The girls traveled up to Towanda this past weekend and took home the prize: Towanda Tip-Off Champions! Great way to start off the season.
High School
Congratulations Coach Wolff-Scranton Times and NPF Coach of the Year
Scranton Times – In his second season, guided team to wins in its first six games which included three by shutout and finished season 7-4 overall. Wildcats qualified for the District 2 Class 3A playoffs for the first time in school history which began in 1973. Has 13-9 career record.
NPF – In his second season as a head coach, he helped lead Western Wayne to its first-ever District 2 home playoff game. … Guided team to seven regular-season wins, improving his record to 13-9 in 2 seasons. … Led team to wins in its first five games. … Got the defense off to a fast start, with consecutive shutouts to begin the season and just seven points allowed while posting three shutouts in the first four games. … Won an Eastern Conference championship in first season as coach.
FBLA State Leadership Workshop
The students all gathered for an opening general session to kick off the event and then had their choice of a variety of workshop sessions and presentations. These sessions covered a variety of essential information that FBLA students looking forward to continued academic and professional success could benefit from. Pictured are Western Wayne students who attended the event.
Row 1, from left: Julia Sennefelder, Cosette Talarico, and Abby Gogoloski.
Row 2, from left: Claudia Kovaleski, Jillian Dudley, and Grace Hollister.
Row 3, from left: Laura Booths, Skye Smith, Laurel Frable, and Allison Mattern.
Row 4, from left: Gracie Guarino, Paige Barillo, Journey Sosa, and Melissa Petrilak.
Row 5, from left: AJ Merone, Brandon Garnett, Gianna DeBastiani, and Samantha Atcavage.
Row 6, from left: Bailey Walck, Jake Ortola, Dylan Walck, Evan Coons, and Ezra Tetreault.
7th grade STEM Day
On Nov. 20th there was a 7th grade STEM Day carried our by Mrs. Collins and her senior lab techs. Mrs. Collins and her techs invaded the 7th grade physical science classrooms and performed a variety of STEM-related activities with students. Special guest, Sarah Stapleton, from Wilkes University’s Science in Motion program “SIM”, spent the day with our 7th graders as well, showcasing some of the great laboratory equipment SIM loans out to local school districts. The day was a success, and all students gave their best efforts, and behavior.
Seniors featured were: Dakotah Sopko, Alexandra Buckman, Mason Coccodrilli, and Danny Boots
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Scranton Times Coaches Fall All-Stars
The following athletes have been names to the Scranton Times Coaches All-Star teams.
Football:
First Team – Cole Fuller (Defense Team, DL) and Dylan Walck (Offense, WR)
Honorable Mention– Cole Fuller (FB), Baily Walck (WR and DE), Dylan Walck and Kobe Sauter (Secondary).
Cross Country:
First Team – Jacob Pasake and Second Team – Annie Skirpan
Girls Volleyball:
All Regional and First Team – Laura Booths
Second Team – Rebecca Klemovitch
Boys Soccer:
Second Team – Alex Amorine (Def)
Girls Soccer:
First Team – Emily Christina (Def)
Congratulations to them all!
Western Wayne FBLA Members Attend FBLA RLW at Woodloch
Western Wayne High School FBLA members attended the FBLA Regional Leadership Workshop at Woodloch Resorts on October 26. From left, Laurel Frable, Dakotah Sopko, Cheyenne Stenlake, Kayla Fitzpatrick, Alexandra Buckman, Taylor Burdick, and Summer Franklin.
Western Wayne Student Wins Local NCW Poetry Contest
Reciting original limericks was always a fun activity in Ezra Tetreault’s family. Little did he know that this skill would help him in winning a local section of the most recent National Chemistry Week Poetry Contest.
“My dad has always been really good at limericks,” Ezra, a sophomore at Western Wayne High School, said. “I ran my poem by him before bringing it to school.”
Ezra’s chemistry teacher Maria Masankay challenged her students to enter the American Chemical Society’s 2017 National Chemistry Week Poetry Contest. Much to his surprise, Ezra won the Susquehanna Valley Section of the contest.
“I had no expectations for winning,” he said. “The idea came to me quickly.”
Ezra explained that once he knew the topic for the poem was “rocks” he immediately started to think about writing a limerick because of his experiences with them in his family. He then started to think of a rhyme scheme and realized that just about all types of rocks end in the suffix “ite”.
After doing some quick research, he found that only three types of rocks do not end in that suffix. Therefore, he gave Basalt, Gabbro and Pumice a featured line in his poem. He accented his entry by including a drawing of a volcano and some of the rocks.
His poem has now made it to the national level of the contest. Ezra’s family and Masankay are invited to attend the ACS Awards Banquet in May where Ezra will be presented with a $50 check for being section winner.
This isn’t the first time Ezra has made it to a national level competition. Last year, he competed at FBLA nationals in public speaking as a freshman.
This year Ezra and a team of two other Western Wayne students Noelle Orehek and Trina Barcarola are working on a presentation to enter into the FBLA introduction to business event, which is a state-level competition. Ezra serves as the sophomore representative for FBLA. Also, he is sophomore class president.
When he is not writing poetry and FBLA presentations, Ezra plays football and track for Western Wayne.
Ezra loves all of the academic and extra-curricular experiences he is having at school so far and looks forward to participating in more activities. He also is greatly interested in politics and aspires to join the Coast Guard Academy and possibly work for NASA in the future.
“We are all very proud of Ezra’s efforts in all areas at Western Wayne,” Paul Gregorski, high school principal said. “We look forward to seeing if he advances in the NCW contest.”
From left: Ezra Tetreault, 2017 NCW Poetry Contest Section Winer for the Susquehanna Valley Section of the ACS, and Paul Gregorski, Western Wayne High School principal.
Athletes Inspired by Motivational Speaker
Western Wayne Varsity Athletes and Coaches spend this cold and rainy Saturday night (11/18/17) sitting in an auditorium at North Pocono High School. The reason you ask? Well they were there to listen to motivational speaker Lee Rubin, former Penn State Free Safety and Captain of the team.
We filled 2 buses with students from just about every team represented. Mr. Rubin’s message was inspiring and entertaining to say the least. The Athletes listened, learned, and asked a lot of questions about being leaders.
At the end of the night, Mr. Rubin posed for a picture with the athletes and signed one of his books for them, “Win, Simple Insights for Student Leaders.” On the inside cover he wrote “WW Athletes, don’t just play, WIN!” -Lee
The book is available in the Athletic Directors office if any student would like to borrow it.
Junior Leadership Northern Poconos – Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice Presentation
On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, students from Western Wayne, Wallenpaupack, Wayne Highlands and Forest City Regional High Schools, who make up the Junior Leadership Northern Poconos Class of 2018, were able to get an overview of Wayne County’s Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice systems.
Some of the topics and presenters were:
Introduction –How did we get here? From Crack, To Opioids and Beyond
Janine Edwards, Wayne County District Attorney
Law Enforcement – Leading the Community in Law Enforcement
Larry Whitehead, Special Agent FBI
Drug Identification Visual Presentation
Wayne County DA Chief Detective Peter Hower
Prosecution – Leadership in the Chief Law Enforcement Officer Position
Janine Edwards, Wayne County District Attorney
Wayne County Correctional Facility Tour
Wayne County Correctional Facility, Honesdale, PA
Any student planning on playing basketball, boys and girls, or wrestling for the winter sports season, please make sure you have your physical in by November 17, 2017 if you don’t already have one on file. 
ALL NEWS
High School October Students of the MonthNovember 19, 2024The following students were recognized by the Student Council as students of the month for October. Their teachers and administrators weighed in on the decisions. All of the students chosen hold a high standard of academic and personal excellence. They are true examples of the P.R.I.D.E. standards for PBIS at our school.
First, Eronique White is our selected freshman. Eronique greatly enjoys her creative writing class focussing on poetry and some short stories as favorite genres. Her work has a focus on mental health related issues.
“Writing with a focus on this theme, helps me to get out my feelings on paper,” Eronique explained. For the future, Eronique plans to study psychology in college and become a therapist.
“I see myself focussing my work to help older people and teenagers,” Eronique said. “I’ve been helped by therapists and want to help others in return.”
Next, Grady Farley is our chosen sophomore this month. Grady is an avid skier who first took the slopes with his family at about the age of five. He enjoys everything about this activity including skiing, the most challenging of courses.
In school, he is a part of Envirothon and is an honor roll student. His favorite class this year is chemistry. He aspires to have a career in dentistry.
“I enjoy my chemistry lab work most, because it is an activity that you have to teach yourself through,” he explained.
In addition, Aiden Matthews is this month’s featured junior. He is a member of the National Honor Society, FBLA, Envirothon, and Robotics Club. Also, he is highly involved in track doing both indoor and outdoor for the past four years. He competes in many events including running, jumping, and his main focus– the pole vault.
Like his classmate, Aiden also likes his chemistry class best this year.
“I like using one thing to get to another to find something final in our labs,” he explained. He is undecided on his future path but has considered pursuing a science-related field.
Finally, Lia Hartman is our senior spotlight this month. Lia is a highly involved student who is the president of the Science Club. She, also, is in Envirothon, National Honor Society, and is president of the Band. In addition, she served as a drum major for the past two years playing the flute and piccolo.
“I have learned a lot about leadership in my time at Western Wayne,” she said. “I’ve come to embrace the fact that everyone I work with is unique and to have success leading them I have to adjust to their needs. I have become a more understanding and open-minded person through being a drum major.”
Hartman will take the leadership skills she learned at Western Wayne to college next year. Her first choice school is Penn State. She wishes to study pathology and is considering concentrating in either anatomical pathology or neuropathology.
“The human body is really interesting,” she said. “I want to contribute to people’s health, and I enjoy lab work best, so pathology embodies what I see for my future.”
The Western Wayne School District congratulates these October students of the month and wishes them the best in their future endeavors. From left: Grady Farley, Aiden Matthews, Mr. Paul Gregorski, high school principal; Lia Hartman, and Eronique White. [...]
Student Council Homecoming Food DriveNovember 13, 2024Western Wayne High School Student Council recently delivered donations to the food pantry volunteers in Waymart as run by the Calvary United Methodist Church.
During Homecoming week, the Western Wayne High School Student Council collected nonperishable food items from the school and community to help stock local food pantries, including items donated as admission into the Varsity football game.
The donations were made to the food pantries at Calvary United Methodist Church in Waymart and St. Thomas More Food Pantry in Lake Ariel.
If interested in these resources or to make donations, please contact the United Methodist Church in Waymart via Donna LaBar at 570-470-3763 and the Thomas More Food Pantry via Jen Cruciani at office@stthomas-stmary.com
From left: Becky Leljedal, Mrs. Jenkins, and Donna LaBar. [...]
After School TutoringNovember 12, 2024After school tutoring is available. Get a permission form in Guidance. [...]
Creative Writing Students Compete in “Fright Club” ContestNovember 11, 2024During October’s spooky season, WWHS students in the Creative Writing elective competed to give senior class readers the biggest “fright” by composing a 100-word or less mini saga. Students could opt to submit their sagas to a national level competition via the Young Writers 2024 “Fright Club” contest.
Runners up were senior Anthony Donnini’s “Monster,” junior Makayla Fullone’s “Performance is a Promise to be Kept ,” and senior Vallita Belinova’s “Rite Aid.”
Senior Lillian Maros took the first place “boo-basket” prize for her chilling poetic saga, “Black Sheep.”
Winners (left to right):Anthony Donnini , Lillian Maros, Makayla Fullone, and Vallita Belinova (not pictured). [...]
Students Recognized Nationally for PSAT ScoresNovember 7, 2024Five Western Wayne High School students have been recognized nationally for their PSAT scores this year. They include: Mia Arcadipane, Lillian Bronson, David Elias, Antonio Fisichella, and Hailey Wasman.
The students feel honored for this recognition and look forward to attending college to study a variety of subjects to further their future careers.
First, Mia Arcadipane, junior, is involved in the following school activities: cross county, track, wrestling, FBLA, NHS, Cats Club, and Student Ambassador Program. Mia is excited to study veterinary medicine after graduation.
“I have always loved science and biology and am excited to learn about these subjects,” she said.
Another nationally recognized student is Lillian Bronson, senior.
She participates in the following activities: Envirothon, soccer, NHS, and Cats Club, where she serves as treasurer.
Lillian plans to pursue a career path involving conservation and wants to study related areas in college.
“I grew up constantly being outside and hunting,” she explained. “I like our environment and want to protect it.”
Next, David Elias, senior, participates in basketball, track, FBLA, and PBIS committee.
He wishes to study mathematics further after graduation through a major in mechanical engineering.
“My favorite subjects are calculus and physics, and they go hand in hand in the field I wish to pursue,” David said.
Another high-achieving PSAT student is Antonio Fisichella, junior. Anotonio is involved in a variety of sports and activities including: Envirothon, Science Olympiad, political science club, outdoor and indoor track, cross country, and student council. In addition, he has been highly involved in the school’s band for the past four years playing percussion in the marching and concert band and participating in both the pit and pep bands.
Antonio greatly values his faith and looks forward to pursuing the study of neurology in college.
“God is good,” he said when reflecting on his recognition for his test score and his future plans.
Finally, Hailey Wasman, junior, is an accomplished member of her local 4H club. She has been showing animals since she was four years old. Some animals she has shown include: goats, lamb, dairy, beef, etc. In addition, she is a member of the Wayne County Livestock Judging Team and is a member of NHS at school.
Her path in 4-H and her strong achievements in academics have led her to pursue a career as a large animal veterinarian with a speciality in reproduction. She wants to study this particular field in college.
“This field of study will help me and others to build strength in our animals,” she explained. “I will learn how to do this by studying different aspects of genealogy in my future coursework.”
The Western Wayne School District wishes these nationally recognized students the best in their future studies at Western Wayne and their respective colleges upon graduation.
From left: Antonio Fisichella, Hailey Wasman, Lillian Bronson, Mr. Paul Gregorski, high school principal; David Elias, and Mia Arcadipane. [...]
