Our esports team will start their second day of competition this morning at Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. The Overwatch team of Trinidad Cantu, Benji Garcia, Jacob Klassen, Jaci Porter and Jontae Roland won their opening round game before falling in rounds two and three. Our Valorant team will be playing today. 🚀🎮🚀
All of our athletes have now competed at the state track meet in Austin and while none reached the medal stand, Kaitlin Bawcom did finish in 6th place in the discus earning the Lady Rockets a point at the state track meet.
Brenden Garcia, Demarcus Lewis, Travon Lewis and Anthony Ortiz are all juniors and have the opportunity to return to the state track meet next year. We are so proud of how you represented Wellington all track season long boys and Kaitlin. 🚀
The state track meet has begun in Austin and senior Kaitlin Bawcom started throwing the discus at 9am this morning. At 6:40pm later today, our 800 meter relay team of Brenden Garcia, Demarcus Lewis, Travon Lewis and Anthony Ortiz will run on the big stage. Then at 7:55pm, Demarcus Lewis will be our last Rocket running the 200 meter dash. If you have an NFHS subscription, you can watch today's events live.
For live results, click the link below. Let's go big red!
https://uil.tfresult.com/
Wellington FFA members competed this afternoon in the Greenbelt District speaking contest. Results are as follows
Junior prepared public speaking
Bailey Page - 2nd place - advances to area
Senior prepared - Ag Policy
Jasmine Moreno - 2nd place - advances to area
Senior prepared - Agribusiness
Kenady Skelton - 3rd place
Senior Prepared - Animal Science
Elli Ouellette - 3rd place
Senior prepared - Nat. Resources
Lisette Vela - 1st place
Advances to area
Senior Prepared - Nat. Resources
Jacy Lampe - 4th place
Senior Prepared - Plant Science
Heather Peters - 4th place
Senior Prepared - Tech & Comm
Sabrina Segovia - 4th place
The area contest will take place on the WTAMU campus on Tuesday, May 14. 🚀🥇🥈🥉🚀
Congratulations to our Wellington High School Class of 2024 Valedictorian and Salutatorian. Summer Neufeld has the highest grade point average and is the Valedictorian. Kendra Bawcom has the second highest grade point average and is the Salutatorian. They were presented with a surprise tshirt today. Congratulation girls! 🚀🤓🥇🥈🚀
Rockets are your bi-district champions taking down the Booker Kiowas by a final score of 8 to 4 in Stinnett tonight. The amazing spring for WHS continues. Let's go Skyrockets! 🚀🏆⚾️🚀
Order your state one act play shirts TODAY by clicking on the link below. Store closes this Friday, May 3rd at 10am.
https://gogandy.com/wellington-state-oap24
If you are making plans to watch our play in Austin, the link to purchase tickets is below. We are in Session 1 for 2A on Tuesday, May 14th, that begins at 3pm. We are the second play out of four in session one. If you want to come back and watch the four plays in session two, you will need to also purchase tickets for 2A Session 2. We are so proud of our Wellington HS One Act Play cast and crew.
https://uiltexas.hometownticketing.com/embed/all?tile_item=20
There will be a Class of 2024 parent meeting in the WHS Auditorium tomorrow (Thursday, May 2nd) at 6pm. Senior parents, please join us!
Junior Miss Wellington 2023 Claire Kane would like to remind all Kindergarten through 5th grade girls about the final pageant practices TODAY starting with Little Miss at 4pm. Junior Miss practice will be at 5pm. Good luck to all the girls competing!
What a great way to start off the month of May! We will have a state send-off for three different groups TODAY at 2:30pm. Skyrocket baseball will be our fourth group we will send off as they leave town for Stinnett to open the UIL state baseball playoffs as we play the Booker Kiowas in Stinnett for the bi-district championship at 6pm. Skyrocket nation can line up along 15th Street as each of these groups will be escorted down 15th Street by our local law enforcement and fire department passing by all three campuses all the way down to Haskell Street. Go take state Skyrocket esports, golf and track and field! Skyrocket baseball, we believe!
Wellington FFA members competed in the state land judging contest on the Tarelton State University campus last week. The team placed 1st in district and 4th in the area. Individually, Trenton Wright placed 10th in the area. Others on the team with him are Jacy Lampe, Lisette Vela and Jace Darrow. Congratulations! 🚀
Wellington FFA members competed at the state cotton judging contest at Texas Tech University last week.
The team placed 2nd in district and 7th in the area and included Brecklyn Powell, Heather Peters, Sabrina Segovia & Kenady Skelton. They are coached by Drew Taylor. Congratulations! 🚀
Wellington FFA members attended the Wichita Falls welding contest a few weeks ago. We ended up getting 14 welding certifications and a few students placed in the contest portion competing against over 35 schools and close to 1,000 students. Nick Nevarez won his division and received a new welding helmet and a top welder belt buckle. Addy Mock placed 2nd in her division and received a new welding helmet.
TJ Salinas placed 7th & RJ Granadoz placed 10th. Congratulations welders on these amazing accomplishments!
The district tennis meet was held yesterday in Vernon. Playback matches were played this morning. In varsity girls singles, Madeleine Kane is the 1st place district champion. In mixed doubles, Nixon Folk and Oakley Folk are the 1st place district champions. Carson Tarver and Presley Kane finished in 2nd place in mixed doubles also advancing to regionals. Charley Wilbur and Bryn Phillips are the girls doubles district champions. Noah Cantu and Travon Lewis played a playback match this morning with Travon finishing in 2nd place advancing to regionals. Noah Cantu is the 3rd place bronze medalist. Abby Garcia and Audrey Jones defeated Clarendon’s team in girls doubles in a playback match that was also played this morning finishing in second place advancing to regionals. In the JV division at the district tennis tournament yesterday, Addy English and Ingrid Granadoz were the 1st place girls doubles district champions, Lexee Benkley was 2nd place in girls singles and Bailey Page was 3rd place in girls singles. Lady Rockets finished as the overall varsity girls district champions! The boys and girls combined were the District 2-2A Champions as well. All players are coached by Amy Inman. Great job! 🚀🎾🚀
Little Miss Wellington 2023 Callahan Cantu would like to remind all Kindergarten-5th grade girls about pageant practice tomorrow (Tuesday, April 30th).
Little Miss Wellington practice for Kindergarten through 2nd graders starts at 4pm in the WHS Auditorium.
Junior Miss Wellington practice for girls in 3rd through 5th grades starts at 5pm.
Here is this week in athletics. Join us Wednesday at 2:30 as we send off Skyrocket baseball to their playoff game and track, golf and esports to state. Good luck at the district tennis tournament today Skyrockets! 🚀⚾️🎾🏃🏼♀️➡️🏃🏿♂️⛳️ 🎮🚀
One Act Play parents report the arrival time for our regional champions is around 10:55pm. They will come down Highway 83 to 15th Street. Please be lined up by 10:50. 🚀🎭🚀
The cast and crew of All My Sons are regional champions advancing to the state one act play contest in Austin May 14th! This is now only the third time in school history this has happened. Individually, junior Caleb Strickland & sophomore Damiana Peters were named to the all-star cast. For the fourth straight contest & also making school history is senior Kaseten Welch, who was named best performer. Joining Kaseten as best performer was junior Jackson Jones. WHS swept the best performer awards, the highest acting awards given at regionals. Final results were
1st-Wellington (advancing to state)
2nd-Sudan (advancing to state)
3rd-Christoval (alternate to state)
4th-Ozona
5th-Stratford
6th-Sundown
The one act parents and Keith Martin are arranging an escort into town for our regional champion award winning play. They should be arriving between 10:30 and 11pm. Please line up along 15th and at the commons to welcome them home. A huge congratulations to Director Lana Tillman & the WHS One Act Play students. You continue to make us so proud! Go take state! 🚀🎭🏆
Jaci Porter placed 3rd in the ready writing competition today at the UIL Regional Academic Meet on the campus of WTAMU. Jaci’s essay qualified her to compete at the State Academic Meet in Austin on May 15th. She is coached by Karoline Ashmore! Congratulations Jaci! 🚀🥉🚀
Best of luck to all our students competing in the UIL Region 1 Academic meet today in Canyon on the campus of West Texas A&M University. Yesterday they enjoyed a nice dinner as well as fun at Cinergy but today is all business. These kids are giving up a school holiday to compete today. Go Rockets! 🚀🚀
