In the 100 meter semifinals at the United States Olympic Team Trials in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday night, Houston Strake Jesuit alum Matthew Boling was seventh in his heat and 14th overall with a time of 10.22 seconds. The top eight performers, who move on to the Finals, all ran 10.03 seconds or better.
+ At this weekend's Texas 7-on-7 Championships, Midland Christian, who will be competing in Division I, was placed in the same pool as A&M Consolidated, Denton Guyer and Klein Cain, while The Woodlands Christian Academy, who will be in Division II, has drawn a pool with Argyle, Brownwood and Hamshire-Fannett.
On Sunday at the Sam Brown state qualifying tournament at Grand Oaks High School, Bellaire Episcopal went 1-2 in pool play with a 25-19 win over Bryan Rudder and losses to Belton (13-12 in overtime) and Houston Lamar (38-12).
+ Grapevine Faith Christian head basketball coach Matt Sayman has dropped two new episodes of his brand-new Jamodi Podcast in the last week.
Last Monday, he visited with brand-new LSU women's head basketball coach Kim Mulkey and today he releases a brand new show with former Lewisville The Colony HS head boys basketball coach Tommy Thomas.
The link to the podcast is as follows: https://anchor.fm/jamodipodcast
+ In Major League Baseball (MLB), there are currently six Texas private and parochial high schoolers on big league rosters. They include:
AJ Minter, LHP, Atlanta Braves (Bullard The Brook Hill School)
Brad Wieck, LHP, Chicago Cubs (Amarillo San Jacinto Christian)
Cavan Biggio, 3B, Toronto Blue Jays (Houston St. Thomas)
Jose Trevino, C, Texas Rangers (Corpus Christi John Paul II)
Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B, Pittsburgh Pirates (Tomball Concordia Lutheran)
Zach Thompson, RHP, Chicago White Sox (Arlington Grace Prep)
These four have seen action at the big league level in 2021, but have recently been optioned back to AAA:
Kyle Muller, P, Atlanta Braves (Dallas Jesuit College Prep) - optioned to Gwinnett on 6/17/21
Dillon Thomas, OF, Seattle Mariners (Houston Westbury Christian) - optioned to Tacoma on 6/12/21
Kohl Stewart, RHP, Chicago Cubs (Houston St. Pius X) - optioned to Iowa on 6/12/21
Sam Selman, LHP, San Francisco Giants (Austin St. Andrew's) - optioned to Sacramento on 5/27/21
+ The Tyler Morning Telegram announced their All-East Texas Girls Soccer team and there was plenty of Texas private and parochial high school representation. Leading the way as Goalkeeper of the Year was Tyler Grace Community School freshman Claire Stoerner. First team honors were bestowed on Grace Community senior Hannah Meyer and Bullard The Brook Hill School junior Dominika Ducal. Three honorees were on the second team, including Brook Hill sophomores Milissa Key and Kaniyah Hill and Grace Community senior Alana Roberts. Grace Community senior Bekah Harris and Brook Hill senior Anna Hardee made the third team.
On the boys team, Tyler All Saints Episcopal junior Barrett Lin and Brook Hill senior Zakhar Zapolskyy made the first team while All Saints Episcopal junior Blake Lin and Ethan Fanous were on the on the second team. All Saints senior Greg Vallejo and Grace Community senior Mario Enriquez rounded out the private school selections as third team honorees.
Honorable Mentions for the girls and boys were as follows:
Girls
Grace Community: Rylie Ratliff, Aly Wallace
Boys
All Saints: Shahan Ahmed
Bishop Gorman: Ronald Herrera, Jorge Garcia, Ore Ifafore
Brook Hill: Pastor Perez, Itaru Fukushima, Caleb Gaskin
Grace Community: Carson Eitel, Caleb Carmack
+ A number of private and parochial high school athletes were selected to play in Sunday's 806 Boys and Girls All-Star Basketball Games. Lubbock Trinity Christian's Tucker Smotherton and Lubbock Christian High School's Alex Leal were on boys rosters, while Lubbock Christian's Brooke Hooten and Abbie Crow and Lubbock Trinity Christian's Bonee Busby were girls selections.
+ Making the Waco Tribune Herald's Super Centex Softball team that was announced on Thursday was a pair of Bishop Reicher athletes, senior pitcher Hannah Boettcher, who went 12-1 on the year, and senior designated hitter Bri Hapenny, who hit for an astonishing .788 with 23 runs batted in. Boettcher made the first team while Happeny was a second-team choice. Reicher's Georgeanna Tucker and Vanguard's Madorry Gonzales were honorable mention selections.
+ Nice piece in the Tyler Morning Telegram on Friday about Lamar University, with its private and parochial school head football coach Blane Morgan, hosting a camp at Lindale. Writer Brandon Ogden quoted Morgan, who had a great career at Addison Trinity Christian for his father, Barry, as saying, "East Texas is kind of where I got my roots, where I grew up."
Ogden wrote that Barry was the head coach at West Rusk from 1981-83 and Sabine from 1984-88 and that Blane was born in Nacogdoches and lived in Marshall, Center, Kilgore and Overton before playing for the Trojans.
He also reported that Lamar's recruiting coordinator and running backs coach is former Tyler Bishop T.K. Gorman head coach Cody Gipson, who took the Crusaders to the TAPPS state semifinals in 2014 during his five-year reign of the program.
Dozie Ifeadi of Bishop Gorman is already a member of the Cardinals' current recruiting class, Ogden noted.
+ Texas A&M volleyball head coach Bird Kuhn announced on Wednesday his 2021 recruiting class, which includes Tomball Concordia Lutheran's Brooke Frazier and Holy Cross of San Antonio's Faye Wilbricht.
Brooke Frazier is a 5-foot-7 defensive specialist/libero from Concordia Lutheran High School in The Woodlands, Texas. The four-year letterwinner led her team to a 142-29 overall record, while also placing top three in state all four seasons. As a senior, Frazier was named to the 2020 Under Armour All-American Watch List and the 2020 GHVCA Postseason Private School Team. She was named to First-Team All-District and All-State during her sophomore and junior years, as well as being named a Prepvolleyball.com 2019 All-American.
Frazier played six years of club volleyball for Houston Skyline under coach Amy Houser and led her team to victories at Big South and the Lone Star Classic, as well as a third place finishes in the GJNC Championship, PNQ, Northern Lights Qualifier and Triple Crown.
Frazier was an early enrollee to Texas A&M and was able to practice with the team this past spring.
"Brooke graduating early and being in our gym training our system benefitted her so much this spring," Kuhn said. "Being able to get an extra semester in your pocket is huge as a college athlete. Her energy and volleyball gamer mentality will immediately add even more personality to our libero group. I'm super pumped for her to develop and grow within this team."
Faye Wilbricht is a 5-foot-10 outside hitter from San Antonio, Texas. A four-year varsity letterwinner at Holy Cross of San Antonio, Wilbricht helped her team to the state championship as a freshman. She was named to the TAPPS 5A All-Tournament Team, TAPPS 5A All-State First Team and GJNC All-Tournament Team. The San Antonio native, also received recognition from USA Volleyball after being named to the USA Lone Star High Regional Performance team and was a USAV A1 national participant.
Wilbricht played club volleyball for the San Antonio Juniors for one year under coach Albert Trevino, where she helped her team place fifth in the 2018 GJNC Open Division and second place in the 2019 GJNC National Division.
"Our staff recruited Faye when we first arrived in Aggieland, obviously she was destined to be an Aggie," said Kuhn. "Her genuine spirit and positive nature will allow for endless amounts of growth and development as a person and player here at A&M. Faye has all the tools and athleticism to be an impact player for us."
+ In Texas Basketball Championships' Summer State Basketball Tournament in Grapevine, the following Texas private and parochial high school programs competed:
In the 1A/2A division on Sunday, Denton Calvary went 2-0 defeating Lee Academy, 33-32, and James Bowie, 54-36. Lucas Christian dropped its only decision to James Bowie, 46-40.
In the 3A division on Sunday, Fort Worth Country Day School split a pair of games with a 52-44 win over Callisburg and a 40-30 loss to Nocona.
In the 4A division on Sunday, Denton Liberty Christian defeated Bridgeport, 51-41, and lost to Lake Worth, 47-44.
In the 5A/6A division on Sunday, Midland Christian went 2-1, picking up wins over Wichita Falls Rider (49-30) and Colleyville Heritage (63-46) before falling to Nacogdoches, 47-41.
+ We still need to recap the TAPPS Sand Volleyball Tournament from this past week, as well as a couple of other activities recently.
+ We're also working on updating our entire list of former Texas private and parochial high school baseball athletes who are playing minor or major league baseball.
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