The OHS XC teams raced yesterday at the notoriously challenging course at the 16-team El Paso-Gridley Invitational. The girls’ team brought home the third place trophy, with Amelia Kistner (7th), Anna Bieber (18th), and Emma Swartzendruber (20th) finishing in the medals, while Cam Lawson and Kaylie Dare rounded out the top-5 for the team.
The boys finished 7th, with Logan Demling (17th) finishing in the medals and Cooper Phillips, Caden Clark, CJ Moore, and Evan Petri filling in the top-5 for the team.
At this meet, the coaches choose one girl and one boy for the Gourd Award. This award goes to the athlete that they feel had the best personal race of the day. This year’s Gourd Award recipients were foreign exchange student Irati Zaldua and freshman Paul Yeary.
The Olympia Student council is accepting senior baby pictures for the homecoming beautiful baby contest. Get your pictures to Mrs. Cooper by October 13th.
Olympia JV football gets a big 38-14 win over New Berlin tonight. Great Team Win. Bobby Fairburn and Cole Bauer score their first career TD's tonight. Rashad had two TD's and the Defense forced 4 fumbles and Luke Hopkins execute a perfect onside kick. #spearsup
Spartans move to 3 and 2 on the season with a win over New Berlin.
Due to inclement weather OMS Cross Country is going to cancel practice. We will see everyone tomorrow at 7:45 (or 7:30 for volunteers) for our home meet!
Congratulations to Ethan Barnes for advancing to the IESA State Golf Tournament last week. He shot a 92, placing 49th overall. Great Job!!!!
The OMS Softball team is off to state. Thank you to Stanford Fire and Police, Danvers Fire and Police, McLean Police, McLean County Police, Minier Police and EMS, and Mt Hope Funks Grove EMS for the escort. Lady Spartans take on Frankfort Hickory Creek today at 10:30 am
The Olympia girls golf team finished in 3rd place at the Sangamo Conference tournament. Leading the Lady Spartans was Madi Barnes placing 8th overall.
Spartans Soccer (8-6-1) wins a close match over Rantoul at home 3-2.
Goalkeeper Elijah Smith makes 13 saves including a penalty kick late in the second half.
Jace Whitted scores twice then assists a goal by George Martin. Assists also by Tyler Carroll and Evan Deterding.
Join us on Senior Night this Tuesday, Sept 27th at OHMS Stadium in honoring our 6 talented Senior Spartans at 4:15p prior to game time.
📸 Brooke Rogers
Homecoming 2022. Get signed up to be in the homecoming parade on Oct. 19th. Teams, organization, clubs, classic cars, businesses etc.
The results are in. After all the votes have been counted. The name for our Spartan Mascot is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spartacus or Sparty for short.
Here is the link to get spirit wear for our girls heading to IESA state softball this weekend.
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Congratulations to the OMS girls softball team, who are sectional champions with a 9-1 win over Ottawa Shepherd this afternoon. The girls advance to the 3A state finals and will play Frankfort Hickory Creek in the 10:30 a.m. game at Champion Fields in Normal.
The OHS XC teams competed in the 22-team Dunlap Invitational today. The girls finished 5th as a team, with Amelia Kistner (12th @ 19:41) and Anna Bieber (20th @ season-best 20:14) winning individual medals. Completing the top-5 lady Spartans were Abby Litwiller, Emma Swartzendruber, and Cam Lawson. Great job ladies!
In the boys’ race, Logan Demling (14th @ season-best 16:56) and Caden Clark (19th @ 17:09) earned medals, with C.J. Moore, Landon Smith (season-best 20:27) and Evan Petri rounding out the top-5.
Congrats to all! Keep up the great work!
Vote today for our famous Olympia FFA Pork Chop in the IHSA Pork & Pigskins Championship!
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It is time to name the Spartan Mascot.
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Congratulations to the middle school girls softball team on winning the Regional Championship at Evans Junior High yesterday 10- 2 over Kingsley Junior High. The team will now play in the sectional on Saturday Sept. 17th at 11:00am.
Congratulations to the OHS girls golf team taking 1st, 2nd, & 3rd places at the Spartan Scramble. Great job Lady Spartans.
The OHS XC teams competed at the 34th Annual First to the Finish meet at Detweiller Park today. The girls’ team earned the 4th place trophy out of 48 complete teams (athletes from 70 teams). Sophomore Amelia Kistner was the lead runner for the Lady Spartans today, running an all-time best 19:34, chopping off over one minute from her previous best and earning an individual medal for 32nd place (out of 471 total runners). Rounding out the top-5 Spartans were Abby Litwiller (season-best 20:37), Chrystal Cornwell (season-best 20:43), Cam Lawson (season-best 21:31), and Emma Swartzendruber (season-best 21:38). Congratulations gals!
The boys’ team finished 26th out of 55 complete teams. Caden Clark was the lead runner for the Spartan guys today (season-best 17:28), followed closely by Cooper Phillips (season-best 17:29) & C.J. Moore (season-best 18:07).
