Restaurant management team members each earn $50,500 in scholarships, head to nationals in May! Culinary team members cook up excellent finish at state, each take home $23,500 scholarships ROCKWALL, TEXAS (March 15, 2014) Two teams in the Rockwall Culinary Arts program recently competed in the Texas ProStart state finals – an honor achieved by first placing within […]
Rockwall home-schoolers head to Washington D.C. for Nationals ROCKWALL (February 10, 2014) Each January thousands of middle school students across the nation build physical models, write detailed essays, hone live presentations and program digital prototypes that represent how they imagine innovations changing the cities we call home. Three Rockwall seventh-graders (Kyle Fletcher, Faith Mitchell and […]
ROCKWALL (December 4, 2013) Freshman lacrosse players from Rockwall County made history over Thanksgiving break by representing the smallest county in Texas at the IMG National Lacrosse Tournament in Bradenton, Florida. The metroplex is quickly establishing itself as a force in lacrosse, and these local young men made Texas proud! Rockwall High School freshman Grant […]
(ROCKWALL – September 22, 2013) The Rockwall Aquatic Center of Excellence (RACE) has just begun its 5th year of swimming. During the recently completed Long Course Season, RACE had an impressive showing at several Championship meets in texas and on both the East Coast and West Coast of the nation. The Junior National Championship was […]
(Rockwall ISD) June 25, 2013 – Nicole Johnson, a student in the Rockwall-Heath Chapter of Family, Career & Community Leaders of America, is busy preparing for National FCCLA Competition on July 7-11 in Nashville, Tennessee. The soon-to-be-senior is also spending time this summer working at the Rockwall Area Chamber of Commerce. Nicole was one of several […]
June 21, 2013 –Katie Callaghan, a junior at West Texas A&M in Canyon and a member of the WTAMU Equestrian Team, competed in the May 2013 Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) National Finals Competition in Harrisburg, PA. With 400+ teams and more than 8,900 riders, the IHSA is the oldest and largest annual collegiate riding […]
(ROCKWALL ISD-April 27, 2013) Rockwall High School’s Academic Decathlon team competed at the United States Academic Decathlon National Competition in Minneapolis, Minnesota April 25-27. They finished third in the nation for the second year in a row. The team was led by coaches Michael Oldham and Nicole Redmond. First and second place wins […]
The Wylie East Sapphires competed at the Champion Dance Nationals at the University of Florida in Orlando on March 3, taking home several outstanding awards. The drill team dancers also spent time at Walt Disney World, visiting the various parks and enjoying a character breakfast with Winnie the Pooh and Friends and a private team […]