Mitch Marks, Robb Evans, Many Aug, and Cara Dowel

Congratulations to Wilmot Investment and Finance Bowl winners Mitch Marks, Robb Evans, Many Aug, and Cara Dowell.  They brought home the trophy for the second year in a row!  These financial gurus will be headed to the state competition in May.  The other Wilmot competitors had strong showings and played well.

Congratulations to all students achieving placement on the honor roll for the fall 2009 semester!! Keep up the good work! Click here to see the full honor roll listing.

Last night we traveled to Burlington for our Sub-district meet.  Everyone will be going on to our next competition level – District at Oak Creek on March 20^th.

The following students participated:

GROUP INTERP – Dear America:  Letters Home
Ben Chileski
Alex Arenas
Cheyene Luccassen
Amanda Barth

GROUP INTERP – The Little Mer-Persun
Heidi Anderson
Courtney Anderson
Lizzy Benser

DEMO – How To (and not to) Give A Speech
Ryan Edquist

MOMENTS IN HISTORY – The Killing of John Lennon
Jessica La Rocca

POETRY – What the Lyrics Mean to Me
Hannah Stamper

RADIO SPEAKING
Sammie Tomczewski

The Wilmot High Academic Bowl competed and successfully defeated the entire Southern Lakes Conference in the annual SLC Academic Bowl. Congratulations to this team for demonstrating Wilmot’s continued focus on learning and student achievement. Specific congratulations go out to the following students who were Conference Champs in a specific academic area:

• Brian Cummings: Physics
• Bridget Traverso: American Literature
• Cara Dowell: Geometry
• Jeff Ocweija: World History

The following are the team results from Monday’s Academic Bowl at Elkhorn High School:
1^st Place: Wilmot
2^nd Place: Elkhorn
3^rd Place: Waterford
4^th Place: Badger
5^th Place: Westosha
6^th Place: Union Grove
7^th Place: Burlington
8^th Place: Delevan – Darien

Team Roster

Freshmen:
Zach Zenner
Paul Swartz
Chris Lindstrand
Adrian Traverso

Sophomores:
Grant Kendall
Steven Duban
Stephanie Van Kampen
Cody Larson

Juniors:
Jeff Ocweija
Kaitlyn Welzen
Mandy Aug
Cara Dowell
Bridget Traverso
Julian Perez

Seniors:
Robb Evan
Steve Simons
Brian Cummings
Troy Slager
Jeremy Betz
Kyle Welzen

This is an update to a previous post regarding Matt Gray and his trip to the WIAA State Wrestling Tournament. He finished the tournament walking away with fourth place.

Congratulations Matt & the Wilmot wrestlers!

From left to right: Melissa Webster, Emily Hamilton, Kailee Wahler, and Landon Tenhagen

Four of Wilmot’s senior athletes have been presented with opportunities to play at the collegiate level and have made commitments to enroll after graduating high school. We congratulate them on their success while at Wilmot, and wish the best of luck in their future.

Landon Tenhagen has signed with Madison Area Technical College (D-3)

• Scholarship: $1,000 per year
• Major: Liberal Arts education, Physical Education
• Sport: Baseball

Kailee Wahler has been accepted at UW-Oshkosh (D-3)

• Major:  Business Administration & Spanish
• Sport:  Golf

Melissa Webster accepted at York College in Nebraska (D-2)

• Scholarship:  full athletic scholarship/ academic scholarship will be determined pending final GPA
• Major:  Medical Kinesiology
• Sport:  Softball

Emily Hamilton has signed with UW-Milwaukee (D-1)

• Scholarship:  Full tuition paid for athletics
• Major:  Secondary Education and Biology
• Sport:  Cross Country and Track

Jackie Herman (not pictured) has signed with Eastern Illinois (D-1)

• Scholarship:  Full tuition paid for athletics
• Sport:  Basketball

Wilmot had one wrestler advance to the semi-finals at the Kohl Center in Madison.  Matt Gray (140 lbs.), sophomore, will be wrestling at 7:00 p.m. tonight.  Congratulations to all the wrestlers for a great tournament performance!

Stay current with WIAA events at http://www.wiaawi.org/.

BBW (our gymnastics co-op team) advanced last night to the State meet next weekend in Wisconsin Rapids.  It was a nail biter to the very end with the team tied with Kenosha going into the last event.  The team will be representing our Sectional with the Franklin Combined team.  We also are sending 3 individuals to the event as well.  Great job girls and good luck next week at State!!

Stay current with WIAA events at http://www.wiaawi.org/.

Congratulations to the Wilmot wrestlers and their success this year! Wilmot is proud to acknowledge and support three students competing at the 2010 WIAA State Individual Tournament.

Wilmot’s Own Individual State Wrestling Competitors:

• Kyle Welzen [135 lbs]
• Matt Gray [140 lbs]
• Ryan Gartner [145 lbs]

The tournament is being held Thursday, February 25 through Saturday, February 27 at the Kohl Center. Click here for the Division 1 tournament bracket. For more information regarding the state tournament, visit the WIAA website. Track the event at http://www.trackwrestling.com.

Again this year our DECA chapter will be travelling to the Grand Geneva Resort for the annual DECA state competition on March 9th through the 11th. This year our chapter will be represented by eight students, which are:

Seniors- Kailee Wahler, Courtney White, and Nick Crifase

Juniors – Cody Guetzow, Ashley Dargan, Sara Dillon, Kelly ONeill,  and Ben Hejhal

They will be participating in various business and marketing categories and each competitor will have to do two role plays and will have to take two tests. Best of luck to all competitors in state!