It's all in the brand!

The Montgomery Catholic Varsity Cheerleaders got together the night before Halloween to carve our school logo on pumpkins for the last regular season football game.

The girls carved the school's "MC" logo on 10 pumpkins that decorated the football stadium on Halloween night. Pictured are Hannah Been, Haley Scanlan, Sarah Armstrong, Brittney Wilkinson, Molly McLaughlin, Kaitlyn Roberts, Marissa Marmolejo, and Jessica Barranco.

Montgomery Catholic Students Design Ads for Area Businesses

Emily Barranco and Paige Barranco, students from Montgomery Catholic's St. Bede Campus, submitted the winning designs for the Montgomery Advertiser's Design an Ad Contest.

Over 1,200 entries were submitted with 30 drawings winning advertising space for local businesses in upcoming editions of the Montgomery Advertiser.

Paige Barranco designed an advertisement for Jim Wilson & Associates' newest subdivision, New Park.

Emily Barranco designed an advertisement for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Emily's drawing also won first place in the 4th-6th grade overall competition.

Pictured: Montgomery Catholic students and cousins Emily Barranco and Paige Barranco designed winning advertisements in the Montgomery Advertiser's Ad Contest.

Six Montgomery Catholic Students Earn AP Scholar Awards

Six students at Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams.

The College Board's Advanced Placement Program (AP) provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams. About 18 percent of the 1.6 million students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to also earn an AP Scholar Award.

The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on students' performance on AP Exams.

At Montgomery Catholic:

Four students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken. These students are Molly Jones, Lane Keating, Rob Preston, and Samantha Telofski. Molly Jones and Samantha Telofski are freshmen at the University of Alabama. Rob Preston is a freshman attending Rensselaer Technical Institute. Lane Keating is a freshman at Tulane University.

One student qualified for the National AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning and average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or high on four or more of these exams. Montgomery Catholic's AP Scholar with Honor is Robert Carter. Robert is a freshman at Suwanee the University of the South.

One student qualified for the National AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning and average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or high on five or more of these exams. Montgomery Catholic's AP Scholar with Distinction is Jacob Weatherly. Jacob attends Harvard University on a full scholarship.

St. Bede Elects Student Council

Students at Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School's St. Bede Campus recently elected their officers for the Student Council. Paige Barranco was elected as President, Gaten Armstrong as Vice President, Courtney Wallace as Secretary, and Emily Barranco as the council Chaplain. Congratulations to these students and thanks to all who participated in the election process.

Pictured: St. Bede Student Council Officers President Paige Barranco, VP Gaten Armstrong, Secretary Courtney Wallace, and Chaplain Emily Barranco.

Kindergarten Learns Fire Safety

Montgomery Catholic's Kindergarten classes learned the importance of fire safety from members of the Montgomery Fire Department.

Students toured the safety house, learned what to do in the event of a fire, and visited with "Sparky" the fire dog.

Pictured: Montgomery Catholic kindergarten students pose with "Sparky" in front of the Fire Department's Children Safety House.

Students Honored at Middle School Fall Sports Banquet

Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School honored their Middle School fall sport athletes during an end of the season banquet held in the Dolly Barranco Activity Center.

Student athletes received participation certificates in volleyball and football. The middle school cheerleaders were recognized and will be honored at the winter sports banquet following their basketball cheerleading season.

The top four athletes for Middle School volleyball and football were honored with awards in sportsmanship, leadership, coaches award, and the most valuable player.

For volleyball, Natalie Sullivan was awarded the Sportsmanship award, Maggie Starr was awarded for Leadership, Shelby Taff was presented the Coaches Award, and Hannah Barranco was named the team's Most Valuable Player.

For football, Jack Starr received the Sportsmanship award, Sterling Anderson was awarded for Leadership, Kyle Berher was presented the Coaches Award, and Michael Tyner was named the team's Most Valuable Player.

Pictured: Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School's Middle School fall sport athlete award winners are row 1 Natalie Sullivan, Hannah Barranco, Maggie Starr, and Shelby Taff. row 2 Kyle Berher, Jack Starr, Sterling Anderson, and Michael Tyner.

Congratulations Middle School Basketball Players

The Montgomery Catholic Athletic Department is pleased to announce the middle school basketball players for the 2008-09 season.

Chosen for the girls team, to be coached by Britt Taylor and Patrick Wood, were Hannah Barranco, Jordan Lacey, Alex Manning, Sarah Nolen, Sydney O'Connor, Maggie Starr, Natalie Sullivan, Hadley Taylor, Callie Wilkinson, and Kirstin Wood.

Chosen for the boys team, to be coached by Kenny Davison, were Sterling Anderson, John Arnold, Kyle Berher, Michael Dallas, Brett Foxworth, Clayton Guillot, Zach Hulcher, Matt Pouncey, Connor Preston, James Sherman, Benny Taylor, Michael Tyner, and John Watts.

The middle school and JV teams open their season on November 18th against Montgomery Academy.