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!
Vote today for our famous Olympia FFA Pork Chop in the IHSA Pork & Pigskins Championship!
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It is time to name the Spartan Mascot.
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OMHS Families, this is the link (https://bit.ly/3ByQigY)for our NEW Friday Market Food Box Subscription. See details to see if your family qualifies.
Congratulations to the OHS girls golf team taking 1st, 2nd, & 3rd places at the Spartan Scramble. Great job Lady Spartans.
The OHS XC teams competed at the 34th Annual First to the Finish meet at Detweiller Park today. The girls’ team earned the 4th place trophy out of 48 complete teams (athletes from 70 teams). Sophomore Amelia Kistner was the lead runner for the Lady Spartans today, running an all-time best 19:34, chopping off over one minute from her previous best and earning an individual medal for 32nd place (out of 471 total runners). Rounding out the top-5 Spartans were Abby Litwiller (season-best 20:37), Chrystal Cornwell (season-best 20:43), Cam Lawson (season-best 21:31), and Emma Swartzendruber (season-best 21:38). Congratulations gals!
The boys’ team finished 26th out of 55 complete teams. Caden Clark was the lead runner for the Spartan guys today (season-best 17:28), followed closely by Cooper Phillips (season-best 17:29) & C.J. Moore (season-best 18:07).
OHS Soccer, now 7-3 overall, wins at Decatur Eisenhower Saturday morning 3-1.
Jace Whitted finishes twice. George Martin with a goal and assist. Assists also by Evan Deterding and Cole Fosdick.
Spartans play at home Tuesday v Calvary 4:30pm.
📸 Brooke Rogers
Music Department garage sale TOMORROW from 9am - 12pm at Olympia High School! Items include dishware, Christmas decorations, microscopes, chair covers, cloth napkins, and much more! Items are cheap. We will be accepting cash, check, card, venmo, and donations!!