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HS sports: Houston area’s spring signees

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The last signing period of the school year started Wednesday with numerous Houston area athletes inking their letters of intent in various sports.

Some will sign later in the spring with the period lasting until August.

The following is a comprehensive list of signees from around the city. It will be updated throughout the spring.

Any updates or corrections can be e-mailed to [email protected].

Cross Country/Track and Field Sophia Matchett, Montgomery – Dallas Baptist Keyanah Browning, Caney Creek – Cameron University Jake Dillow, College Park – Incarnate Word Roger Ethridge, College Park – Texas A&M Robert Kraus, College Park – Southern Arkansas University Abby Bali, Pasadena Memorial – UTSA Kenneth Pree, Clear Brook – University of Houston Riley Cross, Tomball – Stephen F. Austin Hunter Davis, George Ranch – North Alabama Colton Pounders, George Ranch – Letourneau University Maia Davenport, South Houston – Ottawa University Jacob Adair, George Ranch – University of Houston Alyssa Balandran, Tompkins – Rice University Dan D’Rovencourt, Tompkins – Trinity University Duben Nwachukwu, Tompkins – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Amber Johnson, Waltrip – Prairie View A&M Kaitlyn Banas, Cypress Ranch – University of Arkansas Brooklynn Barton, Cypress Ranch – College of Charleston Ahmad Young, Langham Creek – Louisiana Tech University Golden Eke, Langham Creek – Oklahoma Demi Oliver, Deer Park – Dallas Baptist Emily Kent, Deer Park – Dallas Baptist

Softball Kimani Ferguson, Langham Creek – Texas Wesleyan Alexa von Gontard, Montgomery – University of Missouri-Kansas City Skyler Teague, Montgomery – Hendrix College Rylee Hazlewood, Montgomery – Sam Houston State Bailey Richey, Galena Park – LeTourneau University Kassandra Vargas, Galena Park – Lamar State – Port Arthur Julia Vazquez, Galena Park – Jarvis Christian Carah Delao, Clear Creek – University of Dallas Lindsey Leistad, Clear Creek – University of Nebraska at Kearney Jessica Skladal, Clear Creek – Syracuse University Shelby Kuffel, Kempner – Hill College Ivy Shimkus, Terry – Texas Southern University Savana Mata, Pasadena Memorial – Lamar University Hannah Garcia, Pasadena Memorial – East Texas Baptist Gabby Rodriguez, Pasadena Memorial – Howard Payne Samara Lagway, Willis – Texas State McKenzie Parker, Willis – Texas Savannah Buhl, Willis – East Texas Baptist Aubri Ford, Willis – Texas Southern Alexis Barton, Clear Brook – Alvin Community College Hailey McDowell, George Ranch – Simpson College Jolie Duong, Bellaire – Army- West Point Annette Cardenas, Chavez – Coastal Bend College Alyssa Vasquez, Heights – Spoon River College Marissa Maldonado, Northside – Laredo Community College

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Football John Anthony Robinson, Langham Creek – Mary Hardin Baylor Caleb Thomas, Langham Creek – Texas Lutheran University Nick Ojonta, Langham Creek – Millsaps College Marcus Garza, Caney Creek – Lyon College Amon Byars, Terry – Army West Point Derrick Ray, Terry – Houston Baptist University Robert Alexander, Terry – Wayland Baptist University Marc Bentancur, Terry – Buena Vista University Calvin Simms, Terry – Bethany College Damion Rush, Terry – Bacone College Noah Delahoussaye, Montgomery – Austin College Alex Williams, Pasadena Memorial -Sam Houston State Trevor Robinson, Pasadena Memorial – Henderson State University Michael Mexicano, Pasadean Memorial – Central Methodist University Nathan Prevost, Clear Brook – Austin College Josh Green, Clear Brook – Austin College Dalton Reichardt, Clear Brook – Austin College Dwight Daniel, Clear Brook – Bacone College Will Brown, Lamar Consolidated – SMU Ryan Shockency, Lamar Consolidated – Mary Hardin-Baylor Quivance Giles, Lamar Consolidated – Penn Drake Staten, Lamar Consolidated – Bueno Vista Jordan Khalil, Clements –Mary Hardin Baylor Kendall Pickens, Clements – Wisconsin Lutheran College Sonje Washington, Clements – North Park University Darius Reece, Willis – Blinn College Jake Jones, Willis – Blinn College Taion Chatman, Willis – Blinn College Jermarcus White, Willis – Blinn College Jarvis Howard, Bellaire – Mary Hardin Baylor Jordan Love, Bellaire – Carnegie Mellon Univ. Stephon Ashby, Chavez – Blinn Jai Cooper, Chavez – Texas A&T Dominic Franklin, Chavez – Texas Southern Dashawn Williams, Madison – Kilgore Junior College Jaquel Hamm, Madison – Navarro Dee McCoy, Westside – Texas Wesleyan Ezechiel Mukule, Wisdom – St. Vincent College (PA) Tra’Vonta Carpenter, Yates – San Diego Mesa College Lance Jones, Manvel – University of Mary Hardin Baylor Kadir Ali, Manvel – Cincinnati Christian University Mateo Pritzkau, Cypress Ranch – Austin College

Girls Basketball Erica Strawn, Caney Creek – Arlington Baptist College Domonique Mucker, Manvel – Talladega College Madison Becker, Alvin – Baker University Natalie Miller, Alvin – UT-Dallas Celeste Clement, Clear Brook – Oklahoma Wesleyan Yasmine Arogunjo, Westside – Blinn College Jada Russ, Wheatley – Lane College Chade Gladney, Yates – Cisco College Briana Cloud, Yates – Cisco College Alexandra Pollard, Cy-Fair – Texas Southern University Dezeree White, Langham Creek – Our Lady of the Lake University Mariel Wade, Langham Creek – Blinn College Makenna Clark, North Shore – Concordia University

Boys Basketball C.J. Washington, Tompkins – Kennesaw State Tristan Ikpe, Deer Park – Blinn College Kimani Anderson, College Park – Maine Maritime Marine Academy Byron Brown, Lamar Consolidated – Ellsworth CC Keaton Taylor, Lamar Consolidated – Ellsworth CC Isaiah Blackmon, Lamar Consolidated – Ellsworth CC Kyle Poerschke, Langham Creek – Southwestern University Drew McCammon, Langham Creek – Schreiner University Dralyn Brown, South Houston – Angelina JC Emmanuel White, Tompkins –Blinn College Jonathan Ogugua, Heights – Butler CC Terrell Wilson, Fort Bend Marshall – Midwestern State Ashton McClelland, Cypress Ranch – Texas Southern University

Volleyball Ayana Tabor, North Shore – Our Lady of the Lake Kristen Armstrong, North Shore – Hardin Simmons University Kelsey Fitts, Caney Creek – Ranger Junior College Delanie Coroiescu, Caney Creek – Oklahoma Baptist University Gloria Pulido, Galena Park – Austin College Corine Stephens, Pearland – Kentucky Wesleyan College Mallory Talbert, Montgomery – Texas A&M Jordan Russell, Clear Brook – University of Houston Breana August, Clear Brook – Eastfield College Jaycie Dunn, Lamar Consolidated – Arlington Baptist Catherine Drapela, Lamar Consolidated – Houston Baptist Dani Dagley, Tompkins – Northwestern Oklahoma State University Kailyn O’Neal, Tompkins -Southern Connecticut State University Jada Lewis, Wheatley – Paul Quinn College Shelby Browning, Manvel – Eastfield Community College Aeris Ramsey, Manvel – West Texas A&M Natalie Garcia, Cypress Ranch – Navarro College

Baseball Jake Eschenfelder, College Park – Mary Hardin Baylor Kyle Jackson, College Park – Arkansas Baptist College Travis Washburn, College Park – Lamar University Alec Carr, Kempner – Texas Simeon Woods Richardson, Kempner – Texas Noah Huerta, Kempner – Texas Tech Sutton Dole, Langham Creek – Stevens Institute of Technology Ryan Finke, Pearland – Angelina College Sam Velazquez, Pearland – Schreiner University Cason Wachel, Montgomery – Tyler Junior College Jacob Prigmore, Montgomery – Tarleton State Ben Shields, Montgomery – University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Josh Trahan, College Park – UT – Tyler Daylon Farmer, College Park – Tyler Junior College Brandon Birdsell, Willis – Texas A&M Heath Backhus, Willis – Weatherford Junior College Jace Mapston, Willis – Paris Junior College Mitch Turner, Willis – Northeast Texas Junior College Elijah Taleff-Scott, Shadow Creek – Missouri Valley University Charles Gordon, Alvin – LSU Eunice Jade Gordon, Alvin -Frank Phillips College Spencer Ouellette, Alvin – Houston Baptist University Zach Visser, Tompkins – Southwestern Christian University Wilson Ehrhardt, Tompkins – Hill Junior College Jorge Vargas, Tompkins – Dean College Brett Garner, Cypress Ranch – Austin College Ian Veserra, Cypress Ranch – Centenary College of Louisiana Sergio Gutierrez, Aldine MacArthur – University of Houston-Downtown Micah Russell, Heights – University of Houston-Downtown Jesus Sanchez, Bellaire – University of Houston-Downtown Gavin Alvarez, Terry – University of Houston-Downtown Jaiden Anderson, Kashmere – University of Houston-Downtown Risiah Curtis, Humble – University of Houston-Downtown David Diaz, Northside – University of Houston-Downtown Jeremiah Gant, Heights – University of Houston-Downtown Julian Maldonaldo, Terry – University of Houston-Downtown Matthew Tolliver, Madison – University of Houston-Downtown Richard Trevino, Klein Forest – University of Houston-Downtown Channing Vernon, Lamar Consolidated – University of Houston-Downtown Alex Villanueva, Klein Collins – University of Houston-Downtown Maurice Castille, Hightower – University of Houston-Downtown Mario Castillo, Bush – University of Houston-Downtown John Cerda, Aldine – University of Houston-Downtown Franklin Daniels, Clear Brook – University of Houston-Downtown Alex Duarte, Sharpstown – University of Houston-Downtown Darrian Henry, Alvin – University of Houston-Downtown Kendale Santee, Yates – University of Houston-Downtown Luis Portillo, Cristo Rey – University of Houston-Downtown Brannon Shoaf, Shadow Creek – University of Houston-Downtown Alejandro Jose Avilla, North Forest – University of Houston-Downtown Genaro Cardenas, Waltrip – University of Houston-Downtown Ruden Cavazos, Furr – University of Houston-Downtown Bobby Davis, Sterling – University of Houston-Downtown Jacob Dela Cerda, Jersey Village – University of Houston-Downtown Jake Everett, Atascocita – University of Houston-Downtown George Garza, North Shore – University of Houston-Downtown J. Hernandez, Aldine MacArthur – University of Houston-Downtown Jokobie Jenkins, Shadow Creek – University of Houston-Downtown Jose Luis, Aldine – University of Houston-Downtown Matthew Mendoza, North Shore – University of Houston-Downtown Gabriel Parades, Yates – University of Houston-Downtown Joel Renteria, Furr – University of Houston-Downtown Issac Perez, Cristo Rey – University of Houston-Downtown Court Cosco, Spring Woods – Rhodes College

Golf Bailey Farmer, Alvin – Howard Payne University Caleb Duplechin, Alvin – Coffeyville Community College Iliana Stowers, Montgomery – Incarnate Word Steven Boyd, Langham Creek – Prairie View A&M Hailee Cooper, Montgomery – Texas Reagan Deaton, Montgomery – University of Texas at Dallas Cameron Newhouse, Montgomery – McNeese State Alyssa Goins, Pearland – University of St. Thomas Jzeke Dukes, Washington – Prairie View A&M Cristian Polk, Clear Falls – Hesston College

Tennis Elaina Evans, Kempner – Concordia University Sneha Karnan, Kempner – Case Western Anish Sriniketh, Tompkins – St. Edwards University Dylan Payne, Cypress Ranch – Rensalear Poly Institute (RPI)-NY Varun Thachil, Cypress Ranch – Case Western Reserve University

Swimming and Diving/Water Polo Alexandria Perry, Deer Park – Henderson State Spencer Tybur, College Park – Golden West College Jordan Castillo, Clear Creek – University of California – Santa Barbara Libby Goode, Clear Creek – Trinity University Peyton Roemer, Clear Creek – Incarnate Word Jenny Yu, Dawson – MIT Daria Hatter, Dawson – University of Pittsburgh Charles Yuen, Clements – Trinity University Myles Pickens, Clememts – McMurry University Jacob Won, Tompkins – University of South Dakota Jade Kemp, Tompkins – Austin College Reilly Swain, Tompkins – Memorial University of Newfoundland Ana Lucia Garza, Tompkins – University of the Incarnate Word Hailee Rice, Manvel – University of the Ozarks Jack Venker, Cy-Fair – Army – West Point Riley Dafoe, Cy-Fair – Florida State Sean Calvert, Cypress Ranch – Southwestern University

Wrestling Edwin Benavides, Northside – Wayland Baptist Kayla Fitts, Cypress Ranch – Wayland Baptist University

Girls Soccer Sasha Moreira, Northbrook – Angelina College Bayleigh Smith, Alvin – Eastern Oklahoma State College Rachel Garant, Cypress Ridge – University of Houston Eva Phillips, Langham Creek – Angelina College Aeriana Lewis, North Shore – St. Thomas

Boys Soccer Carlos Rodriguez, Alvin – Mary Hardin-Baylor Anuar Contreras, Langham Creek – Ouachita Baptist University Trent Connor, Langham Creek – Southwestern University

Equestrian Amelia Nelson, George Ranch – South Dakota State

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A teacher, therapist and pastor: How DACA recipients are serving their Texas neighbors

Juan Ríos, pastor. Photo: Ben Torres

Nurses, doctors, teachers, advocates and even pastors — many recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals permits have embraced social service-oriented careers.

There are about 800,000 children of immigrants allowed by DACA to lawfully remain and work in the U.S. The program is being phased out and they’ll lose their legal status if Congress doesn’t meet President Donald Trump’s challenge to pass a law allowing them to stay.

DACA recipients are called “Dreamers.” A September 2016 poll by the Center for American Progress found that, among employed Dreamers, 21 percent work in health and educational services while 11 percent work for nonprofits. An estimate by the Migration Policy Institute based on data from the federal government says about 20,000 are teachers.

Here’s how three DACA recipients are living and working in the U.S.

Juan Ríos, the pastor

In a Youtube video, Juan Ríos and other family children take a dive into the Cuatrociénagas lagoon in Coahuila, Mexico.

Now 25, Ríos barely recognizes himself in that video, a relic from 1994 ferreted out by his cousin. Juan was blond and small.

It was filmed months before the whole family emigrated to Dallas.

“I've always wanted to know Mexico, where I come from. My father tells me different stories, but I don't recall anything,” Ríos said.

Many immigrants who were children when brought to the U.S. have hazy memories, or no memories at all, of the places where they were born. Now they’re faced with the possibility that they’ll have to go back.

At the Mi Casa de Oración ministry in East Dallas, Ríos explains that, “I come here to reassure those who live in fear.”

Ríos has preached at Mi Casa every Sunday since 2013. He also preaches on Tuesdays at Good Samaritan Methodist Church in Oak Cliff.

“Many members here are undocumented,” he said. “Most come from families without a father, where drug or alcohol abuse is rife. They're young people in great need of guidance.”

“They drop out of school or flee their homes. Sometimes they've called us in the middle of the night to go seek them out. Others have been sexually abused and have lots of psychological problems.”

Ríos learned the pastoral craft from his father, a minister. Ríos preaches with his wife, Eliana, a teacher.

Ríos was attending Skyline High School when he was accepted for a summer internship with an architectural firm. “I was so happy. I was a 16-year old kid in the midst of architects and I was going to be given my own office and desk,” he said.

But he had no Social Security number and lost the job on his first day.

Ríos attended Eastfield College for a year, but again and again couldn't find work because he lacked the proper papers. He went to Amarillo to wait tables in his uncle’s restaurant.

After a year of sleeping on a couch in a cellar, he heard about plans to launch the DACA program. He began to save. “Every dime I made as a waiter went on my application,” he said.

He’s now studying at the Tech Teach program at El Centro College, covering his expenses by doing work for an electric company.

He protested in front of Dallas City Hall when he learned DACA would end. But, for him, his preaching is key to moving forward.

“We want to turn this collective fear into something positive, not only within the church's walls. There's an entire community supporting us,” he said.

Stephanie López, the speech therapist

Photo: Ben Torres

Stephanie López, 23, watched her youngest brother grow up with epilepsy and encephalopathy. The latter left him with a speech disability. Realizing how difficult it was to find a bilingual therapist for him, López soon had a clear idea of what she wanted to do in life: work with special kids.

“My brother is 15, but in his mind he’s like 5. He is just learning to put complete sentences together. That motivated me to be bilingual and learn sign language,” said López, donning a nurse uniform at HABLA Speech Therapy in Mesquite, where she works.

“Now, I can communicate with deaf-mute people and I have 12 patients, whom I visit at home. All of them are Hispanic children with autism, Down syndrome and hearing disabilities.”

López is a speech-language pathologist, a profession she studied at University of North Texas thanks to DACA and her parents.

Her dad is a construction worker. Her mom cleans houses.

“We paid my entire degree out-of-pocket. I never took money from the government,” López said. She said her parents sometimes went without water, electricity or food so she could pay for school and continue studying.

Now López is part of the 4 percent of therapists who provide Spanish bilingual services nationwide, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

She remembers when she learned about DACA: “I was in my dorm doing homework when I got a text from my mom. I started crying with my roommate, who was undocumented, too.”

Once covered by DACA, she was able to work part-time as a waiter. She said the money helped her afford food and books.

Slowly, she started shedding the notion that there could be no future for a girl born in a small rancho in Anahuac, Nuevo León, Mexico, a place she only lived in for two and a half years. She can only visualize her hometown through stories her mother shares.

The day Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Trump’s decision to phase out DACA, one of her patients asked whether she was going to be sent back to Mexico.

“I felt sad thinking if something were to happen to me, a child I've known for years would be left with no services because there aren't many bilingual therapists who can assist him.”

Last February, López traveled to Austin to fight proposed cuts to Medicaid for children with special needs.

“I want my patients’ parents to know that the person treating their children, the one who drives to Austin to fight for them, is an unauthorized immigrant. If they respect my work, why would they look differently at me just because I don't have papers?”

Irazema Rodríguez, the teacher

Photo: Ben Torres

Irazema Rodriguez dreamed of being a teacher even back when she was a young volunteer at an elementary school. Now she teaches “everything” to a group of second-grade Hispanic low-income children in a Pleasant Grove school.

“Sometimes I get to school and pinch myself -- I still can't believe it's real,” said the 23-year old mother of a 2-year old boy. She graduated from Arlington University in May with an interdisciplinary studies degree.

“I teach reading, writing, social studies and science in Spanish and math in English” to 7- and 8-year-olds, she said.

Many come from Mexico and El Salvador, but they're most familiar with American culture.

"They have to learn about the American symbols, our values and traditions. But some things about their home countries, too,” she said.

Rodriguez remembers the day her mother left for Texas.

“They told me she just went to the grocery store. But she never came back,” she said. “I was clueless. We spent like a month without her before a friend of hers could bring me and my sister here.”

She was 5 when she left her home state of Durango, Mexico.

For a long time, she was aware of the limitations she lived with in the U.S. "I realized I could never get a driver's license or a student loan,” Rodriguez said.

She said her younger brother, a U.S citizen, had a harder time understanding why he had better opportunities than his sisters -- why he was the only one in the family who could get in a plane and travel wherever he wanted.

“One of the reasons we DACA people want to help others is because we have experienced not being able to get something only because of our place of birth,” she said. “We know what feeling diminished is.”

Once she got her DACA permit, Rodriguez quit her job in a fast food joint and worked in a garment store. She was there for three years. She was a manager.

But her mother wanted her to go to school. “She was always suggesting me things to study and I used to say, ‘What for if, after I graduate, I won't be able to work?’ And she would say, ‘You never know if by the time you graduate there will be something that'll let you to work.’”

Her mother’s faith and DACA opened a once unthinkable path for her and her 20-year old sister, who also has a DACA permit and is studying to be a nurse.

The end of the program is something she doesn't want to think about.

“Talking about it makes me feel a lot of emotions I'm not prepared to deal with,” she said. “In my mind, I want to keep thinking every one of us is going to be fine.”

Originally published here

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