2020-2021 Clinton High School Cheerleaders

There will be a mandatory parent meeting held via Zoom at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, July 15^th.  On Tuesday, you will be receiving an invitation to this meeting, and an information packet at the parent email you provided for tryouts. If you do not receive this information, please email us at [email protected] or [email protected]. 

 We will begin practice on Thursday, July 16^th from 9:00 – 1:00 at the gym at Eastside Elementary. The girls will be divided into four groups to adhere to our updated social distancing guidelines. Each group will practice for one hour. You will receive your group and practice time during the parent meeting.

Seniors

Bailey Mize

Blair Ukele

Brady Smith

Chrishana Wright

Destinie Thomas

Emileigh Little

Lily Belle Cole

Mya Pierson

Peyton Torrence

Raegan Jones

T’Erria Tubwell

Mikayla Smith

Juniors

Amber Robinson

Arianna Durell

Ashlyn Rutland

Branya Barnes

Emma Daniel

Kaitlyn Hill

Kaley Weems

Kate Brunson

Kayleigh Kupietz

Londin Hutchison

Myla Toaster

Zoë Gorden

Sophomores 

Alahna Gray

Alyssa Gray

Baliegh Turner

Cheyanne Cornelius

Laylah Williams

Rachel Campbell

Tailer Thompson

The pictures taken of each graduate are at CHS. Please come by between the hours of 8:30 and 2:30 daily to pick these up. Students who haven't gotten their diploma can get those as well. 

Congratulations, Clinton Attaché! Grand Champion, Outstanding Costume Design, Outstanding Show Design, Outstanding Visuals and Outstanding Vocals at the West Jones Invitational 2020.

Congratulations to all the Clinton High School students who were recently inducted into the 30+ club! To qualify, students must score a 30 or higher on the ACT.

Congratulations to the Clinton Arrow players on advancing to competition in Louisville, KY and on being featured in the recent SETC Spotlight! Students will perform "The Exile and the Onion Girl" at the competition on Feb. 27-29.

Congratulations to Coach Lockhart for being selected as the CHS Teacher of the Month for January!

Beauty & Beau at CHS
Congratulations to all the Beauty & Beau winners! They are:
2020 Most Handsome: Carsson DeYoung
2020 Most Beautiful: Hollyn Oswalt
1st Runner Up: Caleb Bohannon & Emily Ouellette
2nd Runner Up: Jake Moody & Ashli Breazeale
3rd Runner Up: Grant Dean & Chrishanna Wright
4th Runner Up: Grant Holmes & Parker Ainsworth

Any student who is interested in attending a workshop on the sports medicine profession, please contact our trainer, LaJoy Paige at [email protected] for more information. 

Congratulations to Ms. Hankins for being selected as the CHS Teacher of the Month for December!

Luke Bryant and Jakayla Johnson were awarded the Tim Bruss State Farm Athlete of the Month award. They each received a plaque and a gift certificate to The Froghead Grill.

       

Clinton High School is proud to announce Emnet Alemayehu as a recipient of the 2019 QuestBridge National College Match. QuestBridge, a national nonprofit based in Palo Alto, California, is a program that connects high-achieving high school seniors who meet specific income qualifications with full four-year scholarships to the nation's top colleges. Out of 14,926 applicants, Questbridge selected 5,842 Finalists who were considered for the QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship (Match Scholarship). Of these Finalists, 1,127 outstanding students were selected as this year's Match Scholarship Recipients. The Match Scholarship is offered as part of a generous financial aid package provided by the college that covers the full cost of attendance, including tuition, room and board, books and supplies, and travel expenses. Emnet plans to attend Rice University in the Fall of 2020 and major in Computational and Applied Mathematics. Congratulations Emnet on this incredible achievement. 

Congratulations to Clinton High School teacher Mina Darnell, the Clinton Public School District's 2019-20 Teacher of the Year!

Edward Elijah Spann, a junior at Clinton High School, was recently selected to participate as part of the 2019-2020 Youth Leadership Greater Jackson Program. Youth Leadership Greater Jackson is a leadership development program that trains, motivates, and increases the awareness of selected high school sophomores and juniors through leadership training, community-oriented seminars, and interaction with adult leaders who model exemplary citizenship and service to the community. He is the son of Eddie and Ester Spann of Clinton who are veteran educators. 

Congratulations to Mr. Marett for being selected as the CHS Teacher of the Month for November!

Congratulations to Mr. Freeny for being selected as the CHS Teacher of the Month for October!

Congratulations to Mrs. Amy Emerson, receptionist at Clinton High School, on receiving the Dedication of Our Valued Employees (DOVE) customer service award for the month of November! She was nominated by coworker Loran Taylor, who praised her positive attitude and demeanor. As a DOVE Award recipient, she will receive gift cards from Cock-of-the-Walk Restaurant and Chick-fil-A.

Twenty-three AP science students participated in the Big STEM Event at Belhaven University on Monday, Nov. 4. Students from various schools divided into teams of 6-8 people each to compete in the STEM Challenge, which used math and science skills to solve problems and construct a tower with limited supplies. CHS teams placed second and third in the competition. Lunch was served followed by a keynote speaker. Afternoon highlights included lab experiments where biology students performed an electrocardiogram and chemistry students extracted caffeine from chocolate. Teachers sponsoring the trip included Renee Smith and Jo Purvis along with student teacher Connor Jordan.

Clinton High School took three Academic Teams to Ole Miss last weekend for their Fall Brain Brawl. The A Team made it all the way to the Quarter Finals.

Congrats to Mrs. Walker on being named a member of the Executive Board of the Mississippi National Board Teacher Network. We are proud to have Mrs. Walker representing MS teachers and to call her an Arrow!

Congratulations to CHS student Sarah Beth Stambaugh who was recently crowned Miss Capital City’s Outstanding Teen! Sarah Beth is a junior at CHS, an honor student, Attache’ singer/dancer, and a student council officer. She will represent her title at the Miss Mississippi Outstanding Teen pageant in Vicksburg in April. MMSOT is a division of the Miss America Organization. Sarah Beth has a social impact platform, We’re All Friends Here: Normalizing Special Education in the School Environment, which is her plan to help erase the stigma of the special needs classroom.

Dr. Glen Boyce, newly appointed chancellor of the University of Mississippi, recently visited Clinton High School as part of a statewide tour of Mississippi high schools. While at CHS, he met with faculty members and students to gather feedback and share information about Ole Miss. 

National Art Honor Society participated in a service project to create Veteran's Day cards to send to the VA Hospital in Jackson. Many participated, and we will be sending over 60 cards! 

Congratulations to the CHS Academic Team on their 400 to 150 win over Simpson Academy in the first round of the Mississippi College Academic Championship!  Team members include Caitlin Carter, captain, Aaron Graves, Joshua Collins, Ann Olivia Radicioni, Noah Prather, Javian Ervin, Matthew Carter, and Abigail Vargheese.

Congratulations! Your Lady Arrows are the 2019 Class 6A State Champions! These girls fought for this title, and they earned it.

Clinton High School students on Wednesday celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table. Teachers and students gathered in the chemistry lab to share snacks and conduct experiments. 

Attache' show choir took center-stage at Continental Tire's grand opening in Clinton on Wednesday.   The ceremony included remarks from Continental executives and public officials including Supervisor Peggy Calhoun, Speaker of the House Phillip Gunn, Lieutenant Govenor Tate Reeves, and Govenor Phil Bryant.  Gunn addressed the crowd by asking the audience if they would rather listen to more speeches from politicians or  hear more Lynard Skynard from Attache' show choir.  

"Robbed," a short film by Clinton High School senior Ruby Lanford, has been selected to show at the University of Mississippi Cinema Festival this weekend in Oxford. Hers is one of several short films that will be shown from 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12 in Fulton Chapel. This is Ruby's second year to be invited to participate in the festival.

Clinton High School student Tiffany Nguyen thought the US citizenship test would be difficult so she was well prepared.
"It's hard if English is your second language," she said. "It wasn't easy but I learned it. And I tried really hard and learned about the culture and how to be a good citizen."
Her hard work paid off; in September, Tiffany became a US citizen. Click here to read more: http://ow.ly/uFw350wB78a

 Congratulations to Mr. Cartee for being selected as the CHS Teacher of the Month for September!

Recently, the National Spanish Honor Society inducted six new members. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Freeny were the guest speakers. The inductees were from left: Lexie Martinez, Ishika Bharat, Destiny Ivory, Christopher Fowler, Derrick Taylor (Not pictured: Joseph Griffin). Many of the current members of NSHS were also present for the event.

Bruckner's will visit Clinton High School for picture make up day October 16 during 1st Block. Any sophomore or junior who did not get their picture taken in September will have the chance to sit for a school picture then. For more information, email Mr. Chapman at [email protected]

Clinton High School journalism teacher and Arrow Athletics Sports Information Director Robert Chapman won the Excellence in Photography first place award at the 2019 MSPRA Awards of Excellence Fall Meeting held at the Fairview Inn in Jackson. He also placed third in the Social Media Campaign category.

This summer, CHS senior Sabin Bell represented the State of Mississippi at the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Boston, Massachusetts. She is planning on pursuing a career in medicine.

Ms. Sarah Dill, one of our CHS counselors, was one of 6 applicants chosen to be a representative on the NCAA High School Advisory Committee for the 2019-2021 term. Members of the committee provide guidance and directions for Eligibility Center projects related to high schools and to assist student-athletes with pursing their goals of collegiate athletics. Over the past three years, the High School Advisory Group has helped implement the "Get the Word Out" Grant program, aided in launching the Eligibility Center's redesigned website, provided feedback to improve many resources for high schools and helped shape new processes through the High School Portal, such as uploading high school transcripts.

Five Clinton High School students have been named National Merit Semifinalists. Students are (from left) Anna Grace Carter, Aaron Graves, Victor Yen, Kevin Zhang and Isaac Martinolich.

Congratulations to Mrs. Purvis for being one of eight teachers statewide selected to receive MPE's 2019 National Board Certified Teacher Scholarships.

We are so proud of our teachers that are representing Clinton High School and the Clinton Public School District on this year's Mississippi Teachers Council Committee! (left to right): Mrs. Charlotte Walker, Dr. Carey Wright, Mrs. Heather McKinion, Dr. James Clay Norton

Mrs. Olinger's AP Physics class launched their Alpha rockets today for a projectile motion lab.

Congratulations to our August Teacher of the Month, Mrs. Nancy Dent!