Fifth graders in Mrs. Orahood and Sertell's classes are dressed to impress for FFA day!
FFA continued their week of celebrating the chapter with the annual senior cookout today. Seniors were treated to a great lunch and joined by fellow chapter members for a final farewell on their last day. Congratulations, seniors!
Mrs. Stayrook's class had fun wrapping up our maps/landforms unit by making landform cookies. We used different candies to resemble mountains, hills, the ocean, and an island. This is always a tasty and fun class favorite!
Help our Ag Science students continue to celebrate FFA with FFA day tomorrow, May 17th! Elementary and Middle School students are invited to dress up to represent FFA. They can dress in their country best, represent their love for trucks and tractors with their favorite shirt, or dress in blue and gold, the official colors of FFA.
Congratulations to senior Maxwell McCombs! Maxwell will enter the workforce upon graduation!
Congratulations to senior Addison McAuley! Addison will attend the University of Kentucky where she will major in Speech and Language Pathology!
Looking for a sport where you can have individual growth, a supportive team culture and no sitting the bench? Cross Country is your sport! Sign-ups for the Big Orange Girls Cross Country team for girls in grades 9th-12th are at www.bornandracedinwestliberty.com.
7th and 8th graders should see Coach Lauck for sign up information.
The Ohio Heritage Conference has announced the OHC North Baseball All Conference Team and OHC North Player of the Year.
Senior Eli Allen clenched the Player of the Year title! Allen pitched a total of 35 innings this season, had a 5-0 record, and an impressive 56 strikeouts. Allen will continue to play baseball at the University of Rio Grande. Congratulations, Eli!
For the Tigers, Eli Allen and Jake Evans were named 1st team, Isaiah Reames and Isaac Sertell were named to 2nd team, and Caleb Hershberger was an Honorable Mention.
Congratulations to senior Dillan Maurice! Dillan plans to enter the workforce upon graduation!
Congratulations to senior Claire Longshore! Claire is attending Columbus State where she will major in American Sign Language to pursue a career as an interpreter!
The rain held out between classes to host our annual Ag Science day when students in grades K-5 get to learn from high school Ag students about all things agriculture. We have students, local farmers, and farm equipment dealers who are kind enough share their own animals and implements with us making this a favorite event for many students! Thank you to Russ Delay with Heritage Co Op of Mechanicsburg for loaning us gates, Austin Olejinczak and Nathan Webb for picking them up and returning them, as well as Alysson Cotrell for helping coordinate the event with our elementary teachers and students.
Today is National College Colors Day, so we encouraged seniors to wear anything that represents their future plans! Many seniors participated! Here are some pictures, but as always, feel free to share any other photos in the comments!
Congratulations to senior Payton Lightner! Payton will attend The Ohio State University at Lima to major in Zoology!
Seniors enjoyed hosting their families for one last family lunch today. They also received their first grade time capsules full of memories, handwritten notes and photos. It was a sentimental but fun afternoon!
Congratulations to senior Kendall LeVan. Kendall will attend Miami University and major in International Studies!
Update:
The OHC North champion Tigers baseball team will host Indian Lake in their first OHSAA tournament game this season tomorrow, May 16th, at home at 5:00. Come out and support the Tigers!
(Disregard graphic dates, as the game for tonight is rescheduled for tomorrow.)
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!
