Sealy

The Sealy Brazilian Jiu Jitsu dojo had three representatives at last weekend’s Grappling Summer Slam tournament at the Zone Sportsplex in Houston and two came away with gold medals from their bracket.

Nearly 100 studentathletes from elementary school to incoming freshmen participated in the first days of the Sealy Tiger Youth Football Camp at Sealy High School this week. Head football coach Shane Mobley and his staff worked techniques and fundamentals to developing Tiger athletes in the final weeks of summer. For more pictures, visit sealynews.com

Ed Marcinkiewicz, a former track and field coach at Bellville High School and Texas A&M, lost his battle with cancer Friday at the age of 59.

Members of the Sealy Tiger football team wrapped up 7-on-7 action in the Taylor High School passing league last week and enter the final phase of their offseason with only a month to go before two-a-days start.

As the football regular season inches closer, the Katy 7-on-7 league that members of the Sealy Tigers have been participating in enters the final week of exhibition play. Last week, Sealy won both of its games over Mayde Creek and Jordan.

Clayton Fritsch, a member of Sealy High School’s Class of 2017 and current redshirt junior at Sam Houston State, took fourth place in the pole vault competition at the NCAA Outdoor National Championship meet in Oregon June 9. The top-eight finish secured his fourth All-American honor in his fifth national championship meet on the collegiate circuit.

Thursday, Trey Marik was announced as the next head baseball coach of the Sealy Tigers. Dane Bennett, who served as head coach the previous four seasons, will be remaining on staff.

Marik, a member of Bellville High School’s Class of 1988, most recently coached the Somerville Yeguas and made previous coaching stops in Columbus and Brenham. Somerville had gone winless in multiple seasons before Marik’s stint and in 2021, the Yeguas secured a playoff position as the fourth-place team in District 26-2A.

Sealy High School alumnus Garrett Redden earned second-team All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference honors after his freshman season for the Cloud County Community College Thunderbirds. Redden appeared in 51 games, where he started all but one, and finished with a .357 batting average.

Sealy High School and Texas A&M alumnus Ricky Seals-Jones signed a free-agent contract with the Washington Football Team May 25. Seals-Jones spent two years in Arizona and one year each in Cleveland and Kansas City where he amassed 60 catches for 773 yards and eight touchdowns. Seals-Jones enters his age-26 season with the Washington Football Team that finished 7-9 and first place in the NFC East last year. WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM

Sealy High School senior distance runner Madison Manak signed her National Letter of Intent to run for the Jacksonville Junior College Jaguars during a ceremony last Wednesday, May 26. Head cross country coach and assistant track coach Anthony Branch, whose coaching career started in Jacksonville, always mentions how far Manak has come in her four years of high school.