The

Crusader

NEWS FROM THE ATONEMENT ACADEMY Volume 2017-18, Issue 15 (Oct. 31, 2017)

Wed. Nov. 1 —School Pictures: Middle & Upper School Students & Staff —All Saints’ Day & Salute to Grand- parents Program, 2:15 pm, Gym Thurs. Nov. 2 —School Pictures: Lower School Sat. Nov. 4 —TMEA Middle School Regionals Sat. Nov. 4 —Faculty-Staff Retreat Fri-Sat Nov. 10 & 11 —TMEA Upper School Regionals

Nov. 13-26: FALL BREAK Mon. Nov. 27 —Classes Resume

SPORTS on p. 3 and always at

www.atonementsports.org

Headmaster’s Highlights

15415 Red Robin Road San Antonio TX 78255 210-695-2240 www.atonementonline.com info@atonementonline.com

Congratulations to two of our girls’ volleyball teams, the Varsity and the Middle School B Team — BOTH groups of girls won State Championships over the weekend! We admire your hard work and dedication as scholar-athletes, and we are proud of you. Thank you for representing our school so well. We are publishing this newsletter a day early to give all parents the opportunity to learn of the Mass schedule tomorrow, All Saints’ Day, a holy day of obligation. Please see page four for details Thank you for your support of our school.

—Mr. Markovetz

CATHOLIC SCHOOL

MATTERS!

Times

Upcoming Events

What a great FAVOR

GOD does to those

He places

in the company of

GOOD PEOPLE.

—St. Teresa of Avila

Parish Information

Fr. Mark Lewis, Pastor

Fr. Jeffery Moore, Parochial Vicar Fr. Christopher Phillips,

Pastor Emeritus & Founder

Sunday Masses 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.,

and 6 p.m. (Latin)

Saturday Mass 10:00 a.m., followed by Confessions

Daily Masses 7:00 a.m., 9:10 a.m. & 12 noon

For information on becoming a parishioner,

having a Mass said, making arrangements for

the Sacraments or other matters, contact Mr.

Patrick Zuberbueler, Parish Office Manager

at 695-2944.

Nota Bene / Note Well:

• DID YOU KNOW: The narthex of the Church has many items of interest for our parents! The latest “hot item” is a Saints Calendar for 2018 provided by our parish’s St. Vincent DePaul Society (donations en-couraged).

• NOVEMBER 1 is All Saints’ Day and our

annual Salute to Grandparents Program for Lower School students from 2:15 — 3:00. Let your grandparents (and “like grandparents”) know!

• MARK YOUR CALENDARS : Our Fall

Break is coming, November 12-26, with classes resuming on the 27th.

• SHARE YOUR GREAT PICS! If you

have great photos of anything happening on campus, please share them with us! Send to marketing@atonementonline.com (a a few at a time, please). This issue in-cludes photos from Mrs. Weems, Mrs. Ken-nedy, Mr. Schott, Mrs. Yvette Cantu, Mrs. Christianson, Mrs. Monroe, and Mrs. Schelb.

Mrs. Autumn Taylor is the fifth grade girls’ teacher at The Atonement Academy. This year she teaches the girls every subject except Latin, mu-sic, and PE.

Mrs. Taylor is a cradle Catholic who attended a Catholic grade school and high school. After high school she attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on a partial academic scholarship and a partial swimming scholarship. She has a BSE in elementary education, and all of her 30 plus years as an educator have been in Catholic Schools in San Antonio, Dal-las, Tulsa, and Knoxville. Twenty-four of those years were spent edu-cating fifth graders. (Ten and eleven year olds are her favorite age group!) Besides fifth grade, Mrs. Taylor also has taught second, third, fourth, and sixth grades.

She and her husband, Chris, just celebrated 38 years of being married. They have three grown children, two sons and a daughter.

Getting to Know…Mrs. Taylor

Mrs. Taylor in her classroom

Atonement Athletics Athletics Report

from Mr. Dakotah Vidal

Be loud. Be proud. Go, Crusaders!

After a weekend of championship games for our volleyball players and a loss for our varsi-ty football team, it is a quiet week in sports at The Atonement Academy! Varsity Football We lost our final regular season home game 58-8 on Saturday against Corpus Christi Annapolis. The loss did not hinder our chance for the playoffs. More info will follow on the playoff schedule. Varsity Volleyball The Lady Crusaders are State Champions! After winning Friday after-noon, their game Saturday morning led to a thrilling title! We are very proud of them and all their hard work over this season. Middle School D1 B Volleyball They are also State Champions! They have been putting in work over this season and fought hard to get that championship. We also are proud of their efforts and achievements. Here is the sports schedule for next week’s games, for your reference in advance: • Tuesday Nov 7th, Womens V B-ball vs. Great

Hearts (Scrimmage) HOME-6:00 pm

• Tuesday Nov 7th, Mens V B-ball vs. Great

Hearts (Scrimmage) HOME-7:30 pm

• Wednesday Nov 8th, Girls MS A Team B-ball

vs. BASIS, HOME-5:00 pm

• Wednesday Nov 8th, Boys MS B Team B-ball

vs. BASIS, HOME-6:00 pm

• Wednesday Nov 8th, Boys MS A Team B-ball

vs. BASIS, HOME-7:00 pm

• Friday-Saturday Nov 10-11th, Boys and Girls A

Team in Rams Invitational Basketball Tourna-

ment, Times-TBA

• Friday Nov 10th, Mens V B-ball vs. Sunny-

brook, AWAY-7:00 pm

These Middle School Lady Crusaders are 2017 Conference DI B Team Champions! Thank you to Coach Alex and Coach Kathy — and congratulation to the following play-ers: Gloria BouOnk, Ava Cantu, Hannah Cruz, Paulina Esquinca, Adrianna Garcia, Karolina Garza, Kaitlyn Nest-er, Katalina Rodriguez, Alejandra Schott, and Elle Scott.

Presenting our STATE CHAMPION LADY CRUSADERS! Congratulations to our scholar-athletes and their coach-es! Chloe Benzaquen, Arianna Cisneros, Britney Clingan, Sofia Flores, Katherine Monroe, Mia Robles, Mary Som-mer, and Jaqueline von Schulenburg along with coach Blanca Sanchez.

All Saints’ Day is a Holy Day

of Obligation.

The Mass schedule at

Our Lady of The Atonement Catholic Church

is as follows:

7 am

9:10 (School Mass) 12 noon

7 pm

On All Souls’ Day, we will have our regular schedule:

7 am

9:10 (School Mass)

12 noon

Please join us!

Crusader Scene

1. Your Crusader Football team before their last home game of the regular season. 2. Ava, Ire-land, and Gabriel at the LS birth-day celebrations. 3. Seniors Mari-ana Garcia and Isabelle Chris-tianson with their classmates football players Daniel Hen-riquez, Travis Prochko, and Dan-iel Henriquez. 4. Sofia, Mia, and Katherine —all freshmen— with their Championship trophy. 5. These second graders know how to have fun when weather is damp during recess! 6. Crusaders huddle! 7. & 8. MS Volleyball B Team celebrate their Champion-ship!

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STATE CHAMPION VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS RECOGNIZED BY TCAL

All-State First Team Mia Robles

Britney Clingan

All-State Second Team Sofia Flores

Arianna Cisneros

All-State Honorable Mention

Chloe Benzaquen

All-District First Team

Arianna Cisneros Britney Clingan

Mia Robles Sofia Flores

All-District Second Team Chloe Benzaquen

Jacqueline vonSchulenburg Katherine Monroe

Mary Sommer

We are so very proud of our Lady Crusaders! The varsity team re-ally stepped up their game and responded so well to Coach Blan-ca’s inspiration and dedication to these young ladies. AS Mr. Vidal reported, our girls won the championship Saturday morning! In addition, our league announced their district selections for 2A divi-sion, and our scholar-athletes received quite a bit of recognition. Congratulations to these young ladies!

VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS...

Seniors Arianna

& Britney!