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5-10-12 Activities Update

Holton Country Club hosted the Big 7 Golf Tournament yesterday and Coach Swisher's student athletes were again very successful. For only the second time since 1973 the Wildcats won the Big 7 Title and they did it convincingly.

Big 7 League Tournament

1st Holton 290
2nd Sabetha 326
3rd Nemaha Valley 335
4th Jeff West 363
5th Santa Fe Trail 380
6th Hiawatha 428

Medalist

1st Ethan Holaday 71 Holton
2nd Zach Fate 72 Holton
3rd Tavin Dugan 72 Holton
4th Garrett Holaday 75 Holton
5th Kellen Brandt 75 Holton
6th Matt Manning 78 Sabetha
7th Kenton Tegethoff 78 Holton
8th Austin Reser 80 Santa Fe Trail

Mark C. Wilson
5-10-12

5-9-12 Activities Update

The Holton FFA officer team did an outstanding job with the annual FFA banquet this past weekend and many awards/recognitions were handed out.
31 freshmen received their Greenhand FFA Degree
23 students received the Chapter FFA Degree, and 43 FFA members were recognized with FFA Academic Awards for having a 3.5 Cumulative GPA or better (MY FAVORITE).
Garrett Holaday won best record book and the DeKalb senior leadership Award.
Honorary FFA Degrees were awarded to parents of retiring senior FFA officers - Congrats to the Yingst, Holaday, and Maxwell families.
FFA Distinguished Service Awards was given to Scott Foster of Foster Ford Mercury and Linda Maxwell former HHS Secretary and parent of 3 outstanding Holton FFAer's over the years.
Retiring FFA President Shannon Maxwell received the Marvin Decker Memorial Presidential Service Award.
Top 5 Most Active Members for 2012 were: 5th -Tristan Parks, 4th - Jordynn Brown, 3rd - Karl Wilhelm, 2nd - Dean Klahr, and 1st - Emaleigh Clark.
Dean Klahr was named FFA Star Greenhand, Cortney Parry - Chapter Star in Agribusiness, Garrett Holaday - Chapter Star Farmer.
Another super year for our students in FFA. Congrats go out to Mr. Larison and Mr. Bartel for another great year.
JV golf League Tournament has a Holton student athlete as champ. Garrett Beecher came through with his top score of the year to take the title. Braden Sides finished third, Parker Sides 6th, Preston Sides 8th and the Wildcats won the overall title.

What a Band Concert last night. Next year you need to get out and see these folks. Director's Award winner last night was Rachelle Harman and the Sousa Award winner was Justin Ortiz. Congrats to these seniors. Numerous other awards were handed out last night during the evening.

MS League Champions yesterday:
New School Record set by Justin Rieschick in the 3200m run breaking the old record of Chris Schuetz.
Miles McClintock 200m
4 x 400 Relay Bryson Patch, Miles McClintock, Spenser Baum, Tyler Price
Josh Wilhelm - 400m and Long Jump
Bradley Mulroy - Triple Jump
Ashlyn Weilert - 100m, 200m, 400m and 75M Hurdles
Holly Karn - 200m and 75m hurdles
Mason Barta - 100m and 200m
4 x 200 Relay Mason Barta, Kayden Brandt, Justin Pool and Justin Rieschick
Will Wright 75m Hurdles

Mark C. Wilson
5-9-12

5-8-12 Activities Update

Heather Hundley recently was awarded "Teacher of the Year" with Kansas First News. On Tuesday, May 8th she gets a key to try in a new car at Capital City Nissan. You can see her newsclip of her award on Kansas First News website. Tuesday night there will be clips at 5pm and 6pm of the car winner. Good luck Heather (and Matt).

Baseball last night the gentlemen lost a couple of heartbreakers to Silver Lake. Next up is the Redmen on Thursday.
Softball swept the Red Hawks in two games and played a total of 5 1/2 innings in defeating Hiawatha and winning the Big 7 championship. They will head to McLouth on Thursday.

Good luck to the Middle School Wildcats as they head to league for their final athletic event of the year. Good luck to Coach Stous and his squad.

Mark C. Wilson
5-8-12

5-7-12 Activities Update

Awards and Great Honors handed out over the weekend:

First off congratulations to Austin Marriott in receiving the honor of Academic All-State from the Topeka Capital Journal.
Journalism had a great year qualifying one of its highest total of students for state. Kari Tanking top the weekend by placing 2nd in Editorial writing and 3rd in Editing. Kenny Zawlackie received Honorable Mention in Writing.

Friday night's award banquet was a great success. Thanks to the Booster Club Board (Lisa Wilson,Wendy Ewing, Kisha Patterson, Karen Strader, Jennifer Lutz and Kara Bagby) as they helped generate almost 3000.00 for the Holton High Athletic's Uniform Fund.

Friday was free refreshment, an Art festival that was great, a program that finished in 90 minutes and finally a group of kids who were just fantastic on the night. That final comment alone made the evening worth while. Award winners:
The Gary Zimmerman outstanding senior baseball player - Jacob Yingst
Outstanding senior wrestler - Justin Twombly
Terry Nightingale outstanding senior girl basketball player - Macy Wallisch (and Kristi Altenberg Nightingale made her dad proud).
Outstanding senior volleyball players - Christa Hill and Victoria Harshaw
Gerald Cashman Award for outstanding senior football player - Rob Reiderer
Charles Hickman Softball Award to outstanding senior - Logan Fornelli
Senior Athletes (four years - 3 sports a year) Jacob Yingst, Jayna Smith, and Conner Hampton
Harry Fortune Award winner to the Senior Boy athlete of the year - Conner Hampton
Senior Girl athlete of the year -Jayna Smith

Mark C. Wilson
5-7-12

4-18-12 Activities Update

Track results from the Jeff West meet where both the boys and girls finished 3rd in the 8 team field:
Dakota Colhouer - 2nd 400m
Dalton Colhouer- 3rd 800m, 3rd 1600m
Ryan Haefke- 1st 400m, 3rd Triple Jump
Rachelle Harmon - 2nd 3200m
Cameron Karn - 3rd 300m Hurdles, 2nd Triple Jump
Dustin Keen - 1st Shot Put
Kyrstie Miller - 3rd Shot Put
Jayna Smith - 1st 400m, 1st Triple Jump
Connor Strader - 1st 800m
Keri Tanking - 3rd Long Jump
Macy Wallisch - 2nd Long Jump, 2nd Triple Jump
Jaxon Wright - 1st 110m Hurdles
Girls 4 x 400 relay 1st
Boys 4 x 400 relay 2nd
Girls 4 x 800 relay 1st

JV Baseball was at Perry last night. They split with the Kaws winning game one 11-3 and losing the second 11-10.

Large group State Music is here tomorrow. Good luck to the Wildcats.

Just because there is no classes the rest of the week we have some busy days ahead:
Thursday Middle School Track at Hoyt
Friday Middle School Track at Seaman High School
Friday Home Baseball and Softball (and JV softball as well) against Santa Fe Trail.
Friday the Holton High Golf team is at Nemaha Valley.
Oh I almost forgot. PROM IS SATURDAY.

Mark C. Wilson
4-18-12

4-17-12 Activities Update

Baseball
Lets start on the baseball diamond where in game one Brandon Schumann threw a complete game but lost a tough one. In game two though Jacob Pool also threw a complete game and the Wildcats held on for a 1-0 victory. (and we were done by 8:00).

Softball
Game two last night was excellent for the LadyCats as they defeated the LadyKaws 9-0. Game one had something special as Logan Fornelli threw a no-hitter in a 7-0 victory. She had 16 strikeouts in the 21 outs. (I believe the school record is 5 no-hitters by Dr. Taren Tuley-Kirk. See the old man still has something to bring to the district even if it just history data.)

Boys Golf
- NEW SCHOOL RECORD - 6-Man 9-hole scores (Kellen Brandt 35, Kenton Tegethoff 37, Tavin Dugan 33, Zach Fate 33, Garrett Holaday 40, Ethan Holaday 41 for a total of 219. They shattered the old record of 226 set by Matt Williams, Pat Amon, Luke Tanking, Kelly Meerpohl, Phillip Williams and Craig Kathrens).
- NEW SCHOOL RECORD - 4-Man 9-hole scores (Kellen Brandt 35, Kenton Tegethoff 37, Tavin Dugan 33, Zach Fate 33 for a total of 138). Beating the record previously held by Williams, Tanking, Amon and Meerpohl of 145.
- NEW SCHOOL RECORD - Individual 9-hole scores (It is a tie between Tavin Dugan and Zach Fate with 33s beating the previous record of Matt Williams with a 34.)
Oh and we won the meet by 30 strokes over second place Santa Fe Trail.

Placers in the JV side of the meet:
1st Preston Sides (43)
2nd Parker Sides
4th Brandon Sides
5th Hunter Price

Track
Now the Track Results from Atchison where the girls finished 2nd overall and the boys third (out of 11 teams)
Champions:
Girls 4 x 400 relay - Jayna Smith, Macy Wallisch, Connor Strader, Rachelle Harmon
Rachelle Harmon (3200 m)
Ryan Haefke (Triple Jump)
Jayna Smith (Triple Jump)
Jaxon Wright (110 m Hurdles, 300 m hurdles)

2nd place folks:
Boys 4 x 400 relay - Jaxon Wright, Ryan Haefke, Cameron Karn, Daniel Figge)
Cameron Karn (Triple Jump, 100 m hurdles)
Macy Wallisch (Triple Jump)
Connor Strader (400 m, 800 m)

Third place finishers:
Dakota Colhour (400 m)
Dustin Keen (Shot Put)
Drake Ewing (100 m)
Boys 4 x 100 - Jacob Hess, Jaxon Wright, Connor Hampton, Drake Ewing

Mark C. Wilson
4-17-12

4-13-12 Activities Update

Some great news as usual:
At the Highland FFA meet this week the Floriculture team finished second but Haley Rhule was the overall champ. Ema Clark also finished towards the top with a 6th place finish.
In Ag Sales Jacob Yingst finished 3rd and Ryan Lierz was close behind in 6th

Alex Bontrager is a semifinalist in the "Letters about Literature" reading and writing initiative. This puts Alex in the top 10% of over 59,000 students nationwide.

Top placers from the ACCHS track meet:
Champs:
Ryan Haefke - 400 m
Brylee New - 100 m and 200 m
Jaxon Wright - 110 m hurdles and 300 m hurdles

2nd place finishers
Macy Wallisch - Long Jump
Keri Tanking - High Jump
Connor Strader - 1600 m and 800 m
Jayna Smith - Triple Jump
Kyrstie Miller - Javlin
Dustin Keen - Shot Put
Cameron Karn - Triple Jump

NOW TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE:
Both the Baseball game against Silver Lake and the softball games against Hiawatha are now May 7.

Track tonight at Atchison
Tomorrow Regional Vocals and Small Ensembles at Junction City.

Mark C. Wilson
4-13-12

4-11-12 Activities Update

You may have heard two teachers and an administrator won 35 million each in the mega lottery. Guess what? I guess you get another update.

Softball
Varsity Softball split with Marysville last night losing game one 6-1 and coming back in the nightcap with a 4-0 victory. JV Softball had a great night as they swept Marysville in the double header.

Golf
JV golf started the season off with a team victory at Hiawatha and two top five finishes. Parker Sides won the meet with a 43 and Branden Sides was third with a 45.

Volleyball
There is a new Sheriff in town for LadyCat Volleyball as announced by the BOE this week. Janelle Noel is coming to town to take the reigns.

I will be attending league meetings today for both the middle school and high school.
Track results will come later. Those are hard to get at 7:00 in the morning.

Mark C. Wilson
4-11-12