San Marcos Record

Bobcat offense runs through drills during spring practice. Offensive coordinator Mack Leftwich looks to improve the offense’s consistency going into the 2024 season.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo

Bobcats strive for consistency on offense

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 12:00am

Offensive coordinator Mack Leftwich enters his second season as both offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after helping lead a Bobcat offense to their best statistical season since moving up to FBS.

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Top, Art Squared has been held downtown in San Marcos for 12 years. Above, Market Director, Karly Schlievert with artist Rebekah Porter presenting the 2023 Art Squared tote bags designed by Rebekah Porter at Art Squared in 2023
Photos courtesy of San Marcos Art League

Artist and Art League Member Ron Page of Heights Art Glass with some of his creations at Art Squared 2022 on the Court House Lawn.
Photos courtesy of San Marcos Art League

ART SQUARED

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

Art Market returns to downtown for 12th year

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San Marcos Academy Varsity Tennis Team: (front row) Morgan Scott, Faith Becker, Kayla Mock, Helen Gao, Sarah Britton, Emma Feigl (back row) Matt Contreras, Head Coach; Abel Gijangha; Jacob Becker; Blain Montgomery; Bryce Harper; Layton Schawe; Nathaniel Blackstone; Michelle Harper, Assistant Coach
Photos courtesy of SMA

SMA tennis heading to state tournament

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

The San Marcos Academy varsity tennis team competed at the TAPPS 3A District Tennis Tournament on April 4, 2024. Following a long day of play, six members of the team advanced to the TAPPS State Tennis Tournament to be held on April 17-18.

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TXST’s Office of Sustainability and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies along with the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District hosted a Groundwater Symposium on April 2 at the LBJ Student Center. Pictured is Robert Mace, Texas State University’s Meadows Center for Water and The Environment executive director..
Daily Record photo by Shannon West

Dr. Mario Garza and Maria Rocha of the Indigenous Cultures Institute are both members of the Miakan/Garza Band and performed a traditional prayer before the speakers came up.
Daily Record photo by Shannon West

Experts teach about the hydrology of local aquifers

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

This is the second of a two part series on the Groundwater Symposium that occurred at Texas State University on April 2 bringing together the area’s groundwater conservation leaders.

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State of Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year’s STAAR tests

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state’s standardized tests will be graded automatically by computers.

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Dear Abby

Quarter-century marriage is an intimacy-free zone

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

DEAR ABBY: I’m in a sexless 25-year marriage. It was not always this way, but any intimacy has been over for more than a decade. My wife’s libido has waned, which I understand. What she does do is continually bring up issues about me from years ago as if they were yesterday.

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Wildflowers: Show-stopping display of nature’s bounty available for motorists to enjoy

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

While traveling around the Lone Star State this spring, motorists are being treated to a show-stopping display of bright blues, vibrant pinks, deep reds and rich yellows. And recent rains brought us an early explosion of color that’s only going to get better before the season ends.

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Outpatient decluttering in the spring

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

Because I’m a professional practitioner of the pedagogical arts (known in some parts as fancy book learnin’), I’m privileged to enjoy a Spring Break holiday that usually falls during the same week my semi-grown daughters are also out of school.

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Third baseman Bryce Pinales lays down the tag in the Rattlers last home game against Steele.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo

Rattlers look to bounce back from tough week

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

It was a tough week for the Rattler softball team who dropped their Friday game against the Judson Rockets 9-2.

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Dexter McCoil Sr. takes over the Bobcat defense as the new defensive coordinator being promoted from safeties coach.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo

McCoil takes over defense as the Bobcats look to be more physical and disciplined

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:00am

The Texas State defense will be under new leadership as safeties coach Dexter McCoil Sr. was promoted to defensive coordinator over the offseason following the departure of Jonathan Patke who became the new defensive coordinator for the Duke Blue Devils.