosberg
Kenedy Seilhan
Steele Sessions
Wilhelm Villareal
Spanish 3
Berkeley Brown
Gerardo Martínez Cordeiro
Juan Carlos Merlo
Christopher Pérez
Chase Wisnowski
Spanish 4
Nelly Albo
Brooke Dippo-Foderaro
Alison Limmer
Natalie Ribble
Oro (gold)
Spanish 1
Héctor Castillo
Spanish 2
William Barrett
Nicholas Bernier
Mario Cantú-Aguilar
Brianna Hernández
Katherine Kuri
Emily Limmer
Isabel Magraner
Paula Martínez
Lillian Morris
Pinki Umer
Anna Sofía Villareal
Joshua Zabihian
Spanish 3
Taylor Devlin
Ana Kuri
Andrea Lobo
Diego Alberto Román
María de Lourdes Zurita
Spanish 4
Natalia Arce
Alejandro Cabezut
Ana Gabriela Castaño
Lazlo Ebergenyi
Manuel Villaseñor
Rodrigo Zurita
The varsity lacrosse team of TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas was presented with the 2012 Patterson Award at the Texas High School Lacrosse League championships, held May 6 at Eastview High School in Georgetown.
“Each year, members of the Southwest Lacrosse Officials Association (SLOA) select a team to honor with the Patterson Award,” said Don Carnes, chief referee. “Named in honor of Bob Patterson, a pioneer in lacrosse officiating and a mentor to many of us, the award honors the team we think best shows the virtues that are important to us – they play the game the right way.”
Officials vote for teams on the criteria of sportsmanship, respect for the game, competitive focus and quality of play. According to guidelines for the award, “The qualifying team is the high school program we wish all other teams in the state would model themselves after, in the manner that the players are taught to play and appreciate the game.”
The traveling trophy for the award was presented by Patterson to TMI Head Coach Nathan Torok. “It’s a really big honor for our league, and it is really great that our boys earned this award,” said Head Coach Nathan Torok, who received the award on behalf of the team.
The Middle School baseball team of TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas captured the area ISAL championship Saturday, May 5, with an 11-6 victory over the Geneva School of Boerne.
The Panthers were the league’s No. 2 seed after the regular season, earning a bye in the first round of the playoffs. They faced Saint Mary’s Hall on Friday, May 4, beating the Barons 13-4. Coached by Troy Eason, the TMI team finished the season with a record of 8-4.
“I couldn’t be happier for our players,” said Eason. “They’ve worked incredibly hard all season, and to see their efforts come to fruition was very special. We’ll miss our eighth-graders a lot next year and we thank them for their dedication to this program.”
David Bell, TMI Class of 2003 and currently a law student at St. Mary’s University, completed the Austin Area Tough Mudder in Bastrop on 11 October 2011. Tough Mudder events feature a twelve-mile obstacle course designed by British Special Forces to test strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. More than half-a-million athletes have participated in Tough Mudder events worldwide, and the organization has raised more than two million dollars for the Wounded Warrior Project.
(Photo from right to left): Mr. Matt Ridewood-Faculty sponsor; Drew Fox-Senior Class Honor Representative for next year; Garrett Notzon-Honor Council President for next year; Elizabeth Spencer-outgoing Honor Council President; Isa Magraner-Sophomore Class Honor Representative for next year; Grace Westerman-Freshman Class Honor Representative for next year; Maria Zurita-outgoing Freshman Class Honor Representative; Falon Little-Junior Class Honor Representative for Next Year; Tyler Styles-outgoing Senior Class Honor Representative; Mr. Bob Bell-Faculty Sponsor.
Four varsity track athletes at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas qualified for state competition based on results at the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) 4-A Regional Meet, held April 19-20 at Awty International School in Houston.
TMI junior Daniel Gonzalez placed fourth in long jump, senior Emalee Hamilton placed fourth in discus, senior Kari Xu placed third in high jump and sophomore Christopher Pietraszkiewicz placed third in both 1600-meter and 3200-meter runs.
The Panthers will compete at the TAPPS State Track and Field Championships to be held May 4 in the Hart Patterson Track Complex at Baylor University in Waco.
Three juniors at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas have met the requirements to enter the 2013 National Merit Scholarship competition.
Brooke Dippo-Foderaro, Zephyrine Parten and Patrick Wickham are among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants out of 1.5 million program entrants who took the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
About 34,000 high scorers will be named Commended Students and will receive notification in September. Approximately 16,000 will become semifinalists in the program, to be announced in February 2013.
Morgan Garbett, a sophomore at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas, led a team of students from three area schools to honors at the Dallas East Regional FIRST FRC Competition, held March 29-30 in the Dallas Convention Center.
As team lead and pit boss of Bronc Botz Team 3481, Garbett led 25 students from Brandeis High School, Garcia Middle School and TMI. She was voted MVP by the team and lead mentor at the competition, which requires teams to build a large-scale robot to perform specific tasks. Team 3481 won the Engineering Inspiration Award, qualifying the members to advance to the FIRST World Championship, to be held April 25-28 in St. Louis, Mo., and was ranked fourth overall out of 41 teams from Texas, surrounding states and Mexico participated in the regional competition.
Each year, the competition’s game challenge is announced in January, after which participants have six weeks to brainstorm, prototype, design, create and program a robot. In this year’s challenge, Rebound Rumble, robots compete to score as many basketballs into hoops as possible during a two-minute, 15-second match.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in 1989 and sponsors the FRC ( FIRST Robotics Competition) season of regional and qualifying events for students ages 14-18.
Chris Clark, an eighth-grader at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas, played percussion with the San Antonio Wind Ensemble at an April 2 concert at Palo Alto Community College, where TMI instrumental-music instructor Roderick Leonard was a guest conductor for one of the pieces.
The ensemble is a program of the Academy of Fine Arts at St. Phillip’s College that gives performance opportunities to young wind and percussion instrumentalists in grades 8-12 from 13 school districts and 50 high schools in the Bexar County area.
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