Good luck to the HS girls golf team today at they travel to Hamilton for the West Hancock Lady Titan Golf Tournament. Go Ducks!
Week one of practice is in the books for the HHS cross country team! We are all looking forward to what this year has in store. Go Ducks!
JH girls softball beats Delavan 13-3 in five innings and then wins a shortened second game as well! Go Ducks!
JH Softball game scheduled for this afternoon against Delavan is on as scheduled. The first pitch is set for 4:30 PM. There will be a shortened second game following the first game. Good luck to our JH softball girls! Go Ducks!
JH Football practice for tonight, Thursday, August 12, has been cancelled. Practice will resume tomorrow at the regularly scheduled time. Contact Coach Cowell with any questions.
JH Softball game at Tremont scheduled for this afternoon has been cancelled. The softball team will NOT practice today either.
JH Softball travels to Tremont today for a varsity and shortened second game this afternoon. First game starts at 4:15 PM. Any weather updates will be posted to the school live feed, Facebook, and Twitter page. Go Ducks!
Good luck to Jaxon Porter and Jaron Boggs as they kick of the HS boys golf season today at the Quincy Notre Dame Invite at Westview Golf Course in Quincy. Boggs tees off at 9:32 AM and Porter tees off at 9:40 AM. Go Ducks!
Ducks JH softball team drops a couple games against Canton this afternoon. Travel to Tremont tomorrow afternoon. Go Ducks!
Even with the morning rain, JH girls softball will host Canton this afternoon for their first home game of the season. First pitch is at 4:30 PM. Go Ducks!
A Message from Superintendent Plater
Junior High football begins practice today, Wednesday, August 11th, from 6:30-8:00 PM for all 7th and 8th graders that are interested in participating this year. Practice will continue at the same time on Thursday and Friday this week. Equipment will be handed out to players after practices each night. Practice will take place behind the Havana Junior High School between the junior high building and the softball field. Players should bring their own water bottles as well. Any questions can be sent to Coach Scott Cowell at scowell@havana126.net
A decision on today’s JH Softball home game against Canton will be made early this afternoon. Please check the district’s live feed, as well as Facebook and Twitter, for updates.
August menus for all buildings have been added to the district website at https://www.havana126.net/browse/7102.
This is Mr. McKinney at the High School.
Tomorrow, August 10th is registration. All high school students will register in the high school office area. Enter into the building through the gym doors on the west side of the school. In person registration is open from 9:00 – 1:00, 2:30 – 5:30. You can still register on-line though Alma Start if you wish. As per the Governor’s order, anyone entering the building will have to wear a mask the whole time they are inside. We will have a table set up in the hallway where you will pick up your demographic sheet and make any changes to it, so we can update your records in the student management system. Yearbooks will be passed out in Room 26. Fees, schedule changes can be done in the office. We also will have signup sheet for those that would like to opt into our testing to stay in school program. Signing up would mean that when a student has been close contact to a positive case we could do the minimal evasive quick nasal swab test to ensure whether or not they were positive. If they were not positive then they would stay in school. We think we will have a lot of parents’ sign their students up for the program tomorrow and we in turn should only have to quarantine students in the program when they are actually positive. At the high school, we had 569 quarantined students last year. We had several students that were quarantined multiple times, so signing up for this program could significantly reduce those numbers. We would also ask that if your student has received the vaccine for COVID that you bring in the card and we can make a copy of it and put it in their file. Students who have been vaccinated and are symptom free do not have to quarantine due to close contact. For those that have registered on-line, the test to stay forms are on the link on the district website along with other information about Covid protocols this year. It is located under the scrolling photos in white box marked (Covid/Return To School Info). You can print off a permission sheet and have your student bring a completed one to school the first day of school. We will also have copies in the office. We are going to get through this year with less academic and athletic interruptions and more normal activities for our students and the test to stay program will support this greatly.
Thank You
See the attached flyer for the upcoming Meet the Ducks night on Friday, August 20th. Come out and support your Ducks starting at 5:00 PM in the Havana High School gym for the HHS volleyball scrimmage followed by the events at Arthur Dufelmeier Field starting at 6:00 PM. The Havana Booster Club will also be holding a membership drive. This year there will be $1 gate fee. Sign up to be a Booster Club member and support Havana Duck athletes and you will get free admission along with a raffle entry for a free gift. Booster Club individual memberships are $10 and family memberships are $15. With your membership you will receive a hot dog and soda per family member, along with a free giveaway. If you are interested in joining the Booster Club, please talk to a member at Meet the Ducks Night. Also, anyone willing to donate sports drinks for the HS football team, the 12th man will be collecting those as people arrive as well. Go Ducks!
Junior High football begins practice tomorrow, Wednesday, August 11th, from 6:30-8:00 PM for all 7th and 8th graders that are interested in participating this year. Practice will continue at the same time on Thursday and Friday this week. Equipment will be handed out to players after practices each night. Practice will take place behind the Havana Junior High School between the junior high building and the softball field. Players should bring their own water bottles as well. Any questions can be sent to Coach Scott Cowell at scowell@havana126.net
Junior High girls softball game scheduled for this afternoon at PORTA has been cancelled due to field conditions. Girls will practice tonight from 3-5 PM at the softball field.
Reminder that HS Fall sports practices begin tomorrow, Monday, August 9th. Football, volleyball, golf, and cross country kick off the new school year for our HS student-athletes. Contact your coaches for specific practice times for each individual sport. Make sure and have a physical completed and extracurricular office forms to give your coaches before the first practice. Any practices that are indoors will require student-athletes to be masked regardless of vaccination status per the IDPH, IHSA, and IESA sports guidance. Can’t wait to see all of the sports teams back at it this year! Go Ducks!
High School Volleyball practice begins tomorrow at the High School gym from 8:30-11am. Players need to bring all the necessary paperwork, their own water bottle, running shoes and a mask. Go Ducks! 🏐🦆