ATHLETIC NEWSLETTER BIRDVILLE ISD. .a note from the AD

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1 BIRDVILLE ISD ATHLETIC NEWSLETTER.a note from the AD We had a swift and successful winter season in BISD Athletics! We had swimmers qualify for the UIL Regional Swim Meet as well as wrestlers. Haltom High and Birdville High enjoyed wrestlers that qualified for the UIL State Wrestling Meet. Congratulations to Coaches Gillespie and Hale and wrestlers for that extraordinary accomplishment. Our basketball teams enjoyed playoffs and congratulations to Coach Goldberg and team for advancing to the second round of the UIL playoffs. Our middle school basketball teams competed very well in the Big 12 season and district tournament. As a result, several championships evolved from the basketball season at every level. Spring is upon us and our teams are competing for titles towards the end of the year. Thanks to all for a great year and as this is my last greeting, I sincerely want to thank all coaches, athletic trainers, managers, and student athletes for making Birdville the best place to be!!! Willa Gipson CORRECTION FROM FALL ATHLETIC NEWSLETTER North Ridge Middle Football 8 th grade Big 12 District Champs Second place Showcase SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST PLAYOFF MANIA MIDDLE SCHOOL ACTION COMMUNITY SERVICE ALUMNI WATCH Volleyball Big 12 7 th Grade A-Team District Champs Second Place District Tournament B-Team District Champs CONGRATULATIONS!

2 PAGE 2 ATHLETIC NEWSLETTER 8TH GRADE BOYS GOLD BRACKET HALTOM MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAMPIONS NORTH RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL-2ND PLACE SMITHFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL-CONSOLATION CHAMPIONS 8TH GRADE BOYS SILVER BRACKET WATAUGA MIDDLE SCHOOL-CHAMPIONS NORTH RICHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL-CONSOLATION CHAMPIONS 8TH GRADE GIRLS SILVER BRACKET WATAUGA MIDDLE SCHOOL-CHAMPIONS NORTH OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL-2ND PLACE NORTH RICHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL-CONSOLATION CHAMPIONS 7TH GRADE BOYS GOLD BRACKET WATAUGA MIDDLE SCHOOL-CHAMPIONS NORTH RICHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL-2ND PLACE 7TH GRADE BOYS SILVER BRACKET SMITHFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL-2ND PLACE RICHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL-CONSOLATION CHAMPIONS 7TH GRADE GIRLS GOLD BRACKET NORTH RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAMPIONS SMITHFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL-3RD PLACE 7TH GRADE GIRLS SILVER BRACKET NORTH OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL-CHAMPIONS NORTH RICHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL-3RD PLACE

3 ATHLETIC NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 North Ridge Middle School 7th grade girls, District and Big 12 Tournament Champions. Undefeated! 13-0 North Ridge Boys 8 th grade Big 12 District Champs HALTOM MIDDLE SCHOOL 8th GRADE BOYS Big 12 DISTRICT TOURNAMENT CHAMPS Congratulations to Coach Irish and the Watauga Warriors Boys 7th grade basketball team on a fantastic year! 2013 Hurst Red Raider Invitational Tournament Champions (2-0) 2013 BIG 12 District Regular Season Champions (8-1) 2013 BIG 12 District Tournament Champions (2-0) NORTH RICHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL 7TH GRADE NORTH RICHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL Basketball Regular Season/Tournament Highlights: 7th B Girls won championship 7th A Girls won consolation 8th A Boys runners-up

4 RICHLAND HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED TO UIL REGIONALS BIRDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED TO UIL REGIONALS HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED TO UIL STATE BIRDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED TO UIL STATE ADVANCED TO UIL REGIONALS BOYS ADVANCED TO BI-DISTRICT GIRLS ADVANCED TO AREA BIRDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED TO BI-DISTRICT

5 REGIONAL SWIMMING QUALIFIERS- JORDAN MINTER, MEGAN LEE, SARA REEDER, ALYSSA BUTLER, KAITLYN POTTS BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONS CODY MUENBERG AND RYAN MCGAHEY QUALIFIED FOR UIL WRESTLING REGIONALS HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL

6 KATIE TIMMONS MADE PREP VOLLEYBALL S ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICAN Congratulations HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL Junior Varsity Boy s Basketball Team!! District Champions The Haltom High School Swim Team BIRDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL CELEBRATED THE FOLLOWING : District 6-4A Awards Newcomer of the year Brittany Perraut. District 6-4A Top Rebounder Gabby Nelson 1st Team All District Nina Flores 2nd Team All District Harley Ness. Birdville High School Swimmer David Thornberg was a two time medalist at the region 2-AAAA championships. He finished 3 rd in the 200 IM and 3 rd in the 100 Breaststroke setting school records in both events.

7 HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL S COACH MANDY ROGERS SURPASSED THE COACHING RECORD FOR HALTOM HIGH GIRLS BASKETBALL WINS. ON NOVEMBER 16TH COACH ROGERS WON HER 130TH GAME! CONGRATULATIONS COACH ROGERS! HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING GIRLS BOYS The following Haltom High School girls were selected to the District 4-5A All-District Basketball Team: Nadia Woods 1 st Team All-District Taylor Dangerfield 2 nd Team All-District Keosha Wilburn All-District Honorable Mention The following girls were selected to the Academic All-District Team: Nadia Woods, Taylor Dangerfield, Shaquilla Anderson

8 Coach Shelton came to our school today and talked to the kids about basketball. We were so appreciative of his time and the kids loved it. Thought I would share a picture with you. Please pass along how much it meant to the kids and to us! Thank you Julie Teel The Birdville Lady Hawks, along with help from the Richland Lady Rebels, raised over $2500 dollars during the 5 th Annual BISD Cancer Awareness Matches on Saturday, January 5 th, 2013.

9 BIRDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Birdville High School girls basketball put on a basketball clinic for the basketball groups that play at North Richland Hills Baptist Church. This is the 2 nd year for them to be involved. After the clinic was over, Birdville girls brought their team posters for all the kids to have one and for our basketball kids to autograph. Birdville High School Tennis adopted a single Mom with three kids out of BISD. They purchased gifts for them with monies donated by tennis parents and students to make their holiday a little brighter! They also volunteered to work in a Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry. Richland Football Team adopted four families as part of the Christmas Providers Program here in BISD. The boys and their families raised over $4,000 worth of clothes, food, toys, and gift cards for these families. Richland High School Baseball provided food for eight families for the week of Thanksgiving. The North Ridge Athletic Program adopted two families in our community this year for the holiday season. We called the community service "Wildcat Holiday Helpers". All athletes helped these two families in some way, by donating money, donating food items, making jewelry, smoking hams, wrapping gifts, and more. The wildcat athletic department raised over $800 for the two families, and collected over $300 worth of food items for each family. These families are going to have a Holiday celebration that is memorable due to our athletes' generosity and selflessness! HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL Haltom High School Baseball held a can food drive and collected over 200 cans for the Haltom City s NEED store.

10 LANE LEWIS SIGNS WITH NORTHWEST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR BASEBALL. COACH WELLS AND COACH MICKLES PICTURED WITH HIM. Travis Danford East Texas Baptist (seated on far right) Shaun Barnard Southern Nazarene( seated in middle) Roman Gordon University of Central Arkansas (seated on far left) Richland High School Signings in girls soccer: Shelby Evans Navarro College in Corsicana, TX Cassidy Lindstrom Howard Payne University in Brownwood, TX Hannah Hennessey Cisco College in Cisco, TX Holly Mallinson University of Louisiana-Monroe in Monroe, LA Tahlor Lyman Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK COLTON HUIE SIGNED WITH OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY FOR SOCCER. PICTURED WITH PARENTS AND COACH SNOW

11 Richland High School Football Signees: Kumani Armstead Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas Braden Brewer Austin College in Sherman, Texas Cassie Martin, a senior at Richland High School, signed a letter of intent to play soccer at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. Birdville High School Soccer Players: Bailey Barron-Oklahoma Christian University McKenna Jetton-Northeastern University Stephanie Sorrells-Texas Tech University

12 HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL Lance Dunbar played in 13 games for the Dallas Cowboys. Reggie Wilson attending University of Texas has undergone microscopic surgery to repair his injured knee that he suffered against Kansas. Halopoulivaati Vaitai played as a true freshmen at tackle for TCU. Emily Booth is a 2009 graduate of Haltom High School and just wrapped up her college career at Angelo State University. While playing for ASU Emily was named to the ASU Honor Roll in 2010, 2011 Lone Star Conference Commissioner s Honor Roll, 2012 Lone Star Conference All Academic team and the 2012 Lone Star Conference All Tournament Team. During her four years at ASU the Belles won the Lone Star Conference in 2012 for the first time since They qualified back to back years for the NCAA tournament. (this was also their first appearance since 1992) The team Qualified for the NCAA Regional final for the first time in school history and in 2012 The Belles finished the season ranked #10 in the nation amongst NCAA Division II schools. Miguel Arreguin class of 2005 recently graduated from Texas Wesleyan where he played soccer for four years. BIRDVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Kyndal Broome 2012 graduate of Birdville High School is now playing basketball at Howard Payne University. Richland Rebel Alums Nico Ornelas and Jeremiah Tshimanga had a homecoming of sorts as they were with the Oklahoma State Cowboys Football Team in their Heart of Texas Bowl win vs. Purdue. Jeremiah, while recovering from injury, made the trip, and Nico contributed tackles on Special Teams for the Cowboys! They make RHS proud!