Dragon Esports wrapped up a highly successful Inaugural Season. They qualified for the OSSAA State Playoffs in their first season before losing to Edmond Memorial in Super Smash Bros. We are very proud of the players and coaches Kelton Clary, Bryce Tuck, and Conner Lemon who made this possible. Of course none of this was possible without generous donations and contributions from the Purcell Public Schools Foundation and Jeff & Char Page.
PHS & JH TSA had a highly successful week at the State Competition. We know we will bring home MULTIPLE STATE CHAMPIONS, numerous state placers, McKenna Martin elected State TSA Treasurer, and JH Teacher Paul Wollenberg elected to TSA Hall of Fame! Official results coming soon.
Watch out for Dragon Baseball! They have won 7 of 10 and beat a tough Bethel Squad today. Great job players, managers and coaches Cole Sharp, Justin Knowles, Ethan Scott and Matt Maral.
1st Place finishers from the Canadian Valley Conference Meet! 🥇
Ella Resendiz first and threw for a new school record of 39'3"!
Hadleigh Harp 1st in both the 100 meter dash and 200 meter dash!!!
Jayden Polk 1st in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:12.07!
New School Record!!
Jayden Polk made more Dragon history today with a incredible 1600 Meter Run, breaking the long-standing record set back in 1986 by Randy McDaniel at 4:39.7.
Congratulations to Haley Kretchmar on being selected to attend the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Capitol Camp and the Oklahoma Youth Leading Agriculture Conference this summer! Way to go Haley!
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All 4 of our choir students received a Superior Rating & Gold Medals at the State Vocal Music Contest: Genesis Guerra, Rose Allen, Noria Stell & Tallon Jones. What an amazing accomplishment! Director Cindy Donaldson has done great things with this program.
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The Lady Dragons Slowpitch team beat Sulphur 12-11 and 8-1 to win the district championship. The Lady Dragons will continue their season next week at regionals. Congratulations to Coach Jones, Coach Raper, and all of our athletes! Go Dragons!
Slowpitch Districts is underway here in Purcell. Lady Dragons will play the loser of Sulphur and Madill at 11:30. Games are streamed live via NFHS! GO DRAGONS!
Day two of back to back district games for our soccer teams. Tonight they head to Crossings Christian. Girls start at 5, boys game following. Go Dragons!
Teacher Feature: Congratulations to our very own, Ms. Jasmine Quinonez, who has been recognized and featured in OEA's Education Focus Spring 2024 Edition. The article is titled "Worth It!". In the article, Ms. Quinonez highlights the learning going on in her classroom along with how social and learning connections are made. Ms. Quinonez teaches English I and Spanish I at our high school. She also serves as Academic Team coach and class sponsor. https://okea.org/.../uploads/2024-Spring-Education-Focus.pdf
In addition to this recognition, Ms. Quinonez was nominated by a former student to be recognized as America's Favorite Teacher and has made it to the 3rd round of cuts. The top 10 nominees from across the nation will be announced this Thursday. Good luck Ms. Q! https://americasfavteacher.org/2024/jasmine-qui-nez
We are pleased to announce our participation with the University of Oklahoma & Modern States College Access Initiative. This will provide students an opportunity to earn college credit at NO COST next year while taking high quality college online courses here at PHS. Please see letter linked below from OU for more specific information. Detailed information was also emailed directly to parents of current underclassmen today. If you have questions contact Head Principal Jason Sanders by phone or email:
(405) 442-0099 ext 505
sandersj@purcellps.org
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1imhTQfUfJr5AIGqMSmc111kpSpQV6sJN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117711947602045947308&rtpof=true&sd=true
Dragon Esports qualified for and opens the first round of OSSAA State Playoffs today as they square off against Edmond Memorial in Super Smash Bros! I'm very proud of the success of this first year program under Coaches Kelton Clary and OU Intern Conner Lemon!
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TSA State Conference, Baseball, Soccer, Girls Golf, Track, Softball Districts, FFA Livestock Judging, Vocal Music all scheduled this week.
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This is a reminder that all high school students can get into games free, as long as they pick up a ticket the day of the event from the athletic office.
Today's baseball championship game will not require a ticket for high school student admission. Come out and support our baseball team as they compete to win the HOOT!
A huge congratulations to our Girls & Boys Track Programs. Both teams finished 1st at the Leopard Invite yesterday! We had numerous individual first place finishers (see images). Great job athletes, managers & Coaches Ray Samford, Mandy Clay, Josh Beal, and Jeff Page.
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Tonight, we celebrated our first senior class of Purcell Soccer. We are so proud of all of you, and helping build this program. Congratulations to all of our seniors for their accomplishments through their 4 years as Dragons.
The Dragons take down the Bulldogs of Lexington 5-4 to advance to the Heart of Oklahoma Championship game tomorrow vs CCS at 4. Last day of the HOOT starts at 11 am. Go Dragons!
Congratulations to the PHS Lady Dragons Soccer. They defeated Millwood in a district contest 3-0 to record the first ever win in program history! So proud of the players, managers, and Coach Andrea Kulessa.
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Reminder, tonight is Purcell's first Soccer Senior Night. Senior Night festivities will be at 5pm. Seniors and parents will need to be on the field at 4:45. Girls game starts at 5:30 and boys start at 7:30.
