Olympia CUSD 16

Work being done on OHMS additional parking lots near softball / baseball fields. Much needed additional parking lots are coming!

Middle School Cross Country summer practices will be held through mid-August: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 5 to 6 at Olympia High School. The season will officially begin with practice the first day of school. Please remember to register on 8 to 18 and turn in a physical.

Summer runs for HS and MS Cross Country are cancelled tonight (7/12).

The issue impacting Skyward and our phone systems has been resolved. Thank you for your patience!

Fee Payments via RevTrak are now operating correctly. As a reminder, you are not required to pay fees during the online registration process. But should you choose to, you now have the capability. Thank you for your patience!

Middle School Baseball tryouts will be on Aug. 2nd, 3rd and 4th from 5:00 pm to 7:00pm at the Olympia High School baseball fields. Please make sure to have a current physical and register on https://olympiahs.8to18.com/ Questions - justin.lacefield@olympia.org

Athletic/Activities registration is now open. Please go to https://olympiahs.8to18.com/ to register for the sports or activities for the year your child plans on participating in. This is for high school and middle school sports and activities.

The 2021 OMS softball tryouts will be July 26th through July 30th from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Olympia. Girls must have softball registration completed and a current physical before being permitted to tryout. Please contact Darrel Dubree (darrel.dubree@olympia.org) with any questions

Olympia High School is now hiring paraprofessionals for the 2021-2022 school year. For more information, use http://www.generalasp.com/olympia/onlineapp/default.aspx For additional questions, please contact Ed Jodlowski at OHS or email him at ed.jodlowski@olympia.org

The McLean County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) needs YOUR help in assessing the flood damage caused by the recent storms. Please see the attached images for details on how you can potentially help bring federal assistance to our area.

Incoming freshmen and non-returning players: OHS student athletes interested in playing soccer this 2021-22 season, please contact khrystyne.johnson@olympia.org to be included in summer communication Also, camp starts this week! All youth players are welcome to attend

We are aware that the 8 to 18 registration page for sports snd activities is not working correctly. We will make another post once the issue is corrected. Thank you

Middle School XC summer runs are cancelled for tonight.

Reminder to register for Summer Soccer Camp by today, June 28th, to guarantee a camp shirt! Hosted by the OHS Soccer Coaching Staff July 5-8. All players K-8 are invited to attend. Camp Flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AwVM97pdCpQnv226poqkYpiIt-1f2RSO/view?usp=drivesdk

We want to congratulate Alexa Beachy, Payton Carroll, and Abby Stine for being added to the 2021 list of Illinois State Scholars. We did not find out to properly congratulate them while we were still in school, but proud of their accomplishments; they join 14 other OHS students!

Congratulations to the Oly track guys for a fantastic ending to the 2021 season! Yesterday, 4 state qualifiers turned themselves into 4 state medalists! Chase Litwiller(fr) tied for 9th place with a leap of 6’ 0.75” in the high jump; Charlie Kistner(sr) placed 7th with an all-time personal-best time of 9:32.71 in the 3200 meter run; Carter Phillips(jr), Alec Pfeffer(sr), Chase Mayberry(sr), & Owen Dare(jr) teamed up to place 8th in the 4x800 meter relay; and Alec Pfeffer(sr), Andrew Litwiller(jr), Owen Dare(jr), & Justin Siebert(sr) combined for a 6th place season-best time of 3:27.01 in the 4x400 meter relay. Both relays had Brad Schardan (jr) to thank for helping them qualify for the state meet. Brad competed in both relays last week at the sectional meet, but broke his fibula with 60 meters to go in the 4x400 relay.

Middle School Cross Country summer runs start Monday at 5! Check out this flyer for more information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqVI3CQMjl3xQsZyVBlA1zMBf0eJNrGF/view?usp=drivesdk We will meet on the high school side. Hope to see you there!

ATTENTION: YOUTH SOCCER PLAYERS K - 8th Boys & Girls Join us this summer at OHMS for SKILLS CAMP! JULY 5 - 8 **Register by June 28th to guarantee a Camp Shirt FLYER: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AwVM97pdCpQnv226poqkYpiIt-1f2RSO/view?usp=drivesdk

Congratulations to Savanah Beavers on an outstanding track and field season. Savanah wrapped up her Olympia Track career by placing 5th in the 3200 meter run at the 2A State track and field meet Friday at Charleston in a time of 11:14.15. Earlier in the season she crushed the school record of 11:21.33 by running 11:04.32. Savanah will be attending Lehigh University in Pennsylvania where she will be studying physics and running cross-country and track. Good luck to Savanah in all her future endeavours.

Congratulations to Savanna Beavers for finishing 5th in the IHSA State Track meet in the 3200 meter run.