SSHS Academic UIL Places First at MPHS Winter Tournament
District UIL CX Debate – SSHS Wildcat Cross-Examination Debate Teams competed at the District CX Debate meet this week at First Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant, TX. While no teams advanced to the state meet, we are extremely proud of their efforts this year. The 2019 SSHS CX Debate Teams include seniors Felipe Alba and Dakota Soles, juniors James Draper and Matthew Robinson, and sophomores Mariam Tran and Kimberly Wheatcraft. CX Debate...
SSHS UIL Academic Team Placed 3rd at District
Bi-District One Act Play The One Act play cast and crew earned the right to compete at Area UIL One Act Play Competition at Flower Mound High School on March 30 with their performance of “Violet Sharp” Wednesday, March 21 at Bi-District UIL. Superlatives were earned by Lucia Yanez (All Star Crew), Briana Isham (All Star Cast), Sarah Harper and Jaci Reed (Honorable Mention All Star Cast). Well done, One-Act Play!! Cast and crew...
SSHS UIL Academic Math and Science Team Members Prepare for District
Sulphur Springs High School UIL Academic Math and Science team members competed at a North Lamar Math and Science Meet Saturday (March 3) in Paris. Wildcats UIL Academic Coordinator Gerald Grafton said the competition was arranged by grade levels. He said good competition was provided by schools such as Queen City, Garland and Mount Pleasant. For the Wildcats, in Number Sense, Gillian Thomas was 4th among 12th graders, Brayden Fisher...
Sulphur Springs High School Academic UIL Team Finished 2nd at Judy Tipping Memorial Meet
The SSHS Wildcat UIL Academic Team hosted the Judy Tipping Memorial UIL Invitational Meet this past weekend, February 23rd & 24th and finished 2nd place overall. 38 schools and over 700 students participated at the event. The late Judy Tipping was a teacher and then principal at Sulphur Springs High School and joined the administration team after leaving the high school. She also directed the Academic UIL Program at the school for...
SSHS Academic UIL Second in Regional Meet
The Wildcats UIL Academic Team took second place at Regional this past weekend and qualified three teams and an individual for State. Spelling and Vocabulary, Social Studies and Literary Criticism took first place as did Lydia Burleson in Ready Writing. McKenzie Hohenberger, Laura Graham, Patricia Parks, and MiKayla Jones won first place as the Literary Criticism team. Hohenberger won first place, Graham placed fourth, Parks...
SSHS UIL Academic Team 2nd in District
The Wildcats UIL Academic Team may still qualify more teams and students for Regional competition to be held on April 24-25 at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches. Nineteen students including two teams, Computer Science and Literary Criticism, have already qualified at District competition last Friday and Saturday at Texas High. Three teams, Current Events, Social Studies and Spelling and Vocabulary, finished second and...
SSISD Board Meeting Briefs for April 2023
April 19, 2023- Dan Froneberger gave a maintenance report to the SSISD board of trustees on Monday April 10th detailing some of the several things that had been completed. Some of these completed items were: Knee rail added to teacher parking lot in order to keep livestock off of property during rodeos at Civic Center New perimeters built at Douglass ECLC New push bar door added to previously built tunnel entrance at high school New...
Sulphur Springs Tennis in Tyler Friday
Coach Tony Martinez expects some stiff competition Friday, Feb. 17 at Tyler’s tournament. The Sulphur Springs coach said Bullard, Texas High, Whitehouse and Jacksonville are all in attendance for Friday’s tourney in Tyler. Only four tournaments remain for tennis in the regular season after Friday’s in Tyler. It begins bright and early Friday, Feb. 17 at 8 A.M. Last Friday Coach Martinez and his squad headed to...
Sulphur Springs ISD calls Jan. 4 Board of Trustees Work Session
Sulphur Springs ISD has called a special Board of Trustees work session, which will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in the board room of SSISD Administration Building, 631 Connally St. Dec. 12, 2022, Updates Administrative Reports At the regular December 2022 meeting, Sulphur Springs ISD Trustees approved five personnel changes, made 2 appointments. The board also heard at least five administrative reports and updates,...
Inductees For Friday’s 2022 Hall Of Honor Ceremony Revealed
Four former Sulphur Springs athletic greats will be inducted into the SSHS Hall of Honor in a pre-game ceremony on Friday, Oct. 21. Quan Johnson, a district basketball MVP who graduated in 1990; Torio Kelly, a record-setting running back in the Class of 1996; Maegan Bell Nix, a 2003 graduate who was a two-sport MVP; and Colby Suggs, a 2010 graduate who was an All-State pitcher and won a state championship in football, will be the...
