Cougars keep playin' (Menezes, Barrientez and Van Buren with AD/HC McGhee)

Congratulations to Manny Menezes, Nate Barrientez and Tri-Rice Van Buren who all signed with Texas colleges to continue their football careers.

Manny will be attending Trinity University.  Excited to be playing for a quality program, Manny also was looking forward to a top education.  “I’m very excited about it and very excited to play four more years of football.  The team won their conference last year and got rings and that’s pretty cool and the academics there is great, too.  To come out of there with a degree would be a great thing to have and I’m looking forward to that, too.”  Currently undecided on his major, Manny is leaning toward pre-med studies.  Manny is the son of Sharon and Lewis Menezes.

Nate Barrientez is jumping up to Sherman, Texas to play for the Austin College Kangaroos.  Expected to play outside linebacker, Nate was impressed by the football program.  “I visited a couple of times and really enjoyed the campus, the coaches there, and the teaching philosophy of how the coaches coach and the players and everything.  It was really nice.  It was small…but I like small towns.”  Nate plans to study pre-engineering and then transfer to Texas A&M to complete a degree in Petroleum Engineering.  He is the son of Norma Rae and Matt Barrientez.

Playing at former head coach Lloyd Alexander’s alma mater, Tri-Rice Van Buren will be playing for former Clark offensive coordinator Danny Padron at Texas Lutheran College.  “I wanted to go and play football somewhere and not not end my football career in high school.  So I’m really happy about that.  I really like the environment and the coach was here and a Cougar once so I know we have that connection.”  Tri-Rice will study Sports Medicine at TLC.  He is the son of Martin and Jaekel Van Buren.

Congratulations to these Cougars and GOOD LUCK!

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Clark Cougars from the 2011-2012 season in pictures and sound:

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The Clark Athletic Booster Club held its annual All-Sports Banquet and several honors were given to Clark athletes and supporters. SASports.com’s Jay Tope was the Master of Ceremonies.  Seventeen $1000 scholarships were awarded to senior student athletes, team and individual accolades were announced and “Super” Dave Dalkowitz was presented a special honor for his contribution to Clark sports.

Special guests included former head coaches Mike Robbins and Lloyd Alexander, who along with current AD/HC Steve McGhee, presented “Super” Dave with a plaque.

Highlights included:

• Softball’s history making playoff run
• Clark tennis’ 21st consecutive district title, #19 state ranking of all tennis teams
• Boys basketball regional final appearance
• Austin Wells’ and Shantal Swift’s state track qualifications
• Boys track district title (first Clark title in 20 years)
• Baseball’s 6th consecutive year of playoffs
• Boys soccer 2nd round playoff
• Volleyball’s playoff appearance

Thanks for a great year, Seniors, and best of luck.  Remember what “Super” Dave says, “It’s a great day to be a Clark Cougar”!

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It’s the Clark senior girls vs the junior girls today at 5:00 on the Mike Robbins football field behind Clark. Your $5 admission benefits Project Graduation and you can bid on a variety of silent auction items, purchase concessions, watch some football and see how the boys handle being in a skirt cheering them on!

Then you can grab a bite to eat at EZ’s on DeZavala or Whataburger on I-10 with a portion of your purchase going toward Project Graduation.

It’s a Clark tradition – BE THERE!!!

Powder Puff 2011

The last chance for juniors and seniors to sign up for the 2012 Clark Powder Puff game will be Thursday and Friday during lunch at Clark. The entry fee for players, coaches and the always lovely (?) male cheer squads is $25.

The big game will be April 26th at Clark. All proceeds benefit Project Graduation, so plan to come out and support our students!

Over 1000 yds. so far...

Senior running back Kweku Larbie talks with Pat Turner about his season and the thrill of being a Cougar running back in this article.

The Clark volleyball team is looking forward to the second season after clinching its spot in the playoffs. The Cougars will likely face Corpus Christi Carroll or Corpus Christi King in the first round, possibly on November 1st.

There’s still regular season business to take care of though and Clark could have been looking ahead a bit during Friday’s game against Holmes, escaping the gym with a 3-2 victory. Clark dropped the first two games 16-25 and 19-25 before taking the next two games 25-22 and 25-21 and then winning the tie breaker 15-8. Marcella Arellano led the team with 19 kills, 34 digs and 3 serving aces. Jenn Garrett had 17 kills and Abby Glosup continued to shine with a whopping 62 assists in the five game match up. Nicole Rehm had 34 digs and an ace and Jenn Garrett and Rosalyn Velasquez teamed up for 1.5 blocks each.

The last regular season game is against O’Connor on Tuesday at 7:00 at Paul Taylor.

GO COOGS!!!

These strikes are good!

That’s right!  Clark has a bowling team, including varsity boys and girls teams as well as JV.  They play for a district tile, have 14 matches, and even have uniforms (hopefully those cool shirts…).  And this year is just down the alley with tryouts coming up.  Tryouts are Oct. 1-2 and 8-10.  If you’re interested, contact the Cougar Bowling Club at 663-9477 or 523-1716 and ask for, that’s right, Joe.

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For the third consecutive year the “Gucci Bowl” game between Clark and Churchill will air live on local television station KMYS. The August 25th match up will kick off at 7:10 pm at Farris Stadium. The always highly anticipated opening season game between the Cougars and Chargers is in its 28th year.

Other NISD schools featured on KMYS TV’s “Thursday Night Lights” schedule include Marshall, Taft, Holmes, Stevens and O’Connor. Click here for schedule details.

GO COOGS! BEAT CHURCHILL!!

Shaneve Swift

2010 Clark graduate Shaneve Swift is continuing on with her winning ways as part of the Incarnate Word University 4x100m relay team that qualified for the Division II National Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 46.49.  They will be traveling to California next week to race against 12 other teams, the fastest with a qualifying time of 44.36.

The meet will be streamed live at NCAA.com and highlights will be shown on CBS HD at 4 p.m. ET Sunday, June 19th.

Congratulations Shaneve!