Sundown ISD

💕🎀 TAT THE TEACHER! 🎀💕 Help Sundown ISD celebrate Pink Out Week with our Tat the Teacher fundraiser! Starting Monday, October 19th, students can purchase breast cancer awareness tattoos for their favorite teachers for just 50¢ each! 📍 Elementary & Middle School: Monday–Thursday, 7:30–7:50 AM 📍 High School: During break and lunch, Monday–Thursday Teachers will show off their tattoos on Friday, October 23rd! 💗 All proceeds will benefit the Bobby Avery Memorial Scholarship. Thank you for helping us support a meaningful cause and honor Bobby Avery’s memory! 🎀💕

Teachers impact so many lives. Many times we don't get to see the fruit of our labors in education. We teach, mold, & develop kids. Then we pass them on up the system to the next grade level. Well today was a full circle moment for LaNita Avery. Her current 1st graders were joined by the Sundown Varsity Football Team. (Many of these guys were taught by Mrs. Avery). They presented her with a gift basket and a signed football from the team. We learn many lessons in life just by watching others. Her amazing resilience, infectious positivity, & constant smile were regularly referenced by the team throughout the season. Life & football are full of ups and downs and the most important thing is how you handle the highs & lows. Thank you Mrs. Avery for continuing to teach these life lessons to your students (even as they become 11th & 12th graders). 5-2-1 is our football motto. It is based on the parable of talents. What are you doing with the gifts God gave you? Mrs. Avery has multiplied her gifts through her students! Thank you Mrs. Avery! We love you!

The Cross Country teams have punched their ticket to the UIL Regional Meet by winning district. We are currently selling regional shirts in support of them in the school store. You can use the following link to get to the shirts: https://sundownisd.revtrak.net/athletics/xc/#/list These will be available until Sunday at 5 PM. The picture that is provided does not currently have the back shown. We will be listing out the teams on the back with the team motto and district results. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Coach Watson.

8th grade boys win 40-0! Way to go 7th and 8th grade!

R. Pearson in for a Roughneck touchdown! 4 minutes left in the game. Roughnecks 40-0

H. Davis in for a touchdown down with 3:02 left in the 3rd! Roughnecks 34-0

Another Roughneck touchdown and 2 pt conversion and our halftime score is your 8th grade Roughnecks: 28 Coahoma: 0

H. Davis dives in for another touchdown and that will finish the 1st quarter. Roughnecks 20-0

H. Davis in for a diving touchdown and C. Phelps for the 2 pt conversion! Roughnecks up 14-0

H. Davis in for a touchdown! 4:06 left in the first with your Roughnecks up 6-0

7th grade final score: Coahoma: 14 Roughnecks: 34 8th grade starting soon!

B. Bufe with an interception at the Roughneck 5 yard line followed with RJ Sanchez's 80 yard run for a Roughneck touchdown! Score with 55 seconds left: Coahoma: 14 Roughnecks: 34

End of 3rd with the same score: Coahoma: 14 Roughnecks: 28

B. Pool with a 35 yard touchdown to end the half with your Roughnecks ahead 28 - 14!

B. Bufe with an interception and 45 yard run and then in for a touchdown! 1 minute left in the half Coahoma: 14 Roughnecks:22

RJ Sanchez in for another touchdown! We are tied at 14 with 1:43 left in the 2nd quarter.

7th grade boys are underway in Coahoma. With 3 minutes left in the 1st, Coahoma has scored 14. Roughneck RJ Sanchez just scored a touchdown with Beaux Pool scoring the 2 pt conversion. Coahoma: 14 Roughnecks: 8

Being the middle school principal for this group of students has been one of the greatest joys of my life! There are many reasons, but I wanted to take a second and share a specific reason. Before the boys ran XC yesterday, they got together to pray. Will Mauldin realized the other teams were close by and walked over and asked them to join the Sundown team to pray. The other teams joined in as they prayed for a safe run. The parent, coaches, and admin all noticed and commented on how cool that was. I agree that it was cool, but this is just an average day for Sundown students. They see something that needs to be addressed or fixed, and they just do it. I could tell stories like this every day! I am so thankful to be a bystander and watch the incredible students we have! XC team, way to represent the Sundown Way! I am so proud to be your principal!! - Mrs. Pena

Great day to be a Sundown Cross Country runner! 3 team champions and countless medals coming home!!!

GET YOUR TICKETS for the UIL Region 16 Marching Contest!!! WHEN: This coming Saturday, October 17th at 3:05pm WHERE: Lowrey Field, Lubbock Click on the link below to purchase your tickets for the UIL Region 16 Marching Contest! This is our first advancing competition, and we hope to have a sea of red, white, and blue in the stands! A “First Division” rating at this competition would punch our ticket to the Area Marching Contest, which is the State Qualifier. Here is the link to purchase tickets: https://events.hometownticketing.com/boxoffice/lubbockisd/L2VtYmVkL2V2ZW50LzEzMzI=