The uncommon surname strikes a heightened familiarity across generations within the St. Thomas ranks. Beginning with Roger Yokubaitis ‘63, the family connections extended throughout the rest of the decade, and into the 1970s and 1980s to Generation Z, including his son Curtis ‘88 and his sons Edgar ‘14 and Bishop ‘21. In total, nearly a [...]
Pablo Tager ‘21, the soccer player, possessed a wickedly creative, ball-striking skill set that separated him even from the pack of polished, promising players. Growing up in Texas, however, the football player in Pablo Tager was perhaps always percolating to perform. The pinnacle of Tager’s soccer career came as an acclaimed performer for St. Thomas, [...]
Kevin Silva ‘21 never should have entertained a senior-only quicksilver stay at St. Thomas. He never should have left his family and friends and life as he knew it for a great unknown 1,700 miles across 10 states away from his home. He never should have dropped absurdly out of nearly nowhere (well, actually, Long [...]
Roman Ochoa ‘21 epitomizes the power of and. His profound academic excellence encompasses membership in the National Honor Society and the prestigious St. Thomas Club - elite students with a minimum 4.0-grade point average for seven consecutive semesters He rose as a National Merit Commended and National Merit Hispanic Scholar. And a TAPPS state wrestling [...]
The St. Thomas Class of 2021 proved to be a pipeline pumping streams of superlative high-octane performance as if West Texas Intermediate was bursting at $70 per barrel and the eyes of the energy sector were in perpetual spin cycle. The salutatorian, officially second to but one, not only met but exceeded his own outsized [...]
By every metric, their lives and careers were outrageous St. Thomas successes. They crafted renowned academic acclaim with signature style and resounding selfless leadership. They flashed an exhaustive effervescence with a mature command and composure well beyond their years. The phenomenal threesome from St. Cecilia Catholic School arrived independently together as freshmen and remained perched [...]
As the pandemic bore down in March 2020, educators responded with heroic efforts to haul the profession’s use of technology into the future. The result was a coerced experiment in distance learning and pedagogical improvisation. Virtual classrooms may have left much to be desired, as a screenful of boxes oftentimes offered only a dimmed sense [...]
Whatever its impact, the pandemic didn’t derail them. Or defeat them. And it certainly didn’t define them. The 121st graduating class from St. Thomas wouldn’t let it. And neither would their campus community. The relentless Class of 2021 emerged triumphantly. Through the COVID-19 shutdowns and lockdowns and the forced migration to remote learning. Through hybrid [...]
Some of the best and the brightest among Eagle scholars again proved to have the right stuff in aiming for the stars and outdistancing elite students. For the third time in five years, St. Thomas occupies an exclusive orbit - advancing one of its four teams to compete in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) [...]
Eagle Athletics captured the 2021 TAPPS All-Sports Trophy - earning the prestigious honor for the 9th time in the previous 12 years that the distinction was awarded. Included in the triumph ... Eagle Track and Field claiming its third state title in six years Eagle Baseball staking its 10th state tournament in 11 competitive seasons [...]
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