The Mount Pleasant High School Bass Fishing Team continued their regular season at the Texas High School Bass Association (THSBA) tournament on Lake O’ the Pines on November 19. Out of 27 teams at the tournament, MPHS placed 7th as a whole. First for the Tigers, the team of Clayton Miller and Rolston Morton placed [...]
The members of the National Honor Society (NHS) at Mount Pleasant High School held its annual food drive in October and November in conjunction with Communities in Schools (CIS). Students and their families brought canned, bagged, and boxed food items to this year's NHS induction ceremony. In the end, MPHS NHS members were able to [...]
Fifty Mount Pleasant High School students were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) at a candlelight ceremony on November 17 in the MPHS cafeteria. To be a member of NTHS, a student must be enrolled in a Career and Technical Education (CTE) class, maintain a cumulative weighted GPA of 5.1, be a member [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Fashion Design program was recently approached by team members at Cypress Basin Hospice with a service project idea: design and sew fidget blankets for their patients. Fidget blankets are small activity blankets that provide sensory and tactile stimulation for the restless hands of someone with Alzheimer’s or other forms of [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team continued its season on Saturday, November 12 at the 17th annual Whitehouse Wildcat Thanksgiving Classic held Whitehouse High School. Overall, Mount Pleasant High School took third place as an academic team. The Math team took first place as a team. Individually, Nathaniel Martinez placed 3rd, with Devin [...]
Mount Pleasant High School Speech and Debate competed in the Regional Congressional Debate tournament at the Region VIII Education Service Center on Thursday, November 10. This year, Mount Pleasant was the only 5A school competing. So the competition became an intrasquad battle for who would earn the top three places and advance to state. MPHS [...]
Mount Pleasant High School seniors Camdon Johnson and Reese Ball have been chosen as the MPHS school winners for the 2022 Heisman High School Scholarship program. The Heisman High School Scholarship extends the Heisman prestige to our nation’s most esteemed high school seniors by recognizing and rewarding outstanding scholar-athletes who understand that the most important [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School chapter of FFA competed at the Paris District Leadership Development Event (LDE) held at Northeast Texas Community College on Friday, November 4. Three MPHS teams have advanced to the Area contest. Senior Wendy Carrillo took 1st place in the Spanish Creed competition and has advanced to Area. The Spanish Creed [...]
With winter weather around the corner, the fall golf season is quickly coming to a close. The Tiger and Lady Tiger golf teams finished their season on Tuesday as the Tigers brought home the silver medal in the Longview tournament held at the Tempest Golf Course. Matthew Peterson paced the Tigers with a 74 followed [...]
Members of the Mount Pleasant High School Speech and Debate team competed on October 27-29 at the online Big Spring TFA tournament. Senior, Anthony Orellana, went 3-1 in prelims defeating 2 competitors from Granbury and 1 from The Greenhill School before being eliminated in quarterfinals by a student from Cy Fair. Orellana now has 9 [...]
