001fall activities awards um this involves wrestling cross-country football volleyball and girls basketball um yeah so normally excited we're ready for christmas break i know the kids are and the teachers are as well um they've worked hard this year in their uh athletics and their academics but uh hopefully we're on our best behavior today please be respectful hold your applause guys until you know the whole group is up here okay um if they do receive an individual award that's fine go ahead and cheer them on um but i know everybody here and the sixth graders you guys kind of get to see what's going on for next year okay all the activities that these kids are involved and you're gonna see how many kids are actually participating in something and we know for a fact and
002i know we don't have our scholastic awards we get those at the end of the year but every year we're pretty distinguished about academics and the groups that we have that are performing you know athletically as well um so that's that's important this is something extra it's extracurricular we get to do it it's a privilege um so before we get started i just want to thank all of you guys supporting us give us this opportunity to get to coach you guys it's been a lot of fun uh but we're gonna start with wrestling and coach vader linden so let's give him a round of applause [Applause] hey good morning merry christmas happy holidays enjoy some time off and enjoy doing some great things with your family and friends if i could please have our five
003managers come down real quick we're going to start with those introductions while they're coming down just a little bit about our season we had a great season we had great numbers of young ladies and young men part of our team uh did a lot of things in second place in the largest middle school tournament in the state the burlington invitational birmington classic uh we took third place in the league we also took a second place in the rossville tournament which is kind of our mini state tournament and we also did something different that we're looking forward to doing next year here we actually went to uh on a monday night on a monday afternoon and we got to wrestle for an hour in front of the entire student body and for all the wrestlers that
004were there it was crazy it was crazy and to not be liked by that many people when burlington came in uh it was crazy it's not that they disliked us because they were behind their team and so i'm hoping next year seventh graders and sixth graders take advantage of that because the plan right now is to do the exact same thing right here in our gym about a year from now these managers were important to all the things that we do and i want to recognize them our managers this year brianna blair cameron davis evelyn monismed alexa ratzen and natalie stratton give them a hand [Music] this is one of our largest groups that we've had so far we're excited wrestling continues to grow and these girls did an outstanding job we had thanks to
005coach caldwell coach whitworth and coach anderson we were able to do something we've never tried before that was called dual sport where four of these girls got a chance to do both and try both our dual sport girls this year were eaten codney paige ferrara bailey hayes and patricia slaughterback [Applause] and then our full-time girls wrestled full-time wrestling with all the tournaments our full-time girls this year were bohannon naked getaway duvet myers adelia riggs corrid bowman and alex martin [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what's exciting is three of those girls out of our ten girls this year we're eighth graders the other seven are seventh graders so we're hoping to have them back as we continue to grow our girls wrestling program throughout the middle school and the high school now at this point it might get
006the seventh grade boys to come down and stand to my right please this group was not a real big group in terms of numbers but they definitely produced quality wise and had a lot of great performances our seventh grade wrestlers this year playing in hoper logan turner conor west and zane whitaker [Applause] we're hoping this group continues to grow we know they will tradition kind of shows that we get a smaller group when they're seventh graders and then they get a chance to talk about it and bring more along and hopefully they'll have the great leaders and bring along a lot of sixth graders with them as well my last group to bring up as i could are our eighth grade would come down this group was a great group of leaders um they along
007with our growing creators glenn by example they've worked hard they competed hard uh [Music] everything we asked them to do they would do which was awesome and not only that they let us on the mat but they let us off the mat in terms of the things they did i want to recognize this group it's a special group of kids they are kobe anchors eli grow coleman hazen ryan hoyt kaiser lehman jake weiser owen mccarty bowen mcintosh jesse milner tristan palmer grady pfeiffer camden plumber and lincoln wright that [Applause] our last group to recognize are some special award winners it is very difficult to be a league champion in our middle school league and often what we find is out of our league people who are able to place in the top three go on
008later into high school if they continue which i hope many many many of them will as they continue to wrestle they find themselves on the league podium in high school but many of our wrestlers from the pioneer league and when i say many truly many many of them find their way to the state podium from a wrestling perspective we had two girls pioneer league champions they've become our third and fourth of all time if i could have corinne and adelia please come forward [Applause] and on the guy's side our league champions this year jake wiser and lincoln wright [Music] what's exciting our girls were both first-time wrestlers so they came out and were league champions jake finished third as a seventh grader lincoln last year he didn't might be talking about it but lincoln as
009a seventh grader lost his match it was a tough match against an eighth grade kid lost in the last 15 seconds as a seventh grader in the league championship and i know one of his goals this year was to get back and become the league champion and he did that he dominated in fact he had three first period pins for his league championship title congratulations [Applause] and that is our group i'm super proud of these kids and i hope they have a merry christmas and a great 2022. [Applause] [Music] will they please come down first okay okay so um these three plus flares were part of our dual sports this year so that they would go and practice with their volleyball football teams every day and then we would hold a separate practice for them
010afterwards where they would come and run with us and were able to run in several meets throughout the season including our league meet at the end they all did very well they were hard workers each of them will be receiving a provisional letter meaning that if they come out and run cross-country again next year even as a dual runner they will get a letter for both this year and next year um lars van crafter who's not here with us today his best time this year was a 1534 at west franklin and he took tenth at lee megan dunaway her best time was 1747 at iola and she took fifth at league this year ella her best time was 1633 at iowa as well and took second at league and beau his best time was 14
01131 at iowa and he also took second athlete these are on a two mile run so congratulations [Applause] now i would like the rest of the cross-country team to come down and line up as well this is kate souter logan ferrara toby acres jaylen [Music] these guys were our full-time runners they came and came to practice every day and ran hard with us each and every day and participated in all the needs they were all today will all letters today tate is a first-year letter winner along with arrington she is a first year letter winner logan kobe jalen and braley were all uh second year returners and we are very appreciative of them tate's best friend was at council grove where he ran two miles in 13 minutes and 37 seconds he took ninth place
012at leed logan's best time was at council grove as well where he ran 12 minutes and 20 seconds he took sixth place at league kobe his best time was at west franklin where he placed first and he ran it in 12 minutes and seven seconds kobe was second in league barrington's best time was 1636 at emporia where she took seventh at least jalen her best time was 15 minutes and 20 seconds at emporia as well and she took fifth at least and braley hardin's best time was 14 18 out of corey as well where she took third place at lake as well again thank you guys for coming out and running each day and working hard for us and making yourself better at each meet i will give you your certificates and awards as well
013[Applause] [Music] [Applause] finished oh part of cross country each year we also come up with a theme and usually these are uh thought up by coach coleman and so to get a better explanation of this year's theme um you would have to talk to him but he always talks about your goosebumps and how you feel right before you go compete so this year's theme was goosebump it up and it was on our shirts and um egypt each year we have different meanings behind each of the themes and he's great about coming up with something different that is not seen on many other team shirts so each year this year you guys are also going to get a cup with this year's theme on it as well thank you very much future [Applause] i will let
014these all right look for football coach schuster is my my assistant coach for the eighth grade we have coach marvel and coach over that help with their seventh grade and they're not here they're over there they'll be doing some finals today maybe our lst's coach probably is watching he's showing movies and social studies but i can't i can't tell you about that anymore but i had some good managers this year caleb robron he was uh our video guy this year and i really appreciate him it was nice to have him up there and sometimes he stayed on the sideline with this video with the ipad and did a great job that does help where's caleb come [Applause] a lot to the on about what they're doing and this is what we're seeing and we need
015you to do this you know what i can say until i'm blue in the face but then they see it on the video and then they're like okay you know coach's coach is right i need to do that or i need to be in this position and that helped a lot and we appreciate him for uh his hard work and being there every day and we have a manager another manager dayton state melton [Applause] dayton would have played but he had a shoulder injury and has been uh just now kind of getting back into the swing of things and heard it playing some baseball hopefully back and ready to go for me in high school right but dayton the managers for football do a lot of stuff i mean there there's water coolers there's water
016bottles there's the cups there's the aed there's the football men kids there's the extra jerseys we have to pack in case there's blood there's all the assumption of risk stuff extra towels and putting the balls making sure the football's all aired up there's a lot of stuff making sure everything gets on the van and gets off the van and some of the 8th graders helped but it is it's a chore and he did it mostly by himself he didn't have a helper thomas hudson where's thomas there he is [Applause] and thomas is there and he helps tremendously i think he likes to play a lot of catch with coach var doing that right thomas but uh we enjoy having thomas with us and these guys put in a lot of time just like the players
017do and they're they're they're every day and we appreciate their help we have a couple other guys that didn't quite make the games whether it was a coven or academics or some other issue but i'd like for them to come down because they were there they they stuck it out um teagan smith jesse milder tristan beatty and adelia riggs [Applause] tristan had a food injury his other guys just had some other things getting away and next year i'm sure they will be back out and they will get their letter all right now we're going to go with our 7th grade our seventh graders finish the season three and four and this group um not enough good words because most of the times they played with eleven kids eleventh we played i think three full football
018games with only 11 players and if you don't know much about football you play with 11 offensive players and 11 defensive players so they all played both ways and did an amazing job we went and played some other teams that had more players and only want to play two quarters so it was very frustrating at times but these kids battled you know through some soreness through some aches and pains and they made three full games sometimes we had 12 hey we have an extra player okay but i was super proud of their effort at three and four i hope they did a great job um and again some of those losses were like okay it was a two-quarter game well they had 15 guys and we had 11. we're ready to play and they didn't
019want to finish they just didn't have enough okay but uh i'm super proud of them hopefully we can grab a few more seventh graders next year um so when i call your name and come down miller apple lars he's gone large manhattan dylan skillman grant gupta hunter bomb garner connor west coulter lee logan turner landon boaver beau hall joy over a round of applause [Applause] again these guys are here you know just like volleyball people across the country they're here early before school started this year practicing in the heat we didn't have too much one week of really warm weather but it wasn't awful this year but um they topped it out with just very few players and that's that says a lot about their character and their integrity and i appreciate this group and
020i just look for good things next year and hopefully we can grab a few more players let's give them one more round of applause [Applause] after my eighth grade they were also three and four um again battled through some tough stuff didn't have a ton of players but a few more than the uh the seventh grade um battled through some injuries and again some soreness and some covet um that still is kind of hanging around unfortunately um but they all stepped up and did a wonderful job i'm excited to see what they do in high school with coach petry it's the same offense so they should be ready to go i might switch up the defense a little bit but uh they're ready this group i think is going to make a great transition to
021the high school level it's always a change it's always a big change when you jump from middle school to high school speed strength agility power just the plays the number of plays they have compared to ours but i think they're ready for that challenge and i can't wait to watch it so if they've come forward bowen mcintosh owen mccartney and you guys can line up right cohen hazen jake lyson brody kidd drayton pfeiffer odin manhattan kaiser layman hunter gold max cheever toby berg alex motts lincoln wright ryan hoyt luke griffin eli grove brody garland give him a round of applause [Applause] so let me give these guys i'm excited to see what they do next year in high school um see live and moving up pretty quick and they were just a fun group to
022coach and i appreciate all their time and their effort and i look forward to the seventh graders again we can round up a few more guys or gals i'm working on a couple sixth grade girls right now so i see him sitting over there so let's give them one more round and uh we have volleyball you guys have a merry christmas and coach augustine no gina she's in italy and coach mike [Music] hello and welcome to the awards this is always a fun day to recognize our athletes who come and spend their time before and after school we did a lot of morning practices and they loved it right yeah so anyway what i'd like to do is i'd like to announce both the seventh and eighth grade girls and as i announce you if
023you would come down and let's do seventh graders on my right eighth graders on my left and before i do that i have two managers that are going to help pass out awards um mrs ingles not with us today she is out of the country in italy and having a wonderful time so it's just uh just us just coach lyker and myself and our two managers the three of us have talked several times over the season uh especially coaching online because we've been doing this a while that these two managers were by far probably some of our best managers we've ever had and we say that from the heart these girls stepped in when they saw something needed to be done they did it and they helped us out a great deal i really really
024appreciate their help so with katie briggs and emma bohannon please come down [Applause] okay as these girls come down these managers and coach liker will hand out your certificates and then we'll talk about the teams 7th grade ella irvin carly dochman megan dunaway jewell roth raylan majors alexa lecter isabella mcmanus libby zigler mckenzie bedford brianna player alana rogers kinsley noonan matt medlock addison fisher paige ferrara eden coffee allison shin patricia slavavac sage bell elizabeth miller bailey hayes riley duckman nevaeh myers ava fisher ali depalio i love all right eighth graders if you come right over here for me please jc belcher emma thompson addison sleazer katherine hale kindly hope corinne mullin hattie bergio audrey daley mackenzie krueger camden swank natalie strauder hayley hahn macy carlson cameron davis ziri dewitt grayson clown [Music] let's go ahead
025and get a little bit of a hand here we'll talk about here uh before i forget before i forget eighth graders i'd like a picture of with you guys over here in this corner when we get all done please like one big group picture okay so let me talk a little bit about our seventh graders we had a lot of girls out and this is awesome i hope to see a lot of you going out next year as well they were fourth in the bms tournament fourth in the pioneer league tournament which was a tough tournament seventh grade the league tournament is a tough is a tough group this year um overall we were uh in league we were four and two in league which could have easily been to uh excuse me two and
026four which could have easily been four and two i mean these kids they had two or three matches that were extremely close went to five sets lost by two points so we were just right on the edge there so i see those becoming wins next year we went to a silver lake tournament this year with our 7th and 8th graders and it's a tough tournament and our girls got fifth out of that tournament which is really good considering the teams that were there and that was some of their best ball they played that day according to mrs eagle you girls played as a team and she said she really enjoyed watching you play and to come away from that tournament with a victory at the end is really a good deal and they did that
027so all in all it's been a very very good season for these girls i really enjoyed having every single one of you and let's look to it next year and have a good successful season next year okay eighth graders um this is always so cool because um you have them for two years and you know i do this every year but they're just they're just special they come in they're excited they work hard and they're just a great group of kids um these eighth graders went 11-3 overall third in the bms tournament third in silverlake tournament behind attempt washburn rural and silver lake teams um the biggest thing these eighth graders did this year every single one of them they went undefeated in league play both seventh and eighth or excuse me both jv and
028varsity we're undefeated in league play which is awesome please give them a hand for that one [Music] and along with that along with that our 8th grade varsity squad they were back-to-back league champions at the tournament and also back-to-back league regular season champions so they did this in 7th grade and then they did this again in eighth grade so congratulations to those ladies let's give them a hand [Applause] okay i have one special award that i like to give out every year it is my most improved player award and that award goes to an individual who was out both 7th and 8th grade years and watched their improvement through both seasons it was hands down that this young lady saw great improvement with her i really enjoyed watching her improve and i hope along with
029all these other eighth grade girls that she continues to go out for volleyball because these eighth grade girls here are going to make a statement in high school and i'm excited to see that happen so my most improved player goes to hey girls let's do it goes to two claps macy carlson okay one last thing i'd like to do recognize all these young ladies up here is have the student body recognize them uh tradition has it that we like to do two claps after good things in practice and these girls all did two claps or two claps effort all through the season so i'd like the student body to give them two claps on three so can we hear you you all ready to go sixth graders are ready to go i want to hear
030it loud you'll be up here next year okay on three one two three all right thank you ladies very much [Music] all right [Music] all right so for girls basketball we started our season in october and ended at um about mid-december so it's not been very long since we finished up it's been an interesting season with illness and changes and all of that but these girls um just kept working each and every day we had some injuries that they worked through that and um ended up with a really great season so first i would like to bring down my poor [Applause] so managers four put in all the hard work especially in game days they get to carry the uniforms make sure they're all there make sure they get returned pull them after they've been
031washed uh videotape all the gains keep the staff in the gym so they worked super hard both haley pond and mackenzie hughwall were our managers for two years straight and did a fantastic job kara martin joined them this year um and did a fantastic job for us also poor kinley really wanted to play and we would have loved to have her but unfortunately she wasn't jerk so instead she shifted over to manager so she still got to spend the season with us and did a great job for us too all right and now if i could bring my seventh graders down and line up over here to the right if you played seventh grade all right these girls were made up of alexis lecter carly dochman mackenzie medlock paige ferrara ella irvin addison fisher bailey
032hayes mackenzie beckford alana rogers eden codding jewel raw ava fisher caitlin charlton allison shin ali diablo elizabeth miller patricia schlatterbeck from braylon majors so these girls all came out some of them did dual sports they did both wrestling and basketball but they were there each day and working so our varsity team well let me start with the jvt the jv team unfortunately many of the other teams in our league this year did not have very many players so they didn't get a lot of time against other seventh-grade teams instead they had to play a lot of games against eighth grade teams and had a combined jv um they fought hard they improved but unfortunately they didn't win a whole bunch of games but they got better each and every game and did a fantastic job
033so we really hope to see all of them out again next year our varsity team um went 11-2 they won our league tournament and tied for first place in league or no they took it second place ended up with second place in league so they were very successful and did fantastic they can't wait to see what they do again next year give them a big now if my eighth grade girl would come down and line up over here all right not as many 8th graders out this year so we kind of had to work hard when the teams did have enough to play four games to get it in and get them more playing time but uh overall these girls did fantastic they included grayson power patty burchio addison squeezer camden swain jc belcher emma
034thompson audrey daly braley barton kaylee briggs and jackie smith and olivia lane our jb we just had a couple of players playing on jv due to the lower numbers but they did a fantastic job who were great role models for the seventh graders when we combined jb um the other girls played on varsity this year they went 11-2 also they placed third in our home tournament and i think you girls were tied for first the only loss we had in our regular league season was santa fe trail which we beat someone so they beat us once so it's kind of a back and forth and they're kind of our biggest rival for this group of girls always a lot of fun to watch those two teams play i really hope you girls consider going out
035from high school because i think you will make a fantastic addition to the high school team and i will truly miss getting to see you each and every day please give them a big [Applause] you know and i'm going to turn this back over foreign [Music] that concludes our awards before we move into [Music] our second act we're gonna do some skits but i'm gonna let eighth graders we're gonna do the skits first and then the band um and then we can just turn that around can't wait to do so they can come in that door with equipment okay and we'll put the chairs down here in the city okay but if the 8th graders have who else is in band 8th grade band you might go c quickly if he needs more help moving
036some equipment please take your rewards with you all right so we're going to move this stuff and we will start our skits i'm not sure who is going first but we will figure that out when we move some of the stuff you guys stay put we will be doing a separate um link for the skits so we'll start another broadcast here in a few