“Smoke Signals” April 2018 IHHS Newsletter

As we turn the corner on May and enter the ‘home-stretch’ it was another successful month for the

Braves in the areas of Academics, Athletics and the Arts! Go Braves!

National Honor Society:

On Monday April 23rd, the Class of 2018 NHS Inductees were celebrated.

Senior awards were given during the ceremony as well!

- Sam Okum received the Leadership award

- Max Eihausen received the Scholarship award

- Johnny Giroux received the Character award

- Gabrielle Salvado received the Service award

NHS members voted Trista Emmons as the 2018 Honorary National Honor Society Teacher Award

recipient!!

In addition, Congratulations to the Class of 2019 NHS Officers!

President: Sumner Colohan

Vice President: Bethany Ison

Treasurer: Elina Govil

Secretary: Emma Reyering

Jorie Alf

Sean Amato

Madeline Antenucci

Marjona Ashurova

Ellie Bayless

Lucy Bell

Sailor Betts

Wandrille Bonniol

Kanksha Buch

Marion Caine

William Campa

Jensen Cassity

Morgan Coburn

Isabella Dinga

William Ericsson

Anay Gautham

Nicholas Gillan

David Heilbrunn

Nicolas Hollander

Claudia Hollander

Sumaiya Hossain

Mary James

Alexander Johnston

Margaret Jutze

Min Seo Kim

Louisa Klaserner

Christian Kohl

Albert Kwon

Luke Lundberg

Alison Ma

Madeline Miller

Heidi NeCamp

Callahan O'Dell

Mary Claire Pavlick

Samantha Pregel

Ashleigh Prugh

Amy Prugh

Elizabeth Radway

Jillian Rice

Olivia Riggs

Patrick Rogers

Elizabeth Saba

Mariana Salazar

Rama Sardar

William Schneider

Andrew Schwanekamp

Manasi Singh

Jonah Sorscher

Caleb Tan

William Taylor

Krew Verratti

Cole Werbrich

Anne Whaley

Faith Wheeler

Gabrielle Wiot

Bryn Wirthlin

Duke Wyler

Luke Zins

Kim Zwolshen

IH DECA:

Eleven Indian Hill High School students enrolled in the Marketing courses at Indian Hill competed in

Atlanta, GA April 23-26 at the DECA International Career Development Conference. The students

earned their way through district and state level competition to compete with nearly 20,000 students

from 11 countries. The students compete in a variety of business competitions which include case

studies, testing, written research papers and presentations.

Indian Hill was well represented by Lexi Magenheim, Graham Wyler, and Emily Singer with a research

paper and presentation for their Community Service Project, KidsFed. Radu Dragomirescu and Cooper

Pierce presented an International Business Research proposal. Brian Lewis and Sam Smith competed in

Business law & Ethics case studies. Dan Josche and Johnny Giroux competed in an Entrepreneurship

team event. Indian Hill’s first Freshman to ever compete at this level, Lauren Sewell presented a

Marketing Principles event. The highlight for Indian Hill came from Gabrielle Salvado. Gabrielle

created an Advertising Campaign for a local small business and finished in the Top 10 for her event.

The educational experience of putting into practice what the students learn in the classroom and

realizing the magnitude of the experience they will encounter beyond high school is very rewarding and

an opportunity they will remember for a life time.

The marketing courses at Indian Hill High school are in partnership with Great Oaks CDC and

instructed by Mrs. Susan Schonauer and Mr. Philip Said. The students and instructors are very grateful

for the support of the administration form both Indian Hill and Great Oaks to afford this opportunity to

our students.

Braves Beat: “BLUE CHIP AWARDS”

The Blue Chip Awards Ceremony for Public Access Television Programming was held on Wednesday April 25th

at the Redmoor Theater in Mt. Lookout. Indian Hill Students had a big night. The students had twenty video

programs selected as top three finalists and six of those took the first place trophy.

IHHS had a record 12 different Producers represented this year!

IH Academic World Quest Team:

Congratulations to the IHHS Academic World Quest Team (Asher Weinstein, Llyona Lallement, Radu

Dragomirescu, and Mark Kholodenko) who placed 3rd out of 47 teams at the National Academic World

Quest competition in Washington, D.C. the weekend of April 27.

ATHLETICS Update: Senior Athletic Awards will occur Thursday, May 24th in the IHHS auditorium at 7:00pm. All senior athletes will

be recognized as well as underclassmen who had notable athletic achievements. Our state champion Girls

Lacrosse and Girls Soccer teams and two time defending State Dive Champion Noah Vigran will also be honored.

Summer Athletic Camps are scheduled throughout the month of June. Registration is now open thru our

athletic registration system at www.ihbraves.org.

Football June 11 – 14

Volleyball June 11 – 14

Boys Basketball June 4 – 7

Girls Basketball June 4 – 8

Boys and Girls Soccer June 11 – 14

Boys and Girls Lacrosse June 25 – 29

Baseball June 4 – 8

Softball June 4 – 7

Cheerleading June 30 – Aug 2

2nd Annual Cincinnati Enquirer Sports Awards included the nomination of 4 Braves for SW Ohio awards:

Anna Podojil – Girls Soccer Player of the Year – WINNER!

Noah Vigran – Swimming and Diver of the Year

Gracey Hirsch – Girls Tennis Player of the Year

Ben Bayless – Heart and Hustle Award

Colin Shaw – Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Spring College Signing Day occurred on Wednesday April 6 with Girls Lacrosse Player Georgia Kennedy

committing to play Girls Lacrosse at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

Spring Senior Nights are finishing up as we approach the end of the Spring Seasons. Congratulations to all our

spring senior athletes:

Baseball – 4/30 4:15

Girls Lacrosse – 5/3 6:30

Boys Tennis – 5/3 4:15

Athletics by the Numbers for the 2017-18 School Year

857 athletic positions (Hs and MS, includes multi-sport athletes)

Individuals

o High School = 410, 65% of total enrollment

o Middle School = 150, 50% of total enrollment

354 Home events

380 Away events

345 Bus runs

90 paid coaches

64 teams

All Sports Trophy

After winning our first ever CHL All Sports Trophy in 2017, Indian Hill currently is in 2nd place thru the

winter season with 77 points vs Wyoming’s 77.5 point total. Let’s Go Spring Sports!

“Senior Week”

Tues. May 29th: Senior Celebration of Excellence (7-9:30pm)

Wed. May 30th: Community Viewing of Senior Projects (5-7pm)

Senior Banquet (7-8:30pm)

Thur. May 31st: Baccalaureate (7:30pm)

Fri. June 1st: Graduation

The summary letter regarding all senior week events has been sent home already.

Upcoming Dates:

May 19th: Prom & After Prom

May 24th: Underclass Awards (9:30-11:30am)

May 24th: Senior Athletic Awards (7:00pm)

May 29th: Senior Celebration of Excellence

May 30: Senior Banquet

May 31st: Baccalaureate

May 31st: End of the 4th Quarter – Last Day of School for Students

June 1st: Graduation