Newly Formed Big East League
Administration from the Big 7 and Mid-East Leagues have voted to approve a league merger. Beginning in the 2024-2025 school year the Big East League will consist of the following high schools: Hiawatha, Holton, Jefferson West, Nemaha Central, Perry-Lecompton, Riley County, Rossville, Royal Valley, Sabetha, Silver Lake, and St. Marys. Middle school membership will include the aforementioned schools as well as Atchison Middle School.
The Mid-East League, formed in 1948, currently consists of Riley County, Rock Creek, Rossville, Silver Lake, St. Marys, and Wabaunsee. Rock Creek will depart to join the North Central Kansas League and Wabaunsee will depart to join the Flint Hills League at the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
The Big 7, formed in 1926, currently consists of Hiawatha, Holton, Jefferson West, Nemaha Central, Perry-Lecompton, Riverside, Royal Valley, and Sabetha with Riverside leaving to join the Northeast Kansas League at the end of the 2023-2024 school year.
The formation of the Big East League will improve scheduling logistics, increase academic and extracurricular opportunities, and further elevate these historically successful member schools.
Calling Golfers! The Annual JWHS Cheer Golf Tournament is June 16 at Village Greens Golf Course. To sign up or more information contact Carrie Bahr: Carrie.bahr@usd340.org
Girls 4x1 finish third at regionals with a time of 52.62! STATEBOUND! Congratulations Ladies!
Regional Track Delays start time to 4:00pm today, 5/19/23.
Field events will begin at 4:00.
Running Prelims will begin at 6:00.
Running Finals will begin 30 minutes after the conclusion of the 4x800.
Congratulations to Natalie Meyer, Leena Turner, Caroline Small, and Arwyn Faulkner, who all earned 1 ratings at the state Speech festival on Saturday. Meyer earned a 1 rating for her poetry interpretation, and the team of Meyer and Turner earned a 1 rating for their team performance in Improvised Duet Acting. Small earned a 1 rating for her prose interpretation and a 2 rating for her POI (Program of Oral Interpretation) performance. Faulkner earned a 1 rating for her prose interpretation.
Congratulations to the 10 journalism students who helped Jeff West earn the distinction of taking 2nd in 3A state sweeps!
Bryce Midgley placed 2nd in News Writing
Brock Dobbie placed 4th in News Writing
Leena Turner placed 2nd in Digital Illustration
Natalie Meyer placed 3rd in Infographic
Hannah Haslett placed 2nd in Sports Feature Photography
The team of Sydney Sage, Aspen Wheeler, and Katelin Lohmann took first for their softball Sports Promo VIdeo
Kamryn Fleischer placed 5th in Copy Editing
Sydney Sage placed 5th in Yearbook Copy Writing
Bryce Midgley placed 6th in Feature Writing
Abigail Smith placed 3rd in Academics Photo
Kamryn Fleischer placed 5th in Editorial Cartoon
Brock Dobbie placed 3rd in Headline Writing and Design
Parents and Guardians,
This week you will find a consent form with a copy of an end of year student survey. Please sign this permission form if you want your child to participate & view the survey. It will be used so we can plan for next school year to be better for students!
HS Baseball and Softball both postponed today, 5/15/23, due to weather conditions
May 1 is National Principal Day. We are thankful for our building leaders & their dedication to our students, staff and community. Thank you for all you do as a member of the Tiger Family. Please help us by thanking your principal and all our educators as we celebrate this week.
It was chilly but our track athletes competed well yesterday at the St Mary's track meet.
JV Baseball tonight is canceled, 4/28/23.
JV Softball is still playing in Sabetha with a 4:30 start time
JV Baseball game tonight cancelled with Riverside, 4/25/23
Congrats to the remaining students who plan to attend Washburn Tech next year! They couldn't attend on the actual signing day, so we had a signing here at school. Good luck next year!
HS Track & Field Schedule this Week 4/24-28
4/25-HSTR V @Nemaha Central 4:30pm
4/27-HSTR JV @Santa Fe Trail 4:00pm
4/28-HSTR V @St Marys 3:00pm
STATE BOUND!!!!
At Saturday's regional Speech festival, three students qualified for state. Sophomore Bryce Midgley qualified in impromptu speaking, sophomore Arwyn Faulkner qualified in prose, and junior Natalie Meyer qualified in poetry. All five members of the Forensics team qualified for state, which will be held May 6. Other previous qualifiers include the team of Natalie Meyer and Leena Turner and Caroline Small, who qualified previously in two categories. Congratulations Tigers!
HS Softball is canceled tonight due to field conditions in Hiawatha.
It was a fantastic day of fine arts today. The art students that attended HCC art day brought home 3rd place as a team, combined choir scored a 2 at State, and Band brought home straight 1's. Congratulations to all!!!!
An exciting day for juniors and seniors as they sign to attend Washburn Tech. (There will be a second signing on Monday - more pics to come.) Congratulations!!!!
The JW high school FCCLA group made a big impact at the Kansas leadership conference; in fact, they were OZmazing. Chase Holman presented as the E-West District president, Caroline Small place second and qualified for Nationals in Fashion Design, and Mrs. Abbott was awarded E-West District Chapter advisor! Great job Tigers!!!!! Congratulations to Mrs. Abbott and Caroline Small on their awards!!!!!!
Dear Patrons and Track Parents
Tomorrow, April 18, we will be hosting our last meet of this season. We have had some amazing help from parents so far this season. All of the Track Coaches greatly appreciate all of you who have helped previously. It has allowed us to focus on coaching our athletes. Without your help, we couldn’t run off the meets this season efficiently and effectively.
However, we are concerned that we might not have enough workers for tomorrow's events. So we are reaching out to you one more time. We have several spots already filled, but we could definitely use some more helpers. If you can be at the track before 3:30 pm, please sign up to help at an event. If you cannot be there by that time, we will still need help with timing when running events start at 5:30.
Thank you for you time and support. If you have any questions, please email the coaches.
Shawn Dolezilek shawn.dolezilek@usd340.org
Scott Campbell scott.campbell@usd340.org
Also, here is the link for the sign genius for this meet. Please scroll to the bottom for 4/18’s event.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0848A8AE2EA3FA7-hsvtrack