New district for next season will make for some interesting road trips: Alief schools, Lamar, Bellaire, Westside, Heights.

Ducks4brkfast said:

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Stratford's baseball team is going to be really, really good this spring.

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Yes. And Memorial has multiple D-1 athletes that won't see much time on the mound this spring. Pitching depth is insane.

Mikeyshooter said:

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New district for next season will make for some interesting road trips: Alief schools, Lamar, Bellaire, Westside, Heights.

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That's gonna be dope for baseball. I realize they redistrict regularly. But back when 5A was top and all SBISD schools were 5A… it should have been

Lamar
Bellaire
Heights (would have to)
Stratford
Memorial
Spring Woods
Northbrook
Strake Jesuit

That would have been amazing for pretty much all sports and playing more people you know.

SBISD was with Aldine schools when I was going through. And strake had either just started UIL or was about to. I forget.

I think they redistrict every 2 years

Strake grad here. We started UIL competition in spring of 2004. Our first go around we were with the Katy and Alief schools. Over the years I've seen Strake paired with Lamar and as far down as the Pearland schools.

I'm not sure if we've ever been in Stratford's and Memorial's district, but it would be fun, as you mentioned, there would be some good familiarity. I hung out with a few Stratford kids back in the day. I saw in the most recent redistricting that Strake was grouped with Sugar Land/Fort Bend schools - another good pairing as a good chunk of Strake kids come from the Sugar Land and First Colony area.

Haha, I honestly don't know why it ended. But I have a hard time believing it was because Strake was scared.

After all, during my time playing we were a perfect 20-0 across all 5 levels of football, all four years; Varsity, JV, Soph, and two Fresh squads....and I don't think that was being duplicated on the other side recently.

Whatever happened to the Memorial kids who jumped the Stratfford kid and beat him up after the basketball game last year? Rumor was their parents were very affluent and pulled strings so that the kdis punishment was vry minimal and they were allowed to graduate. That event was EMBARRASSING.

I do not have a dog in the hunt, but Stratford seems to be a far more balanced school

CW Griswold said:

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The real question is, do Lamar and Bellaire piss and moan about each other?

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That would be interesting to know these days. In my day Bellaire was a heavy Jewish school (before the Asian invasion). Lamar beat them all the time in football. Lee, Bellaire & Lamar used to be a threeway rivalry but HISD and the demographic decline of the immediate area destroyed Lee. Then Bellaire got really good in baseball and Lamar got even better in football. The schools used to be different enough that there wasn't a crazy animosity between them. Also, HISD post integration was pretty tame when it came to HS rivalry hate. I understand Lee & Lamar had a pretty strong rivalry back when they were both overwhelmingly affluent and white (I went to Lamar a few years after bussing started).

MAS444 said:

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Why doesn't Strake play St. Thomas any more? And does it bother Strake grads that the reason is because Strake is scared?

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They have to bring cue balls to fist fights. Someone tell ITK and specifically Valdez that CE wants his eye back.

RC on a Mobile said:

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Whatever happened to the Memorial kids who jumped the Stratfford kid and beat him up after the basketball game last year? Rumor was their parents were very affluent and pulled strings so that the kdis punishment was vry minimal and they were allowed to graduate. That event was EMBARRASSING.

I do not have a dog in the hunt, but Stratford seems to be a far more balanced school

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More Spartans are getting into Heaven than Mustangs. I'll just leave it at that.

cs09 said:

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Strake grad here. We started UIL competition in spring of 2004. Our first go around we were with the Katy and Alief schools. Over the years I've seen Strake paired with Lamar and as far down as the Pearland schools.

I'm not sure if we've ever been in Stratford's and Memorial's district, but it would be fun, as you mentioned, there would be some good familiarity. I hung out with a few Stratford kids back in the day. I saw in the most recent redistricting that Strake was grouped with Sugar Land/Fort Bend schools - another good pairing as a good chunk of Strake kids come from the Sugar Land and First Colony area.

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Stratford Grad here. Fall of 08 and 09 I think we were with Strake, Memorial, Spring Woods, Northbrook and then the 3 Alief schools. I was a Freshman in 09 and I think that's who we played and it was the only time we were with Strake.

RustyBV said:

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Sprouts is taking part of the Kroger space. The area and 77079 could use another HEB and/or Central Market. Bunker Hill has gotten even more crowded.

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I saw some construction going on the other day, has Sprouts been confirmed?

Yes Sprouts is taking half of the old Kroger space.

Graduated Strake in 2000; we were still TCIL. Pretty easy to win the conference when there was only 4 schools total in it.

Didn't realize SJ and STH didn't play anymore.

~egon

SJ grad here. I do miss the rivalry. Wish they would bring it back. That being said isn't there a pretty big talent / school size disparity? Haven't paid much attention lately. How would the teams stack up?

Yeah I think strake is much bigger for sure. But I'm no expert. My dad and uncle went to st Thomas in the 60s and I have lots of friends on both sides now.

Strake is almost double the size now.

STH website shows current enrollment at 791.

The latest number I see on SJ's site is 1,488 for 2024.

Strake had a lot more physical room to grow, and their location let them hold on more during the flight years.
STH added the old Law Enforcement campus, which may have added some capacity, but I know they were at or above capacity in recent years.

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pdawg10384 said:

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For a typical conservative Aggie family, which high school do you think kids and parents would be happier at?

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A lot of Memorial kids to tu and Baylor. It's kind of the mentality of Memorial. The school with its own parking garage on Echo Lane wins a lot of country club sports. I would think the pressure would be tough on kids who aren't in the right circles. Stratford has more regular kids in a good school that does a lot more dual credit with community colleges.

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My year…. Ancient history ago. A&M was the more popular choice. Plenty of Memorial folks attend A&M. Plenty attend Texas as well.

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I still have my school paper in my yearbook from when I graduated from MHS that shows what college everyone was going to so I can check it when I get home but my recollection is at least 5x as many kids from my class went to t.u. vs A&M.

edit: just checked it was "only" 4x... 64 to Texas, 20 something to tech 18 to UH and only 16 to A&M