Four Mount Pleasant High School choir students have earned places in the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) All-Region Choir. Senior Savannah Mack earned 11th chair second soprano, junior Miguel Guerrero earned 2nd chair first tenor, sophomore Joshua Espinoza earned 3rd chair first tenor, and sophomore Abril Ramirez earned 5th chair first soprano. This is the [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Goin’ Gold Band competed at the University of Arkansas at Monticello Marching Contest on October 8. Of the 17 bands competing, MPHS earned eleven awards including the title of Best Overall Band of the Day, as well as Best Overall Color Guard of the Day and Best Overall Percussion of [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Swim Team opened its season on Saturday, October 5th at the Pineywoods Community Academy Meet in Lufkin. The meet featured ten schools and a total of 168 swimmers. Individual results were as follows: Boys 200 medley Relay: the team of Ryan Sharp, Jacob Elliott, Jack Welborn, and Sam Sloan—6th place [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Sports & Entertainment Marketing and Law Enforcement II classes toured the AT&T Stadium in Dallas on October 2 to learn about its aspects of marketing and security. AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, is the largest, most technologically advanced entertainment venue in the world. The students, along with their [...]
Mount Pleasant High School hosted the 40th annual Titus County Fair Cross Country Invitational on Saturday, September 28. This year’s meet was attended by 41 schools and approximately 1200 runners. The results of both the boys and girl’s teams could prove to be a preview of the district meet, as all but one of the [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School cross country teams competed in Longview this past Friday at Pine Tree’s Puddle Jump and Pig Trot. True to the meet’s name, rains the night before made for a muddy and slow course. In spite of these adverse conditions, MPHS had a good showing for the day. The boys varsity [...]
Mount Pleasant High School senior, Sam Pearson, has been named a National Merit Semifinalist. Pearson took the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) as a junior in October of 2018 and scored in the top 1% of all test takers in the state of Texas, thereby earning the recognition as a Semifinalist, one of approximately 16,000 from across [...]
The MPHS Cross-Examination team of sophomore Connelly Cowan and junior Taryn Thurman has earned enough points to compete in the Texas Forensics Association (TFA) State Tournament in El Paso in March of 2020. They are among the first five teams in the state to qualify. Cowan and Thurman competed at Lindale on September 21 and [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Fishing Team opened their season in the Texas High School Bass Association (THSBA) tournament on Lake O’ the Pines on September 21. In THSBA tournaments, each high school team is in a boat captained by an adult. MPHS competes in the Northeast division of the THSBA. The team of Zane [...]
