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Senior Stryker Aitken committed to continue his football career at the University of Memphis. He put pen to paper in front of friends and family in the lobby of the Sue H. Hyde Sports and Physical Education Center.
Executive Director at USRowing Rich Cacioppo spoke to the DECA club on “The Case for Being an All-Around Athlete” or becoming a well-rounded businessman.
Get out and support the Owls in these upcoming events. Tickets and Sport Passes for home events can be purchased HERE. Live streams for most home contests can be found under the athletic pages HERE.
School will be in session Friday, February 3, opening at the regular time. Dress code is Friday attire: coat and tie. The Massey gate will be closed, so please use the Park or Ridgeway gates.
The Civic Service Organization will host their next food distribution event on campus Saturday, February 4, in the Lower School parking lot. Volunteers should arrive at 8:30 a.m., and their work will be completed by 11 a.m.
Congratulations to the Owl musicians who auditioned for the All-West Tennessee Bands. They performed difficult musical excerpts and scales, and they were required to sight-read in front of a judge who is a professional musician and/or teacher.
Owl basketball is going into the final stretch while state wrestling titles are on the line in early February. Tickets and Sport Passes for home events can be purchased HERE. Live streams for most home contests can be found under the athletic pages HERE.
The CSO and the MUS Hunters for the Hungry club plan to serve duck and venison to Memphians in need throughout the month of February. CSO leadership will grant service hours to those who donate duck or deer meat to the cause. Please talk to CSO Advisor Jonathan Large if you have meat to donate or if you would like to volunteer to help cook.
Lower School baseball evaluations are Tuesday-Thursday, February 7-9, 4-6 p.m., on Thorn Field. We hope to have both seventh- and eighth-grade teams. Players will participate in the Middle School Coaches League, and the schedule will be posted once set.
Sign up for Lower School track Monday-Friday, February 6-10! The signup sheet will be posted in the Lower School, and all LS students are welcome. Practices will be after school 2-3 days a week. The meets will take place Thursday afternoons and will begin in April.
Seniors who have achieved proficiency in more than one language may be eligible for the Seal of Biliteracy. Students can qualify for this award through a combination of English coursework, GPA, and language proficiency test scores. The application deadline is Thursday, March 9, 2023.
Senior Lou Zhou reported in chapel on his independent study in sports analytics with Math Instructor Darin Clifft. Using random forest decision making and statistical computing, he quantified NBA players’ ability to make the last shot in a game, calling it DAWG, for Daggers Adequately Winning Games. “Through a combination of a metric which measures the importance or pressure of each shot as well as a metric which defines the difficulty of the shot, we can describe using math a player’s ability to hit that last shot.” Among his Top-10 were DeMar DeRozan, Trae Young, Damian Lillard, and Steph Curry, players “known pretty well for their clutch shooting ability.”
Grandparents of seventh- and eighth-grade Owls will be invited to campus Friday, March 3, for a brunch and a customized tour led by their grandsons during the regular chapel timeframe. Students with no guests on campus will attend chapel.
Soccer tryouts for Lower School are scheduled for February 6, 8, 9 on Blankenship Field. Players must wear soccer socks and temperature/weather-appropriate athletic clothing. Bring shin guards, tennis shoes, and cleats.
Anyone interested in trying out for the 2023-24 basketball or football cheer squads should attend an informational meeting Wednesday, February 15, at 7 p.m.
Five Owls earned honors in the Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards for work they produced during the first semester. See their work HERE.
Andrew Xu ’23 entered an illustration titled “Poli Sci,” which earned a Gold Key. Xu’s art will be on display at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and it will be sent to New York for national judging.