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Teacher of the week- Mrs. McKinney

Tell us about yourself!

My birthday is October 1. I am married to Corey and we have a dog Xavier. I graduated from Purdue University. While I was at Purdue, I worked at an elementary school where I taught math to students in grades K-4. I enjoy playing softball, basketball, and golf. I also enjoy taking my dog for a walk and working projects around the house. I coach Varsity Softball and help out with Jr. High basketball and Campus Life.

What do you like about Southern Wells?
I like how Southern Wells is a small community and I like how the students interact with one another.

What is your favorite part of your job?To see all your smiling faces :-)

If you were animal, what would you be?
I would love to have the life of a dog.

Grilled Cheese or cheese toastie?
Grilled Cheese

What is the craziest thing that has happened to you on the job?
I had to entertain kindergarteners for three hours one day while we were under a tornado warning. We sang songs, drew on dry erase boards, and took turns using the bathroom all while quietly sitting in the hallway waiting for the storm to pass.

If you were stranded on an island, what 3 items would you bring with you and why?
Bear Grylls enough said. A hatchet because that’s really all you need to survive on an island and a hammock to sleep in the trees.

Campus Life Kickoff

High school Campus Life kicked off Wednesday, September 3 at Autumn and Mason Steven's house, with Jell-O wrestling and giveaways. In Jell-O wrestling, two teams of two would wrestle against each other. The first person who got knocked out of the ring lost, along with their team. The team to win two out of three rounds, won. The champions for the girls were Meghan Yencer and Lela Knowles, and the boys champions were Ethan Smith and Justin Ballenger. Giveaways included discounted trips for GoMad and Spring Break, leftover tee shirts from old trips, and trips to the movies and putt-putt. The next Campus Life event is Egg n Beg on Monday, September 15th.

Student Of The Week-Derick Bower

1.) Which do you prefer books, or movies? Movies

2.) What's your favorite subject? I don't have a favorite subject but my favorite class is weights.

3.) Who's your favorite teacher? My favorite teachers are Mr. Fouts and Mrs.Hunter because Fouts is awesome and Hunter because she gets on me about doing my homework and getting it done on time.

4.) How do you feel about going to school in a circle? I like it because I know I won't get lost.

5.) On Monday do you wear jeans or sweats? Jeans

6.) If you could go anywhere where would it be and why? Florida because I can go see my step brother and go fishing with him.

7.) Whats your middle name? Micheal

Staff Softball Game

This year, in honor of homecoming week, the Southern Wells Elementary and High School Staff are going to participate in a softball game on Monday, September 8th. Admission is $2 and the proceeds will benefit the Southern Wells Varsity Softball team. Concessions will be made available.  This game will be fun, exciting, and who doesn't want to see their favorite teachers play America's pastime? They can teach, but can they play?

 The teams will consist of:

High School Team
Kelly Plank, Laura Hanauer, Sydney Watters, Jeni Meeks, Monica Aker, Ben Mann, Chad Yencer, Joel Roush, Chad Smekens, Ben Burman, Kyle Penrod, Steve Yencer, Chris Painter, Ryan King, and Kelsey McKinney.

Elementary Team

Mike Carter, Dale Gearheart, Bill Cline, Nikki Barcus, Ross Palmer​, Bob Pace​, Chase Anderson​, Dawn Allison​, Paula McMillan, Rebecca Miner​, Lisa Smith​, Kim Huffman​, Laura McKinney​, and Robin Collins. ​

Sweat, Tears, and Hard Work! It's XC Season!

The Cross Country starts out hot as both the boys and girls compete in the bi-county meet. There were six teams that competed in Tuesday's meet. The teams came from the counties of Adams and Wells, therefore Bluffton, Norwell, Adams Central, South Adams, Belmont, and Southern Wells are all the schools that competed Tuesday. Unlike most meets, this meet was divided into 6 miles with a team of two. Each team had two players from the same school. The girls or boys would each run a mile and then switch off with their partner. Each person ran three miles.
The girls as a whole placed 3rd. Meghan Yencer and Brooke Penrod was Southern Wells' fasted team. The two girls finished 7th. Following close behind came Shelby Skidmore and Chloe Maddox placing 8th. The boys had a tough meet, with very competitive runners. The boys team placed 6th. Nick Childers and Ian Klowetter placed 15th. Mason Stevens and Bryce Paxson followed with placing 17th.
I spoke with Coach Rhodes after the meet, he believes that the three seniors, Meghan Yencer, Brooke Penrod, and Shelby Skidmore, will do great. He sees potential following them as the Juniors did very well tonight. He also sees quickness in the upcoming underclassmen. Coach Rhodes sees the girls hopefully advancing onto regionals. As for the boys, he sees hope in the future but the Cross Country boys are all young. The team consist of one junior (who has never ran before this season), one sophomore, and two freshman. He hopes that their will be a regional siting in the boys in the upcoming seasons. Coach Rhodes hopes to see both teams succeed this season.

Raiders Cage The Eagles

The Southern Wells Raiders came out very strong on Friday night against the Fremont Eagles. The Raiders scored early and often. Gavin Barcus scored first for the Raiders making the game 7-0. On defense senior captain Jake Roush recovered a fumble getting the Raiders the ball back. The Raiders continued running the ball all over Fremont. Gavin Barcus once again finished a great drive with his second touchdown in less than three minutes. Shortly after Fremont answered back with their only score of the night. The Raiders did not worry after the Fremont score. Senior Daniel Beeks got the Raiders all the way down to their own one yard line with Jake Roush finishing the drive with a touchdown. The Raiders finished the first quarter with a score of 21-7. The Raiders second quarter was much like the first quarter with our Raiders scoring 19 more points to take the Raiders into halftime dominating 40-7. In the second half the Raiders put up 9 more points to get the final score of 49-7. The Raiders defense was able to get some points as Grant Harris tackled the Fremont quarterback for a safety. Overall everything was going right for the Raiders with a great win over the Eagles. Jake Roush was given the offensive player of the game, rushing the ball for 150 yards and with a very impressive four touchdowns. Landon Cassiday was given the defensive player of the game with 4 tackles and 2 forced fumbles. Grant Harris was given the overall player of the game leading the team in tackles and having two tackles for a loss.


Stat Leaders
Rushing:
Jake Roush- 150 yards
Daniel Beeks- 89 yards
Gavin Barcus 65- yards

Touchdowns:
Jake Roush- 4
Gavin Barcus- 2
Bryce Bonewit- 1

Tackles:Grant Harris- 5
Gavin Barcus 5
Seth Trissel- 4
Landon Cassiday- 4

Who Got Sold for How Much?

School has just started, and our school FFA chapter is busy as usual. One of their major events at this time of year is the Greenhand Chili Supper and Member Auction. Generally what happens at the event is everything from eating chili and chicken soup to the purchasing of members to complete an 8 hour work day for their buyers. You know the FFA chapter has good roots and connections with the local community when they made over $12,000 at the member auction. Let me put it in simpler terms, they had at least three members to my knowledge who sold for $450 or more. Some of the sales were Jordyn Sills at $800, Zane Herr at $625, and Daniel Schriver at $475. But the Member auction isn't the only amazing part of the night, we also installed 14 new members, David Schriver was announced to be the Star Greenhand, and 11 current members obtained their chapter degree.  The two guest speakers of the night were John Jacobs and Sarah Alford, who graduated from Southern Wells in 2003 and 2009 respectively. I spoke with chapter president Jordyn Sills who said, "everything went well and smooth even though they did many new things." The future of our school's FFA chapter is looking bright!

Mrs. Meeks 2nd Period

Mrs. Meeks 2nd period math class is performing a poem for our site, we would like to recognize this class for their dedication and hard work.

Blood Drive!

The Southern Wells Student Council and The American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive in the library on Wednesday, September 3rd beginning at 9am. Staff and students that are 16 and older are encouraged to sign up in the high school office. Students who are 16 years old need to have a permission form signed by their parents prior to the Wednesday of the blood drive. We highly encourage our raiders to sign up for the blood drive and help make a contribution to our community!

Teacher Of The Week (Mr.Coach Penrod)

Questions & Responses

1.) How do you like teaching at Southern Wells? " I like it, teaching here feels like home, I'm very familiar with the people here and I have a lot of family and friends here. I also like the circle."

2.) How many years have you been teaching? "I've been teaching for two years. My 1st year teaching was at Muncie Southside, and now 2nd year is here."

3.) What made you want to be a teacher? "I like math so that made me want to be a teacher, I also wanted to coach basketball and my grandpa taught here."

Lady Raiders Fight Until The End Against Monroe Central

Tuesday, August 26, the Lady Raiders took on the number 21 ranked team in 1A, The Monroe Central Golden Bears. The game was a tough battle going into it and the Raiders knew it was going to be a competitive game. The Lady Raider fell in five games, 25-22, 23-25, 25-21, 15- 25, 10-15. In the third set, the Raiders came back from a six point deficit and won the set. After the game, we talked to the varsity head coach, Lynn Blevins, to get his thoughts on the game, before and after. “I thought we had a really good chance to play well, to work on what we have done in practice with a new defense and try to take away our unforced errors that seemed to be a bother to us every night we go out.” Blevins said.

The Raiders were lead by Junior, Arrianne Moore and Senior, Allison Blevins, with 7 kills apiece, followed by Savannah Deakyne 6, Megan Horton 5, Alexis Collins 2, and Lela Knowles, Bailey Kohr and Megan Fiechter 1. Horton had 4 blocks, Blevins 2 and Deakyne 1. Deakyne had 2 aces, Collins, Fiechter and Blevins had 1. Fiechter had 22 assists, Camryn Marcus, Deakyne, and Moore 2, and Collins 1.

In the JV match, the Raiders lost in two 23-25 and 20-25. The JV was lead by Brooke Zoda with 7 kills and Sara Booher with 1 block. Houston Lovell had 2 aces and Jessica Yencer had 11 assists.

Midway through the 4th game, a serve by Collins was shanked by the bears which hit the fire alarm and forced everyone to evacuate the gym for twenty minutes. This caused the momentum for both teams to stop mid-game and the 4th game was a struggle. However, Coach Blevins still was proud of his team stating, "I think that other than our forth game, we played really well. We played the role of the aggressor in a lot of instances where in the past we have not been so aggressive. I think our team learned a lot from that, in the fact that if we force the issue or if we push the tempo of a game, that good things will happen." Overall the Lady Raiders drive and passion for the game shined through and made for a great game.

The Official 2014 XC Preview!

     It's fall, and that means cross country season! When asked about this upcoming season, senior runner Meghan Yencer said that the top runners this year will be herself, fellow seniors Brooke Penrod and Shelby Skidmore, along with Junior Chloe Maddox. The boys and girls first meet was August 26 at Southwoood. But when asked which upcoming meets she is excited about, Meghan said, "Well, we have a bunch of really cool Saturday invites coming up, which are huge with a bunch of teams. And, it all leads down to ACAC which is the most important meet of the year." Hopefully, these girls, led by Meghan herself, do very well this year at ACAC! She says that she hopes to leave an impact by, " I along with the other seniors want to be good role models, lead the team by example, and get them pumped up for meets. Usually we do a chant that goes like, "What day is it?! Meet day!""
     Now for the boys team, expectations are a little lower. We also interviewed Sophomore runner, Nick Childers, who goes by the name Dale. We asked him and Meghan which team would do better this year, and the unanimous answer was the girls. But Dale did  say that he thought the boys team would do "OK" this year. His expectations for the year are to "beat everybody." Dale, along with the other boys are also excited for regionals this year. For an impact this year, Dale says that he hopes to be the best, even though he already is.
     Overall, the girls and boys teams are both really excited for the year and hope that they can each make a good impact on this year and maybe even get their team picture up in the Raiderdome!

Girls Golf Preview Ft. Jordyn Grace Sills

     As our 2014 year of Girls Golf kicks off, we would like to cover one of our best golfers Jordyn Sills. Jordyn is a leader on and off the course. When asked what do you like about your teammates this year? she said "We always have fun and laugh".  This year's team consist of, Jordyn Sills, Jasmine Gearheart, Rease Minear, Chloe Elam, Rachel Harvey, Jada Johnson, and Markie Price. This is Jordyn's last year on the golf team due to the fact that she is a senior, and says "This year is just as fun, but feels weird because I am a senior", her expectations for this year is to have a winning record, and have fun. The current top 3 players on the team are currently: 1. Rease Minear 2. Rachel Harvey, and Jordyn Sills.

Lady Raiders are Optimistic About Upcoming Season

“We are definitely going to be better and more improved than last year,” Senior Savannah Deakyne says going into the Elwood Community Invitational. “ We have had the same coach so we can become consistent and I think it will be a good year by the end.” Deakyne states when asked about the upcoming season. Deakyne is an outside hitter for the Raiders in her fourth year member of the varsity squad. When asked about what she is willing to do to make the team great, she says, "I want to help, not only the under classmen, but everyone. I want to have a fun time and I want everyone to improve once I’m gone and I want to make an impact on the upcoming volleyball players.”

Unfortunately, the Raiders went 0-4 on the weekend’s tournament. The Raiders were lead in this weekend’s tournament by Freshman Megan Horton and Senior Allison Blevins with 11 kills each, followed by Savannah Deakyne 7, Arrianne Moore 6, Savannah Ocasio 3, Lela Knowles 2, and Megan Fiechter 1.

With blocks, Blevins lead having 2 ½, Horton 2, Moore 1, and Deakyne ½. Fiechter had 23 assists followed by Camryn Marcus with 9. Ocasio dug up 15 balls, Fiechter and Bailey Kohr each had 4, Knowles 3, Sydnee Jones and Deakyne each had 2.

The Lady Raider Volleyball team will be back in action on Tuesday, August 26 taking on the Monroe Central Bears at The Den and Thursday, August 28 at home against Mississinewa, so come out and support your lady Raiders!

Southern Wells Drops Season Opener to Southwood

The Southern Wells Raiders lose the season opener friday night at Carnes Field. The Raiders came out very strong holding Southwood to only 25 total yards in the whole first half. The game went into halftime tied at 0. After the break Southwood came out very strong scoring 13 straight points. The Raiders came back with a touchdown pass from Bryce Bonewit to Brad Woodward from 63 yards out, with Keaton Coleman adding the extra point to bring the Raiders back 13-7. Southwood scored two more touchdowns to wrap up the game. The final score was 26-7. The Raiders’ defence was lead by Landon Cassidy with 9 tackles, and Brad Woodward with a key interception and two passes deflected. Brad Woodward was given offensive player of the game and Landon Cassiday was given Defensive player of the game for the Raiders.


Stat Leaders

Passing:
Bryce Bonewit- 63 yards

Rushing:
Bryce Bonewit- 39 yards
Daniel Beeks- 37 yards

Receiving:
Brad Woodward- 63 yards

Tackles:
Landon Cassiday- 9
Seth Trissel- 7

It’s Time For You To Know About Us

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