2009-10 - 2008-09

Celebrations of Excellence

2009 Govenor's Scholars

From left to right: Heather Jennings, Lexie Smith, and Brittany Evans.

Silas Arnold

Silas Arnold was chosen as a representative from Kentucky for the Ambassador's Choir that will travel to Europe in the summer of 2010.

BCHS Rocket Team
Congratulations to the BCHS Rocket Team who competed against the top 100 teams in the nation and won 4th Place at the Team America Rocketry Challenge in The Plains, Virginia. Team members included; John Peckham, Caleb Koostra, Matt Childress, Dakota Phelps, Morgan Shepherd, Michael Gray and Colton Givens.

Lady Bears Fast Pitch Softball
Congrats to the BCHS Lady Bears Fast pitch softball team & coaching staff. Last night @ Edmonson Co. the Lady Bears won by a score of 3-0; but more importantly claimed the following:

Concert Band News
On Saturday, April 25th the BCHS Concert Band traveled to University of Louisville for the State Concertfest Competition.  The students received 1 distinguished and 2 proficient ratings, an excellent performance for this level of competition.   Mr. Ausbrooks is very proud of his band students and would like to thank the parents, faculty and staff for their support of the band program at BCHS and is looking forward to an awesome season in 2009-10.

BCATC NEWS
Congratulations to Justin Hulman and Kyle Massey!!!  They represented the Butler County Tech Center at the Ford AAA state competition in Lexington.  The Ford AAA competition is compiled of two parts.  Four hundred fifty three students took a written exam and the top twenty students are selected to advance to the state level.  The state level competition is a performance portion that requires students to troubleshoot and repair late model vehicles.  Justin and Kyle placed sixth in the state and received tools, bags, and door prizes.  In addition, they received an $8,500.00 scholarship each.  We are very proud of our guys and their accomplishments.  Justin and Kyle plan on attending the Bowling Green Technical College in the fall. 

Congratulations Mr. Allen


We want to congratulate Mr. Allen for being one of six finalists for AD of the Year to be recognized at the state convention.  We should know soon who will be chosen as the AD of the year, but being one of six out of the state which has over 200 Athletic Directors is a wonderful accomplishment for Mr. Allen.  Congratulations and best of luck in being named the AD of the Year!  Thank you for all that you do!

BCHS Track Team
BCHS Track team traveled to Barren County Thursday afternoon. 
*2nd Place: 4X800 relay Cody Colgate, Jessie Stivers, DaKota Roberts, Dillion Phelps
*2nd place in the mile Cody Colgate, he missed 1st by 2 seconds
*2nd place in the open 800 Cody Colgate
*1st place 4X100 relay team Beau Nicewinter, Matt Hudnall, Clay Embry, Clint Easley

Congratulations Choir
The Butler County High School Chamber Choir performed at the The Gaylord Music Festival in Nashville this weekend. The festival hosted 24 choirs from schools from all over the USA. The choir won first place in the chamber singer madrigal division and ranked 2nd overall in the festival. We will be having a spring concert some time soon and a Big Blue Review to showcase our very talented students.

Congratulations Bears Fast-pitch Softball Team

Butler Co. HS Lady Bears Softball this week comes in @ #22 in the state; breaking into the Top 25 for the first time in BCHS Girls softball history.  Note* (154) schools play fast-pitch softball.

BCHS Lady Bears received (70) votes; ** special note this weeks #1 team in the state is Lou. Ballard HS; who BCHS played during Spring Break while in Alabama. The final score was only Ballard 1-0 over BCHS in extra innings. This has all the makings of a special season, good luck to the Lady Bears & staff, and keep it going.

Congrats to the BCHS Lady Bears who over the weekend were crowned @ 1am Sunday morning the Marshall Co. Slugfest Champions. The Lady Bears on Saturday began around noon in game one; winning five throughout the day; with the Title game @ midnight.  This was a (16) team tournament, involving teams from Tenn., Ky. and Illinois. Congrats to the entire Lady bears and coaching staff on your work.

Congratulations Jordan!
Jordan Green signed yesterday with Lindsey Wilson College to run Cross Country and Track. Congratulations to Jordan, his family and coaches. We look forward to watching your progress during your college career.

FFA
Congratulations to Dillon Bryant – He was chosen as Barren River Region Star Farmer.  He will compete for state Star Farmer in June.

Congratulations to Dillon Bryant.  He was named a finalist for Barren River Region Star Farmer.  He will interview on Tuesday to determine if he moves on to state.  Dillon also won the Beef Entrepreneurship Proficiency.
Adam Coomes received Superior 2nd for AG Sales Placement Proficiency.

BETA
Jordan Green, 1st place Quilting
Adair Schwartz, 1st place ceramics
Deanna Piper, 2nd place ceramics
Erin Wade, 2nd Cross Stitch
Nick Johnson and Cody Murphy 3rd place in Name Tags

TSA State Results
Congratulations to Haley Burden, who was elected President of the Kentucky Technology Student Association for the 2009-2010 School year.  She will represent Butler County and the state of Kentucky at the National TSA Convention in Denver, CO June 28th-July 2nd. 

Haley also placed 1st in Imaging Technology

Brandy Day, Chelsea Daugherty, Haley Burden, Chance Glass and Tyler Jenkins placed 3rd In On Demand Video

SKILLS USA
Congratulations to our winners
State Winners for HOSA are:
Dustin Thornton – 3rd Place Clinical Specialty
Christina Duncan – 2nd Place Clinical Nursing
April Hunt – National Recognition for Health Science Portfolio
All three state winners will compete in HOSA Nationals in June at Nashville TN

Regional Winners for SkillsUSA
Justin Hulman – 1st Place in Auto Service
Jacob Blanchard – 1st Place Poster Design
Tony Oliver – 2nd Place Poster Design
Timmy Ashley – 1st Place Job Demo-O
Angie Phelps – 2nd Place Job Demo-A
Brandon Cunningham – 3rd Place Job Demo-A
Jacob Blanchard – 2nd Place Carpentry
Brandon Cunningham – 2nd Place HVAC
Leadership Team – 1st Place
    Trevor Howard
        Jacob Blanchard
 Jeff Bratcher
    Cody Johnson
    Tony Oliver
        Ashlee Tarrence
       Meagan White

All 1st and 2nd place winners will participate at State Level competition in April.

FFA News
Congratulations to the following FFA members for Superior Ratings at the Regional Contest:
Parliamentary Procedure Team
Adam Coomes- Crop Impromptu
Casey Porter – Horse Impromptu

These students will be competing at the state contest in June:
Chad Grubb – Beef Impromptu
Chelsea Daugherty – Sheep Impromptu

Congratulations to the following FCCLA members

Congratulations to Brittany Barks for being elected Region 4 Vice President of Finance and Kersie McKinney for being elected Region 4 Vice President of Community Service.

Also, several FCCLA members were recognized for winning 1st place in Regional STAR Events and will be competing at state March 23-25.

Molly Embry, Audrey Howard and Eli Embry, Chapter Showcase
Kersie McKinney, Early Childhood
Amber Mosley, Shannen Mosley and Brittany Barks, Focus on Children
Lana Jennings and Brittany Evans, Promote and Publicize FCCLA
Brandi Waller, Teach and Train
Lauren Chism, Shelby Rose and Kelsey Hood, Chapter Service Project
Clay Embry, Kristen Cardwell and Nicole Norrod, National Programs in Action
Shelby Baseheart, Jessica West, Maura Crowder, Jessica Elms, Lexie Smith, Sasha Goodall and Tori Cardwell, Parliamentary Procedure Team

Congratulations Mr. Gruber!

Congratulations to Mr. Michael Gruber for being selected as the next vice principal of BCHS!

Congratulations to the following Basketball Players
Paige Embry - All District Regular Season
Rachelle Vaught and Rebecca Mercier - All Tournament Team
Rachelle Vaught - All Academic Team

Clint Easley - All District regular Season
Clint Easley, Stephen Hill-  All Tournament
Chad Grubb - All Academic

Congratulations Bears
The BCHS Bears Football Team defeated Muhlenberg South Friday night 35 -17 and finished the regular season with a record of 9 - 1. The Bears advance to the Class 3A KHSAA State Playoffs this Friday night at home against this same Muhlenberg South team. Game time is 7:00 p.m. and General Admission is $6:00. Come out and support the Bears as they continue to advance in the playoffs

Congratulations BCHS Cross Country
Butler Co. Boys qualified for the State Meet this weekend in Lexington. They become the 6th Butler Co. boy’s team to qualify for the state meet. Team finished fifth overall in the meet.

Jordan Green wins the Individual Class 2A Regional Championship in 17:35 - First Butler Co. runner to win a individual championship.

BCHS CC/ BOYS RESULTS:
JORDAN GREEN   17:35  FIRST OVERALL
DILLON PHELPS   18:10 FOURTH OVERALL
CODY BARROW    20:08  32ND OVERALL
DAKOTA ROBERTS 21:02  43RD OVERALL
NICK JOHNSON     21:36  47TH OVERALL
CADE SNODGRASS 21:41  48TH OVERALL
BEAU NICEWINTER  21:59  53RD OVERALL

BCHS CC/ GIRLS RESULTS:

HOPE CURRY 23:31  17TH OVERALL - MISSED GOING TO STATE BY ONE SPOT
CASEY PORTER  25:33  32ND OVERALL

Calendar Girl
Congratulations to Rebecca Mercier and Jordan Green.  They were selected Cover Girl and Centerfold at the Calendar Girl competition on Saturday night.  The following are winners of months in the Deluxe Edition of the FCCLA BCHS CALENDAR:

Lyndsey Fuller
Shelby Baseheart
Christina Cardwell
Hillary Lykins
Christina Barks
Chelsea Daugherty
Eliza Arnold
Dreama Grubb
Raven Brooks
Kelby Tynes
Chelsea Tutko
CheyAnne Gaskey
Casey Porter
Hope Curry

Wendy Heisman Selections
Congratulation goes out to Jordan Green and Hope Curry for being selected as the BCHS Wendy Heisman. They will now move on to the state level for competition.
Good luck and congratulations.

Band
The Butler County Marching Band qualified for state competition by placing 8th at the KMEA West regional Saturday night.  They missed 7th by only one hundredths of a point and 6th place by only ½ point.  They will compete this Saturday morning at 10:30 CST at Pleasure Ridge Park in Louisville.  Good Luck to the Band, Mr. Ausbrooks, Mrs. Wells and the staff. (10-27-08)

Congratulations Chorus
Last Thursday night 12 choir students auditioned for the KMEA All-State Chorus. All 12 students received distinguished ratings and were recommended to the chorus by the third district. Students that participated were: Kate Barrow, Laura Basham, Sara Burden, Tiffany Anderson, Audrey Howard, Molly Embry, Sarah Meredith, Silas Arnold, Eli Embry, Cory Bratcher, Justin Wallace, Jonathan Curtis. Kate, Eli, Jon, Tiffany, Molly, Audrey, and Silas scored 90 or better in the audition. Silas Arnold had the 2nd highest score in his voice part in the third district. The chorus will be chosen in November and members will perform at The Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville in February. Thank you to the parents and staff of our county for encouraging the arts. (10-24-08)