ASSINIBOIA - As the year comes to a close, we should all take a moment to reflect on what a tremendous year of achievements these students of ACHS have had!
Kick-starting the year with football the team had finished 3-3 barely missing the playoff games.
In volleyball, the senior boys pushed to provincials this year winning the silver medal in Unity. The school hopes that the next team of seniors will follow in the footsteps of this year’s wonderful team! The Bantam girls’ volleyball team also won gold in the South East sectionals then won silver in their district games!
In basketball, the boy’s senior team had fallen short in the conference game leading to the end of the season, and a huge shout out to the six senior boys moving on at the end of this year.
The girl’s senior team competed in Lanigan at the regional games, they fought hard but came up short. Another big shout out to the 11 senior girls from both ACHS and Gravelburg and an even bigger shout out to Coach Wandler finishing his 24th year as coach of the ACHS senior girl’s basketball team.
Then the girl’s bantam basketball took gold in their district finals, hopefully, these ladies will step and join the senior girl’s basketball team!
All badminton teams went to Moose Jaw on April 27th for the South Central District Playoffs these games had marked the end of the badminton season for all players except Ty Reid and Keaton Hillmer who made it to Nipawin on May 11th for the SHSAA badminton provincial championship and placed 5th. Both of these amazing athletes will be missed next year!
But in the boy’s singles badminton category, Eric Helland achieved gold. In the girl’s singles Rylee Huys won the silver medal and in the girl’s doubles Gg Simard and Shreya Virani placed second in their pool and made it to the bronze game but were sadly cut short. In the mixed doubles category, Ayesha Martin and Ryan Corcoran placed first in their pool and made it to the bronze game but also came up short against the other players. This weekend marks the end of the bantam season.
The track team peaked when they went Moose Jaw on the 29th of May for the South Central District meet, where if athletes placed 1st or 2nd in any of their events they would be heading to the SHSAA Provincial Championship Track and Field Meet in Saskatoon on June 7th and 8th.
In the girl’s grade 9 group, Ava Coghill placed 2nd in the 200m dash, 6th in discus, and 5th in shot put. Then Kaelyn Snape landed 2nd in Javelin, 5th in high jump, and 7th in triple jump, Sheridyn Scott placed 2nd in the 80m hurdles and 4th in the 100m dash.
Also, in the girl’s grade 9 group Charlize Hillmer placed 1st and set a new record for the South Central District meet in the Girls Junior Tetrathlon with 1892 points! Charlize was 6 points higher than the previous record in the South Central District meet.
In the girl’s grade 10 group, Ella Kwasnicki had placed 3rd in both the 800m run and the 1500m run, then placed 7th in the long jump. Aspen Watteyne landed 8th in the long jump.
Radu Bumbac was the only boy from grade 10 to participate in the track team this year and he placed 3rd in both the 800m run and triple jump then placed 5th in long jump.
Grayson Ciocia was also the only person in grade 11 to join the team and he placed 1st in boys 100m hurdles, 2nd in both javelin and high jump, and 3rd in triple jump.
ACHS’s seniors Jessica and Kayley Beaubien did well in their different events. Jessica placed 3rd in discus and 5th in the quad and Kayley placed 3rd in the 800m run, 1500m run and the 3000m run while also placing 5th in hurdles.
The athletes that made it to the SHSAA Provincial Championship Track and Field Meet included Kayley Beaubien in grade 12, Grayson Ciocia in grade 11, Ella Kwasnicki in grade 10, and Charlize Hillmer, Ava Coghill, Sheridyn Scott and Kaelyn Snape in grade 9. Many of these athletes set personal bests (PBs) which is the best time or score ever achieved by an individual athlete in a particular event.
Kayley Beaubien placed in the top 20 in the senior girls 400m run preliminary heads barely missing the top 16 cutoff for the timed finals.
Grayson Ciocia made it out of the preliminary heats for the senior boy’s 100m hurdles and finished 10th overall in the timed finals. He also placed in the top 20 in the senior boy’s javelin and high jump event.
Ella Kwasnicki set a PB time in the junior girls 1500m run placing in the top 20.
Charlize Hillmer had competed in the junior girl’s tetrathlon which consisted of the 100m run, the 800m run, long jump and shot put. The tetrathlon athletes earned points for each event time or distance towards an overall score. Charlize set PBs in three out of four of her events and placed 7th overall. She was also selected for the South Central District to compete in the junior girl’s 4x100m relay.
Ava Coghill advanced out of the intermediate 200m run girl’s preliminary heats and qualified for the timed finals where she placed 10th overall.
Sheridyn Scott advanced out of the 80m intermediate girls hurdles preliminary heats and made it to the timed finals where she finished 10th overall.
Both Ava Coghill and Sheridyn Scott were selected by the South Central District to compete with two other girls, one from Rouleau and one from Moose Jaw. They competed as a team in the intermediate girl’s 4x100m relay, where the girls advanced out of the preliminary heats to the finals where they placed 6th overall.
Kaelyn Snape competed in the intermediate girl’s javelin event, placing in the top 20.
The Drama program also kick-started back up again after 10 years with the production of Alice in Wonderland; ACHS is extremely proud of the seniors who jumped at the opportunity for an experience in the arts! The club also hopes that another set of students will be inspired to take part in next year’s productions!
ACHS will miss all these wonderful athletes who are headed off to university and hopes that the next year of Grade 9s will participate and show school spirit for the Rocket Nation!
