Congratulations to WHS Senior Austin Soles. Austin signed, in a curbside ceremony at Travelin' Smoke BBQ Saturday afternoon, to play basketball this coming school year at Southwestern College in Winfield.Southwestern is part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and are in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC).
Present for the signing, were Austin's WHS Coaches, multiple family and friends.
Enjoy these memories from 2005-2006 - Parade, Pep Rally and Haircuts on Thursday before Friday's game vs Kingman (and Duchess Coronation.)
Also, later in the same school year, Duke Coronation pics & Homecoming Basketball Game Pics. (Girls were in tournament action that week @ Mulvane)
New Head Boys Basketball Coach Joe Newman and his staff have been putting area boys through their basketball rigors during this week's 3 day summer basketball camp, which concluded on Wednesday.
All totaled, approx. 50-55 young student-athletes ranging from 4th grade through 12th, met daily to refresh and hone their basic basketball skills, at this half way point between last season's end and next season's beginning. Good group!
Congratulations to Lady Crusaders Avery Rusk and Shayland French and Crusaders AJ Snipes and Ian King - all "4" received State Honors Recognition from the Topeka Capital Journal Newspaper!
SR. AVERY RUSK - 3rd TEAM 4A
SR. SHAYLAND FRENCH - HON MEN 4A
SR. AJ SNIPES - HON MEN 4A
SR. IAN KING - HON MEN 4A
Way to represent AVERY, SHAYLAND, AJ & IAN!!! We are proud of you!!
The AVCTL DIV IV League Honors for 2017-2018 Girls and Boys Basketball were announced. These are generally not released until the State Tournaments are over - WHS has "7" players recognized by the League, "1" in a very big way.
courtesy www.sutv.com
VARSITY BOYS
WHS 34 ACHS 65 (6-15) (3-6)
AJ Snipes 11, Ian King 9, DeAndre Washington 5, Joe Ybarra 4, Jihad Mutazammil 3, Silas Popplewell 2
Courtesy www.sutv.com
It was opening night Thursday, semi-final action for the GIRLS at the 4A Sub-State Basketball Tournament being held at Ark City HS, featuring our Lady Crusaders (#1 seed), Ark City (#2 seed), Winfield (#3 seed) and Coffeyville-Field Kindley (#4 seed).
The Varsity and JV Girls dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's Monday evening in "make-up" action with the visiting Lady Indians from Clearwater. Make-up games as a result of last week's weather related postponements, went all Wellington's way Monday...the regular season ended on an excellent note across the board! CONGRATS! It was SENIOR NIGHT as well and 40 yr USD 353 employee, teacher, coach, Randy Strothman was honored for his decades of service.
Almost a SWEEP for the Wellington Lady Crusaders, but the Buhler JV Lady Crusaders squeaked out a 6 pt victory over our younger squad, the Varsity Lady Crusaders won with authority though - results, stats and scoring below:
The WMS 8th grade Lady Knights Monday evening in the PIONEER LEAGUE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP game vs El Dorado at Mulvane MS, dotted every "i", crossed every "t", and iced every "cake" - this, their 30th game as Lady Knights, would also be their 30th VICTORY - these young ladies NEVER LOST the past two seasons! AWESOME!
Congratulations to the Wellington Middle School 7th Grade Lady Knights Basketball Team!!! After winning the "regular season" PIONEER LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP, with only 1 loss, they now have added the end of season PIONEER LEAGUE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP to their repertoire! Way to go Coach Whaley and Lady Knights!
Both the 7th grade and 8th grade Lady Knight basketball squads came one game closer to all the marbles Saturday in semi-final action at Mulvane vs Mulvane in the season concluding PIONEER LEAGUE TOURNAMENT which will culminate on Monday.
Congratulations to Coach Frazee and his 8th grade Lady Knights - their 37-17 victory Saturday improved their overall season record to 14-0 and now 11-0 in league! One more big game to go, Monday at Mulvane MS vs El Dorado MS at approx. 6:15pm.
Only close in the beginning, as any contest is, the WHS Varsity Lady Crusaders pulled away early from their host at El Dorado HS Friday evening, ending the night with a 4th qtr running clock, Wellington hustled their way to the 62-31 victory.
Here are the 2017-2018 Lady Crusader Basketball team members!
LADY CRUSADER TEAM PICS
BOYS BASKETBALL CAMP will be June 11-13
@ WHS
9th-12th grade 8:30a-10:30a
Fee: Free
4th-6th grade Noon-1:15p
Fee: $25
7th-8th grade 1:30p-3:30p
Fee: $25
Grades are based on the 2018-19 school year.
Grades 4th-6th are encouraged to bring their own basketball.
Here are the PIONEER LEAGUE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKETS for Saturday and Monday at Clearwater (Boys) and Mulvane (Girls)
7/8 BOYS BRACKET @ Clearwater HS
http://www.wellington.cc/public_files/2018%20PL%20Boys%20basketball%20t…
Friday didn't go near as well as Thursday at the 45th annual Haven Wildcat Classic at Haven HS. After a stunning upset vs the host and #1 seed on Thursday (49-46), the #8 seed Lady Crusaders squared off Friday in the semi-final game against #5 seed Cheney, a team that had handled the Lady Crusaders quite well (39-65) 6 weeks ago in the Cheney Invitational (game actually played at WHS) Unfortunately, Cheney was able to repeat that performance Friday at Haven, final score 59-23.
The AVCTL DIV III Augusta Orioles were guests of the Crusaders Friday evening out at WHS in non-league play. Proving to be spoilers to some extent, the Orioles won 4 out of 5 games at the Homecoming themed occasion.Congrats to the Girls JV squad for pulling down a convincing 53-31 victory over the JV Orioles and advancing their season record to 7-2 overall. The 22 pt win was the largest spread on the evening but the only spread with the teams in red on top.
Season records continued to improve Friday evening for the Crusader and Lady Crusader basketball programs. In league action at Clearwater HS, Wellington was able to put up "4" victories in "5" games, not a bad day's (or evening's) work at all!
VARSITY GIRLS vs Clearwater
WHS 56 CHS 18 (4-3) (2-2)
Avery Rusk 13, Jacelyn Buck 13, Shayland French 8, Gracie Fink 6, Rylee Rusk 6, Lexi Clift 4, Natalie Henning 3, Taylor Meyer 3
courtesy of sutv.com
(Another great source for CRUSADER / KNIGHT sports is SCORE STORE here on wellington.cc...hold your cursor over SPORTS at top of any page, the first tab underneath will get you to where you need to go! Lots of archival info too, clear back to the Fall of 2004. It's not 100% complete but still LOTS of great info and memories!)
CONGRATULATIONS TO Shayland French, Avery Rusk, AJ Snipes and Ian King!! All 4 made their respective ALL TOURNAMENT TEAMS @ the Cheney Invitational that concluded on Saturday. GREAT JOB!!
