EHS Pillars - Fall 2017

# KNIGHTS STAND OUT
Weston Bering Stars
at All American
High School
Film Festival
Senior Weston Bering, one of
Episcopal High School's most
promising student filmmakers, brought
home the All American High School
Film Festival's award for Best Music
Choice Video Challenge in October. The
All American High School Film Festival
is ranked among the elite media arts
competitions in the United States. For
this year's competition, entrants were
asked to create their own music video
for Fall Out Boy's new song "Young and
Menace."
ETV sponsor Pejman Milani calls
Bering, who has created almost 100
videos/films in the past year, "one of the
most talented and tenacious students I
have taught at EHS."
EHS Athletes
Score Big with
Opportunities
For the second year in a row, the U.S.
Army All‐American Bowl selection
committee headed to Episcopal High
School to honor a Knight, and this year
the jersey went to wide receiver Jaylen
Waddle.
Waddle, citing past Houston‐area bowl
players that include former teammate
and current Stanford freshman Walker
Little '17, as well as NFL players
Andrew Luck and Adrian Peterson,
says, "This award means a lot to me. It
means so much to be mentioned in the
same sentence as these players."
Ranked as the Number 69 player in
the country as well as the Touchdown
Club's Private School Offensive Player
of the Year, Waddle has narrowed his
college choices down to a final six:
Alabama, Florida State, Oregon, TCU,
University of Texas, and Texas A&M.
The U.S. Army All‐American Bowl will
be played on Saturday, January 6, 2018,
at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
In October, five seniors signed
national letters of intent to compete in
intercollegiate athletics: Mylana Byrd
committed to play volleyball at Alabama,
Kansas Watts will play basketball at
Colorado State‐Pueblo, Sarah Venker
will play softball at Ball State, Antonio
Cruz will play baseball at Rice, and
Peter Geib will play baseball at the
University of Texas.
National Merit
Scholars Rank
Among the Best
Seniors Sophie Allan, Aidan Cook,
Avery Edwards, Parker Graves,
and Blake Ogle have qualified as
semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit
Scholarship Program. The nationwide
pool of semifinalists represents less
than 1 percent of U.S. high school
seniors and includes the highest
scoring entrants from the 2016 PSAT
in each state. As one of approximately
16,000 high school seniors who are
semifinalists, these students have
an opportunity to continue in the
competition for some 7,500 National
Merit Scholarships to be offered in the
spring.
In addition, seniors Cristina Wyatt,
Analia Salomon, and Alexis Aboulafia
scored in the top 2.5 percent among
Hispanic and Latino PSAT/NMSQT test
takers in our region on the 2016 PSAT
and were named National Hispanic
Scholars.
Seven seniors also qualified as
Commended Scholars: Alexis
Aboulafia, Ian Evans, Peter Geib,
Shane Hauser, Mary Helen Kennedy,
Eric Nagueh, and Analia Salomon.
Commended scholars scored in the
top 34,000 (top 5 percent) of 2016
PSAT test takers, and show exceptional
academic promise.
Geib was also named one of the Top
10 Players to Watch for in "Texas
High School Baseball Magazine." The
6'2" 3rd baseman has started on the
Episcopal High School varsity team
since his freshman year.
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