The Mena Jr. High Team Camp was held on Thursday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Teams from DeQueen, Mansfield & Cossatot participated.
These JR Ladycats need to be bragged on. JR High Varsity went 7 and 2 at the Harding University Team Camp, and their 2 losses were to Lake Hamilton by 11 and a Senior High varsity team by 3. Our JR High JV was a totally different team from day 1 to day 3. There were tons of improvement, and ended with a win over Lakeside.
Mena leaders are attending training with the DeQueen Mena Education Service Cooperative at Degray State Park this week. Administrators from schools across the DMESC area are attending.
Mena Bearcat Jair Hernandez got to work with Arkansas SPT Coordinator Scott Fountain at camp! Great experience for one of the best kickers in the state! Big thanks to Coach Fountain for giving him the chance to come down and get some one on one instruction!
Wrapping up day 5 of 7 of team camps this week! Our Senior boys teams started at Harding University for 3 days then drove straight to Southeastern Oklahoma State for 2 days! Tomorrow they will go to Fayetteville for the Northwest Arkansas Shootout for 2 more days! Our Junior boys teams went to Harding for 3 days as well and just wrapped up the Northwest Arkansas Shootout! Great week of camps for our athletes! #Menabasketball
Welcome Logan McCourtney to the Mena Public Schools staff. Mr. McCourtney will be the Jr. High Boys basketball coach!
The Mena High School Varsity Cheer Team completed a 3 day camp with the National Cheer Association last week. The team earned Superior ranking. Many girls were nominated for All American with Bailey Heald and Destiny Hogan officially being chosen for All American !
First day of Harding Team Camp for Ladycat Basketball.
Mena Jr. High Cheer has completed their summer camp. The girls showed tremendous growth and learned many new skills. We are excited for what the 24-25 season has in store for us.
The Mena trap team competed at the 6th Annual Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation trap shoot on Friday.
The ArFB Foundation has teamed up with The Arkansas 4-H Foundation and the Arkansas FFA Foundation again, and half of the net proceeds from the shoot will directly benefit both organizations!
Mena High School and Middle School teachers and leaders spent two days working with Dr. Holly Cothren with The Bailey Education Group on building effective lessons for the upcoming school year. These fantastic educators worked hard and enjoyed their time together!
Welcome Trey Plummer to the Mena High School staff. Mr. Plummer will be teaching English 10 in 2024-2025.
Mena hosted the Bearcat 7 on 7 Tournament on Tuesday. Teams from Pocola OK., Lavaca, Hackett, Arkadelphia, DeQueen, Mansfield and Bismark participated.
See the 2024 Mena Bearcat football schedule at the link .
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics?filter_ids=19617
The roof is going up at the Hensley Activity Center !!!
The Mena Bearcats played their spring football game on Thursday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium.
The 2024 season begins on Friday, August 30th at DeQueen.
Congratulations to Mena High School Senior CRISTIAN MILLER on signing to serve with the US Coast Guard on Wednesday in the Mena High School Library.
MHS FBLA would like to give a HUGE shout out to the first sponsors of our trip to Nationals in Orlando this summer. We are taking 13 MHS FBLA members to compete in various competitions and every donation, no matter how large or small, is greatly appreciated!!! Your donation can go to a specific student or divided amongst the whole group.
If you would like to be added to our sponsor list, you can comment here or send me an email (teresa.torix@menaschools.org) and a competitor will come by and visit you! We take cash or checks made out to Mena High School.
Competitors: Jaxon Baber, Sully Massey, Hudson Vacca (Hospitality & Event Management); Kensey Rosson and Brady Montgomery (Entrepreneurship); Kiylee Hughes, Isabel Vacca and Addison Thomas (Broadcast Journalism); Zach Sweet and Elijah Smith (Mobile App Development); Zoe Hamilton (Help Desk); Hunter Cannon (Business Plan); Tuangsian Dopmul (Business Calculations)
Sponsors:
Karlene Hooker
Ginger Sterner/Edward Jones
Carol Miller
Matt Thomas Agency
Spurgin's Southern Auto
South Main Signs & Graphics
Tire Shop of Mena
DDH Lube LLC
Tony Hooper - Farm Bureau
The class of 2024 had graduation practice on Friday morning.
Since we missed the weather, and we are going to have wonderful weather Saturday, we are changing locations for the Mena High School commencement ceremony to Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium.
At the Arkansas Heptathlon Elliott Dugan of Mena finished 26th as a sophomore and 3rd overall in the state for high jump. In the decathlon Elijah Smith of Mena finished 18th out of 75 as a junior!
Coach Rachel Dover and Randy Peters were selected as team leaders at the meet and coached girls from Cabot, Villonia, Dover, Siloam Springs, Lakeside, and Russleville!
2024 Seniors had a graduate walk through on each Mena campus on Wednesday.
