High School
Sophomore Fundraiser
May 3rd
The Sophomore class will be conducting a BBQ Plate sale on Saturday, May 12th from 11am-3pm in the school cafeteria.
BBQ chicken & sausage plate with rice, beans & trimmings, and ice tea, all for $6.00.
Acoustic Night 2012
Apr 11th
Acoustic Night
Come watch our students display their musical talents at Acoustic Night. Students will perform live onstage for your listening pleasure so come out and enjoy what is always a memorable occasion.
Date: Saturday, April 14
Location: Convocation Center
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Admission: $3.00
Proceeds will support the Holy Cross mission work in Brazil.
Baseball/Softball Schedules
Feb 22nd
Girls Basketball in Playoffs!
Feb 17th
Good luck to the girls basketball team in the playoffs. They will travel to Brownsville to play St. Joseph on Saturday, February 18. Game time is 2:00pm
Pennies for Patients
Feb 7th
Pennies for Patients Campaign to benefit
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
January 18 th through February 29 th, Holy Cross National Honor Society will sponsor the Pennies for Patients Leukemia and Lymphoma society. Our school goal is $1,000. Students have been given a small green box to collect change to donate to the Pennies for Patients Campaign. Bring your loose change to school and help save a life.
Thank you students and faculty for participating in Western Wear Day on Friday, January 27 th. Your $2.00 donation helped NHS collect $300.00. All proceeds went to the Pennies for Patients Campaign.
Upcoming Events
February 6-10 th- Candy Bags or Carnations for Valentine’s Day for a $1.50
Orders will be taken during lunch
Deliveries will be on February 14 th during 1 st period
February 7 th and 8 th- Penny Drive
As parents drop off and pick up their Knight, NHS will collect pennies
February 24 th- Music Day during lunch
Buy a ticket for a $1.00 and listen to your favorite music tunes during lunch
February 29 th Pennies for Patients ends
School Goal $1,000
Winter Teams
Feb 1st
Good luck to all our Winter teams!
National Champion Cheer Team!
Girls Soccer
Boys Soccer - Good Luck in the Playoffs!
Tennis Team
Boys Basketball
Girls Basketball - Fighting for playoff birth. Good Luck!
Cheerleaders on KSAT – Instant Replay
Jan 30th
Our national champion cheerleaders will be on the Super Bowl version of Instant Replay on KSAT-12 on February 5 at 10:30pm. Be sure to check them out!
Holy Cross Cheerleaders ‘Make It Shine’ With Number Nine
Jan 22nd
The Holy Cross athletic department might need to get a bigger trophy case now that the school’s competition team has racked up their ninth NCA title, winning their second in a row with a dominating performance. The national champs even matched their combined overall score from last year’s competition in the Small Novice division at 85.99, a feat made even more remarkable when you consider the second place finisher scored 81.73. Dominating indeed!
And the similarities from the team’s 2010-2011 victory don’t end there, as they adopted yet another Taylor Swift song (“Long Live”) as inspiration for 2011-2012’s NCA title run:
“Long live the walls we crashed through… I was screaming long live all the magic we made…One day, we will be remembered.”
Sparked by the song’s stirring lyrics and equipped with T-shirts emblazoned with “Meet us at the mat,” the HC competition team also came up with “Make it shine” as their team motto, and boy did they ever. Head coach Jennifer Lopez credits the ‘magic’ of Team Fabulous choreographers Jose de la Garza and Eric Villarreal with helping her cheerleaders ‘make it shine’ this January in Dallas. The team consists of senior captain, Amanda Robles, seniors Maria De Leon, Angelica Mares, Kassie Martinez, juniors Valarie Jimenez, Kristen Morales, Jazzel Reyes, and Sadie Silva, sophomores Brandon Garcia and Stephanie Hernandez, and freshman Justine Aguilar and Lilly Escobedo. Head coach Lopez also commends the unrelenting support and commitment from her assistant coaches, Audry Rubio and Gabrielle Kinderknecht, sponsor Mindy Fernandez, and athletic trainer Dan Feranandez.
So stay tuned because the competition season is not over yet; these 12 shining stars are planning to dominate at the American Cheerpower Nationals held on February 17-18 at the Alamodome. Once again, this highly competitive team will be ‘crashing’ through those competition walls to be ‘remembered’ for making it shine as they compete for their sixth Cheerpower title.
By: Albert A. Lopez (Class of ’97)
