Wellington ISD

At around 9:30 this morning, WHS freshman, Taytum Kane, finished in 7th place individually at the UIL Region 1 Cross Country Meet advancing her to the state cross country meet in Round Rock on November 1st. The Lady Rocket team did not finish as one of the top four teams to advance, but finishing behind Taytum was Aleah Lewis followed by Leslie Orozco, Anna Henard, Sabrina Segovia, Addy English and Angela Lewis. The team is coached by Savannah Sumrall Henderson. Great season ladies and good luck at state Taytum. We are so proud of you! 🚀🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️🚀🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️

Lady Rocket Cross Country will run in the regional meet TODAY at Mae Simmons Park in Lubbock at 9am. Give it your all ladies! 🚀🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️🚀

Here is the weekly athletic schedule 🚀🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️🏈🏀🚀

The Miss Wellington Scholarship pageant was held today at the historic Ritz Theatre. Your Miss Wellington 2024 is Maggie Tillman. Maggie is a sophomore at Wellington High School. All the runners up were seniors and included 1st runner up Harlee Gomez, 2nd runner up Emma Flores, 3rd runner up Christell Melendez and 4th runner up Lisette Vela. Also in the top ten was Leslie Orozco, Addalyn English, Damiana Peters, Oakley Folk and Ava Garcia. Senior boy escorts tonight voted on by the contestants were Caleb Strickland, Miguel Rincon, Jackson Jones, Brenden Garcia and Anthony Ortiz. All 19 WHS girls that competed today were amazing! Congratulations! 🚀👑🚀

Miss Wellington 2023, Mallory O'Rear, will crown her successor TODAY at 3:30pm at the Wellington Ritz Theatre. Cost of admission is $10 per person! All high school kids in attendance will earn a long lunch so make sure and sign the sheet in the foyer. Good luck to all our high school girls competing! 🚀👑🚀

The Collingsworth County Chamber of Commerce Banquet was held tonight at our beautiful community building. Wellington Elementary Principal, Deidre Kane, was named the 2024 Educator of the Year. Deidre is a 19 year educator who has been a teacher, elementary counselor and now principal. She has led the elementary to high levels of achievement. She is not only passionate about her teachers, staff and students, but she is also the WHS cheer sponsor, wife to Lance Kane and proud mother of four amazing daughters. WHS Senior, Caleb Strickland, was named Student of the Year! Caleb is a captain for the Skyrocket football team. He is Student Council and Senior Class President and is in the top ten academically of his class. He made two state appearances as an actor for the one act play. His junior year, he earned an industry based certification in welding. Caleb has already been accepted to Texas Tech University for the Fall 2025 semester. Both were presented their awards by WHS Principal, Jermaine Cantu. Serving a very large crowd tonight were 17 amazing high school students. Congratulations Deidre and Caleb! 🚀🏆🏅🚀

The Rocket Regiment earned straight 2's at the UIL Region 1 Marching Contest today in Amarillo. Coach Proffitt brought some members of the Skyrocket football team to support the band today. We are so proud of our band. The performances keep getting better! 🚀🎼🎺🎷🚀

It's a big day for our Rocket Regiment as we compete in the UIL Region 1 Marching Contest at 11:30am at Bivins Stadium in Amarillo. Cost is $5 per person. The band has the opportunity to advance to area so stay tuned for results. Post your love for the band in the comments! Go Rocket Regiment! 🚀🎼🎷🎺🎸🚀

Skyrockets defeated the Quanah Indians tonight by a final score of 49 to 6 moving to 5-2 on the season and 2-0 in district play. Join us in Shamrock next week for another district battle. 🚀🏈🚀

It's our pink out game in honor of Cancer Awareness Month! Our Rockets will take on Quanah at 7pm. Wear your pink and cheer for the red and white. Purchase your tickets by clicking on the link below. 🚀🏈🚀 https://www.ticketleap.events/events/wellingtonisd

JV Skyrockets win big by a final score of 54 to 6 tonight on the road over Quanah. Tomorrow, the pink out pep rally will be at the football field at 3:15 The band will perform their entire halftime show at the pep rally! 🚀🏈🚀

WHS hosted a Financial Aid Night for seniors and their parents on Tuesday night with a representative from Panhandle Plains Higher Education Foundation. Students and parents were informed on planning to pay for college and filling out the new FAFSA form which is scheduled to open on December 1st. Two lucky winners' names were drawn for a scholarship. Congratulations to Lilliana Saldana and Gracie Lampe!

JV Rockets take on Quanah tonight in Quanah at 6:30pm after the 8th grade game. To purchase your tickets, click on the link below. Go Rockets! 🚀🏈🚀 https://quanahisd.ticketleap.com

Western Photo will be here tomorrow (Tuesday, October 15th) to take girls basketball pictures for junior high and high school. They will start with the junior high basketball teams at 10am and then finish with JV and varsity girls. You do not need to order in advance as they will send proofs after the pictures are taken to help you better decide if you would like to order or not.

Hope you are enjoying your day off! Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 15th) is Financial Aid Night at 5:30pm in the WHS Auditorium. Class of 2025 parents and students will receive information about college admissions, FASFA, scholarships and more. We will give away two scholarships and you must be present to win. 🚀

Here is this week in athletics! 🚀🏈🏃‍♀️⛹🏼‍♀️

Skyrockets win the district opener over the Clarendon Broncos by a final score of 63 to 6. Join us next Friday for our pink out game in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month! 🚀🏈🚀

Angels Subs and Sweets and Brothers-Sisters of our Military Adventures continue to team up on Fridays to give away a free lunch gift certificate to WHS students. Every WHS student was put into the drawing and our fifth round of winners were Yobani Moreno, Anali Cortez, Heather Peters and Brynlee Proffitt. Congratulations! 🚀 🍔🍕🚀

Marnie Kane and her nine art students did a phenomenal job painting the varsity cheerleaders for the black light pep rally today. This is not a small undertaking and Marnie's art students did an amazing job once again. The crowd loved the black light pep rally today! 🚀🏈🚀

It's gameday for our Rockets as we open district play at home against the Broncos. Purchase your tickets in advance by clicking on the link below. Go Rockets! 🚀🏈🚀🏈 https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/wellingtonisd/varsity-football-vs-clarendon