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.
SCHOOL PICTURES FOR LES ARE READY TO BE VIEWED! Follow the link and instructions below! You can order your photos online and have them shipped directly to you! View and order at https://shop.jostenspix.com/login LEBANON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Event Code: FE285123 Also Needed: Lunch ID - ask your student for their lunch account number or call the school at 618-537-4423. Retakes are Tuesday, Oct 17.
All high school girls who are going to play basketball this year (remember we will be co-oping with Wesclin the next 2 years). Coach Crawford will have a meeting in Mr. Cruthis's room on Tuesday Oct 3rd at 7:30 am. Please make sure you are here for a very important meeting.
Our focus for Lebanon Jr High Boy's Basketball this year is "Be the Change." We are excited and looking forward to an awesome season. If you would like to rock the same gear as the players please consider ordering.
Link: bsnteamsports.com
Access Code: QfcspCoGzr
Orders will be shipped directly to you. Reach out to Coach Seely with questions (jseely@lcusd9.org).
We celebrated our September Students of the Month at an assembly yesterday featuring our fifth graders. Congratulations to our SOTM who worked extra hard this month showing patriotism and many other traits to make them leaders in their classrooms and in our school!
Today's cross country meet at Triad is canceled due to unsafe running conditions because of last night's storm. Their next meet will be at Piasa Southwestern High School on Saturday Sept 30th. This will be a high school and a junior high meet.