February Report

Atchison County Community Junior Senior High School congratulates the 2024 King and Queen of Courts and their court, who were crowned during halftime of the boys’ varsity basketball game Friday, February 2, 2024. Carter Swendson was crowned King of Courts and Malorie Bosch was crowned Queen of Courts. Rounding out the royal court were candidates Carter Page, James Schuetz, Emma Speer, and Avery Sutley. Assisting with the crowning were representatives of the ACCHS Student Council and Cheerleaders, and announcer, Student Council President Taylor Keimig.

Atchison County Community Junior Senior High School congratulates the 2024 King and Queen of Mats and their court, who were crowned prior to the home wrestling match Thursday, January 25, 2024. Landon Burge was crowned King of Mats and Hannah Simmers was crowned Queen of Mats. Rounding out the royal court were candidates Nick Cairo, Natalie Donaldson, Taylor Keimig, and Vincent Webb. Assisting with the crowning were representatives of the ACCHS Student Council, Dance Team and Cheerleaders, and announcer, Senior Class President Ellie Speer.

Students and teachers participated in a This or That Spirit Week that was planned by the HS Student Council.

Monday: Bikers or Surfers

Tuesday: Barbie or Ken

Wednesday: Soccer Mom or BBQ Dad

Thursday: College Team or NFL Team

Friday: Orange or Black

This week the entire district is helping celebrate the KC Chiefs going back to the Super Bowl.

Monday: Mahomes Monday

Tuesday: Twinning Tuesday - Dress like your favorite KC player or coach

Wednesday: Warm-up Wednesday

Thursday: Travel Thursday

Friday: Red Friday

3-2-1A Rankings as of February 6, 2024

Team Rank: 3rd Place

126lbs Adler Koontz - 4th

138lbs Austin Smith - 4th

150lbs Max Bottorff - 4th

157lbs Easton Schletzbaum - 1st

HS Wrestling Team are the first ever NEKL Wrestling Champions. Congratulations to the following placers:

106lbs: Grant Swendson - Champion

113lbs: Roy Swaney - 2nd Place

126lbs: Jace Gilliland - 3rd Place

132lbs: Evan Falk - Champion

138lbs: Rance Vessar - Champion

157lbs: Dayton Olson - 4th place

165lbs: Colton Lowe - Champion

175lbs: Christian Simmers - Champion

215lbs: Kenyon Funk - 2nd Place

285lbs: Jayden Simmers - Champion

ACCHS Wrestling finished in 1st place out of 29 teams at the Silver Lake Tournament and beat the 2nd place team by 51 points. The Tigers had some big wins against quality competition.

Roy Swaney - 4th place

Cody Falk - 2nd place

Adler Koontz - 1st place

Austin Smith - 2nd place

Luke Smith - 6th place

Max Bottorff - 1st place

Easton Schletzbaum - 1st place

Kannon Crossland - 2nd place

Nick Cairo - 1st place

Vincent Webb - 1st place

Our Lady Tigers wrestled in the 4th Annual Washburn Women’s Invitational on Saturday. It was a tough tournament with over 30 schools competing.

120B Lauren Smith 2-1 for 2nd place

130A Tessa McAlexander 1-3 14th place

135B Kaylee McKee 4-1 for 2nd place

170A Hannah Simmers 2-3 for 8th place

Our JV boys who took 1st at the Varsity Atchison George Worley Tournament!

106 Grant Swendson Champion

113 Ayden Powell 3rd

157 Colton Lowe 3rd

165 Kannon Crossland Champion

175 Christian Simmers 3rd

190 Nick Cairo Champion

The Tiger Wrestlers had a busy day in Paola yesterday as the boys varsity and girls competed in a very competitive tournament featuring some of the states best! Here are the results:

Boys: Team finished in 2nd place out of 15 teams.

113 Roy Swaney 1-3 (6th Place)

120 Cody Falk 3-1 (3rd Place)

126 Adler Koontz 4-1 (3rd Place)

132 Evan Falk 2-2 (5th Place)

144 Luke Smith 1-3 (6th Place)

150 Max Bottorff 3-1 (2nd Place)

157 Easton Schletzbaum 4-0 (Champion)

165 Kannon Crossland 2-2 (4th Place)

175 Elijah Webb 2-1 (2nd Place)

190 Nick Cairo 3-0 (Champion)

215 Vincent Webb 3-0 (Champion)

Girl Results: 14th place finish out of 20 teams

170 Hannah Simmer 3-1 (2nd Place)

The Tigers had their best weekend of the season finishing in 8th place out of 35 teams from Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri at the tough BOBCAT CLASSIC. We finished with 4 medalist. The Tigers placed ahead of many top 10 ranked teams in 4A, 5A, and 6A. There were many state ranked wrestlers and state medalists from last year who didn't reach the podium.

126 Adler Koontz 4-2 (5th place finish)

138 Austin Smith 4-2 (7th place finish)

150 Max Bottorff 6-2 (5th place finish)

157 Easton Schletzbaum 4-1 (2nd place finish)

Easton Schletzbaum, a junior, earned his 100th career win in front of the home crowd on February 1st. Then on Saturday at the Silver Lake Tournament, Easton was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler.

Hannah Simmers signed her Letter of Intent to continue to wrestle at the next level. Hannah will be a member of the Basker University Girls Wrestling team next year.

Tyson Hewitt (156): 1st Bench/1st Squats/ 1st Clean/ 1st Overall

Breyton Hewitt (165): 1st Bench/1st Squats/ 2nd Clean/ 1st Overall

Kevin Vandruff (HWT): 3rd Bench/2nd Squats/ 2nd Clean/ 2nd Overall

Tristian Hewitt (165): 2nd Bench/3rd Squats/ 3rd Clean/ 3rd Overall

Max Hedrick (136): 1st Bench/4th Squats/ 2nd Clean/ 3rd Overall

Rose Depoy: 1st Bench/2nd Squats/ 2nd Clean/ 1st Overall

Abrie Handke: 2nd Bench/1st Squats/ 2nd Clean/ 2nd Overall

Nadia Noor: 4th Bench/3rd Squats/ 5th Clean/ 6th Overall

Lauren Couter: 2nd Bench/ 4tht Squats/ 1st Clean/ 2nd Overall

Audrey Brown: 3rd Bench/3rd Squats/ 3rd Overall

Avery Sutley: 6th Bench/6th Squats/ 4th Clean/ 6th Overall

Josie Sutley: 5th Bench/2nd Squats/ 5th Clean/ 5th Overall

Rose Depoy: 2nd Bench/6th Squats/ 3rd Overall

Abrie Handke: 5th Bench/ 6th Squats

Lauren Courter: 2nd Clean

Audrey Brown: 3rd bench

Breyton Hewitt (173): 1st Bench/1st Squats/ 3rd Clean/ 1st Overall - Heavyweight Ratio Champ!

Max Hedrick (121): 3rd Bench/6th Clean/ 6th Overall

Tyson Hewitt (156): 6th Bench/3rd Squats/6th Overall

Tyson Hewitt (165): 5th Bench

Rose Depoy: 1st Bench/1st Squats/ 1st Clean/ 1st Overall

Abrie Handke: 4th Bench/4th Squats/ 5th Clean/ 4th Overall

Audrey Brown: 4th Bench/6th Squats

Breyton Hewitt (173): 1st Squats/ 1st Clean/ 1st Overall

Max Hedrick (123): 2nd Bench/ 4th Clean/ 4th Overall

Triston Hewitt (165): 3rd Bench/5th Squat/5th Overall

Tyson Hewitt (156): 3rd Squat/ 5th Overall

Kevin Vandruff (HWT): 6th Squat/ 3rd Clean/ 6th Overall

Senior Breyton Hewitt breaking the Royal Valley meet record in squat. Lifting a massive 515 lbs. Congrats on the new record Breyton.

Congratulations to ACCES student Aubrey Vanderpool for being named the Champion Speller at this year's Atchison County Spelling Bee. Congratulations to ACCES Runner-up at the County Spelling Bee - Balek Goodpasture.

Adeline McManus placed 5th in Informative Speaking at the Sabetha Invitational.

Ben Beene and Nathan Palmer placed 3rd in Duet Acting at the Nemaha Central Invitational.

Leah Wilson placed 6th in Humorous Solo Acting at the Nemaha Central Invitational.

Congratulations to the FFA meats judging team today for placing 9th as a team at NE District Meats Contest! It’s a challenging contest where students have to place whole beef and pork carcasses, yield grade, quality grade, place cut classes and identify over 50 different retail cuts from beef, pork, and sheep. They learned valuable real life soft skills today and have a better understanding of how our meat is processed!

We had 20 members of the Tiger Band program playing in one of the five bands split into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year band students! So proud of these kids for the wonderful concerts they put on today and their representation of the Tiger Band way

Tiger Band took members to participate in the Washburn Honor Band on January 17th. These students spent the morning rehearsing and then gave at concert at 6:00pm that evening.

Rebekah Caplinger, Stephen Feek, Kaylee Foot, and Avery Handke spent three days rehearsing at McCain Hall on the campus of Kansas State University. On Sunday the students performed in their various bands on the stage at McCain Auditorium.

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 the Junior High Choir went to JCN Middle School to participate in the NEKL Mass Choir Day. The students spent the morning rehearsing their music and then performed their songs with the other choirs in the league.

Congratulations to these FFA students for expanding their soft skill set today while competing in the Job Employability Contest!

Brylyn Jolly (8th Individual)

Parker Harris (10th Individual)