April 7, 2024

Greetings Carroll Tiger Community!

This week will be a historical and eventful one for all of us at Tigerland. We start our Monday with a very rare event: a total solar eclipse. Although the weather looks to be cloudy, we are still going to witness this rare occurrence while ensuring that we take all the necessary safety and precautionary measures. Moving on to the rest of the week, our Tigers will showcase their brilliance on the English 1 and 2 exams. I am incredibly proud of our entire community, starting from our parents, who make sure that their students come prepared and ready to learn every day, to our admin and support staff, who ensure that our campus is functional and equipped with all the resources needed for success, and to our teachers in the classrooms, who invest in our students so that they have every opportunity to achieve success and excellence on testing day. As a reminder, we will not allow any visitors on campus on testing days, which are Tuesday and Thursday of this week. We want our Tigers to get enough rest, have a good breakfast, and drink plenty of water. We are excited to see the results of all this hard work. It's time for your children to shine, and it is such a great time to be a Tiger!

Your Proud Principal,

Mr. Arredondo

This week was quite special and quite busy with numerous student groups, organizations, clubs, sports teams representing Carroll High School. They did great things out in the community and competed to the best of their abilities to bring pride to our community. The rest of this newsletter will be dedicated to highlighting the many successes from the week.

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

• Spring EOC Testing - English 1

• Balfour Cap & Gown Delivery - Cafeteria - All 3 Lunch

• JV1/ JV 2 Softball vs. Moody - Carroll Field - 5 PM

• Baseball vs.Veterans Memorial - Cabaniss Field - 5:30 PM

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

• Spring EOC Testing - English 1 Makeups

• Tiger Blood Drive: All Day @ Front Parking Lot

• Senior Council Meeting: 4:15 PM @ Teaching Theater

• NHS Induction Ceremony - 6 PM @ Arena

• Cheer Banquet: 6:30 PM @ Mansion Royale

Thursday, April 11, 2024

• Spring EOC Testing - English 2

• Varsity Boys & Girls Area Track Meet: All Day @ La Joya HS

• Volleyball Signing: Olivia Anguiano: 4:30 PM @ Library

Friday, April 12, 2024

• Spring EOC Testing Makeups

• End of the 5th 6 Weeks

• JV1/ JV 2 Softball vs. Vets - VMHS

• Varsity Softball vs. Moody - Cabaniss Field - 7:30 PM

• Baseball vs.Veterans Memorial - Cabaniss Field - 8:00 PM

Saturday, April 13, 2024

• Saturday School: 9 AM @ CHS

• Fr/ Baseball vs. Veterans Memorial - CHS - 11 AM

• JV/Baseball vs. Veterans Memorial - Vets- 11 AM

Our school's Mariachi band, Mariachi Los Tigres, recently performed at the fourth annual Festival de Mariachi. The festival showcased various Mariachi performances and offered activities for all ages. Our band represented our school and community with pride.

Results are in from the Visionarios Youth Art Contest at the Art Center. Congrats to all winners and participants! Winners: - Jaelee Flores: 1st place mixed media (Art I-II) - Andrew Benavides: 2nd place mixed media (Art I-II) - Izzy McDonel: 2nd place mixed media (Art III-IV) - Elizabeth Figueroa: 1st place student entry Great job, Tigers! We're proud of your hard work!

Our Carroll Tigers participated in the district meet for the UIL Academic competition at Flour Bluff High School. Results: - Lillian Narsh, secured 5th place in LD as an alternate. - Mary Jeanne Blencoe, earned 5th place in Poetry as an alternate. - Jonah Vargas, clinched 8th place in Current Events as an alternate. Thanks to our coaches, Besse, Cain, Lightsey, Flather, Marshall, Villareal, Zimmerman, and Sage, for preparing our students.

18 Tigers with 7 entries qualified for Skills USA State and did an outstanding job with 7 Superior Ratings, 1 Best in Category and 1 Best in Show. We are proud of our Tigers and their coaches Ernest Holland and Julio Delgado for their hard work!

Mary Carroll High School's Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica was active in the community. One team attended a health fair while another group participated in the Cesar Chavez March to honor his actions in support of Mexican American farmers. "Si se puede!"..."Yes we can!"

Our Carroll Tigers performed exceptionally well at the District Meet. They showed off their skills against some of the area's best teams last Wednesday and Thursday, achieving personal records along the way. Several of our Tigers have qualified for the Area competition. Go Tigers!

Our girls had an amazing performance at the District 29-5A Track & Field Meet. They advanced to the Area Track Meet in six individual events and all three relays, finishing third overall as a team. We are extremely proud of them!

HOSA State Update: Our students and sponsors achieved great results at the state level competition. Congratulations to Sophia Medina for 3rd place in Dental Terminology, Elyse Downs for 5th place in Interviewing Skills, and our team for 1st place Chapter Award for the Blood Drive. Well done, everyone!

We celebrated our Assistant Principals and Dean this week with surprises from various organizations and gifts from Mr. Arredondo, including mobile desks and caricatures. It was a fantastic week filled with joy and appreciation at Mary Carroll High School.