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! 🚀🚀
We love our school secretary everyday, but love getting to honor her a little extra this week. Some of our staff was out yesterday so today we presented Mrs. Fourmentin with a cash 💵 tree 🌳. We think of it as a small way to show our big love ❤️ towards Ranee. This lady is the epitome of a Skyrocket! 🚀❤️🚀
Rockets win on senior night by a final score of 17 to 7 over the Shamrock Irish. Coach Anderson and our Rockets finish district with an overall record of 6 wins and 4 losses. We will be the second seed from our district as the UIL state baseball playoffs begin next week. Thanks to seniors Fabian Pina and Ramon Rodriguez for a great end to the regular season. 🚀⚾️🚀
It's Senior Night at the ballpark in Wellington as we host the Shamrock Irish at 4:30. Seniors Fabian Pina and Ramon Rodriguez will be honored after the game. Team picture is courtesy of Western Photo while one of Fabian's individual pictures is courtesy of Jacy Photography. Go Rockets! 🚀⚾️🚀
WHS hosted another tennis tournament yesterday and here are your results.
Madeleine Kane-1st place girls singles 🥇
Bryn Phillips and Charley Wilbur-2nd place girls doubles🥈
Nixon Folk and Oakley Folk-1st place mixed doubles 🥇
Carson Tarver and Presley Kane-2nd place mixed doubles 🥈
Audrey Jones & Abby Garcia-3rd place girls doubles 🥉
Addy English and Ingrid Granadoz-consolation champions girls doubles 🏅🏅
Lexee Benkley-consolation champion girls singles 🏅
They are all coached by Amy Inman. Congratulations! Boys will play tomorrow (Wednesday, April 24th). District is next week in Vernon!
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For the week of April 22-April 25, here is this week in athletics! 🚀
Monday
Girls- 6:30AM HS Lift
Boys- 7AM HS Lift
🎾 @ Wellington Girls & Mixed
Tuesday
⚾️ vs Shamrock (H) Sr Night 4:30PM
Wednesday
Girls- 6:30AM HS Lift
Boys- 7AM HS Lift
🎾 @ Wellington Boys
Thursday
Girls- 6:30AM HS Lift
🏆 8AM Letter Jackets
Reminder, entry forms for this year's pageants are due TOMORROW (Monday, April 22nd) at 4pm to the high school office. Last year's winners will crown the 2024 winners. Little Miss Wellington 2023 was Callahan Cantu, Junior Miss Wellington 2023 was Claire Kane and Teen Miss Wellington 2023 was Demi Massey.
We have great fine arts programs in Wellington. Please consider supporting both by attending performances starting today! 🚀🎵 🎭🚀
Rocket Regiment Spring Concert is today at 4pm in the WHS Auditorium. Come out and listen to our three bands. 6th grade will be first followed by the 7th grade and then the Rocket Regiment!
Our district and bi-district champion and regional qualifying one act play performance is tomorrow (Monday, April 22nd) at 6pm at the Wellington Ritz Theatre. Silent auction starts at 5:30.
The WHS Esports team competed in the Region 16 Invitational today in Amarillo. The sponsor for today’s team was Erin Smith. Here is the list of our competitors and results from today. A * indicates a state qualifier from today.
Super Smash Bros (this was an individual game): *Jontae Roland, John Wall, Jake Wilson, Ethan Nevarez & Nick Nevarez.
*Valorant finished as the 2nd place team giving all members a state invitation. The team included Jacob Klassen, Fabian Pina, Brandon Cooper, Carson Tarver and John Wall.
*Overwatch finished as the 2nd place team giving all a state invitation. The team included Jaci Porter, Jontae Roland, Jacob Klassen, Benji Garcia and Trinidad Cantu.
Rocket League: Team 2-Jake Wilson, Ethan Nevarez and Nick Nevarez. *Team 1 made it to the semifinals and received a state invitation. This team included Nixon Folk, Caleb Strickland and Carson Tarver.
Congratulations to all that competed today! 🚀🎮 🖥️ 🚀
Here are your results from the second and final day of the regional track meet on the campus of West Texas A&M in Canyon.
Major Brown finished in 5th place in the triple jump.
The boys sprint relay team of Travon Lewis, Anthony Ortiz, Kamron Brooks and Brenden Garcia finished in 4th place with a time of 44.08.
The 800 meter relay team of Demarcus Lewis, Travon Lewis, Anthony Ortiz and Brenden Garcia are the regional champions breaking the record they set yesterday running a 1:28.86 qualifying for the state track meet in Austin. 🚀🥇
Demarcus Lewis is your regional champion in the 200 meter dash running a 22.45 in the 200 meter dash qualifying for state! 🚀🥇
The mile relay team of Demarcus Lewis, Anthony Ortiz, Travon Lewis and Brenden Garcia finished in 4th place running a 3:25.93.
Varsity boys finished 3rd overall in the team standings. 🚀🥉
So Kaitlin Bawcom and Demarcus Lewis qualified individually for state while our 800 meter relay boys team are also headed to Austin. Great job Wellington! 🚀🏃🏼♀️➡️🏃🏿♂️🚀
Here are the results from day one of the regional track meet in Canyon today.
Kaitlin Bawcom is state bound finishing in 2nd place in the discus with a throw of 126’10. This breaks the school record Kaitlin set at the area track meet. Audrey Jones finished in third place with a throw of 114’3 and will wait to see if she can earn the wildcard slot to state. Major Brown finished in 5th place in the long jump.
The boys sprint relay team of Travon Lewis, Anthony Ortiz, Kamron Brooks and Brenden Garcia made the finals for Saturday qualifying with the 4th fastest time.
The 800 meter relay team of Demarcus Lewis, Travon Lewis, Anthony Ortiz and Brenden Garcia set a new school record running a 1:29.00 qualifying for Saturday's finals with the fastest time.
Demarcus Lewis ran a 22.65 in the 200 meter dash making Saturday's finals with the second fastest qualifying time.
The mile relay team of Demarcus Lewis, Anthony Ortiz, Travon Lewis and Brenden Garcia ran a 3:24.93 making the finals with the second fastest time.
Who will join Kaitlin at the state track meet in Austin? Check back tomorrow to see. Go Lady Rockets and Rockets! 🚀🏃🏼♀️➡️🏃🏿♂️🚀
