2008 Middle & High School 3rd 9weeks Honor Roll Click here to view the Honor Roll.
2007 Elementary Fall Honor Roll Click here to view the Honor Roll.
Congratulations Class of 2008
Valedictorian: Robert Bradley Hunt, JR.
Salutatorian: Taylor Nance Bazzell
Commencement Exercises
Friday, May 16, 2008
7PM-Gator Gym
Welcome Coach Callahan
Press Release for John Callahan - False River Academy
John Callahan has been hired as the new Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at False River Academy. Coach Callahan previously served in the same capacity at FRA from 1992-1996. During his four years as football coach, Coach Callahan took FRA to the LHSAA state playoffs in 1993 and 1994. Coach Callahan has an impressive football background as both a player and coach.
Most recently, he has coached in the Northeast. The Connecticut native coached at Berkshire School, a prep school in Massachusetts, where he took over a team that had won only one game the previous three years. In his sixth year at the school, he led them to an undefeated season and a berth in the 2002 New England Football Championship Game. In the past four years, he has coached in the state of Vermont where he led Mt. St. Joseph Academy, the smallest football playing school in the state, to the 2005 Division 1 (large school division) State Championship in his second year at the school. In 2004, he was chosen Vermont Division 1 Coach of the Year for leading Mt. St. Joseph to the state playoffs in his first year at the school.
Coach Callahan has also spent the last six summers working at the U.S. Naval Academy Option Football Camp on the instructional staff. Coach Callahan has coached in Louisiana as an assistant coach at University High, Notre Dame of Crowley, when they won the 1976 AA State Championship, and Catholic High of Baton Rouge. He has been a head football coach at Central Private and Central Catholic of Morgan City. Coach Callahan also spent seven years as a head football coach in Virginia.
Coach Callahan played his high school football at Stamford Catholic High School, in Stamford, Connecticut where he was an offensive and defensive tackle and an all conference player his junior and senior years. He received a football scholarship to Big Ten Conference member Northwestern University and after two years transferred to Western Illinois University where he lettered two years as an offensive tackle and graduated with a B.S. Degree in Physical Education and a minor in History. He went on to receive an M.S. Degree from Louisiana State University in Physical Education. While at LSU, Coach Callahan worked with the offensive line in spring practice of 1976, was a proctor for two years in the athletic dorm, and was a graduate assistant in the Physical Education Department. He also received an Ed.S. Degree from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, in the area of Athletic Administration. Coach Callahan is married and has one son. His wife, Sandra, is a native of Opelousas. His son, John Jr., is a recent graduate of Mississippi State University and currently resides in Mississippi.
"I am looking forward to working at False River again and the challenge of creating a football program that is a consistent winner.” In reference to the entire athletic program Coach Callahan remarked, “I feel that the total athletic program has the potential to be successful", "there are excellent facilities and filling the present open positions with the right coaches will help to create a winning atmosphere. I know that we want to create a program that produces young men and women of character, student-athletes that excel in the classroom and the type of program that will draw student-athletes to False River Academy who want to be part of an outstanding school.”
ATTENTION PARENTS: Important Uniform Notice!!
Beginning with the 2008-09 school year the ONLY jacket/coat that may be worn is the maroon (fleece lined) jacket or the FRA letter jacket.
Sweatshirts purchased through the school may still be worn.
The only shorts that can be worn by girls will be the school plaid walking shorts. Khaki shorts will not be allowed.
CONGRATULATIONS
Katherine Robillard was awarded a $1000 scholarship from the National Senior Beta Club Organization. Katherine competed with over 1200 other high school students nationwide for the scholarship.
CONGRATULATIONS FRA Students of the Year
Katherine Robillard 12th Grade
Veronica Nolen 8th Grade
Haleigh Lasseigne 5th Grade
Announcing the 2007 False River Academy Homecoming Court
Brittany LeJeune, Jennifer Schexnayder, Rachel Ewing, Kaitlyn Grissom, Elizabeth Pearce, Alyssa Alexander, Amanda Bossier, Kaley Williams
Please remember that False River Academy's dress code requires all male students to be clean-shaven each day. Male students hair length should not cover the students eyes in the front and must be above the collar in the back. Both male and female students are required to keep their shirts tucked in at all times.
Thanks for all of your support for all the Gator sports this year!
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