WHS had a successful day at the district tennis meet today at the Amarillo Tennis Center. 🚀🎾🚀
Kayden Valles is the district champion in boys singles advancing to regionals. Gael Rodriguez finished in 4th place.
Summer Owens is the district champion in girls singles advancing to regionals. She defeated Madeleine Kane who will have a playback tomorrow at 11am in Amarillo against the player from Panhandle. The winner will advance to regionals with Summer.
The boys doubles team of Nixon Folk and Carson Tarver are the district champions as they defeated Fabian Pina and Bryant Tarver. Fabian and Bryant will have a playback against Wheeler tomorrow at 10am in a match played here in Wellington. The winner will advance to regionals with Nixon and Carson.
The mixed doubles team of Audrey Jones and Barret Phillips finished in 2nd place advancing to regionals.
Jontae Roland was the district champion in JV boys singles.
Wellington High School will present The Miracle Worker at The Ritz TONIGHT,
Monday, March 28 @ 7pm. Come support these amazing kids before they head to the Area competition. The Ritz WILL have the concession stand open TONIGHT. There will be no admission charged, but donations will be accepted at the door to support the Theatre Arts Department at WHS! Come enjoy the show! You don't want to miss it!
Congratulations to senior Kyla Kane on being named to the Press Pass Sports 1st team. Kyla is one of five in the Texas Panhandle in all classifications on this prestigious list. 🚀🏀🚀
https://www.presspasssports.com/post/2021-press-pass-sports-girls-basketball-team
Skyrocket baseball run ruled Claude today 12 to 1! Great job Rockets! 🚀⚾️🚀
Congratulations to our 2022-2023 WHS and WJHS Cheerleaders!
Skyrocket baseball opens district play in Claude today at 4:30pm. Check back here for an update after the game. Go Rockets!
WHS has 13 young ladies trying out for varsity cheerleader today! Tryouts in front of the student body are open to the public and will be around 11:10am in the high school gym. Girls will then have an individual tryout in front of the judges sometime after 2:30pm. Our eight varsity cheerleaders for the 2022-2023 school year will be posted on the WHS and WJHS Facebook pages as well as the Wellington ISD app at 5pm.
As a reminder, our cheerleaders are chosen by 50% judges evaluation, 35% teacher evaluation and 15% student body vote. Best of luck to all 13 girls. It takes a lot of courage to try out and you are all winners in our book no matter the outcome.
23 of our best and brightest represented Wellington High School at the District UIL Academic meet in Shamrock today. 13 students advanced to regionals and are designated with an *. Results included the following:
Spelling (coached by Karoline Ashmore)
Luis Moreno - 1st *
Marlene Jantes - 2nd *
Caleb Weinette - 3rd *
Rileigh Henard - 4th *
1st place team *
Ready Writing (coached by Karoline Ashmore)
Madeleine Kane - 3rd *
Calculator Applications (coached by Katie Page)
Jordan Nation - 3rd *
Caleb Weinette - 7th
Miranda Granadoz
Hunter Stark
2nd place team
Accounting (coached by Jill Dugan)
Barret Phillips - 1st *
Jacey Clark - 3rd *
Current Issues and Events (coached by Skyler Warrick)
Nick Self - 1st *
Rileigh Henard - 6th
Summer Owens - 8th
Team - 2nd Place
Science (coached by Brandi Weinette)
Jontae Roland - Top Score: Physics *
Poetry (coached by Czrena Watts)
Summer Owens - 2nd *
Lisette Vela - 6th
Social Studies (coached by Creighton Henderson)
Nick Self - 1st *
Martin Perez - 4th*
Creighton Killian*
1st Place Team*
Informative Speaking (coached by Marnie Kane)
Lisette Vela-6th
Congratulations to all these amazing students!
Madison Waters showed her lightweight cross steer at the Austin Stock Show this week. Great job representing WHS! 🚀🐄🚀
Lady Rockets and Rockets are competing in the Vega track meet today. Good luck red! 🚀🏃♀️🏃♂️🚀
WHS hosted a tennis tournament today as a final tune up before the District tournament next week!
Kayden Valles dominated boys singles winning 1st place.
Kyla Kane and Presley Kane defeated Madeleine Kane and Summer Owens in a tight 8 to 6 match winning girls doubles today. Wellington wins 1st and 2nd.
Nixon Folk and Carson Tarver defeated Fabian Pena and Bryant Tarver winning boys doubles. Wellington goes 1st-3rd as Travon Lewis and Jontae Roland finish in 3rd place.
Audrey Jones And Barret Phillips finished in 2nd place in mixed doubles only falling to the team from Miami. Jossaline Cervantes and Miguel Rincon finished in 4th place in mixed doubles.
Congratulations! 🚀🎾
After round one of district golf today in Childress, Caleb Weinette is sitting in first individually leading our Rocket golf team to 2nd place. Others on the boys team with Caleb are Dakota Marshall, Hunter Stark, Caleb Strickland, and Conner Kane. Our Lady Rockets are in third place and were led by Kaitlin Bawcom. Others on the team with Kaitlin are Kendra Bawcom, Briley Waters, Emma Flores, and Summer Neufeld. The second and final round of district golf will be played on April 4th in Amarillo. Keep working hard Rockets and Lady Rockets! 🚀⛳️🚀
The district opening baseball game scheduled for today in Memphis has been postponed to a later date.
Save the Date! Pageants will be on Sunday, April 24th @ 2pm in the WHS Auditorium
Little Miss Wellington 2022 (for Wellington Elementary girls in Kindergarten-2nd grades)
Junior Miss Wellington 2022 (for Wellington Elementary girls in 3rd-5th grades)
Teen Miss Wellington 2022 (for Wellington Junior High girls in 6th-8th grades)
District Golf has been moved to Wednesday due to weather.
WHS junior, Summer Owens, is your 2022 Miss Irish Rose. 🚀🏆Summer was crowned just a little bit ago in Shamrock. Her court included 1st runner up from Shamrock-Abby O’Gorman, 2nd runner up from Claude-Faith Fletcher, and 3rd runner up from Oklahoma-Aubrey Lamar.
Summer was sponsored by Wellington Tractor Parts and won a $1750 scholarship. Congratulations to our Miss Irish Rose 2022, Summer Owens from Wellington who was crowned on the 75th diamond jubilee anniversary pageant! She is the daughter of Lucy and Steve Owens.
Spring break track meet in Panhandle. Here is the schedule for tomorrow. Go Lady Rockets and Rockets! 🚀🏃♀️🏃♂️🚀
Congratulations to our Rockets who were named to the All-District basketball team.
Senior Creighton Killian was named the District's Defensive Player of the Year.
Junior Jordan Nation and Sophomore Carson Tarver were named 1st Team All-District.
Freshman Brenden Garcia, Sophomore Braylon Tarver, and Sophomore Bryant Tarver were named Honorable Mention.
Congratulations to these Rockets and the entire team on a great season!
Hunter Stark made the sale at the Houston Stock Show placing 8th with his lightweight Hampshire pig. Congratulations Hunter! 🚀🐷🚀
Congratulations to our Lady Rockets named to the All District Team. Kyla Kane is our District MVP, Hadlee Gomez is the Defensive MVP, and Asia Shrubs and Presley Kane are First Team All District. Great season to our Regional Finalist Lady Rockets! 🚀 🏀
