National FFA Week is February 18-25, 2023. The La Grande School District celebrates all the work by teachers, students and our community to make our program a success!
Just a reminder, we DO have school on Monday, February 20th.
Boys Basketball: PHS will be hosting a GOL District boys basketball semi-final game tomorrow night at 6pm here at Warburg court. Doors will open at 5:15. Admission is $8/Adults and $5/Students. The booster club will pay the cost of all PHS students with a valid ASB card. No passes will be allowed except the OSAA gold card.
District Play offs: Tiger Fans, Boys Varsity Basketball will be TRAVELING to Pendleton, Thursday, February 16th, for a 6 pm tip off. Girls Varsity Basketball will be HOSTING Pendleton, Thursday, February 16th, with a 5:30 tip off.
Lots of good basketball this week Tiger Fans, attend a game and cheer them on!
Playoffs: La Grande Boys Basketball will be hosting Ontario on Tuesday, February 14th, at 5:30 pm. This is a district play-in game. The winner will be traveling to Pendleton on Thursday, February 16th. Come support your Tiger Boys Basketball tomorrow at 5:30 pm!
District Swim:
La Grande Swim teams competed in Districts this weekend at Veterans Memorial Pool. Tiger Boys took 1st place, and Tiger girls took 3rd! La Grande Swim will be sending all of its participants to the State meet in Tualatin this weekend! Please help us congratulate these swimmers, and wish them luck at State!
200 Medley Girls 4th:
Anica Setser, McKinley Kruse, Chloe Lynch, Shiloh Lynch
200 Medley Boys 3rd:
Jake Weigand, Glenn Ricker, David Gislason, Zane Ricker
200 free:
Anica Setser 4th
Zane Ricker 2nd
Jake Weigand 7th
200 IM:
McKinley Kruse 4th
David Gislason 7th
50 free:
Shiloh Lynch 3rd
100 fly:
Chloe Lynch 6th
McKinley Kruse 8th
Glenn Ricker 4th
Drake Adair 12th
100 free:
Shiloh Lynch 5th
David Gislason 8th
Gabe Zamora 10th
500 free:
Zane Ricker 1st
200 free Relay boys 2nd:
Glenn Ricker, Gabe Zamora, Drake Adair, Zane Ricker
100 back:
Anica Setser 2nd
Jake Weigand 9th
100 breast:
Glenn Ricker 1st
Girl's 400 free relay 2nd:
Anica Setser, Mckinley Kruse, Chloe Lynch, Shiloh Lynch
Boy's 400 Relay 5th:
David Gislason, Jake Weigand, Evan Zastrow, Gabe Zamora
LHS students and parents, We're excited to offer a zero period and an eighth period study and credit recovery lab for students. These are available to any high school student needing more time and help to complete required course work, credit recovery courses or even homework. We have certified teachers for each lab and this opportunity will remain in place for the remainder of the school year. This starts tomorrow on Tuesday, February 14th. The A.M. lab time is 7:20 - 8:10. The P.M. lab time is 3:20 - 4:10. Please feel free to call LHS at 541-663-3301 with any questions.
SENIOR BASKETBALL: Senior night for girls and boys basketball is tonight versus Pendleton! Senior Girls presentation will begin DIRECTLY after JV boys finish and Senior Boys presentation will begin DIRECTLY after Varsity girls finish. presentations will be BEFORE the athletes warm up.
Game Cancellation: JV2 games, boys and girls, have been CANCELLED. JV girls will begin at 3 pm, followed by JV Boys at 4:30pm, Varsity girls at 6 pm and Varsity boys at 7:30 pm. Tonight is Senior night for both Boys and Girls and we are playing Pendleton. Come support these Student Athletes and watch some great games!
Boys Basketball: We have a date and time change for games today in The Dalles. JV2 boys will now be playing at 5 pm at the Wahtonka Campus (220 E 10th St, The Dalles, OR 97058). JV and Varsity will be playing at the main High School campus like planned at 5:00 pm and 6:30 pm.
Girls Wrestling: Our very own LHS Girls Wrestling team attended the Regional Wrestling meet this past weekend. The team competed hard, and took first place! We had 7 Wrestlers place in the top 4 who will be attending the State Tournament at the end of the month, and 4 more that only missed state by 1 place! Please help us congratulate these young ladies on a fantastic tournament and 1st place finish!
Lyndie Isaacson - 1st place
Delia Gulzow - 1st place
Kierstyn Azure - 2nd place
Florecita Villagomez - 2nd place
Kaitlin Brock - 2nd place
Paige Allen - 3rd place
Macy Iramk - 4th place
Dora Galindo Soto - 5th place
Rylee Weimer - 5th place
Congratulations LHS Lady Tigers!
Girls Basketball: There is NO JV girls game today against The Dalles. Varsity girls will tip off at 5:30 pm today.
Boys Wrestling:
Boys Wrestling attended the Reser Tournament of Champions this weekend in Hillsboro. Varsity took 3rd overall in the tournament, and JV took 2nd overall. The teams placed several wrestlers in the top of their weight classes:
Bobby Gulzow - 3rd
Mason Wolcott - 5th
Dallin Perry - 5th
Kai Carson - 2nd
Landon Perry - 5th
Tommy Belding - 5th
Tavian Kehr - 3rd
Joshua Collins - 5th
Preston Westenskow - 2nd
Ridge Kehr - 2nd
Dominick Carratello - 1st
Cole Shafer - 3rd
Jared Isaacson - 1st
Jarett Armstrong - 3rd
Bekham Hibbert - 3rd
Presenter Michael Sedler will be teaching on "Taking Care of Yourself," today-Monday, February 6, 2023 from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM through Google Meet. https://meet.google.com/qvr-zbak-tte This event is open to all staff, parents, guardians, community partners and organizations to support children ages 5-18 (Grades K-12).
School Exclusion Day:
Parents/guardians, if you received a letter from CHD stating your student is due for a vaccine, or we are missing vaccine records, please get that in as soon as possible. Oregon law requires that all students be up-to-date unless they have an authorized exemption. Exclusion Day is February 15th, after that, any student who is still out of compliance will not be able to attend school
National School Counseling Week
February 6-10, 2023
Celebrate the work of the counselors in our schools!
National School Counseling Week is February 6-10 and highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for careers. THANK YOU to the counselors in La Grande School District for all they do for our students!
More info available here: https://www.schoolcounselor.org/Events-Professional-Development/Events/National-School-Counseling-Week
Presenter Michael Sedler will be teaching on "Taking Care of Yourself," today-Monday, February 6, 2023 from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM through Google Meet. https://meet.google.com/qvr-zbak-tte This event is open to all staff, parents, guardians, community partners and organizations to support children ages 5-18 (Grades K-12).
February is CTE (Career Technical Education) Month
February is National CTE Month. Career and Technical Education provides students of all ages with the academic and technical skills, knowledge and training necessary to succeed in future careers and to become lifelong learners.
La Grande students have the opportunity to take CTE classes in the following areas: agriculture, natural resources, manufacturing, visual arts, performing arts, business, hospitality & tourism and medical.
Find out more at: https://www.acteonline.org/why-cte/cte-awareness/cte-month/
Basketball Game Changes:
Basketball fans, we have a couple of game changes for the week. JV2 boys and girls basketball games against Pendleton are now being played on Tuesday, January 31st. Girls will start at 4 pm.
Boys basketball vs Nyssa has been moved to Wednesday, February 1st. Games will begin with JV2 at 3:30 pm.
Tiger Fans, please help us congratulate LHS Boys Swimming as they took first at the Madras Swim invite this weekend, and the LHS Girls Swimming as they took 3rd place! Congratulations Tiger Swimmers!