PANTHER APPLAUSE

In this week's edition, we would like to recognize Brandie Moravek. Mrs. Moravek is the Yearbook teacher and PALS Advisor.

"Brandie works so hard for this entire campus and creates a culture of fun for everyone!"

Aly Moosa was elected as the Texas DECA President on February 22, 2020 at the Texas State Career Development Conference (SCDC). Aly made history in GICSD and Colleyville Heritage High School as the first student to become elected as Texas DECA President.

Aly was one of 19 Texas DECA elite members running for a Texas DECA State Officer position at the SCDC. The election process was scored on the following components: officer exam, two interviews and popular vote from the voting delegates of each chapter. He also created a candidate campaign, participated in a meet and greet session and gave a riveting campaign speech without hesitation in front of thousands of DECA members filling the Fort Worth Convention Arena.

Aly’s identifying traits include: Empowering, Resilient and Innovative. Aly is the DECA Chapter President for Colleyville Heritage High School, and has been an active member of DECA since freshman year. Aly was a State qualifier in Marketing Communications Series freshman year and State Runner-Up sophomore year. Aly takes pride in inspiring discovery in everyone and is proud of his part in the chapter campaigns, community service, team building, and leadership programs. Aly possesses the ability to empower others to reach their goals and is grateful for the opportunity to use his 21st Century skills and collaborate with other DECA emerging leaders as the Texas DECA President.

Aly will serve his presidential term beginning now through April 2021 and be the voice for over 15,000 Texas DECA members. He will travel the globe with his officer team and attend various leadership summits and conferences, DECA competition and events.

EXTRA INFORMATION!

Aly’s bio from the Texas DECA candidates can be found here… https://www.texasdeca.org/stateofficercandidates

On February 20 - 22, 2020, at the Fort Worth Convention Center, Colleyville Heritage DECA joined over 5,300 Texas DECA students at this year's Texas DECA State Career Development Conference. There were 50 different competitive events of which 31 Colleyville Heritage DECA members competed, and all Colleyville Heritage members were able to network with DECA members from across the great state of Texas!

At DECA's pinnacle event, the International Career Development Conference (ICDC), 20,000 of the top DECA members from across the globe will be in attendance in Nashville, Tennessee in April. Colleyville Heritage had an impressive showing with five State Champions who qualified for ICDC and five members serving as State Runner Ups.

Ansha Dewani - Business Services Marketing Series - State Champion

Anthony Losito - Sports & Entertainment Marketing Series - State Champion

Aly Moosa - Marketing Communications Series - State Champion; Texas DECA State President

Cindey Xiao- Hospitality & Tourism Operations Research - State Champion

Samantha Zelling - Hospitality & Tourism Operations Research - State Champion

Angelica Parker - Personal Financial Literacy - State Runner Up

Anil Saeed - Entrepreneurship Series - State Runner Up

Jordan Wallace - Hotel & Lodging Management Series

Pranav Veera - Financial Services Team Decision Making Series - State Runner Up

Azher Virani - Financial Services Team Decision Making Series - State Runner Up

Congratulations to the Chemistry and Biology Research and Design students as they competed in the Regional Science and Engineering Fair on February 24th. The Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair has over 450 participants. These students select an area to research, design an experiment to address a research question, and present their findings through a presentation backboard and research paper. They have worked extremely hard this year and have grown so much in their research progress. The following is a summary of the results.

Advancing to Internationals through a 4th place Best of Show award:

Ashwin Katta and Jay Upadhyaya

Advancing to State:

Animal Sciences

3rd - Alex Lee and Samarth Bhat

4th - Sarina Hassan and Sana Nathwani

Behavioral Science

2nd - Aribah Hoque

3rd - Mia Stertzer and Illiyan Bardai

4th - Daniel Kim

Chemistry

1st - Saskia Hamilton

Earth and Planet Sciences

3rd - Jonathan Shyu

4th - Tim DeSimone

Energy and Transportation

2nd - Muhib Methani and Daniel Li

3rd - Thomas Dao and Calloway Kobes

Engineering: Electrical and Mechanical

2nd - Anna Su and Taaseen Safy

4th - Kevin Donovan

Environmental Science

2nd - Aly Moosa and Ana Assad

4th - Caroline Gao

Mathematics

2nd - Kendrick Yamamoto

Medicine

2nd - Safaa Hassan

3rd - Manasa Sripati

Microbiology

1st - Jorie Wallace and Parker Adkins

2nd - Alana Gaughan

Physics and Astronomy

1st - Jay Upadhyaya and Ashwin Katta

Plant Sciences

1st - Itbaan Nafi and Faiz Charaniya

2nd - Britney Chong

4th - Cindy Zou and Jewel Schmidt

Special Awards:

US Air Force - 1st Nishi Datla

US Navy / US Marines - 1st Audrey Brugman

Stockholm Water Award - 1st Saskia Hamilton

Association for Women Geoscientists - 1st Caroline Gao

American Industrial Hygiene Association - 1st Manasa Sripati

Institute of Electrical Engineers - 2nd Ayesha Azhar

Water Environment Association of Texas

1st Saskia Hamilton

2nd Saher Pirani and Athena Lorenzen

3rd Ashley Zhu

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Award - 3rd Ashwin Katta and Jay Upadhyaya

Delbert Lawry Award - 2nd Jay Upadyaya and Ashwin Katta

NASA - 1st Athena Lorenzen and Saher Parini

American Psychological Association - 2nd Illyan Bardai and Mia Stertzer

After getting a bye night on Tuesday, our boys played a very frustrating match vs Saginaw that took time to unfold: after the opponent acquired an early lead, they tried and tried until finally in the last 15 minutes of the game 3 great long shots at goal sealed the deal (3:1 - Jonathan Tanaka, Aidan Schimmick, Cade Ryan). Still undefeated y'all!

Our panthers won both of their last 2 games: easier written than done on Tuesday with a close victory vs Birdville (2:1 - Aidan Schimmick x2) thanks to an outstanding performance from Muhib Methani that frustrated our opponents as he just wouldn't let them score.

Then came Friday and a dominating game vs Azle and another solid win 8:0 (Aidan Schimmick x3, Jonathan Tanaka x2, Chace Blanton, Nick Knudson, Bryan Hansen).

Keep it up boys !

Go Panthers!

Last week the Lady Panthers had a very successful week.

Lady Panthers lost to Birdvile earlier in the season but on Tuesday they beat Birdville with a 5-4 PK win.

It was tied 0-0 after regulation. Great job by goalie Lizzie Flores and the rest of the defense (Julia Blackstone, Tate Tschirhart, Lauren Hurley, Giselle Garcia, Ashley York and Malenia Newsome) for keeping Birdville shutout.

During the PK shootout Ryleigh Adams, Tiernan Dunagan, Giselle Garcia, Karalie Morrsion and Tate Tschirhart all scored on their attempts.

Karalie Morrison was goalie during the PK shootout and saved two of Birdville's attempts.

On Friday it was a complete team effort with a 6-0 victory over Azle. 6 different players scored a goal. Ryleigh Adams, Avery Thompson, Karalie Morrison, Alex Whitcraft, Julia Blackstone and Tiernan Dunagan. Lizzie Flores was in goal for the shutout, but many players played a defense position to keep Azle from scoring.

Also on Friday, Karalie Morrison was voted the Star-Telegram soccer player of the week. Thank you for all your votes.

https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/dfwvarsity/article240683501.html

Congratulations to the debate team for their performance this past weekend at the North Texas Longhorn NSDA district tournament. The freshman Public Forum team of CeCe Gaughan and Hannah Lewis were in the quarterfinals of the tournament. The teams of Katelynn Shadman and Samarth Bhat and Colin Wei and Daniel Li finished in the top three at the tournament. That finish has earned them a trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico for the NSDA National Speech and Debate tournament. This will be the sixth straight year that CHHS will be represented in that division at the tournament. Please congratulate these young people when you see them.

The Diamonds Dance Guard competed at the MA Frisco Regional on February 29 where they swept the competition. They were awarded a Superior Rating, Choreography Award, Judges Award, and were named Best Overall Auxiliary!! Bravo Diamonds!!

Varsity Panther Softball went 5-2 on the week last week with wins over Richland, Haltom, Mansfield, Arlington, and Arlington Martin. Autumn Minyard, Presleigh Payne, Reagan Lindamood, and Leah LaBarge all recorded wins in the circle! The Panthers were led offensively by the hot bats of Autumn Minyard, Olivia Ringo, DeNae Vasquez-Dickson, Alexis Perales, Leah Perales, and Presleigh Payne and outstanding defense from Jalie Neff and Alexa Neilon.

Panther Softball is back in action this week:

Tuesday (3/3)

JV and Varsity at HOME vs. Denton Guyer at 5 and 7

Thursday-Saturday (3/5-7)

Varsity at Crowley Tournament

Saturday 3/7

JV at Brewer Tournament

Congratulations to JV1 Men's Soccer for two wins last week against Birdville and Azle. Congratulations to Player of the Week, Deric Marsh, for scoring 2 goals in his first full game after returning from injury.

Want to give acknowledgement to a CHHS organization/program? Email your submissions by noon on Sundays to brandie.moravek@gcisd.net.

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