Maple makes it: At-large berth to state for CM junior
Photo by Mark Huber
PIQUA Daelin Maple’s run of emotions Saturday was not for the faint of heart.
The Clinton-Massie junior went from being elated to stunned then to anxious and back to elation.
In the end, Maple qualified for the Division II OHSAA Track and Field Championship this week at Pickerington North High School.
Competing in the shot put Saturday at the Division II Region 8 Track and Field Championship at Piqua High School, Maple started out with a powerful 50-10 effort.
“I was stoked,” he said of the personal best distance that also gave him the lead for 17 throws.
Upper Valley Career Center names Students of the Quarter
Chloe Whalen
PIQUA The Upper Valley Career Center has named Chloe Whalen, junior student in Early Childhood Education and Care from Sidney High School, and Sierra Gudim, senior student in Interactive Media from Troy High School as Students of the Quarter for the third nine-week grading period.
They were selected from a group of six students nominated by faculty for the quarter honors.
Nominations for Student of the Quarter are made by career-technical program instructors with attendance, citizenship, leadership, and effort taken into account. In addition, the student’s academic instructors are asked to rate each nominee’s effort during the nine-week grading period.
Piqua student wins annual poetry competition
Lexi Gastelu, of Piqua, performs poems by George Marion McClellan and Carolyn Wells at the 2021 Poetry Out Loud competition, held at Edison State Community College.
PIQUA Piqua Arts Council hosted the West Central Regional Final of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Poetry Out Loud Competition on Thursday, Feb. 11 at Edison State Community College.
As part of the competition students from four of the region’s high schools participated in reading poems. Competing were Daniel Nauseef from Chaminade Julienne High School, Hibachi Loukssi from Xenia High School, Lexi Gastelu from Piqua High School and Abigail Lay from Springfield Clark Career and Technical College. The students competed in two rounds of poetry recitation with the judges for the evening also presenting.