We had a very busy week at RJSHS along with many activities that occurred over the weekend!
Members from both of academic teams are currently in Louisville competing in the State Governor’s Cup event! We wish them the best of luck and look forward to hearing results of their successes! Thanks to both our coaches, Mrs. Jennifer Rogers and Ms. Tina Shoemake, along with Mrs. Donna Wilkerson, for their continued work with and support of these programs!
Softball
Spring sports are well underway with most of our spring teams beginning their seasons officially this past week. The RHS Lady Panther Softball team began its season on Thursday with a victory over the Bowling Green Lady Purples. The Lady Panthers fell short on Friday evening to Barren County Lady Trojans. Yesterday, the softball team traveled to Todd County for a full, very cold day of tournament games. The Lady Panthers easily won their first game over UHA and went on to play Ballard Memorial and Edmonson County, both of which ended in tie-breakers using the international tie-breaker rules of play, resulting in the team coming up short in the end. It was, however, a great day of competitive softball for the Lady Panthers. Congratulations to juniors Cierra Collins and Tiffany Gray, who were selected as the team MVPs for the tournament. The Lady Panthers will host Glasgow on Tuesday for their home season opener!
District Beta
The RHS Senior Beta students traveled to the spring 3rd District Beta competition on Friday. Individual results are as follows:
Name Tags---Carleigh Phillips, Dilisha Thomas, Kristen Vanzant, and Madison Morrow—1st Place
CAD—Phillip Wilkerson—1st Place
Quiz Bowl—Adam Williams, Austin Coursey, Phillip Wilkerson and Logan Long—1st Place
Arts and Humanities—Will Mullen—2nd Place
Original Animated Character—Fernanda Rodriguez—2nd Place
Charcoal Drawing—Skyler Hale—2nd Place
English—Nick Scarbrough—2nd Place
Acrylic Painting—Bryan Ison—3rd Place
Solo Talent—Emma McReynolds—3rd Place
Christmas Decoration—Jayce Buchner—3rd Place
RHS—3rd Place overall in Sweepstakes
RHS Senior Nick Scarbrough was also awarded the 3rd District Beta Scholarship valued at $300.
Congratulations to our BETA students and sponsors, Mrs. Tanya Mullen and Mr. Chris Holloman, on such a strong showing at this event!
Archery
The Russellville Archery Team was also in action this past weekend. The team traveled to Todd County on Friday evening and some members also traveled to Warren East on Saturday for an event. Individual results are as follows:
Rainbow Browning 9th place
Blaine Holley 6th place
Jackson Rust 10th place
Kaleb Coursey 4th place
Will Landaverde 3rd place
Congratulations to these members, the entire team and Coach Jeramy Rust on a successful archery season at RJSHS! There is an end of the year banquet being tentatively planned. Please contact Coach Rust for more details.
End of School Dates
The Russellville Board of Education met this past Tuesday and approved the following changes to the end of year calendar for the 2015-2016 School Year:
High School Graduation--May 21st, 2016 12:00 PM
8th Grade Ceremony--May 24th, 2016 6:00 PM
Last Day---May 25th---RJSHS will dismiss at 1:00 PM
ACT Promotion for Juniors
Members of the RJSHS Junior Class were treated to their “March Madness” ACT incentive celebration this past week. During this time, students were provided with invitations to the event based on the number of hours earned during our promotion of the ACT prep plan. Students earned hours toward this event through good faith efforts, goal-setting, participating in extra study sessions provided and other ways. Grilled burgers, hot dogs and other items were provided to the students, along with a donation of 100 slushies from Sonic and numerous gift cards from community businesses that were given away hourly during the party.
Thanks to Mr. Brandon Blake, Jessie Baker and Rex Booth for their efforts to ensure that the incentive celebration was a big hit for our students!
Upcoming Events:
Monday
·RHS Baseball vs. Muhlenberg Co. (A) Varsity only
·RHS Softball vs. Todd Co. (A) V/JV 5:30
·RHS Tennis vs. Warren East (A)
Tuesday
·Academic Recovery unit 4:20
·Upward Bound Meetings
·RHS Tennis vs. Butler Co (H)
·RHS Softball vs. Glasgow (H) 5:30 V/JV
·RHS Baseball vs. Franklin-Simpson (H) 5:00 V/JV
Thursday
·Academic Recovery until 4:20
·RHS Baseball vs. Edmonson Co (A) 6:00 Varsity only
·RHS Softball vs. Hopkinsville (H) 5:30 V/JV
Friday
·RHS Baseball vs. Caverna (A) Varsity only5:30
·RHS Softball vs. Jo Byrns (H) DH 5:30
Saturday
·RMS Baseball vs. Lyon County (H) 1:00 and 2:45
·RHS Tennis vs. Barren County (A)