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Texas Association of Basketball Coaches high school state rankings, Feb. 12
A look at the Texas high school basketball state rankings from the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches.
Texas Association of Basketball Coaches State Rankings
Feb. 12, 2024
BOYS
CLASS 6A
1. Plano East (32-0); 2. Stony Point (31-1); 3. North Crowley (29-3); 4. Atascocita (28-6); 5. SA Brennan (27-4); 6. FB Clements (29-0); 7. Seven Lakes (32-2); 8. Shadow Creek (28-2); 9. Beaumont United (29-3); 10. Allen (29-5); 11. Duncanville (17-9); 12. Waxahachie (20-10); 13. Keller (25-5); 14. Mansfield Lake Ridge (26-6); 15. Austin Westlake (26-7); 16. Lake Travis (28-5); 17. New Braunfels (29-4); 18. South Grand Prairie (28-6); 19. Houston Bellaire (26-6); 20. TW College Park (30-4); 21. Schertz Clemens (25-8); 22. Cypress Falls (25-4); 23. Buda Johnson (25-7); 24. Frenship (26-4); 25. South Houston (27-6)
CLASS 5A
1. Lancaster (22-5); 2. SA Veterans Memorial (34-1); 3. FB Marshall (30-2); 4. EP Chapin (29-4); 5. Amarillo (29-4); 6. Leander Rouse (26-7); 7. Mansfield Summit (25-7); 8. Frisco Lone Star (28-3); 9. Dallas White (23-5); 10. The Colony (26-5); 11. Killeen Ellison (28-5); 12. Boerne Champion (29-4); 13. SA Southwest (29-3); 14. Waco University (26-6); 15. Palo Duro (21-5); 16. Longview (29-3); 17. Mt Pleasant (26-7); 18. Colleyville Heritage (26-5); 19. Mansfield Timberview (25-8); 20. CC Veterans Memorial (23-8); 21. South Oak Cliff (19-10); 22. SA Wagner (20-10); 23. Killeen Shoemaker (26-8); 24. Dallas Kimball (18-12); 25. Edinburg Vela (29-5)
CLASS 4A
1. FW Eastern Hills (25-4); 2. Faith Family (17-10); 3. Randall (28-3); 4. Dallas Carter (27-4); 5. Houston Washington (21-3); 6. Silsbee (22-9); 7. Iowa Colony (19-14); 8. Krum (29-3); 9. Estacado (21-7); 10. Bishop (25-9); 11. Stafford (27-6); 12. Boerne (28-5); 13. Kennedale (25-4); 14. Canyon (18-9); 15. Chapel Hill (24-4); 16. Hamshire Fannett (25-7); 17. Sinton (17-14); 18. West Plains (20-9); 19. Hudson (28-4); 20. La Vernia (30-1); 21. Dallas Lincoln (15-15); 22. Burkburnett (22-8); 23. Hirschi (13-11); 24. Mickey Leland (17-9); 25. Dallas Pinkston (17-15)
CLASS 3A
1. Hitchcock (27-3); 2. Shallowater (25-2); 3. SA Cole (26-9); 4. MP Chapel Hill (30-1); 5. Hooks (27-1); 6. Ponder (30-6); 7. Brock (26-8); 8. Holliday (28-2); 9. Orangefield (30-4); 10. Kountze (29-5); 11. Dallas Madison (17-11); 12. Poth (17-5); 13. Franklin (14-4); 14. Westwood (22-7); 15. Paradise (22-11); 16. Mexia (23-11); 17. Tatum (22-9); 18. Trinity Leadership (17-16); 19. Childress (23-8); 20. City View (17-10); 21. Lorena (22-9); 22. Northern Oaks (19-12); 23. Marion (21-8); 24. London (20-13); 25. Life Oak Cliff (24-10)
CLASS 2A
1. Lipan (28-4); 2. Martins Mill (27-4); 3. Beckville (21-6); 4. Reagan County (25-6); 5. Thorndale (28-3); 6. Hawkins (28-1); 7. Mumford (26-10); 8. North Hopkins (24-6); 9. New Home (25-6); 10. Honey Grove (26-4); 11. Nocona (22-11); 12. Poolville (27-5); 13. Shelbyville (22-7); 14. San Augustine (18-8); 15. LaPoynor (21-10); 16. Sam Rayburn (22-9); 17. Grapeland (23-10); 18. Evadale (22-12); 19. Marlin (16-4); 20. Farwell (22-9); 21. Timpson (10-6); 22. Tolar (14-14); 23. SA Stacey (19-8); 24. Olton (18-10); 25. Plains (28-3)
CLASS A
1. Graford (27-4); 2. Jayton (30-3); 3. Benjamin (16-1); 4. Texline (26-4); 5. Perrin Whitt (30-4); 6. Brookeland (24-7); 7. Huckabay (21-11); 8. Gordon (16-5); 9. Dodd City (24-7); 10. Nazareth (16-11); 11. Slidell (24-7); 12. Fayetteville (26-4); 13. Calvert (16-8); 14. Knox City (25-2); 15. Rocksprings (22-3); 16. Wildorado (27-4); 17. San Perlita (14-9); 18. McMullen County (25-8); 19. Irion County (20-8); 20. Electra (26-5); 21. Eula (25-4); 22. Laneville (21-13); 23. Garden City (22-9); 24. Coolidge (18-6); 25. Penelope (24-3)
TAPPS 6A/SPC 4A
1. Bellaire Episcopal (27-8); 2. San Antonio Antonian Prep (28-6); 3. Dallas St. Mark’s (26-7); 4. Houston St. John’s (26-7); 5. Houston Christian (28-8); 6. Plano John Paul II (25-9); 7. Addison Greenhill (29-4); 7. Dallas Parish Episcopal (24-10); 9. Plano Prestonwood Christian (18-13); 10. Addison Trinity Christian (21-13)
TAPPS 5A/SPC 3A
1. Austin St. Michael’s (32-1); 2. Midland Christian (28-6); 3. Houston Second Baptist (25-7); 4. Grapevine Faith Christian (27-9); 5. The Woodlands Christian Academy (23-7); 6. Austin St. Andrew’s (21-8); 7. The Woodlands John Cooper (18-14); 8. San Antonio Christian (29-7); 9. Fort Worth Southwest Christian (22-12); 10. Fort Worth Christian (20-14)
TAPPS 4A
1. St. Thomas’ Episcopal (21-8); 2. Lubbock Trinity Christian (31-5); 3. Arlington Grace (23-9); 4. Prince of Peace (24-10); 5. Colleyville Covenant (22-7); 6. McKinney Christian (23-10); 7. Austin Brentwood Christian (20-10); 8. Boerne Geneva (22-6); 9. The Woodlands Legacy (17-3); 10. Austin Hill Country (24-4)
TAPPS 3A
1. St. Francis Episcopal (23-10); 2. Lubbock Christian (24-6); 3. Westbury Christian (18-15); 4. Tyler Bishop Gorman (28-4); 5. New Braunfels Christian (22-8); 6. Marble Falls Faith (23-10); 7. Waco Live Oak Classical (29-5); 8. Waco Bishop Reicher (24-7); 9. Houston Lutheran North (13-10); 10. Bryan Brazos Christian (16-5)
TAPPS 2A
1. Ft. Worth Bethesda Christian (27-8); 2. Dallas First Baptist (21-9); 3. Amarillo Ascension Academy (19-0); 4. Crowley Nazarene Christian Academy (19-7); 5. Lubbock All Saints Episcopal (24-4); 6. Ft. Worth Christian Life Preparatory (15-7); 7. Galveston O’Connell (20-10); 8. Bulverde Bracken Christian (25-8); 9. Wylie Preparatory Academy (12-4); 10. Red Oak Ovilla Christian (14-9)
TAPPS A
1. DeSoto Canterbury Kingdom Collegiate (13-6); 2. Alamo Macedonian (31-2); 3. North Prosper Prestonwood Christian (15-6); 4. San Angelo Cornerstone (16-3); 5. Spring Founders Christian (20-11); 6. Edinburg Harvest (19-8); 7. Kingwood Covenant Preparatory (16-6); 8. Amarillo Holy Cross (20-3); 9. Lake Jackson Brazosport Christian (20-3); 10. Longview Christian Heritage (11-5)
GIRLS
CLASS 6A
1. DeSoto (23-5); 2. Lewisville Hebron (31-2); 3. Summer Creek (30-2); 4. SA Clark (29-2); 5. Duncanville (28-4); 6. SA Brennan (27-3); 7. South Grand Prairie (26-3); 8. Pearland (31-4); 9. Cypress Springs (27-2); 10. Cibolo Steele (27-8); 11. Ft. Bend Hightower (27-3); 12. Crowley (26-6); 13. Ft. Bend Austin (30-2); 14. Converse Judson (28-6); 15. Southlake Carroll (28-5); 16. FW Boswell (31-5); 17. Austin Westlake (25-5); 18. Edinburg (34-2); 19. Frenship (31-3); 20. Seven Lakes (27-8); 21. CE King (27-6); 22. Royse City (29-4); 23. Garland Sachse (22-9); 24. Langham Creek (28-5); 25. Hurst Bell (29-4)
CLASS 5A
1. Mansfield Timberview (34-1); 2. Frisco Liberty (27-7); 3. SA Wagner (24-5); 4. Amarillo High (32-4); 5. Richmond Randle (25-8); 6. Leander Glenn (31-2); 7. Lubbock Monterey (29-5); 8. McKinney North (26-10); 9. Liberty Hill (33-2); 10. Denton Ryan (28-7); 11. Pflugerville Hendrickson (26-7); 12. Argyle (30-5); 13. Comal Pieper (27-6); 14. Ft. Bend Willowridge (27-8); 15. White Settlement Brewer (28-4); 16. Killeen Chaparral (25-6); 17. Amarillo Tascosa (23-6); 18. SA McCollum (30-2); 19. Dallas White (28-3); 20. Georgetown (26-6); 21. Lamar Fulshear (24-7); 22. Manvel (29-6); 23. SA Harlandale (30-6); 24. Frisco Memorial (24-11); 25. Kerrville Tivy (23-7)
CLASS 4A
1. Glen Rose (29-3); 2. La Vega (28-8); 3. Levelland (32-2); 4. Sunnyvale (33-2); 5. Boerne (30-5); 6. Seminole (29-4); 7. Decatur (28-5); 8. Canyon (24-6); 9. Dallas Lincoln (25-3); 10. Fredericksburg (27-5); 11. Hardin Jefferson (24-10); 12. Silsbee (27-3); 13. Canton (28-5); 14. Cuero (32-3); 15. Godley (25-8); 16. Navasota (30-3); 17. West Plains (23-8); 18. Canyon Randall (22-8); 19. Krum (26-8); 20. Bishop (29-8); 21. Madisonville (27-5); 22. Brownsboro (26-7); 23. El Paso Riverside (29-1); 24. Bridgeport (24-11); 25. West Oso (26-8)
CLASS 3A
1. Fairfield (30-2); 2. Tuscola Jim Ned (30-2); 3. Emory Rains (31-2); 4. Winnsboro (30-6); 5. Hitchcock (23-4); 6. Idalou (28-6); 7. Tatum (27-1); 8. Lytle (26-7); 9. SA Cole (30-7); 10. Wall (23-7); 11. Franklin (31-6); 12. Brock (24-9); 13. Comanche (28-3); 14. Lorena (28-6); 15. Ponder (30-7); 16. Hallettsville (28-4); 17. Malakoff (30-3); 18. Littlefield (23-6); 19. Paradise (25-8); 20. Rice (21-5); 21. Poth (25-9); 22. Huntington (30-6); 23. Hooks (27-6); 24. Spearman (24-5); 25. Jourdanton (27-8)
CLASS 2A
1. Lipan (30-3); 2. Tenaha (30-5); 3. Farwell (29-3); 4. Martins Mill (29-4); 5. New Home (24-7); 6. Shiner (29-2); 7. Panhandle (25-6); 8. Goldwaithe (28-3); 9. Nocona (29-3); 10. Wellington (24-6); 11. Clarendon (27-2); 12. Christoval (27-7); 13. Bremond (26-1); 14. Ozona (29-5); 15. Cisco (25-4); 16. Muenster (26-6); 17. Lovelady (22-7); 18. Jewett Leon (26-5); 19. San Saba (27-5); 20. Flatonia (28-5); 21. Douglass (23-6); 22. Falls City (26-5); 23. Hamilton (22-9); 24. Frost (25-7); 25. Normangee (27-6)
CLASS A
1. Turkey Valley (30-2); 2. Newcastle (28-1); 3. Rocksprings (30-4); 4. Eula (30-4); 5. Nazareth (21-10); 6. Whiteface (28-4); 7. Richland Springs (29-6); 8. Gordon (25-8); 9. McMullen County (26-5); 10. Whitharral (25-5); 11. Gorman (29-5); 12. Borden County (28-5); 13. Graford (26-6); 14. Throckmorton (24-4); 15. McLean (25-3); 16. Neches (24-7); 17. Eden (24-6); 18. Harrold (22-2); 19. Dodd City (22-8); 20. Jayton (23-10); 21. Menard (23-5); 22. Irion County (22-8); 23. Robert Lee (25-8); 24. Texline (25-7); 25. Saltillo (25-7)
TAPPS 6A/ SPC 4A
1. San Antonio Antonian (32-7); 2. Dallas Ursuline (19-9); 3. Dallas Bishop Lynch (23-12); 4. Bellaire Episcopal (29-5); 5. Houston Kinkaid (29-3); 6. Plano Prestonwood Christian (26-6); 7. Plano John Paul II (18-17); 8. Houston The Village (24-11); 9. Tomball Concordia Lutheran (25-8); 10. Addison Greenhill (22-8)
TAPPS 5A/SPC 3A
1. San Antonio St. Mary’s Hall (31-3); 2. Grapevine Faith Christian (30-2); 3. Houston Second Baptist (25-9); 4. Argyle Liberty Christian (19-15); 5. Fort Worth Southwest Christian (18-8); 6. Brownsville St. Joseph (23-9); 7. San Antonio Christian (21-8); 8. Austin St. Dominic Savio (21-9); 9. Flower Mound Coram Deo (21-11); 10. Fort Worth All Saints (13-14)
TAPPS 4A
1. Geneva School of Boerne (26-3); 2. Grace Prep (Arlington) (24-7); 3. Lake County Christian (Fort Worth) (26-6); 4. Bay Area Christian (League City) (19-6); 5. Brook Hill (Bullard) (26-8); 6. Incarnate Word Academy (Corpus Christi) (31-6); 7. Trinity Christian (Lubbock) (17-13); 8. Trinity Christian (Willow Park) (17-12); 9. Legacy Prep (Woodlands) (19-11); 10. Dallas Christian (Mesquite) (14-6)
TAPPS 3A
1. Lubbock Christian (27-8); 2. Rosehill Chrisitan-Tomball (29-3); 3. San Jacinto Christian-Amarillo (25-8); 4. Brazos Christian-Bryan (24-8); 5. Bishop Gorman Catholic Tyler (17-13); 6. Lutheran-San Antonio (17-16); 7. McKinney Cornerstone (15-2); 8. Lutheran North-Houston (9-12); 9. Live Oak Classical-Waco (19-10); 10. Yavneh Dallas (13-7)
TAPPS 2A
1. Dallas First Baptist (26-3); 2. Lubbock Southcrest (21-5); 3. Bryan St. Joseph (18-4); 4. Red Oak Ovilla (18-6); 5. Hallettsville Sacred Heart (17-8); 6. Conroe Covenant (20-12); 7. Shiner St. Paul (17-8); 8. Austin Waldorf (17-7); 9. Muenster Sacred Heart (16-14); 10. Bryan Allen Academy (9-9)
TAPPS A
1. Edinburg Harvest Christian (36-1); 2. Prosper Prestonwood North (23-12); 3. Sherman Texoma Christian (18-8); 4. Longview Christian Heritage (19-6); 5. Amarillo Accelerate (14-8); 6, San Angelo Cornerstone (8-9); 7. Amarillo Holy Cross (16-8); 8. Fredericksburg Heritage (10-4); 9. Cypress Covenant (11-4); 10. Conroe Calvary Baptist (11-6)
DALLAS — Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into classrooms.
The 9-8 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a boost to backers of similar laws in Arkansas and Louisiana. Opponents have argued that hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms proselytizes to students and amounts to religious indoctrination by the government.
In a lengthy majority opinion, the conservative-leaning appeals court in New Orleans rejected those arguments in Texas, saying the requirement does not step on the rights of parents or students.
“No child is made to recite the Commandments, believe them, or affirm their divine origin,” the ruling says.
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups that challenged the Texas law on behalf of parents said in a statement that they anticipate appealing the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The First Amendment safeguards the separation of church and state, and the freedom of families to choose how, when and if to provide their children with religious instruction. This decision tramples those rights,” they said in the statement.
The mandate is one of several fronts in Texas that opponents have fought over religion in classrooms. In 2024, the state approved optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools, and a proposal set for a vote in June would add Bible stories to required reading lists in Texas classrooms.
The decision over the Ten Commandments law reverses a lower federal court ruling that had blocked about a dozen Texas school districts — including some of the state’s largest — from putting up the posters. The Texas law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott took effect in September, marking the largest attempt in the nation to hang the Ten Commandments in public schools.
From the start, the law was met almost immediately by a mix of embrace and hesitation in Texas classrooms that educate the state’s 5.5 million public school students.
The mandate animated school board meetings, spun up guidance about what to say when students ask questions, and led to boxes of donated posters being dropped on the doorsteps of campuses statewide. Although the law only requires schools to hang the posters if donated, one suburban Dallas school district spent nearly $1,800 to print roughly 5,000 posters.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, called the ruling “a major victory for Texas and our moral values.”
“The Ten Commandments have had a profound impact on our nation, and it’s important that students learn from them every single day,” he said.
Tuesday’s ruling comes after the appeals court heard arguments in January in the Texas case and a similar case in Louisiana. In February, the court cleared the way for Louisiana to enforce its law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said the Texas ruling “adopted our entire legal defense” of the law in her state. In Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey also signed a similar law earlier this month.
“Our law clearly was always constitutional, and I am grateful that the Fifth Circuit has now definitively agreed with us,” Murrill said in a statement posted to social media.
Judge Stephen A. Higginson, in a dissenting opinion joined by four others on the court, wrote that the framers of the Constitution “intended disestablishment of religion, above all to prevent large religious sects from using political power to impose their religion on others.”
“Yet Texas, like Louisiana, seeks to do just that, legislating that specific, politically chosen scripture be installed in every public-school classroom,” Higginson wrote.
The law says schools must put donated posters “in a conspicuous place” and requires the writing to be a size and typeface that is visible from anywhere in a classroom to a person with “average vision.” The displays must also be 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall.
Texas’ law easily passed the GOP-controlled Legislature and Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have backed posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
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Associated Press writer Audrey McAvoy contributed to this report from Honolulu, Hawaii.
Texas
Glam influencer who drowned during Texas Ironman had battled flu but ignored pleas to ditch race
The glam influencer who drowned during a Texas Ironman swim had been battling the flu – but ignored pals who begged her to pull out of the brutal endurance race, according to one friend.
“She was ill before the trip, she wasn’t okay,” Luis Taveira said of close friend Mara Flávia, 38, who died during Saturday’s race in The Woodlands.
“My wife and I spoke with her to say she was too weak for this race, although a couple of days ago when we talked to her, she insisted she was okay,” Taveira said of the Brazil-born influencer, according to sports website the Spun.
“I still cannot believe what’s happened. She was ill because of the flu.”
Flávia continued “training hard” even while “weakened” by her illness, the friend said.
Just two days before the competition, Flávia shared a picture of herself in a pink swimming costume and cap sitting by the edge of a pool.
“Just another day at work,” she wrote in Portuguese.
Her Instagram account was peppered with snaps, showing her working out in a gym, by the pool, or running outdoors.
“Not every victory is photogenic, not every growth is pretty to watch. Sometimes evolving is being silent, stepping back, saying no, crying in the background, and coming back the next day more aware,” she said in one motivational post.
In others, she said that skill “only develops with hours and hours of work” and sport is “the best tool for transformation.”
The Ironman Texas competition features three legs — a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run. The women’s event got underway just after 6:30 a.m. Saturday, with fire crews alerted around an hour later that there was a lost swimmer.
Flávia’s body was found around 9 a.m. in about 10 feet of water.
Officials have ruled her preliminary cause of death was drowning, and relatives have paid tribute.
Flávia’s sister, Melissa Araújo, said her sibling “lived life intensely” – and revealed a piece of her had vanished, People reported.
“You were always synonymous with determination, with courage — with a strength that seemed too vast to be contained within you,” she wrote on social media.
“You never did anything halfway; perhaps that is why you left such a profound mark on the lives of everyone who crossed your path.
“A piece of me is gone, and I will have to learn to live without it. And it hurts in a way I cannot even explain.
“It is a strange silence, a void I knew existed all along — as if the world itself had lost a little of its color.”
Flávia’s partner, Rodrigo Ferrari, described the swimmer as his “love” and said not waking up next to her was hard.
“Ursa, you were the best person I have ever met in my life,” he wrote in a note shared on social media.
A Brazilian fitness influencer has died after getting into difficulty during the swimming portion of an ironman event in Texas.
Mara Flavia Souza Araujo was reported as a “lost swimmer” around 7.30am at the Ironman Texas in Lake Woodlands near Houston on Saturday. According to KPRC 2 News, safety crews could not immediately locate Araujo. The 38-year-old’s body was discovered around 90 minutes later in 10ft of water by divers. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department confirmed her identity in a statement to NBC on Monday.
“MCSO can confirm that Mara Flavia Souza Araujo, 38, of Brazil died while competing in the Ironman event in The Woodlands on Saturday,” the sheriff’s department told NBC News. “Preliminary investigations indicate she drowned during the swimming portion of the event.”
Araujo was an experienced triathlete and had completed at least nine ironman events since 2018. She had more than 60,000 followers on Instagram and had posted about the importance of making the most out of life in the days before her death.
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“Enjoy this ride on the bullet train that is life,” she wrote in Portuguese. “And even with the speed of the machine blurring the landscape, look out the window – for at any moment, the train will drop you off at the eternal station.”
Organizers of the race expressed their condolences on Saturday.
“We send our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the athlete and will offer them our support as they go through this very difficult time,” race organizers said in a statement on Saturday. “Our gratitude goes out to the first responders for their assistance.”
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