WHS Senior, Caleb Strickland, was honored with a dinner tonight by the La Paisana Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) for being this year's Good Citizen. Caleb is now their representative in the national essay contest. After dinner, Caleb read his essay to those in attendance. School personnel present were Caleb's English teacher Karoline Ashmore, Caleb's Math teacher Donna Thaten, high school counselor Ashly Cantu and principal, Jermaine Cantu. He was presented his award by DAR member and his grandmother, Margret Wood and Czrena Watts, DAR Regent and WHS teacher. Caleb is the son of Rusty and Alison Strickland. Congratulations Caleb! 🚀
The Wellington Invitational Tennis Tournament was held today and Skyrocket tennis won two championships! Results are below. Girls tennis will be on Wednesday.
Lawson Inman & Oakley Folk were the 1st place gold Mixed Doubles Champions! 🚀🎾🥇
Travon Lewis and Jasmin Moreno were the 2nd place Mixed Doubles medalists. 🚀🎾🥈
Noah Cantu and Callen Kane were the 1st place gold Boys Doubles Champions! 🚀🎾🥇
Congratulations! 🚀🎾🎾🚀
The Lady Rockets are your Wellington Golf Invitational first place team champions! 🚀⛳️🏆🥇
Individually, Allie Duncan was the first place gold medalist while Maggie Tillman was the third place bronze medalist. 🚀🥇🥉
Congratulations Lady Rockets!
Here is the Wellington Athletics Weekly Schedule. We will be hosting the golf tournament on Monday and Tuesday at the Wellington Country Club and the tennis tournament at Ellison Park Monday and Wednesday. Let's go Lady Rockets and Rockets! 🚀⛳️🎾⚾️🏃🏿♂️🏃🏼♀️🚀
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-3rd place, Zach Garcia, Logan Marshall, Aladdin Rodriguez, and Rosalind Stiles.
Valorant finished as the 3rd place team. The team included Timothy Cantu, Jackson Jones, Logan Marshall, Anthony Ortiz, and Christopher Reyes.
*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.
Congratulations to all that competed today! 🚀🎮 🖥️ 🚀
Not only did our Wellington Rockets make the finals competing against many 4A and 5A schools at the Amarillo Relays this weekend, but we finished in fourth place in the mile relay this evening. We were behind Dumas, Canyon and Amarillo High but ahead of West Plains and Caprock. The team consisted of Travon Lewis, Kamron Brooks, Brenden Garcia and Demarcus Lewis. We can't wait to see all these boys will accomplish this track season! 🚀🏃🏿♂️😤🚀
Bailey Page placed 9th making the sale with her heavyweight cross steer at the Houston Stock Show this year. Congratulations Bailey! Great work in Houston! 🚀
Skyrocket baseball opens district play on the road with a win over Quanah by a final score of 7 to 3! On hand to watch the victory was Dahmian Salinas. 🚀⚾️🚀
It's been a busy week of spring sports at WHS.
Yesterday, Travon Lewis and Lawson Inman were 2nd place in boys doubles at the Amarillo Small School Tennis Tournament. 🚀🎾🥈
Today, the Lady Skyrocket golf team of Brynlee Proffitt, Maggie Tillman, Allie Duncan, Elli Ouellette, and Ava Garcia finished as the 1st place team in Canadian. Allie Duncan was the 2nd place individual. 🚀⛳️🥇
Skyrocket baseball opens district play at 5pm today on the road in Quanah. Go Rockets! 🚀⚾️🚀
Junior Miss Wellington 2024 Quinn Roberson would like to remind all girls the entry forms for the 2025 pageants are due in 8 days. You can turn them in at any of the three campuses.
The tennis tournament scheduled for today in Spearman has been cancelled due to weather.
A generous donor had 100 “Praying for a Rocket” pins made. If you’d like one to clip onto a lanyard, your clothing, or even keep in your vehicle, stop by the high school office or comment below and we can deliver to you. Each pin is $3, with all proceeds going to the Salinas family to help with medical expenses.
The baseball game scheduled for today at home against Shamock has been cancelled due to high winds in the forecast. Rockets will play in Quanah on Friday!
Skyrocket golf finished as the 2nd place team in the Canadian Invitational today. 🚀🥈⛳️
Carter Ouellette was the 1st place individual. Congratulations!
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Maggie Tillman placed 2nd with her heavyweight dark cross at the Houston Stock Show today. Way to represent Wellington on the big stage Maggie! 🚀🥈🐷🚀
Congratulations to WHS Senior, Harlee Gomez, for being named 1st runner up in the Miss Irish Rose Scholarship Pageant today in Shamrock. Harlee wins a $740 scholarship. Also competing and making the top ten was Mallory O'Rear. Also representing WHS was Ava Garcia and Anna Needham. Congratulations girls! 🚀
All baseball games in the Hollis Tournament scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday, March 8th) have been cancelled due to weather and travel safety.
Rockets went 1-1 in the Hollis Tournament today defeating Granite by a score of 7 to 3 but falling to Hamlin 3 to 8. We will be in action again on Saturday! 🚀⚾️🚀
Wellington FFA land and homesite teams competed today in the Jacksboro Invitational CDE contests. Results are below. 🚀
Land placed 7th
Trenton Wright
Lisette Vela
Jacy Lampe
Bailey Page
Heather Peters
Anna Henard
Grace Peters
Jace Darrow
Cotton placed 11th
Brecklyn Powell
Kenady Skelton
Bailey Page
