Oswego Junior-Senior High School

This Thursday, September 18 the Oswego Cross Country teams will host our first ever cross country meet. The meet will take place at the Oswego Golf Course. The first race starts at 3:00. This group of runners has been an amazing group to coach. I know they would appreciate your support on Thursday. We would like to invite you to come watch them run. In cross country you are allowed to go out anywhere you want on the course to support the runners. Not sure there is another sport that you can go out and join the athletes on their area of competition. That is for sure a unique aspect of cross country. Come out and cheer our runners on this Thursday. You won't be disappointed!

The High School and middle school teams traveled to Fort Scott today for our second meet of the year. The 7th grade boys and girls started the action for us this afternoon. On the girls side Paris Clifton dominated the competition with a 1st place finish and a season best time of 14:43. Karma Cunningham ran second for our team with a time of 20:28. Journey Murphy was our 3rd runner to cross the line with a season best time of 22:41. Annie Reynolds was our 4th girl to finish and Abby Holler was our 5th girl. Annie and Abby ran the same time of 27:17. The five girls had a team score of 75 points which was good enough for 3rd place. On the 7th grade boys side Dawson Conrad paced the boys with a 2nd place finish and a very impressive time of 14:14. This was a season best time for Dawson. Skyler Neblett crossed the line 2nd for our Indian runners. His time of 18:34 was good enough for 21st place and also a season best time. Teagan Davis was our third runner with a time of 22:02 and also a season best time. Our 4th runner to finish was Tucker Brush with a season best time of 23:12. Jaden Perona would cross the line 5th for our junior high boys team. His time of 25:06 was also a season best time. The five runners for our middle school team captured 1st place team honors. The top ten runners received medals for their performance. Both Paris and Dawson secured our first two medals of the day. Echo Morrison was our only 8th grade runner to compete in the 8th grade girls division. Her time of 17:01 was good enough for 8th place and our third medal of the day. Her time was also a season best time. Chloe Rhodenbaugh would be our first high school runners to compete. Her performance in the girls JV race was good enough for third place. Chloe ran 28:03 which was one second off of her season best. Chloe won our 4th medal of the day. In the boys high school JV division, Kaden Esposito ran a very impressive season best time of 21:14 which was good enough for 2nd place and secured our 5th medal of the day. Kross Fuller crossed the line second for us with a time of 26:23. Kross finished in 27th place. Trace Kiser finished third for us with a time of 28:24. His time was good enough for 35th place. Madden Kilcrease ran his first race of the year crossing the line in 47th place for the Indians. You need five runners to qualify as a team. Unfortunately we were one runner short to qualify as a team. It was a great day for our Indian runners. The boys 7th grade team finished 1st and the girls 7th grade team ran to a third place finish. We had five runners secure medals. Ten out of the 17 runners today ran season best times. We had a great week of practice and it sure did pay off. I am extremely proud of how our runners performed today. We had really good team support and once again our parents showed up and performed at a high level. This was by far the hottest day we have had to run. That made things a little tougher for us but we didn't let that stop us. Would like to thank all the parents for the food and water they donated to our runners today. It was greatly appreciated. This group of runners is really fun to coach. I really enjoy watching them run. If you have a chance, please come out to the golf course next Thursday, Sept. 18. We are hosting our first meet ever. First race starts at 3:00. It is going to be a great day to watch our cross country teams compete.

Parsons Parents,

Starting Thursday, August 14th, USD 504, Oswego, will no longer be stopping at the bus stop on 21st Street that we have shared with USD 506, Labette County. Our new bus stop is located at 300 N. Main Street, the old Walmart, east of Braums. We are thrilled to have our own area with less traffic to keep your children safer at the stop. As always, please use caution when entering and leaving the parking area while children and buses are present.

Thank you,
USD 504 Transportation

Mr. Cruse will be at the high school until around 3:00 for those that are interested in signing up for cross country. If you are in grades 6 thru 12 your are eligible to run cross country. If you are interested in running cross country come out and see me. There is also a sign-up sheet at Service Valley for any 6th, 7th or 8th grade student who in interested from Service Valley.

There will be a Junior High and High School football parents meeting on Thursday, August 7 at 6p.m. in the High School commons area. Please make plans to attend if you have a student interested in playing football for the Junior High or High School football team.

There will be no open music room today. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Reminder, next week is the KSHSAA Summer Moratorium. Check out the KSHSAA policy release below.

Attention: Oswego Junior High and High School football team. I would like to invite you to Indian Team Football Camp. The camp will be held on July 14, 15, 17, and 18 at the football practice field (behind the high school). There will be one camp for both JH and HS teams from 6:00-8:00 p.m. This is a non contact camp. Players need cleats as the only equipment. There will be a $22 camp fee to be paid upon entrance. Each camper will receive a T-shirt during the school year. Make checks payable to Matt Fowler. I also would like to remind all parents and athletes that each student who is participating in athletics this year for Oswego Middle/High School must have a physical and concussion form submitted to the High School office before official practices begin in August. (This does not apply to camp.) The forms needed can be found on the school’s website. For any questions please contact me at (620) 474-6965. GO INDIANS! Matt Fowler Head Football Coach Oswego High School mfowler@usd504.org

Attention: Incoming 3rd-6th grade students of USD 504 I would like to invite you to Oswego Indian Youth Football Camp. The camp will be held on July 7, 8, and 10 at the football practice field (behind the high school). The camp sessions will run from 6:00-7:30 pm. This is a non contact camp focused on learning fundamentals of the game of football. Players will need no equipment (although if they do own a pair of cleats it would be great if they would bring them.) There will be a $15 camp fee to be paid upon entrance. Each camper will receive a T-shirt during the school year. Make checks payable to Matt Fowler. For any questions please contact me at (620) 474-6965. GO INDIANS! Matt Fowler Head Football Coach Oswego High School mfowler@usd504.org

State Bound! A huge shoutout to Mia and Alex for qualifying for the State Championships! Mia has faced adversity all season, battling through injuries and struggling to hit her stride. With the two fastest girls in the region scratching from the 400m, the pressure was on — and she delivered in the clutch, running her fastest time of the season by 3 seconds to place 3rd and punch her ticket to state! Mia also ran a PR in the 200m by one tenth of second and finished 8th Alex came through with a standout performance in the javelin, launching a throw of 150’6” to secure 2nd place and his spot at state as well. He just came short in qualifying with discus with a PR of 115'9" which landed him 4th. Other athletes that competed at regionals were, McKenna and she threw a PR in discus with 90'6" which was good enough for 5th. Wendell threw a PR in shot put with a throw of 36'6" which landed him 7th. Owen Jackson secured 7th in long jump with a PR of 18'1". Brenden completed well in the 200 and 400 and Dominic threw in the shot put. We’re so proud of all the Indians and their perseverance, heart, and grit. Let’s go represent at state!

Here is the link to the boys golf regionals today. https://www.kansasgolfscores.com/ks_b_25/teamresults.php?id=2826&db=boys

HS Boys Summer Basketball meeting this Thursday at 6:30pm at the Assembly of God. This is for players and parents. We will talk about the summer schedule for team camps and summer leagues.

Summer Cross Country 2025 We will meet on Wednesday every week to do some training and team building activities. We will always meet in the park unless I let you know different. We will start the Wednesday after memorial weekend. The date will be May 28. We will meet for an hour between 9:00 and 10:00 in the morning. We will just plan on meeting one day per week for now. If schedules allow, we might start meeting two days a week. No matter how many days we meet, you are still encouraged to run on your own on those days we don’t meet. Below are some websites that you can go and check out some summer camp opportunities. Check them out if you are interested in going to a camp. Participation in summer activities and camps is not mandatory but is encouraged. Memorial day is on May 26. We have been offered the opportunity to help put up the flags at the cemetery and get paid for doing so. I have accepted the offer. Let me know if you will be able to help put up flags on May 26. Some of the money will go to the cross country team to help pay for our trip to Rim Rock this year. In order to receive the money we will need cross country runners to help. If we don’t have runners help then we won’t receive the money. We will need to be there ready to put up flags at 6:30 am and take them down at 5:00 pm. We need to be there for both sessions. lyoncrosscountrycamps.com www.swmorunningcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/swmorunningcamp https://www.instagram.com/swmorunningcamp/ swmorunningcamp@gmail.com We cannot meet the week of June 30 thru July 6 per KSHSAA rules. After July 21 we can no longer meet as a team per KSHSAA rules. You can still run on your own. August 18: First Practice Hope to see you this summer. Neal Cruse Email:ncruse@usd504.org Phone: 620-778-2047

On Tuesday, May 27 we will have an archery ceremony to recognize all of our archers for the great season they had. The banquet will start at 6:30 and will be held in the cafeteria of the elementary school in Oswego. Please let me know if you will be able to attend so I can get a count of how many will be there. Please bring any archery shirts you have to the banquet to hand in. If you have paid for your shirt you won't need to turn it in. Thank you and we hope to see you on the 27th.

Oswego Softball Regionals: with the threat of possible severe weather tomorrow afternoon and evening, the softball games will be postponed until Tuesday/Wednesday following the same time schedules.

Oswego Lady Indians Summer Weights Program 2025

Oswego Softball Regionals. https://www.kshsaa.org/public/ScoreCenter/Brackets/Softball/2-1ARegional.cfm?Activity=2&WeekID=6099