Two of a kind

Pat Turner, who does a fantastic job of covering Clark Cougar sports for the Express-News and the SACommunity Northwest and Central papers, writes a great article today about Hayden Greenbauer and Robert Chapman.  You can read the full story here.

The 2009 editions of the Clark Cougar Football and Volleyball teams have begun official practices for their 2009 seasons.  Coach Lloyd Alexander talks about what fans can expect from this year’s varsity football team.

Hayden Greenbauer

Clark has been pegged as the favorite to take the District 28-5A title this year by at least two Texas football prognosticators. Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine ranks the Cougars at #16 in its statewide preseason poll and tops in the district. Texas Football joins the website 5ATexasfootball.com in predicting an offensive MVP season for quarterback Hayden Greenbauer. While 5ATexasfootball.com has the Cougars at #25 in its preseason poll, the website expects a first place finish in the district race. 5A Texasfootball.com also predicts junior running back Ryan Jones will be 28-5A’s Newcomer of the Year.

Price wraps up vs. Madison

Hayden Greenbauer and Robert Chapman are two Clark Cougar football players on 5ATexasFootball.com preseason All State Teams for 2009.  Each were listed as 2nd Team All State players.  Senior Ethan Price, Senior Joe Vasquez and Junior Ryan Jones also made their Region 4 players to watch list in the Region 4 analysis. Read it all at http://www.5atexasfootball.com

Ranks Clark #25 in preseason list

5ATexasFootball.com has released their first ranking of the season and the Clark Cougar Football team cracks the list at #25 in the state.  Clark is one of only three Region 4 teams on the list.  Not entirely accurate (where is that guy? and why isn’t he playing?),  the article that accompanies it is a good read and great for diehard fans of the program.  You can find out more here.

Cougar Football

With the cancellation of the Spring football game and coming off an appearance in the state semifinals, any news on next year’s team is welcome.  Pat Turner, who does a great job of following Clark Cougar teams, has a great article on what’s going on with the 2009 edition of the Clark Cougar football team.

What do YOU think about next year’s team?  Comment below…

Congrats to everyone for their performance at the District Track meet on April 16-17, especially those that qualified to participate in the Regional meet on May 1 and 2nd at Alamo Stadium – Go Cougars! It was great to have a combined meet and see the JV athletes as well as Varsity.  Pictures of the meet can be found at saclarktrack.shutterfly.com.

Boys Varsity, 5th place

Regional Qualifiers:
Pole Vault – 2nd Morgan Thomas 13-0
110m Hurdles – 1st Hayden Greenbauer 14.44
300m Hurdles – 2nd Hayden Greenbauer 39.89
1,600m Relay – 3rd (Quincy Braxton, Ryan Jones, Hayden Greenbauer, Sam Perez) 3:26.07
Other Finalists:
200m – 4th Joe Vasquez 22.31
1600m – 7th Jose Sierra 4:46.68
3200m – 8th Jovanne Carazallez 10:22.73
4 x 100m Relay – 4th 43.66
4 x 200m Relay – 4th 1:31.14

Girls Varsity, 5th place
Regional Qualifiers:
400m – 2nd Shaneve Swift 58.81
800m – 2nd Shantel Swift 2 -25.17
1,600m relay – 1st (Shantel Swift, Esjah Booker, Shaneve Swift, Jasmine Robertson) 4:02.87
Triple jump – 3rd Shantel Swift 35-9 1/4.
Other Finalists:
100m – 6th Luisa Garza 12.88
100m – Hurdles 6th Katrina Dorsey 17:16
1600m – 4th Glynnis Meade 5:36.5
3200m – 4th Glynnis Meade 12:00.58
4 x 100m Relay – 4th 50.7

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Greenbauer will be a Mustang in 2010.

Clark Cougar QB Hayden Greenbauer, following a weekend visit to a SMU practice,  has given a verbal commitment to SMU and the Mustangs.  Congratulations!

Here’s what SMU fans are saying.