On November 2nd, Addison Moore won her second consecutive state meet, once again crowned the State Champion with a 5k time of 18:06.82. Also competing in the women’s race for Woodford County were Gabby Gampper (21:42), Larkyn Hewitt (21:45), Charla Gormely (24:33), Ashlyn Dearinger (25:07), Kennedy Cabell (25:25), and Lucy Danks (29:43). Ryan Hendrix also had an impressive performance with a 5k time of 16:03 coming 11th place. The other finishers for Woodford in the men’s race were Blake Burns (17:50), Jayden Matingly (19:54), Will Seitz (20:45), Ian Mattingly (21:05), Jake Crain (21:36)
We started off this month with a 4 day weekend thanks to election day which ended up as a sweep for the republican party, taking control of the Senate along with the White House. Trump was elected for his second term after winning all the swing states, which included Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But surely everyone’s heard enough about the election this year, so let’s move on to school related news.
Woodford pulled an impressive win over Dixie Heights on Friday November 8th in our first home game in a while. On November 15th our season came to an end with a loss that took us out of the postseason bracket.
Winter sports kicked off this month including womens and mens basketball and the WCHS swim and dive team. Archery is well underway and wrestling has had an exciting start as well.
Several WCHS students committed and signed to continue their education for sports. Congratulations to Sophie Paul, who will play soccer at Georgetown College, Armelo Boone who will further his basketball career at Western Kentucky University, and Ryan Hendrix who also signed for WKU.
9th grade All District Honor Band All State Band round 1 auditions were held on the 21st. Congratulations to these 9th graders: Thomas Young, Lucia Rickard, Michael Crawford, Mason Peterson, Paxton Magruder, Lucy Danks, and Alex Trana. As well as Wesley Shanbacher, Jose Avila, Logan Psak, Andrew Scott, Evan Taylor, Tyler Venus, and Rex Brown, who will advance to the second round of All State cuts.
Thanksgiving break made way for the second snow of the season. Though it wasn’t enough to stick more than a few days. Teachers are beginning to pack for the upcoming move to the new school.
I’m taking a break from the digest next month for the holidays, so check back in January for the next edition.
