Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School Students’ Collect BOXES OF JOY!

Fourth grade students Owen Thompson, Isabella Munoz, Jessica Hankins and Ben Nguyen help load up “Boxes of Joy” at the MCPS Holy Spirit campus. Each Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School family received a box to fill for a needy child in support of the Cross Catholic Outreach program. Every year, thousands of poor children experience a Christmas without hope, Montgomery Catholic is blessed by a generous community who seems to always give more. The middle/high school campus acted as the Central Alabama collection center. The high school students loaded almost 1,000 boxes in mid-November, all headed to Guatemala and Haiti. Learn more at: www.crosscatholic.org/boxofjoy.

Key Club at Montgomery Catholic Continues Great Service to the Community

Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School has a long history serving the community. The perfect example is the very active MCPS Key Club. As the most active club in the State of Alabama, Montgomery Catholic's Key Club members have been recognized on the State and National level for their efforts. 

Key Club members help out at Camp Chandler during Halloween.
Pictured are: Maggie Tippett, Reagan Herbek, Emma Gandy, Marie Johnson, Jenni Morgan, Paige Rentfro, Trinity Carter, Aubrey Lenn, Martin Lee, Aleigha Walden, Anna Nutting, Isabelle Cochran, Madison Searcy, Carrie Belsterling.

For the 2015-16 school year the Montgomery Catholic Key Club has already made an impact in the River Region. Current Key Club members at the school have given time in service to The Spina Bifida Association's annual Walk-n-Roll at the Montgomery Zoo, helped children with arts and crafts at ARToberfest located in historic Capitol Heights, travelled to Camp Chandler to help with the Halloween Carnival and the Montgomery Zoo for their annual event Zoo Boo and work the Alabama National Fair. Averaging approximately 60 members per year, the Key Club is the largest single club on campus, involving nearly 20% of all high school students. 

Over 1000 hours of service have been completed so far.  The next few months will have the club helping serve meals and delivering donations at the Salvation Army, collecting donations for the Montgomery Area Council on Aging, helping with the Humane Shelter Gift Wrapping Fundraiser at East Chase, helping needy families through the Christmas Clearinghouse, doing yard work for the elderly, and volunteering at Reality and Truth Homeless Shelter.   

The Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School Key Club is led by president Patrick Gregorious (senior), vice president Marissa Dogan (senior), Chaplin Agnes Armstrong (senior) and secretary Anna Nutting (sophomore). They are sponsored by teacher Mrs. Jeanene Crenshaw.

Club secretary, Anna Nutting paints faces at a local fall event.

Two Montgomery Catholic Students Named Judges at YMCA Youth Judicial

Thirty-four students from Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School recently participated in the Youth Judicial program sponsored by the YMCA. Students from around the state spent three days in downtown Montgomery  reenacting actual court cases, participating in all parts of the judicial process, serving as judges, bailiffs, prosecution and defense lawyer teams, and as jurors. Each of the Montgomery Catholic teams were coached by Montgomery attorneys some with Montgomery Catholic roots: Deanie (Clark) Allen ’62, Laurel Crawford ' 02, Richard Dean ’78, Joe Rech,and Jacquelyn Tomlinson.

Two students both juniors from Montgomery Catholic, Cheyenne Hayes  and James Sadie were named judges, and Evan Miles acted as bailiff for Judge Sadie. One of the Montgomery Catholic teams consisting of Audrey Kim, Henry Petters, Chloe Newell, Carson Scott, Matthew Taylor, Coleman Schmidt, and Daniel Reeves placed in the top 10.  

With the success of Youth Judicial, Montgomery Catholic is looking forward to participating in YMCA’s Youth Legislature in 2016.

Montgomery Catholic's Cross Country Team Finishes the Season Strong

Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School's Girls' Cross Country team won the Class 4A Section 1 AHSAA Sectional Championship at Kiesel Park in Auburn on Thursday, November 5, 2015. The team qualified for the State Meet and headed to Oakville to compete on Saturday, November 14. Montgomery Catholic had two individual State qualifiers from the boys' team, they were Grant Walker and Kevin Leahy.

Twelve MCPS runners competed at the State meet. The Montgomery Catholic Girls' team finished fourth with freshman, Amaris Tyynismaa finishing in first place with a time of 17:52.25. Two of her teammates finished in the top 20, including, freshman, Isabelle Cochran in eighth place and Grace Leslie in 17th. 

The team is coached by Ed Wright, and assisted by Hollis Johnson, Brianna Lisenby and Kevin Madden. Team members who participated at State were:  Isabelle Cochran, Lacy Herbek,Grace Leslie, Sarah Beth Littrell, Madison Searcy, Chloe Smith, Katelyn Stark, Annabel Starrett, Amaris Tyynismaa, Kevin Leahy and Grant Walker. 

Montgomery Catholic Girls' Cross Country Team AHSAA Class 4A Section 1 Champions