Oswego USD 504

We could still use some help with concessions, gate workers and possibly announcing for our home archery tournament on Feb. 22. If you are interested in helping with any of these positions please let me know. Once I get all positions filled I will communicate with everyone on what they are working. We really appreciate any help you can provide.

We will not have archery practice Thursday, Feb. 13. Next practice will be Friday, Feb. 14 from 3:30-6:00 at NEHI.

Good Evening Indian Nation. Due to icy conditions, we will not have school tomorrow, Thursday, February 13th. Stay warm and stay safe!

JH Spring Picture Day at OJSHS has been rescheduled to February 21st.

We will not have archery practice tonight. We will have practice Thursday, Feb. 13 from 3:30-6:30 at NEHI.

Good Evening Indian Nation. Due to the predicted hazardous weather conditions, we will be cancelling school school tomorrow, Wednesday February 12th. Stay warm and stay safe.

The USD 504 archery teams traveled to Cherokee Saturday, Feb. 8 to compete our 4th tournament of the year. We had several archers missing on Saturday because of illness. That gave some other archers the opportunity to step up. They did step up in a big way. We had several shoot a PR and several medal. Was a great day for our archery teams.. Elementary team 1st place 2603 Middle School team 1st place 3085 Top three teams receive a trophy and top 3 shooters received a medal Axton Myers, Michael Varner, Elizabeth Dalton, Andelyn Johnson, Brooklyn Hazell, Odalys Santana and Axel Santana each received a medal. Odalys Santan, Emma Barnett, Xitlally Santana, Teagan Davis, Samuel Byrd, Ryder Collins, Jaden Perona, Brogan Marquardt and Persephone Fuller each shot their best scores of the year. Michael Varner 276 2nd middle school boys, 1st 8th grade boys, 3rd overall 4th thru 12th grade Elizabeth Dalton 273 1st place middle school girls, 1st place 8th grade girls, 4th overall. Andelyn Johnson 267 2nd place middle school girls, 2nd place 8th grade girls, 6th overall Brooklyn Hazell 265 3rd place middle school girls, 3rd place 8th grade girls, 7th overall Odalys Santana 263 PR 1st place elementary girls, 1st place 5th grade girls, 10th overall Chloe Rhodenbaugh 262 4th place middle school girls, 4th place 8th grade girls Axel Santana 261 3rd place middle school boys, 2nd place 8th grade boys Emma Barnett 258 PR 5th place middle school girls, 1st place 6th grade girls Amelia Head 256 6th place middle school girls, 2nd place 6th grade girls Amelia Owens 252 8th place middle school girls, 3rd place 6th grade girls Kobe Hazell 251 5th place middle school boys, 1st place 6th grade boys Aralynn Tun 245 2nd place elementary girls, 2nd place 5th grade girls Sydney Huebner 241 10th place middle school girls, 2nd place 7th grade girls. Ava Edmond 240 3rd place 7th grade girls Xitlally Santana 234 PR 4th place elementary girls, 2nd place 4th grade girls Teagan Davis 233 PR 2nd place elementary boys, 2nd place 5th grade boys Isabella George 232 4th place 6th grade girls Skyler Neblett 231 3rd place elementary boys, 3rd place 5th grade boys Paris Clifton 231 5th place 6th grade girls Maleah Moore 225 6th place 6th grade girls Samuel Byrd 223 PR 4th place 6th grade boys Brody Ghering 221 6th place 6th grade boys Ryder Collins 218 PR 5th place elementary boys, 1st place 4th grade boys Jazlyn Folk 212 6th place elementary girls, 3rd place 5th grade girls Maicee Wimp 211 8th place 6th grade girls Oakley Gatton 210 7th place elementary boys, 2nd place 4th grade boys Elias Smith 207 8th place elementary boys, 6th place 5th grade boys Lucas Schroeder 200 5th place 7th grade boys Gabe Spencer 197 McKenna White 195 7th place 7th grade girls Jaden Perona 192 PR 10th place elementary boys, 8th place 5th grade boys Stephen House 181 3rd place 4th grade boys Teazly Higgins 177 7th place elementary girls, 4th place 5th grade girls Camron Edmond 175 9th place 5th grade boys Allison Becker 166 8th place elementary girls, 5th place 5th grade girls Brogan Marquardt 159 PR 4th place 4th grade boys Raylan Gilliland 152 10th place 5th grade boys. Kenzie Rion 138 9th place elementary girls, 4th place 4th grade girls Patience DeMoss 132 10th place elementary girls, 6th place 5th grade girls Persephone Fuller 124 PR 5th place 4th grade girls Brayleigh Blake 8th place 5th grade girls High School Axton Myers 282 1st place high school boys, 1st place 9th grade boys and 1st place overall Connor Minor 271 PR 4th place high school boys, 1st place 12th grade boys, 6th place overall Tayton Hazell 252 8th place 11th grade boys Brody Braun 247 7th place 9th grade boys Paityn Edwards 247 4th place 9th grade girls Justice Spunaugle 221 9th place 9th grade girls Ella Shouse 213 10th place 9th grade girls Corey Shepard 211

Last week students, Miles Dieker and Braden Wary, from OJSHS served as pages at our Kansas State Capital. They spent time with Senator Virgil Peck and were able to serve our elected officials during session. We are so proud of their accomplishments! It's a great day to be an Indian!

BINGO NIGHT! Support our OHS Project Prom 2025 on February 22, 2025, at the Oswego Community Building. Doors open at 4:00 p.m., Game starts at 5:00 p.m. 10 Games for $10. Pulled pork sandwich, chips, cookie, and drink for $10. *Meals are available for carry out*

The 2025 Oswego High School Basketball Homecoming will be on Friday, February 14. The Homecoming ceremony will begin at 5:30pm. The varsity boys will play the first game of the night at 6:00pm, followed by the varsity girls. Come out and support the OHS Homecoming Court and the Girls and Boys Basketball teams.

We are still planning on attending the archery tournament in Cherokee tomorrow. The tournament is at Southeast High School. The address is Southeast High School, 126 W 400 HWY, Cherokee, KS 66724. Please let us know if you can't make it because of sickness. It helps the tournament run smoother if they know that before their flight begins. As always, don't hesitate to contact us with any questions. Looking forward to a great tournament tomorrow.

There will still be practice for Little Indians tonight 2/5. There will NOT be practice tomorrow and we are looking at rescheduling the Little Indians performance.

USD 504 Activities update. Thursday, February 6: • The High School JV Basketball tournament is canceled. No makeup date is scheduled. • High School Scholar's Bowl is canceled. No makeup date is scheduled. Friday, February 7: • High School Boys Basketball and Little Indians Dance at halftime performance is rescheduled for Thursday, February 13, at 6 p.m. Saturday, February 8: • All activities will continue as scheduled. Participants should not participate if showing signs of illness. • Middle School Boys and Girls Basketball Tournament at Chatopa • Archery at Southeast • Forensics at Parsons

Good afternoon. Due to increasing student and staff absences caused by illness, USD 504 will not be in session on Thursday, February 6th and Friday, February 7th. This will allow the district to engage in deep cleaning of the facilities. Hopefully, our 504 family will be healthier when we return to school on Monday, February 10th. Thank You.

On Feb. 22, the USD 504 archery teams will be hosting our second archery tournament. On Feb. 21, we will be working to set up for the tournament in the high school and junior high gyms. Starting at 3:30 on Friday, Feb. 21 we will start setting up the ranges in both gyms. We will need all hands on deck to make this as easy a transition as possible. All coaches, archers and parents are invited to help with the set up. We will also need a tremendous amount of help running the tournament on Saturday, Feb. 22. A couple of positions we need filled are concession workers and gate workers. If we have parents that would be willing to work either of these positions we would greatly appreciate it. We will make sure that you are free to watch your child shoot on the day of the tournament. We have time slots for concession workers available every hour starting at 8:00 and ending at 4:00. If you are interested in working an hour session on Saturday, Feb. 22 please let us know. We will also do the same thing for gate workers. We will start hour long sessions for the gate at 7:30 on Saturday. We will have someone every hour ending at 4:00. Please let us know if you would be willing to work the gate. We will also need someone to announce in the 3D gym. Please let us know if you would be willing to do that. Last year we ran an extremely successful tournament. We are all very proud of what we accomplished last year. Without everyone’s willingness to pitch in and help it would not have been possible. We hope that this year will be bigger and better than it was last year. We look forward to working with everyone to make this happen. Please don’t hesitate to contact any of the coaches with any questions you may have.

We will have archery practice Saturday, Feb. 1 in the NEHI gym. Practice will start at 5:30 pm and run until 8:00 pm. Practice format will be the same as it is on Wednesday.

The USD 504 archery teams traveled to Carl Junction Missouri for our 4th archery tournament this year. Once again, our archers distinguished themselves as individuals and teams that can compete with the best shooters in our area. We were fortunate to be able to shoot against the defending national championship middle school team on Saturday. Our shooters shot side by side with their shooters and showed that they belong in that level of shooter. In the history of the middle school program, no 504 team has shot a higher score than the score we shot on Saturday. Would be a great accomplishment if we could shoot over 3200 by the end of the year. The elementary score of 2608 ranks in the top 5 scores our elementary team has ever shot. We are seeing a tremendous amount of improvement in the middle school and elementary teams. This has been really fun to watch so far this year. We are also seeing some increased participation at the high school level. We had a record number participate in the 3D shoot Saturday. We are excited to see how to grow in 3D as the year transpires. They have also been improving on the bullseye range. Extremely grateful to have the high school shooters contributing on our high school team. Shooters winning medals on Saturday were: Matthias Shaw 1st place middle school boys BE, Brooklyn Hazell 5th place middle school girls BE (Brooklyn also had a perfect round of 50 from 10 meters), Michael Varner 9th place middle school boys BE, Skyler Neblett 3rd place elementary boys BE, Odalys Santana 5th place elementary girls BE. Shooters that shot a PR on Saturday were: Michael Varner 3D, Brooklyn Hazell 3D & BE, Andelyn Johnson 3D & BE, Amelia Owens 3D, Kobe Hazell 3D, Paityn Edwards 3D, Connor Minor 3D, Brody Braun 3D, Corey Shepard 3D, Matthias Shaw BE, Maicee Wimp BE, Emma Barnett BE, McKenna White BE, Maleah Moore BE, Jazlyn Folk BE, Brody Ghering BE, Oakley Gatton BE, George McCready BE, Jaxson Blair BE, Raylan Gilliland BE, Vanslee Nading BE, Adelynn Queen BE, Kenzie Rion BE, Brogan Marquardt BE, and Persephone Fuller Middle School 3D tied for 3rd with Lamar with 1575 points. Lamar won the tiebreaker because they shot 3 more tens. Lamar had 60 tens and we had 57 tens. Top three teams receive a trophy and top 5 individuals in 3D win medals. Michael Varner 8th grade boys 4th place 267 PR Axel Santana 8th grade boys 5th place 266 Brooklyn Hazel 8th grade girls 4th place, middle school girls 8th place 264 PR Andelyn Johnson 8th girls 5th place 261 PR Matthias Shaw 8th grade boys 7th place 259 Chloe Rhodenbaugh 8th grade girls 7th place 258 Elizabeth Dalton 8th grade girls 8th place 255 Amelia Owens 6th grade girls 4th place 255 PR Kobe Hazell 6th grade boys 7th place 233 PR High School 3D Top 5 individuals receive medals. Paityn Edwards 242 PR Connor Minor 240 PR Brody Braun 227 PR Corey Shepard 188 PR Top 3 teams receive trophies. Top ten individuals receive a medal. Elementary /Middle School Bullseye: The elementary team shot a season best score of 2608 with 43 ten shots. The middle school team shot a season best score of 3194 with 118 ten shots. Middle school and Elementary Individual Results: Matthias Shaw Middle school boys 1st and 8th grade boys 1st. Overall boys rank 4th thru 12th grade 9th. 284 PR Brooklyn Hazell Middle school girls 5th and 8th grade girls 3rd 279 PR Michael Varner Middle school boys 9th and 8th grade boys 4th 278 Eric Martin 7th grade boys 5th 273 Andelyn Johnson 8th grade girls 5th 272 PR Elizabeth Dalton 8th grade girls 9th place 270 Amelia Owens 6th grade girls 6th place 261 Chloe Rhodenbaugh 261 Axel Santana 260 Sydney Huebner 8th grade girls 10th 258 Skyler Neblett Elementary boys 3rd and 5th grade boys 3rd 253 Maicee Wimp 6th grade girls 7th 249 PR Kobe Hazell 6th grade boys 10th 249 Paris Clifton 6th grade girls 9th place 248 Odalys Santana Elementary girls 5th place and 5th grade girls 4th 245 Emma Barnett 242 PR McKenna White 241 PR Maleah Moore 240 PR Emily Wible 235 Isabella George 233 Lucas Schroeder 233 Jazlyn Folk 4th grade girls 4th 231 PR Aralynn Tun 5th grade girls 10th 229 Oakley Gatton 4th grade boys 2nd 227 PR Brody Ghering 222 PR Ava Edmond 221 Elias Smith 215 Camron Edmond 213 George McCready 209 PR Cage Miller 207 Teagan Davis 207 Xitlally Santana 205 Jaxson Blair 205 PR Gabe Spencer 205 Samuel Byrd 203 Jackson Gilley 4th grade boys 6th 193 Raylan Gillilland 183 PR Vanslee Nading 180 PR Adelynn Queen 170 PR Kenzie Rion 168 PR Brogan Marquardt 149 PR Orrin Fuller 145 Teazly Higgins 132 Allison Becker 132 Persephone Fuller 120 PR Madison Spencer 101 Brayleigh Blake 89 High School Results: Top ten individuals receive medals in each division. Axton Myers 9th grade boys 9th place 268 Chance Mills 260 Paityn Edwards 259 Brody Braun 257 PR Connor Minor 226 Corey Shepard 222 PR Ella Shouse 214 Justice Spunaugle 171

The USD 504 archery teams will not be competing in Carthage this weekend. Our next tournament will be at Southeast on Feb. 8. Message Coach Cruse if you have any questions.

There will be no activity bus after school today, Friday January 24, 2025. We are sorry for the inconvenience but due to driver shortage this bus is not able to run today. Activity bus will resume on Monday, January 27, 2025.

Here is a map of the campus at Carl Junction where our archery tournament is this weekend. Saturday morning we will set up in the high school. This is where you will get your bows and scorecards. If you are shooting in the junior high, we will walk from the high school to the junior high when it is your time to shoot. It is best to show up around 1 hour before you shoot. They will most likely let you in 10-15 minutes before your flight time . The address to the facility in on the map. Please let me know if you have any questions. I will communicate with everyone when your shooting time will be.