Frost covered the course as our Spartans arrived at Maple Lane Country Club for their IHSA Cross Country Sectional Championship in Elmwood. As the temperature rose, so did the spirits of our athletes. The girls spearheaded the way with a strong 4th place finish only 19 points behind Pleasant Plains 1st place. Amelia Kistner lead the way in 19:15 with Emma Swartzendruber shortly after in 19:21! Chrystal Cornwell closed to a 19:39. Abby Litwiller and Cam Lawson finished out the scoring positions within one second of one another in 20:29 and 20:30. Anna Bieber pushed to a 20:59, and Kaylie Dare finished in 23:28. On the boys’ side, Logan Demling paced the Spartan runners in 16:42. Caden Clark grinded out a 17:04. Cooper Phillips and C.J. Moore ended the race two seconds from one another in 17:32 and 17:34. Logan Farquhar was our 5th scorer in a time of 18:43 followed closely by Jacob Lawless in 18:46. Evan Petri finished out his freshman campaign in a time of 19:36. Emma, Chrystal, Caden (season best), Logan F., Jacob, and Evan achieved personal bests in their respective races.
Look to see the girls continue their season in the State Championship race next Saturday at Peoria’s historic Detweiller Park. They take the course at 9 A.M. Let’s go Spartans!
Big Day for the Spartans. Good Luck to the high school Cross County runners at the Sectional meet in Elmwood. The girls will run at 10:00am and the boys will run at 11:00am. Good Luck to the Football team in the 1st Round Playoff game at Benton High School at 3:00pm today.
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Football Playoff t-shirt and hoodie orders can be picked up outside the high school office until 4:00pm today or in the high school office tomorrow.
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OHS students are learning to weld (or practicing) with this virtual reality welding machine. Amazing technology that our kids have access to due to the machine being shared with Oly for the semester.
#DigCit Family Tip 6: Review worst-case steps
The Olympia High School National Honor Society is hosting its annual Halloween Carnival on Sunday, Oct. 30 from 1-3 pm at the high school. The carnival features games, hayrack rides, crafts, a petting zoo, a bake sale, face painting and a haunted house. Cost is $5 per child, age 3+. All proceeds will benefit Toys for Tots.
Each year we have an expert teacher panel comprised of Olympia teachers from all five buildings in our district come to our New Teacher Academy to answer questions around teaching and learning. These conversations and partnerships are instrumental in supporting our new teachers here in Spartan Nation. Thank you to all who attended tonight!
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Due to extenuating circumstances, the performances of the high school fall play have been cancelled.
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Only a few hours left to order your football playoff t-shirts. Deadline is 2:00pm.
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The Olympia Spartans will travel to Benton for their first round playoff game on Saturday October 29th. Kickoff is 3:00pm.
The Spartans will play Benton in the IHSA Class 3A Playoffs. Date and time of the game will be announced as soon as details are finalized. Don't forget to order your playoff t-shirts.
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The Spartans were met with a beautiful day and a tremendous course to race on Saturday morning. Our teams were set to qualify for Sectionals and both sides accomplished that task.
The Spartan ladies kicked off the running success by giving #2 State-ranked Eureka a great competition. We were only 12 points off with 57 to Eureka’s 45. Amelia Kistner made a sensational turnaround from last season running on the same course. She was 2 minutes faster than last year while running 18:48 and earning a 4th place medal! Emma Swartzendruber, new to postseason racing, finished second for our squad in 19:15! Our scorers were rounded out by Anna Bieber, Chrystal Cornwell, and Abby Litwiller (19:39, 20:03, and 20:24). Cam Lawson ran closely to our top 5 with a time of 20:40, and Rachel Andris followed in 22:41.
The boys’ side outperformed rankings while finishing 4th behind a strong U-High squad, Eureka, and El Paso-Gridley. We narrowly beat Heyworth by 3 points (173-176). The Spartans were a tale of two tight packs with one strong center piece in their race Saturday. Logan Demling, Cooper Phillips, and Caden Clark were within 18 seconds of one another (16:31, 16:35, and 16:49). C.J. Moore was the glue that stuck the packs together with a time of 17:36. Our second pack saw Logan Farquhar move well, leading Jacob Lawless and Evan Petri to a 54 second split between the 3 runners (18:48, 19:27, 19:42).
Spartans XC is back to racing on Wednesday for our JV runners at Maxwell Park in Normal and at Sectionals in Elmwood on Saturday morning.
The Spartans pick up win number five with a 47 to 6 win over Petersburg PORTA on Homecoming. They are now playoff eligible. Congratulations to the players and coaches and Good Luck in the PLAYOFFS !!!!!!
The JV football game scheduled for Monday at PORTA has been cancelled.
#DigCit Family Tip 5: Take breaks
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