Allison Corbitt was selected as the 2023 IPA Student of the Year. Allison exudes leadership and kindness and is always willing to help.
More fun wearing yellow today for Teacher (Staff) Appreciation week! Mr. Peoples is also showing off the goodies we received yesterday.
Yellow represents happiness, optimism and spring. Today the staff is wearing yellow for teacher appreciation and writing affirmations to each other!
Congrats to our JH Track team for doing very well at the All Saints Track Regional this past Saturday.
2 athletes qualified for the Class S State Track meet at DuQuoin High School on May 13th
Savanah Pontious won the discus
Khelsi Frazier won the 7th grade 100M Dash and won the 7th grade 200 M Dash
Great Job Ladies
Also earning ribbons at the Regional for the girls team
Khelsi Frazier 3rd in Long Jump
Addison Durbin 6th in Long Jump
Savannah Pontious 3rd in Shot Put
Addison Durbin 6th in High Jump
Johanna Kraemer 4th in Discus
Girls 4x100 Relay 4th
Girls Varsity Relay 6th
ReAnna West 6th in the 7th Grade 100M
Also winning ribbons for the boys team
Evan Hardy 5th in the 1600M Run
Freddy Durbin 6th in the 1600M Run
Zander DeMello 6th in the 800M Run
Zander DeMello 5th in the 7th Grade 100M
Good job Greyhounds!!!
These lucky students earned a lunch with Miss Bass today!
Our vocational crew dressed as twins today too!
Teacher appreciation quadruplets!
Today for Teacher (Staff) Appreciation Week the junior and senior high teachers dressed as twins or triplets!!
Our PTO provided Rockwood Coffee and donuts to start the week for Teacher and Staff Appreciation at LES.
Reminder that today is senior recognition day. We will recognize our baseball and boys track athletes at approximately 4:00 on the baseball field. Then we will recognize our softball and female track athletes on the softball field at approximately 4:15.
Mr. Stark's fourth graders are learning about geography, people, events, and cultures through stamps!
We have two Regional Champions that will represent the Greyhounds at the SIJHSAA State Meet: Khelsi in the 7th grade 100m and 200m dash and Savanah in the discus!
Both boys and girls junior high track teams had a great showing today! Congratulations to all! 🐾 #GoGreyhounds
Congratulations to Junior Brooke Goetter for being voted as the Belleville News Democrat Player of the Week! Thank you to everyone who voted!
Brooke for the week of April 17-21 went 2-0 with 14 innings pitched, 8 hits allowed, 4 runs allowed with 1 earned, 1 walk and 22 strikeouts on the mound. At the plate she was 3 for 6 with 2 runs scored, 2 rbi's, 1 walk, 1 double and 1 home run.
Good Job Brooke
Just a reminder that basketball camp registration is due TODAY (4/28). You can still register after the deadline, but your child will not be guaranteed a tshirt and basketball. Reach out to John Seely at jseely@lcusd9.org with questions. Here is the link to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1So2npfyQAHyrYMYfekacPxzy1P-g1GtGMmH05zD0iAw/edit
Wednesday Athletic Results
HS Softball defeated Steeleville at Steeleville 16-1
HS Baseball defeated Okawville at Okawville 4-0
Good Job Greyhounds!
Todays baseball and softball games at Marissa are postponed till May 12
Softball no practice
Baseball practice after school
Last day to sign up and pay for Soccer Intramurals is tomorrow, Friday, April 28 for any 1st-4th graders interested! The dates are: MONDAY, MAY 1st thru THURSDAY, MAY 4th and MONDAY, MAY 8th thru THURSDAY, MAY 11th. It will start right after school and end at 4:15, except Wednesdays will end at 3:00. This will be held at the Elementary or out on the soccer field (depending on weather and JH soccer schedule). Pick up will be behind the gym or at the soccer field. If weather prohibits us from being outside, we will be inside the grade school gymnasium. The fee is $25.00 per student with a deadline to sign-up and pay of Friday, April 28th. Go to our website using the drop down menu "Soccer Intramurals" to sign up now or use the following website: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ikuf81LJyW7vmcFzo1ITu2RTgE-6HbaWAO2S9kK-5bw/edit . If you have any questions please call Lori at (618) 537-4423, ext. 230 or email me at: lreinneck@lcusd9.org
Please check our website for any updates and changes to the end the year calendar of events at https://www.lcusd9.org/events
Next Tuesday May 2nd our hs baseball team will be playing at Grizzlies Stadium at 6:00 vs New Athens. High school players have tickets for sale for $4.00. The team will get 1/2 of the pre sale ticket sales money so please buy tickets from the players if possible.
Tickets can be bought at the stadium for $5.00 but we will not get any of those ticket sales.
Please come out and support the team either way on Tuesday night!
Thank you to everyone in the community who came out and made it a fun day at the Rally for the Greyhounds yesterday. It was great to see so many people at both games. Thank you to all the staff who helped put it on and especially Mrs Emrick and Mr. Nelson for spearheading the event. Thank you to Jacob Goble for smoking the pulled pork, Lori Reinneck, Cyndi Haeuber, Kim Emrick, Jen Spaeth and Jeff Daugherty(grilling) for running the stand and Bryan Reising for getting us power run out to the stand. Thank you to Mrs Kaschyke and the art club for doing face painting for kids and also thank you to Jake Baer for reaching out to our town coaches and bringing their teams to get recognized during the game. We really appreciate the support!