The Mount Pleasant Tigers traveled to Franklin over the Christmas holidays to compete in the Franklin Christmas Invitational Dec 27-29 and came away with three wins and a fifth-place finish over the three days. The Tigers were originally scheduled to travel to Louisiana for a tournament, but scheduling conflicts did not allow that trip to [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Cheerleaders competed in the McKinney Spirit competition on Saturday, December 11 and in the NCA State of Texas Championships on Sunday, December 12 in preparation for the UIL State competition in January. At the McKinney Spirit competition, MPHS Cheer won Top Fight Song and Top Crowd Leader awards. And at [...]
The Mount Pleasant Lady Tigers wasted no time in making a statement on Tuesday night with their district opening victory over the Lady Wildcats. The Lady Tigers jumped out to an 11-7 advantage before using a 12-0 run late in the second quarter to blow the game wide open. Mount Pleasant outscored Sulphur Springs 23-3 [...]
The Mount Pleasant Tigers pushed their win streak to four games on Tuesday night as they easily handled the Jefferson Bulldogs in a non-district matchup. Every player scored for the Tigers as they controlled the game from the tip. Mount Pleasant jumped out to a 25-2 advantage to start the game including a 19-0 run [...]
Five Mount Pleasant High School Law Enforcement students competed in Grand Prairie on December 4. Senior Michelle Calderon placed 2nd in Booking Procedure and qualified for state. Others competing for MPHS included the team of Memphis Heller, Kaitlyn Reese, and Nayeli Jaimes in Building Search, Jaimes in the obstacle course, Nayeli Rivera in Bunker Gear, [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School chapter of the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE) attended their annual Regional competition at the Region 8 Service Center on December 3. Seven members qualified for the State competition with one member qualifying in two events. The team of Monserrat Rivero Sanchez, Ruby Ferretiz, and Mireya Villarruel advanced to [...]
Fourteen members of the Mount Pleasant High School Goin’ Gold Band were named to the High School All-Region Band and nine freshmen were selected for the Freshman All-Region Band. Freshman auditions were held on December 6 at Sulphur Springs High School with High School auditions on December 10 at North Lamar. Seven of the fourteen [...]
Fourteen Mount Pleasant High School Choir students participated in Pre-Area auditions on December 2 at the Region 8 Service Center in Mount Pleasant. Four have advanced to Area auditions in January: senior Abril Ramirez (2nd chair second soprano), junior Litzy Gonzalez (4th chair second alto), senior Eduardo Joshua Espinoza (4th chair first tenor), and sophomore [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Speech and Debate team competed at the Longhorn Classic on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin on December 3-4. The tournament featured 108 schools from 13 states. MP Speech and Debate took seven team members who competed in 5 different categories. In Policy debate, the team of [...]
