DP Special Olympics

Skill Athletes Compete!

Coach Kiefer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:27:57 +0000

On Saturday, March 1, our Skills Athletes competed at the Area 4 competition. We were very successful. All four of our athletes won medals. Congratulations to them! Also our basketball teams made the trip to classify for the up coming Area 4 Basketball Tournament which will take place this Saturday, March 8. Good Luck to them!

Back from Winter Games!

Coach Kiefer — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:06:26 +0000

Wow! What a great time we had in San Antonio at the Winter Games. Our bowlers brought home 2 gold medals and a bronze medal, our skill player received a gold medal, our unified volleyball team received a bronze medal and our other volleyball team brought home the gold! It was a busy weekend. Our athletes enjoyed the games as well as shopping at the mall and eating out. We may have packed on a few extra pounds but we enjoyed every minute of it. It was a trip spent with family and friends making great memories!

I am working on posting some pictures from the trip. There are some really good pictures but they first have to be resized before I can post them. Be patient and I will have them for you ASAP (as soon as possible)!

Time for Winter Games

Coach Kiefer — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:58:16 +0000

I know it has been awhile since I have shared any news, but thinks are picking back up again. On Thursday, January 31 we will be leaving for San Antonio. Tuesday we will have our last practice before leaving for San Antonio. Everyone is excited and ready to go. So check back next week when we return and we will have lots of pictures to share. For now, everyone pack your bags and get ready to roll. We will be pulling out of the parking lot around 10:00 a.m on Thursday. It is going to be a great weekend and we are expecting great things from our bowlers and our volleyball players. See everyone on Thursday!

Christmas Break Begins

Coach Kiefer — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:08:39 +0000

Tuesday, Dec. 18 was our last practice for this year. Our first practice next year will be Thursday, Jan. 10. Our practices on Jan. 10, 15, & 17 will be for basketball. On Tuesday, Jan. 22, 24 & 29 we will switch back to volleyball so we can prepare for Winter Games in San Antonio. We will depart on Thursday, Jan 31, for San Antonio to compete in the Winter Games in volleyball. So, everyone enjoy your break and the holidays and have a Very Merry Christmas!

Bronze, Silver & Gold Medals Won!

Coach Kiefer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:50:55 +0000

At the area volleyball tournament at Willowbrook last week, our volleyball teams and athletes were very successful. The Deer Park Servers brought home the Bronze Medal and Deer Park Attack brought home the Silver Medal. Our two skilled athletes also did really well. Tyler won the Bronze and Derek won the Gold! Congratulations to everyone. We are so proud of ya’ll! Don’t forget that Winter Games for Volleyball and Bowling will be Jan. 31-Feb. 3. Basketball is just around the corner. Our first basketball practice will be December 11. Skills will be at 5:45 and our team athletes will meet at 6:30. Enjoy your time off and we will see everyone on December 11.

Our Gold Medal Winner!

Thursday, Nov. 15

Coach Kiefer — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:58:35 +0000

Tonight was our last practice before our Area 4 Volleyball Tournament. To help us out, we scrimmaged the Fireballs. Thank you Fireballs for coming out tonight. We really enjoyed the competition and especially enjoyed seeing all of ya’ll.

This Saturday is our Area Tournament. Everyone come out and cheer our teams on and our skill athletes. The coaches know that everyone is going to do their best and try to bring home the GOLD! Remember to be there at 7:15 sharp! We will have a big day ahead of us!

Good Luck Boys!

Be sure to check out our “All About Me” page. We have added another athlete!

Volleyball Classifications

Coach Kiefer — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:04:49 +0000

Congratulations to both teams! Our Deer Park Servers lost their first game to Klein White but came back strong to win their second game against Goose Creek Pumas. They were rewarded with a bronze medal. The Attack team won their first match against the Pasadena Comets by winning the first 2 games. However, the next match proved to be a little more difficult. It took 3 games to decide the winner in the match with the Goose Creek Bobcats. Deer Park Attack won the first game. However the next game was a tough one. Attack ended up losing it by a score of 28-26. The third game was another close game but again Goose Creek came out on top. Attack ended up winning the silver medal. Both teams will be going for the gold in the next tournament in 2 weeks.

Way to go Volleyball Teams! See you Tuesday at Practice!

You can see the pictures by clicking on Volleyball Classification Pictures on the right hand side. Hope you enjoy them.

Wednesday, Halloween

Coach Kiefer — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:54:24 +0000

If you are planning on going out tonight, please be safe. Also, take it easy on the candy. We have a big weekend ahead of us. As you know, this Saturday we will be playing in our Volleyball Classifications Tournament. Game times are 9:30 & 10:30 for Attack (unified team) and 10:00 & 10:30 for the Servers. For the parents who are planning on going, I have attached a map of St. John’s that will show you where you can park.

St. John’s School is located at the corner of Buffalo Speedway and Westheimer.

Parking for the event will NOT be at Lamar High School – see attached map for parking locations within St. John’s School.

Important buses will drop off inside Gate 10-which is off of West Alabama just east of Buffalo Speedway (see map). Buses will then go back to Buffalo Speedway turn left and then turn into Gate 11 to park.

All other vehicles will park inside of Gate 6, 7, 12 once full drop off passengers then go park inside Gate 11 (see attached map).

st2-johns-campus-map.pdf

Practice, Tuesday, Oct. 23

Coach Kiefer — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:25:57 +0000

Today I went by the bowling alley to take pictures of our bowlers. We have 5 very good bowlers. Everyone seemed to be really enjoying themselves and bowling up a storm! Our bowlers are Brendan, Berto, Krystal, Jorge and Nick. Don’t forget to check out the pictures in the gallery to see our bowlers.

Our volleyball teams played the PALS tonight. We always enjoy having them come out to play us every year. They are a great bunch of kids and really make us step up our game. However, they did beat us but the games were very close. Hopefully they will give us a rematch soon. A big thank you also to our partners on the unified team. We are so glad you are taking the time to be part of our team.

Thank you Pals!

Thursday, Oct. 18

Coach Kiefer — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:32:04 +0000

We missed a few of our athletes tonight at practice. Chris, Michael and Lisa were in College Station playing softball. We were happy, though, that a couple of new players came out tonight to practice with us. Thanks for coming Jamie and Brooke. We sure hope you will come back. At the end of practice we recognized Ryan, our Athlete of the Year with a collage of pictures taken at the Houston Area Banquet. One thing we did forget though was to sing Happy Birthday to Coach Burgess. She will be celebrating her birthday on Saturday. Ok everyone, don’t forget we are going to sing to her at Tuesday’s practice. So, we will see everyone Tuesday! The Deer Park Pals are going to be there to scrimmage us. One more thing, during skills practice Derek served 10 in a row. Way to go Derek!