The Boomer

Tuesday, December 10

9A/JV/V Boys Basketball vs Granbury 5:00/5:00/7:30 PM

9/JV/V Girls Basketball @ NW Eaton 8:00/5:00/6:30 PM

Thursday, December 12

JV/Varsity Boys Soccer scrimmage vs Azle @ Kangaroo Stadium 6:00/7:30

9A/JV/Varsity Boys Basketball @ Decatur Tournament TBA

9B Boys Basketball vs Southlake (@ McCarroll Middle School, Denton) 7:00

Friday, December 13

Varsity Boys Wrestling @ Perry TOC 10:00 AM

Varsity Girls Wrestling @ Texas Womens Classic 4:00 PM

9A/JV/Varsity Boys Basketball @ Decatur Tournament TBA

9B Boys Basketball vs TLCA (@ McCarroll Middle School, Denton) 10:00am

9/JV/Varsity Girls Basketball vs. Keller Central @ WHS 6:30/5:00/6:30

Saturday, December 14

Varsity Boys Wrestling @ Perry TOC Day 2 9:00 AM

Varsity Girls Wrestling @ Texas Womens Classic 8:00 AM

JV/Varsity Boys Basketball @ Decatur Tournament TBA

Everything you need to know for your student's academic career in WISD.

2020-'21 Academic Planning Guide

Registration for the 2020-2021 School Year begins in January! Counselors will be working with WHS students on the following schedule to get them enrolled for next year’s courses. Course selection sheets will be available soon.

Rising Seniors (current juniors) – January 7-10

Rising Juniors (current sophomores) – January 13-16

Rising Sophomores (current freshmen) – January 21-24

Tues - 12/10 English 1

Wednesday - 12/11 Algebra & US History

Thursday - 12/12 English 2

Friday - 12/13 Biology

Texas Thespian Festival 2019 was a huge success for WHS Theatre! Besides having a group of 29 of the best behaved 9th-12th graders at the convention, we are proud to announce that we have two Individual Events that qualified to compete at Nationals, consisting of SEVEN kids! Congratulations to Audrey, Mia, Madi, Clara, Chloe, and Hannah for qualifying with their performance of the song “Ex-Wives” from the musical Six as well as Dandee for her performance of the song “Dead Mom” from Beetlejuice the Musical. We’re also so proud of the other ten kids who worked incredibly hard to prepare our other five IEs. This afternoon, our cast and house crew of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind performed for a SOLD OUT house of 474 thespians. Our show was so popular that they had to bring in extra crowd control and turn HUNDREDS of people away at the door!

The Lady Roos went 1 and 1 over the break. Monday the 25th the ladies travelled to Abilene Wylie and hung tough but lost 46-37, then turned around and played Brock here at the Outback and pulled off the upset 47-45 with two free throws made by Mackenzie “Dark Helmet” Wells with 1.4 seconds left to pull of the win.

The Lady Roos host The Lady Hornets from the Hive of Azle Tuesday night, JV at 5 and V and Freshman at 6:30, then travel to Granbury Th-Sat to play in their 9th/JV/V Lady Pirates of the Carribean Lake Granbury Invitational.

The Texas Public Safety Association (TPSA) club is made up of like minded students from NGC and WHS who desire a future in Law or the Public Safety profession. Students meet after school, twice a month, on Tuesdays from 4:00pm - 5:00pm. Its never to late to join and be part of this growing group of future professionals. At the main campus, come by K210 and see Mrs. Hedrick. At NGC, come by and see Mr. Hegre.

Here are the results from this weekends Outback Invitational. The boys and girls Varsity both took home the championship. The following are the individual results.

> JV and Varsity Girls
> Kaylynn Green placed 1st Outstanding Wrestler for girls
> Camille Fournier placed 1st
> Kadee Kelley placed 1st
> Sydnee Baker placed 1st
> Isabella Bratcher placed 2nd
> Ana Luna placed 2nd
> Alyssa Carrillo placed 2nd
> Ashley Little placed 3rd
> Isabella Johns placed 3rd
> Jacy Pundsack placed 3rd
> Rhianon Workman placed 3rd
> Ashton Ganus placed 4th
> Torrie Barlow placed 4th
> Sara Crews placed 4th
> Jamie Maxwell placed 5th
> Elizabeth Rodriguez placed 5th
> Genevieve Upthegrove placed 5th
>
> JV Boys
> Tristen Bailey placed 1st
> Hunter Jackson placed 2nd
> Isaiah Browning placed 2nd
> Nikolai Thielepape placed 3rd
> Kyzar Shaw placed 3rd
> Matthew Fugitt placed 4th
>

Varsity Boys
> Jakob DeLeon placed 1st Outstanding boys wrestler
> Matthew McDougall placed 1st
> Josh Gilliam placed 1st
> Jesse McCaslin placed 1st
> Cole Tierce placed 1st
> Mason Woodward placed 1st
> Ben Williams placed 2nd
> Colton Kern placed 2nd
> Kit Sanders placed 2nd
> Bradden Williams placed 2nd
> RC Bullock placed 3rd
> Daniel Cedillo placed 3rd
> Malaki Deleon placed 3rd
> Ethan Scott placed 3rd
>
> Way to go Weatherford Wrestlers!
> #RooWrestling

Over the Thanksgiving break the Girls Traveled to Arlington Martin Taking 4th out of 17 teams.

Individual placers were Kadee Kelley taking second behind the defending state bronze medalist.

Camille Fournier taking first and keeping her undefeated record and Wrestling in their first varsity tournament ever Jacy Pundsack took 5th, Perla Rodriquez took 6th and the freshman stepping up in a big way Rihiannon Workman Taking home the gold

The boys wrestling team competed at the Warrior Invitational over the break. The boys came in 3rd place only 10 points behind defending state runner up Martin for 1st. It was a great showing for the boys. We had several place winners in the 38 team tournament. Mason Woodward took home the Deadliest Warrior Award after finishing 1st and pinning the defending state champion in the finals. Newcomer Koby Kidd took down the defending state medalist from Martin in the finals to stay undefeated on the year. Cole Tierce’s only loss came in a hard fought match with #8 nationally ranked wrestler at his weight. Other placers were Colton Kern and Jesse McCaslin. The boys team now has 8 top 20 state ranked wrestlers. Great job boys.

The following wrestlers competed and placed at the Warrior invitational JV tournament over the Thanksgiving break. Congratulations wrestlers.

Rc Bullock 2nd

Benjamin Williams 1st

Tristen Bailey 4th

Keaton Ganus 3rd

Phillip Villafuente 4th

Kyzar Shaw 3rd

Braden Williams 2nd

Josh Gillam 4th

Gary OBannon 3rd

Hello All!

WOW!!! We broke all the records, thanks to you, and your students, we were able to obtain 89 donations total . This means we were able to potentially save 267 lives in the DFW area. Did you know that 20% of the blood that is used in our area comes from big high school drives? We totally blew through our goals! Just in the nick of time, because they are at a critical low at the moment. What an impact we made this holiday, there is no greater gift!

Thanks Again!

HST Team

This weekend your WHS Competition Cheerleading team competed at the NCA Game Day Regional competition. We are so proud to say that our Roo Nation cheerleaders are not only the overall 6A Regional Game Day division champions, but we are also bringing home 1st place in all 3 categories (band chant, cheer, fight song) and High Point champions in Game Day Cheer - the highest scoring cheer out of all divisions present at this competition! We are very proud of these athletes and hope you’ll congratulate them when you see them! Our cheerleaders will compete again next month at the Grapevine Invitational as we prepare to fight for state and national titles this season!

Concert and Indoor season are starting up for the year. Make sure to come out for all of our concerts and competition performances. You can find our schedules on Roobands.com For those that ordered Poinsettias, delivery is expected to be the December 10th.

The WHS Band directors would like to thank Weatherford ISD, the Administration, and our community for all their support of our fine arts. We would also like again, thank the Band parents and boosters who strive to support us with all the needs of a growing program. Please have a safe and relaxing Thanksgiving Break, and we will see you in December for our Holiday concerts.

This week, several WHS Band members participated in the first round of All-Region Band audition process. The following students were selected to compete at Phase 2 of the process held on Dec. 14th at Timber Creek HS. These students have been working diligently to compete in this very selective process.

Cole Gaines – 1st Chair Tuba

Macy Mashburn – 6th Chair Horn

Heather Parish - 3rd Chair Flute

Audrey Waldron - 7th Chair Flute

Jack Waldron - 5th Chair Alto Saxophone

Brody Westbrook - 8th Chair Percussion

Alicia German - 5th Chair Flute

Hall MS Band Holiday Concert - December 9th @ Durant Auditorium (Starts at 6:30 pm)

Tison MS Band Holiday Concert - December 10th @ Durant Auditorium (Starts at 6:30 pm)
​WHS Bands Holiday Concert - December 12th @ Durant Auditorium (Starts at 6:30 pm)

All Region Band Phase 2 and Freshman Auditions - December 14th @ Timber Creek HS

Band is selling frame worthy 5x7 Christmas Cards for $2 each.

They come with an envelope but can be used as a postcard as well.

The results are in for our November and December Optimist Club Texan & Texanne Winners:

Texan for November: Kit Sanders

Texanne for November: Patty Yepson

Texan for December: Keaton Martin

Texanne for December: Peyton Towles

Congratulations to these outstanding students!

Please congratulate the following WISD Commercial Photo Students for their win in the ATPI International Fall Photo Contest. The six judges - Deborah Cannon, Kemp Davis, Angela Lawson, Hal Schmidt, Katherine Watts-Martinez and Cassandra Weyandt - spent ten hours judging more than 7000 entries from 111 schools.The entries came from Texas, plus California, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Saskatchewan, Canada. Our congratulations go out to the winners and to all of the students and teachers that chose to enter this year

Beginner Division:

2nd Place Portrait Molly Tolin

Honorable Mention Portrait Jessica Brady

Honorable Mention Portrait Ivy Devora

Honorable Mention Landscape Dakota Thomas

1st Honorable Mention Nature Dakota Thomas

Advanced Division:

Honorable Mention Advertising Tovah Lewis

Honorable Mention Animal Reagan Lee

Honorable Mention Still-Life Linzie Carwile

Sponsored by the Fort Worth Country Day Visual Arts Department, Black & White Images is an annual juried exhibition for high school photography students attending public and private schools in the Denton, Dallas and Tarrant counties. The exhibition offers students an opportunity to exchange ideas, receive due recognition and display outstanding photography.

ALL Entries are juried first to even be accepted into the competition. Work will be on display at a gallery in Ft. Worth-more info to follow. This is a great honor for these kiddos.

Tovah Lewis- Photo Essay "Inverted Trash"

Tovah Lewis- Photo Essay " Escape"

Linzie Carwile- Still Life " Beautiful Decay"

Linzie Carwile- Still Life " Details"

The WHS LIbrary will NOT require students to have a pass before or after school to work in the library. This was causing some students to be turned away that needed to complete assignments. We are open at 7:45am and close at 4:15pm, unless we have a meeting scheduled. We are also open during lunches on M,W, F- 2nd lunch, and T,TH 1st lunch. Students should know they are always welcome in the library to do work!

The College Board partners with scholarship providers connected to the SAT®, PSAT/NMSQT®, and PSAT™ 10. Through these partners, students can access over $300 million in scholarship awards. Learn more about scholarships.

Below are deadline notifications for two of our partners:

TheDream.US

TheDream.US is the nation's largest college access and success program for immigrant youth with DACA or TPS status, or that meet TheDream.US immigration eligibility criteria. It opened its new round of scholarship applications for the 2020-21 academic year on November 1, 2019. TheDream.US has provided more than 6,000 scholarships to students who are attending one of its more than 75 partner colleges and universities in 15 states and Washington, D.C.

The National Scholarship, an up-to-$33,000 scholarship for high school or first-time college students and community college graduates, closes February 27, 2020. The Opportunity Scholarship, an up-to-$80,000 scholarship for first-time college students, closes January 30, 2020.
Learn more by visiting thedream.us/scholarships/.

The Jackie Robinson Foundation

No one succeeds in college alone. That's why The Jackie Robinson Foundation offers promising minority students not only a generous four-year grant to assist with the costs of attending college, but also a full support network of fellow scholars, alumni, and professional mentors to help them excel in school and beyond.

The deadline for applications is February 1, 2020, so encourage your eligible students to apply right away.

Learn more by visiting jackierobinson.org/apply/.

The highly competitive, nonrenewable, need- and merit-based Cobell Scholarship Program, administered by Indigenous Education, Inc., provides scholarships for American Indian and Alaska Native students who are enrolled members of U.S. federally recognized tribes, pursuing vocational, undergraduate, and graduate degrees at nonprofit institutions.

Applications are accepted December 15 through March 31 annually for the upcoming academic year through the Online Application and Student Information System (OASIS). Applicants begin by creating a general application profile in OASIS, after which they're matched to the available scholarship opportunities for which they're qualified.

Visit cobellscholar.org for more information on the Cobell Summer Scholarship application (open February 14 through May 4 each year), vocational-specific opportunities, the Cobell Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, and other external scholarships.

This weekly newsletter is produced by Mrs. Gilley's Journalism 1 students, Rachel Speegle and Dakota Thomas

Information must be supplied by WHS Faculty & Staff. Booster Clubs, please send your information through your Coach or Faculty Sponsor.

Information must be received by Thursday to be included in the next week's Boomer. We apologize for the time delay for weekend events.

Thanks for your support!

Got questions/comments? Please email sgilley@weatherfordisd.com

Email: sgilley@weatherfordisd.com
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Location: 2121 Bethel Road, Weatherford, TX, USA
Phone: 817-598-2858