CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to the 2024 Fall Homecoming Court!
Freshmen Attendants: Jackee Rumbaoa escort James Ribolla and Adyson Tipton escort Mack Tingley
Sophomore Attendants: Katy Snow escort Xzavion Miller and Ashtyn Cooper escort Kaleb Rutledge
Junior Attendants: Kamryn Kennedy escort William Rader and Elliana Phegley escort Zackary Dix
Junior Crownbearer: Olivia Cleveland escort Ben Sellers
Senior Attendants: Alyssa DePasquale escort Brady Wilson and Caroline Cannon escort Stephen Markle
Senior Candlelighters: Megan Hinze escort Nick McCue and Emma Payne escort Tyler Swan
AND our 2024 Fall Homecoming Queen is
Lynae Owen escort Joshua Morgan!
Bottom Row L to R: Caroline Cannon, Alyssa DePasquale, Queen Lynae Owen, Emma Payne, and Megan Hinze. Top Row L to R: Katy Snow, Ashlyn Cooper, Elliana Phegley, Olivia Cleveland, Kamryn Kennedy, Adyson Tipton, Jackee Rumbaoa
Congratulations to the South Spell Bowl Team for earning the highest score in the state (88/90 words spelled correctly), earning the Class 1 State Championship for the third consecutive year and Grand Champions at Purdue, beating 30 other state finalists by nine words – the largest margin ever! Congratulations to the following students for this epic win: Arjun Bhatia, Caroline Cannon, Hayden Cao, Anthony Chapman, Jeffrey Chen, Aniya Dogra, Anika Gera, Jessica Kallubhavi, Benjamin Spencer, Alyssa Torbert, Zander Tracy, and Crystal Wang.
Congratulations to the Pride of South Marching Band! They were 5th place at ISSMA Scholastic Finals this weekend at Franklin Central. They were also 4th place in Music! ISSMA Scholastic Finals is the equivalent of State Finals for the band-sized classification system and included the top 16 of about 25 Scholastic A groups in Indiana.
For the first time EVER…Terre Haute South has FIVE National Merit Scholar Semifinalists. This is a huge deal for us and our students. If you see the following students, please congratulate them on this tremendous honor:
Arjun Bhatia
Anthony Chapman
Clara Noxon
Courtney Powell
Benjamin Spencer
The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, and includes the highest-scoring entrants on the SAT/ACT in each state. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
South’s JROTC took 1st place at the Ben Davis Marine Corps JROTC Raider Competition on September 14, 2024
– 1st Place – 5k Run
– 1st Place – One Rope Bridge
– 1st Place – Gauntlet Event
– 2nd Place – Raider Fitness Challenge
– 3rd Place – Cross Country Rescue
In addition, Gwen Bottrell finished first in the Ultimate Raider competition for female cadets! Congratulations!
The THS Intermediate level Certamen team took second place today at the Canterbury Certamen hosted by Canterbury High School in Fort Wayne! Certamen is the buzzer-style trivia game about everything Latin-related, including questions about language, grammar, vocabulary, and derivatives as well as Roman history, mythology, literature, and culture and Latin mottoes/quotes/abbreviations used in English. Our Intermediate team has expanded to a full slate of 4 players this year, who have been working hard in our Latin 2 class as well as studying additional materials on their own time to prepare for five Certamen invitational meets this year as well as finals at our state convention. Members are Alaysia Keegan, Philip Hawkins, Isaac Goodman, and Samuel Rasley. Congratulations!
Congratulations to senior Addison Koie for writing one of the only two winning CANDLES Evening of Light essays. This semester Addison is taking Mrs. Grabowski’s Holocaust Literature elective, and she applied Holocaust survivor Eva Kor’s lesson to her life: Forgive your worst enemy – it will heal your soul and set you free. Here are pictures of Addison’s well-deserved recognition at the CANDLES event at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum on 9/28, featuring child advocate, Elizabeth Smart.. Way to represent Vigo County Schools, Addison!
Congratulations to Concert Orchestra members Avery King, Emeilyah Sands, Mia James, Ella Robeson, and Malia Haas who performed alongside the Indiana State University Symphony Orchestra on Saturday as a part of the Linda Luebke Strings Festival.
Congratulations to John Mann and Noah Price, who played violin in the HIgh School All Region Honors Orchestra over the weekend at Franklin Central High School. They rehearsed and performed with students from all over the state under the direction of Dr. Laurie Williams, Director of Orchestras at the University of Indianapolis.
Congratulations to the following students who were selected to perform with the All District Jazz Band this past weekend at Whiteland High School; Colby Ellison and Paxton Otto. These students rehearsed on Saturday with students from all over central and southern Indiana and performed an awesome concert on Sunday. Their guest director was Adam Dostalik from Whiteland.
Congratulations to the following students who were selected to participate in the 2024 Indiana Bandmasters Association All Region Honor Band this past weekend at Woodrow Wilson Middle School; Ana Morris, Rhianne Erb, and Ezra Davidson. They rehearsed all day Saturday and then performed a great concert for their families on Sunday. The guest conductor was the retired band director Janis Stockhouse from Bloomington.
Students from South competed with 330 students from 20 private and public schools from around the state at the 58th annual Rose Hulman High School Math Contest. The Junior team of Jeffrey Chen, John Gassert, Christopher Gosingco, and Crystal Wang finished 4th in their class. Individually Yash Parikh finished 10th among sophomores, and Jeffrey Chen finished tied for 1st among Juniors with a perfect score. Congratulations!
