CFISD Trio Named to the Texas Sports Writers All-State Baseball Team

taco-inspired canned food items, including beans, corn and nacho cheese and included taco spice packets and taco shell boxes to help create the village.

After winning awards at the Houston competition, the structure moved on to compete against other structures from other city competitions from across the world.

“This is an extremely big accomplishment,” said Josh Simmons, Bridgeland architecture teacher. “This isn’t just an award that’s won by high schools, this is an award that’s competing against industry professionals, major architecture and construction firms and other huge partners in major cities across the world. The fact that we won is absolutely mind-boggling. This is a huge win for us and I’m super excited to be a part of it!”

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25 CFISD Students Named 2023 National Merit Semifinalists

Three Cypress Ranch High School baseball athletes earned honors on the 2022 Texas Sports Writers Association/Blue Bell Class 6A all-state team.

Graduates Charlie Feris, Joshua Ibe and Alex Renfrow helped lead Cypress Ranch to the District 16-6A championship and appearance in the Class 6A Region II area round.

Feris and Renfrow earned honorable mention as pitchers. Ibe also earned honorable mention as a first baseman.

The all-state team is voted on by the Texas Sports Writers Association, which is comprised of sports writers and editors from daily and weekly newspapers across Texas as well as sports internet services. It features three starting pitchers, one relief pitcher, one player at the remaining eight positions and a designated hitter. First, second and third teams are selected in addition to those who earned honorable mention.

A total of 25 CFISD seniors representing seven high schools were confirmed as semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, officials announced on Sept. 14, allowing academically talented students to continue in the competition for approximately 7,250 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million.

The following students have been named National Merit semifinalists:

BRIDGELAND

Henry Hoover

Andrew Jung

Aditya Naidu

Catherine Pfaffenberger Reid Zepeda

CY-FAIR

Juan Durante Maggie Ni

CYPRESS RANCH

Riven Amdal

Sarah Hall

Matthew Noriega

Veronica Patino

CYPRESS RIDGE Yannick Mofor

CYPRESS WOODS

Travis Allen

Eric Baquerizo Megan Cornejo

Bidushee Khan

Brandon Morrison

Rahul Rathan

Brinley Scott

Vittal Sivakumar Andre Zhang

JERSEY VILLAGE

Kasim Dawood

LANGHAM CREEK

Ryan Colby

Nitya Kodali Zahin Rahman