We had a busy week at RJSHS with our normally scheduled events and with those that were rescheduled due to our snow days!
The RJSHS Drama department has chosen Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” as the production for this spring. Please see Brian Brown for more details and information.
The RMS Cheerleaders were in action this weekend at a competition held at Bowling Green High School. They had a strong showing/performance for the event with an extremely talented group of young ladies. The future of competitive cheer looks bright! Thanks to Coach Leslie and Coach Beverly for their work with this group this season!
The members of the Russellville Archery team were in action this weekend at the regional tournament held at Warren East. Coach Jeramy Rust reports that even though the team fell just a few points shy of the state qualification cut point, that he is extremely proud of the growth shown by this young team and that he is confident they will make those cut points when they get another chance to qualify later in the month. Thanks to all of our student members and parents who support this program.
The RHS Senior Beta members attended the state convention this past week in Louisville. Highlights from the convention include the following:
Tony Pacheco—2nd Place Spanish (Tony also quallified for the National Convention in New Orleans held during the summer.)
Scrapbook team—5th place
Living Literature—4th place
Will Mullen—6th Social Studies
Sam Cundiff—8th Creative Writing
All of our Beta students had great projects! Congratulations to all who participated!
The RHS DECA Club attended and competed at the regional event this week, as well. Below are the results for our students who participated:
Kody Kirby & Elizabeth Fisher - 1st-Hospitality & Tourism Operations Research
Chandara Vanna & Mia Bethea - 3rd-Fashion Merchandising Promotion Plan
Carly Speck & Titiana Day - 1st-Learn & Earn Project
Mateah Black & Shailyn Milan - 4th-Community Service Project
Nicholas Scarbrough-1st-Audio Electronic Advertising
Paul Jones & M.J. Jones - 3rd-Video Electronic Advertising
DeShawn (Pedro) Bradshaw & Colby Nichols - 4th Video Electronic Advertising
Sponsor Paulette Smith, reports that all of our DECA students did a great job and represented our school very well!
The RHS FCCLA Club competed in their regional event Saturday at Allen County. Sponsor Ashley McGinnis reports the following results:
Jalonda Wells and Addie Hendley-1st Place Sports Nutrition
Ashley Young-1st Place Job Interview
Allison McDaniel-1st Place Career Investigation
Cierra Collins and Destiny Leblanc-2nd Place Promote and Publicize
Monserrat Morales and Chelsea Clinard-4th Place Chapter in Review Portfolio
All 1st Place finishers advance to the Kentucky State Leadership Conference in March!
RJSHS hosted the middle school District Governor’s Cup match this past week. The RMS Academic Team results are listed below:
Overall—RMS 2nd Place
Quick Recall—RMS 1st Place
Future Problem Solving—RMS 1st Place
Brandy West—1st Place, Written Composition
Benjamin Slack—1st Place, Social Studies
Matthew Wilkerson—2nd Place, Science
Congratulations to these deserving students and our RMS team members. Thanks to Mrs. Tina Shoemake, coach of our team, Mrs. Donna Wilkerson, who assists greatly with both middle school and high school academic teams and all of our parents who contributed time, food and other resources to make this a great event for our school.
The RHS Academic Team also competed in the District Governor’s Cup held at LCHS this past week. The high school academic team results are as follows:
Overall—2nd place, RHS
Quick Recall—1st place, RHS
FPS—2nd place, RHS
Adam Williams—2nd Math
Phillip Wilkerson—1st Science
Brennan Hughes—3rd Social Studies
Will Mullen—4th Social Studies and 2nd Art & Humanities
Kendra Farlee—2nd Written Composition
Ashlee Gilbert—3rd Written Composition
Anna Shoulders—4th Written Composition
We look forward to our team competing at the upcoming Regional Governor’s Cup match! Thanks to Coach Jennifer Rogers and Assistant Donna Wilkerson for their continued work with our academic team.
Upcoming Events:
Wednesday
· Renaissance Team Committee meeting—staff and students 3:30-4:30
Thursday
· Academic Recovery until 4:20
· RHS Boys Basketball vs. Logan (A) F/JV 6:00
Friday
· RHS Archery @Olmstead
· Clash of the Cats—RHS vs. Logan Co. (H) 6:00
*Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Saturday
· RHS Archery @Olmstead