December 2021

2022 Graduate Laptop Assistance is being fulfilled by Zach Parent and John Sturgis in partnership with the Wellington Community Foundation and WHS staff.  Through the normal yearly contributions and memorial donations, Steve's Laptop Fund has enough money in the account to accommodate every applicant who turned in their paperwork by the February 24 deadline.  Those students have been contacted via their email (email from Katie Ford) and have until September 6, 2022, to submit a Fall 2022 course schedule to fulfill the requirement to receive a laptop assistance check for $200.

 The Lady Crusaders, not only ranked 3rd overall in 4A basketball state-wide by the Kansas Basketball Coach Association, they are also undefeated 7-0! They are composed and take challenges head on, they are fun to watch. The Lady Vikings came to town 3-1, and left with an “L”, actually not surprising to the home fans, but everyone knows anything can happen, last night, it was the expected, not the surprise in the end. The Lady Vikings road back to Winfield, 3-2, but certainly a team with potential.

The Crusader squad has been on a roll the last two games, beating league opponent (Rose Hill) last Friday, there, by 1 point, I guess the 1 pt victories are as good of win as any, last night, in OT, the 0-4, now 0-5 Varsity Winfield Vikings, lost by 1, giving Wellington a 3-4 record going in to break. Kudos to Head Coach Joe Newman last Friday, kudos to Asst, move up to Head Coach, Chad Whaley last night. Head Coach Newman was ill and could not attend. Chad stepped up to help and snagged the 2nd victory in a row!

Last night was the WHS/WMS Vocal Music Christmas Concert. Directed by Jennifer Ault, it was superb!! There are presently 181 pictures loaded in at the link below. Enjoy.

It was a wonderful concert, WMS and WHS are both blessed with some mighty fine singers!! 

2021 WHS-WMS Vocal Music Christmas Concert

The 2021 NHS Formal Dance was held Saturday, Dec. 11th! These pics are COURTESY PICS from WHS Yearbook! Photos were taken by Laney Dillon, Karizma Zavala, and Mikayla Elmore.

NHS FORMAL COURTESY PICS DANCE 121121

The Varsity Lady Crusaders SHINED this week at the CHENEY EARLY SEASON BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT. Still undefeated on the season, the usual champion, CHENEY themselves, were relegated to the 3rd place game after Wellington downed them, 45-39 earlier in the week. In the championship game on Saturday, it was the Varsity Lady Crusaders and Pratt HS, a team the ladies dominated the entire contest on Saturday. Up 40-17 at half and eventual final score of 66-47, the ladies in red clinched the title away from Cheney (and Pratt of course) - smiles all the way around.

The Varsity Crusaders were in action early Saturday afternoon, going up against TRINIITY CATHOLIC in the 5th place match-up at this season's "EARLY SEASON CHENEY BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT" @ Cheney HS. The outcome for the Varsity and Jr. Varsity boys was positive! The Varsity secured 5th with a 58-31 victory. Congrats to Coach Newman and the squad, their first win of this young season and JV Boys, also with a win over TRINITY CATHOLIC 45-32. Congrats to Montel Tate as well, for his selection to the ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM!

SCORING

Wellington played host Saturday to multiple teams out at WHS, at the annual Wrestling Tournament. It featured both a boys and girls tournament, with the girls and a few of the lower weight class boys participating in the Auxiliary Gym. Main Gym was most of the Boys on hand for the day's activities. No official results are in as of yet but we have pictures to share. In addition to wellington.cc pics, WHS Yearbook also provided courtesy pics from of their photographers, i.e. Conner Walker, Averie Burns and Mikayla Elmore and staff. Much appreciated!

GIRLS VARSITY  MHS 12 WHS 36

Both teams "OPEN" @ 132, 143, 155
MHS "OPEN" @ 101, 115, 120, 138. 170, 191, 235

109 Landreth vs Cullens / Landreth Pin
126 Dillon vs Parkey / Dillon Pin

BOYS VARSITY MHS 72 WHS 6

Both teams "OPEN" @ 195
WHS "OPEN" @ 113, 126, 132, 160, 170, 220
MHS "OPEN" @ 285

WHS Senior Kaitlyn Hain, with her parents and coaches by her side, signed to attend and participate in Wrestling next school year at Indian Hills CC in Ottumwa, Iowa. The Warriors are part of the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference. With her parents Ryan and Kelly Hain, and Coaches Mitch McComb and Zane Aguilar, let the ink flow and will be a Warrior next school year in Iowa.