Austin Wells

Several Clark Cougars were recognized for their outstanding play during the fall sports season. Topping the list is cross country junior runner Austin Wells who was named to the Express News Super Team for Cross Country as well as the Area Team.

From Clark volleyball the 27-5A All district 1st team includes Jenn Garrett and Marcella Arellano. Named to the 2nd team is Abigail Glosup and Nicole Rehm.

27-5A 1st team offense football honors went to Manny Menezes. 2nd team offense honors to Kweku Larbie, Brandon Yates, Blake DeHart and Alex Hunter. The 2nd team defense includes Logan Hanna, Tri-Rice Van Buren and Malcolm Eatman.

CONGRATULATIONS COUGARS!!

A heady congratulations to the Clark Cougar varsity fall sports athletes who hit the books hard this past season.  Here is a list of the NISD All Academic Team athletes from Clark:

In addition to district honors, several Cougars were recognized on the Texas High School Coaches Association Academic All State Teams. Achieving 1st Team honors for football: Mitchell Rummel and Logan Hanna. Second team honors went to Alex Hunter, Brian Socha, Dusty Wright and Ty Williams. Honorable mention went to Sean Campbell, Ryan Cover, Troy Ogletree, Blake DeHart and Manny Menezes. And in Cross Country Honorable Mention Academic All State honors went to Shantel Swift.

Thanks, seniors.

The Clark Cougars varsity volleyball team bowed out of the playoffs wth a tough match against defending regional champion CC King in first round action.  The Cougars finished the season at 24-15, an improvement from last season with plenty to build on.

You can read more about the final game here.  Thanks for a great season, ladies!

The various scenarios for rounding out the rest of the 27-5A football playoff picture have been outlined in Thursday’s Express News. With two games left Clark is definitely in with two wins, but may only need one.  The challenge starts with Holmes on Friday at Gustafson Stadium and concludes with O’Connor November 4th in the annual Black Out game at Farris.

For Clark volleyball the playoffs begin on November 1st in Floresville with a game against Corpus Christi King.

Get out and support your Cougars!!!

Marcella Arellano

Clark volleyball’s senior outside hitter Marcella Arellano was recognized by the Express News with a “Game Ball” for her outstanding play in the Cougars come from behind victory against Holmes last week. Arellano had 19 kills, 34 digs and three aces in the match which Clark won in 5 games.

Clark has secured a spot in the volleyball playoffs for the 27th consecutive year.

The regular season ends tonight against O’Connor at 7:00 at Paul Taylor. Show up and support your Cougars! Playoffs begin next week.

GO COOGS!!!

The Clark volleyball team is looking forward to the second season after clinching its spot in the playoffs. The Cougars will likely face Corpus Christi Carroll or Corpus Christi King in the first round, possibly on November 1st.

There’s still regular season business to take care of though and Clark could have been looking ahead a bit during Friday’s game against Holmes, escaping the gym with a 3-2 victory. Clark dropped the first two games 16-25 and 19-25 before taking the next two games 25-22 and 25-21 and then winning the tie breaker 15-8. Marcella Arellano led the team with 19 kills, 34 digs and 3 serving aces. Jenn Garrett had 17 kills and Abby Glosup continued to shine with a whopping 62 assists in the five game match up. Nicole Rehm had 34 digs and an ace and Jenn Garrett and Rosalyn Velasquez teamed up for 1.5 blocks each.

The last regular season game is against O’Connor on Tuesday at 7:00 at Paul Taylor.

GO COOGS!!!

Rehm and team digs deep again

Needing one win in the next two games (Holmes and O’Connor), the Clark Cougars varsity volleyball team inched closer to a guaranteed playoff spot with a win over the Stevens Falcons 3-0.  The Cougars currently sit in 4th place and in one scenario, could finish as the 3rd place team in District 27-5A.  Their next game is Friday vs. the Huskies.

Owning their best record since 2008 (27 wins and Coach Daniels’ first year), the Clark Cougar volleyball team won again, this time against Jay 3-0. The Cougars have already matched last season’s win total (22) with four games left on the schedule.

The Cougars next face district leader Warren on Wednesday. Go get ‘em, Coogs!

Jenn Garrett with 19 kills

The Clark Cougars came ready to fight on Tuesday night against district rival Brandeis, but fell just short of an upset losing in five games. Brandeis took the first 25-17 then Clark won two in a row 27-25 & 26-24. Brandeis took the fourth game 25-22 and the tiebreaker 15-12. Jenn Garrett led the Cougars with 19 kills and 2 blocked shots while Marcella Arellano had 10 kills. District 27-5A assists leader Abby Glosup kept things moving with 45 assists and added 2 blocked shots to her game.  Nicole Rehm and Hunter Cole each had 22 digs. Rosalyn Velasquez blocked two shots and Alyssa Pruitt aced one serve.

Clark is 7-4 in district and remains in the playoff hunt. Next up is Jay on Friday at 5:30 at Paul Taylor.

GO COOGS!!!

Abby Glosup - leads in assists

The Clark volleyball team bumped its district record up to 7-3 with a 3-0 trouncing of Marshall on Friday. The Cougars won 25-14, 25-19 and 25-20 with 27 assists from Junior Abby Glosup. Jenn Garrett had 7 kills, Rosalyn Velasquez had 6 and the two teamed up for 1.5 blocked shots each. Hunter Cole had 12 digs and Nicole Rehm had 9. Clark is 21-13 for the season with its next game coming up on on Tuesday at 7:00 against Brandeis at Paul Taylor.

GO COOGS!!!