ACADEMICS
Cortney Klimkowski, Maddie Bukowski, and Christie King qualified for Internationals DECA. They wrote a 50 page paper on the Lakeland Locker and got the store GOLD certified for the first time ever. This is quite the accomplishment. Congratulations to Hannah Emerson who has been selected from an initial pool of 102,600+ applicants as a semifinalist in the Coca-Cola Scholars Program! She will now continue through the selection process with an opportunity to receive a $20,000 scholarship. On January 9th, Lakeland hosted districts for DECA. Lakeland had 6 out of the 10 students competing in role play qualify for States. If you have the following students please congratulate them. Dan Miller-LHS Brandon Stout-LHS Kennon Stewart- IA Nathan Chapman- IA Runik Mehrotra- IA Matthew Parson- IA Pictured left to right: Brandon Stout and Dan Miller Members of the Lakeland High School BMT3/VEI class attended the 2015 VEI-MI Business Expo on January 27th and spent the day networking with other Michigan firms. Although our class firm, Dexacorp, did not enter the oral business plan competition, we did learn that our written business plan was among the highest scoring plans in the state! Way to go Dexacorp! |
ARTS
This past Friday (January 16th) our band program participated in the MSBOA Solo and Ensemble Festival at Hartland High School. We had 49 event participants, with 32 of the 49 students earning a Division I rating (the highest rating possible). This is another incredible showing as all of those students are now eligible to participate at the State Solo and Ensemble Festival in March. Multiple Division I recipients include Jane Waddington and Thomas Zammit, who earned 3 Division I ratings each. In addition, Alexa Iscaro, Oliver Aho, Nick Bourns, Mikaela Kelley, Rikako Miki, and Jaclyn Comis all earned 2 Division I ratings. Please congratulate these students as well as any other participants if you have the chance! |
ATHLETICS
On January 19th, the girls bowling team participated in the Oakland County Championship Tournament and took 2nd place out of 27 teams for the second time in 3 years, pictures attached. They qualified as the 6th seed in the preliminary rounds, and then went on to beat South Lyon, Waterford Kettering, and Livonia Clarenceville to make it to the finals. Against Clarenceville in game #1 the Eagles fell 134-169, but then turned it around in game #2 with a score of 169-133 to beat out Clarenceville by just one pin (303-302).
In the finals against Lake Orion, the Eagles lost game #1 by 7 pins (180-173), and then in game two Lake Orion pulled away and defeated Lakeland by a final score of 385-335. Please congratulate Katie McCallum, Danielle Miner, Alissa Schemers, Alex Lenz, Daina Schippers, and Jenny Pelc for their outstanding performance today. Also, there is an article by MI Prep Zone with more info In addition, they took 3rd place at the tri-county tournament and are currently ranked 8th in the state! Way to go, Tom! On January 24th, Lakeland Poms program saw both the JV and Varsity teams qualify for the Mid-American State Finals to be held on Sunday, February 8th at the Breslin Center on Michigan State University’s campus. |
ALUMNI
Former grad, Lauren Klapec, is part the Oakland Community College U.S. National Collegiate Ice Carving Championship team. They won 2nd place. |