Official Athletics Dept of St. John's School Located in Houston, TX

Recent News

Max Field Hockey Mavericks
10/23/2020
Congratulations to Sloan Davidson '22 and Tyler Kennedy '21 for making the West/Mid-West Region Players to Watch list for Max Field Hockey.
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Real Runners
10/16/2020
Maverick Cross Country is back on course. The pandemic may have scratched some of the schedule, but it couldn’t stop the 40th running of the Ramble. While there there will always be a gap in the win/loss record from March to October, the competitive drive of the Maverick runners never went missing. St. John’s won the boys varsity, girls varsity, girls jv, and took a close second in the boys jv division. The Boys also won the jv and varsity races at the Woodlands Christian meet the following week.
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Mavericks Ramble to Victory
10/11/2020
The Boys and Girls Varsity and Girls JV all finished first at the 40th Maverick Ramble, held at Spring Creek Park in Tomball. The early morning fog finally cleared about the same time Emmanuel Sgouros '22 crossed the finish line for the top time of the day (16:20.2) in the Boys Varsity race. The JV Boys, led by first place finisher Jack Litton '24 (18:42.2), tied with St. Thomas but finished second on the 6th runner tie-breaker. The Girls' Varsity was paced by Sarah Clark '22, who finished second overall (20:43.4). Katie Karlson '23 (24:01.6) won the Girls' JV division. Complete results are HERE.
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Athletics Update- Spectator Policy and Livestream
10/6/2020
Varsity and Junior Varsity teams have been following a phased plan that began with work-outs and strength & conditioning, then incorporated practices, and now includes an abbreviated game schedule against other Houston independent schools. At this time, we are in the process of calibrating our livestream cameras in order to capture live footage of all home competitions. Currently, field hockey and volleyball games are available to watch on the SJS Athletics livestream webpage.

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Mavericks Back on Course
10/4/2020
Emmanuel Sgouros '22 finished first overall (9:46.3) in the Cooper Dragon Invitational cross country meet to help lead the Mavericks back in the athletic arena for the 2020-2021 school year. Sgouros paced a host of PRs for the young Mavericks Boys' Varsity Cross Country squad for a 2nd place team finish to John Cooper. The Boys' JV won their division, while the Varsity Girls, led by a 3rd-place performance from Cici Calhoun '22 (12:31.5), finished second to St. Agnes. The Girls' JV also finished runner-up. The complete results are HERE.
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Touchdown Club Football Honorees
9/17/2020
Congratulations to Jim Rouse '21, Mansfield Owsley '21, and Eric Johnson '21 for being selected as 2020 All-Greater Houston Preseason Private School Honorees by the Touchdown Club of Houston.

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Johnston Receives HTA Scholarship
9/14/2020
Congratulations to Katherine Johnston '20 for receiving the National Senior Women's Clay Court Championship Scholarship from HTA.
Katherine was a three-sport athlete at St. John's (cross country, basketball, tennis) and a super champ tennis player. She is now in her first year at Washington University in St. Louis and a member of the varsity tennis team.
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US Conditioning & Fall Sport Skill Instruction
8/26/2020
The Athletic Department has set Monday, August 31 as the date for the Fall US sports programs to return to campus. Guidelines set forth by the Medical Advisory Team will be used to allow our US student/athletes to begin training with their Fall sports teams. The on-campus voluntary training sessions will not be utilized for tryouts. Rather, the sessions will emphasize conditioning and individual sport skill instruction. The training session will run M-F from 5:00–6:00pm. For specific information regarding the program, please reach out directly to the Varsity Fall coaches.

Football - Practice Field 2.5. Or Randall(weather). Kevin Veltri. kveltri@sjs.org
Field Hockey - Finnegan Field. Brenda Mercado. bmercado@sjs.org
Boys Cross Country - Track. Richie Mercado. rmercado@sjs.org
Girls Cross Country - Track. Rachel Fabre. rfabre@sjs.org
Boys Volleyball - Track & Big Red. Chaz Hulett. chulett@sjs.org
Girls Volleyball - Track & Big Red. Shelbi Irvin. sirvin@sjs.org

For those athletes planning on attending, a signed Covid-19 Self Screening Contract Form is required.
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SPC Cancels Fall 2020 Athletic Season
8/21/2020
Please see the following update regarding The Southwest Preparatory Conference (SPC) fall 2020 season. With this announcement, St. John's plans to announce how it will approach fall athletics in a school-wide communication on Monday, August 24.

SPC Board of Directors Statement Regarding the FALL 2020 Athletic Season:

  * We recognize each of our member schools is under unusual and challenging circumstances regarding each aspect of school operations.
  * We recognize we are members of a Conference with a wide variance in local conditions, approaches and opinions regarding how to handle these challenging circumstances as they relate to athletic competition.
  * We recognize our member schools are located in multiple metro areas, spread over a wide geographic area, with varying health conditions, regulations, public opinions and governmental recommendations.

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the SPC Board of Directors approves the cancellation of the 2020 fall SPC athletic season.

The SPC Board of Directors further approves maintaining existing plans for the winter and spring SPC Championship seasons, and those plans be sustained without alteration and played as currently scheduled consistent with current SPC policies. The Operations Committee and SPC Board of Directors will revisit plans for winter and spring seasons at a later date and determine if any adjustments are required as a result of circumstances at that time.
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