^That’s the story on the FRONT page of sun-sentinel.com — which just goes to show how huge this is. It’s higher than Andy Rooney dying and some big coke bust.
Cooper City High School is notoriously known for losing football games. We would always go to the games and the team always played hard, but wins were generally hard to come by. Last year they did great though, they won districts. And this year?
St. Thomas is ranked as the number 9 best high school football team in America. Not Broward, not Florida, but AMERICA. Every year, they slaughter the Coop on the football field, and as it says in that article, in the past four CC v. STA games alone, St. Thomas has outscored us 239-17.
This year Cooper City football is doing amazing. They’re undefeated with just one game left in the regular season, and last night they beat St. Thomas and won the district — the first time St. Thomas HASN’T won the district since 1996.
My Facebook news feed went crazy.
I mean, that’s how I and most of us found out about the win. And these weren’t just high school kids and creepy college kids who still talk about high school (like me), but like all the alumni all the way back through like 06 I saw, showing Cowboy spirit. It was really cool, and so good for the school/city. I wish I could have been there.
As James Pagano so elegantly puts it, “Damn St. Thomas sucks to suck… Beat by a white public school lmao.”
Now they’re going for Regional & State! Go Cowboys!
My sister graduated from high school on Monday. Whaaaat?!
I’m not sure where the past like 7 years have gone but they’ve peaced and here we are in 2011, me, a rising Senior in college, and my sister, graduated from high school and heading to UVM in the fall.
Anyway I’m really glad I got to go to the ceremony. Despite the fact that it was long and boring (an 18-minute speech, really Ms. Doll?), I got to see lots of people that I haven’t seen in a while like Cooper teachers (Scaff, Harding, Pichardo) and the 2011 graduates. But there were also a surprising amount of other 08 Grads there to watch their siblings graduate so it was cool catching up with them, too.
Pichardo was awarded Teacher of the Year this year and made an adorable speech which you can watch on my Facebook, here.
Since the graduation, I’ve spent the week catching up with old friends and doing “Cooper City things” like going to the Starbucks plaza on Stirling and Steak and Shake at 2am. It’s been chill.
Still not really sure what my plans are for the rest of the summer since they’ve changed like five times already… but whatever. Taking it day by day! I’ll be down for the rest of June at least. Maybe July, too.
Congrats 2011 grads!
Here’s a few more pics:
^Myles, Maxie
^Alyssa
^Tandy
CCHS Girls Varsity Soccer - Senior Night 2011
My mom had asked me to film some my sister’s soccer game on Wednesday night since it was Senior Night. So I did, and then that home video turned into this.
They dominated and won by the mercy rule so I figured it was worth posting :)
I'm Dean.
I'm 21, and I live in
New York City (school)
& Cooper City, FL (home).
I'm a Senior at NYU & an Intern for Saturday Night Live.
I'm not really using this blog anymore as of December 28, 2011. It never belonged on Tumblr anyway.
The rest of my site is down now, too. That's why the links at the bottom redirect to the home page. The site will be back someday soon whenever I get a chance to update it, but the blog probably won't be. If it does come back though, it definitely won't be on Tumblr. It's been a good run!
