MCA Athletes Compete at the State Meet
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-Chief
May 8, 2019
This season only four track athletes qualified to compete in the TAPPS 5A State track meet held on May 4 at Waco Midway High School in Hewitt, Texas. Moving up to 5A this year increased the challenge of making it to the final meet, but MCA was ready. Breaking his own personal record, sophomore Maliq...
MCA Track Athletes make it out of District
Juliana Roller, staff writer
April 25, 2019
This past week, April 16, the MCA track team traveled two hours to Brookhill School to compete in their district meet. This year was different from past years because instead of the top four athletes qualifying for the regional track meet, only the top two qualified. The MCA athletes needed to compete...
Kicking off the Track Season
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-Chief
April 4, 2019
When spring break ends, that means the start of the track and field season for all Middle and Upper School runners and throwers. The Middle School team competed in a meet at St. Mark's School of Dallas on Friday, March 22, and the Upper School Varsity team ran the next day. Contrasting with the sunny,...
Senior Josh Wong accepted into the Randall Research Scholars Program at Alabama
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-Chief
April 1, 2019
After already receiving a full ride scholarship to the University of Alabama, senior Joshua Wong applied and was accepted into the Randall Research Scholars Program (RRSP). RRSP is an undergraduate research program that is recognized across the nation. Students in this program at this large state univ...
MCA Students Raise over $1600 for Officer Hamilton
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-Chief
February 21, 2019
One of MCA's campus police officers, Adam Hamilton, has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Hamilton is loved by all the students of MCA and they decided to do something to give back. National Honor Society President Josh Wong encouraged every student from Lower, Middle, and Upper School to bring...
Middle School Boys Win Soccer Championship Game
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-chief
February 12, 2019
After a season of dedication and hard work, the middle school boys soccer team made it to the championship game, which took place last night at 6:00 pm at Providence. With goals from eighth-graders Tyler Swearingen and Emilio Sanchez and seventh graders Nicholas Catullo and Liam Corley, the Mustangs...
Scout Mayberry in the Spotlight
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-Chief
January 30, 2019
Theatre has been senior Scout Mayberry's life for the past fourteen years, and she does not plan to stop after high school. Mayberry is the only class of 2019 student who has to prepare two applications for each school: one for admission into the university and one for the theatre program. Mayberry...
Seniors travel to Oklahoma for their first ever mid-year retreat
Lauren Rose, Campus Editor
January 29, 2019
Instead of taking a trip at the end of the semester to New York and Washington D.C., the seniors headed up to Chickasaw Retreat and Conference Center for MLK weekend. A decision was proposed to the class at the end of last year: the New York/D.C. trip or graduate a week earlier. The majority of the students wanted to graduate early, but some still wan...
TedxKIDS@SMU
Edna Pajela, courtesy writer
November 15, 2018
MCA Middle School students attended the 10th Annual TEDxKids@SMU last October 19. Eighteen of our 7th and 8th graders were part of the almost 1,000 people at the event. Our MS participants submitted an application in addition to an essay or artwork depicting their future dreams to participate. In addition,...
Cross Country’s First State Meet as 5A
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-Chief
November 7, 2018
Out of 31 teams, the Varsity Boys Cross Country team placed fifth this year at the TAPPS State Meet and the Varsity Girls placed thirteenth, which is impressive for being the smallest school there. This past year, the team had moved up from 4A to 5A, bringing new and more difficult competition. ...
What is the Golden Dinkle?
Juliana Roller, Editor-in-Chief
September 13, 2018
The Upper School Band has many traditions and the Golden Dinkle Award has just been added to the list. In order to earn the award, band members "must stand at attention completely still, follow all commands, march in step, and have great showmanship from the head to the feet," says Band Director Ken Snow. Ever...
