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Vendors, Booster Clubs to pay royalty on retail merchandise sales By LESLEE BASSMAN Four Points News Don’t be surprised if that new Viper baseball cap comes with an extra tag dangling from its rim! At some point before the end of this school year, all products sold to the public depicting an LISD logo must be licensed and subject to a licensing fee. In November, LISD contracted with SABRE Trademark & Licensing, Ltd. Co. (SABRE) to register each school’s logo with the Secretary of State’s office. SABRE also agreed with LISD to require companies like H-E-B that want to sell a product with the logo of an LISD school to pay a 10% royalty fee on the item’s retail sales price to use these trademarked emblems. This will include items with Vandegrift’s Viper, Canyon Ridge’s Eagle or Four Points’ Falcon mascots. Booster clubs will get a break and only have to pay 2.5%, what
SABRE is charging LISD to file the logos and monitor sites for abuse. SABRE’s brochure, obtained from LISD Administration earlier this month, states that the school district will receive back 75% of the royalty fee collected with SABRE retaining 25% of the fee. According to LISD Assistant Superintendant Ellen Skoviera, Booster Clubs, student groups and PTA organizations will be required to purchase their merchandise from an authorized vendor who has undergone this process with SABRE. Blue or yellow authenticating tags will be placed on such items for sale and state that the goods are officially licensed products. Booster clubs are learning about these changes now. They expect prices to go up on products they sell to raise money for trips. “We’re either going to lose businesses or pay an increased price to help pay for our licensing,” said Andrea Fitzgerald who is in charge of Cedar Park High School Football Booster Club’s spiritwear. “Our vendor
that we’ve used for 15 years will have to pay the licensing fee or we’ll have to find someone new. Either way it’s a lose-lose situation.” Viper Basketball Booster Club President Andy Giles understands that the “intent [licensing] is not to impact the Boosters but to rein in people and websites who have Viper logos and are selling T-shirts and caps”. However Giles is concerned that limiting the suppliers Boosters can use “will drive up costs” and not allow for impromptu spiritwear, such as in a playoff or championship situation. “Typically, we get a shirt with a logo for three or four dollars,” Giles said. “If we work with licensed vendors, the costs will be passed down and the shirt will cost more. It will cut into our profits or we will have to sell it for more. And it increases the cost to the sponsors who may want to donate those shirts.” “That’s going to be the unintended consequence,” Giles said. Skoviera said LISD has been discussing the need to trademark its identifying marks for over five years and closely study-
Grandview Hills Elementary School’s inaugural Family Fitness Night brought together over 200 participants last week. “The goal is to help parents incorporate physical activities into their everyday life,” Grandview Hills Elementary School PTSA President Karin Crump Samman said. “It doesn’t have to
be difficult or expensive.” The Feb. 21 event featured activities and booths for the whole family including games, martial arts lessons, sushi samples, fitness and summer camp programs and a not-so-impromptu flash mob dance, Cupid Shuffle. On hand to help out was neighbor HEB’s “Buddy” who befriended kids and parents alike. “We’re always looking at ways of bringing the family in, as a community event” said school Principal Brenda Cruz.
Left: It was pandemonium as students and staffers at Grandview Hills Elementary School broke into dance at the school’s first annual Family Fitness Night. Bottom left : And, just one more! Four year old Christopher Rinke gets a workout doing pushups at Tuesday’s fitness event at Grandview Hills Elementary School. Photos by: Leslee Bassman
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LCRA’s Board of Directors last week approved a new Water Management Plan for lakes Travis and Buchanan that provides LCRA more flexibility to respond to severe droughts. Wednesday’s 10-5 vote was the culmination of more than 18 months of work by LCRA and an advisory committee. The plan determines how water is allocated from lakes Buchanan and Travis, the region’s water supply reservoirs. It will now be sent to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for final approval. “Board members showed that they can disagree about a weighty specific issue, but disagree agreeably,” LCRA Chair Tim Timmerman said. “The people of the basin should be gratified in knowing that the Board, our stakeholders and the LCRA staff succeeded in revising a management plan for lakes Travis and Buchanan that seeks to balance a wide variety of needs,” Timmerman added. The version of the plan ap-
proved Wednesday contains important changes recommended by the advisory committee and from the public during the public comment period. Nearly 450 written comments were submitted to LCRA and 49 people commented to the Board in person during last weeks meetings. The new plan contains many changes from the current one including: • Using two trigger points during the year to determine how much stored water from the lakes is available for agriculture, mostly downstream rice farming. One trigger point, Jan. 1, would be used for the first rice crop and a second, June 1, would be used for the second crop. The current plan contains only a Jan. 1 trigger point. • Eliminating "open supply," which is the practice of making unlimited water from the Highland Lakes available for downstream agriculture when the lakes are above a defined trigger point. In the future, the amount of stored water available from
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Below: Grandview Hills Elementary School parents Dean Slater and Jamyee Pleasant get ‘in step’ during last week’s Family Fitness Night. Slater and Pleasant’s daughter, Jade, is in the first grade at the school.
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ing the SABRE licensing program for about a year. Hutto ISD has already instituted the licensing procedure. Skoviera is behind LISD’s similar efforts to protect the district’s logos from potential misuse by unlicensed parties. SABRE will perform the licensing actions, monitor the program and pursue violators. The SABRE program will also provide additional revenue to the district. “We took a $15 million cut in revenue so we need every source of revenue we can get,” Skoviera said. There are numerous high school and middle school Booster Club organizations that rely on spirit wear sales to pay for chartered bus trips and extra expenses associated with their athletic, music or academic extracurricular programs. Any product used by the school or its organizations for official school use is exempt such as athletic team use and official uniforms. All other student groups, PTA organizations and Booster Clubs will be liable for a
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Local entrepreneurs start Responsible Ride business Trips from Four Points to Downtown $10/ride By LYNETTE HAALAND Four Points News Local entrepreneurs, including the owners of Cups & Cones, have launched a business called Responsible Ride to shuttle people from Four Points to downtown Austin. “The highways and parking lots are full and there has to be some relief. This was exemplified by getting stuck in a traffic jam at midnight a few months ago,” said Rick Nordin, who owns the Steiner Ranch ice cream shop and eatery with his wife Kristi Lee-Nordin. The Nordins, who live in River Place, are partnering with Ken and Angie Saunders, of Steiner, to bring the new shuttle service to Four Points. Their two Responsible Ride vans come in this week. The goals of Responsible Ride include a safe, affordable transportation alternative, reduce the number of cars on the road, eliminate the hassles associated with parking and to be “green”. Ken Saunders is a paramedic for the city of Austin. He observes the impact of traffic and congestion on the city streets every day. Angie Cook-Saunders recently was awarded her PhD and is working at Seton Healthcare Family. Responsible Ride’s initial kickoff at the Zilker Park Kite Festival this weekend, will cost $5 each way. Afterwards, the shuttle
to downtown is slated to be $10/ ride and events will be determined on a case by case basis. The Saunders and Nordins have known each other for a few years and both have daughters who are juniors in high school. The idea for a shuttle service started as a discussion. “As all good ideas go, we continued talking about it and asked others about the validity of the idea,” said Rick, who also works in the High Tech industry. They then did some market analysis and found a big market in the Four Points area. “We can only assume that the same concepts would fit in many areas around Austin and around the nation,” Rick said. The business will cater to both families and couples. On weekend nights, they expect to shuttle couples and families during events on weekend days like the Zilker Kite Festival and SXSW. The weekend shuttles runs continuously Thursday through Saturday and the event specific shuttles will run on an event schedule published before the event. Their website www.responsible-ride.com will be up before this weekend.
Enron Whistleblower Sherron Watkins speaks in Four Points this week By LESLEE BASSMAN Four Points News By August of 2001, Sherron Watkins had climbed to the top of the corporate ladder at successful Enron Corporation; yet, she took a huge risk by alerting CEO Ken Lay about her concerns
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Quinlan Park and Bullick Hollow roads being widened By LYNETTE HAALAND Four Points News As part of their plan for Water Treatment Plant 4, Austin Water will lengthen the acceleration lane on Bullick Hollow Road from the pump station to the top of the hill. This is in response to complaints that trucks hauling tunnel excavations were slowing traffic, according to the Comanche Trail Community Association newsletter. WTP4 officials say the work is expected to take another couple weeks. Intermittent lane closures are likely with flaggers to direct traffic. The trench construction for a
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fundraisers to generate the same funds they had before the program went into effect. For now, the licensing program is only applicable to LISD’s high school and middle schools and will begin as soon as the district receives licensing tags from SABRE. New Booster Club guidelines will reflect the change. “While this was mentioned during the training, the [Booster Club] handbook has not yet been updated because the contract was not signed between SABRE and Leander ISD until this November,” stated Skoviera. “Once it was finalized, our staff began working to update the language and will post the updated handbook as soon as that is finished”. Skoviera stated that the SABRE contract was signed on November 11, and the district held four meetings with Booster Clubs and PTA’s regarding the trade marking process: September 14, 2010; November 1, 2010; October 17, 2011; November 15, 2011. However, some LISD Booster Club officers were still unaware that the “proposal [was] moving forward” or “knew that there was talk” but caught off guard that the contract with SABRE was about to take effect.
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Seven student learning behaviors drive DI and Robotics competitions I mentioned several months ago how principals and teacher leadership teams across Leander ISD came together to answer some critical questions: What is it in classrooms that creates a high level of student engagement? What is it that causes students to be enthusiastic about their learning? What is it that we can do to best help students achieve our vision of all students exiting our system with a passion for learning? In short, what is “It”? In our quest to define “It,” we identified Seven Student Learning, or “It,” Behaviors that we believe are keys to ensuring students have ownership in their learning. This week, I will give you a couple of examples of how the Seven Student Learning Behaviors support success in two innovative programs. Destination ImagiNation (DI),
a school-sponsored, creative problem-solving program open to students in grades three-12. We say that DI is not a program, it’s a process because competitions are the culmination of many hours students have spent, often after school and on weekends, creating theatrical scenarios, building props and making costumes, all of which must come together and solve complex problems. Students involved in DI must create and design their solutions, without adult assistance, and include all of the elements necessary to bring it to life. On Saturday, February 18, hundreds of students, comprised of 78 teams, competed at the 2012 Destination ImagiNation (DI) Regional Competition at Harker Heights High School. Historically, our students excel at DI, and this year was no different. From
the regional tournament, we are Last September, these stuproud to send seven DI teams dents began to design robots — from Block House Creek that could manipulate bowling Elementary, Steiner Ranch El- balls, racquet balls and small ementary, Wiley Middle School, crates, and scale ramps and stack Cedar Park High School (two objects in order to score enough teams), Rouse points to qualiHigh School fy for each comand Vista Ridge petition. Trust High School — me when I say on to the state that the robots competition in they created are Corpus Christi very impressive. in April. But even more At the same BRET CHAMPION amazing is the time, after level of undermonths of hard work and nu- standing in math, engineering, merous competitions, roughly computer science and teamwork 30 LISD students from Cedar required to make the robots. On Park, Leander and Vandegrift top of that, as with DI, the mahigh schools are traveling to San jority of the work that went into Antonio this week to represent these robots was done outside of LISD at the FIRST (For Inspira- school. tion and Recognition of Science It goes without saying that and Technology) Tech Challenge the Seven Student Learning Beregional robotics championship. haviors are central to the success
of both DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge. These programs require students to dig deep within themselves to own their own learning, understand the challenges they must overcome, collaborate and communicate effectively with others, self-assess on their progress, problem-solve to improve their results and use higher-level thinking and creativity to create something that accomplishes their goals successfully. Success is completely in the hands of the students, which can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge. One of the most important Learning Behaviors students exhibit in DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge is that of collaboration. It takes a considerable amount of teamwork to successfully prepare a DI solution or program a robot. Students have
to learn to listen to each other and consider opinions other than their own, which also requires a certain level of maturity. At the same time, DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge push students to plot the course for their own success and learn outside of the classroom setting. Whether students are honing their computer programming skills or mastering costume design, students involved in DI and the FIRST Tech Challenge are gaining skills that they will use throughout the rest of their lives. These programs encourage students to flex their Seven Student Learning Behaviors muscle— they are what “It” is all about. To all of our state-bound DI teams and regional robotics contenders, we wish you the best of luck at the next level of competition. Have a great week!
GVH Elementary Team Pickle placed 3rd at DI Two teams from Grandview Hills Elementary School competed in the 12th Annual Capital Region Competition of the Destination Imagination Competition at Harker Heights High School in Killeen on Feb. 18. Team Pickle placed 3rd in the region for their "The Solar Stage" presentation. "We're really proud of our kids and the outstanding effort that they made in Killeen," said Karin Crump Samman, President, Grandvew Hills Elementary School. Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides educational programs for students to learn and experience creativity, teamwork and problem solving. Every year, 125,000 students across the U.S. and in more than 30 countries participate. It is an educational program in which student teams solve open-ended Challenges and present their solutions at Tournaments.
Golden Bananas Team competes at DI Regional Tourney The Golden Bananas” team of six students from Canyon Ridge Middle School was presented with the the prestigious DaVinci Award which honors the team who ”most clearly demonstrated that spirit of adventurous risk in their solutions and those that most creatively traveled to reach truly new and unique destinations.” Over 265 area school participated at the regional tournament as part of Destination ImagiNation® Inc. which teaches creativity, teamwork and problem solving to students across the U.S. and in more than 30 countries. ”The Golden Bananas” team consisting of the following students from CRMS: Winston Djonli, Rohan Gupta, Cassie Harmon, Lydia Lormand, Sonesh Patel and Ruben Ruiz. They worked together for several months and several hundred hours to create their solution to the ”Hold it” structural challenge, said Anjali Gupta, parent volunteer. Their project involved designing, building and testing a structure made entirely out of wood and glue to hold weight and contain tournament provided gold balls. In addition they had to design and build a delivery device that deposited the golf balls, one at a time, into the structure as well as create and present an original story about a ”captivator.” The team also learned and practiced creative quick-thinking skills for the Instant Challenge portion of the program. In ad-
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What was the most important fact you learned tonight at the Grandview Hills Elementary Family Fitness Night?
Shattered Dreams brings realistic crash to Vandegrift You may think a major acciings. Students have been screened, dent is taking place at Vandegand their backgrounds and motirift High School next week when vations have been checked out. emergency responders converge “It is a very intense on campus, but likely it will be a process. Some parents said they simulated crash called Shattered couldn’t do this even after they Dreams. LYNETTE signed up because it was too in It will be as close to reality as HAALAND tense,” Little said. Although no anyone would want to get in this one knows who will play what situation. role, parents have had to write Travis County Sheriff ’s Office, fire fight- obituaries for their child in case their child ers, STAR Flight and EMS personnel will “dies” in the mock accident. Students have be part of the demonstration on March 8 had to write good-bye letters. at 9500 McNeil Dr. There will be a mock During the course of the event, some car crash scene in which student victims students will go to a funeral home, some will be treated and a drunk driver will be the hospital. Travis County Sheriff ’s Offiarrested. The event will help emphasize the cers will deliver death notifications to parfact that someone is killed in a drinking ents. and driving-related accident about every “This is something very intense and the 15 minutes. most realistic it can be and because the stu Shattered Dreams is designed to educate dents are so social, it has a trickle down afstudents, parents and the community about fect to other students even if they are not the serious issue of underage drinking and involved,” Little said. driving. It encourages teens to make posi- It is expensive to put Shattered Dreams tive choices, just days before Leander ISD’s on, more than $10,000. Donations make it Spring Break, March 12 - 16. possible and it doesn’t cost VHS or LISD More than 80 VHS students and their money. United Heritage Credit Union doparents are involved in Shattered Dreams. nated shirts for the event for the faculty and “They don’t know what role they will be students involved. in,” said Charlie Little, VHS principal. If the impact of the event can save just Involvement has not been taken lightly. one life, it is worth every penny. Students filled out applications and had to “We hope it will have a profound affect write reasons why they want to participate. on all students,” Little said. There have been student and parent meet-
Underage Drinking Prevention seminar will be held March 8 The Greater Austin Underage Drinking Prevention Council and the Travis County Sheriff ’s Office will partner with Vandegrift High School on March 8 to offer a parentonly meeting to better equip parents with communication tools to talk to teens about alcohol. “I can tell you that after 15 years as a principal, I have had a front-row seat to the heartbreaking effects of drugs and alcohol on students and their families. From legal issues to funerals, I have seen the devastation and the after-math of the poor decisions made by “good” students,” stated Charlie Little, Principal at Vandegrift High School in an email sent to parents. He went on to state in the email: “We must anticipate that we will have the same problems that all high schools face concerning drugs and alcohol. The strength of our community is that we have the will to ensure that we address this issue with proactive interventions on the front-end, and compassionate support when students make poor decisions to guide them back to be successful.” The March 8 seminar includes a presentation followed by an interactive Q&A. In attendance will be a panel of experts and professionals: Travis County Sheriff ’s Office, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission,
Counselors, and other programs will be on hand to answer all questions. The event will cover the following questions and more: • What is the difference between an MIP and an MIC? What do I do if my child gets a ticket? • How are teenage drinking parties handled with law enforcement? Are the owners of the property cited for having underage drinkers on their property? Are property owners liable for underage drinking parties even if they don’t know about it? • What impact does 911 Lifeline Legislation have which grants immunity for illegal activity if calling for help when someone is in danger? • If law enforcement shows up to a party where there are some teens drinking, will everyone get a ticket even if they haven't been drinking? Will minors caught drinking be taken to jail? How can kids have a "Safe" party and what can parents do to ensure this? • Why is alcohol poisoning so hard to identify? How do I reduce my child's risk of being a victim (or perpetrator) of alcohol facilitated sexual assault at a party? Underage Drinking Prevention seminar will be March 8 from 7 to 8 pm in the VHS Gym.
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Endangered species make connecting River Place and Steiner unlikely Dear Editor, While reading Four Points of View (Feb. 16 issue), I took pause to a statement one of your readers made regarding the need for traffic relief. He suggested the idea of a cut-through road from Steiner Ranch to River Place subdivision. I thought...hmmm ...is that a viable option? After a few moments I realized that the idea (though noble) has a couple of fundamental flaws. First, that beautiful stretch of Hill Country separating the Steiner Ranch and River Place subdivisions is known as the Cortana Tract. It is one of the crown jewels in the City of Austin's Balcones Cayonland Preserve. Be warned my friends, that land is home to endangered species including the infamous Golden Cheek Warbler, the Black-capped Vireo, the rarely seen Tooth Cave Ground Beetle and the lesser known yet just
as endangered Tooth Cave Pseudoscorpion. For mortal man to enter upon that hallowed ground without a City issued permit, would subject such habitat plunderer to unimaginable consequences. To illustrate my point, River Place is currently facing harsh ramifications from City bureaucrats alleging that one of our awesome hiking trails has crossed approximately 10 feet onto the Cortana Tract. I am willing to bet the Blind Salamander doesn't even realize it! Back to the point...if a dirt walking path has shaken the City of Austin's environmental halls of justice, can one even imagine asking for City blessing of a four lane Highway 620-Alt. cutting through that ecological panacea? Second, I may be going out on a limb, but I will go there anyway. The offer to River Place residents of connecting the two subdivisions and thus allowing 3 to 4 thousand
additional vehicle trips per day through the neighborhood streets ...and I reiterate I am going out on a limb ...might cause a River Place eyebrow or two to be raised. River Place may need some lead time to install a few dozen more sound walls, a couple of stoplights and maybe a Wag-A-Bag gas station before the ribbon cutting ceremony. The silver lining ...it certainly would save time for River Place residents getting to the Steiner Ranch Steakhouse. So, as to the traffic relief issue... it will probably remain a topic of discussion for another day. We can, however, take comfort that the Golden Cheek Warbler remains safe in his oasis without the threat of human footsteps. I just wish those Pseudoscorpions would stay out of my backyard without a permit. In my humble opinion M. Byrne River Place
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Feb. 29 Steiner Ranch Neighborhood Association Founding Meeting Steiner Ranch Elementary at 7 pm
March 1 Concordia University Texas Speaker Series with Whistleblower at Enron from 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. at the Auditorium (Building A)
March 2 & 3 River Place Student Theatre presents Guys & Dolls Jr. Church at Canyon Creek at 7pm
March 3 Hill Country Education Foundation Giddy Up Gala at the Oasis from 6:30 - 11:30 pm
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The Cedar Park Rotary Club Talent Show auditioned over 180 talented Leander ISD students and seven of the 20 finalists are from Four Points. March 2 is the Finals Show Event at 7 p.m. at the Don Tew Performing Arts Center at Leander High School. Advance Purchase Seating Available at: http://www.seatyourself.biz/cedarpark JUNIOR DIVISION FINALISTS (K-6th grade) Olivia Hellmund: Laura Bush Elementary, 4th grade/vocals-dance Erin Xu: Laura Bush Elementary, 3rd grade/piano Tanvi Siruvuri: Laura Bush Elementary, 4th grade/dance Kevin Kao: River Ridge Elementary, 5th grade/violin Trinh Nguyen: Steiner Ranch Elementary, 5th grade/piano Winston Djonli: Canyon Ridge Middle School, 6th grade/high-speed math SENIOR DIVISION FINALIST (7th-12th grade) Dale Kuykendall: Canyon Ridge Middle, 7th grade/drums
Twenty-one residents of Longhorn Village enjoyed a week-long cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas during February 12-19. Residents enjoyed tours in Roatan, Hondurus; Belize City, Belize; and Cozumel, Mexico.
7th annual Run the Ranch March 3 Steiner Ranch’s 7th Annual Run the Ranch 5K, Kids K, & Health Fair kicks off at 9 a.m. on March 3. The start and finish will be at Towne Square Community Center Come walk, jog, or run through the neighborhood and after crossing the finish line there will be
music, food, health fair freebies, Rudy’s tacos and fun bounce houses for the kids. Register at www. runthranch.org. Run the Ranch 2012 is made possible by Hill Country Bible Church and local businesses.
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LCRA, FROM 1 the lakes for downstream agricultural operations would have an upper limit at all times. • Asking firm water customers, mostly cities and industry, to reduce water use consistent with their drought plans only after interruptible water from the Highland Lakes for agriculture is restricted. Current practice can result in LCRA requesting firm customers implement voluntary conservation before agricultural water is restricted. Firm customers pay considerably more for their water than farmers and other "interruptible" customers. • Using two different projected future demand levels in the new plan to set triggers based on the amount of water used by cities and industry. The current plan is based on a single demand projection looking 10 years in the future. This new approach responds to actual growth in water use and could make more water available for agricultural needs until it is needed by cities and industry. Because of the record hot and dry conditions in 2011, the amount of water flowing into the Highland Lakes last year was the lowest since the lakes were built. This has resulted in some of the lowest lake levels in history and could mean that most downstream farmers receive no water from the Highland Lakes this year.
“Everyone agrees that we need to develop new water supplies and this is the start,” Timmerman said. “This is the solution to the competing interests of the upper and lower basin.”
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Vandegrift High School’s tennis team posted strong results at this year’s Westwood Invitational held last Friday with top honors going to Dillon Launius (Boys Singles, A Draw), John Jacob and Josh Minor (Boys Doubles, A Draw), Max Nowak and Randell Harold (Boys Doubles, B Draw), Loryn Johnston and McKenna Shuster (Girls Doubles, B Draw). The Mixed Doubles team of Maria Giral and Chris Pleshek defeated Lake Travis for the Runners-Up spot.
Vandegrift Girl’s Track results from Georgetown meet on Feb. 18
The Lady Vipers traveled to New Braunfels Feb. 21st to face the San Antonio Brennan Lady Bears in the Regional Quarterfinals. The Vipers led 28-27 at the start of the fourth quarter; however, the Lady Bears went on a 13-3 run that proved too much for Vandegrift to overcome. The Lady Vipers fell by a score of 40-31. This was the first trip to the playoffs for the Lady Vipers. Their overall record is 23-15.
Varsity Girls: • 8th place overall out of 15 teams • 3200 M Run-1st place-Nikki Keys-time-11:57 2nd place-Gretta Smith-time- 12:02 JV Girls: • 7th place overall out of 15 teams • 100 M hurdles- 5th place-Brittany Brown-time-18.40 • 800 M Run-1st place-Caroline Zanot –time-2:42
The Lady Viper defense denying Brennan any easy shots - Paige Lichtenberger (#11, senior), Katy Gallien (#32, senior), Tasha Desai (#5, junior) and Jasmine Mobley (#13, senior)
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Viper Boys Basketball Viper Boys Basketball fought hard and played tough against LBJ but lost 68 - 40 on Feb. 21. It was the final game for nine Vandegrift High School seniors.
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Capital City Running focuses on sport, canines and community Capital City Running is the only specialty store on this side of town which focuses not only on the sport of running but also on the athlete as an individual. Store owners, Steve and Gina Bernhardt, have expanded their philosophy to their Steiner Ranch neighborhood. Every weekend they place water stations for people and dogs along roads in the community. The Bernhardts opened their local full service running shop just over a year ago after selling their first store in Appleton, Wisconsin. Searching for the perfect area in which to raise a family, the couple settled on Four Points where son, Max, currently attends Vandegrift High School. Their move to the West Austin area with its growth and active lifestyle was a good choice. With all of the city’s running stores downtown, the couple felt that the Four Points community was under served. “Any good running community is built around a local running store,” said Steve. Part of Capital City Running’s service includes taking a video of the customer running on a treadmill in the store. With the”gait video,” the Bernhardts can see the customer’s running style in slow-motion or stop-action. Using this bio-mechanical information, it’s only a short path for the professional to find the right pair of shoes to keep the runner healthy. “Most runners who get an injury will have that injury within
Part of Capital City Running’s service includes taking a “gait video” of the customer running on a treadmill in the store.
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