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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
August 22, 2011

Fall athletes: Ones to watch

Posted by : ambria

Catholic school athletes make up half of the two-page spread in the current AZTeen Magazine’s “Ones to watch” article (p.30-31). All three are seniors. They are: Lauren Betlach, volleyball, Seton Catholic Preparatory High School in Chandler. On varsity since freshman year and part of three state championships. Placed in Junior Olympics. Haley Lawless, volleyball, Seton [...]


August 15, 2011

WYD pilgrims: Blog central

Posted by : ambria

World Youth Day officially gets underway tomorrow. That means, at long last, the hundreds of pilgrims from the Phoenix Diocese wrapped up their earlier rounds of pilgrimages to places like Rome, Assisi, Santiago and so on and are starting another. This time, instead of the 15-35 fellow pilgrims they traveled with, they’ll find themselves in [...]


May 31, 2011

Brophy students recall ‘Jesuit Massacre’

Posted by : ambria

An Associated Press photographer caught a snapshot of Brophy students on an immersion trip in El Salvador yesterday. The young men were visiting an exhibit at the Museum of Martyrs. A photo of some of the students ran on page B4 of today’s Arizona Republic. I couldn’t readily find it on that site, but found [...]


May 16, 2011

First, third among men. Third among women

Posted by : ambria

In a nutshell, that was the results of this weekend’s track and field state championships. Brophy College Preparatory finished first and Xavier College Preparatory third in Division I competition. Notre Dame finished third among men in Division II competition. Other items of note include two Broncos earning 67 of Brophy’s 77 points (four-point boys team [...]


May 12, 2011

Track and field finals

Posted by : ambria

AIA’s track and field competition finishes Saturday at Mesa Community College. Several Catholic school athletes and teams ranked in the top three of their particular sport. That included @Xavier (Division I) top four spots in the 3200-meter run first in 4×800-meter relay, 1600-meter run and 800-meter run second in 1600-meter run @Brophy (Division I) second: [...]