Daily Preparation

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY FRIDAY!

GHS Smokin Steers BBQ Team- Good luck to our Smokin Steers of Will Frazier, Phillip Rice, Joe Todd, and Chandler Dyer who will be competing in the Texas BBQ State Championship this weekend in Burnet, TX!

GHS UIL Academic Students Competing at State- Best of luck to Zara VanAlstyne, Georgina Guerrero, Dawson Grubbs, Joseph Roberts, Sydney Craig, and Mia Heartfield who are competing at the UIL State Academic meet!

Lady Blues Softball- The Lady Blues will face Decatur in game two at 5:00 pm in Bowie today.  The Lady Blues are down 0-1 in the best of three series. Go Lady Blues!

Graham Steer Baseball- The Steer won game one 7-4 over Snyder! Games two (and three if necessary) will be at noon in Graham on Saturday.

Lady Blues Qualify for UIL State Track Meet- Congrats to Chloe Menard, Claire Jones, Rosie Schaffer, and Summer Croxton on their 4x200 2nd Place finish at the Regional Meet!  Summer Croxton won the 200 M with a time of 24.99, breaking her own GHS Record!

GHS Technology Student Association Teams Qualify for National Contest- This past weekend our TSA students competed at the state level.  Results from the contest are Debating Technological Issues- 1st Place for Hayden Husen & Jack Mercer. Forensics- 2nd Jorge Ramirez and Alex Husen. Promotional Design- 7th Place for Jay Robertson. Flight Endurance - 8th Place for Chaucey Thomas. Scientific Visualization- 9th Place for Sarah Farmer, Bryce Bozeman, Tommy Mercer.  Hayden Husen, Jack Mercer, Jorge Ramirez and Alex Husen qualify for the national contest!  Congrats on a job well done!

GHS Students at International Conference- GHS Students Rebecca Beale & Kendall Zimmer represented GHS at the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida this week! Way to represent ladies!!!

Graham FFA- The Cotton & Wool teams competed in the State contests this past weekend in Lubbock. The Cotton team of Ashton Day, Zane Garner, Kirkland Hutchens, Corey Ballew, & Luke Holland placed 5th out of 103 teams with Luke being 6th individually. This was our first year for wool judging and the team ended up 37th of 56 teams. Congrats on another successful judging season!

Pioneer Elementary and Crestview Elementary Earn High-Reliability Schools Level II Certification- For the past two years Graham ISD, in partnership with ESC 9, has participated in the Marzano High-Reliability School (HRS) framework to ground us in specific, research-based strategies for school improvement. Congratulations to Pioneer and Crestview on achieving Level II Certification!

Remembering Wyatt Dale Water Safety Family Fun In The Sun Event- Summer is coming... for many that means time in the water! Attached is information about the Remembering Wyatt Dale Water Safety Family Fun in the Sun event being held on Saturday, May 18th from 10 am to 2 pm on Graham Downtown Square.

Daily Preparation

There is an old saying: Champions don’t become champions in the ring…they are merely recognized there!  If you want to see where someone develops into a champion, look at his or her daily routine. Former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier stated, “You can map out a fight plan or life plan, but when the action starts, you’re down to your reflexes. That’s where your road work shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, you’re getting found out now under the bright lights.” Natural talent alone will not yield success…it takes the daily preparation.

CORNY JOKE OF THE DAY:

What goes up when May rain comes down?

An umbrella.