Olympia CUSD 16

Children who will be 5 years old by 9/1/2024 can register for Fall 24-25 Kindergarten. Join us for Kindergarten Round-up!

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Our FFA Livestock Judging team placed 3rd out of 117 teams at the State contest! Freshman, Trayson Miller led the team and was 14th individual out of 545 students! Blake Buatte finished 26th, Libby Shaffer, Reed Naughton and Rylee Robb rounded out the team. Congrats team!

The freshman baseball game today at home vs. Lincoln has been cancelled. The varsity baseball game vs. Maroa-Forsyth and the Varsity/JV softball games vs. Maroa-Forsyth are postponed to tomorrow.

The middle school track meet for today at Olympia and the high school track meet today at Auburn have both been cancelled.

Tough loss for JV bb today losing to Maroa-Forsyth 15-7. Losing pitcher B Tackett and B Fairburn in relief. Hitting star of the game was Bobby Fairburn with 2 hits. B Tackett and J Martin each had an rbi a piece. Freshman game at home tomorrow against Lincoln.

Varsity baseball loses at St. Thomas More tonight 10-4. Kindred (3 doubles), Brammeier (HR). Spartans allowed 13 walks. Back at it tomorrow, host conference foe Maroa Forsyth at 4:30.

If you are interested in joining the high school cross country team this fall, camp will be a great opportunity for team bonding and running trails. This is for incoming freshman and out going seniors who were on the team 23/24.

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Varsity baseball downed Camp Point Central today 16-1 at Beardstown. Kleinschmidt(3H, 5RBI), Hohulin and Birky 2 hits apiece. Alford gets the win. Spartans also downed Beardstown 16-1. Dabney(2H), Hohulin and Olson 2RBI each, Brammeier 3RBI. Rinkenberger picks up the win.

Tough outing for JV bb today dropping 2 to East Peoria. B Tackett and B Fairburn hitting stars of the day. J Martin took the loss in the first game and T Alexander in the second. The boys will bounce back and be ready Monday at Maroa-Forsyth!!

The Olympia high school track team spent the afternoon/evening in Rochester for the Rocket invite. Competition was fierce and the Oly girls showed up by finishing 6th out of 15 teams. These girls are continuing to shave seconds off their times. Big PR’s happened last night: Amanda Gonzalez hit a PR in her 4x8 split running a 2:31 4x1 (Mya Downs, Melissa Bieber, Grace Whiteside and Charlee Durham) ran a fast 52.93 PR Amelia Kistner-12:14 and Sidney Beaver- 14:35 both had big PR’s in the 3200 Madyson Bridgeforth-13.85 and Palmer Scheets-13.60 both PR’s in the 100m dash Jorgi Dupureur with a PR in the 400 Kaylie Dare ran a 6:00.06 in the 1600, she is so close to a sub 6 Mya downs with a PR of 28.89 in the 200 Charlee Durham jumped a PR of 15.41 ft in long jump 4x4 (Palmer scheets, Grace Whiteside, Emma Swartzendruber and Charlee Durham) ran our fastest time so far of 4:15.15 which is less then 2 seconds from state qualifying! In that 4x4 Charlee ran a PR split of 1:01.9 It was a cold and late night but it was worth it!! Good work spartans!

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Congrats to our OMS Track & Field Athletes of the Week, Chrystian Neal and Bella Walters! #SpartanPride

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Another school record goes down this morning. Keagan Uphoff breaks the vertical jump record with a leap of 33" breaking his previous school record from a year ago of 31.5"! Great job Keagan.

It was a fun night at the Olympia Co-ed Relays! There were 12 teams competing in this not so traditional meet. We had several girls trying out new events to complete the co-ed relay part and they all had so much fun trying new things. The highlight of the evening was our shuttle hurdle relay team (Melissa Bieber, Charlee Durham, Cooper Phillips and Keagan Uphoff) taking first by almost 6 seconds. The co-ed shot put team (Hannah Cleveland, Kyra West, Nolen Yeary and Cohen Manes) got first place adding to our team points. There were so many good things from last night: 4x8- (Amanda Gonzalez, Amelia Kistner, Kaylie Dare and Emma Swartzendruber) finished 1st place with our best time of the season 10:31.2 4x4- (Melissa Bieber, Grace Whiteside, Emma Swartzendruber, Charlee Durham) finished 2nd with our seasons fastest time of 4:15.4 Long jump- Charlee durham jumped a PR of 4.66m for a girls 1st place Thank you to Palmer and Melissa for stepping up and competing in high jump and to Emma and Kaylie for getting out of their comfort zone in triple jump. A big congrats to the seniors, Hannah Cleveland, Kyra West, Jorgi Dupureur, Abi Escalante and Melissa Bieber who were also recognized last night.

This morning Kade Lollar broke the all-time record for 3 lift total with a combined weight of 1130 (Bench 325, clean 300, Squat 505). The previous record was held by now SIU football player Blaine Halley (1125). Huge accomplishment for Kade!

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Big Win for JV bb beating the pretzels 🥨 13-3.solid pitching from B Tackett fanning 8&allowing 6 hits/2 bb.Defense played well,&bats were lively! 3 hits for R Wilson 3rbi's&3 hits for N Walker w/4 RBI's. B Rinkenberger, B Fairburn, M LaBelle, B Tackett all had 2 hits a piece.