This year at Springville High School, the girl’s sophomore volleyball team has been doing very well.  Since there is not a freshmen volleyball team, the sophomore team is mostly made up of freshmen girls.  So far, their record is three wins and one loss.  The sophomore team’s coach, Kristin Clark, said, “Thus far I have LOVED this season! I've been working with these girls since April and being able to see their progress makes everything worth it. Their continual hard work and love of the game makes coaching so enjoyable.” 

At Springville Junior High, there are some ninth-grade girls that are talented enough to play on the Springville High School soccer team.There’s the varsity soccer team, and  the junior varsity soccer team. The varsity team is made up of mostly high school girls. (sophomores, juniors, and seniors) But the junior varsity team has ninth-grade girls from Springville Junior High school that help make up the team. They have away games every Tuesday and home games every Thursday. The girls have practices  on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Lots of the girls really enjoy playing on the high school team, and they try really hard to get better at soccer. 

We all know that ninth graders have a little song in them. Well, Springville Junior High has a choir class just for the ninth graders who have the talent to be what are called a Master Singers. Of course, students would have to be in the ninth grade to join them. What they do is go to Mrs. Walker in the spring and try out by singing her a song.Then she will choose if you can be in the Master Singers class, which is all year long.                

Garrett Carr, a ninth-grade Master Singer, said, “It is easy for boys to be in the Master Singers class because all they have to do is carry a tune.” 

Seventh and eighth-grade cheer has started! Earlier this year at Springville Junior High, seventh and eighth-grade students paid and signed up to do cheer. It is a recreational sport that the city does for girls in grades six through nine. The city puts each girl that signed up on a football team that they will cheer for. This year there are two teams for seventh, and two for eighth. The amount of teams depends on how many girls sign up. So if there are two football teams, but only enough girls for one, only one team gets cheerleaders. The names  for the seventh-grade teams are the S.O.S Bears and the Rotary Mustangs. The names for the eighth-grade teams are Reams Badgers, Quality Cleaners, and the Vikings.

Andalyn Hall and seeral other students at SJHS have just participated in the State Future Farmers of America (FFA) Career Development Event. FFA is the largest youth organization in the nation. They learn about everything in agriculture. Andalyn said, “I love all the different events that I can participate in. There is something for everyone.” 

Parents' Entertainment Night is coming up on Thursday, May 17th. According to Mrs. Koriane Maughan, dance and English teacher, Parents' Entertainment Night is all about giving the dancers the opportunity to show their parents and family what they’ve been working on. Sam Allan, an eighth grader, said, “I am excited to perform for my parents.” 

Mrs. Erica Persson, health, dance and aerobics teacher at SJHS, is having a baby boy. His name is going to be Seth Michael Persson. Mrs. Persson is about nine months pregnant, and she is due June first, a week after school gets out. Mrs. Persson said, “It’s all very exciting!”

This is Mrs. Persson’s last year at SJHS. She is going to stop teaching and be a stay at home mom to her two kids and her new baby. Her two kids are very excited to have a new baby brother. Her family is excited to see the baby’s “firsts” like first smile, first laugh,first steps, and first rollover. Mrs. Persson said, “I really enjoy being a mom.”

On Thursday and Friday, May 10th and 11th, the SJHS track team left school to compete in the district track meet. The meet was held at Salem Hills High School, and all junior high schools from Nebo School District participated.  According to Anna Gurney, an eighth grader at Springville Junior High School, she likes to see schools compete and see who is best.

SJHS did very well at the Districts!  According to Mr. Strong, long jump coach at SJHS, they placed third overall, set many first places and also set a few district records.  Mr. Strong also said, “In some ways, District Finals is what we work towards all year. Everyone is really trying their hardest to do well.”

Springville Junior High School recently held the monthly Super Knight Assembly. During Super Knight assemblies, two students from each grade who try their hardest in school and are also well behaved receive the Super Knight award. Ricky Moala, a Super Knight in eighth-grade here at SJHS, said, “It felt really good because I know that I did my best in all my classes.” The Super Knights of April were ninth graders: Jacob Rasmussen  and Anna Bunnell, eighth graders: Ricky Moala  and Cheyeann Peterson, and seventh graders: Sean Makin  and Ally Brunson.

Front, left to right: Rachel Dockstader, Cassidy Bowers, Sarah Mitchell, and Betsy Vega.  Back, left to right: Camryn Rouse, Bianca Trujillo, Lexie Pendley, Becca Dickinson, Dr. Rhodes, Luanei Mulipola, and Katie Johnson.

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On April 23rd and 24th, an accreditation review team came to Springville Junior High School. They gave SJHS a very good report! According to Mr. Ken Van Ausdal, SJHS principal, they told SJHS that they were impressed with the wide variety of stakeholders involved in the process, the school leadership, and that the report from SJHS to the review team was professional.