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By MICHAEL SUDHALTER OF THE SUN

Ross Jenkins never imagined walking into Kyle Field wearing anything but Maroon & White.

The 2006 Langham Creek High graduate grew up going to dozens of Texas A&M football games at the storied home of the 12th Man.

“My dad (Mark) graduated from A&M, Class of 1984,” Jenkins said. “ I bled Maroon. I grew up a die-hard Aggie fan. I’ve probably been to A&M games 100 times. It’s definitely going to be a moment that I’m going to remember for the rest of my life. I’m very, very excited about it.”

On Sept. 11, Jenkins – now Louisiana Tech’s starting quarterback – will do his best to engineer an upset in Aggieland.

For complete story visit….
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/08/26/cy_fair_sun/sports/090810_jenkins_cyf.txt

Congratulations to former Langham Creek Lobo Baseball Player Matt Rein for making the All Conference team at Coastal Carolina University. You can read it on the web-site below.

http://www.goccusports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/052610aaa.html

The Gamecocks have been ranked as high as 4th in the country in Division 1 baseball.  Once again, congratulations to Matt and his family.

Armando Sedeño
Head Baseball Coach
Langham Creek High School

Langham Creek Choir Alum, “Golden Throat” Ryan de la Garza, won the recent Lubbock College Songwriters contest with his original song “Tennessee”, and now he and his Lubbock Band, “South Texas Hippies” will be a featured band at this year’s Popular and well-known Kerrville Folk Festival, next month.

fa la la la la la, and congrats!

Congratulations to Codey Morehouse, 2008 LCHS graduate, for making the news with his picture in the Houston Chronicle this weekend after batting 3 for 5 with the Houston Cougars baseball team on Friday night and scoring the game-winning 2 run single in the 8th inning.

Another LCHS grad, Travis Trial (2007) is also mentioned in the article and also had a great series with U of H this weekend.

We’re so proud of our Langham boys!  For more information and the article, click on the link below:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/houston/6964599.html

Bert Emanuel, a 1989 Langham Creek High graduate, caught 351 passes for 4,852 yards for 28 touchdowns in eight NFL seasons. He now lives in Missouri City and serves as founder, president and CEO of KAOS Komfort, an apparel company based in Stafford.

Read more of this great article on Langham Creek’s HS alumni Burt Emanuel in “The Sun” Cypress Sports edition Read the Article.  The article is a 2 part write up on Burt’s LCHS career accomplishments, college career, NFL career and his successful business career. Nice to have a postive article about a successful LCHS alumni.

 http://www.goccusports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/032310aaa.html

 March 23, 2010

LUBBOCK, Texas – Coastal Carolina University juniors Matt Rein (Houston, Texas/Langham Creek) and Cody Wheeler (Spotsylvania, Va./Spotsylvania) have been named to the College Baseball Foundation’s initial Pitcher of the Year Watch List, it was announced by the organization today (March 23).

Rein sports a perfect 3-0 record with a 0.87 earned-run average in six appearances this season for the Chanticleers. He is second in the Big South in ERA and is holding opposing batters to a .183 batting average. Rein earned wins in his first three appearances, including pitching six innings of relief in a win over fourth-ranked UC Irvine Feb. 27. He struck out Read the rest of this entry »

Langham Creek High School and our community lost a true friend this weekend. Mark Jenkins, husband of Felicia Jenkins and father of Regan (sophomore at LCHS), Max (WestPoint) and Ross Jenkins (Louisiana Tech), died suddenly this weekend of an apparent stroke.

Mark had many accomplishments, but some of the ones most of you would recognize are the many contributions he made to Langham Creek. Mark was a founding member of PACK and helped establish it’s existence. Mark was Langham Creek Athletic Booster Club President for two years and was involved or a fan of most every sport at Langham. Mark was Langham Creek’s 7 on 7 summer football coach for many years. He was Langham Creek’s summer baseball coach for many years. He was a contributor to Project Prom and Langham Creek Volleyball He and Felicia had season tickets to the LCHS Football games and tried never to miss a game. Most recently, he could be seen as a line judge at Project Prom’s King of the Court, though his daughter will not graduate for two more years.

We will miss Mark. To those of you who knew him, I am quite sure like us, you were blessed to know him. Our hearts and prayers go out to the entire Jenkins family and I know we will surround this family with our love over the next most difficult months ahead while they adjust to life without Mark.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MARK JENKINS, FRIEND OF LCHS

 Visitation – Epiphany Lutheran Church, 8101 Senate Avenue, Houston, Texas, Wednesday March 24, 8:00 to 10:00 pm

Funeral Services – Epiphany Lutheran Church Thursday March 25, 1:00 pm Reception following at Epiphany School

Graveside Burial – Zion Lutheran Cemetery 6001 FM 1105, Georgetown, Texas Friday March 26, 11:00 am, Reception following at Walburg Community Center

In lieu of flowers, the RRR Jenkins Family Fund has been established for the family.

Checks can be mailed to:
RRR Jenkins Family Fund
7710-T Cherry Park #231
Houston, Texas 77095

MARK JENKINS TRIBUTE

Mark has touched so many lives in our community. We all have our favorite memories of Mark and have stories both funny and touching to share. As a special tribute to Mark, we would like to collect those stories and document them in a memory book for Felicia, Ross, Max and Regan. So if you have a favorite story or memory you would like to share with the family, please write it in an email and send it to raadrian@sbcglobal.net (Alice Adrian) or nllza@aol.com (Lesa Azra). Please put Favorite Memories of Mark Jenkins as the subject so that we can easily identify those emails. Also please include your name at the bottom of the email so the family will know who is contributing the story. We will copy each story onto a special format and put them in the memory book. In addition, if you have a photo you would like to add to the book, you can drop it off or mail it to Alice Adrian at 17206 Crescent Canyon in Copper Lakes. (There will be a plastic container by the front door for photos to be dropped off.) Please do not send photos via email. We would love to get stories from both adults and children who have known Mark as a friend, coach, mentor, etc. Please send by March 31st.

God bless the Jenkins Family

Lesa Azra and Alice Adrian

Courtesy: ASU Sports Information

Angelo State third baseman Zak Leonhardt was honored by the Lone Star Conference Wednesday by being named the Diamond LSC Hitter of the Week.

Leonhardt, a 6-1 junior from Houston, appeared in all four games at West Texas A&M, helping the Rams to a 3-1 series win, but it was the series finale that Leonhardt had his shining moment. He tied an ASU record with three home runs in the game and recorded six RBI, one short of tying that record. Leonhardt began his onslaught with a grand slam in the first inning to highlight a six-run outburst. He led off the third inning with his second bomb of the game and capped off his day with a solo shot in the fourth which followed Keith Towne’s two-run blast. For the week, Leonhardt hit .600 with nine hits in 15 at bats, two doubles, three home runs and 12 RBI.

With Leonhardt ‘s honor, four Rams have now been honored by the league. Leonhardt joins teammates Chris Adamson and Jason Morris as a hitter of the week and Alan Miller who was named the Diamond LSC Pitcher of the Week last week.

PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR AWESOME LANGHAM CREEK ALUMNI NOMINATED FOR UIL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION !

As part of the UIL (Texas high school sports governing body) Centennial Celebration, they are picking the All-Century Teams for different high school sports. There are 4 Langham Creek alumni nominated:

Alex Smith
Sam Forko
Mira Mupier
Jacob Truitt

There is open voting now for the soccer team on the UIL Centennial website. If you wouldn’t mind taking a minute to go to the site and vote for Jacob and the other Langham Creek players.  The link is listed below.  You can vote for more than one in the other positions, but only one goalie.

http://www.uil100.org/vote.php

Although the official kickoff of the 2010 Season is just under 2 months away, there are lots of great things going on with the Langham Creek Men’s Soccer Program!

Junior Goalkeeper Nick Boardley and Senior Forward Jade George are both finalist for recognition as a 2010 NSCAA/Adidas All-Region/All-American. Final voting will be completed in December, and we are excited to have Lobos on the ballot for the 8th consecutive year!

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