Here is another group that is greatly appreciated. Our district cooks! They have had a crazy beginning of this school year with Denning kitchen being shut down and having to prepare food at the other buildings and transport it to Denning. Hopefully Monday we will be back to some kind of normal! Thank you all for everything that you do!! You are greatly appreciated. Thank you as well Mr Buckingham!
Thank you to the West Frankfort Fire Department on training our wonderful paraprofessionals in first aide and CPR today. Also, once again thank you to our paraprofessionals. They are so important to the day to day operations of our district!!
Had a wonderful afternoon with these budding future educators at the Denning Fall Festival!! They did an amazing job helping the K-2 graders with activities!! Thank you to Ms. Holevoet and the teachers for allowing us to help!! :)
I want to make it public that our wrestlers have finally found a home. I want to thank the West Frankfort Aquatic Center on working with us and allowing us to use their facilities this wrestling year. Thank you so much!! I also want to thank Coach Arrington and all involved in this process for their patience and understanding during this process.
Montgomery was #2 right after he brother yesterday! 😊
Good Luck to our Volleyball team tonight in Anna as they take on Fairfield in the second round of regionals!! Game starts at 6pm!
Good Luck Ladies!!
10/25
Congrats to the Redbird Volleyball Team on winning their first round of regionals. They will play again tomorrow in Anna against Fairfield!
10/24
Now that senior week is over for our fall sports, we would like to honor one of our retiring coaches.
Coach Mike Karoski has been coaching boys golf at West Frankfort High School for 29 years. This will be his last year coaching boys golf. Here is a list of his accomplishments during his coaching tenure.
29 Years - Varsity Boys Head Golf Coach (Frankfort Comm. High School)
Championships Won:
Overall Match Record: 350- 241 (1994 to present)
S.I.R.R. Conference Championships: 1
IHSA Regional Championships: 3
IHSA Sectional Championships: 2
IHSA State Final Team Appearances: 1 (5th Place 1994)
All-State Players: 2
Individual Player State Final Appearances: 12
Collegiate Players: 6
LPGA Tour Caddie 1
Other Significant Events or Accomplishments:
a. Illinois High School Association Golf Advisory Board Member:
2 Terms: 2008-2011, 2011-2013
b. Illinois High School Association Regional and Sectional Host:
1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2022
c. Southern Illinois Coaches Association “Coach of the Year” 1994
d. SICA All South Selection Committee Member – 1997-2022
Thank you Coach Karoski for all your hard work and dedication to our golfers during these 29 years!!
Dennings first superfan student! Mr. Maverick Leek!!
Good Luck to our HS volleyball team tonight as they take on Vienna at the Anna Regional. Game starts at 6pm. Come out and support these girls.
Congrats to the girls HS Cross Country team in qualifying for Sectionals today! Great job girls! #GoRedbirds!!
These sweet girls graduated from check in check out today! We are boyond proud of them both! ❤️
Happy Principals Day!! We are blessed with the best here at Denning! ❤️
Thank you Lani Wolfe for doing the announcing at the HS home volleyball games. It was greatly appreciated and you did an amazing job.
We want to thank the Redbird Chant team this year. I feel that these ladies do a lot of planning and promoting the games. I want to thank them as well as all the students that have been coming to support our athletes. It means a lot to the school, athletes, parents/guardians of athletes as well as the community to see the school pride that you are showing this year. Thank you Hannah, Anna, and Quincy for taking the lead with the chant team!!!
Our Papa John's Athletes of the Week this week are DT Thomas for football and Anna Rolla for volleyball. Great Job Redbirds!!!
10/21
Senior Night for Football tonight. We will also recognize, cheer, band, cross country, golf, and dance seniors as well.
Redbirds take on Nashville. The theme of the night for HS students is Halloween. Any HS student dressed in the theme will get in free. Any HS student or Central student that wears a Redbird shirt or a red shirt will get in free as well. DES and FIS students make sure you are bringing in your SuperFan cards to the game.
Hope to see everyone there.
10/21
Come out for our Senior Night tonight in Max Morris for our Volleyball team. The theme for tonight is Redbird Spirit night. Any HS or Central student wearing a Redbird shirt or a red shirt will get in the game free. DES and FIS students do not forget you Superfan cards. If you have already got your superfan shirt, that will get you in the game free as well.
Freshman game starts at 5 tonight. Come out and support your team!.
10/20
Title teachers and staff supporting Ms. Pam. Such a great lady! We are blessed to have her at Denning!
We are a little behind on the Papa John's Athlete of the Week. These are our Papa John's athletes of the last two weeks. Ben Herron for boys golf, Libby Berthoux for cross country, Jenna Deason for volleyball, and Laela Kohzadi for cheerleading. With this being late, and wanting to get it done today we had to track down Ms. Kohzadi on a field trip at Fern Cliff. Thank you Mr. Maddox for the picture!
