SSHS Dairy Team Advances To State Contest
Sulphur Springs High School dairy cattle judging team celebrates their third place win at the bi-area contest, which advances them to the state contest. The group includes: Elida Miller, Noah Hemby, Maurie Flecker and Jace Mayers Sulphur Springs High School agriculture teams have done well at area judging competitions, with one team advancing from the bi-area judging contest to state, and several individuals placing high among...
Sulphur Springs FFA Teams Compete At Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
Sulphur Springs FFA Show Teams entered their show projects in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The Sulphur Springs High School FFA show teams have had a busy month, competing in multiple events at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Beef Heifer Show team competed at the Houston Show March 5-9. Breanna Sells, Hayden Daniel, Jodie Tippit, Sydney Swatsell, Elida Miller, Cash Vititow and Savannah Allen all competed with their show...
Wildcat Thornton Qualifies for State Meet
Wildcat cross country runner Landon Thornton qualified for the state meet at the Regional Cross Country Meet in Dallas Monday. Thornton finished 22nd in the race and grabbed the final spot for state. Wildcat Christian Palomino finished 23rd and just missed qualifying. Thornton will compete at the state cross country meet at Old Settlers’ Park in Round Rock on November 3. The Wildcats finished in 8th place out of 26 teams. Cross...
Game Day: Wildcat, Lady Cat Cross Country Teams at Regional Meet
The Wildcats and Lady Cats’ cross country teams are competing at the Region II Class 5A Cross Country Meet on this game day Monday (October 22). The site has changed due to all the rainy weather recently. The site is now at the Jessie Owens Memorial Complex and adjacent Hulcy Fields in Oak Cliff in Dallas on Polk Street. The Wildcats come in as district champions of District 15-5A and the Lady Cats placed third. Wildcats runners...
Wildcat, Lady Cat Cross Country Teams Prepare for Regional Meet October 22
At the District 15-5A Cross Country Meet Monday at Mount Pleasant, the Wildcats won the district championship for the first time in nine years. The Wildcats finished four points ahead of host Mount Pleasant. The Lady Cats finished third behind Mount Pleasant and Royse City. Both the Wildcats and Lady Cats will advance to the regional meet on October 22 at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie. Wildcats and Lady Cats Coach Ross Hicks said...
At Arlington Meet Wildcats Cross Country Finishes 6th; Lady Cats Finish 26th
After two straight cross country meets were rained out for the Wildcats and Lady Cats, they were able to compete Thursday (September 27) at a meet at Lynn Creek Park in Arlington. Cross Country Coach Ross Hicks said the Arlington course, the site for the regional cross country meet, had to be altered Thursday due to high water from recent rains. Coach Hicks said he noticed a new pond in an area where athletes used to run. He said the...
Cross Country: Miller Grove; Saltillo; Sulphur Springs
Both the Miller Grove Hornets and Lady Hornets and the Saltillo Lady Lions competed in recent cross country meets. The Saltillo Lady Lions were at the 22nd Tim Menke Invitational at North Hopkins last Thursday (September 6) and the Lady Lions finished 12th as a team. Sienna Collins led the Lady Lions with a 3rd place finish running a time of 13:00. Raegan Spear was 50th in the race. Ofelia Cabrera was 92nd, Danielle Ross finished...
Wildcats First, Lady Cats Fifth at Tiger Invitational
The Wildcats’ cross country team finished first and the Lady Cats were fifth at the Commerce Tiger Invitational Cross Country Meet Saturday (August 25) at Commerce High School. The Wildcats were led by Landon Thornton who won the boys’ 5K race with a time of 16:57. Christian Palomino finished fourth at 18:07. Eli Sellers was seventh with a time of 18:23. Nabian Ramirez was eighteenth at 19:09. Jose Mejia was nineteenth...
SSHS FFA Savannah Allen One of State’s Top Speakers, District FFA Officer Philip Rater Conducts Workshop at Greenhand Camp
According to FFA Sponsor John Holland, Sulphur Springs FFA member Savannah Allen competed in the Texas FFA State Leadership Development Event contest held in Huntsville, Tx at Sam Houston State University. Savannah had to advance out of District as well as Area to be able to compete at the State Greenhand Creed speaking contest. At the start of the year there were 641 hopeful contestants trying to make it to State Contest with only 20...
SSHS FFA Leadership Development Event Team Competes at State
FFA Leadership Development Events qualify Sulphur Springs High School Chapter Members for State! by John Holland, SSHS FFA Advisor Over the past few weeks, we have had lots of students competing in LDE for Sulphur Springs FFA. We traveled to the Alba-Golden Invitational bringing home banners and Lindale Invitational bringing home some plaques. In addition to the invitationals we had 8 teams compete at the Paris District LDE contest...
