Mustangs News
March 2018
Public Ed Strong - Friendswood Teachers Go Above & Beyond
Administration
Counselors' Corner
FHS Buzz
National Spanish Exam Junior Scholarship Recipient
BPA State
The FHS chapter of Business Professionals of America competed this past month in Corpus Christi at the state competition. The following students placed:
- Trang Than - Intermediate Word Processing - 4th - National Qualifier
- Gracie Williams - Fundamental Spreadsheet - 6th
- Robert Chuoke - Interview Skills - 8th
Congratulations to these students on their hard work. Nationals will be held in May in Dallas.
UIL Spelling
The FHS UIL Spelling team dominated with one of the highest team scores of any district! Congratulations to Jaye Chen, Tonya Roysam, Ajay Palmer, & Masha Larina on a fantastic job!
UIL Ready Writing
Great showing by our Ready Writers!
These students spent two hours of their Saturday writing an expository essay and were rewarded with a 2nd place finish for Kenzie Mikeska, 4th place for Masha Larina, and 6th for Sebastein Bartlett.
UIL Poetry and Prose
Congratulations to these students on their District Academic/Speech/Oral Interpretation success!
All of the six person team placed in finals:
Poetry-
- Andrea Beasley (1st) Senior Defended her 2017 District Championship
- Garrett McGregor (2nd)Senior placed third at 2017 District
- Gracen McGregor (4th) Alternate to the Region in Poetry
Prose-
- Taylor Greny (1st) Sophomore
- Isabella Morrison (2nd) Sophomore
- Garrett Morris (5th) Alternate to the Region.
UIL Journalism
Congratulations to the UIL Journalism team who won 1st overall at the district meet this March!
- Juliette Strope - (2nd place Headline advancing to regional, 6th place News)
- Pradhitha Boppana - (1st place News advancing to regional)
- Caleb Woodburn - (3rd place News advancing to regional)
- Priya Juarez - (2nd place Feature advancing to regional)
- Dani Fischer - (4th place Editorial, region alternate)
UIL Academics
Congratulations to our 2nd place district team for Science! These boys have worked very hard preparing for a test that covers Biology, Chemistry, and Physics concepts, and their Physics test includes a book that must be read in addition to their regular prep material. We are very proud of these students and all they've accomplished!
- Julian Falco - 1st individually (and moving on to Region)
- Jaden Walker - 7th individually (and new to the team this year)
- Kyle Flick
- Fedor Aglyamov
- Ben Kuo
- Cristian Alvarez
UIL Literary Criticism
Congratulations to our 2nd place district team for Literary Criticism:
- Jared Janak--3rd individually and moving on to region
- Garrett Shelton--5th individually (and new to the team this year!)
- Matt Ryan
- Caitlin Chaumont
UIL Accounting
Congratulations to the following future accountants for a fantastic showing at District.
- Hunter Hall 1st place
- Garrett Adam 2nd place
- Jeet Walia 3rd place
- Tina Li 4th place
Note that the First place team finished with a total of 993 points and all four will advance to Regional.
UIL Computer Applications
Congratulations to the computer applications students for a fantastic effort this past Saturday.
- Neelesh Gupta placed 1st-- will be going to Regionals.
- Thomas Kidd placed 2nd -- will be going to Regionals.
- Carson Collins competed in this event for the first time and placed 6th.
UIL Current Events
Congratulations to the Current EventsTeam for its 1st place finish at The District Meet.
- Paul Birmingham - 1st Place overall
- Ayden Smith - 3rd Place overall
- Mason Dowling
- Dylan Walding
UIL Speech
Congratulations to the Friendwood Forensic students who had an outstanding UIL District meet. Their efforts combined with the results of Mrs. Powdrell's Prose and Poetry students resulted in FHS winning the First Place Overall Speech team award with 151 points to the second place teams 58.
- 1st place LD Debate--Elizabeth Chong (qualified for Regionals)
- 2nd place Persuasive Extemp--James Mills (qualified for Regionals)
- 4th place Persuasive Extemp--Jose Camacho
- 5th place Persuasive Extemp--Kyle Flick
- 2nd place Informative Extemp--Elizabeth Chong (qualified for Regionals)
- 3rd place Informative Extemp--Ashley Brueggeman (qualified for Regionals
- 4th place Informative Extemp--Husnain Ali (qualified for Regionals--1st place will not attend Regionals so he will move up)
- *Also included in the total team points was James Mills & Kyle Flicks 3rd place in CX Debate. That contest happened in January.
UIL Social Studies
Congratulations tothe UIL Social Studies Academic Team for placing 1st at the district meet this past weekend.
Team members include:
- Paul Birmingham, who placed 2nd individually
- Mason Dowless, who placed 7th individually
- Jack Norton, who placed 6th individually
- Dylan Walding, who placed 3rd individually
UIL Computer Science
The Computer Science team swept the District UIL Computer Science event on March 23rd at Clear Lake HS on the written test as well as the programming competition. Congratulations to the four members for earning 45 points for FHS!
Individual team awards for the written test:
1st place: Noah Geno
2nd place: Cameron Brunt
3rd place: Ben Kuo
4th place: Tanya Roysam
UIL Mathematics
The three UIL mathematics teams had a great day at the district competition at Clear Lake High School.
- The Number Sense team (mental arithmetic) took second place, led by Ben Kuo, who placed 3rd. Edwin Daniel placed 5th, Harrison Otto 7th, and Priya Juarez placed 9th.
- The Calculator Applications group took second place as a team. Zeke Bickham placed first individually, Phillip Tran 10th, and William Chen 11th. Neelish Gupta also contributed to the team win.
- The Mathematics team placed first. Julian Falco took first place individually, Brandon de la Fuente took 3rd, and Ben Kuo and Tanya Roysam tied for 8th
SETX Fishing Association
Second Place Team- 19.67 LBS- Friendswood High School- Johnnie Nemecek and Hunter Scott- Boat Captain John Scott
Lets face it, it is hard to fight to urge to fish shallow this time of year when so many fish are shallow, but that is exactly what these two experienced Seniors from Friendswood did this past month. Launching at Cassells Boykin and focusing on mid lake transition zones, the 2016 SETX Champions probed 12-20 foot depths to gather their nearly 20 LB stringer, anchored by a near 6 LB fish that came with only minutes left in their day. "The kids had a limit by 7:30 and were able to steadily cull up throughout the day" said Capt Scott. Banging a 6 XD off cover and dragging an Oldham 3/4 oz jig through the cover were the two primary ways the Seniors from Friendswood gathered their stringer. The team wished to thank their Lord and savior Jesus Christ, the FHS administration-Principal Mark Griffon, Coach Corey Truman, advisor Diane Nemecek, boat captains John Scott and John Nemecek and their sponsors- Triton-Mercury, Phoenix tires, DBG Services, DeeLu Land and Cattle, Folds of Honor, JTM Construction, Hookspit, Oldham Lures, and Power Tackle Rods.
www.setxhighschoolfishing.com/news/110-silsbee-team-claims-spring-break-tourney
FFA Houston Livestock Show Results
Jr. Breeding Beef Heifers
Gracie Kempken 4th
Cortni Cox 3rd
Kain Kennedy 6th
Haley Bratton 7th
Jessica Rogers
Brianne Wharton
Emily Pate 4th
Natalie Pate 7th
Mackenzie Jeter 13th
The cattle team also won the Good Herdsman Award!
Market Barrows
Justin Phelps 2nd in class and Reserve Dark Crossbred Lightweight Division (Placed in Auction)
Leila Grubbs 8th Chester White (Placed in Auction)
Nick Roberts
Jr. Market Steer
Cortni Cox
Breeding Does
Haley Davidson 4th
Academics
Principles of Education
MCS Special Reports
For the rest of the school year, MCS will be airing special reports on Mondays spotlighting different students, organizations and news stories from around campus. http://myfisd.com/hs/mustang-matters/mcs-streaming-news/
State Science Fair
The five students were:
- Jigrat Chahal
- Troy Dutton
- Mike Hermes
- Anushka Jetly- received a 1st place award and a $100 prize from the American Audiology Association.
- Aly Knowles
All of the students were outstanding representatives of Friendswood High School. After being selected at the Houston Regional Fair, Anushka and Aly will present their projects at the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, PA during the 2nd week of May.
Health Science
Quest
Culinary Arts
Fine Arts
Theatrical Design State Qualifiers!
Congratulations to our four students who qualified for State!
- Costume Design - Jordan Anderson (Sr.) and Meredith Fraga (Sr.)
- Make Up/Hair Design - Nancy Otto (Sr.)
- Set Design - Sydney Chambers (Jr.)
Wranglerettes
The Wranglerettes concluded their contest season and finished on TOP! Throughout the season we had numerous wins for solos, ensembles, and duets.
The Dance Officers were named national champions in their size category and overall, bringing home jackets for the 2nd year in a row! Social Officers also took home the National Champion title! The team was successful in all routines and was named National Champions in our size category and 2nd overall in the whole contest!
Rodeo Photography Winners!
Out of hundreds of entries in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo photography contest, FHS art had three students place in the TOP 10!! Payton Montemayor's "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" placed 4th, Jingyun Chen's "Generic Orange Flower" earned 7th place, and Mike Hermes "Magnolia" placed 9th. The theme was "orange" and as part of the rodeo's horticulture competition, each student had to also incorporate plant life into their photo. We are very proud that we had THREE students win in this competitive contest!
Mike Hermes "Magnolia"
Jingyun Chen's "Generic Orange Flower"
Payton Montemayor's "He Loves Me
Tommy Tune Nominations
Friendswood High School Musical Celebrates 50 years by "DANCING WITH BELLS ON..."
Taking the 15 nominations for THE 2018 Tommy Tune Awards. We were nominated for every single award that we qualified for:
- Best Direction - Faculty Kathy Powdrell
- Best Chreography Faculty Stephanie Snyder and Alyssa Goza
- Best Musical Direction - Faculty Michael Tyer assisted by Melissa Smith, faculty
- Best Stage Crew & Technical Direction - Faculty Cale Borne and Amy Thornton
- Best Lighting Design
- Best Scenic Design
- Best Orchestra - Faculty Sir, Julio Sanchex
- Best Ensemble/Chorus
- Best Featured Performer - Tyler Phelps
- Best Supporting Actress - Andrea Beasley
- Best Supporting Actor - Garrett McGregor
- Best Leading Actress - Emily Mesa
- Best Leading Actor - Garrett Morris
- Best Leading Actor - William Clyburn
- Best Musical!!
Athletics
Golf
The Varsity Girls Golf team just competed in the District Championship tournament and finished 3rd. Congratulations to Heidi Demel (10) and Hannah Johnston (11) who advanced to the regional tournament as medalists. Heidi shot 84, 82 and Hannah shot 82, 85. Both were named First Team All-District. Both will advance to the Regional Tournament as medalist. This will take place on April 23rd and 24th at Eagle Pointe Golf Club.
Team Members are Heidi Demel, Hannah Johnston, Torey Kennedy, Peyton Carroll, and Railey Adkins.
Baseball
Soccer
National Athletic Trainers
​March was National Athletic Training Month. Thank you to our student athletic trainers for supporting our Mustangs at our games.
Alumni News
Congratulations to FHS Alum Yarden Borshevsky-Barr has been named to The University of Hartford's Dean's List for Fall 2017.
Substitute of the Month
Congratulations to Sheri Walker, our March 2018 Substitute Teacher of the Month! Thank you for all that you do!
FHS wants to give a special thanks to all of our substitute teachers. Substitutes make a difference everyday for our students. They are committed to making a seamless bridge in the classroom environment when our teachers have to miss. They do a very important job and do it with Mustang Pride! Thanks to our Subs for all they do for our students!