Reminder we have our coach/player/parent meeting for high school boys basketball, high school cheerleading and high school boys and girls bowling in the high school commons at 7:00.
The fall blood drive will be Tuesday, October 31 from 9:00am-2:00pm in the high school gym. Anyone 16 years of age and older is invited to sign up to give. If you are 16 please pick up a consent form from the sign up table at lunch or talk to Mrs. Froidcoeur. Guests will be asked to sign-in in the office. Please use the link below with group code 10756 to sign up!
bloodcenter.org/group
Congratulations to our FFA soil judging team for placing 7th place out of 32 schools at the State Land Use Evaluation contest held at SWIC today!! Blake Hurley was awarded "superior individual" which is an individual who places top ten in the state. Blake placed 7th out of 122 students! Our team also placed 3rd in our District! Blake placed 3rd individual in our District and Robert Zimmerman placed 10th! This was their first time competing at the state level for this competition and they definitely held their own!! Proud to be a greyhound!!
Athletic update
Thursday Oct 12th- HS Volleyball Senior Night, JV game at 6:00 and Senior recognition will be after the JV game. Parents please arrive no later than 6:30
Friday Oct 13th- HS Soccer will play in the Semifinal of the IHSA Soccer Regional at Gordon Moore Park in Alton at 6:30 vs Roxana, good luck in the post-season Greyhounds!
Friday Oct 13th- JH Boys and Girls Basketball and Cheerleading Purple/White Scrimmage Night at 6:00 in the HS gym. Come out and support our junior high teams! Booster Club will be selling Little Caesers Pizza!
Monday Oct 16th- Parent/Player/Coach Meeting for HS Boys Basketball, HS Cheerleading and HS Bowling at 7:00 in the HS Commons
Tuesday Oct 17th- Parent/Player/ Coach meeting for HS Girls Basketball on Oct 17th at 7:00 at Wesclin HS in the HS cafeteria. I know our volleyball has a game that night and I will let them know where some of our parents and players are that night.
Congratulations to our FFA soil judging team who placed 2nd out of 11 schools today at the Section 22 Land Use Evaluation contest! Out of 50+ students Autumn Guyette placed 3rd place, Robert Zimmerman placed 5th, and Tyler Hohrein placed 8th! Wish us luck as we head to the state contest tomorrow!!! Go greyhounds!
Parent/Teacher conferences are Tuesday, October 24th and Thursday, October 26th from 4:30-7:30 pm. If you are the parent of a junior high or high school student, please reach out to the teacher you would like to meet with to arrange a time.
Come check out your 2023-2024 Jr High basketball and cheerleading teams on Friday at 6:00 for our annual purple and white scrimmage. All proceeds will benefit the Clinton County Humane Society.
Our Band in performing at the Fall Festival on Saturday.
Senior Night tonight for HS Soccer and Cross Country! We will honor senior soccer players Tyler Hohrein and Robert Zimmerman as well as cross country senior Connor Taulbee at 4:15 pm before the soccer game. The soccer game will start at 4:30. Please come out and show your support for our soccer program at their final regular season home game!
Today's Baseball/Softball Intramurals we will be inside the grade school gymnasium. Parent pick-up will be at 4:15 behind the grade school.
Junior High Student Council Officers:
President - Hillary Blasdel, Vice President - Jaidin Bennett, Treasurer - Natalie Kauffman, Secretary - Anissa Laktzian, Representative - Aleyda Bennett
Sponsors: Mrs. Derber and Mrs. Wyms
Reminder tomorrow night is cancer night at our hs volleyball game vs Dupo, game time is 6:00
Friday is senior night for cross country and soccer at our home soccer game vs Valmeyer. Seniors will be honored at 4:15 and game time is 4:30.
Come out and support these 2 special nights!
The junior high girls basketball team has opened a team store for any parents/students/fans who would like some gear. This is not a fundraiser, they just wanted to offer the opportunity for anyone who would like the opportunity to buy some gear to wear to games. The store will close Monday night. The link is attached, they have some cool options.
https://shop.avhinkandvinyl.com/lebanon_basketball_2023
The Junior High Student Council collected items for local shelters. Thank you to all those that donated to help those less fortunate.
The Junior High September House Assembly was today. Congratulations to the student shout outs and September students of the month. The House challenge was so much fun with the Rito House winning! Proud to be Greyhounds.
This Thursday October 5th we will have our Block Out Cancer Night at our HS Volleyball game vs Dupo at 6:00 pm. The volleyball team will be selling cookies for donations, having a 50/50 drawing and recognizing and honoring those who are currently fighting cancer or have passed due to cancer. Fans are encouraged to wear pink if possible. All money that is raised that night will be combined with our cancer event that will take place in January at a high school boys basketball game and be given to a local community member who is fighting cancer. Anyone who would like to make a donation can do so by sending it to the High School office and put attention Volleyball Cancer Night or you can make a donation that night at the game. We appreciate your support for this cause. If you have any questions please email me at ccruthis@lcusd9.org
Athletic Update 10-2-23
This past weekend our Cross Country Runners ran at the Piasa Southwestern Invite. 5th grader Holland Burress earned a medal by placing 17th out of 68 middle school runners! 6th grader Ava Garbe placed 45th. Good job girls! They will run in their Regional this Wednesday, good luck! Our HS runners Connor Taulbee ran in a time of 21:52 and Valo Jacobson ran a time of 23:01. Good job boys!
HS Soccer defeated Wesclin this past Thursday to secure a 2nd consecutive Conference Championship! Great job coaches and players! Saturday they lost 3-1 to Murphysboro. This Friday we have a make up game at home vs Valmeyer and this will be senior night. They received the 4 seed in the Regional and will play Friday Oct 13th at Gordon Moore Park in Alton at 6:30 vs Roxana.
HS volleyball hosted a 4 team round robin tournament on Saturday. They defeated Sandoval in 2 sets and lost to O'Fallon First Baptist in 3 sets and champion Christ Our Rock in 3 sets. The coaches were very proud of their effort, the team has really improved since the beginning of the season, keep it up ladies!
JH Boys Basketball starts practice today in elementary gym 3:15-5:15, jh girls basketball practices 5:15-7:15 in the elementary gym and jh cheerleading has practice from 5:00-6:00 in the hs commons.
Come out tomorrow(Saturday Sept 30th) we will have HS volleyball tournament at home starting at 9:00 am (Our girls play at 9:00, 11:00 and 2:00) and Soccer is home vs Murphysboro at 11:00 am! We will be selling Chic-Fil-A sandwiches for $6.00.
Good luck to our HS cross country runners at the Piasa Invite tomorrow!
Reminder that Jh boys and girls basketball and cheerleading will start tryouts on Monday Oct 2nd.
JH Boys practice from 3:15-5:15 in the grade school
JH Girls practice from 5:15-7:15 in the grade school
JH Cheerleading will practice from 5pm-6pm in the high school commons
Reminder all athletes must have a current physical, paperwork done online and $40 sports fee paid.
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