Digital citizenship continues to grow in importance each year. Starting in Oct. we begin our monthly focus of six areas of digital citizenship, providing resources and support for our Oly families. More details on this annual outreach can be found here: bit.ly/OlyDigCitOverview
Save the date for Olympia’s National Honor Society Halloween Fest!
Due to lack of interest, the Business Club Trivia Night scheduled for October 8th has been canceled
Congratulations to the OHS girls golf team for placing 6 out of 14 at the Metamora Regional. The team recorded a season best 368. The Lady Spartans were led by Madi Barnes and Lexy Douglas who will be moving on to the Kawanee Sectional on Monday.
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.
OMHS Families, new this year, subscriptions for the food boxes are still being accepted. Contact michelle.maris@olympia.org or 708-689-3175 to see if your family qualifies.
OMHS Families and students- Friday Market returns October14th! We will have limited school supplies, personal care products, and snacks. Spartan Food Box subscription will also be available for pick up. Contact michelle.maris@olympia.org with questions.
OMHS Families, new this year, subscriptions for the food boxes are still being excepted. Contact Michelle.maris@olympia.org or 708-689-3175 to see if your family qualifies.
The Agriculture Science and Advanced Biology students went to Bayer's Roanoke Focus Site to learn about corn and wheat research. Students learned about different crop modification techniques such as selection, crossbreeding, backcrossing, and genomic editing.
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
Late Night Reminder! Tomorrow is an institute day and therefore students will not be in attendance. Our staff, meanwhile, will be hard at work making Spartan Nation the best possible environment for learning!
Spartans move to 3 and 2 on the season with a win over New Berlin.
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.
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!
This is the last weekend to complete our family survery. You still have time! bit.ly/3eWj02G Thank you for your input!