RHS Booster Club Newsletter

The booster club has lots of achievements to celebrate as the 2013-2014 school year nears the end.  We would like to congratulate some groups on their recent successes and wish them well as they get ready to compete in state level competition.  Wrestling team qualified 5 wrestlers for state in Hays – 106lb Freshman Bryce Gfeller, 132lb Senior Jacob Gentry, 138lb Sophomore Derek Gentry, 152lb Senior Tagen Lambotte and 170lb Sophomore Isaac Luellen. The team finished with the best ever finish in school history placing 2nd. Bryce, Tagen and Isaac all made it to the championship round - Bryce and Tagen walked away with gold and Isaac the Silver medal. Tagen achieved something only 30 other wrestlers in the state of Kansas has done – 4 time 3-2-1A State Champion! Congratulations Tagen!  Tagen Lambotte will be wrestling this weekend in Cedar Falls IA at the Cliff Keen USAW Folkstyle Nationals.  You can follow results on http://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/Login.jsp  2014 USAW/CK Kids/Vets Folkstyle Ntls. Tagen will be wrestling for Team Kansas. Best of luck Tagen.  Congratulations to our first ever Power Lifting team. The team qualified 15 lifters for the state power lifting meet that was held March 29th. Qualifiers were Freshman - Matt Stillion and Dawson Hammes, Sophomores - Tucker Horak, Zach Jensen and Christian Roduner, Juniors - Corbin Horak, Thatcher Horak, Nick Reesor and Jack Steckle and Seniors - Ashlynn Biehler, Macy Gillum, Darian Grimmett, Skylar Olson and Davis Warton.  The team finished 9th in the men’s division and 15th in the women’s division.  Great job!  For complete results, watch the St. Marys Star.  FCCLA is in the final stages of preparing for State this coming weekend. 16 students qualified for state this year and we would like to wish them well as they represent RHS in Wichita April 7-9th.  Forensics team competed yesterday at Mid-East League in Silver Lake. Here are the results - Derek and Jacob Gentry are IDA league champs. Miranda Martin is league prose champ. Kole Davoren took 5th in prose, Andrew Day and Dominick Reynolds took 5th in IDA, Nick VanderPutten took 4th in humorous, Tori Dubois and Davis Warton took third in Duet, and Sydney Purney took 6th in poetry.   FBLA had Mitchell Porter place 3rd in Introduction to Business test at State FBLA and will attend National Leadership Conference this summer in Nashville, TN.  Spring sports are underway and that’s keeping everyone busy. For daily announcements, please watch the school’s website http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjshs/announcements.html   RHS Graduation will be Sunday, May 18 at 2:00 PM.   Please keep our students and facility safe as they travel to various events and competition.   If you have a group or individual achievement that you would like to share, please send it to us.