Update: Congratulations! WG is headed to the Section 3 Championship on Saturday at SRC with the win over Fulton 83-53.
Happening at West Genesee on Tuesday, February 27:
The top ten students of the West Genesee High School Class of 2024 were announced on February 27, 2024.
The Valedictorian is Vivian Raposo and the Salutatorian is Elena Pacheco.
The remaining top ten are listed below in alphabetical order: Madeleine Barstow,
Karolina Lata, Kelly McManus, Joseph Paoli, Joanna Ray, Nathan Smith, Analiese Straub, and Angus Tarolli.
Congratulations!!
Academic leaders of the Class of 2024 are in front, from left to right, Kelly McManus, Vivian Raposo (Valedictorian), Elena Pacheco (Salutatorian), and Analiese Straub. In back, from left to right, are Karolina Lata, Joseph Paoli, Angus Tarolli, Nathan Smith, Joanna Ray, and Madeleine Barstow.
Good luck to the WG Boys Basketball team playing Fulton in the Section III Class AA Semi-Final tonight at Liverpool High School starting at 5:30 p.m.
Get tickets online at https://section3.org/sports/2021/4/29/hometown-ticketing.aspx
Congratulations to the WG Boys Hockey team 2024 Section 3 Champs!!! Let’s go, Wildcats! 💙💛🐾🏒
The WGCSD Culture Celebration will be held in the WGHS upper gym this Saturday, 3/2 from 12-3pm.
Join us as we celebrate our community’s diversity at this fun event featuring dance, live music, cultural demonstrations, food samples, artwork, T-shirts, kids crafts, & more!
The Wildcats return to the Section 3 Championship vs. RFA today at 5 p.m. at Upstate Medical Arena. Thank you Syracuse Crunch for hosting. #wildcatnation 💙💛🐾🏒
Get tickets online at https://section3.org/sports/2021/4/29/hometown-ticketing.aspx
Livestream link: https://m.youtube.com/live/ALMamu1LuUg?feature=share
NYSPHSAA wrestling championship update: WG’s Logan Willis went 3-1 on the day and will now wrestle tomorrow. He needs 1 more win to place. Hood luck tomorrow!! 💙💛🐾🤼♀️
Final: WG Boys Varsity Basketball team wins big over Watertown 85-47. Will now play Fulton in the Sectional Semi-Final Tuesday at Liverpool! Great job! 💙💛🐾🏀
Great season for the Girls Varsity Basketball Team! Tonight you faced a tough FM team & you never let up & gave it everything for 40 minutes! We’re proud of you! (WG girls fall in sectional play 55-41 after a great rebound year!) 💙💛🐾🏀
The WGHS Positivity Project and Erin's Angels are partnering in a supply drive to fill Power Packs for families in the District.
Travel size toiletries such as soap, shampoo, conditioner or full sized toothpaste, toothbrushes, and deodorant are needed.
Cash donations are also appreciated and can be made directly to Erin's Angels with 100% of the donations going towards supplies.
Donations can be brought to the Culture Celebration on Saturday, March 2, and the drive will continue through the month of March at the high school.
WG Fine Arts Summer Program dates are now available for your planning! Brochures and registration information will be available in March!
Happy NATIONAL School Bus Driver Appreciation Day! A big THANK YOU to WGCSD school bus drivers, and all transportation staff, who work hard to keep our kids safe! 🎉🚌💙💛🐾
Dance a Difference Week
"Dance A Difference" Week is a week of dance-based community service spread throughout the nation. The National Dance Educators Organization (NDEO) and the National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA) recognizes the power of dance to make and impact for both individuals and communities. In 2017, "Dance A Difference" Week was instituted to dedicate time to dance based service in communities.
Dance A Difference Week is held during the first full week in March, and is coming up this year from March 3-9, 2024.
This year, WG NHSDA is collecting items for a local cancer support group called 13Thirty Cancer Connect. 13Thirty Cancer Connect is a non-profit organization that began in 2001 after Melissa Sengbusch passed away at the age of 19 from Acute Myeloid Leukemia. The mission, vision, and values of 13Thirty is to help adolescents and young adults living with cancer, with their coping skills and self-esteem by building satisfying peer connections. In preparation for Dance A Difference Week this March, WG NHSDA dancers are now accepting donations of :
* pre-packaged snacks (chips, pretzels, fruit snacks, granola bars, etc.)
* taco kits
* bottled water
* Gatorade
* art supplies (markers, colored pencils, crayons, paint markers, acrylic paint, pens, pencils, colored paper)
* copy paper
* air dry clay
* tye-dye materials
Items may be dropped off at the WGHS Main Office, Fine Arts Office, or sent in with students through February 29, 2024. Thank you!
Good luck to wrestlers Maxx Fesinger and Logan Willis as they compete on February 23-24 in the NYSPHSAA Wrestling Championships in Albany!
Mark your calendars and best of luck to the boys and girls varsity basketball teams as they play in the Section 3 quarterfinals this Friday, February 23! 💙🐾🏀
CMS Students in the Library: Mindfulness Monday Activity/A Place to Read
Did you Know? The CMS Library offers activities along with a place to find, take out and read great books! Thank you to CMS Librarian Sharon Bush for coordinating these activities and sharing pictures of just a few of the many programs offered.
Lucinda Skinner, Molly Fisselbrand, and Madison Coonrad made friendship bracelets (made popular by Taylor Swift) for Library Mindfulness Monday.
Double Take? Benjamin Foss and Joseph Albino are transfixed while reading the same book!
Kathryn O'Keefe and therapy dog, Gunny, enjoy some quiet time in the library.
WGHS Students Selected for Syracuse Youth Wind Ensemble
This fall an opportunity became available to high school musicians for the new Syracuse Youth Wind Ensemble.
Conceived and started by Westhill Band Director, Erin Althen and our very own, Greg Borsz, this ensemble aims to provide "an inspiring musical home to the most exceptional high school woodwind, brass, and percussion student-musicians from across Central New York" (from https://syracuseyouthwindsymphony.org). Interested students auditioned last October and began weekly rehearsals in November.
There were eleven WGHS musicians selected to play in this special ensemble. They are:
* Daniel Alvaro (french horn);
* Dounia Bserani (alto saxophone);
* Harrison Card (trumpet);
* Sarai Card (clarinet);
* Audrey Diddle (percussion);
* Benjamin Korzeniewski (alto saxophone);
* Anthony Mangano (timpani);
* Angus Tarolli (trombone);
* Nathan Smith (baritone);
* Conor Swete (tuba); and
* Amelia Vezey (oboe).
The group had a fantastic debut concert on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at Westhill High School.
Messages of congratulations and gratitude were shared by student musicians, families and conductors alike following the performance! Well done!
Great reminder posted by Stonehedge UPK teacher Mrs. Eliott! Be sure to wash everything this week!
WG wins over IHC 7-1 and is now headed to the Section 3 Championship Monday night at the War Memorial.
