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Jordyn Turner with the walk-off base hit in bottom of the 7th inning as Spartans softball defeats Pontiac 2-1. Shelby Finchum with a RBI game tying single in the 6th. Danika Frazier with five strikeouts, allowing three hits and one unearned run. JV defeated Pontiac 5-1.
Olympia Soccer Apparel is now available online!
Order by April 22nd to pick up on Senior Night May 1st.
Last day to order this Spring is May 9th.
Shipping also available.
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The high school volleyball player/parent meeting has been rescheduled for April 23rd at 2:00pm at Olympia North Gym in Danvers.
The varsity and JV Softball games scheduled for today against Pontiac are postponed to tomorrow April 18th at Olympia at 4:30pm. We will now play varsity only softball with Riverton on Monday April 24th at 4:30pm.
The JV and Varsity Baseball games scheduled for today April 17th at Olympia vs. Pontiac have been cancelled due to wet field conditions.
The OHS girls track team rallied after a crazy Thursday and not knowing until late Friday morning if they would be able to get their track stuff from inside the school and make it to our meet. It t was a beautiful night with perfect weather for the Unity girls Invitational. The Oly girls brought home 4th place out of 15 teams. The girls had numerous PR’s including our 4x4 team of Anna Bieber, Grace Whiteside, Mallory Miller and Melissa Bieber running a super fast 4:11 to secure 1st place! Also worth mentioning is our 4x2 and 4x8 relay placing in the top 6!
Here are the other PR’s from last night:
100 hurdles:
Melissa Bieber 17.4
Kyrah Zeschke 19.8
800:
Anna Bieber 2:23 (2 seconds under state qualifying)
400:
Emma Swartzendruber- 1:07
300 hurdles:
Melissa Bieber 48.5
1600:
Cam Lawson 5:46
200:
Palmer 28.05
Kyrah 30.5
These girls are working hard and it's showing!
The OHS boys' track team took advantage of nearly perfect conditions last night at the 18-team Monticello Invitational to set a total of 24 personal record performances. The Spartans were 6th place as a team with 54 points. Top performers:
Chase Ragar- 4th in the triple jump at 40' 4.5"
Nolan Yeary- 6th in the shot put at 44' 8.5"
Reygan Sitton- 5th in the 100 at 11.33
Cooper Phillips- 5th in the 300 hurdles at 44.86
Keagan Uphoff- 2nd in the HJ at 6' 0" and 2nd in the 300 hurdles at 40.77 and 1st in the 110 hurdles at 15.77.
Logan Demling, Cooper Phillips, CJ Moore, and Wyatt Reinhart- 4th in the 3200 meter relay at 9:02.55
Come cheer on the team when they get back in action at the Olympia Coed Relays next Tuesday at 4:00!
Varsity Softball with a 16-5 victory at Eureka in 5 innings to improve to 9-2. Multi-hit game for Kat Springer, Danika Frazier, Sarah Cross and Kyla Birky. Rylee Robb with 3 RBIs.
OHS StuCo students participated today in the Cenois District workshop and elections. Congratulations to new Cenois president, Julia Collins, and treasurer, Jorgi Dupureur! Thanks to Logan, Andrew, and Kenzie for your support and leadership.
The high school volleyball player/parent meeting scheduled for Saturday April 15th has been postponed. A new date and location will be announced later.
Activities Update for today. - No practice or games today for Baseball, Soccer or Middle school Track. Softball will play at Eureka Middle School Field at 4:30pm. HS Boys Track will be at Monticello and HS Girls Track will be at Tolono.
Material Pick Up Times:
OHS
Seniors & Juniors (noon - 1:30)
Sophomores & Freshman (1:30 - 3)
Overflow / Open (3 - 4)
Saturday - 10- 12 p.m.
OMS
8th grade - (1 - 1:45)
7th grade - (1:45- 2:30)
6th grade - (2:30 - 3:15)
Overflow 3:15 - 4 p.m.
Saturday - 10 - 12 p.m.
Fire Updates: OHS and OMS students will not have school tomorrow, April 14th. There will *not* be a remote learning day. Elementary school will be in attendance for a normal school day. Thank you for all of the support and concern that was expressed today. 💙
Updates: All OHMS students have now either left campus to drive home or have evacuated to Minier Christian Church. Parents, you must pick up your children from the designated evacuation location at Minier Christian Church. Lines for pick up are long, so please be patient as all of the necessary evacuation procedures are followed. At Minier Christian Church you will be greeted by an adult and must present an ID to pick up your child(ren). No individuals will be allowed on the OHMS campus for the rest of the day. Fire officials will be on site all evening completing their necessary work.
More information will be shared soon regarding the status of the building and plans for school operations tomorrow.
All after school events at Olympia CUSD 16 have been cancelled for this evening due the the fire at the OHMS campus.
There is an active fire at the middle school / high school campus. All students and staff are safe.
Do not come to the OHMS campus as this will interfere with the evacuation process.
High school students who can drive will be sent home. All other high school and middle school students are being evacuated to our designated evacuation zone at Minier Christian Church. Pickup will occur there. More information regarding the timeline for pickup will be shared soon.
Due to buses needed for the evacuation, elementary buses will run their afternoon routes but they will not be on time. Parents can pick up their elementary students from school, but first need to call their child's school office.
We will continue to share details as soon as we can.
Olympia CUSD 16: There is an active fire at the middle school/high school campus. All students and staff are evacuated and safe. Please do not come to OHMS to pick up your student at this time. High school students that drove will be released to go home and all other students will be evacuated to the Minier Christian Church. Students can be picked up at the church. Due to altered bus routes, elementary buses will not run their afternoon routes on time. Parents can pick up their elementary students from school but should call the school first.
Two school records go down this morning. Congratulations to Sarah Cross who broke our school record in the squat with a lift of 295 lbs, and to Blaine Halley who broke our school record in the bench press with a lift of 380 lbs!!!
Olympia would like to welcome Jon Rask as our new Head Volleyball coach. Jon brings more than 15 years of experience with him, most recently at Central Illinois Elite in Peoria. There will be a player/parent meeting on April 15th at 11:00am in the OHS cafeteria.
