Anderson High School

Weekly Community Update

Volume III, Issue 30 - Week Ending 4/17/2026

Preview:

Principal's Message
Algebra I STAAR EOC - Wednesday, April 22nd!
Information about Business Practicum
Boys Golf - State Bound!
2026 Senior Celebration
Updated Finals Schedule
Tutoring Center Schedule
Saturday School Schedule
Upcoming Events
Kudos!

Hello everyone!

Two weeks of STAAR EOC testing down - one to go! So far, testing has gone extremely smoothly, and I'm excited to see what our students in English I, English II, Biology, and US History have learned this year - and tomorrow, we end our state testing with Algebra I!

On a different note, THE big topic of conversation these days is the Austin ISD budget. As of right now, I know of no decisions that have been made about how to meet the challenge of a projected $181 million deficit. As conversations evolve, I will be able to give more information.

One thing the district has asked for is for feedback. An email from Superintendent Segura went out earlier, and here is the information below:

Join the Conversation

These decisions are deeply personal because they affect the people and programs that make Austin ISD special. As a community, we need your perspective to help us prioritize the programs and services that matter most to our students. To ensure our approach is as thoughtful and inclusive as possible, I invite you to get involved to help us shape a sustainable path forward before the final board vote on June 18:

Mark Your Calendars:

Virtual Sessions: April 25 and May 9 (11 a.m.–12 p.m.)

In-Person Session: Austin High School on April 28 (6–7 p.m.)

Take the Survey: Complete our 2026–27 Budget Feedback Survey no later than April 30.

Algebra STAAR EOC - Wednesday, April 22nd!

This coming Wednesday, April 22nd, will be the STAAR Algebra I EOC test! This is NOT a full campus shutdown test. Students who are testing will be in testing rooms, and other students will go about their normal schedule (with some potential classroom changes if their normal classroom is being used by testing). Testing students should receive an email from Associate Principal Molina recently explaining the details, so check that email to get the info!

If you have any questions, please reach out to Dr. Molina at jesus.molina@austinisd.org

Information About Business Practicum

Trojan Families—did you know our seniors can earn credit while gaining real-world experience through the Practicum in Entrepreneurship? Qualifying students completing a course of study in business, computer science, or related fields intern in local workplaces, applying what they’ve learned in a live setting, building skills in teamwork, collaboration...delivering great customer results together!

Internships take place Tuesday and Thursday mornings throughout the school year.

If you own a local business and would like to support these bright young professionals, we’d love to connect. Visit our website to learn more or request a conversation.

“Hosting a high school senior intern through this program was a win-win: the student brought real curiosity and energy, and the program made it easy for us to provide meaningful work, clear structure, and strong support. I’d recommend it to any employer who wants to make a genuine impact.” — Jason Rapaport, Co-Founder, Birds Barbershop

Boy's Golf - State Bound!

Battling through tough competition and rain-soaked conditions at Margaritaville in Lake Conroe, the Anderson boys rose to the occasion when it mattered most.

The squad of Thomas Ashy, Stephen Eidson, Drew Gilley, Sam Woodberry, and Cash Hernandez delivered an outstanding performance, finishing as the Region 3-5A Runner-Up with a two-day team score of 631—edging out Brenham by just two strokes to punch their ticket to STATE!

Team 2—Josh Mazar, Tyler Crawford, Gabe Brockman, Gage Haegelin, and Jake Lea—also turned in a strong showing with a solid team score of 682.

We’re incredibly proud of these boys and all the hard work they’ve put in!

Next Up:

State Tournament: April 27–28

Legacy Hills | Georgetown

Updated Finals Schedule

As you may have read in my email previously this week, we did have to SLIGHTLY adjust the finals schedule for this semester because of the snow days and parent/teacher conferences. I will share a screenshot of the finals schedule below. For the FULL finals schedule, including the senior finals schedule and finals week attendance activities, please go to this link.

AP Testing Coming Up!

College Board AP Exams are now just a month away! Find your exam day and start time using the 2026 AP Testing Calendar and review these Important Testing Information and Details.

Now is the time to ensure your district-issued Chromebook is test-ready! If you have a cracked screen or it doesn't hold a charge for at least 4 hours, please take your device to the library for assistance with exchanging or repairing it.

Tutoring Center is Open!

If you're looking for a quiet place to study and receive help on academic work, you have access to free tutoring from Anderson teachers and NHS tutors TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS in the library from 4:45 to 6:00.

After tutoring, there is a late bus that will take students home. Students MUST be in the tutoring center in order to ride the late bus home. Bus stops for the late bus are listed below.

Saturday School dates!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, April 20 -
- Cap and Gown Pick up - Lunch - Room 130
Tuesday, April 21-
- After School Tutoring - Library - 4:45 - 6
- Track @ Area Meet
- Varsity Baseball vs Navarro @ Nelson - 5 PM
Wednesday, April 22 -
- Algebra EOC Testing
- Sub Varsity Baseball vs Navarro @ Nelson
  - JV1 - 7:30, JV2 - 5 PM
Thursday, April 23 -
- After School Tutoring - Library - 4:45 - 6 PM
- Belles Spring Show - Anderson PAC - 7 PM
Friday, April 24 - ( B DAY)
- Varsity Baseball vs Navarro @ Nelson - 5 PM
- Belles Spring Show - Anderson PAC - 7 PM
Saturday, April 25 -
- Varsity Baseball @ Buda - 12 PM
- Sub Varsity Baseball vs Navarro @ Anderson
  - JV1 - 1:30
  - JV2 - 11
- Belles Spring Show - Anderson PAC - 7 PM

Anderson Softball

Softball is ending the regular season tied for 4th place and is playing a play-in game today at 6 pm against Crockett! Go ladies!

Anderson Track and Field

LOTS OF KUDOS FOR TRACK AND FIELD!!!

Last Wednesday & Thursday the Girls & Boys competed at the District Meet. Anderson came out and put in some work. Please look at the results below.

The top 4 finishers advanced to the Area Meet, which was all day yesterday at East View High School and did an amazing job & broke a school record. The top 4 finishers will advance to the Regional Meet in Webster on May 1st & 2nd. The Area Meet results are listed below the District Results.

Thanks for your continued support!

Girls Varsity & JV are District Champs!!

Varsity Girls:

3200m Run- Elizabeth Tucker- 4th

Caroline Talarcek- 6th

4x100- 1st -Naliyah Anderson, Izzy Bremer, Julyana Harris, Clara Gustafson

100 m Dash- Clara Gustafson- 1st

Naliyah Anderson- 4th

4x200- 2nd -Izzy Bremer, Juliet Anderson, Naliyah Anderson, Zibi Weaver

400 m Dash- Zibi Weaver- 1st

200 m Dash- Julyana Harris- 1st

Izzy Bremer- 3rd

1600 m Run- Elizabeth Tucker- 5th

Caroline Talarcek- 6th

4x400 Relay- 2nd Clara Gustafson, Bojana Rutkouszky, Avery Riggsbee, Zibi Weaver

Field Events:

Long Jump- Paola Castro Castillo- 1st

Izzy Bremer- 2nd

Julyana Harris- 3rd

Triple Jump- Paola Castro Castillo- 1st

Julyana Harris- 2nd

Zibi Weaver- 3rd

High Jump- Clara Gustafson- 3rd

Discus- Kate Leakey- 3rd

Elise Keith- 5th

Shot Put- Anna Lopez- 4th

Kate Leakey- 6th

JV Girls:

3200m Run- Lucille Flynn- 1st

4x100- 1st -Tahila Alabi, Vivienne Gonzalez, Ada Briggs Beard, Brilyn Wilkerson

100 m Hurdles- Jia Saavendra- 3rd

100 m Dash- Tahila Alabi- 1st

Lucy Doezema- 6th

4x200- 1st -Tehila Alabi, Lucy Doezema, Jazmin Thomas, Dami Alabi

400 m Dash- Brilyn Wilkerson- 1st

Vivienne Gonzalez- 2nd

200 m Dash- Jazmin Thomas- 2nd

Dami Alabi- 4th

1600 m Run- Lucille Flynn- 3rd

Ariana Cruz- 4th

4x400 Relay- Scratched due to Weather

Field Events:

Long Jump- Jia Saavedra- 2nd

Ada Briggs Beard- 5th

Triple Jump- Brilyn Wilkerson- 2nd

High Jump- Brilyn Wilkerson - 3rd

Lucy Doezema- 4th

Discus- Ava Tarzia- 2nd

Gabby Flores- 5th

Payton Milligan- 6th

Shot Put- Payton Milligan- 1st

Ava Tarzia- 4th

Gabby Flores- 5th

Pole Vault- Dami Alabi- 2nd

Daisy Nguyen- 5th

Varsity, JV & Freshman Boys are District Runner-Ups!

Varsity Boys:

3200m Run- Manny Garduno-2nd

A.J. Marron Rodriguez- 4th

Eli Peng- 6th

4x100- 5th - Nick Briggs, Brady Foster, Colin McDavid, Kyler Sharp

800 m Run- Colby Huntress- 1st

Eli Peng- 5th

Andre Saeger- 7th

110 m Hurdles- Korvin Chawla- 8th

100 m Dash- Kyler Sharp- 1st

Brady Foster- 4th

400 m Dash- Ben Jaggers- 1st

Owen Phillips- 3rd

Tate Haines- 7th

300 m Hurdles- Nathan Hadavi- 6th

1600 m Run- Colby Huntress- 1st

Eli Peng- 5th

Manny Garduno- 6th

4x400 Relay- 2nd -Colby Huntress, Tate Haines, Ben Jaggers, Owen Phillips

Field Events:

Long Jump- Kyler Sharp- 1st

Discus- Max Middleton- 3rd

Jackson Hall- 4th

Quentin Stoegner- 6th

Shot Put- Jackson Hall- 1st

Zac Cecalek- 3rd

JV Boys:

3200m Run- Luke Mathis-2nd

John Michael Hubik- 3rd

4x100- 2nd - Tristian Davis, Aidan Ziaja, Quentin Flores, Jack Vandermuelen

800 m Run- Luke Mathis- 1st

Elyas Guzak- 5th

Eduardo Juarez- 6th

110 m Hurdles- Quentin Flores- 6th

100 m Dash- Aidan Ziaja- 3rd

Tristian Davis- 4th

4x200- 2nd - William Aycock, Jett Berry, Tristian Davis, Aidan Ziaja, Quentin Flores

1600 m Run- John Michael Hubik- 1st

Harry Meyers- 5th

Henry Gibson- 6th

4x400 Relay- Scratched due to Weather

Field Events:

Discus- Tristan Prince- 3rd

Shot Put- Charlie Snavely- 2nd

Devin Navarro- 4th

Tristan Prince- 5th

Freshman Boys:

4x100- 1st - Rhys Riemondi, Reid Marcum, Omri Zach, Nash Naioti

800 m Run- Sullivan Willyard- 1st

110 m Hurdles- Toren Fitz- 1st

100 m Dash- Rhys Riemondi- 2nd

4x200- 2nd- Omri Zach, Rhys Riemondi, Miles Chrzanowski, Nash Naioti

400 m Dash- Jeremiah Coleman- 3rd

300 m Hurdles- Reid Marcum- 1st

Jesse Cooper- 3rd

Miles Chrzanowski- 4th

200 m Dash- Ronan Davis- 5th

1600 m Run- Charles Flynn- 1st

Sullivan Willyard- 2nd

4x400 Relay- Scratched due to Weather

Field Events:

Long Jump- Reid Marcum- 1st

Michael Roach- 5th

Triple Jump- Miles Chrzanowski- 1st

Reid Marcum- 4th

Discus- Fabien Marin- 3rd

Cameron Suarez- 5th

Shot Put- Cameron Suarez- 4th

Eli Elhert- 5th

Fabien Marin- 6th

Last night, Varsity Girls represented & finished 3rd Overall at the Area Meet! The top 4 finishers will move on to the Regional Meet in Webster on 5/1-5/2. If you have them in class, please congratulate them!!

Varsity Girls:

3200m Run- Elizabeth Tucker- 3rd

4x100- 1st -Tehila Alabi, Izzy Bremer, Julyana Harris, Clara Gustafson

100 m Dash- Clara Gustafson- 1st

Naliyah Anderson- 8th

4x200- 5th -Naliyah Anderson, Juliet Anderson, Julyana Harris, Zibi Weaver

400 m Dash- Zibi Weaver- 5th

200 m Dash- Izzy Bremer- 7th

4x400 Relay- 4th Clara Gustafson, Bojana Rutkouszky, Avery Riggsbee, Zibi Weaver

Field Events:

Long Jump- Paola Castro Castillo- 1st ** New School Record 17'11 1/2

Izzy Bremer- 2nd

Julyana Harris- 3rd

Triple Jump- Julyana Harris- 2nd

Zibi Weaver- 6th

High Jump- Clara Gustafson- 7th

Discus- Kate Leakey- 7th

Shot Put- Anna Lopez- 8th

Varsity Boys finished 5th Overall!

Varsity Boys:

3200m Run- Manny Garduno-6th

AJ Marron Rodriguez- 8th

800 m Run- Colby Huntress- 1st

100 m Dash- Kyler Sharp- 4th

Brady Foster- 7th

400 m Dash- Ben Jaggers- 7th

Owen Phillips- 8th

1600 m Run- Colby Huntress- 1st

Caroline Talarcek- 6th

4x400 Relay- 4th - Owen Phillips,Tate Haines, Ben Jaggers, Colby Huntress

Field Events:

Long Jump- Kyler Sharp- 1st

Discus- Max Middleton- 4th

Jackson Hall- 7th

Shot Put- Jackson Hall- 1st

Zach Cecalek- 5th

Pole Vault- Zach Jones- 7th