By Tricia Hartmann
JCISD Trustees met in the LBJ High School Commons for a regular meeting on May 10. President Shelly Wenmohs called the meeting to order at 6 p.m., and all members were present.
Recognitions, Public Comments
Diane Hudson recognized several students for Visual Arts competitions. Hudson said that the Visual Arts program has performed very well at Regionals, and four students also won at Area and State.
Kaitlyn Arvesen, Valedictorian of LBJ’s class of 2017, will be graduating from UT Austin on Saturday May 22nd, 2021 with a 4.0 GPA and a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering. For the past year she has had an internship with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and will continue to work there full time on the Europa Clipper project which is searching for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s moons.
By Julie Storer
Advancing through four grueling rounds of Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) competition LBJ High School students Neely Burrier and Wesley Porter emerged as Gold Seal winners whose works will travel the state for the next year on display. Burrier’s painting “Sensory Overload” won the Gold Seal in Division 2; Porter’s photo “Top Notch” topped the field in Division 1.
The art-based team of students from LBJMS competed in the VASE Middle School event with students from across the region enrolled in a high school Art course for credit while in 8th Grade. Like their high school counterparts these students compiled a gallery’s-worth of original works which caught and held the eye of jurists at the event.
LBJMS student Briley Sralla out-shot her challengers in the Air Rifle and Smallbore events of the 2021 USA Shooting Junior Olympic Nationals at Hillsdale College in Michigan last weekend. Sralla – pictured on the stand accepting one of her two gold medals and sighting in on the target during competition– trains with Hill Country Rifle Shooting.
Lady Eagle Paige Dalland capped a stellar Track career with her personal best throw in the finals of the UIL 2A State Shot Put on Friday, but was denied the bronze medal due to tie-breaking procedures.
The Senior heaved the 4 kilogram implement 40’-3.75” tying Bosqueville’s Ashlyn Zander for third place, but Zander’s next best mark of 39’-3.75’ edged Dalland’s 39’-2.5”.
The Johnson City Eagles battled back from an 11-8 Friday loss in Game 1 to even their Bi-District series against Falls City 1-1 and force a third game on Saturday at Judson High School. Colton Bean went 3-for-4 with one double, a homerun and 5 RBIs; the Eagles pounded out 16 total hits with three each from Nate Axtell, Cade Boyer and Parker Hughes.
The Thrall Lady Tigers scored four runs in the top of the first inning on Friday and rode the lead to an 11-1 victory over the Lady Eagles in the Bi-District round of the UIL State Softball Playoffs. The Lady Eagle defense committed just one error and Pitcher Bethany Scott gave up a single walk, striking out three, but the Thrall bats hit the gaps for seventeen hits to take the six inning victory by the 10-run rule.
The Lady Eagles finished the season with an xx-xx overall record and x-x in ...
The Eagles closed out the 2021 regular season with a no-hit shutout at Center Point and look to take the momentum into their best-of-three Bi-District Playoff against xx. After dropping a disappointing 8-5 decision to the eventual District Champion Harper Longhorns last Tuesday the Eagles found their rhythm in the four-run second inning on Monday to take the lead, adding one run each in the 4th and 5th before breaking it open in the sixth with four runs to cover the 10-rum rule.
