Congratulations to senior Sam Lauck! Same has accepted an Electrical Apprenticeship after graduating and will then enter the workforce!
Congratulations to senior Joseph LaRoche! Joey will attend either BGSU, The Ohio State University, or University of Cincinnati to major in dietetics!
The West Liberty-Salem Girls Track and. Field team is currently sitting in fourth place after Day One of the DIII Southwest District held at Graham High School.
Team Scores (top 5): 1st Botkins 22, 2nd Triad & Anna 16, 3rd WLS 15, 5th Cedarville 11
The Lady Tigers 4x800 Relay team of Malia Miller, Addison McAuley, Ashley Yoder and Mallory Bostick captured first place and a Regional berth with a new district meet record time of 9:50.13. Also qualifying for next week's regional meet was Lyndee Harrison in shot put with a career PR of 31'3.
Several athletes qualified for Saturday's finals:
100 Meter Hurdles-Claire Longshore (16.93) and Sophia Hardwick (17.22)
100 Meter Dash-Delaney Jones (12.53) and Chloe Griffith (13.22)
400 Meter Dash-Mallory Bostick 1:03.54
300 Meter Hurdles-Sophia Hardwick (48.39) and Claire Longshore (48.79)
200 Meter Dash-Delaney Jones (26.26) and Tori Douthwaite (28.52)
4x100 Meter Relay team of Tori Douthwaite, Delaney Jones, Gwen McCullough and Chloe Griffith (50.23)
4x200 Meter Relay team of Tori Douthwaite, Hattie Jacobs, Claire Longshore and Gwen McCullough (1:51.66)
4x400 Meter Relay team of Ashley Yoder, Gwen McCullough, Claire Longshore and Mallory Bostick (4:15.88)
Senior Lily Smith wrapped up her track and field career at WLS running a 1:12.40 in the 400 Meter Dash.
Saturday's finals will begin at 10:00 a.m. for field events and 11:30 a.m. for running events.
Photo: Gwen McCullough hands off to Chloe Griffith in the 4x100 Meter Relay
Photo credit: John Coffman
A note from the Elementary Library......
Please be reminded that all library books are due no later than Friday, May 17th, to the elementary library. Students who have not returned their library books, or paid the replacement fee for any lost books, will not receive their end of the year grade card.
Thank you for another wonderful year of story times and learning to love books!
Fifth graders participated in the Design-An-Ad contest for the Bellefontaine Examiner producing several winners! Those who won the contest will see their ad published in the May 18th newspaper in a special section and received a coupon from Dairy Queen. This year's winners are Aria Bach, Robinson Lucas, Izzy Gilley, Zander Cox, Penny Kromer, Sam Ridgeway, Bryce Michael, Harrison Sutherin, Shiloh Cole, Bradyn Yang, Bella Williams, Trevor Dalton, Ellie Titus, Kolbie Crowder, Bella Dickinson, Ava Prater, Lilly Woodruff, Calvin DeRoziere, Raegan Evans, Caizen Anders, and Kylee Millis. Congratulations to these students!
Below is a link to support the high school baseball team by ordering your OHC Championship fan gear! Orders are due by Thursday and there are many styles to chose from, so share the link and place your orders early! Go Tigers!
https://wlsohc24.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Hello Families,
This is Kraig Hissong, Superintendent, with a couple of important announcements. First, Friday, May 17th will be students last day to charge a lunch for this school year. Parents should pay all breakfast and lunch balances in full by this date to ensure that your child receives end of year report cards, diploma's and other items related to the end of the school year. Students will not be able to charge a lunch during the last week of school. Second, on Thursday, May 23rd, the last day of school, students will be released one hour earlier than normal at 1:55 pm for the HS and 1:59 pm for the MS and Elementary. Please make plans for your students to arrive home one hour earlier than normal on this day.
Thank you and have a great evening!
Kraig Hissong
Yesterday, Eli Adkins (Class of 2025) signed to play golf at Ohio Christian University. Coach Sean Stormes shared, "Eli has been an integral part of the golf team the last two seasons. We know he will do amazing things for OCU." Congratulations, Eli!
Field trips are in full swing, and we have been thankful for weather cooperating for the most part! Our first graders went to the zoo last week and had a great time! A few of them even took a moment to spell out OHIO at the Wolverine exhibit! Thank you to all of our wonderful parent chaperones and our first-grade team for a great day!
Congratulations to senior Sidney Larison! Sidney will attend Miami University where she will major in Audiology!
Congratulations to senior Riggs Lapp! Riggs will attend Cedarville University to major in the medical field after graduation!
Fifth grader went on a field trip to the National Museum of the Airforce last week! The students saw the Imax movie “Space: The New Frontier” and toured the museum. They enjoyed the simulator rides, hands on activities, and were able to see the new Dinosaurs exhibit! They also got to walk through the space shuttle trainer, sit in fighter jets, and the tour the presidential planes!
Congratulations to our April Middle School Students of the month! The following students were selected by their teachers for being great students and good citizens! They are rewarded with Maries Candies, a t-shirt from BOSS, and gift cards from Malia Hughes, Powered by Fathom Realty.
Congratulations to the following students:
8th Grade: Kylee Bell & Josiah Thoman
7th Grade: Kenna Wright & Gabe Myers
6th Grade: Paysley Wesson & Noah Hayes
The Champaign County Health District partnered with High School Key Club to bring vaping and tobacco awareness to students in grades 6-12. To read the full story, click the link below.
https://www.wlstigers.org/article/1597012
Congratulations to the Middle School 4x800 State Champions! The team of Asher Cole, Zeke Longshore, Brayan Gullett, and Adly Knox set a new school record, while also bringing home the State Title today! Go Tigers!
Congratulations to Sophia Hardwick who signed her letter of commitment to Wilmington College where she will continue her Track and Field career at the collegiate level. Hardwick was joined by family, friends, and coaches at the signing. We are excited to watch her continue to excel in both Track and Field and in Ag Business!
Next year's Key Club President Luke McGill and member Taran Logwood presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Transporation Director Tyler Cordell along with notes of appreciation for all drivers on behalf of Key Club. The gesture of appreciation was to highlight School Transporation Appreciation Day!
Congratulations to senior Sari Kitchen! Sari will take a gap year living in Germany before returning to enroll in college and major in Education!
Congratulations to senior Mason King! Mason is enrolled at the Hobart School of Welding!
The West Liberty-Salem girls track and field team won its 12th consecutive Ohio Heritage Conference title Thursday at WLS Tiger Stadium.
Team Scores: 1st WLS 182, 2nd Fairbanks 145.5, 3rd Triad 91, 4th Mechanicsburg 65.5, 5th Northeastern 22, 6th West Jefferson 11
Delaney Jones led the way for the Lady Tigers winning the 100 Meter Dash in a new OHC record time of 12.23, the 200 Meter Dash (26.60) and the long jump (17'5).
Jones was also a part of the winning 4x100 Meter Relay with teammates Tori Douthwaite Gwen McCullough and Chloe Griffith (51.41). Also placing first for WLS were Sophia Hardwick in the 300 Meter Hurdles (48.38) and Malia Miller in the 3200 Meter Run (11:51.53).
Second place finishers for WLS included Claire Longshore in the 100 Meter Hurdles (16.45), Mallory Bostick in the 400 Meter Dash (1:01.95), the 4x200 Relay team of Tori Douthwaite, Hattie Jacobs, Claire Longshore and Gwen McCullough (1:51.92) and the 4x400 Meter Relay team of Ashley Yoder, Gwen McCullough, Claire Longshore and Mallory Bostick (4:20.25).
Placing third for the Lady Tigers were Sophia Hardwick in the 100 Meter Hurdles (16.59), Claire Longshore in the 300 Meter Hurdles (49.92), Gwen McCullough in the 800 Meter Run (2:32.66), Tori Douthwaite in the 200 Meter Dash (28.71) and Ashley Yoder in the 3200 Meter Run (12:14.72).
Fourth place finishers included Chloe Griffith in the 100 Meter Dash (12.95), Malia Miller in the 1600 Meter Run (5:27.19), Addie McAuley in the 800 Meter Run (2:39.09), and Lyndee Harrison in the Shot Put (29'3).
Addie McAuley 1600 Meter Run (5:41.80) and Ashley Yoder in the 400 Meter Dash (1:03.78) placed fifth to round out the WLS scorers.
"With the wind and rain, we knew times and performances would be off, so we really focused on competing and trying to place higher than our seed. Our girls were really scrappy tonight and fought for every point and I'm proud of the energy and determination they showed," said WLS Head Coach, Ann Vogel. Winning a conference title is always important to our program and the boys winning it as well, was icing on the cake."
WLS will compete in the DIII Southwest District at Graham with prelims on Tuesday and finals on Saturday.
Photos of girls' team, boys and girls' team.
Photo of Delaney Jones winning the 100 Meter Dash (Photo credit-John Coffman).
