Woohoo to Clark Cross Country runners! Seven members made the NISD Academic All-District Team! In order to be considered they had to meet the following criteria:

• Overall GPA of 90.00 or above
• Must be a Varsity member of the team in good standing at the time of the nomination
• Must be of good moral character
For the Cross Country 1st Team from Clark:

Charlotte Burke
Thomas Ferrer
Edward Gonzales (Chris)
Jack MacTough
Katie Shepard
Hannah Zawatski

For the Cross Country 2nd Team from Clark:

Caroline Carrillo

To go to the site, follow this link:
http://nisd.net/athletics/sites/nisd.net.athletics-dept/files/Pages/Honors/XC%202014-2015%20Academic%20All-District%20Team.pdf

or

http://nisd.net/athletics/honors

Excellent work both in the classroom and out on the field!

An end of another xc season is here. Everyone ran well this year and while we
don’t have any runners going on from Districts, we do have a very young team
with many first time cross country runners. We are only losing 2 seniors from
varsity this year, so many of the new runners to XC this year will definitely
run over the summer and be ready for next season!

Seizing the opportunity of cool weather, Clark Cross Country brought the heat at Saturday’s SAISD Invitational meet. Ordinarily a hot and dusty meet, the conditions were ripe for victory. Not a team to drop the ball, the Cougars led the pack in all races, with the Varsity Boys placing third overall, taking home some solid hardware. Furthermore, congratulations to Senior Eric Padilla and Junior Natalie Hoffman for placing third and eighth individually in the Varsity Boys and Girls races.

This weekend at the NEISD Blossom invitational meet, the Clark cross country
team competed in one of the toughest races of the season. The crazy inclines,
heat and humidity were taxing on all runners no matter what school they ran for.
Instead of being intimidated however, Clark runners used the inclines to their
advantage, powering up the hills and letting loose on the descents, rapidly
passing those around them. All in all, Clark ran an excellent, controlled race,
dropping minutes from their pre-season 5k times.

 Despite the terrible heat and lack of shade, Clark runners put out great hustle and solid effort at Saturday’s Boerne Champion cross country meet. The palpable excitement overcame first meet jitters as the runners talked and relaxed on the early morning bus ride, and carried everyone through, turning out great times.

Congratulations to Cross Country runner, Lauren Porter as she signs to run Cross Country

for Culver-Stockton College!

L-R: Frances Moore, Kendall Kotara, Austin Wells, Alyssa Jacobs, Presley Miller and Liz Rodriguez

Belated congratulations to our Clark Cougars who are headed to various college sports programs! National Signing Day drew signatures from six Clark athletes:

*Presley Miller – Football – Colorado School of Mines

*Liz Rodriguez – Softball – Our Lady of the Lake University

*Frances Moore – Soccer -University of the Incarnate Word

*Alyssa Jacobs – Soccer – Texas Tech University

*Kendall Kotara – Soccer – Trinity University

*Austin Wells – Track – Texas A&M University (Whoop!)

Congratulations – you’ve made the Clark community proud for the last four years. Good luck in the years ahead!

*thanks to Jene’ Miller for the photo

Courtesy Wells family

Clark Cougar senior Austin Wells ran away with the Express News Cross Country Runner of the Year.  Wells is the most successful runner in Clark history.  Austin was one of several Clark athletes honored in the annual Fall Awards edition.  Also receiving special mention was running back Branden Valle as the Newcomer of the Year.

In volleyball, Katie Mattson and Kelly Cavanaugh were named to the 27-5A All District first team and Madison Woods, Shelby MacKenzie, and Meagn Moe were named to the 2nd team list.

Congratulations to all of our fall athletes for some exciting games and meets and especially to our seniors.

Complete Express News article

Meade All-Conference

2011 Clark graduate Glynnis Meade was named All Conference for the second time after finishing 5th in the Heartland Conference Cross Country meet on Saturday, Oct 20 in Wichita, Kansas.  Her time of 23:05 was a personal record over the 6k distance, helping the Dallas Baptist University Women’s team score a perfect 15 as they took the first 5 spots.  Next up is the NCAA Division II Regional meet in Denver on November 3rd.

WAY TO GO , GLYNNIS!

Courtesy Wells family

Setting a new district course meet record (15:19) was another highlight for Austin Wells, Clark’s most successful cross country runner.  The senior has verbally committed to run at the next level for Texas A&M University.  It was a tough choice for the runner who grew up in a University of Texas household.  The highly decorated runner talks about his choice in this KENS5 David Flores article.