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Busy Time of Year at the UIL
By Stephanie Ramirez, Communications Officer | Monday, March 14, 2011 3:38 PM
From state championship events, to meetings, to keeping up with business as usual, it has been a busy time of year around the UIL office. Since the weekend of the Swimming & Diving State Meet on March 18 and 19, there has been a UIL State event every weekend.
Swimming & Diving was followed up by the Wrestling State Tournament, the Girls' Basketball State Tournament, the Boys' Basketball State Tournament, and this week was kicked off with the CX Debate State Tournament. These state events are part of what the UIL is all about. These experiences help mold student participants into the leaders and citizens they will become. Congratulations to all UIL State Championship participants and champions! To see a full list of state championship results, please visit the UIL website at www.uiltexas.org.
In other news, the UIL Finance Committee, a standing committee of the UIL Legislative Council, met on March 9 in Austin to discuss the UIL budget. As a result of that meeting, UIL membership fees and ticket prices for 2011-12 will not increase, based on the recommendation of UIL Executive Director Dr. Charles Breithaupt.
UIL State Basketball: Evolution of the Title
By Chris Schmidt, Communications Officer | Monday, March 14, 2011 3:00 PM
Peyton Little of Abilene Wylie goes up for a shot during their 3A semifinal game against Rockport Fulton. Abilene Wylie went on to win the UIL 3A State Championship. Peyton Little was the MVP of that game scoring 43 points.
Photo by Stephen Tidmore
Every year, more than 150,000 spectators travel to Austin to watch history in the making as the best of the best student-athletes in the state of Texas compete in the UIL Girls’ and Boys’ Basketball State Tournaments. Each visit is a new experience as the sport and the tournament have evolved since becoming a UIL athletic event.
The first UIL Boys’ Basketball State Tournament was held in 1921 at Gregory Gym on The University of Texas at Austin campus. That year, El Paso High School defeated San Antonio High School for the first UIL basketball state championship, 25-11. Even though that score resembles a single quarter of scoring for today’s teams, there have only been a few significant changes in the 90-year history of UIL boys’ basketball.
2011 TILF Scholarship Banquet
By Brenda Baxendale, Program Administrator | Monday, March 07, 2011 2:15 PM
The annual Scholarship Banquet for the Texas Interscholastic League Foundation (TILF) was held at the AT&T Executive Conference Center on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin on Feb. 21. TILF is the scholarship program for the University Interscholastic League. Scholarship recipients, TILF Board members, donors and UIL directors and staff attended the banquet.
Committee Selects Texas Teacher’s Topic for National CX Debate Competition
By Julianne Coyne, UIL Intern | Monday, March 07, 2011 11:07 AM
Chad Flisowski
As a child, Calhoun High School debate coach Chad Flisowski was intrigued by space. He was inspired by Star Trek, shuttle launches and the return of Halley’s Comet. He dreamt of sailing through space.
“I never lost that enthusiasm for space travel or space science as I grew older,” Flisowski said. “I read books on the subject, watched documentaries on the Discovery and History channels and even took astronomy in college. And I never gaze up at the night sky without a sense of wonder."
Wrestling State Tournament Goes to the Mat
By Chris Schmidt, Communications Officer | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:12 AM
Robert Rios of Lubbock Monterey High School and John Rodriquez of San Antonio Roosevelt High School meet during their Round 1 Match at the UIL State Wrestling Tournament in Austin.
Photo by Stephen Tidmore
Since its inception as a University Interscholastic League sanctioned athletic event in 1999, wrestling has exploded onto the Texas high school sports scene. Participation numbers have risen nearly every year, making it one of the fastest growing UIL sports.
Wrestling is still relatively new compared to other UIL sports – the last sport added prior to wrestling was Team Tennis in 1984 – however it has already become one of the largest programs of its kind in the nation.
In 2010, the UIL had the 14th-largest boys wrestling participation out of 49 states that crown state champions in boys’ wrestling. Texas led the country in girls’ wrestling participation with 213 more participants than the next closest state, California.
“We have an opportunity for girls to compete on their own teams with their own programs, and I think that has helped tremendously with the growth of wrestling,” said UIL Director of Policy and Interim Director of Athletics Dr. Mark Cousins. Cousins also served as wrestling tournament director from 1999-2008.
UIL Honors 15 Sponsor Excellence Award Winners
By Chris Schmidt, Communications Officer | Monday, February 21, 2011 3:05 PM
Journalism teacher Mary Pulliam accepts her Sponsor Excellence Award at the February Duncanville ISD School Board meeting. Pulliam has taught journalism for more than 30 years at Duncanville High School.
Photo by Angel Morris
The University Interscholastic League is proud to recognize 15 of the top UIL sponsors in Texas as the 2010 UIL Sponsor Excellence Award winners.
The winners were selected by a panel of judges in the areas of music, athletics and academics from nominations submitted by school principals and superintendents across the state.
Video from the UIL’s Black History Month Program
By Jeanne Acton | Monday, February 21, 2011 11:08 AM
Video from the UIL's 2011 Black History Month Program.
Swimming and Diving State Meet Continues to Show Off Student Success
By Stephanie Ramirez, Communications Officer | Monday, February 21, 2011 10:54 AM
Swimmers compete at the 2011 UIL State Swimming and Diving Meet.
Photo by Nakita Loving
Every year, records at the UIL State Swimmming & Diving Meet are broken, new swimmers and divers come to compete at the state level and new techniques are learned. But one thing that always stays constant is the fact that these things will continue to change. Since its inception as a UIL-sanctioned event in 1970, the UIL Swimming & Diving State Meet has evolved to what it is today: one of the fastest swim meets in the country producing several national records.
This year, the State Swimming and Diving Meet was held Feb. 18-19. For results, go to http://www.uiltexas.org/swimming-diving/state/results.
Originally, the State Meet was held at Gregory Gym on the University of Texas campus. When the Texas Olympic Swim Center, now the Jamail Texas Swimming Center, was completed in 1977, the Meet was moved and has been held there since 1978.
About The Leaguer
By | Friday, February 18, 2011 9:26 AM
The Leaguer is the official publication of the University Interscholastic League. The Leaguer is designed for Texas public school administrators, contest directors, coaches and sponsors, the media and for other interested parties.
Leaguer Archives
By | Friday, February 18, 2011 9:08 AM
Archives of The Leaguer from 2002 to October 2008 are available in PDF format.