Olympia CUSD 16

Varsity baseball gets a 10-0 win over Cornerstone at Ron Smith Field today. Dabney 2 hits 4 RBI, Hohulin 2 hits 2 RBI, Alford 2 hits, Olson 2 RBI, Kindred picks up the win and a combined shutout with Dabney and Gellner. Conference opener Monday vs New Berlin at home.

Congrats to Coach Smitty today what a great accomplishment!Also great job to JV baseball improving their record to 4-4 w/a run rule over Porta 16-5.Winning pitcher Walker-save Rinkenberger. Hitting stars Walker W/3, Wilson,Rinkenberger&Hemphill w/2 all having 2 RBI's as well.

Varsity baseball game vs Cornerstone has been pushed back to 1:00. Field Dedication will still be as planned at 10:00.

Congrats to our OMS Track athletes of the week, Wyatt Prince and Hailee Weeks! These two worked hard as usual but stepped it up a notch and stood out as leaders.

Saturday, April 6th at 10:00 a.m. we will recognize Coach Smith and officially name the baseball field after him. We will have a short ceremony at the field and then will move into the OMS cafe for an informal reception and opportunity to talk to Coach. We hope to see you there!

The first annual STEAM Olympics is being held at Illinois Wesleyan University this year. This is a wonderful opportunity for students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics! You can register by using this link: tinyurl.com/fbt-steam Fee waivers are available! They want to make sure that any interested student can participate. Use the email address contactus@forabettertomorrow.org for more details. Students can sign up for one or more activities. IWU is not providing meals during the event. Food will be available on campus for purchase. The activities are scheduled from 5 pm on Friday (4/19) through 7 pm on Saturday (4/20). The event culminates with a keynote address from IWU president at 5:30 pm.

Only a couple weeks away!

The high school track meet at DeeMack tonight is cancelled.

Varsity and JV Softball vs. New Berlin postponed to April 12th. Varsity baseball vs. New Berlin postponed to April 8th. Freshman baseball vs. Champaign Central cancelled - make up TBD. Girls Soccer vs. Auburn cancelled. Make up date - TBD.

The girls soccer game scheduled for today April 3rd at Cornerstone has been postponed to Monday April 8th.

The JV Baseball and JV Softball games scheduled for today April 3rd have been cancelled.

Happy Paraprofessional Appreciation Day!

Happy Assistant Principals Week to the three that serve our students and families. We appreciate you!

The high school track meet scheduled for today April 2nd at DeeMack has been postponed to Thursday April 4th.

The middle school track meet scheduled for today at Olympia has been cancelled.

Today's baseball and softball games scheduled at Pleasant Plains have been postponed. A make up date is TBD.

Our last parent engagement event is two weeks away! Register today for your zoom link.

Tonight's Girls Varsity Soccer game has been cancelled due to impending weather tonight Monday 4/1.

It was an awesome day for the Olympia Track and Field team in Greenville, IL! Beautiful weather and excellent running, throwing and jumping. The girls brought home a ton of hardware: Hannah Cleveland 1st in shot put with a distance of Kyra west 1st in discus The 4x800 (Amelia Kistner, Amanda Gonzalez, Kaylie Dare and Emma Swartzendruber) got 4th place with a time of 10:50.04 The 4x200 (Charlee Durham, Mya Downs, Madyson Bridgeforth and Grace Whiteside) got 8th place with a time of 1:56.9 Emma Swartzendruber 4th in the 800 with an amazing PR run of 2:29.7 Melissa Bieber 4th places in the 100m hurdles and 5th place in the 300m hurdles Amelia Kistner got 5th place in the 1600 The 4x400 (Melissa Bieber, Mallory Miller, Charlee Durham with a massive PR split of 1:02 and Emma Swartzendruber with a PR split of 1:03) got 2nd place with a time of 4:16.42 Kaylie Dare barely fell short of medaling in the 1600 but hit a massive 17 second PR running a 6:15.23. It was a great way to start the outdoor season, memories were made and these Spartans are ready to hit some big goals.

The high school track teams went south today to catch some beautiful weather at the 20-team Greenville Invitational! Both teams earned a large supply of medals and ended the day with the girls' team placing 5th and the guys placing 6th. On the guys' side top performers were: Nolen Yeary-2nd place in the shot put(46' 8"). Keagan Uphoff- 2nd place in the 110 hurdles(17.09) and 1st place in the 300 hurdles(41.02). Logan Demling, Cooper Phillips, Jacob Lawless, and CJ Moore- season PR and 3rd in the 4x800 relay. Other season best times included: Cooper Phillips (2:15.2) and CJ Moore (2:13.9) in their 4x800 split times. Chase Ragar, TJ Gellner, Kaleb Jacobs, and Kadyn Wilcox in the 4x200 relay (1:39.82). Caden Clark in the 3200 run (11:18.96) and the 1600 run (5:14.38). Cohen Maness in the shot put (38' 2") Kadyn Wilcox (53.6), CJ Moore (57.7), Kaleb Jacobs (56.4), and TJ Gellner (57.6) in their 4x400 relay splits. Great job everyone! The Spartans are scheduled to be back in action next Tuesday at DeeMack High School.