Skyrocket baseball wins a high scoring 21 to 20 thriller over Nazareth at home tonight. Go Rockets! πβΎοΈπ
Congratulations to the 2023-24 WHS and WJHS Cheerleaders!
Baseball hosts Nazareth at 4:30pm today. Go Rockets! πβΎοΈπ
Wellington FFA competed in the Salt Fork Land Judging contest today.
Barret Phillips was high individual, Heather Peters placed 2nd & Lisette Vela placed 3rd. The Land Judging team placed 1st and included Barret Phillips, Heather Peters, Lisette Vela
Jacy Lampe, Trenton Wright & Summer Owens.
Congratulations! ππ₯π₯π₯π
Cheer tryouts are tomorrow (Friday, March 24th, 2023). Candidates will try out in front of the student body at 11:15am in the high school gym. This portion of the try out is open to the public.
The 2023-24 WHS and WJHS cheerleaders will be posted on the Wellington ISD App and school Facebook pages around 5pm on Friday, March 24th. Good luck to all our brave candidates!
WHS Track and Field will be competing in Bobcat Relays today in Childress. Field events will start at 2:30 and running finals will start at 6. Go Lady Rockets and Rockets! πππ½ββοΈπββοΈπ
It's almost tee time at round one of District Golf in Childress. Go Lady Rockets and Rockets! πβ³οΈπ
WHS had a good showing at the District 2-2A UIL Academic Meet in Clarendon today. We had 15 different students qualify for regionals to be held on Friday, April 21st on the campus of West Texas A&M University. We are so proud of all these students and coaches! Results shown below are students that placed first through sixth individually or were on a first or second place team. ππ₯π₯π₯π
Accounting
Barret Phillips, 1st place*
Coached by Jill Dugan
Calculator Applications (1st Place Team)*
Caleb Weinette, 1st place
Jordan Nation, 2nd place
Miranda Grandoz, 4th place
Hunter Stark, 5th place
Coached by Katie Page
Current Issues and Events (1st Place Team)*
Rileigh Henard, 1st place
Barret Phillips, 6th place
Summer Neufeld
Treylea Wiebe
Coached by Jermaine Cantu
Editorial Writing
Jaci Porter, 1st place*
Currie Forrester, 2nd place*
Coached by Landey Waters
Headline Writing
Addy Mock, 3rd place*
Coached by Landey Waters
Informative Speaking
Rylyn Colson, 6th place
Coached by Marnie Kane
Number Sense
Addy Mock, 4th place
Coached by Katie Page
Persuasive Speaking
Madeleine Kane 2nd place*
Damiana Peters 3rd place *
Coached by Marnie Kane
Poetry Interpretation
Lisette Nevarez, 3rd place *
Laney Shaver, 4th place
Summer Owens, 6th place
Coached by Czrena Watts
Spelling and Vocabulary (1st Place Team)*
Rileigh Henard, 1st place
Caleb Weinette, 3rd place
Angela Molina, 4th place
Christell Melendez
Coached by Karoline Ashmore
Social Studies (2nd place team)
Hunter Stark, 2nd place*
Dixon Dugan, 6th place
Coached by Creighton Henderson
*Regional Qualifiers
The District 2-2A Tennis Tournament was hosted by Quanah and held in Vernon on Tuesday, March 21st. Playback matches were completed today. Here are your full results. We were unable to get a team picture, but will get one next week. Congratulations WHS Tennis!
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Varsity Division
Regional Qualifier
1st Girls Singles
Summer Owens
Regional Qualifier
2nd Girls Singles
Madeleine Kane
Regional Qualifiers
2nd Girls Doubles
Presley Kane and Bryn Phillips
Regional Qualifiers
2nd Mixed Doubles
Barret Phillips/ Oakley Folk
Regional Qualifiers
2nd Boys Doubles
Nixon Folk/ Carson Tarver
4th Boys Doubles
Noah Cantu/ Bryant Tarver
3rd Boys Singles
Gael Rodriguez
4th Boys Singles
Fabian Pina
Junior Varsity Division
2nd Boys Singles
Miguel Rincon
3rd Boys Singles
Jontae Roland
3rd Girls Singles
Ashtyn Valles
4th Girls Singles
Sabrina Segovia
Come watch our bi-district champion One Act Play (OAP) this Sunday at our first public performance. See any OAP student about getting a ticket!
Sunday, March 26 @ 4pm
Wellington OAP Presents
Mary Shelleyβs Frankenstein
Despite being on Spring Break last week, our WHS kids stayed busy at the Houston Stock Show.
Kenady Skelton showed her Duroc pig, Hunter Stark showed his Heavyweight Hampshire pig and Briley Waters showed her medium weight ABC steer. Way to keep working over the break! Nice job!
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District 2-AA Baseball Opener today at 4:30pm at home. Come out and support Skyrocket baseball! πβΎοΈπ
Blood π©Έ drive is TODAY at the Wellington Ambulance Barn from 3:30 to 7pm. Donate and give the gift of life TODAY.
Here is this week in athletics. District baseball opens tomorrow, the district tennis tournament is Tuesday and first round of district golf is Thursday. Go Lady Rockets and Rockets! πβΎοΈπΎβ³οΈπ
Save the date for the Little Miss/Junior Miss/Teen Miss Wellington Pageants! Pageants will be Sunday, April 23rd at 2pm in the WHS Auditorium.
Our JV and Varsity boys won Hornet Relays in Tulia today. Head track coach is Creighton Henderson. He is assisted by all our Skyrocket coaches. Great job Rockets! ππββοΈπ₯π
Wellington High School would like to wish the best of luck to our neighbors down the road, the Childress Bobcats, as they play for a state boys basketball title tomorrow morning. Skyrocket nation is rooting for you!
You can watch baseball all day today right here in Wellington as we host a portion of the Texas vs. Oklahoma Baseball Tournament. Rockets take the field at 10 this morning and again at 4:45pm. Go Rockets! πβΎοΈπ
Our WHS One Act Play (OAP) is officially the bi-district champions as all three judges gave us first place tonight. This is a big feat as the judges have to rank the plays individually without conversing. Our kids and directors have worked so hard to prepare for today. Stay tuned about an upcoming public performance. Congratulations again to our bi-district champions! πππ₯π
Wellington High School was chosen as an advancing play at the bi-district competition in Stinnett today. We picked up several individual awards.
Named honorable mention all-star cast was Israel Acosta and Summer Neufeld.
Named all-star cast was Jackson Jones and Caleb Strickland.
Named best performer/best actor of the entire competition was Kaseten Welch!
The play is under the direction of Lana Tillman and Megan Cardenas.
WHS moves on to the area competition on March 31st in Lubbock. Amazing job today to the cast and crew of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ππππ