Sentences with phrase «high school points»

Conley, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump and a former high school point guard in Chicago, had taken a job with USA Track and Field in Indianapolis, moving there from Fayetteville, Ark., where he had coached Mike Jr.'s AAU teams to fourth - and fifth - grade national titles.

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Her only trip out of Jacksonville until that point was to Savannah, Ga., on a girls trip in high school.

After high school he went to West Point and was an average student who enjoyed sports.

The majority of CoachUp's athletes range from grade school up through high school — a natural pyramid, as Fliegel points out, with the best athletes most likely to continue through high school graduation.

With a 1.7 high school grade point average and unable to get admitted to any degree - granting institution, Kalin faked an MIT student ID and then used a letter of recommendation from a professor he met there to get himself admitted to NYU.

He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

While the courses are intended for middle - school and high - school students, they can also be a good starting point for adults.

He became so addicted to it that by high school he had assembled a team of about 40 people that quickly earned enough points to be the game's highest - ranking team in the world.

Although Tyson, who was Yancopoulos» friend and classmate at the Bronx High School of Science, was quick to point out that he was not a winner or semifinalist in the competition (in fact he didn't even enter), knowing other students who were was a point of pride for him.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

The fact that the bag is proudly toted by high school students (as a stylish backpack alternative) and senior citizens alike would seem to point to something of a sociological anomaly.

No one who knew the Mendiburus back at High Point Regional High School, in Wantage, N.J., is laughing now.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 % required work experience (more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).

The WBEZ audio series initially focused on the 1999 murder of Baltimore high school student Hae Min Lee and its popularity grew to the point that fans began flocking to real - life locations that had been mentioned on the show and were connected to the alleged timeline around the murder trial that was the podcast's focus.

Rapper Kanye West tweeted his admiration for Emma Gonzalez, calling her «my hero,» but the survivor of the Parkland high school massacre dismissed the honor and pointed out her own...

To help motivate Mr. Lo to cooperate, the agents had discovered a pressure point: He had a high - school aged daughter, whom he desperately wanted to have the opportunity to attend university in the U.S. (not unlike millions of other Chinese parents).

Chris Grady, a Stoneman Douglas High School senior who's enlisting in the military, asked Rubio a very pointed question on whether he'd agree that there was no place for large - capacity magazines.

Students at Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Oregon, will stream onto the football field at 10 am, where the scoreboard will count down 17 minutes and the organizers will outline 17 action points.

After the shooting on Wednesday, Mr. Gard said that several students told him that Mr. Cruz was taken with a girl at Stoneman Douglas High School «to the point of stalking her.»

Although the regulatory saber - rattling in Washington might seem an inefficient means of creating policy, Valkenburgh, who holds a doctorate of jurisprudence from NYU Law School and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow, believes this seemingly uncoordinated dance, with different definitions and points of view, to be in the highest tradition of American law.

I got to the point to where I had 9 billboard faces and was making quite a substantial income for someone in high school.

Back in 2000 I was in high school & took just about all my savings to that point and threw it into Agilent Technologies right after it spun off from HP.

It's something of a moot point now, as school administrators have decided not to allow conservative activist Charlie Kirk to speak at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a pro-gun rights student there, Kyle Kashuv, inviteschool administrators have decided not to allow conservative activist Charlie Kirk to speak at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a pro-gun rights student there, Kyle Kashuv, inviteSchool after a pro-gun rights student there, Kyle Kashuv, invited him.

Hsu plays point guard and shooting guard for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School varsity basketball team.

(CNN) To those who say it's too soon after the school massacre to talk about politics and gun control, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High see your point.

If the point of your article is to criticize the AIDS lobby for ignoring the ethical dimensions of this social malady, or to criticize the moral philosophy that compels AIDS activists to hand out condoms in public high schools instead of emphasizing the importance of chastity and self - discipline, then you should be commended.

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

The high point may have been the Department of Justice's stance in the Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization case.

But that's not really the point of the yarn theory (or spaghetti theory as I seem to remember it from my high school days in the Methodist Church).

I understand your point — you mean college instead of «secondary education» (high school) but its worth correcting.

I would lean against the side of the tub into Brian's arms for the contractions (he thanked his high school football coach often for teaching him a good three - point stance as he maintained it for almost 2 hours!).

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

Becca Longo a was stand - out kicker for her high school team, hitting 30 of 33 extra points, and will attend Adams State University in Colorado, which plays Division II football.

As the Jesuit high school where I work began to wind down for the year, I reached a point where I needed clarity, something to bring calm to the chaos of the closing weeks and to center me in a reality more timeless than the NBA playoffs.

Everyone makes their own decision at some point, so as much as I love Bill Nye, I disagree with him on this topic, as parents should teach their children however they want and in high school the kids will make their own choices.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Using the theories of Einstein and others, Guth points out that at extremely high energies, there are forms of matter that upend everything we learned about gravity in high school.

Here is my point of view: I went through middle school, high school, and college with sexual attractions towards women, and hoped so bad that it would change.

Wikipedia is ok as a reference, as a starting point, for Elementary, Middle and High schoolers but it's reliability has been questioned many times.

In high school, my parents bought me an engraved Ryrie Study Bible, which I marked up with pen, pencil, and highlighters, to the point that some of the passages are illegible.

Bart became the focal point of his father's uncontrollable anger and was consistently abused until high school.

«I was playing tennis competitively in high school and I was at a point where if I wanted to take my game to the next level I needed to drop some of the extra pounds I'd been keeping around,» Greenwald remembers.

At some point before high school, however, my taste buds reconsidered, and I began chewing mint gum by the Costco (brick - sized) pack, making up for lost time with mint chip ice cream, and... well, still ignoring candy canes.

Whether it's a package that has your favorite baseball team or a local high school, customization is huge, and it's making the supply base figure out a way to offer lower quantity items [at a] cost - effective point.»

She points out that her father, the late Hal Davis, was a high school miler as well as a fine gymnast and tennis player.

Mathews, who averaged just 1.7 points and 1.6 rebounds while playing just 10.3 minutes per game, was a top 50 recruit coming out of high school.

Chad, a junior guard at Valley Christian Academy, set a state high school boys» mark for points in a game when he scored 89 in a 130 - 48 defeat of New Cuyama Valley Hhigh school boys» mark for points in a game when he scored 89 in a 130 - 48 defeat of New Cuyama Valley HighHigh.

If I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking time).