Latest

On Saturday, September 9, Wellington held its annual home cross country meet for high school and middle school at the Watershed at Hargis Creek.  All together, there were 465 runners who participated in the day, and we had 18 high school runners participate across three events.  The Lady Crusaders had enough participating in the 2-mile to comprise a team, and they took 1st!

by Tanner Ford, wellington.cc

Crusaders take care of business on the road, defeating Clearwater 21-14. 

The Wellington Crusaders traveled to Clearwater for game two of their three-game road stretch to begin the season. It was a total team effort as the Crusaders defeated the Clearwater Indians 21-14. 

WHS Girls Tennis participated in an 8-team tournament Thursday in Circle and took 1st Place! Additionally, both doubles teams were champions in their brackets!

#1 Singles - Addie Hinshaw - 4th

#1 Doubles - Lyric Cornejo/Kadynce Aufdengarten - 1st

#2 Singles - Kyra Cornejo - 4th

# 2 Doubles - Cruz Cornejo/Logan Robinson - 1st

Well done, Lady Crusaders!!

The Lady Crusader Golf Team competed at Winfield Thursday in the season’s first full 18-hole tournament and finished strong in 3rd behind Winfield and Bishop Carroll. Taryn Viramontes and Claire Ginter also individually placed in 4th and 5th, respectively. This is now the third of three tournaments so far that sophomore Taryn has placed in the Top Ten!

Freshmen Ava Bales and Kenna Maxwell also competed in a JV 9-hole scramble and placed 2nd—just one stroke out of 1st Place!

Keep up the good work, ladies!

COURTESY PHOTOS

Wellington hosted Kingman, Sterling, and Chaparral for a varsity tennis meet on Tuesday, September 5, and WHS took 2nd overall and had three individual medalists! Senior Kyra Cornejo took 1st in #2 Singles and sophomores Logan Robinson and Cruz Cornejo placed 1st in #1 Doubles. 

#1 Singles - Addie Hinshaw - Jr

v. Ryan Schreiner (KINGMAN) 3-8

v. Chelsie Brown (STERLING) 3-8

v. Katelyn Reames (CHAPARRAL) 8-5

#2 Singles - Kyra Cornejo - Sr - 1st

v. Claire Birkenbaugh (KINGMAN) 8-3

v. Emalie Graves (CHAPARRAL) 8-5

Volleyball participated in a triangular at Rose Hill last Tuesday evening, and the team manager and member of the WHS Digital Media Team, Anna Ewing, was kind enough to take some photos of the action!  Enjoy Anna's awesome photos below!

Results--

Varsity went 0-2 on the night, surely affected by a rush to make it to the Rose Hill-hosted triangular on time after the bus was held up by a train.  JV went 1-1 on the night.  Varsity results are as follows: 

v. Rose Hill (L)

22-25, 13-25

v. Collegiate (L)

20-25, 11-25

On Tuesday, September 5, Varsity Girls Golf placed 2nd at the 18-hole, Par-3 Sierra Hills course. The Crusaders were runner-up to the 5A Andover Trojans at this Andover Central-hosted invitational, and we had two individual medalists, as well! Assistant Coach Sawyer reports, “The girls played great in this hot weather…We were very impressed with the girls’ scores and overall play. We hope to see our scores continue to trend in the way we’re headed and some other players stepped up for our team today!”

The team travels to Winfield this Thursday.

Individual Scores:

JV Crusader Football hosted Andale on Labor Day evening and battled it out with the Indians in overtime to win 21-14!  Wellington.cc AND several WHS Crusader Yearbook cameras were there, and we're still sifting through all the photos!  Bear with us as we go through the 1,000's of photos we took, but go ahead and enjoy what's currently being uploaded to the galleries and we'll update here when the full sets have been added.

20-14 FINAL