Campus News

On Wednesday, January 25th the Savio Men's and Women's Swim Teams dominated the 2017 TAPPS Central Regional Championship scores. The Savio Men's Team won first place at 141 points and the Women's Team just above at 148 points. 

Both Men’s and Women’s Teams will compete at Finals on February 10th. The location is being determined. Mark your calendar to catch our Swim Teams competing LIVE!

Below is a statement from Coach Chris Kjeldsen:

"The whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. T.E.A.M. Work! Together Everyone Accomplishes More really does work."

"Scoring points or not, is secondary to a unified effort. From our most veteran to our most inexperienced swimmer there was a unified effort to stay focused on the team goal to do your best. Every swim mattered. The cheering for team mates mattered. The goal setting cards mattered. Was it perfect? No, but getting pretty close. 54 of 64 swims where better than seeded! That is a staggering 83% better than seeded performance from the team."

"Doing your best is ultimately all that matters. Doing you best on a team with the same mindset can produce spectacular results. Congratulations Savio swimmers for coming together to win the regional championship."  -Coach Chris

Thirteen Savio Seniors showed their support for the cause of School Choice at the Capitol building in downtown Austin on a beautiful Tuesday morning. Specifically, they were gathered in support of the proposed state legislation - also supported by the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops - for the creation of tax credit scholarships, which would incentivize businesses to contribute to scholarship funds for those with financial need. 

The Capitol grounds were dotted with bright yellow scarves as students danced to Justin Timberlake and shouted in support of the cause. Among the speakers to the youthful crowd were Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and a 5th grader who rhetorically displayed the benefits of her charter school education in imploring those gathered to support school choice.  

After lunch, students got a glimpse of our government in action as they toured our beautiful Capitol building and witnessed the beginning of a meeting of the House of Representatives. At a particularly poignant moment, a Representative from San Antonio convened the House members in a moment of silence in the memory of Jonathan Murphy, a Good Samaritan who became a victim of this past Sunday's mall shooting in San Antonio. 

"The School Choice rally was an amazing experience," Senior Amanda Fuentes remarks. "Being able to join together with students from across the state of Texas from all walks of life allowed me to encounter Christ in his children, and reminded me that a Catholic education is a wonderful gift."

With an exciting come from behind win over Hyde Park, Savio Boys Soccer improved their district record to 2-0 and season record to 9-2.

Five minutes into the first half Kyle Gonsalvez opened the scoring off a beautiful pass from Cian McGetrick. Regents evened the score near the end of the first half with a long shot on goal, then pulled ahead midway through the second half off another long shot. A few minutes later some nice passing between Cian and Santi Sustaeta to Preston Noonan evened the score. After many frustrating near misses, and some goals called back, Savio scored the winning goal with five minutes remaining as Nathan French put in a rebound off a Brendan Mazzurana shot off a Patrick Miles direct kick. 

Savio is currently ranked as the top TAPPS Division 2 team in the state (ranked by Maxpreps).

Savio continues district play with a home game next Friday at 7pm against St. Michael's at the Town and Country soccer complex. 

Go Eagles!

On Saturday, January 14th six members of the Savio Academic Team competed in an academic invitational meet at Churchill High School in San Antonio. There were over 200 participants in the event representing over two dozen local high schools, including a number of big San Antonio public schools.

The individual results are shown below.

9th/10th grade Number Sense
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1st Beatrice Hoang

9th/10th grade Calculator
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1st Beatrice Hoang

Current Events & Issues
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2nd Brendan Miles

9th/10th grade Math
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4th Beatrice Hoang

Literary Criticism
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7th Amanda Fuentes

Over forty teams participated in the the LASA hosted and Indeed Software Sponsored Computer Science tournament this weekend.  Almost every Austin-area public high school was in attendance.  The competition included a Novice division for beginners, an Intermediate division for students currently in AP Computer Science, and an Advanced Division for experienced programmers.  The competition consisted of a 45 minute AP-style written test, followed by a 12 question programming contest.  The theme for this competition was table games, as problems included analyzing an Othello Board, simulating tic-tac-toe, and mapping out paths from Settlers of Catan.  

The intermediate team of Patrick Miles, Trevor Staebel, and Joel Uong finished in 6th place in their division.  This was the team's first competition and they held their own against teams from around the city.  

In the advanced round, the Savio team held first place after the written round, with three other teams extremely close.  As time wound down in the programming round, Savio was able to hold off Westwood and Vandegrift, but Westlake edged us out by a fraction giving Savio the second place award.  

For the written round awards, Jonathan Shoemaker won 1st overall, with Emily Shoemaker taking 8th.  Trevor Staebel placed 2nd in the Novice Written event.  There were over 120 students in the competition.  

After falling behind 0-1 on a nicely placed long shot on goal, Savio came from behind to beat Regents in boys soccer in the first game of district play at Regents. 

Savio quickly responded with Cian McGetrick threading a pass to Kyle Gonsalvez who dribbled the defender and drilled the shot past the keeper. Savio's midfield continued to dominate the play with clever passing between Brendan Mazzurana, Kyle Gonsalvez, Santi Sustaeta and Preston Noonan frustrating the Regents team all game. 

Midway through the second half an amazing long throw in from Preston Noonan over the keeper (almost to the far post) led to a perfectly timed leaping header by Nathan French to secure the win.

After an away game in Boerne on Tuesday, Savio continues district play on Friday at 7pm with a home game against Hyde Park, at the Town and Country soccer complex.

Savio art students received a total of 29 Scholastic Art Awards! The Scholastic Art Awards are the oldest and most well recognized art awards for high school students in the United States. Nine of these awards were Gold Keys and these students' pieces will move on to a national  adjudication in New York. 

Below is a list of all of the awards and photos of the 9 Gold Key winners. 

Congratulations to all!

With a Santi Sustaeta penalty kick in the first half, and a second half goal on a breakaway by Nathan French (from a beautiful long pass over the defense from Preston Noonan), Savio boys soccer defeated St. Andrew's Tuesday night 2-1. 

Savio is now 7-2 on the season, while St. Andrew's falls to 7-3. The Savio defense, including seniors Cameron Henry, Patrick Miles and Mitch Romero did a great job shutting down a strong St. Andrew's team.   

Savio begins district play Friday night at Regents.

Go Eagles!

Congratulations to the Savio girls and boys swim teams for placing first in the inaugural TAPPS District swim meet January 11! 

"The swim meet at Round Rock served its purpose as a wake up meet, and wake up the girls and boys teams did a day later with improved focus and effort and quite a few best time swims. The team's newly created cheer was practiced and then performed at the beginning of the meet and the high energy continued throughout the meet." 

"Several swimmers experienced that the power of changing one's mind is the path to changing one's time. The team was so fast that at the conclusion of the meet they got out of the building and on the bus forgetting to attend the awards ceremony. Once they learned that they had won the district meet they made up for it with their own awards ceremony on the bus ride back to school. Today we celebrate. Tomorrow we go to work on the regional championship January 25th."
- Coach Kjeldsen

See Final Scores HERE.

With strong wins against Waco La Vega (5-1) and Florence HS (3-1), and a narrow loss to Austin Travis High School (1-2), Savio boys soccer just missed the finals of the Jarrell Soccer tournament. Last year Travis High School was one of the top 5A schools in the area in boys soccer, and Savio nearly pulled off an upset, as it continues a strong start to the season.

After a rematch with St. Andrews on Tuesday, district play for Savio will begin Friday at Regents.

The Savio Lady Eagles hit the field Tuesday night in Waco ready to play and shut down the Reicher Lady Cougars 5-0.  Goals were scored by Stephanie White, Lauren Tull, Morgan Ayers, and Katie McGetrick.

Savio's defense was strong, as they did not allow any shots on goal. District play begins on Friday. 

Go Eagles!