Varsity Swimmers place 4th in State

The Lady Mustang Swimmers brought home a 4th place banner from the STATE meet in Austin which marks the 4th straight year for a top 10 finish.  Sophomore Alex Buscher became a STATE CHAMPION as she won the gold in the 200 Free in an All-American time of 1:48.45.  Our ladies 200 Medley Relay earned a silver medal with a time of 1:45.76 which was an All-American and school record time.  Overall Memorial placed all 7 swims into the championship finals to secure their 4th place finish.  Congratulations ladies on all of your hard work, dedication, and support this season.

 

200 Medley Relay:  Danielle Yoon, Briana Burns, Alex Buscher, & Kelly Denkler--2nd place

 

Alex Buscher 1st  200 Free  &  4th  500 Free

 

Danielle Yoon 5th  200 IM   &   6th  100 Back

 

Briana Burns 8th 100 Breast

 

200 Free Relay:  Kelly Denkler, Briana Burns, Danielle Yoon, & Alex Buscher---5th place

 

Girls 5A Scores

1. Southlake Carroll 235

2. SA Reagan 189.5

3. Kingwood 189

4. Memorial 134

5. SA Churchill 102

6. Keller Central 85.5

7. Cinco Ranch 84.5

8. Cy-Woods & SA Johnson 79

10. Austin Westlake 72

 

Coach Jason Mauss

Memorial Swimming

 

 

2012-13 NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!! All advance to be Finalists! 

 

Congratulations to the 16 MHS Class of 2013 National Merit Semi-finalists!  

Emily Ackerman, Joy Ahn, Maryam Amjadi, Casie Chen, Timothy Davis, Austin Espey, Marie Evans, Yezhou Feng, Andrew Frewer, Sang Ji, Dmitriy Khripkov, Min Woo Kim, Mary Beth Schatzman, Paul Snow, Katherine Ustick, and Tzu-Ming Yeh.

 

 

Varsity Tennis Ranked #1 in State - 09-12

 

5A
1	Houston Memorial
2	Plano West
3	Katy Seven Lakes
4	New Braunfels
5	Austin Westlake
6	El Paso Coronado
7	Ft. Bend Clements
8	Westwood
9	El Paso Franklin
10	Harlingen South
11	Coppell
12	Cinco Ranch
13	Lake Travis
14	San Angelo Central
15	Lubbock Coronado
16	The Woodlands
17	Abilene High
18	Katy Taylor
19	Marcus
20	Clear Lake
21	Southlake Carroll
22	Klein
23	McKinney Boyd
24	San Antonio Reagan
25	Allen

 

Honors for Coach Gary Koch

 

 

Memorial High Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Gary Koch was recently inducted into the Ronnie Bell Hall of Honor by the Greater Houston Football Coaches Association. Five district coaches have also earned this honor. They include Memorial High head coaches Les Koenning and Wayne Hooks, Stratford High Coach Oscar Cripps, and Spring Woods High coaches Mike Sciba and Kevin O'Keefe. Coach Koch has coached for 35 years in SBISDschools. At Memorial High, he has coached two state championship games in 1978 and 1987, as well as many football playoff appearances. The Mustangs have won five district championships, had 11 playoff teams, and reached the state semi-finals in 2010.

In addition, Coach Koch has been selected district coach of the year four times and has been a finalist for Houston Touchdown Club area coach of the year three times.

 

 

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MHS Recognized by U.S. News as top ranked high school

 

Just this week, the U.S. News and memorial high school World Report Best High Schools Ranking 2012 came out. More than 400 High Schools in Texas made the rankings (there are 1,842 high schools in Texas). To be eligible for state ranking, a school must have been awarded a national gold or silver medal. Memorial High School ranks #20 in the state and #239 nationally. Nearly 22,000 public high schools we evaluated. Major indicators used for the evaluation were the areas of math, science, reading, and college readiness.

 

 

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2011-12 National Merit Semifinalists Announced

 

MHS is proud to recognize the following fifteen students who today received confirmation of their status as a National Merit Semifinalist Competition based on their performance on last year’s PSAT Test. The following students were recognized in their classes this morning;

 

Lauren Ammerman

Bohan Fan

Kevin Graham

Sutton Guldner

Michelle Hong

Sun Ji

Tech Kuo

Charles Lai

Julia Rogers

Nikolos Schillaci

Emily Snow

Andrew Tinsley

Kristopher Van Norman

Carson White

Jeffery Wu

 

This is a huge academic accomplishment and honor on behalf of these students. Thank you MHS faculty and staff for helping position our students for this type of annual recognition. I have attached specific information regarding the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

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MHS Yearbook rated one of state's top reads!

 

 

The Memorial High School annual yearbook was recently awarded the Bronze Star from the Interscholastic League

Press Conference (ILPC).

This award puts the yearbook, called Reata, in the top 10 percent of such publications in Texas; only 33 yearbooks statewide merited such a ranking from the ILPC.

 

A panel of judges picked the Star-rated yearbooks based on superior design, photography, writing and coverage of

student interest. The yearbook award was presented at the ILPC state convention on the campus of the University

of Texas at Austin in early April.

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Michael Riechmann and Katie Davis are 2011 State Tennis Champions

 

 

Memorial defeated New Braunfels in a 3 set match. The final score was 5-7, 6-4, and a tie breaker of 8-6.

Memorial has a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! Congratulations to Katie and Michael and way to go Mustang Tennis!

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Martin Tolentino wins at USATF Indoor National Championship

 

Congratulations to Martin Tolentino on winning the USTAF Indoor Championship 55 Meter Dash in 6.54

seconds. The event was held in Chicago on March 12, 2011 and he is the National Champion in the event!

Way to go, Martin!!!

To read more about this event, click here.

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National Merit Scholarship finalists named:

 

Congratulations goes to all 2011 National Merit candidates. All semifinalists moved forward to finalist.

 

2011 National Merit Scholarship Competition Finalists:

Andrew Faith, Theodore Gerome, Jonathon Hill, Gene Hu, Charles Kruse, Emma Miertschin,

Danika Ostrowski, Christopher Schroeder, Susannah Shoemaker, Ran Wang

Commended Students in the 2011 National Merit Program:

Austin Baker, Lana Baumgartner, Arjun Chowdhury, Hsiang Chung, Katherine De Alvarez,

Madeline Fogel, Sebastian Gupta, Marshall Heins, Victoria Hidalgo, Rachel Koehn, Oliver Moore,

Yawen Ren, Malek Robbana, Wayne Taylor, Thomas Wilkinson

National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars 2010-2011:

Jose Laurel, Shelby McPherson, Jillian Seymour

National Hispanic Recognition Program Honorable Mention 2010-2011:

Victoria Hidalgo

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MHS Recognized by NCEA for Achievement in 

all areas

 

The NCEA (formerly Just For the Kids) recognized Memorial High School in ALL AREAS for outstanding

achievement in their January 27 press release.  Less than 1% of public schools in Texas (elementary,

middle and high combined) earned the distinction of acknowledgement in all areas. 

Only six comprehensive high schools (including Memorial HS Spring Branch ISD) in

Texas earned the recognition in all subjects.

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2010 MHS AP students set all-time school record!

 

The College Board annually recognizes students who performed well on the exams of their Advanced Placement Program.  Memorial High School students’ scores in May 2010 set an all-time school record.  Two hundred eighty (280) of our six hundred seventy (670) students who sat for AP Exams received Scholar Recognition.   That’s an amazing forty-two percent (42%)!  More specific information can be found here.

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The MTV show MADE visits Memorial High School

 

The MTV show, MADE, looks for teenagers desiring to accomplish a goal.  Approximately 30 MHS students auditioned for the show last spring.  Once a student is selected, MTV sends a Producer / Cameraman to video the student and his/her progress.  Some of this videoing takes place at the school and much of it takes place after school hours as the student works towards his / her goals.   At this time we have a student who has been selected. As a result, an MTV representative will be on our campus over the coming weeks.  We are carefully monitoring to assure that we comply with all parental consent forms in relation to media taping and interviews.

 

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Dino Nicandros named Best Actor at 2010 Tommy Tunes Awards! 

 

After reviewing and evaluating 44 Houston-area high school musical productions, a team of theatre professionals selected MHS senior Dino Nicandros as BEST ACTOR at the 2010 Tommy Tune Awards, hosted by Theatre Under the Stars.  He played the role of Julian Marsh in the MHS production of 42nd Street.  Dino was awarded a trip to New York City to compete at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards where the best high school actors from across the country will compete on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. The grand prize at the national competition is a four year scholarship to NYU.   While in New York, Dino  will have the opportunity to attend an open casting call with some of the largest agencies in the country.   BREAK A LEG IN NEW YORK, DINO!

Click here for photo - and here

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Memorial Earns “Top Ten” Recognition Fifth Consecutive Year

The Children at Risk organization has finished their 2010 public school rankings.  Memorial High School again ranked in the top ten high schools in the Houston Metropolitan Area for the fifth consecutive year.  Children at Risk use several criteria in their formula for ranking schools.  Their criteria include:

 

1)    Number of students scoring commended on TAKS

2)    Number of students taking SAT / ACT

3)    Scores of students on SAT / ACT

4)    Graduation rate

5)    Graduates on the “recommended plan”

6)    Number of juniors and seniors taking at least 1 AP Exam

7)    AP Exam scores

8)    Percentage of students on free and reduced lunch

 

The Children at Risk’s data included comparisons of 140 high schools in the Houston Metro Area and throughout the state.  Children at Risk rated Memorial High #26 in the state out of over 1000 high schools in Texas. 

 

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