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April 21, 2008
Coach McMurray and Sr. High boys track team for winning Airedale Relays.
April 14 , 2008
Matt Whitworth and the High School Concert Choir for their "Excellent" rating and the Honors Choir, Honors Women, and Honors Men for their 1st Division "Superior" ratings at the Arkansas State Choral Festival. The Honors Women also received "Best In Class Women's Chorus" and "Best In Class Overall Large Group" awards. In addition, the Honors Men received "Best In Class Men's Ensemble" and "Best In Class Overall Small Ensemble".
Coach McMurray and Sr. High boys track team for winning Mountie Relays at Rogers.
April 7, 2008
Matt Whitworth and High School Choirs for their success at the "American Classics Big "D" Music Festival" held this past weekend in Dallas Texas. The 9th girls grade girls and the Concert Choir both received Second Division "Excellent" ratings from all three judges. The 9th grade boys received a First Division "Superior" rating from all three judges. Both the Honors Choir Men and the Honors Choir Women received First Division "Superior" from all judges plus an "Outstanding performance" designation for ensembles of their size. The Honors Choir received First Division "Excellent" ratings as well along with "Best In Class" and "Best In Show" designations.
Bob Wolfe and High School Science students for winning the following awards at the State science: Bobbie Hendron - Honorable Mention Behavioral Science; Venusa Phomakay - Honorable Mention Biochemistry; Chris Thibault - ISWEEP Award, 1st Energy & Transportation; Kenneth Banga - 2nd Physics; Atalie Mickelson - Entergy Award, US Metric System Award, Assoc. For Women Geoscientist Award, 4th Best in State; Alma High School - Class 5A State Champion School.
Commander Rickard, Senior Chief Arnold and the NJROTC for their outstanding performance at the Tulsa Union High School Invitation Drill Meet. They placed second in Unarmed Regulation, second in Armed Regulation, second in Unarmed Exhibition, third in Female Tug of War and third in First Year Cadet Regulation Drill.
March 31, 2008
Sherry Lane, Middle School Science Department and these students for winning awards at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Science Fair. Kenzie Watson 1st, Sydney Hanna 1st, Gavin Taylor 2nd, Anna Hodkinsons 3rd, Maddie Edwards 2nd, Breanne Ring 1st, David McKay 1st & Overall Winner, Nick Martin 2nd, Cadi Morrison 2nd, Kayla Majors - Honorable Mention, Courtnee Schaeffer 1st, Aaron Jones - Honorable Mention, Will Montgomery 2nd, Braxton Anderson 2nd, Sean Siler 2nd, Christy Reinschmiedt 3rd, Kaleb Porter 3rd, Andy Rogers - Honorable Mention, J. D. Finley 1st, Terry Garris 3rd, Nathanael Mickelson 2nd, Judah Scott 3rd and Paige Montgomery 3rd.
March 24, 2008
Cora Beth Brown, for achieving the National Board Certification.
Anna Redo, coordinator, Jerry Kelley and Amber Stricklin, coaches, and the Sr. High quiz bowl team for placing 3rd in their tournament and will now advance on to state competition.
Bob Wolfe, Science Departments and these students for winning awards at the Regional Science Fair. Bobbie Hendron -1st, Venusa Phomakay - 3rd & 2nd, Malena Outhay - 2nd , Breanne Witherspoon - 2nd , Brendan Lee - 3rd, Chris Thibault - 1st, Amanda Carr - 2nd, Ryan Medlock - 2nd, Kenneth Banga - 1st, Courtnee Hankins - 3rd, Tim Williams – Honorable Mention, Atalie Mickelson - 1st, Ricco Sustainable Energy Award & 12th Grade Best Overall Project, Overall Winner and will attend the International Science and Engineering Fair. Mrs. Tiffany Scrivner for winning a No-Paperwork Violation award and was named the 2008 Northwest Arkansas Science and Engineering Fair Teacher of the Year.
March 3, 2008
Commander Rickard, Sr. Chief Arnold and NJROTC for an outstanding performance at the Auburn University Super Meet. They finished 2nd in the 8 x 220 yard relay.
Mat Whitworth and the Alma Middle School and High School Choirs competed at the Regional Choir Competition this past weekend. 9 of our 11 choirs received the top score of "1st Division--Superior". All 4 10th-12th grade choirs are also now qualified to compete at the state competition next month at UCA.
February 19, 2008
Commander Rickard, Senior Chief Arnold and NJROTC for qualifying for the Area Eight Super Meet at Auburn University on March 1. They finished 2nd place overall with many individual awards and several cadets earned individual medals in academics, curl ups and push ups. Next step after Super Meet is Navy Nationals.
February 11, 2008
Matt Whitworth and the Alma High School choir for placing 14 students in the Arkansas All-State Choirs on Wednesday of last week. 14 choir all-stars is a new Alma High School record!
J. D. Finley for winning the 2008 Crawford County Spelling Bee, Alex Burris 1st runner-up and Mason Wight 3rd runner-up in the Spelling Bee. J.D. will compete in the State Competition in Little Rock on March 8th.
February 4 , 2008
High School Special Education students for their outstanding job hosting Special Olympics Area 4 Power Lifting Competition. Results were: Gold Medals - Bench Press, Dead Lift & Double Combination: Kelly Moore, Joni Langley, Donald Huff, Jacob Brown, Alex Miller, Justin McGowen; Gold Medal - Bench Press: Charlie Shepherd; Silver Medal - Dead Lift & Combination: Charlie Shepherd; Bronze Medal - Dead Lift: Jodi Woodruff; Sit-Up Certificates: Alex Foster, Victoria Hale, Alex Miller, Joshua Moore, Patrick Poole.
January 28, 2008
Commander Rickard and NJROTC Orienteering/Land Navigation teams for the outstanding performance at Oak Mountain State Park, Pelham, Alabama. The teams finished 1st and 3rd in the intermediate course and 3rd in the advanced course. Tyla Stormes for placing 2nd in female intermediate course, Kyle Reinhart for placing 2nd in male advanced course, and Taryn Jones for placing 2nd in female advanced course.
January 14, 2008
Stephanie Hartley and 5th grade Quiz Bowl team for placing third at Greenwood.
Marilyn Yates and 6th grade Quiz Bowl team for placing second at Greenwood.
January 7, 2008
Sara Wilson, third grade student at the Intermediate School, for winning the BancorpSouth’s Purchase Award at the Fort Smith Art Center’s Christmas Card Design Contest. Sara received a $100 prize for being chosen to appear on the bank’s Christmas cards.
Coach Corder and Jr. High boys basketball team for winning the tournament at Union Christian Academy.
Coach Madelyn Flenor and Sr. High girls basketball team for runner-up at the BancorpSouth Airedale Classic Tournament.
Coach Stan Flenor and Sr. High boys basketball team for winning the BancorpSouth Airedale Classic Tournament.
December 17 , 2007
Commander Rickard, Sr. Chief Arnold and NJROTC for winning the Greenwood High School Drill Meet, receiving 1st place in Overall Best Unit, Unarmed Basic Drill, Unarmed Exhibition Drill, Armed Basic Drill, and Armed Exhibition Drill; 2nd place in Inspection and 3rd place in Color Guard.
December 10 , 2007
Audra Bocksnick, Shane Bocksnick, Malia Drinkwitz, Mat Whitworth, David Woolly and the cast, crew and orchestra of Annie Get Your Gun for an outstanding production.
November 26, 2007
Coach Jones and Jr. High girls basketball team for placing 3rd in Russellville Invitational.
Coach Corder and Jr. High boys basketball team for placing 1st at Russellville Invitational
November 12, 2007
Coach Hall and Cross Country Team for placing fifth at the State Meet in Hot Springs.
Coach Toney McMurray and the high school boys Tennis Team for finishing as AAAAA West Runner-ups and finished 4th overall in State. Beau Basham was named All-State and was the AAAAA Singles Runner-up and the AAAAA West Singles Champion for the 3rd year in a row.
Joyce Dahlem, 5th grade Social Studies teacher and Sabrina Landers, 4th grade teacher, for receiving their National Board Certification.
November 5, 2007
Commander Rickard, Sr. Chief Arnold and NJROTC for placing 1st in the Van Buren meet.
October 22 , 2007
Matt Whitworth and the 29 Alma High School students who were selected to the All-Region Sr. Choirs this past Saturday. Of these 29, 21 are now qualified for the February All-State competition. 29 All-Region and 21 All-State qualifiers are new Alma High School records.
Sarah Jernigan, Opportunity School student, won the area wide essay contest sponsored by the Crisis Center of Women.
October 15 , 2007
Matt Whitworth, the Jr. High Choirs and the 70 students selected to the All-Region Choirs. Alma was the top school at the competition for the 3rd year in a row.
October 8 , 2007
Peggy and Paul Winborn, Tiffany Winborn, Bonnie Dyer, Stacie and Chuck Dyer, and all staff members for their help and support for another successful Miss Arkansas River Pageant.
Commander Rickard, Senior Chief Arnold and the NJROTC for an outstanding performance and an overall finish of 2nd place at the Northside High School meet.
Bill Ratcliff and Sr. High Band for placing 4th at the Pryor Marching Contest and Tania Schmidtranz, Ashley Kuykendall and Cameron Word for receiving the best overall drum majors award.
September 10 , 2007
Coach Parrish and Jr. High volleyball team for their outstanding performance at the Lady Whirlwind Invitational in Russellville.
September 4, 2007
Christine Thrift for winning the First Tee, $10,000 Golf Royal Bank of Scotland Scholarship.
August 30, 2007
A special thanks to Jerry Valentine, Pat Whorton, Jim Warnock, Marsha Woolly and their staffs for their excellent planning and coordination in preparation for starting of school. Without their help this would be an almost impossible task. THANKS FOR A JOB WELL DONE!
2006-2007 Recognitions
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