State Volleyball Playoffs
Lady Leopards v. Cedar Park
Friday, November 18th at 1:00 pm
Curtis Culwell Center in Garland
Senior Project: Blood Drive
LHS Senior, Katie Hale, is organizing a blood drive for her Senior Project. Read below to see how you may donate blood to the American Red Cross.
Where: Lovejoy High School Auxiliary Gym
When: Thursday, November 17th, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
How:
- Go to www.redcrossblood.org
- Type lovejoycampus in the box at the top right of the page. See example below:
- Choose a time slot to donate. You will receive a reminder text as the donation date approaches.
It's that easy. Thank you for supporting the blood drive. Your donation could help save a life.
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Lovejoy Preschool PTA
Please click PRESCHOOL for the November newsletter.
Drivers' Ed Classes
The next drivers ed session begins TODAY (then Tuesday, January 3rd). Classes take place at 4:15 pm in room B104. Please click
HARMONY
for more details.
Student Recognition
Congratulations to the following Lovejoy High School students who signed collegiate letters of intent:
Jordan "Jo Jo" McRae - Softball (University of Maryland)
Bailey Downing - Volleyball (Utah State University)
Lexi Smith - Volleyball (University of Illinois)
Paige Becker - Volleyball (Cornell University)
Grant Tiff - Cross Country (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Emma Ream - Swimming (University of North Texas)
LHS Girls' Basketball
The Lady Leopards Varsity basketball team traveled to Colleyville Heritage High School last Thursday-Saturday to kick off the tournament season. The Leopards started with a loss to 6A regional tournament qualifiers, Midland Lee HS 46-48. The Leopards bounced back and won three games in a row, defeating Denton Braswell 48-31, John Paul II 37-34, and Lewisville High School 46-41 for the consolation championship. The Leopards were led defensively by Senior Allison Hubble who drew 10 charges over the four games. The offense was led by Juniors Taylor Meixelsperger and Kaylee Rekieta who averaged 17.8 and 14 points respectively.
These young ladies played hard and represented Lovejoy with class:
Allison Hubble
Taylor Meixelsperger
Kaylee Rekieta
Tor Hanson
Meredith Welch
Meredith Ehlmann
Autumn Purcell
Bethany Smith
Kim Lyne
Ireland Miller
Alexandra Brungardt
Carsen McFadden
Megan Irwin
Paige Eckard
Ashleigh Tyler
Gabby Ornelas
Roni Hanson
Mikayla Dohmann - Student Trainer
TAFE Competition
Our Ready, Set, Teach students recently competed in the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE) Regional Competition. We advanced twelve students to the State competition which is scheduled for February.
Project Visualize - Service: Sydney Pederson & Becca Martin
Project Visualize - Fundraising: Nikki Sorensen & Alyssa Watson
Ethical Dilemma: Cannon Meyer, Kendall Fuller, Katy Bradford, & Raegan Scheckel
Children's Literature K-3: Becca Martin & Sydney Pederson
Children's Literature Pre-K: Jenna Evans & Bryn Bittner
Children's Literature Pre-K: Raegan Scheckel & Kendall Fuller
Researching Learning Challenges: Cannon Meyer & Katy Bradford
Teacher Created Materials - Elementary: Emma Overholt & Lindsey Hammond
LHS Computer Science
The CS team did an incredible job this weekend in Richardson at their annual "Frozen Eagle" Computer Science contest. We had the following results:
2nd Place Advanced Team in Combined Division and
3rd Place Advanced Team Programming
--Marcus Mao
--Sam Bell
--Brice May
Written Test Advanced
1st Place -- Marcus Mao
5th Place -- Sam Bell
Written Test Novice
3rd Place -- Will Pearl (first time to take the test :-)
LHS Speech & Debate
The Hockaday School Tournament Results:
Katie Johnson Varsity LD Debate Octos (top 16 out of 48 debaters)
Ellie Hager Varsity LD Debate Quarters (top 8 out of 48 debaters)
Taite Borozny FX Semi Finals (top 16 speakers)
Shivani Radhakrishnan OO Semi Finalist (top 16)
Melody Quintero OO Semi Finalist (top 16)
Anna Rouse OO Semi Finalist (top 16)
Clay Parker HI Semi Finalist (top 12)
Clay Parker & Grant Dennis DUET Champions - 1st Place - qualified for state and earned their 1st of 2 bids needed to compete at the National Tournament of Champions in Kansas City, MO - May 12-14, 2017
Top Speaker Awards are given to those who earn the highest speaking awards throughout the tournament. The points are awarded based on presentation, diction, clarity of thought, ability to think on your feet and rebuttal arguments, etc. Congratulations to the following students that earned a Top Speaker Award:
Ashley Rihani 5th Novice LD Debate
Brandon Kofhal 4th Novice LD Debate
Ellie Hager 5th Varsity LD Debate
LHS Band
Jack Supan has qualified for All State Jazz Ensemble by being selected for 2nd chair. He will travel to the Texas Music Educators Conference in February to be a part of the All State Band.
LHS Cross Country
Lovejoy Boys - STATE CHAMPS!
The Lovejoy Cross Country Team won the 2016 5A Boys State Title with a score of 59 points, followed by #2 Donna North with 103 points, and #3 Grapevine had 139, and the defending state champs Frisco Wakeland with 155 points. The Lovejoy Boys were the State Runner Up in 2015 and entered the 2016 season ranked as the #1 team for 5A Boys. The boys' team maintained their #1 ranking the entire season. This is the 4th State Championship for the Lovejoy Cross Country program under the direction of Head Coach Greg Christensen.
Lovejoy's top 6 boys all ran 16:17 or faster on the 5K course and had a team spread of only 21 seconds for their 1st through 5th runners. Every runner contributing to the team point total had a personal best time:
1 - Senior Grant Tiff led the way with 15:52. His 15th place finish earned him CCCAT All State Team honors for the second time in his high school career.
2 - S
ophomore Brett Pedersen, 20th overall - 16:00
3 - Freshman standout Brady Laboret, 21st overall - 16:03
4 - Junior Ryan Brands, 25th overall - 16:09
5 - Junior Bradley Davis, 28th overall - 16:13
Junior Ryan Spruell finished with a personal best of 16:17 and 35th
overall.
Senior Captain Nathan Hartter ran a time of 17:15 and finished 116th
overall.
Lovejoy Girls
Sophomore Carson Hockersmith competed in the 5A Girls Division as an individual state qualifier from the Region II Championships and placed 66th overall with a personal best time of 16:39.