Cougars sink the competition

At the District 27-5A meet, Clark Cougar varsity swimmers garnered several honors. On the girls side, 2nd in the 200 yd. freestyle relay and 3rd place in the 200 medley relay went to the team of Coral Crouch, Lauren Cartee, Marielle Rominger, and Alexandra Green. Alexandra Green placed 4th in the 100 yd. freestyle and 5th in the 50 yd. Freestyle. Lauren Cartee took bronze in the 100 yd breaststroke. In the 400 yd. freestyle relay, the Cougars placed third with the team of Ashlyn Lewis, Rachel Deschner, Bailey Ratner, and Coral Crouch.

The boys won the 200 yd. freestyle relay (Joseph Jaime, Daniel Lee, Michael Macha, and Darren Sanchez) and placed 2nd in the 200 medley relay (Joseph Jaime, Daniel Lee, Michael Macha, and Mitch Jacobs). Michael Macha took 1st in the 100 yd. butterfly with Jesse Renteria placing 5th, Joseph Jaime placed 1st in the 100 yd. freestyle and 4th in the 200 yd. freestyle, and Daniel Lee took 3rd in the Men’s 200 yd. IM while Mitch Jacobs took 4th. Jacobs also placed 6th in the 500 yd. freestyle. (continue reading…)

UIL  District 27-5A  Swim  Championships  take place on  Saturday,  January  28th at the Block Natatorium,  410 and Culebra.   Thirty-four Cougars qualified for Prelims, which begin at   9:00 am.    The top 8  places  in prelims advance to Saturday evening finals, and a large number of  Cougars  will be represented in  the finals competition.
Finals begin  at  6 pm,  but  spectators should arrive well before that time to secure parking and get a seat.  Look for the swim parents in black  shirts and we’ll clear a place so you can help us  cheer!
On Friday evening,  Jan.  27th at  6:30 pm,  this same facility will host the Diving Championships.   Diver Alex Peacock represents  Clark  High School on Friday evening.
Go  Cougars!

-Susan Ogden

Five  Clark Seniors have been named to the NISD  All-Academic  Swim Team  for  2011-2012.

Miguel  Carcamo –   1st  team
Brad Ogden –   1st  team
Darren Sanchez–   1st team
Adriana Vargas –  2nd team
Chris Sanders –  2nd team

WAY TO GO COOGS!!

Clark swimmers participated in the TISCA meet and the results looked good for the Cougars.  Joseph Jamie won the silver in the men’s 100 yd freestyle event with a time of 48.26.  That helped the Clark men’s team take 6th place in the event with over 30 teams participating.  The ladies finished 22nd in the meet.

Way to go Coogs.

Try Outs!

Clark Cougar Swim Team tryouts  for the 2011- 2012  squad  are  August 8 – 12:

Monday  –  Friday   at Colonies House Pool
3511 Colony Drive,       78230

7:30 am  start    for approximately 1  hour to  90 min  each day.
A  test set  and  a  100   sprint  will be  evaluated each day.
Each day will  test a different  race:
free,  back,  breaststroke, butterfly and IM.

Physicals need to be done and turned in to the trainer’s office at Clark before  a swimmer  can try-out.

Miller earns trip to Olympic trials

Chelsea Miller, Clark class of 2010, recently qualified for the Olympic swimming trials at a meet in College Station.  Her winning time of 2:35.80 in the 200m Breaststroke earns her a trip to Omaha next summer to attempt to make the US Olympic swim team.

Chelsea is a swimmer at Boise State University.

Congratulations!!

Three Clark Cougar varsity sports are in this week’s Express News rankings.

Since the first soccer ranking came out in preseason, the Clark boys soccer team has been ranked #1 in the San Antonio area.  Tonight they play Warren.  A win in that game would be a big step towards a district championship.  The Cougars are currently undefeated in district play.

The Clark softball team moved up to #6 in the rankings from #10 last week.  After a tough 1-0 loss to Taft as the very first game of the season (whose idea was that?), the Cougars have gelled and come storming through the district and are on a 8 game win streak.

A good showing in the NEISD tournament helped propel Clark baseball into the top 10 this week for the first time this season.  Clark is the only ranked NISD team.

And even though they don’t rank them, the golf team has shown some great growth since the beginning of the season and the water polo teams, always a perennial state tournament team, start play this week.

IT’S A GOOD DAY TO BE A CLARK COUGAR!

Miller in WAC Championships in SA

2010 Clark graduate Chelsea Miller’s first ever Western Athletic Conference Championship swim meet will be in San Antonio, at Palo Alto Pool, starting Wednesday Feb 23rd, and going through Saturday, Feb 26th.  This will be an exciting swim meet, and the Boise State Broncos hope to repeat as WAC champs!  Here’s a link to more information about the meet:  http://www.wacsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=10100&ATCLID=204843076

Clark Seniors lead team to 2nd and 3rd place wins

The Clark Cougars endured a very long day on Saturday January 22nd and succeeded in bringing home a lot of top places!  From warm-ups that began at 7:30 am until the last finals race,  which began at 8:25 pm,  Clark held strong with their eyes on the prize.
The Clark women’s squad, comprised of only 12 members,  combined sheer guts, persistence and stamina to bring home the District 3rd place award.
Clark men, who outnumber the women  2:1,  had  depth in all  strokes and races but faced an onslaught of very talented  O’Connor, Marshall and brandies men.  The Men’s squad left the pool that night with a well earned  2nd place District 27-5A trophy.
Top finalists from Districts are back in the water  this week  preparing for  UIL  Region  VII-5A   on Feb. 4th and 5th  at the Josh Davis Natatorium.  Prelims begin at 9:30am on Friday the 4th and Finals begin at 9:30am on Saturday the 5th.

-S. Ogden

Emily Socks it to them

Clark divers Emily Socks, Tyler Momberger and Alex Peacock demonstrated their talents last Friday at the 27-5A Diving Championships. Area judges awarded scores for each of the 9 dives that all Northside divers executed successfully.
Emily captured 4th place in the Womens’ division, Tyler walked away with 5th place Mens’ honors and Alex did extraordinarily well as a first time, freshman diver at a large Championship meet.

Great work, Cougars!

-S. Ogden