WHS Junior and Miss Wellington 2023 Mallory O'Rear has had a busy weekend. She placed 1st runner up in the 2023 Christmas Queen pageant in Hollis on Saturday and won the 2023 Miss SW Christmas pageant today in Altus. Way to represent Wellington, Texas in Oklahoma Mallory. Congratulations! 🚀👑🚀
Firecracker basketball Monday 11th:
8th grade girls only starting at 5:00 in Wellington
Boys at Clarendon starting at 5:00.
In the final day of tournament action today in Childress, both our varsity boys and girls dropped games to teams in upper classifications.
Rockets 30
3A Spearman Lynx 37
Lady Rockets 36
4A Pampa Lady Harvesters 43
JV and Varsity Lady Rockets will be in action on Tuesday in Jayton against 4A Levelland. JV boys will host Valley’s JV while our Varsity boys will host Crowell.
Our JV girls are the Alicia Berry Memorial Tournament Champions defeating Memphis's Varsity Lady Cyclones tonight in Memphis by a final score of 54 to 42. Our JV Lady Rockets took down three varsity teams in winning the tournament. Sophomore, Eryn Torrez, was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player (MVP). Congratulations Eryn and JV Lady Rockets! 🚀⛹🏼♀️🏀🏆🥇🚀
Here are your final tournament results from today. 🚀🏀⛹🏼♀️⛹🏽♂️🚀
Varsity boys fell to 3A Vernon in a tight 38 to 42 game. We will play tomorrow morning at 9:20am to conclude the Childress Tournament.
Varsity girls defeated a tough 4A West Plains team 59 to 40 winning all 3 games in Childress extending our winning streak to 10 straight games. We will have another test tomorrow as we play 4A Pampa tomorrow in Childress at 6:40pm to conclude the tournament.
JV girls took down their second straight varsity team defeating Paducah by a final score of 50 to 28 advancing to the championship game where we will play Memphis's varsity tomorrow at 4:30pm for 1st place. Great job JV Lady Rockets!
In tournament action early this morning at 8am in Childress, both our varsity boys and girls were victorious. Rockets play again today at 3:30pm against the winner of Vernon and Elk City. Lady Rockets play again at 4:45 against 4A West Plains. JV girls are in the semifinals of the Memphis varsity tournament at 4:30 against Paducah.
Rockets 56
Valley 16
#6 state ranked 2A Lady Rockets 42
#4 state ranked 1A Hermleigh 29
Here are the results from tournament action today.
Varsity boys dropped the season opener to Childress 34 to 60. We will next play Valley at 8am tomorrow in the Childress Tournament.
JV girls defeated Ft. Elliott's varsity 45 to 21 and now play Paducah's varsity tomorrow at 4:30pm in the Memphis Tournament.
Varsity girls defeated City View 43 to 34 and play Hermleigh at 8am and West Plains at 4:45pm in the Childress Tournament.
Good luck and check back tomorrow for more results! 🚀🏀⛹🏼♀️⛹🏽♂️🚀
Congratulations to our Wellington Elementary Sparklers and Wellington Junior High School Firecrackers for winning the District 2AA Academic Meets held in Clarendon the last two days. Our junior high scored 916 points and won by over 100 points while elementary scored 623.5 points and won by over 300 points. Great job to all the academic coaches, Firecrackers 🧨 and Sparklers 🎊!! 🏆🥇🏅Future is bright for our future Skyrockets! 🚀😎
Wellington! Let’s hear it for our Wellington Elementary Sparklers - they are your 2023 UIL Academic Champions for the 2nd year in a row!
#sparklers #uilcoaches #uilparents #champs
A big congratulations goes out to our UIL students and their coaches. Wellington Jr High wins the district meet today. Awesome job guys.
We had one Skyrocket named to the THSCA All-State Team. Congratulations to Gatlin Guy! We are proud of you Gatlin. 🚀🏈🚀
Lady Rockets swept 3A Bushland on the road tonight! 9th and varsity teams won big while our JV Lady Rockets won a nail biter. Congratulations to all our teams tonight! 🚀⛹🏼♀️🏀🚀
Varsity Lady Rockets were led for the second straight game by Presley "Make it Rain Kane" with 22 points. You have until Thursday at noon to vote for Presley for the Amarillo Globe News Happy State Bank Female Athlete of the Week. Click on the link below to vote for Presley.
9th Lady Rockets 38
9th Lady Falcons 22
JV Lady Rockets 29
JV Lady Falcons 28
Varsity Lady Rockets 56
Varsity Lady Falcons 22
Vote for Presley here
https://www.amarillo.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2023/12/05/vote-for-happy-state-bank-female-athlete-of-the-week/71781084007/
Lady Rockets will play at 3A Bushland TONIGHT. 9th and JV games will be played at 5pm followed by varsity. Click on the link below to purchase your tickets! Go Lady Rockets! 🚀🏀⛹🏼♀️🚀
9th- 5:00 pm
JV- 5:00 pm
Varsity- 6:30 pm
https://gofan.co/app/school/TX71512
The Jr High will be competing in district UIL the next two days in Clarendon. Good Luck!!!!
Wellington FFA attended the Greenbelt District Banquet tonight with Heather Peter’s placing 2nd in the district talent contest.
Wellington FFA also won the first ever Greenbelt District Sweepstakes contest by accruing the most points based on placings for all our Leadership team events.
Congratulations! 🚀🏆🏅🎖️🚀
Congratulations to all our Skyrocket football players named to one of the all district football teams. 🚀🏈🚀
Sophomores
Noah Cantu
Juniors
Brenden Garcia
Jackson Jones
Travon Lewis
Anthony Ortiz
Caleb Strickland
Seniors
Israel Acosta
Nixon Folk
Gatlin Guy
Ethan Nevarez
Fabian Pina
Ramon Rodriguez
Braylon Tarver
Bryant Tarver
Carson Tarver
Kaseten Welch
Here is this week in athletics. 🚀⛹🏼♀️⛹🏼🏀🚀
Junior high boys have basketball pictures at 8:30 AM and high school boys at 9:30 AM on Monday, December 4th. Picture order forms can be picked up from Mrs. Fourmentin at the high school office or Mrs. Stephens at the junior high office.
Letter jackets and patches can be ordered at 8 AM tomorrow in the high school office. Packets are available in the high school office.
Lady Rockets get three wins over 5A Abilene Cooper tonight. 🚀⛹🏼♀️🏀🚀
9th grade Lady Rockets 32
9th grade Abilene Cooper 5
JV Lady Rockets 67
JV Abilene Cooper 27
Lady Rockets 66
Abilene Cooper 50
Lady Rockets will host 9th, JV and Varsity girls games starting with the 9th grade game at 4pm as 5A Abilene Cooper comes to town. Get your tickets by clicking on the link below. Go Lady Rockets! 🚀⛹🏼♀️🏀
https://wellingtonisd.ticketleap.com
Senior parents, time change! Due to a schedule conflict, the Jostens Representative will be here between 9:45 and 10:15 tomorrow morning (Thursday, November 30th) for the Class of 2024 to order graduation products. 🚀👩🎓👨🏾🎓🚀
