2023 Track and Field Private and Parochial School Bests as of March 20

 

LSCSN Texas Private and Parochial HS Softball Rankings - 3/21/2023

(Through games completed Monday, March 20, 2023)

Large School 

1.  Victoria St. Joseph (TAPPS D2) - 15-2

2.  Plano John Paul II (TAPPS D1) - 15-9

3.  Austin Hyde Park (TAPPS D2) - 15-1 (26-2)

4.  Houston St. Pius X (TAPPS D1) - 16-10

5.  Frisco Legacy Christian Academy (TAPPS D2) - 14-5-1

6.  Bellaire Episcopal (SPC 4A) - 10-6

7.  Houston St. Agnes (TAPPS D1) - 12-7-2

8.  Houston Christian (SPC 4A) - 13-7

9.  Midland Christian (TAPPS D2) - 14-8

10.  San Antonio Antonian (TAPPS D1) - 10-11

11.  San Antonio Cornerstone Christian (IND) - 11-6-1 

12.  Dallas HSAA (IND) - 10-6

13.  San Antonio St. Anthony (TAPPS D2) - 8-8

14.  The Woodlands John Cooper (SPC 3A) - 10-4

15.  Fort Worth Country Day School (SPC 3A) - 6-4-2

16.  Fort Worth Nolan Catholic (TAPPS D1) - 6-16-1

17.  Fort Worth Southwest Christian (TAPPS D2) - 12-7

18.  Dallas Bishop Lynch (TAPPS D1) - 5-13

19.  Tyler Grace Community School (TAPPS D2) - 13-7-1 (was #20)

20.  Grapevine Faith Christian (TAPPS D2) - 7-9 (was #19)  

Small School 

1.  Lubbock Trinity Christian (TAPPS D3) - 16-7

2.  Corpus Christi Incarnate Word Academy (TAPPS D3) - 14-9

3.  Hallettsville Sacred Heart (TAPPS D4) - 11-4

4.  Bullard The Brook Hill School (TAPPS D3) - 11-2

5.  Shiner St. Paul (TAPPS D4) - 11-3

6.  Austin Brentwood Christian (TAPPS D3) - 11-5

7.  Cypress Christian School (TAPPS D3) - 9-2

8.  Lubbock Christian (TAPPS D4) - 10-8

9.  Holy Cross of San Antonio (TAPPS D3) - 7-5-2

10.  San Antonio FEAST Home School (IND) - 10-6-1

Men's Basketball Players from Texas Private and Parochial Schools in NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament

 Ashton Smith, Spring Legacy School of Sports Sciences (TCSAAL), Texas A&M University

 Cameron Brown, Plano John Paul II (TAPPS), Marquette University

 Gavin Perryman, Dallas Jesuit, University of Texas

 Jaedon LeDee, Houston The Kinkaid School (SPC), San Diego State University

 Jahari Long, Bellaire Episcopal (SPC), University of Maryland

 Jerome Tang (Head Coach), Cleveland Heritage Christian (TAPPS), Kansas State University

 
 Jordan Wood, San Antonio Cornerstone Christian (IND), Howard University

 Julius Marble, Dallas Jesuit, Texas A&M University

 Jordan Williams, Houston Second Baptist School (TAPPS), Texas A&M University

 Kehlin Farooq, Houston Westbury Christian (TAPPS), Texas Southern University

 Manny Obaseki, Plano John Paul II (TAPPS), Texas A&M University

 Max Abmas, Dallas Jesuit, Oral Roberts University

 Miller Kopp, Houston Christian High School (SPC), Indiana University

 Paul Mills (Head Coach), Houston North Belt Christian (IND) and Fort Bend Baptist Academy   (TAPPS), Oral Roberts University

 R.J. Keene, Tomball Concordia Lutheran (TAPPS), Boise State University

 Sahvir Wheeler, Houston Christian High School (SPC), University of Kentucky

 Sir Issac Herron, Spring Legacy School of Sports Sciences (TCSAAL), Oral Roberts University

 Vinny Sigona, Plano Prestonwood Christian Academy (TAPPS), Louisiana University

Women's Basketball Players from Texas Private and Parochial Schools in NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament

 Alexis Morris, Beaumont Legacy Christian (TAPPS), Louisiana State University

 Amani Bartlett, Houston Christian High School (SPC), Louisiana State University

 Camryn Brown, Plano Prestonwood Christian Academy (TAPPS), UCLA

 Madi Williams, Fort Worth Trinity Valley School (SPC), University of Oklahoma

 Nevaeh Tot, Dallas Parish Episcopal/Plano John Paul II, (TAPPS), University of Oklahoma

 Taylor Jones, Mesquite Dallas Christian School (TAPPS), University of Texas

 Vic Shaefer (Head Coach), Houston Lutheran High School (TCIL), University of Texas

LSCSN Texas Private and Parochial HS Softball Rankings - 3/14/2023

(Through games completed Saturday, March 11, 2023)

Large School 

1.  Victoria St. Joseph (TAPPS D2) - 15-2

2.  Plano John Paul II (TAPPS D1) - 15-8

3.  Austin Hyde Park (TAPPS D2) - 26-2

4.  Houston St. Pius X (TAPPS D1) - 16-10

5.  Frisco Legacy Christian Academy (TAPPS D2) - 14-5-1

6.  Bellaire Episcopal (SPC 4A) - 9-6

7.  Houston St. Agnes (TAPPS D1) - 12-7-2

8.  Houston Christian (SPC 4A) - 13-7

9.  Midland Christian (TAPPS D2) - 13-8

10.  San Antonio Antonian (TAPPS D1) - 10-10

11.  San Antonio Cornerstone Christian (IND) - 11-6-1 

12.  Dallas HSAA (IND) - 10-7

13.  San Antonio St. Anthony (TAPPS D2) - 7-9

14.  The Woodlands John Cooper (SPC 3A) - 10-4

15.  Fort Worth Country Day School (SPC 3A) - 6-4-2

16.  Fort Worth Nolan Catholic (TAPPS D1) - 6-16-1

17.  Fort Worth Southwest Christian (TAPPS D2) - 12-7

18.  Dallas Bishop Lynch (TAPPS D1) - 5-13

19.  Grapevine Faith Christian (TAPPS D2) - 7-8

20.  Tyler Grace Community School (TAPPS D2) - 11-7-1

Small School 

1.  Lubbock Trinity Christian (TAPPS D3) - 15-7

2.  Corpus Christi Incarnate Word Academy (TAPPS D3) - 13-9

3.  Hallettsville Sacred Heart (TAPPS D4) - 11-3

4.  Bullard The Brook Hill School (TAPPS D3) - 10-1

5.  Shiner St. Paul (TAPPS D4) - 11-3

6.  Austin Brentwood Christian (TAPPS D3) - 11-5

7.  Cypress Christian School (TAPPS D3) - 9-2

8.  Lubbock Christian (TAPPS D4) - 7-8

9.  Holy Cross of San Antonio (TAPPS D3) - 7-5-2

10.  San Antonio FEAST Home School (IND) - 10-6-1

COMMENTARY: So Why Can't We Have Softball Rankings?

Funny you should ask about that.

Plano John Paul II varsity softball coach Jayme Baker commented late Monday evening on LSCSN’s post about the latest private and parochial high school baseball rankings from Texas High School Baseball Magazine.

She said, “Wishing we had softball rankings!!!!!”

We responded, “Honestly, it was a goal of mine for this year, but just didn't get a jump on it.

“I'd rather do it right so it would have a chance at being credible.  Biggest challenge of ranking anything in private schools is strength of schedule.”

Actually, the biggest challenge is really score reporting.

TAPPS implemented a new policy that schedules must be maintained in Rank One and scores must be reported in one or two days, depending on the sport.

Football and volleyball got the year off strong.  Fall soccer did pretty good too.

(Note:  Football has its own separate network of score tracking in Texas, which makes Rank One mostly irrelevant – except where a school is following TAPPS policy and get their scores there FIRST!)

Basketball didn’t do too bad, but past the bi-district round of the playoffs compliance fell through the floor.

And we haven’t even looked at baseball yet, but we haven’t heard our good friend Brandon Brunson with Texas Private School Baseball grumbling at all so things must be OK there.

Late here on Monday evening, I just made a run through a few sources for softball.

Again, Rank One is a requirement for TAPPS schools.

If not maintained, TAPPS can issue a warning to a school and after multiple offenses, head coaches can be suspended for a game.

Additionally, all scores must be made public.

(By the way, we appreciate Beaumont Kelly’s baseball team for making their scores public after a tweet last week.  Even more, we admire the courage of Kelly’s softball team for reporting their scores – with a mark of 0-17 to date, but their scores need to be made public too like the baseball team.)

However, there are some talented softball teams that haven’t reported a score, but you can find their results all on Max Preps.

Think about it:  Max Preps is using you and your school for clicks to sell advertising revenue.

If you’re a TAPPS member school, you’re paying for the Rank One service through your membership and sport fees – and aren’t utilizing it.  

That’s a waste of your parents’ tuition dollars.

Even though it would be tempting to omit that school (or schools, if more than one) from the rankings for non-compliance, it just goes against our grain of professionalism for a team of young people that has proven itself inside the chalk lines.

Coaches need to do better.

In Max Preps, there’s 43 TAPPS schools in the rankings.

In Rank One, there’s 93 schools – including 23 who haven’t reported a single score yet this season.  17 of them are Division IV programs so maybe a few of them haven’t played yet.

Longtime (and retired) softball coach Billy Hicks, who runs the Texas Prep Softball site at txprepsoftball.net, has diligently tracked down scores for all UIL, TAPPS and SPC programs.

However, he has 99 TAPPS schools.  (And 13 SPC schools to Max Preps’ seven.)

And there are few schools with the same record between any two sources.

Lubbock Trinity Christian is 15-7 with both Billy and Rank One.  Frisco Legacy Christian is 14-5-1 in both places.

Hyde Park is 17-1 in MaxPreps.  Texas Prep Softball has them at 19-1.  Rank One?  Wow.  A whopping 26-2!

What do you think?

Want us to take a stab at it?

TAPPS Division I and II and all SPC in a Large School with any large independents, such as San Antonio Cornerstone Christian.

And then TAPPS Division III and IV in a Small School with any other leagues, such as TCAF, T-CAL, TAIAO, TCSAAL or Homeschool?

In everything LSCSN does, we want all schools, programs, league officials, coaches, and players to have the best and the brightest lights shined upon them, but sometimes we have to work on tackling some of the issues in front of us too.