Ellis High School/Junior High

Ellis High School Baseball and Softball Senior Night is Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Seniors and their parents will be recognized between games with Pratt-Skyline. Game time for 1st game is 4:00 p.m. Congratulations to our seniors and best wishes to both teams as they head into regionals! Baseball Seniors pictured are Jarret Mader and William Crawford. Softball Seniors pictured are Hannah Schiel, Kayla Julian, and Myah McCoy.

Harlie Bittel 2A STATE CHAMPION in Humorous Solo AND Prose! Emily Whyte 6th in Prose and broke semifinals in Serious Solo! Elie Brull & Kinzie Sunley broke semifinals in Duet, and Elie broke semifinals in Poetry!! The team placed 8th out of 27 teams! Congrats!

All SIX events are moving to the Semi-Final Round! 🤯🎉 Please send us all your luck! 🍀🧡🚂🖤

Congrats to the following ladies on their state journalism placings: Taylor Seibel 1st Digital Illustration Kaydawn Haag 2nd Advertisement Design Macy Eberle 3rd Student Life Photography Ava Reed 6th Academic Photography Addison Kohl 6th Sports Action Photography

All SIX events are moving to the Semi-Finals!!! 🤯🎉 Please send us all your luck! 🍀 🧡 🚂 🖤

The journalism girls did well at state today. Taylor Seibel placed 1st in Digital Illustration, Kaydawn Haag placed 2nd in Advertising Design, Macy Eberle placed 3rd in Student Life Photography, Ava Reed placed 6th in Academic photography, and Addison Kohl placed 6th in Sports Action Photography!

2A State Forensics at Bishop-Carroll this morning! Good luck, Railers!

Congrats to the Railer golfers on a tremendous day at Hill City! Hunter Guffey placed 15th with a personal best 86. Austin Carroll also had a personal best score of 74 and placed 4th. Team placed 3rd with a 338, which is our lowest score in 10 years! Great job guys KEEP GRINDING!

Read the EJH/EHS Weekly Announcements for the week of May 7th: https://www.smore.com/2ucqw-ejh-ehs-weekly-announcements-5-7

Shoutout to our High School Track & Field athletes for an outstanding performance at Victoria! We are starting to see a lot of peak performances as we prepare for league and regionals. Our girl's team placed 2nd out of 9 teams, while the boy's team placed 8th out of 9 teams. Next week we head to Philipsburg for MCL, the following week we will be in Stanton County for Regionals, hoping to take a large bus to State the week after! Individual/Relay Placers: Emily Eck - 400m - 1st Place Avery Boydston - 1600m - 1st Place Avery Boydston - 3200m - 1st Place Isabella Eck - High Jump - 1st Place Natalee North - Discus - 1st Place Metzler, Younger, Johnson, North - 4x400m - 1st Place Makenna Kohl - 800m - 2nd Place Madi Russell - 1600m - 2nd Place Natalee North - Shotput - 2nd Place Rex Johnson - Javelin - 2nd Place Madi Russell - 800m - 3rd Place Kylee Pfeifer - 300 Hurdles - 3rd Place Addison Kohl - 100 Hurdles - 3rd Place Pfeifer, Kohl, Schmidt, Eck - 4x100m - 3rd Place Metzler, Younger, Johnson, North - 4x100m - 3rd Place Reagan Jimenez - Javelin - 4th Place Carson North - High Jump - 4th Place Mason Younger - Long Jump - 4th Place Sienna Schmidt - 800m - 5th Place Natalee North - Javelin - 5th Place Carson North - 400m - 5th Place Payten Burd - 200m - 6th Place Logan Russell - Javelin - 6th Place

The EHS Journalism team is headed to the Kansas Scholastic Press Association's State Journalism Contest at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Competing are Macy Eberle (Student Life Photography), Kaydawn Haag (Advertising Design), Addison Kohl (Sports Action Photography), Myah McCoy (Sports Feature Photography), Kylie Pfeifer (Academic Photography), Ava Reed (Academic Photography), and Taylor Seibel (Digital Illustration). Pictures are from the school send-off today! We are RAILER PROUD!

The EHS Forensics team is headed to the KSHSAA 2A State Speech & Drama Championships in Wichita! Competing are Harlie Bittel (Humorous Solo & Prose), Elie Brull (Poetry & Duet), Kinzie Sunley (Duet), and Emily Whyte (Serious Solo and Prose). Pictures are from the school send-off today! We are Railer Proud!

Mrs.Nilhas' culinary bakery class finished their copycat Crumbl Cookie competition. They had several EHS staff vote and every one of them got a first place vote by someone!!

We will have a send-off for our EHS Forensics and Journalism State Qualifiers at 12:00pm today. Congratulations and best of luck to Harlie Bittel, Elie Brull, Kinzie Sunley, and Emily Whyte who will represent Ellis at Wichita on Saturday at the KSHSAA 2A State Speech & Drama Championships hosted at Bishop Carroll High School. Competition begins at 7:45am. EHS Journalism State Qualifiers are Macy Eberle, Kaydawn Haag, Ava Reed, Taylor Seibel, Kylee Pfeifer, Addison Kohl, and Myah McCoy. Their work has been submitted and awards will be presented in Lawrence at the University of Kansas on Saturday. Congratulations Railers!! 🚂🎭🚂📸💻🚂

Our Railroader Track Team has a busy two weeks ahead with some important league and regional meets! They are heading to Victoria today and we wish the team good luck. Also, congratulations and best wishes to our senior track athletes! Track Seniors Pictured: (BR) Dakota Metzler, Alex McGuire, Carson North, Rylan Cass; (FR) Madi Russell, Makenna Kohl, Emily Eck. Second Picture: Maverick Gnad and Rex Johnson. Remaining Track Schedule: Victoria (5-4), MCL @ Phillipsburg (5-11), Regionals @ Johnson-Stanton Co. (5-19), and State @ WSU (5-26/27).

The EHS journalism staff went out to lunch at the club today to celebrate all of the hard work they've put in this year, and to prepare for the final push to finish this year's book.

Swept Ellinwood 20-1 and 21-8. Hannah Schiel takes over top RBI spot with 41 so far this season. Kaydawn Haag ties the season home run record with 7 so far and took the top spot for career home runs last week. They both also had dingers tonight. Hannah got the grand slam, while Kaydawn had the solo shot.

Today, the future EJH seventh graders visited the junior high to see what next year would be like! We look forward to seeing these students in our building next year!

Our Railroader Golf Team has a busy two weeks ahead! Good luck to our Railroaders competing today in Norton and the rest of the season! Congratulations to our Senior Golfers on a great season! Seniors pictured are Harlie Bittel and Haley Cranwell! Remaining meets: JV Golf @ Norton (5-2), JV Golf @ Plainville (5-4), Golf @ Hill City (5-5), Golf @ Phillipsburg (5-9), MCL Golf @ Hays/TMP (5-11), Regional Golf @ Hoxie (5-15), and State Golf @ Hesston (5-22/23).

Last week (4/28/23) Ellis track traveled to Quinter to compete. Out of 22 teams present out Girls took first and our boys took 6th! It was a great showing as a team and our athletes got to see a lot of competition. We have one last regular season meet this Thursday before beginning our post-season with League and Regionals. Individual/Relay Placers: Emily Eck - 400m - 1st Avery Boydston - 800m - 1st Avery Boydston - 1600m - 1st Schmidt, Boydston, Russell, Kohl - 4x800m relay - 1st Natalee North - Discus - 1st Rex Johnson - Javelin - 1st Makenna Kohl - 800m - 2nd Madi Russell - 3200m - 2nd Isabella Eck - High Jump - 2nd Aron Bencze - Discus - 2nd Kylee Pfiefer - 400m - 3rd Kylee Pfiefer - Hurdles - 3rd Eck, Schmidt, Pfiefer, Kohl - 4x100m relay - 3rd Natalee North - Shot Put - 3rd Mason Younger - Long Jump - 4th Johnson, Metzler, North, Younger - 4x100m relay - 5th Johnson, Metzler, North, Rohleder - 4x400m relay - 5th Mason Younger - Pole Vault - 5th Addison Kohl - Hurdles - 6th Isabella Eck - Pole Vault - 6th Dakota Metzler - Pole Vault - 6th