Congratulations to Coach Willard, who was selected by the IHSA Administrative Staff as the 2021-2022 Boys Tennis Coach of the Year. By winning this award, Coach Willard was eligible to be considered for the National Federation of State High School Associations National Tennis Coach of the Year. We received word just as we began our winter break that the NFHS selected Coach Willard as the Section 4 Boys Tennis Coach of the Year. Section 4 includes the following states: Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Coach Willard has been selected as the best boys' tennis coach out of all the coaches from those five states for the 2021-2022 school year! Coach Willard's accomplishments are in the classroom and on the tennis court. His courses taught at MTHS include honors AP Statistics and Honors Algebra II/Trigonometry. Some of Coach Willard's tennis coaching highlights include twice being selected as the Boys Tennis Coach of the Year for Illinois; he has been a part of thirteen sectional championships and ten Mid-Illini Conference championships, the Boy's Tennis Team has finished in the top ten at the state tennis tournament four times. The best finish included a 3rd place trophy in 2021. He also serves as an assistant coach with our Girl's Tennis Team and regularly attends numerous athletic and nonathletic events at MTHS. He is a 2022 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee.
Dunlap HS is hosting a First Responders Night at the boys varsity basketball game this Friday, January 13. All first responders and their families will have free entrance!
Ticket Pre-Sales for Sacred Heart Griffin vs Metamora Boys Varsity Basketball Game go on sale tomorrow! *Tickets will also be sold at the door*
We are anticipating a capacity crowd tonight for our boy's basketball game against Washington. On Saturday night, we reached capacity by 6:15 PM and had to close the doors. If you want to avoid the crowd, please feel free to watch the game via live stream from the following link https://www.youtube.com/@digimaxsportsnetwork7028/streams Doors will open for spectators at 4:45 PM and will remain open until we reach fire code capacity.
Marswars 2023 ChargedUp Robotics Kickoff! Getting the game rules and starting the design. Also preseason minibot competition!
Herr Bachfischer received the Assistant Coach Award from the Illinois Track & Cross Country Coaches Association!
The music kids are having one last great adventure at EPCOT!!
The band enjoyed a workshop with Allen Gray (Disney Recording Artist) at Epcot!
The bands had a spectacular performance on Main Street USA at Disney World in Orlando, FL today!
The bands and choirs are having a blast in Orlando!
MTHS Cheerleaders visited the residents at Snyder Village. The greatest gift we will receive this year is the smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Happy Holiday’s to all!
Thank you to the Illinois State Police for talking to our driver's education students about the dangers of impaired driving and the importance of wearing your seatbelt. https://youtube.com/shorts/HyfX7pO3Lnc
Mrs. Cooper's honors English II donated hundreds of books to Riverview Grade School these past two weeks! Bravo!
The MTHS English Department helped bring Light to the building this week!
Thank you to the MTHS Key Club for helping decorate at Snyder Village this past week! This is a great group of young people donating their time to make a difference for their community!
A big thanks to our MTHS family from FCA and the Riverview Alumni Association for the hundreds of book donations collected this morning!!
Child Development students are applying their knowledge of preschoolers by planning age appropriate lessons using goals and objectives. Then the fun part, we get to practice the activities they planned. Work is fun!
Mrs. Wendy Vogel, kindergarten teacher at MGS, and Mrs. Jana Southerland, 5th grade teacher at MGS, spoke with MTHS Educators Rising club members about what it's like to be an elementary teacher. Their great joy and passion for teaching their students was so incredibly inspirational!
Congratulations to our second-term students of the term! We appreciate your hard work!
Ethan Kizer - Nominated for the CTE Department by Sheridan Ray
Tatum Points - Nominated for the Science Department by Jared Grebner
Matthew Moore - Nominated for the Math Department by Kelly Willard
Andrew Schaffer - Nominated by the Guidance Department
Drew Mischler - Nominated for the Fine Arts Dept by Zach Hilligoss and Kelly Jarosz
Brandon Hughes - Nominated for the Business/FCS Department by Dan Ballard
Jacob Hunt - Nominated for the Social Studies Department by Eric Sliger
Ryan Murray - Nominated for the Social Services Department by Morgan Murphy
Naomi Roth - Nominated for the Health Department by Tony Riddle
Samuel Stamm - Nominated for the World Language Department by Erinn Ambrosch
Maddie Marsh - Nominated for the English Department by Tabitha Cooper
Thank you to Ryan Vogel, MTHS alum and college athlete for coming back to MTHS to speak to our students about being student athletes.
