DISD Donna High School

Donna High School has a State Champion in the 132 weight class!👏🏼👏🏼 Senior Rhonda Valdez is bringing home a gold medal🥇! A huge congratulations to Rhonda and to our strong and resilient Bravettes who finished 4th overall at STATE!🏆
Way to represent the Redskin Reservation, Bravettes!🏋‍♀️💛

97 lb class-June Acevedo 4th
123 lb class-Alanis Lozano 9th
132 lb class-Rhonda Valdez 1st 🥇
132 lb class- Jocelyn Saenz 11th
181 lb class-Angelina Yanez 2nd🥈
198 lb class-Trisha Leyva 4th
259 lb class - Kayra Guerrero 3rd 🥉

Powerlifting Send off 2023

Wishing our strong and resilient Powerlifting Bravettes💪🏼🏋‍♀️ 💛 the best of luck as they proudly represent our alma mater and our entire Donna community tomorrow at the THSWPA State Competition in Frisco, TX!
Go, Fight, Win, Bravettes!

Powerlifting Send off 2023

The Bravettes Track Team competed well yesterday at Jimmy Platt Invitational. Results are as follows:

3rd place 100m hurdles Aicha Garza

4th place Triple Jump Samariah Gonzalez

4th place Shot Put Lauren De La Garza

4th place 100m Samariah Gonzalez

The Bravettes continue to improve and show success in their running events 🎉🎉

The Redskin Track Team competed well yesterday at Jimmy Platt Invitational.

Congratulations to Marcus Mata who placed 🏅5th in Pole Vault, and a big shout out to Xavier Rodriguez for placing on all the following!

🥇1st Place Triple Jump
🥈2nd Place Long Jump
🥉3rd Place 100m
🥈2nd Place 200m
🥉3rd Place 400m

Best of luck to the following Donna High School ROTC members as they compete in State in Corpus Christi: Elias Torres, Paul Maldonado, Oscar Munoz, Ezequiel Campos. Good luck, Redskins!

Congratulations to our Redskin Powerlifters🏋‍♂️ for advancing to the Regional Qualifier Meet. We wish them the best of luck as they compete tomorrow, March 11th, at the Edinburg Recreational Center! 💛

Congratulations to the following Donna Redskin powerlifters that are Regional Qualifiers

Kudos to the Bravettes Sub-Varsity Track Team for a great performance at the Donna North Satellite Meet this evening!👏🏼👏🏼

1st Milagros & 3rd Jessenia- Discuss
1st Jessenia & 2nd Milagros- Shot Put
1st Jade Mendez- 100m Hurdles
2nd Jade Mendez- 300m Hurdles
2nd June Acevedo- Triple Jump
3rd June Acevedo- Long Jump

2nd place-Alyson Perez, Isabel Lawson, Alyssa Garcia and June ACevedo- 4x100m Relay

2nd place Isabel Lawson- 100m run
2nd placeAlyson Perez, June Acevedo, Isabel Lawson and Serena Crawford- 4x200m Relay
3rd place Dominique Ramirez- 1600m run

Freshmen Division
3rd place Brianna Benavidez, Dayanarique Salinas, Marlen Zepeda, and Naissa Ramirez- 4x200

Kudos to the Redskin Sub-Varsity Track Team for a great performance at the Donna North Satellite Meet this evening!👏🏼👏🏼

🥇1st Place 4x100m Relay-
Dominic Balderas, Bryan Lerma, Yahir Mata, Nathaniel Medrano

🥉3rd Place 4x100m Relay-
Douglas Armstrong, Luis Garcia, Elias Guerrero, Eithen Gutierrez

🥇1st Place 4x200m Relay-
Dominic Balderas, Bryan Lerma, Yahir Mata, Nathaniel Medrano

🥉3rd Place 4x200m Relay-
Douglas Armstrong, David Garcia, Luis Garcia, Elias Guerrero

🥇1st Place 4x400m Relay-
Jose Aguirre, Dominic Balderas, Juan Gonzalez, Yahir Mata

🥈2nd Place 4x400m Relay-
Douglas Armstrong, June Garza, Elias Guerrero, Alex Rosales

🥇1st Place 100m- Nathaniel Medrano

🥈2nd Place 100m- Juan Valdez

🥇1st Place 200m- June Garza

🥈2nd Place 200m- Juan Valdez

🥇1st Place 200m- Bryan Lerma

🥈2nd Place 300m Hurdles- Douglas Armstrong

🥉3rd Place 300m Hurdles- Jayden Chavez

🥉3rd Place 300m Hurdles- Jose Aguirre

🥈2nd Place 400m- Alex Rosales

🥇1st Place 3200m- Edward Granados

🥈2nd Place 3200m- Adrian Salazar

🥇1st Place Discus- Gabriel Enriquez

🥉3rd Place Discus- Ricardo Mata

🥇1st Place Discus- Lorenzo Rocha

🥇1st Place Shot Put- Gabriel Enriquez

🥉3rd Place Shot Put- Damien Martinez

🥇1st Place Shot Put- Ezequiel Gonzalez

🥇1st Place Long Jump- June Garza

🥇1st Place Long Jump- Nathaniel Medrano

🥇1st Place Triple Jump- June Garza

🥉3rd Place Triple Jump- Elias Guerrero

🥈2nd Place Triple Jump- Juan Gonzalez

🥉3rd Place Triple Jump- Antonio Zamorano

🥈2nd Place High Jump- Yahir Mata

🥉3rd Place High Jump- Douglas Armstrong

Happy School Social Work Week to Mr. Jaime Peña! We truly appreciate the work he does. This week allows us to recognize their impactful work supporting students, families and communities. Thank you Mr. Peña for all that you do for our Redskin community each and every day! 🎉

Congratulations 🎉 to the Donna High School Criminal Justice students for their success at the TxPTSA Skills Competition and TPSA (Texas Public Safety Association) in Corpus Christi this past weekend! Not only did they receive medals for their events, but they gained a wealth of experience. The results were as follows:

TxPTSA:
2nd place Kayla Sanchez – DWI FIELD SOBRIETY INVESTIGATION

TPSA:
1st place Anthony Lozoya - Domestic Disturbance
1st place Mario Quintanilla - Domestic Disturbance
2nd place Aracely Guzman - Female Law Enforcement Agility
2nd place Jesus Bazaldua - Male Law Enforcement Agility & Male Fire Agility
3rd place Briana Parish - Crime Scene Investigation
3rd place Ana Garza - Crime Scene Investigation & Female Fire Agility
3rd place Lorissa Gonzalez - Crime Scene Investigation
3rd place Julio Hernandez – Male Fire agility course
3rd place Kayla Sanchez –911 Call taking

Great job to all the students who participated. Kudos to their instructors, Officer Mary Morales, Juan Meza, and Leonso Saldaña. Good luck at State!

Congratulations to Hillary Garcia for being recognized as one of the top 15 JV girl golfers in the valley! She received a plaque yesterday at the Rudy Kazudy JV Tournament. She will now be competing at the varsity level in future tournaments. Great job Hillary 🎉🎉

It’s Diagnostician’s week 📢 Educational Diagnosticians are certified professionals with skills in identifying learning disorders. In recognition of their critical role that these individuals play at Donna High School in providing all students with a high-quality education, we celebrate their work during this week. Join us in honoring our amazing team of Diagnosticians. You are appreciated! 🎉

Way to go, Redskins!👏🏼⚾️💛

Congratulations 🎉 to Naomi Aguirre for being admitted and receiving a scholarship to attend St. Edwards University. Naomi was also the recipient of CAMP (College Assistance Migrant Program) which is a competitive 4-year grant that provides financial assistance to migrant students. Naomi is a first-generation college student who plans to major in criminal justice and pre-law and is eagerly looking forward to this great opportunity.

Donna High School wishes her the best of luck in all her future endeavors!

This past Saturday, March 4, 2023, the DHS Art students participated in the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE). Our very talented art students competed in face-to-face competition for the first time since 2019, and a BIG Congratulations goes out to them as they did an outstanding job and brought home a total of 36 Regional medals and received the highest rating, 4!

Three of our students also received Area medals and have advanced to the State Level! Congratulations and best of luck to Lizette Cedillo, Miah Garces, and Kennedy Aranda as they will compete at San Marcos High School in April.

We are very proud of our students and their success! They represented Donna High School remarkably!

Way to go, Ms. Gutierrez 🎉

Ms. Rebecca Gutierrez, Biology lead at DHS, relies on a variety of strategies to ensure her students understand new concepts. Using physical modeling to show how genes flow through populations and change over time, along with a variety of card sorts and scenarios, as well as anchoring learning in interactive notebooks, she makes sure her students “get it” before they leave her class. She and her inclusion teacher, Mr. Jose Moreno, are committed to making biology comprehensible and memorable to their students. Awesome work, team! 🎯 DISD Donna High School

Congratulations 🎉 to our amazing amd extremely talented D’ettes for their phenomenal performance at the Showmakers of America competition! They represented Donna High School, Donna ISD, and the community of Donna remarkably! They were not only awarded State Champions in their division, but alos, they were the highest scoring Team and Officers of the day! Donna High School is beyond proud of their hard work and dedication! Way to go, D’ettes! 🎉🎉

Congratulations, Bravettes 🎉🎉

Congratulations, Redskin Track!👏🏼

🥇1st Place 4x100m Relay-
Brian Juarez, Marcus Mata, Xavier Rodriguez, Luis Silva

🥇1st Place 4x200m Relay-
Brian Juarez, Marcus Mata, Xavier Rodriguez, Luis Silva

🥉3rd Place 4x400m Relay-
Brian Juarez, Marcus Mata, Xavier Rodriguez, Marc Zamorano

🥇1st Place Triple Jump- Caleb Harrison

🏅4th Place 300m Hurdles- Dallas Zuniga

Donna High School’s Bravette varsity track team participated this past Friday at the Knights of Columbus Relays in Mercedes.

Results are as follows:
Personal Best in the Shot Put- Reese Rodriguez
8th place Lauren De La Garza
Discus-Personal best
Reese Rodriguez and Lauren De La Garza

3200m- Personal Best Samara Rodriguez-

4x100-personal best
Victoria Lopez, Britney Garcia, Katia Renteria, Samariah Gonzalez

100m Run 4th place
Samariah Gonzalez

400m Run Personal Best -Angela Soto

300m Hurdles Personal best- Aicha Garza

1600m run Personal Best -Summer Ramirez

Keep working hard, Bravettes!

Attention all students and parents 📢📢

Congratulations 🎉 goes out to the following Bravette Basketball players for the All-District accolades they received for the 2022-2023 Basketball Season. In addition to the honors they received for their outstanding play on the court, we also had several young ladies who made the District All-Academic Team. In order to make the All-Academic team, these young ladies had to have a cumulative academic average of 90 or above during the fall semester. Donna High School is extremely proud of all their hard work on and off the court!

Bravette Award Recipients for this season are as follows:

Briana Duran (#15), Sr.
2nd Team All-District

Amariyah Matthews (#12), Sr.
2nd Team All-District

Serena Crawford (#10), So.
All Defensive Team

Nicholle Moreno (#13), Sr.
All-District Honorable Mention

Emily Torres (#22), Sr.
All-District Honorable Mention

Alyson Perez (#14), Fr.
All-District Honorable Mention

All-Academic Team:
Isabel Lawson- So.
Amariyah Matthews- Sr.
Nicholle Moreno- Sr.
Alyson Perez- Fr.
Briana Duran- Sr.
Melina Calvillo- So.
Emily Torres- Sr.
Heaven Mireles- Sr.
Katelyn Zuniga- So.

Thank you to the Redskin Family for all your support throughout the season!! Go, Fight, Win Bravettes!

This week Donna High School had the privilege of hosting the R.E.A.D.Y program. This month the focus was basketball. Donna High coaches, past/current Bravettes and Redskins players, along with coaches from Truman, Stainke, Ochoa, Caceres and LeNoir Elementary were in coordination of this event. Thank you to our Donna High School basketball coaches and future Redskins and Bravettes for being a part of this amazing program!

Congratulations to the Redskin Sub-Varsity Track Team for a great performance today at the Mercedes Satellite Meet.

3rd Place 4x100m Relay-
Dominic Balderas, Yahir Mata, Nathaniel Medrano, Deonicio Zavala

2nd Place 4x200m Relay-
Dominic Balderas, Yahir Mata, Nathaniel Medrano, Deonicio Zavala

2nd Place 4x400m Relay-
Jose Aguirre, Dominic Balderas, Juan Gonzalez, Yahir Mata

1st Place Pole Vault- Deonicio Zavala

1st Place Discus- Lorenzo Rocha

2nd Place Discus- Gabriel Enriquez

1st Place Shot Put- Gabriel Enriquez

6th Place Shot Put- Caiden Park

3rd Place Long Jump- Juan Garza

2nd Place 100m Dash- Nathaniel Medrano

3rd Place 100m Dash- Bryan Lerma

3rd Place 100m Dash- Douglas Armstrong

1st Place 200m Dash- Bryan Lerma

3rd Place 200m Dash- Douglas Armstrong

3rd Place 800m Dash- Jose Aguirre

Congratulations 🎉 to the Bravettes that completed at today’s freshman and sub varsity track meet at Mercedes. The results are as follows:

High Jump-2nd place Jayleen Garza

Shot Put-1st Place Milagros Regalado
2nd place Jessenia Garcia
Discus-3rd place Jessenia Garcia
6th place Milagros Regalado
Long Jump-2nd place June Acevedo
Triple Jump-3rd place June Acevedo

4x100 m relay-2nd place
Alyssa Garcia, June Acevedo,Alyson Perez,Jayleen Garza

100 M. Hurdles-3rd place Jade Mendez

4x200 M relay
3rd place Alyssa Garcia, June Acevedo, Alyson Perez, Jayleen Garza

4x400 M Relay
3rd place June Acevedo, Alyson Perez, Jade Mendez and Jayleen Garza

Congratulations 🎉 to the following athletes for their accolades including the all-Academic team that were voted on by the coaches from our 32-5A Basketball District.

1st Team All-District
Ricky Lopez # 1 (Senior)

2nd Team All-District
Cristian Sanchez # 23 (Senior)

Honorable Mention
Alex Sanchez # 0 (Senior)
Geoffrey LeFevre # 35 (Sophomore)
Xavier Rodriguez # 10 (Sophomore)

All-Academic Team
# 0 (Senior) Alex Sanchez
# 3 (Senior) Sergio Benavidez
# 4 (Sophomore) Dallas Zuniga
# 5 (Senior) Richard Olmeda
#10 (Sophomore) Xavier Rodriguez
#32 (Senior) Joshua Navarro
#35 (Sophomore) Geoffrey LeFevre

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Congratulations 🎉 to the following Donna High School theater students for receiving awards at this year's UIL One-Act Play Contest.

Deseray Arevalo-Best Technician Award
Alexia Reyna-Honorable Mention All-Star Cast
Isabell Martinez-All-Star Cast

Congratulations to the Donna Bravette Powerlifting Team 🏋‍♀️ for their strong performance and for finishing in 6th place in the THSWPA 5A D1 Region 5 meet held earlier today at the Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, Texas.

Alanis Lozano 9th Place
Abigail Garcia 9th Place
Arlene DeLeon 11th Place
Gigi Briseno 10th place
Kayra Guerrero 3rd Place
Angelina Yanez 2nd place
Jocelyn Saenz 5th Place
June Acevedo 6th place
Tricia Leyva 4th place
Rhonda Valdez 1st place

Best of luck to the following Bravettes for qualifying to lift at the THSWPA State Meet scheduled on March 18, 2023, in Frisco, Texas!

State Qualifiers:
Alanis Lozano
June Acevedo
Jocelyn Saenz
Rhonda Valdez
Kayra Guerrero
Tricia Leyva
Angelina Yanez

The entire Donna High School Junior Class had an opportunity to participate in our teacher-led ACT Boot Camp today. Our students rotated into four stations where they received intensive and purposeful instruction to prepare them for their upcoming ACT Exam next week!

Congratulations to Claudia Lara for being admitted into TWU, Texas Woman’s University 🎉 She plans to attend this fall and will be interviewing for a chance to receive a scholarship that will cover the 4 years of college tuition. Donna High School wishes her the best of luck on all her future endeavors!

Donna High School’s 18+ life skills students were hard at work this morning. Everyday the students come in, they have a job in the classroom to learn independent living skills. Students have jobs such as washing dishes, folding the towels, shredding paper, making tortillas, sweeping, setting up the table or even serving their meal!

Kudos to their teacher, Mr. David Castillo, and his assistant, Ms. Olga Palomares, for giving our students these learning opportunities!

Best of luck to the Donna Bravettes Powerlifting Team who are proudly representing The Redskin Reservation today at the THSWPA Regional Meet at the Bert Ogden Aren!.

Congratulations, Bravettes! 🎉🎉

🎉⚽Congratulations to our Varsity team for defeating Mercedes Lady Tigers 6-0.
Goals scored by
Xochitl Santos 1
Jesenia Ibarra 2
Elizabeth Silva 1
Kimberly Ortiz 1
Nydia Selvera 1

Attention all Donna High Students:

Congratulations to Daphne Baez for being admitted into NYU and receiving a very good academic scholarship 🎉 Donna High School wishes her the best of luck on all her future endeavors!

Way to go, Ms. Ramos!

Kudos to Ms. Miriam Ramos, US History teacher at Donna High School for her lesson on the Civil Rights Movement. During her direct teach of the content, Ms. Ramos used a presentation that was visually rich to help her emergent bilingual students understand the content. Afterwards, Ms. Ramos “broke the plane” during the guided practice to make sure that the students were being successful in their work. Keep it up Ms. Ramos! 🎯 DISD Donna High School

Congratulations to Donna High School’s athletes who participated at the Special Olympics basketball competition this past weekend at Sharyland Pioneer High School and placed 🎉 The following students were awarded:

Ambrosio Cortez: 3rd
Angelo Smith: 2nd
San Juanita Reyes: 1st
Marcus Martinez: 4th
Esmeralda Cruz: 2nd
Alari Reyes: 5th
Marcus Leyva: 1st
Tiffany Alvizo: 3rd
Victoria Ortiz: 1st
Marissa Rodriguez: 1st
Xavier Epperson: 1st
Xixto Canto: 2nd
Victor Garcia: 1st

Donna High School is so proud of their hard work!l

Donna High School’s Certifed Nurse Assistant (CNA) classes have been practicing their skills all year long in preparation for their state examination. There are 25 skills that they need to master in order to be successful on the exam. Skills from handwashing, to giving the resident a partial bed bath, shaving the resident, take and record the resident’s blood pressure and assisting the resident in walking using a gait belt, etc. Our students have been working so hard and we are so proud of them. We wish them the best of luck on their state examination. 🍀

Kudos to their hardworking teacher Ms. Maria Luisa Cantu, BSN RN, for giving them the learning experiences needed to succeed in the program.

Congratulations, Redskin Track, for a great performance this past Friday at La Joya's Champion Relays Meet!

1st Place Long Jump- Xavier Rodriguez
3rd Place Long Jump- Caleb Harrison

1st Place Triple Jump- Xavier Rodriguez
6th Place Triple Jump- Caleb Harrison

2nd Place Pole Vault- Dallas Zuniga

2nd Place 200m Dash- Xavier Rodriguez

5th Place 400m Dash- Marc Zamorano

5th Place 4x100m Relay-
Marc Zamorano, Brian Juarez, Caleb Harrison, David Sandoval

5th Place 800m Dash- Luciano Esqueda

6th Place 3200m Dash- Daniel Hernandez