KILLINGLY HIGH SCHOOL

226 PUTNAM PIKE KILLINGLY, CT 06241

(860) 779-6620 FAX (860) 774-0846

ELISE GUARI Principal

KAREN LAGACE

Assistant Principal

MICHAEL LEFEVRE Assistant Principal

Congratulations KHS Students!

KILLINGLY HIGH SCHOOL Q1 2017 – 2018 HONOR ROLL

The following Killingly High School SENIORS achieved High Honors in Quarter 1: Alexandria Conde, Alexis Costa, Caitlyn Eldridge, Nicolas Evangelisti, Sean Johndrow, Corrine Khamphoukeo, Dayana Rodriguez-Mendez, Zachary Schena, Alyssa Tracy, and Ashley Veillette. First Honors include: Sarah Azizi, Zachary Caffrey, Michael Capuano, Sierra Cassano, Ryan Comtois, Silvia Cote, Aliyah Dean, Dylan Deotte, Brett Dexter, Panisnan Diskul, Jacob Gauthier, Talia Gould, Grace Higgins, Autumn Jefferson, Emily Keeling, Rachel Martinelli, Jenna McCauley, Ericka Olsen, Jared Olson, Carlos Poch, Anastasia Salisbury, Alexis Smith, Brandon Steen, Julia Trafaconda, Gavin Turner, and Stephen Wetherell. Second Honors include: Krystyna Andrews, Alexis Blake, Andrew Blanchard, Allison Bonneau, Johnathan Cacciapuoti, Ethan Canova, Amanda Cicchetti, Nina Coutras, Ashley Depointe, Emma Esposito, Haley Farnsworth, Emma Gifford, Megan Graham, Angelina Greene, Courtney Greene, Xavier Harrelle, Felicia Horne, Sarah Horvath, Rachel Hultzman, Johnnie Johnson, Tamarin Kelley, Kyara Kinder, Madison Laperle, Dylan LeDuc, Christian Lerz-McFolley, McKayla Lewis, Britney Mares, Keaton Meyer, Reagan Morin, Julia Mossey, Jasper Pelletier, Christopher Perry, Vasileios Politis, Joshua Rivera, Douglas Ryan, Reagan Sauer, Kory Seiden, Kristen Soper, Michael Thibeault, Taylor Torcoletti, Dylan VanLiew, Griffin Ware, Hunter Yaworski, Jacob Zadora, Meredith Zamperini, Evan Zanauskas, and Ruifend Zhang. The following JUNIORS achieved High Honors in Quarter 1: Jasmine Alvord, Jacob Brower, Tate Credit, Tiffany Hicks, Lauren Mayotte, and Joseph Raheb. First Honors include: Samuel Antonelli, Camille Benoit, Colin Bragdon, Jennifer Burdick, Andrea Filbert, Tres-Belle Gaudette, Jasmine Hunt, Taylor Jax, Sophia Leonetti, Allison Levesque, Samantha Lynch, Emma Marceau, Michael O’Connor, Prachi Patel, Kaitlyn Peckham, Dylan Petersen, and Arianna Toth. Second Honors include: Samantha Alexander, Kelsey Allen, Gavin Alvord, Katherine Archambault, Bryce Bentinck, Thomas Bernier, Alyssa Blade, Jordan Braasch, Meghan Briquier, Taylor Charron, Alexandra Chitwood, Kaylee Chviek, Tyler Cournoyer, Destiny Cyr, Luke Desaulnier, Nazmia Dionis, Lauryn Durand, Ronald Ernest, Rylee Faucher, Brianna Fontaine, Jean Foraker, Jailyn Gancarz, Quinlan Gervasio, Grace Hebert, Hailey Jimenez, Colby Johndrow, Trevor Johnson, Mary Jordan, Genevieve Kennan, Cecilia LeBlanc, Jason Long, Noah Marcoux, Nolan Marcoux, Kylee Mazzarella, Kaitlyn McCrory, Dylan McMerriman, Alexandria Morrissette, Cody Ogozalek, Dale Pendergast, Matthew Phelan, Jade Plantier, Willie-Nathaniel Postell, Hannah Privee, Sophia Provencher, Emily Robinson, Joseph Rodriguez, Brandon Rosati, David Rull, Morgan Savoie, Jamie Shay, Ethan Smith, Camryn Soler, Morgan Tamburri, James Toczko-Klinensmith, Derek Turner, Hannah Walters, Blake Wolanin, Aubrey Woods, and Caitlyn Woods.

The following SOPHOMORES achieved High Honors in Quarter 1: Isabella Deep, Cassidy Lefevre, Jonathan Lepire, Christopher Pawul, and Alexandra Purcell. First Honors include: Faith Boateng-Afranie, Keeley Cerbo, Erin DeRouin, Thomas Desjardin, Rebecca DiBenedetto, Russell Farnsworth, Christiana Filbert, Alyssa Gaudreau, Alyssa Hansen, Kassadee Lewis, Alexis Manfredo, Kaileigh Martineau, Benjamin Morin, Morriah Owen, Aidan Parsons, Ashley Ray, Dylan Shaw, Isabel Tang, Benjamin Theroux, and Mackenzie Weaver. Second Honors include: Caleb Albro, Alisson Baron Martinez, Julia Beausoleil, Griffin Bellavance, Stephanie Bellows, Shayne Bigelow, Savannah Burnham, Brianna Caffrey, Kayleigh Carbone, Haylee Chester, Jonathan Creswell, Kameron Crowe, Mariah Deschamps, Jordan Dreibholz, Courtney Ennis, Caroline Gagnon, Brianna Hogan, Lauren Hyatt, Mackenzie Jackson, Caleb Johnson, Lauren Jones, Christopher Lackner, Jaimie Lohman, Parker Mandeville, Jordyn Marshall, Samantha Murd, Leah Murdock, Devin Nichols, Ryan Noll, Jacob Nurse, Colby O’Donnell, Nadia Ponciano, Ethan Preston, Madison Rattray, Sierra Rocha, Amirah Samuel, Alyssa Saritelli, Karly Seiffert, Jaycin Shaw, Soudalath Souvanhnaphan, Annabelle Sparling, Abbygail Surrell, Emma Turner, Jasmine Verespie, Kolby Walters, and Zichao Zhou. The following FRESHMEN achieved High Honors in Quarter 1: Evelyn Allen, Abraham Antonelli, Madison Briere, Savannah Buisson, Abby Card, Colton Douglas, Laney Dunn, Mackenzie Farquhar, Annie Griffin, Sophie Griffin, Ann-Marie Hebert, Bailey Hirschboeck, Kaleigh Hopkins, Cole Lavigne, Viren Patel, Shannon Picariello, Julia Purcell, Daniel Raheb, Sydney Rosen, Jordan Rukstela, Kaleb Watson, and Meghan Wrobel. First Honors include: Cal Barber, Abigail Burgess, Kelley Chanaphay, Janelle Charron, Ryan Coupe, Abigail Driscoll, Nikki Flynn, Lance Groh, Madison Hopkins, Olivia Lamoureux, Patricia Lillibridge-Reek, Amelia MacPhail, Aidan McKenna, Charlotte Morrissette, Abigail Norgren, Madyson Peaslee, Joliana Reynolds, Sarah Roberts, Dakota Sanchez, Hannah Siegmund, Grace Socha, Lillian Stockford, Madelyn Sumner, Matthew Weiss, and Avery Zanauskas. Second Honors include: Scott Aubin, Dedrick Baublitz, Lorelai Bessenaire, Chace Bowns, Allison Capuano, Grace Cerbo, Jake Colwell, Zoe Conklin, Abigail Cornell, Brooke Cusson-Malone, Evan Despathy, Morgan Disco, Joshua Dumas, Michelle Dumphy, Virgil Fensley, Jacob Galarza, Kailey Harrington, Kyle Keene, Andrew LaRochelle, Tate Larrow, Chase LeClerc, Emilee Lehtinen, Hunter Leite, Nevaeh Lyon, Zachary Meagher, Courtney Miranda, Kristen Morgan, Cooper Morissette, Hannah Morrison, Grace Nichols, Bailey Pepin, Stephen Reding, Hannah Reid, Kevin Rice, Cruz Rocha, Mason Smith, Gabriel Spangenberg, Brooke Trudeau, Amaya West, Lyle Woodman, Ryan Zavistoski.

SPECIAL AWARDS:

Congratulations to the following students on their achievements:

CAPSS Superintendent Award - Zach Schena and Julia Trafaconda. Both will be recognized along with students from other Killingly Schools and other districts at KHS on December 5th. HOBY Nominations - Lexie Purcell and Faith Boateng have been nominated to represent Killingly at the annual HOBY Leadership conference in June. DAR Award - Xavier Harrelle was our recipient of the annual DAR award and was recognized at a celebration in Brooklyn.

The Killingly High School student demonstrates:

Responsibility Excellence Dedication

Class M Football State Champions!!

After falling behind 14-7 in the first quarter, Killlingly ripped-off 34 unanswered points against Joel Barlow to capture the Connecticut Class M state championship with a 41-14 victory. The victory gave Killingly its first state championship since

1996 along with a perfect 13-0 season.

Class M Semi - Finals: No. 1 Killingly Overwhelms No. 4 Berlin, 49-7

FOOTBAL

The following football players were named All - ECC this past Fall:

Spencer Lockwood - Running Back Jake Gauthier - Tight End

Alex Fontaine - Tackle John Cacciapuoti - Tackle

Ethan Canova - Defensive Tackle Zach Caffrey - Linebacker

Zack Burgess - Defensive Back Matt Phelan - Linebacker

Luke Desaulnier - Place Kicker Michael DiRuscio - Sportsmanship Award

Jake Gauthier - Scholar - Athlete

The following were Honorable Mention All - ECC: Michael Capuano, Derek Turner, Nsaiah Harriet

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John Manzo (312-729-3656) KILLINGLY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT-ATHLETE NAMED GATORADE CONNECTICUT BOYS FOOTBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR – Spencer Lockwood

CHICAGO (December 11, 2017) — In its 33rd year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, today announced Spencer Lockwood of Killingly High School as its 2017-18 Gatorade Connecticut Football Player of the Year. Lockwood is the first Gatorade Connecticut Football Player of the Year to be chosen from Killingly High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Lockwood as Connecticut’s best high school football player. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Football Player of the Year award to be announced in December, Lockwood joins an elite alumni association of state award-winners in 12 sports, including Mitchell Trubisky (2012-13, Mentor High School, Ohio), Greg Olsen (2002-03, Wayne Hills High School, N.J.), Matthew Stafford (2005-06 Highland Park High School, Texas), Harrison Smith (2006-07 Knoxville Catholic High School, Tenn.), Latavius Murray (2007-08, Onondaga High School, N.Y.), Brock Osweiler (2008-09, Flathead High School, Mont.) and Leonard Fournette (2014-15 & 2012-13, St. Augustine High School, La.). The 5-foot-11, 190-pound senior running back and linebacker had led the Redmen to a 12-0 record and a berth in the Class M state championship game at the time of his selection. Lockwood rushed for 3,027 yards and 42 touchdowns thru 12 games. Defensively, he recorded 66 tackles and three interceptions entering the state title game. A Class M All-State selection as a junior, Lockwood entered his final high school game ranked fourth in state history with 7,206 career rushing yards. Lockwood has volunteered locally as an at-risk mentor for elementary school students and he has donated his time at a food pantry and as a youth football coach. “Spencer Lockwood has had a tremendous season. Truth be told, everyone knows what Killingly’s going to do, and still they haven’t stopped it. Spencer has the power to get the tough yards and the explosiveness to go the distance.” Lockwood has maintained a weighted 3.41 GPA in the classroom and represents one of the state’s top academic candidates in meeting the Gatorade award’s broad criteria. He remains undecided upon a collegiate destination. The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year

Selection Committee, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport. Lockwood joins recent Gatorade Connecticut Football Players of the Year Ben Mason (2016-17, Newtown High School), Mark Evanchick (2015-16, Darien High School), Zach Allen (2014-15, New Canaan High School), Dario Highsmith (2013-14, Middletown High School), Colin Moore (2012-13, Avon High School), Casey Cochran (2011–12 & 2010-11, Masuk High School), and Kevin Pierre-Louis (2009-10, King Low Heywood Thomas School) among the state’s list of former award winners. As a Gatorade Player of the Year, Lockwood will be able to select a national or local youth sports organization to receive a grant as part of the Gatorade Play It Forward program. Every Gatorade Player of the Year state winner receives a $1,000 grant to donate and will have the opportunity to enter for an additional $10,000 spotlight grant by writing a brief essay explaining why their selected organization deserves additional support. 12 spotlight grants – one for each sport – will be announced throughout the year. To keep up to date on the latest happenings, become a fan of Gatorade Player of the Year on Facebook and follow the conversation on Twitter #GatoradePOY. For more on the Gatorade Player of the Year program, including nomination information, a complete list of past winners and the announcement of the Gatorade National Player of the Year, visit http://playeroftheyear.gatorade.com/.

What a Season !! - FOOTBAL Class M All - State: Jake Gauthier, Tight End Zach Caffrey, Linebacker Alex Fontaine, Offensive Line 1st Team Top 25 Players All - State: Spencer Lockwood, Running Back Walter Camp All - Connecticut High School Football Team: 1st Team: Spencer Lockwood, Running Back Alex Fontaine, Offensive Line 2nd Team: Zach Caffrey, Linebacker Walter Camp Football Foundation Breakfast of Champions Award: Killingly High School - Class M’ Football Champions Walter Camp Foundation Player of the Year Finalist: Spencer Lockwood Walter Camp Foundation Coach of the Year Finalist: Chad Neal Walter Camp Can Inspire Award: Vasileios Politis

Fall Sports 2017 Field Hockey

Field Hockey concluded their season 5-10, making lots of strives from the 2016 season. Three players were named All Conference, and two seniors were named second team all-state. The young team is working hard during the off season to continue to make progress and qualify for the ECC and State tournament next season.

All ECC First Team:

Seniors Alexis Smith, Katrina Fortes

All ECC Second Team: Sophomore Brianna Caffrey

All ECC Sportsmanship Award:

Senior Katrina Fortes

All ECC Scholar Athlete Award: Senior Alexis Smith

All State Second Team:

Senior Alexis Smith

All State Field Hockey: Katrina Fortes

Girls Volleyball

Congratulations to the volleyball team whose season ended with a hard fought loss in the State quarterfinals. The team repeated as ECC division II champions this season with a program best 21 wins. Great season Redgals!!

1st team ECC All-Star: Reilly Allen, Ally Conde, Meredith Zamperini Honorable Mention ECC All-Stars: Kelsey Allen, Reagan Morin

Sportsmanship Winner: Gabrielle Moore Scholar Athlete: Ally Conde

Ally Conde was also selected to play in the Senior All-Star game and made 2nd team All-State.

Girls Soccer

The girls soccer team finished the regular season 7-7-2 and qualified for both the ECC and State tournament.

Girls Soccer: ECC All-Star – Abbie Burgess

ECC Honorable Mention – Taylor Jax ECC Honorable Mention – Grace Nichols

ECC Sportsmanship – Sarah Azizi ECC Scholar – Athlete – Felicia Horne

Music/Band Recognition: The following students were chosen through an audition process to be part of the Eastern Connecticut Honors Band or Choir. These same students will also be continuing their pursuit of becoming Connecticut All-State musicians in January. Terren Allen Christopher Pawul Samuel Antonelli Sophia Provencher Katherine Archambault Emily Robinson Nazmia Dionis Jordan Rukstela Laney Dunn Aeron Sampson Ezra George Kory Seiden Emilee Lehtinen Brandon Steen Ariana Moulton Ben Wyen Michael O’Connor

Noah Marcoux, Thomas Desjardin, Alyssa Monte And Jasmine Hunt attended the

Unified Sports Youth Leadership Conference

Art and Photography contest at the town Great Tomato Festival

Morriah Owen won 1st place McKayla Lewis won 2nd place Hannah Privée won 3rd place

Sabrina Graff won Best in Show

First Place Artwork

Killingly HS Engineering and Construction Students-Old Sturbridge Village Dedication on Nov. 2 2017

On November 2, 2017 Killingly High School Engineering and Construction students were be at Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts (OSV) for the official dedication of the two story children's playhouse that was built by KHS students this past year.

A plaque that describes the building and the OSV/KHS partnership will be mounted over the playhouse's fireplace. This post and beam building was designed and constructed by KHS students to replicate the living quarters of a family in 1810; including a kitchen with a harvest table, fireplace and beehive oven, and a second floor with sleeping quarters. The building is designed for children from 1-8 years of age.

After the dedication, KHS students will be involved in taking dimensions and making drawings of several OSV historical artifacts that they will use to make reproductions of these pieces. This partnership is in its fourth year of involvement.

The mission of the OSV and KHS Partnership is twofold: (1) to engage students in real life experiences involving historical significance of artifacts created by artisans during the 1790-1820's and to accurately reproduce these artifacts; and (2) to enable OSV to have accurate reproductions to be used in the public areas of the living museum without concerns of priceless artifacts being damaged.

The partnership of KHS (a comprehensive high school with over 25 Career Pathways) and the OSV living museum exemplifies the importance of connecting students to history, how life was over two hundred years ago and how it relates to today.