Announcement
This site publicizes the accomplishments of the Clear Lake High School (Houston, Texas) Boys Varsity Basketball team with the hope that it will enhance the community's enjoyment of Clear Lake Boys basketball by providing information to increase interest and awareness.
In its eight season (2008-09), ClearLakeFalconhoops.com is an unofficial website provided without advertising by a dedicated, slightly fanatical Clear Lake boys basketball fan. Based on activity, this site is the number 1 high school basketball website in the state of Texas among high school web sites and AAU websites. First time visitors can click on this link to get an overview of the website. http://www.eteamz.com/falconhoops/news/index.cfm?id=3022096&cat=0SITE OVERVIEW
LATEST NEWS
TEAM CAMPSCLEAR LAKE JV AND VARSITY INVITATIONAL TEAM CAMPS ATTENDED
A Clear Lake Team comprised mostly of Junior Varsity players attended the June 6-8 Great American Shootout Team Camp in College Station. Their record was 2-2.
A team comprised mainly of Clear Lake Varsity players attended the Team Camp at the University of Texas on June 13-15 (record 6-4).
The Varsity also attended the Team Camp at Texas State University on June 27-29 and had a 6-4 record in the 12 team large varsity division
OTHER NEWS
Maintaining the tradition set by the 2006-07 team which was the best free throw shooting team in the state of Texas, the 2007-08 Clear Lake Varsity was the second best free throw shooting team in the state of Texas. Great Job Fellas!
Finishing third in District play, the Varsity finished the season 25-10 (and 8-4 in District) despite a very tough schedule. Six of the Varsity losses were by 3 points or less. All but two of the teams Clear Lake defeated in pre-district play made it to the playoffs.
With a season record of 22-9, 11-1, the JV Team was District Champs as were the Sophomores (20-11, 10-2) and the Freshman B Team (26-4, 12-0). The Freshman A Team finished the season with a 13-16 record and a 5-7 District showing.
Jay Williams was selected Varsity MVP by his teammates and was acknowledged by his coach as perhaps the most improved player ever to play at Clear Lake High School over the four year period from when Jay played on the Freshman B Team at Clear Lake High School.
Steven "Sparky" Hartman was selected by his teammates to receive the George Wang Hustle Award and Bernie Lang, class of 1981, was inducted into the Clear Lake Hall of Fame. Bernie's mom, wife, and two children were in attendance to see Bernie inducted at the annual banquet.
The '81 team had a record of 38-2 and a perfect 16-0 in district, the only Lake team to ever go undefeated throughout district play. Lang, along with teammates Greg Singleton and Russ Capps were "All Greater Houston" players out of the top five in the Houston area. Never before or since have three players from the same school received this honor. Although this team did not make the trip to Austin to the state tournament due to injuries, many believe the '81 team to be the greatest team to ever represent Clear Lake High School (see Memory Lane Page).
FalconHoops Website Activity
The 2007-08 season marks the end of the seventh year for this website. In the three month period between Nov. 15 and Feb. 15 this site got over 9,400 hits, an average of over 780 hits per week. During December 2007, the activity rate topped 1,000 hits in a week. Thank you for your interest in Clear Lake High School Boys basketball.
After each game an article summarizing the game (for out of town games and district games) can be found on the FALCON FLASHES Page.
PHOTOS
FYI: Prior to the 2008 Banquet over 3300 photos of varsity action were provided this season as well as almost 30 video clip highlights. In addition there are 1158 JV game photos (scroll to the bottom of the Picasaweb 2007-08 albums to view the JV games).
A very special thanks is extended to Randall Hollimon, Dr. Joe McCollum, and Gene Pearce for the abundance of fine photos provided this season. A very special debt of gratitude is also owed to Kyle Snow for the outstanding video highlights he provided.http://picasaweb.google.com/falconhoops200708 for current season game and event photos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/falconhoops for prior season game and event photos (so far only the last two seasons: 2007-08 and 2006-07).
Game and Event Photos.
The ALBUMS Section of this website will be relocated to the Picasaweb Albums before the start of next season. Generally, you can reach the PICASAWEB PHOTOS site by clicking on any individual embedded photo appearing on this web site.
Directions to games shortcut: During the season the next week's upcoming games are listed on this website HOME page at the bottom of this page.
Click on the Game Name under "Event" to get directions to the school. These written directions are highly reliable and are regularly updated each season. Click on the School Name under "Location" for a map to the school. Be advised that the maps generated by Mapquest are not always reliable.
ClearLakeFalconhoops.com logo by Clear Lake student Colin Lubinsky.
