If you don't have time to make dinner tonight after attending Parent-Teacher Conferences- The Highland Wrestling Team will have to go meals for sale at the high school! $8 will get you a pulled pork loin sandwich, chips, potato salad and a brownie! While supplies last! We will start serving at 4pm. Thank you for supporting our team!
Junior High students went old school today and spent the hour studying a Missouri map...a real, paper, highway, map! Map reading helps students visualize and interpret data, which develops strong spatial reasoning skills; a good mental exercise for these emerging scholars.
Funnies overheard:
"Imagine trying to drive with this thing!"
"How did you know if you were lost?"
"Didn't this block your view?"
Hardest part of the day? Folding the map back up! 🗺️
🏆 All-Conference Honors! 🥎
We’re proud to recognize our Lady Cougars who earned All-Conference honors this season! Congratulations to Abby Lay, Addy Abell, Bailie Crist, Corinne Brinkley, Keera Rothweiler, & Hannah Ritterbusch.
Individual recognition only comes when the team succeeds—and this team gave everything they had in every conference game. 💪
Congratulations to our players who were honored, and thank you to the entire team for the effort and commitment that made this possible!
We’re proud to recognize our Lady Cougars who earned All-Conference honors this season! Congratulations to Abby Lay, Addy Abell, Bailie Crist, Corinne Brinkley, Keera Rothweiler, & Hannah Ritterbusch.
Individual recognition only comes when the team succeeds—and this team gave everything they had in every conference game. 💪
Congratulations to our players who were honored, and thank you to the entire team for the effort and commitment that made this possible!
The Scholastic Book Fair continues at Highland Elementary until Thursday (10/30) at 1:00. Tuesday Library Classes may shop at the Book Fair during their Guidance Class Time if they brought money to shop. The Book Fair will be open during the Parent Teacher Conferences Tuesday and Wednesday night. People who can not make to this and still want to shop may shop at the Online Book Fair at https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/highlandelementaryschool74
Class 1 District 8 football. Highland will host the first round of the district football tournament vs. Milan on Friday 10/31/25. Kickoff is scheduled for 7pm. Entry fee is $4 for everyone age 6 and up. NO PASSES OF ANY KIND WILL BE ACCEPTED DUE TO THIS BEING A MSHSAA EVENT. GO COUGARS!!
REMINDER that tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28th, is Picture Retakes at HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. If your child was absent for picture day or if you were not satisfied with your pictures the first time, Wagner Portrait Group will be at HES tomorrow morning.
Happy Birthday to Corinne Brinkley from the Highland Softball Family!
Happy Birthday to Emily Foy from the Highland Softball family.
Hey Cougar Nation,
Here's a look at this week in Cougar Country.
🫱🏼🫲🏼 Infographic credit: Cougars StuCo
#WeAreHighland
#GoCougars
Great Saturday with our young kids! Fundamentals and some 3v3 games. Next Saturday is our last workout. Come get better and have fun playing basketball!
There were a few milestones/records that were achieved by some Highland Lady Cougars yesterday in the Class 2 Quartfinal game. Keera Rothweiler became our first ever 60/60 player with 61 hits and 62 runs scored this season. Keera also tied her 2024 single season record of 52 stolen bases in a season. Keera broke the school OBP record with a 0.613 on base percentage (breaking Bailie Crist's record from 2024 of 0.607). Keera also tied Payton Miller with the most defensive assists in a season with 66.
Bailie Crist broke the school record of single season RBI's with 52. The previous record was set last Saturday by teammate Addy Abell (Addy finished with 50 RBI).
Abby Lay recorded her 500th career strikeout.
As a team, the Lady Cougars stole 151 bases which is the most stolen bases in a single season in school history.
Proud doesn’t even begin to describe it.
This season with the Lady Cougars has been something special. We’ve been through a lot together — ups, downs, and everything in between — but this group never gave up and never gave in. We fought with heart, with pride, and with love for each other every single day.
We had a great year, and I loved every minute of the journey. That’s what makes this ending so tough. It just wasn’t our day, but it’s hard to accept that our time together — seeing each other every day, laughing, competing, growing — has come to an end.
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve told the girls that no matter what happens, we are proud of them and we love them. And we truly mean that. We’ve represented Highland with class, toughness, and heart.
I was blown away by all of the support we had — the stands were always full of people cheering us on (especially yesterday), and that meant so much to our players and coaches. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us, thank you to the best coaching staff in the world, and most of all thank you to the best group of young ladies a coach could ever ask for. I also want to say a special thank you to our 5 seniors (Manda, Bailie, Addy, Abby, & Cat). You girls will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am so very very proud of you and I have had so much fun being your coach. Thank you for everything!
I had an absolute blast coaching this team. I’ll never forget this season, this group, or the bond we built together. 💛🤎 #LadyCougars #Family #ProudCoach
This season with the Lady Cougars has been something special. We’ve been through a lot together — ups, downs, and everything in between — but this group never gave up and never gave in. We fought with heart, with pride, and with love for each other every single day.
We had a great year, and I loved every minute of the journey. That’s what makes this ending so tough. It just wasn’t our day, but it’s hard to accept that our time together — seeing each other every day, laughing, competing, growing — has come to an end.
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve told the girls that no matter what happens, we are proud of them and we love them. And we truly mean that. We’ve represented Highland with class, toughness, and heart.
I was blown away by all of the support we had — the stands were always full of people cheering us on (especially yesterday), and that meant so much to our players and coaches. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us, thank you to the best coaching staff in the world, and most of all thank you to the best group of young ladies a coach could ever ask for. I also want to say a special thank you to our 5 seniors (Manda, Bailie, Addy, Abby, & Cat). You girls will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am so very very proud of you and I have had so much fun being your coach. Thank you for everything!
I had an absolute blast coaching this team. I’ll never forget this season, this group, or the bond we built together. 💛🤎 #LadyCougars #Family #ProudCoach
👾 A Monster-ously Fun Tradition! 👾
On Friday, Mrs. Johnson’s First Grade Class visited HHS to pick up their monster stuffies from Mrs. Ann Murphy and the Fundamentals of Fashion and Interior Design class!
Our first graders designed their own monster templates, and the high school students brought them to life with creativity! 💕 The “firsties” absolutely loved their new monster friends—and their visit to HHS!
This has quickly become one of our favorite annual traditions. 🧵✨
A huge thank you to Mrs. Murphy and her talented students for making this such a special experience! 💚
Happy Birthday to Angel Bass from the Highland Softball Family!
Happy Birthday to Catherine Darnell from the Highland Softball Family!
Our Junior High Student Council put on our first ever Junior High Only pep assembly and it was a blast!! They recognized our Junior High athletic teams including our cheerleaders that placed in their regional competition. We had a great afternoon of laughs and fun! Apparently Junior High students just need some music, space and like 6 or 7 balloons 🤪 and they'll have a great time!! Thank you Stu-Co and sponsors!
Lady Cougars fall to South Harrison 9-5 in today's Quarterfinal match-up.
Thanks for the GREAT season, ladies! We are proud of you.
#WeAreHighland
#GoCougars
It's Gameday! The Highland Lady Cougars take on the South Harrison Lady Bulldogs today at Highland in a Class 2 Quarterfinal softball game at 1:00 pm. The gates open up at noon. Come out and support your Lady Cougars as they try to punch their ticket to the State Tournament!
Reminder-
Anyone, age 6 and up, planning to attend today's Quarterfinal softball game vs. South Harrison MUST purchase a digital ticket. Tickets can only be purchased through MSHSAA-Hometown Ticketing (see the direct link below) or by scanning the QR code attached. NO PASSES WILL BE ACCEPTED! Gates open to spectators at 12 noon!
https://events.hometownticketing.com/boxoffice/mshsaa/L2VtYmVkL2V2ZW50LzM4NTg%3D
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This week's Cougar Connection 🎬Take two🎬
(sorry for the link trouble 🫤)
Follow the week 13 link below for some 🐾GREAT VIDEOS🐾 from the Lady Cougar SB and Golf teams!
https://bit.ly/Wk-13_Cougar_Connection_with_VIDEOS
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