National Charity League Lone Star Chapter welcomes Rockwall ISD coaches to pep-rally themed kickoff

National Charity League Lone Star Chapter welcomes Rockwall ISD coaches to pep-rally themed kickoff

ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (August 23, 2021) The Lone Star Chapter of National Charity League, Inc. recently held a pep rally-themed kick-off meeting. Special guest speakers were Russ Reeves, Director of Rockwall ISD Athletics; Coach Mike Spradlin, Campus Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Rockwall-Heath High School; and Coach Trey Brooks, Campus Athletic Coordinator and Head […]

Senior Spotlight: Fern Ramos & Allison Gentry, Heath Gymnastics Co-Captains

Senior Spotlight: Fern Ramos & Allison Gentry, Heath Gymnastics Co-Captains

(ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – March 27, 2020) The response from parents has been overwhelming as we shine the spotlight on our local graduating seniors. But this senior spotlight comes to us from Jennifer Bolli Holden, Head Coach Girl’s Gymnastics at Rockwall-Heath High School, with a very special message. Coach Holden writes, “It breaks my heart that we didn’t […]

Rockwall High’s Coach Webb named President of Texas High School Coaches Association

(ROCKWALL, TX – July 26, 2018) Rockwall High School head football coach Rodney Webb was named the new president of the Texas High School Coaches Association on Tuesday afternoon. This will be Coach Webb’s sixth season as the head man of the Rockwall Yellowjackets. He has reached the playoffs all previous five seasons. Webb’s overall […]

Superstardom vs Summer Kid-dom

(ROCKWALL, TX – June 28, 2015) “I’m dreading summer, Coach.” A middle-schooler dreading summer, dreading the break from school—the bane of their existence? Then she described an Olympic-esque training regimen. Playing for three teams, training, traveling to tournaments every weekend, clinics, camps; I needed a three-day weekend after hearing her summer schedule. Man, times have […]

Fulton announces hire of baseball coach

HEATH, TX (June 25, 2014) The Fulton School announces that Coach Johnathan Bryant has joined the Fulton family to further develop their Baseball and Physical Education programs. Coach Bryant comes with a wealth of experience; he has earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences from The University of Texas at Tyler, experienced five years […]

Bikes and big dogs

ROCKWALL, TX (June 22, 2014) In summer, we have movie nights nearly every evening, and sometimes the kids will join us. We’ll pop popcorn and settle in for a late night. It’s brutal on Angie and I the next morning (I teach summer school right now) but it’s fun being together. One evening we watched […]

Christmas Shopping Survival

(December 8, 2013) Like most men, I avoid shopping sprees, sales, or any outing that calls for hours of store after store and rack after rack of browsing, and after 20 years of marriage, Angie and I have an understanding; I don’t go on shopping trips and she doesn’t watch ballgames (unless it’s our kids […]

The boy who needed no costume…a lesson in uniqueness

(Rockwall) October 24, 2013 – Gene looked like a Halloween costume, and when he stole that jack-o-lantern off some folk’s porch, they just stared; didn’t blink an eye. The gag must’ve seemed like part of his getup, like it made sense for someone so odd to run down the street with a flaming pumpkin. I […]

Summer vacation for the man in debt

June 27, 2013 – Christy busted in my classroom too excited for schoolwork. Paris would be her summer destination. “Paris,Texas?” I asked. “Paris, France, Coach,” she giggled – although to me, Paris, Texas, sounded pretty good. The class erupted in vacation plans: Brittany was visiting her family’s beach house in Galveston while Charlie would deep-sea […]

Teacher summer reflections

(Rockwall) June 23, 2013 – My students clamored for summer break, having whined and begged for free days once Christmas ended (an exercise in futility… I give no free days, ever). After a year of higher standards, grueling tests and lackluster results, this class cleaned out their locker, turned in lingering assignments, and became freshman—another […]