Wow!  What a great week by the students of Corsicana High School.  It feels great to see our students competing at a high level!  I will talk more about how impressive they have been later.

I have been following the NCAA finals (March Madness) and we all can see that Florida is still in it.  Like I said earlier, they will probably win.  Of course I am rooting against them.

National Assistant Principal’s Week
This week is National Assistant Principal’s Week.  Please let our wonderful assistant principals know that you are thankful that they are at Corsicana High School.  They are some of the hardest working individuals on campus.  I am thankful that they work hard for the students, teachers, and families of CHS.  Our school could not run as smooth or as efficiently without their hard work.
Thank you Elmer Avellaneda, Laurie Denbow, Shonna Franklin, Shade Boulware, and Patrick Harvell.

SAT Prep
The SAT prep course has begun.  This is a great way to improve your SAT score.  We have a large number of students who will be working many hours after-school and on Saturdays.

STAAR Testing
This week we will have our first round of STAAR EOC testing.  We will have STAAR English I tomorrow (Monday) and STAAR English II Tuesday.  Students, your teachers have prepared you for this day.  Make sure you get a good night’s sleep and get a good breakfast each morning.

Benchmarks
We will have benchmarks on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week.
Algebra I-Wednesday
Biology I-Thursday
US History-Friday

Please remember that on all testing dates we will report directly to our testing rooms.  All students should be in class by 7:40 am.  We will begin all tests at 8:00 am sharp.

Registration
Registration is almost complete for Corsicana High School.  We are a little behind this year because of the changes to some of our graduation plans.  The counselors will be finishing up any students who have been absent and also changing requests of students that may need to change a request.  We hope to have this process finished by next week.  We will begin building the master schedule after that.

UIL Academics
A big shout out to all of the students who are on the UIL academic team.  What a great showing from all members of the team.  We believe that we have just about quadrupled our points over last year!  That is amazing!  As a school we came in 3rd overall.  I am very proud of this!  Our goal is to win the competition next year.  We can do this!  While visiting each competition this question kept coming up:  “What are you guys doing in Corsicana?”  People are taking notice of us, and I love it.  I will include a complete list of results when I get them all.  I hope to have this by the end of the day tomorrow (Monday).

UIL One Act Play advances to the Area competition!

One-Act Play
Best Actor
Tiano McDonald

All Star Cast
Christian Minniear
Danny Phillips
Accounting
1st Place Team
1st Walter Torres *
3rd Ben Crocker *
4th Caroline Kennemore *
5th Claire Vadasy *

Spelling
2nd place Team
3rd Ana Garcia *
5th Harisse Bautista
6th Dilia Yleizah

Honorable Mention
All Star Cast
Veronica Reyes
Donovan Hailey

Outstanding Technical Awards
Kayza Mallett
Hailey Herrin

*Denotes Regional Qualifiers
Current Events
1st place Team
1st Leland Cook *
5th Kaitlin Griffin *
Walter Torres *
Sandra Cortez *

 Computer Applications
6th Grayson Watkins

Literary Criticism
5th Taylor Clift

Ready Writing
2nd Courtney Reeves*

Social Studies
6th Leland Cook

2nd Place Speech Team
Poetry
1st Christian Minniear*
3rd Tiano McDonald*
5th Lexie Nelson

Prose
4th Reagan Fraze
5th Caitlin Pohland

Lincoln Douglas Debate
2nd Todd Warren

One Act Play Advances!
Our UIL One Act Play team “Moby Dick Rehearsed” competed yesterday (Saturday) in Whitehouse and turned the place completely out.  They did a spectacular job!  They have advanced to the Area One Act Play competition Tuesday, April 8th at Tyler Junior College.  The entire cast did an amazing job.
Individual awards are as follows:
Best Crew-Kezia Mallett
Best Crew-Hailey Herrin
Honorable Mention All-Star Cast-Veronica Reyes (Pip)
Honorable Mention All -Star Cast-Donovan Hailey (Starbuck)
All-Star Cast-Christian Minniear (Ishmael)
All-Star Cast-Danny Phillips (Stub and other Characters)
16-AAAA Best Actor-Tiano McDonald (Ahab)
Go Tigers! #HomeofChampions

Girls Soccer Wins!
Wow!  Our girls soccer team continues to roll in the playoffs.  They won their playoff game against Woodrow Wilson this past Friday.  They will play Waxahachie in the sectional playoffs at Ennis Friday, April 4th at 7 pm.  Go Tigers! #HomeofChampions

Navarro County Youth Expo
Shout out to all of the students who participated in the Navarro County Youth Expo. The following students sold their animals in the expo:
Josiah Clagett
Ashley Howard
Nathan Griffin
Carley Casbeer
Austin Roughton
Brody Ushery
Chelsea Vandiver
Drew Miller
Nathan Griffin
Heath Boyd
Ty Tidwell
Welsey Devorak
Brayn Reagan
Jacob Farmer
Mikayla Jones
Emily Stovall
Spencer Edmonds
Sarah Hoffman
Colton Stallings

Golf!
Shout out to the golf team for doing a great job at district.  Another shout out goes to Brody Phillips and Maddy Hodge for advancing to regionals.  We are all very proud of you!  Go Tigers! #HomeofChampions

Automotive Technology-State Champion
Shout out to Ben Burris for winning the Skills USA Automotive Technology state championship this past Saturday in Corpus Christi!  All I can say is wow!  Ben beat 26 other district winners from across the state, including the defending state champion!  Go Ben!  Ben won tools and $10,000 dollars in scholarships!!! He will represent Corsicana High School and the state of Texas in the National Skills USA automotive technology contest June 23-27 in Kansas City, Missouri.  Go Tigers! #HomeofChampions

Tennis
The tennis team received 3rd place overall in the Longview Tournament.  Our tennis team continues to do great things! Go Tigers! #HomeofChampions

Band
Band did an amazing job at their pre-UIL concert.  They have been working extremely hard to prepare for their competition.  I know great things are coming for them! Go Tigers! #HomeofChampions

Baseball/Softball
Our baseball team had a big win over district rival Whitehouse this past Friday.  They dominated Whitehouse and defeated them 11-3.  Please do not forget that this is the same Whitehouse team that was ranked #2 in the state just a couple of weeks ago.  Softball had a tough week against Lindale and Whitehouse but will be back in the win column this week.  Go Tigers!  #HomeofChampions