State FFA Band participants this year from WCHS were Zoe Sawin and Cayden Meadows. Congratulations Zoe and Cayden and thank you to Mrs. Abi Sawin for taking them to be a part of this! Great job everyone!
The Washington County FFA Chapter ended the 2024-2025 School year at our annual State FFA Convention last week in Manhattan. Over 20 members attended the events of the week with students being recognized in several award categories. Our FFA Chapter also volunteered to help with the State FFA Degree Session as Courtesy Corps members who helped to usher students and guests in and out of the auditorium, as well as to set up delegate and special RSVP seating for guests and award winners. Highlights of the convention included: Rowley Keesecker - Creed Speaking, 2nd Place in State. McKenzie Baker, NC District Star in Agribusiness and was a finalist for the State Forest Products Proficiency Award. State FFA SAE Grant Award Recipients are Rowley Keesecker, McKenzie Baker and Witt Keesecker. Joseph Kern was the State FFA Agricultural Mechanics - Repair and Maintenance Proficiency Award Winner. State FFA Degree Recipients were Makenna Elliott, McKenzie Baker, and Joseph Kern. Members of the State Winning Nursery/Landscape Team were recognized including William Svanda, Makenna Elliott, Tanner Baker, and Cayden Meadows. Makenna Elliott and Tanner Baker were both recipients of $1000 Crader Distributing Nursery/Landscape CDE High Individual Scholarships. Members of the State Winning Agronomy Team were recognized including Jonathan Wright, Amber Kolle, Dawson Strunk, and Destyni Christenson. Zoe Sawin and Cayden Meadows were both members of the Kansas FFA Band and performed as several events and sessions during the convention. Washington County was distinguished as the 5th Place Team in the overall Kansas FFA Association State Sweepstakes award for Career Development Events in Kansas. What a great year this group of members have had, I am extremely proud of all of their hard work! Congratulations!
We had 43 student-athletes attend summer weights today! Thank you to the parents for encouraging them to attend and bringing them to the school. The kids put in a lot of work today.
The last week of FCCLA Freezer Meal orders are due tomorrow (Tuesday). The flyer is attached with information. Thank you!!
Coaches Day Announcement
Day 1 of summer weights was a success. The first step to a state championship is getting into the weight room. I was impressed by everyone that came in this morning.
That's a wrap on an outstanding season by your WCHS Track athletes. The whole team worked hard this year and learned a lot. If the returning athletes can pick up where they left off next season then watch out for WCHS Track in the future. Reflecting on this last weekend we can all say "what if", but the reality of it is that these State participating athletes left it all on the track. There were 9 PR's, 4 school records, and one STATE RECORD broken this weekend by the Tigers. We brought home 15 total medals and a 3rd place team trophy. These athletes worked their tails off this season to get to where they were this weekend. The Tigers are graduating 3 senior boys and 3 senior girls. These shoes will be very, very difficult to fill. These seniors have led by example and will be dearly missed. Thanks to all of our fans that followed us this season, you guys are awesome. Thanks to my manager, MacKensi Meier, for showing up every day and helping. Thanks to my assistant coaches, Bobby and Keith, for all the help. Seniors, thanks for trusting me and giving me the opportunity to coach you. Good luck in all you do. TIGER STRONG!!!-Jerry Baker
To top it off the WCHS girls team scored 47 points to claim 3rd place as a team. Way to fight hard and come away with the trophy girls. We are proud of you. Way to represent.
The girls 4x400 team of Alyssa, Addy, Kenzie and Anna finished the meet strong. All the hard work these girls did all season payed off. The girls ran a PR and tied the school record with a time of 4:05.46!!! This was good for the 2nd place medal. Great job girls. Way to finish!!!
Kenzie ran one heck of an 800 today to bring home the 6th place medal. Kenzie ran a PR and broke her school record by 2 seconds. Her time was 2:23.29!!! After battling sickness early in the season she came back with a vengeance and competed hard. Proud of you Kenz!!
The girls 4x100 ran another PR today to come home with the 8th place medal. The team of Addy, Kenzie, Jesse and Alyssa ran a 51.71!! These girls had a very tough field today to compete against and still pulled hardware!!! They worked hard on handoffs all year and it played off.
Octavien has been battling an injury and we took some time to recoup this week trying to heel. He made the finals and threw 150' but it wasn't quite good enough to make the podium. Good job Tave, bad timing on the injury but that does not overshadow your awesome senior season in track. Proud of you.
Tanner came in on a next best 4 and came away with the 4th place medal. Tanner PR'd with a jump of 42'6.75". Way to work hard this year Tanner. Your hard work payed off in a big way!! Proud of you!!
Kenzie battled hard in the triple jump and PR'd with a jump of 34'1.25". She missed finals by 1". Way to Kenz!!
This girl is on fire today. Addy was the BACK TO BACK TO BACK 1A 300 m hurdle champion. To top it off Addy ran a 44.65 which shattered her school record. This girl has been working hard and it's showing!! Anna wasn't far behind and came away with the 4th place medal. Anna ran a PR of 46.89. Way to go girls!!! We are proud of you!!!
Addy started the day off on fire!!! Not only did Addy win the 100 hurdles, she set a new school record with a time of 15.21!!! That beat her old record of 15.37 set at TVL. To top it off Addy is also the BACK TO BACK TO BACK 1A girls 100 hurdle champion. Three-peat!!!!!! Way to go Addy. Proud of you.
Here are the results after day 1.
Macie cleared 8' and got 15th in pole vault
Jesse 1st in jav
Gavyn 8th in javelin
Addy made finals in 100 hurdles
4x100 of Addy, Kenzie, Jesse, and Alyssa made finals
Addy and Anna made finals in 300 hurdles.
4x400 of Alyssa, Addy, Kenzie, and Anna made finals.
Kenzie runs 800 tomorrow
Tave throws discus tomorrow
Tanner triple jumps tomorrow
Kenzie triple jumps tomorrow
Gavyn LeDuc with a PR in javelin to bring home the 8th place medal!! Gavyn threw 166'8". Gavyn has worked hard all year to get to where he is now. Congrats Gavyn, proud of you.
AND..........we have a State Champion!!! Not only a State Champion, but a new State record holder!! Jesse Hoover was ready to dominate today!! First Jesse threw a 147' to break the record, then she threw a 154'7" monster throw on the last throw of finals to smash the state record, previously 144. Congrats Jesse, way to go!!
IT'S GO TIME FOR ALL THE WCHS TRACKSTER TIGERS!!! Good luck to all the Tigers today and tomorrow. We are proud of you.