RACE TO 100
RACE TO 100 BL Names New Athletic Director and Sets Sights on Continued Formational Success BY JE NNI F E R NI M M O D I R EC TO R O F CO MMUNI CATI ONS
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ishop Lynch High School has an outstanding tradition of excellence when it comes to athletics. In fact, Bishop Lynch is on the cusp of securing its 100th team state championship. The women’s basketball state title earned in March 2021 brought BL’s total team state championships to 99. However, sports participation at Bishop Lynch is so much more than wins and losses. It’s an integral part of student formation, and as such, the athletics department is now
housed in the school’s formation quadrant with the house system, campus ministry, health and wellness, community service, activities and clubs, and discipline – all led by Candice Barbosa, assistant principal of student formation. It’s a history of school sports success and a renewed focus on student formation that has a new director of athletics leading the way to a future of continued faith-filled formation on the fields, courts, tracks, mats, pools, links, lakes, and more.
Allie Tennyson was named Bishop Lynch High School’s director of athletics in early 2021 after having served the school as the women’s athletic director and head women’s soccer coach. Now at the helm of the storied BL athletic program, Coach Tennyson – BL’s first female athletic director – has her eyes on the total formational development of BL’s approximately 700 student-athletes and the growth of its 18 sports programs as the largest school in Division 6A of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS).
