Girls Wrestling meeting
There will be a Girls Wrestling pre-season meeting on October 9th at 8:00AM in the Career Center.
2023 Bowling Season Meeting
There will be a parent and student/athlete meeting on Oct. 12th at 6:00pm in the Career Center. Coach Nick Payton
Homecoming Week!
Ankeny High School, it’s time to show your team spirit! Homecoming week is here, and we have a lineup of exciting events for you. On Monday, we kicked off the festivities with the annual Under the Lights games. The fun continues this Friday, September 15, at 7pm with the football game. Come out to support your team and engage in an unforgettable night of school spirit. Let’s go, Hawks!
Girls Swimming
If you are interested in girls swimming or diving this fall, please reach out to ankenygirlsswimming@gmail.com to be added to the team’s contact list.
Hawks Win National Mock Trial Competition
For the first time in school history, the Ankeny High School mock trial team won the 2023 National High School Mock Trial Competition after defeating New Mexico in the Final Round in Little Rock, AZ. In doing so, they became the fifth team from Iowa to secure the national title, giving Iowa the most wins of any state at the National Competition.
Participating students include Chloe Andersen, Nicki Casady, Sareena Casady, Hayden DeWitt, Mallory Jordan, Marissa Larson-Minar, Grant Miner, Hannah Pross, and Noah Yeager. The team is coached by attorneys Marcus Miller and Joe Metzger. Amy Akers serves as the teacher-coach.
This year’s competition case involved a fictional criminal case titled the State of Arkansas vs. Scout Cumberland, which involved the homicide of a school board member by another school board member, with New Mexico’s prosecution team arguing for premeditated murder and Iowa’s defense team claiming self-defense. The trial was presided over by Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr., and the jury was made up of a panel of judges and attorneys from around the nation.
Under National High School Mock Trial Association rules, teams consist of six to nine official members assigned to roles representing the prosecution/plaintiff and defense/defendant sides, with six members participating in any given round. In each round, three members serve as attorneys and three serve as witnesses. Time limits are strictly enforced. The trial scenario switches from year to year between criminal and civil trials.
The National High School Mock Trial Competition began in 1984 in Des Moines, Iowa, with five states competing: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
AHS DRAMA DEPARTMENT AWARDS PRESS RELEASE
Ankeny High School’s Drama Department will participate in the 2023 Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase, presented by EMC Insurance Companies, in honor of the school’s achievements for its April production of The Wizard of Oz.
Produced by Des Moines Performing Arts as the culmination of a year-long education initiative, the Showcase will be held at the Des Moines Civic Center on Thursday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m. and will recognize a total of 94 schools from across the entire state.
AHS will be honored in a special video shown at the Showcase, in celebration of its receipt of an Outstanding Overall Performance Award – one of the program’s highest honors.
Jacynda Santiago and Jemma Bullock will represent AHS by performing in a collaborative inter-school medley led by a guest Broadway music director and choreographer. Additionally, Carter Evans will perform an excerpt from his award-winning role in The Wizard of Oz as Zeke/Lion.
Carter Evans will also participate in the Triple Threat Award program with other advanced performing students. In addition to a special performance at the showcase, students will audition for theater camp scholarships and the opportunity to represent Iowa at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards in New York City this summer.
Ankeny High School will also be recognized with the following awards and honors:
Outstanding Overall Performance
Outstanding Ensemble
Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role – Carter Evans as “Zeke/Lion”
Special Recognition for Performance in a Principal Role – Jenna Freeseman as “Glinda”
Special Recognition for Performance in a Principal Role – Grant Miner as “Hickory/Tinman”
Special Recognition for Performance in a Principal Role – Jacynda Santiago as “Dorothy Gale”
Special Recognition for Featured Ensemble – Oz Company Singers
Tickets to the Showcase, which start at $15, will go on sale on Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10 AM at DMPA.org, the Des Moines Civic Center Ticket Office, and by phone at 515-246-2300.
The Awards Showcase will be live-streamed at IowaPBS.org as part of a collaboration with Iowa PBS. Iowa PBS will also broadcast a highlights special of the event on Friday, July 14 at 8:30 p.m. and on Sunday, July 16 at 1:00 p.m.
SOFTBALL MEETING
There will be a softball meeting for all players 8-12 grade at the Southview gym on April 10th, at 7:30 AM!
Gary Telford Athletic/Academic Scholarship
Athletic/Academic Scholarship Opportunity
The Ankeny Athletic Booster Club is offering the Gary Telford Scholarship which recognizes student-athletes. Any AHS senior who has participated in at least two sports each year for grades 10, 11, 12 while simultaneously maintaining a minimum requirement 3.0 cumulative GPA is eligible to apply. Four $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to one male and one female recipient from AHS and ACHS. Complete the scholarship application form and return it, with essay, to the Activities Office no later than Friday, April 7. You can also pick up a copy of the application in the Activities Office.
2023-2024 CHEERLEADING TRYOUT APPLICATION
Future Ankeny Hawk Cheerleaders: Please click on the link below and fill out the form. Tryouts are the last week of March!