By Crystal McGough, Editor
TRUSSVILLE – The Trussville City Schools Board of Education recognized the Hewitt-Trussville High School and Middle School Mountain Bike teams Monday night, May 15, for their recent achievements.
HTHS and HTMS Mountain Bike teams with their coaches. (Photo by Crystal McGough)
This is the first year the middle school has had its own division, and the HTMS team rode away with the state championship.
Evelyn Lolley won the seventh-grade girls individual state championship and Isabelle Garver won the sixth-grade girls individual state championship. In the sixth-grade division, Lenwood Jones finished the season second overall and Jude Lolley finished fifth overall.
“This is our seventh year; we’ve won four state championships in high school (division), and this is the inaugural middle school state championship,” said Head Coach Kirk Lovin.
The HTHS team finished third place in Division 1 standing for their state championship race this year.
The high school team currently has 26 members, and the middle school team has 19.
The board also recognized HTHS senior Casey Bates for her artwork, titled “Pulled Apart,” which represented District Six (under Congressman Gary Palmer) in the Congressional Institute Artistic Discovery competition. Bates was named the Sixth Congressional District Winner.
Casey Bates speaks about her congressional district winning art piece, “Pulled Apart.” (Photo by Crystal McGough)
“I did a whole concentration on perception and I kind of merged this piece with one that I did last year; it was a similar portrait,” Bates said. “It just kind of was a growth piece.”
Bates has been invited to visit Washington D.C. to attend a reception on June 20, and her artwork will hang in the corridors of the United States Capitol for one year.
Additionally, the board congratulated Child Nutrition Program supervisor Terrie Coggins and her staff on their recent audit, and Cahaba Elementary School for being recognized by the Alabama Department of Education for the Legislative School Performance Recognition Program.
In other news, the board held officer elections for the positions of Board President and Vice President, electing Kim DeShazo as Board President and Kathy Brown as Board Vice President.
Under new business, the board addressed the following:
- Information item: Annual System Financial Audit from Carr, Riggs and Ingram Accounting
- Information item: 2023-24 Board of Education Meetings
- First reading of Parent and Student Handbook
The board called a special meeting for Thursday, June 1, 2023, to address matters of personnel. The next regular monthly board meeting will be held Monday, June 12, in the Boardroom of the Central Office at 5 p.m.
