WAY TO GO, SHS WRESTLERS!

The SHS Wrestling Coaching staff handed out many awards to our 8th place in state wrestling team last Thursday night at their awards banquet. An SHS wrestling team had never placed higher than 9th at state. We took a total of 7 wrestlers to the state tournament and all 7 earned a medal when it was all said and done.

• 5th Place: Karl Bell, Marcus Carter, Alex McCrum, Tyler Miler and Jacob Schneider
• 6th Place: Andrew Ledesma
• 8th Place: Matt Maddux

As well as being very successful on the mat, this group of wrestlers were also successful in the classroom. They were awarded a 2nd place trophy for the Team Academic Award for 1A wrestling teams in the state. They recorded a 3.39 GPA average! We are proud of them for this outstanding accomplishment!
 

There were several other awards handed out:

• Inspirational: Jack Moore
• Rookie of the Year: Logan Tenfingers
• Most Improved: Matt Maddux
• Iron Man Award: Evan Wiebe
• Outstanding Female Wrestler: Allison Brown
• Captain: Karl Bell
• MVP: Karl Bell
 

 Save this date:  September 19, 2011

Community Event, 6:30 pm at SHS

Stevenson High School, with the support from Skamania Community Health, is excited about Rachel's Challenge visiting us on the 19th of September.  Rachel's Challenge is all about:

•Creating a safe learning environment for all students by re-establishing civility and delivering proactive antidotes to school violence and bullying.
•Improving academic achievement by engaging students' hearts, heads and hands in the learning process.
•Providing students with social/emotional education that is both colorblind and culturally relevant.
•Training adults to inspire, equip and empower students to affect permanent positive change.

Students and staff at SHS will attend a 60 minute, multi-media presentation in the morning.  Following the assembly, many students and staff will be chosen to participate in an interactive training session called "Friends of Rachel" (FOR).  The goal of this training is to maintain the momentum from the assembly by having groups of adults and student perform acts of kindness on a regular basis.

The community event will be the same evening (September 19) at 6:30.  This event is open to all community members with the goal of giving everyone in our community an opportunity to hear this incredible story and to hear what our students and staff have been challenged to accomplish.  Please join us!

Background

Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Rachel’s acts of
kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her six diaries have become the foundation for
the most life-changing school program in America. Her brother, Craig, was in the library that day and
lost two close friends and narrowly escaped death himself. He was the only student at Columbine who
was in the library, the worst of the killing zone, and also lost a sibling.
Powerful audio/video footage of Rachel's Challenge holds students spell-bound during a one-hour
school presentation that motivates them to positive change in the way they treat others. This is
followed by a 90-minute training session involving both adult and student leaders. This is an interactive
session that shows how to sustain the momentum created by the assembly. That evening the Rachel’s
Challenge presenter conducts a powerful session with parents and community leaders. To sustain the
positive climate change in a school, Rachel’s Challenge offers a year-long curriculum called the Friends of
Rachel (FOR) Club that encourages students to continue the chain reaction of kindness and compassion.
Scope of Effectiveness
A few weeks after the tragedy Darrell Scott, Rachel’s father, spoke to a Congressional House Judiciary
Committee regarding issues of school violence. His speech has become one of the most widely read on
the internet. Shortly afterwards he founded “Rachel’s Challenge”, a bullying and violence abatement
program. More than 1.5 million students annually experience Rachel’s Challenge and have the
opportunity to accept the challenges, modeled after Rachel’s life and writings. The universal message of
kindness and compassion told by Rachel’s story has been heard by students in several other countries.
Since its beginning in 2000, the number of requests to present Rachel’s Challenge to students, parents,
and educators continues to increase. The Scott family and other Rachel’s Challenge certified presenters
have spoken to over 15 million people in live settings, and has reached millions more through being
featured on popular media outlets like CNN, Fox News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Larry
King Live, Oprah, Dateline, O’Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes and numerous others. Mr. Scott has also
authored three books including the best seller “Rachel’s Tears.”
Darrell meets regularly with politicians and educators, and is also a keynote speaker at many large
educational venues. He met with President Bill Clinton on two occasions and President George W. Bush
has written a personal letter recommending Rachel’s Challenge. A wide scope of endorsements are
available upon request.
The school program founded by Mr. Scott has prevented over 350 suicides since 2008, drastically
reduced bullying, and in at least 6 instances has prevented school shootings.
Contact
For more information on Rachel’s Challenge visit their website at www.rachelschallenge.org.