The middle school track team wrapped up their track season with a great showing at the IESA State Championships this past weekend.. Our 16 state qualifiers had some of the best performances of the year in this highly competitive meet. The weekend concluded with multiple personal and school records, 8 athletes reaching the medal stand and 2 state champions. Lucy Prestegaard won the 8th grade shot with a throw of 10.29 meters. Rae Lemons won the 100 meter wheelchair race for the second consecutive year with a state record time of 24.52 seconds.
Sawyer Anderson finished 12th in the state in shot put with a throw of 36 feet 3 inches.
Kameron White ended his season with a top ten finish in the discus with a personal record throw of 134 feet.
Kinsley Gale finished 9th in the long jump in a highly competitive long jump field and set a personal and school record in the 400 meter run with a time of 1:05.59.
Mili Davis medaled in the 1600 meter run for the second consecutive year with a time of 5:32 seconds and set a school record in the 800 with a time of 2:28.32.
Emma Ekiss set a personal record in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:32 finishing 14th overall.
Ty Gale shattered both school records for the 1600 and 800 meter run. Ty ran the 1600 meter run in 4:54 for a 14th place finish and then turned around and obliterated the school record in the 800 with a time of 2:08.26. This time was good enough to earn Ty a 6th place medal.
The 7th grade girls 4x100 relay team of Kinsley Gale, Lexi Bollmann, Amya Allen and Annelia Klink broke their own school record with a time of 55.8. They ended up finishing 13th overall in the state.
The 7th grade 4x400 relay team of Carrie Welch, Emma Ekiss, Lexi Bollman and Kinsley Gale broke their own school record with a run of 4:31.71 . This time not only broke the school record but also earned this group of young ladies a spot on the medal stand with a 8th place finish.
7th grade girls medal in the 4x400 relay. The team of Carrie Welch, Emma Ekiss, Kinsley Gale and Lexi Bollmann not only placed 8th but they broke their own school record in the process.
Ty Gale places 6th in the IESA state track meet. Congrats Ty.
Emma Ekiss and Mili Davis both set personal records at the state track meet today. Mili ‘s time was also a school record.
7th grade girls 4x100 with a huge PR today at the state meet in East Peoria. Great job Kinsley, Annelia, Amya and Lexi.
Lucy Prestegaard 3A 8th grade girls shot put State Champion!
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Social media offers a choice of how we present ourselves to the world. We can snap and share a pic in the moment or carefully stage photos and select only the ones we think are best. Listen as students reflect on how this impacts their lives.
OMS 8th graders visited multiple stations this morning at OHS to hear about what they should expect next year in high school. Thank you to the OHS staff and the 8th grade teachers for making this happen!
Saturday was a great day in the wind at Williamsville! The middle school track team showed up to perform! We had 16 athletes advance to state this weekend! Ty Gale quailfied in 1600 & 800! Ty missed long jump by 2 centimeters! Kameron White quailified in the Discus. Sawyer Anderson qualified in the shot put. Miili Davis won the 1600 & 800! Lucy Prestegaard won the shot put! 7th grade girls 4×100 team had a huge PR to qualify. That was Lexi Bollmann, Amya Allen, Kinsley Gale, Annelia Klink.
Kinsley Gale also qualified in the 400 & won long jump! The 4x4 team of Emma Ekiss, Lexie Bollmann, Carrie Welch, Kinsley Gale won their event with a huge PR! Emma Ekiss also qualified in the 800! Rae Lemons won the wheelchair 100! So it was a great day! They will be competing this Friday & Saturday in East Peoria. I have attached some pictures we got that day.
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Lots of students are exploring and developing their own identities, and they often do this online and on social media. Some kids use multiple accounts, each for a different audience, but with this, what’s real and what’s unrealistic can often get blurred. In this video, your kids can hear other teens talk about the ins and outs of presenting themselves to others online, and consider what it means to “be yourself” in digital spaces.
Congratulations to the following OMS athletes who qualified for the IESA track finals in East Peoria next weekend.
Mili Davis (1600 and 800 meter run), Lucy Prestegarrd (Shot Put), Ty Gale (1600 and 800 meter run), Kameron White (Discus), Kinsley Gale (400 meter run, long jump, 4x100 relay and 4x400 relay), Emma Ekiss (800 meter run and 4x400 relay), Rae Lemons (100 meters), Sawyer Anderson (Shot Put), Lexi Bollmann (4x100 relay and 4x400 relay), Amaya Allen (4x100 relay), Annelia Klink (4x100), Carrie Welch (4x400 relay), Orion Short (4x100 relay), Avery Miller (4x100 relay), Chloe Todd (4x400 relay),Teagan Phillips and (4x400 relay).
Great day at Williamsville for the OMS track team. We qualified for state in 15 events. More details to come.
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As tweens and teens start sharing content and engaging with others online, it's vital for them to understand what they're leaving behind and what they might reveal. Help guide kids toward creating the kind of footprint they can be proud of @ http://bit.ly/Oly2DF
We would like to thank Doug Maris and Shawn Hohulin (not pictured) for their service as Olympia CUSD 16 Board of Education members. We appreciate your time and dedication to Olympia. Thank you!
Our Final Choir Concert is this Thursday!
We’re excited to wrap up the year with a night of music from our middle and high school choirs—join us in the Olympia High School Auditorium!
The Music Boosters will be hosting a Baked Potato Bar before the concert, and we need a few more parent volunteers to help make it happen! If you’re available to help serve, please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4DACAA29A1F58-53596056-omhs#/
Still need a ticket for dinner? Orders close tonight at 11:59 PM!
Student dinner begins at 4:30 PM
Audience dinner begins at 5:00 PM (to allow students time to eat and head to rehearsal)
Service will run through 7:30 PM
Get your tickets here: https://olympiamusicboosters.square.site/
Thanks for supporting our choirs and our Music Boosters—we can't wait to see you Thursday!
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Many kids are already posting and sharing information about themselves. Listen to what these teens have to say about sharing on social media. Are you making the right sharing decisions?
Did you hear that we are upgrading Skyward!? Due to this, we need to collect student transportation information earlier this year than we have in the past. Because of this transition, our Online Registration process will happen a few weeks later than normal (~July 16 instead of July 1). In order to create our transportation routes in time for the start of the school year, we need to collect this information before students leave for the summer.
A Google Form link was sent out via Skyward on May 8th (and will repeat two more times before June) to the Primary Guardian of Family 1 as listed in Skyward. You can also find this form on the Olympia Transportation website (Parents > Transportation).
Only one form should be completed for each child. If you have multiple children, please fill out a form for each child.
This form MUST be filled out. If it is not, your child's transportation information may be inaccurate, leading to errors in routing for your child. We will be closing this form on May 31st, so please fill it out as soon as possible!
** If you are an incoming PK/K family who will be registering for the first time this summer, you can fill out from from the website, or wait for an email from Skyward closer to May 31st, once your information has been entered into our system.
If you have any questions, please out to our transportation department at:
- director-transportation@olympia.org
- 309-379-6011 ext 1111
OMS Girls Softball Tryouts. See flyer below for information.
