Olympia CUSD 16

It was a true community feel in Waynesville this week! 🔵⚪

Thank you to the entire Olympia community for supporting our students, families, staff, and each other at our Homecoming parade.

It has been an incredibly successful and memorable week for our team! We had the opportunity to host our home invitational, celebrate our amazing 8th grade athletes, and competed in a tri-meet with Dee-Mack and CLA. At our home invitational, our Boys Varsity team brought home a 4th place trophy, multiple athletes earned medals, and our team recorded an incredible 15 PRs! 🎉🏅 At our tri-meet, three of our athletes earned top-5 finishes and awards! 🏅🏅🏅 A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our families, volunteers, staff, and supporters who helped make our home meet such a success. We truly could not have done it without you! Next up, our Spartans head to Delavan this weekend for one of our most competitive meets of the season! We’re excited to see what our athletes can accomplish!

Our middle and high school cross country teams came together for a fun practice focused on teamwork, leadership, and giving back to our school community! Athletes took on a scavenger hunt, competed in a cup relay race to see who could finish with the most water, and wrapped up the day by picking up litter across the middle and high school campuses. A BIG thank you to our high school athletes for being such great leaders and role models for our middle school runners! We loved seeing our teams come together and make the most of practice!

Today's Spartan Staff Spotlight shines on Brooke Schmittinger, Olympia North Pre-K/ECE teacher. Thank you Miss Schmittinger for all that you do for our students!

Thank you to the Olympia Assistant Principals for their support of our students! We appreciate all they do for our students, staff, and families.

October is Principal Appreciation Month! Our Principals invest so much time in our students and our staff. Thank you to the Olympia Principals for their leadership, compassion, and integrity.

A major highlight of Homecoming Week is the class lip sync competition that takes place during our Friday homecoming assembly. Here is a link for anyone who would like to watch.

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Today we shine our Spartan Staff Spotlight on Eric Lyons, Olympia High School Physical Education and Drivers Education teacher, and Head Football Coach. Thank you for all that you do for our students, Coach Lyons!

The Boys Golf team competed yesterday in their Regional at Highland Golf Course. While it wasn't the outcome the boys were looking for, they battled some tough conditions and still put together a pretty decent day. The team shot a season low score of 325 and placed 6th overall in a very tough Regional! Two boys qualified as individuals for Sectionals: Austin Siliskie at 79 (+9) 13th overall and Ethan Barnes 81 (+11) won a 2 hole playoff to earn his spot. Other notable scores from the Spartans were: Kruz Otto 82 (+12), Mason Kruger 83 (+13), Chase Meyers 95 (+25), and Gage Pitcher 95 (+25). Ethan and Austin will be competing Monday in Sectionals at the U of I Orange Course. Go Spartans!

Vote for Rhett Alexander to be this week's primetime performer: https://www.channel1450.com/2026/09/28/knob-hill-landscape-company-prime-time-performer-september-21-26/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUqiZNjbGNrBSqJjGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe7A94SnSX3bsj2AiuhACQEIBukDQHmmZ9-a1PyT-KM4IY9W7uuNVO8xcXutE_aem_6uzmXJ8ne7hK0rM99js-Vg

Today we shine the Spartan Staff Spotlight on Cinda Percival, who is the district Payroll Administrative Assistant. Thank you for all that you do for the district, Mrs. Percival!

Congratulations to Kennadie Finchum for taking 8th place overall in yesterday's regional match at Metamora Fields. Kennadie shot an 89, and has qualified for next week's sectional match at Valley View Golf Club in Cambridge.

Really good volleyball tonight against a really tough Pleasant Plains program.
Our varsity team came out firing and played some of their best volleyball of the season. They battled, competed, and stayed together all night — that’s what our program is all about.

So proud of the way this team responded, supported one another, and continued to fight. Nights like this show the character of this group.

Freshman: W, (2-1) 21-8, 19-21, 15-14
JV: L,( 0-2) 12-25, 20-25

This afternoon we shine the Spartan Staff Spotlight on Erin Barnard, Interventionist at Olympia North. Thank you for all that you do for our students, Mrs. Barnard!

Strike up the band! 🎺

To lead us into Homecoming Week, students and staff from Olympia High School visited Olympia South Elementary School for a special assembly on Friday. Representatives from student council, marching band, and cheer shared spirit dress-up themes for the week, gave musical performances, and shared how elementary students can start to get involved in these activities.

Today we shine our Spartan Staff Spotlight on Teri Steffen, 5th Grade teacher at Olympia North. Thank you for your 30 plus years of teaching students in the Olympia School District, Mrs. Steffen! We appreciate all that you do and have done for your students over your career at Olympia!!

Olympia Middle School!! It's time to show some school spirit! Here are the dress days to celebrate 2026 Homecoming week! 09/29: Christmas/winter holidays 09/30: St Patrick's Day 10/1: 4th of July 10/2: Spartan Spirit Day