SSHS 2023 Senior Awards
Sulphur Springs High School 2023 Seniors received scholarship offers and military awards during the annual Senior Awards Ceremony. Scholarship offers totaled at least $1.5 million, excluding athletic scholarships as those are still being calculated by the school district. The SSHS Senior Class of 2023 honor graduates, valedictorian and salutatorian, UIL Scholars, National Merit Scholar, and senior state Academic UIL qualifiers and...
Lady Cat Golf Narrowly Misses First Place Finish in Home Invitational
Lady Cat golf picked up a second straight 2nd place finish Monday at their own invitational. “It’s very nice,” Coach Whitney Spigener said Tuesday following her team’s outing. “We keep working hard, showing improvement, and it’s showing out on the course.” Last time around, in Mount Pleasant at the district course come springtime, Coach Whitney Spigener’s squad shot a team best in a long time...
Team Tennis Makes History, Reaches Area Round For First Time
For the first time in Sulphur Springs history, team tennis has reached the Area round. “We felt like we were gonna make history,” Coach Tony Martinez said following the 10-4 Bi-District win over Jacksonville. The team tennis coach said that has been their mantra for this squad, to make history. Coach Martinez said in the 35 years team tennis has been played in Sulphur Springs that year after year, Texas High were district...
Friday Gameday Has Five Teams On Deck
Friday, Mar. 25 is a busy one with five different squads all in action. Two teams play in tourneys with three more on deck. Team tennis plays in day two of their Galveston tournament. Coach Tony Martinez and his squad battle it out with schools across Texas through today until tomorrow, Saturday, Mar. 26. Sulphur Springs has a quick turnaround after the conclusion of their three-day tourney, and take part in the District 15-5A...
Wildcats Team Tennis Ends Fall Season With Five Match Wins Versus Whitehouse in Bi-District Round of Playoffs
Wildcats team tennis fought hard, winning five matches versus Whitehouse in the Bi-District round of playoffs in a 14-5 loss at LeTourneau University in Longview on October 12. In the last three years, team tennis, led by Coach Tony Martinez, has gone up against Whitehouse the last three years in the first round of the playoffs. The tennis coach said all three years team tennis’s season has ended at the hands of the Wildcats...
Wildcats Tennis Coach Talks Last Week’s 11-8 Heartbreaker in Hallsville Ahead of Monday’s Senior Night Date With Marshall
Wildcats team tennis Coach Tony Martinez called Tuesday’s 11-8 loss in Hallsville versus the Bobcats a heartbreaker. He said that in two or three of those 11 loss matches that Wildcats players lead, only to fall short to the Bobcats. Sulphur Springs hoped to come into Hallsville on Tuesday to beat the Bobcats, and if they had done so they would have taken the Bobcats’ spot as the third seed from the district. Instead,...
SSHS Interior Design Team Win State, Qualify For National FCCLA Contest
Three members of Christina Davis’ interior design class at Sulphur Springs High School won the state FCCLA championship. Sophomores Mykylie Meador, Kaylee Schumacher and Jillian Jumper advanced from regional competition to the state interior design contest, both contests conducted virtually due to COVID-19 this year. “They won first place in state. One of the judges gave them a perfect score. I’m really proud of the...
Wildcats Tennis Does Well at First Competition Of 2021 At Sherman Friday
The Wildcats Tennis Team won the majority of their matches on Friday, January 22, in a dual contest at Sherman. Winners included the Wildcats #1 girls doubles team of MyKylie Meador and Trynity Luckett. Both Meador and Luckett also won singles matches. Also #1 girls’ singles player Jeauxleigh Cantu won singles matches against the Bearcats’ #1 and #2 girls players. Senior Harleigh Stegient won her match in #2 girls singles....
Wildcats Team Tennis Has Tough Day Against Longview In 19-0 Loss Wednesday
Perhaps the worst is now over for Wildcats Team Tennis. Last week, the Wildcats met district favorite Texas High in Texarkana and took a 19-0 loss. On Wednesday, the Wildcats faced the team expected to give the Tigers their sternest test, the Longview Lobos. The result Wednesday was another 19-0 loss. tennis To make things tougher, the Wildcats had to play without their top girls’ player, Jeauxleigh Cantu, who was unavailable...
The Edge Benefits Wildcats Tennis
In summers past, Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez, in his 7th year in Sulphur Springs, would busy himself by conducting tennis camps, most of them at the University of Texas in Austin. His Wildcats would have the summer off but he would occasionally let some of them know about various tournaments they could compete in. The Edge has predominately been a conditioning program for football players. However some athletes, both boys and...
