Lafayette High School
Lafayette High School
The Fall 2023 Season brought another great period for Lafayette athletics and activities including one team state championship, two 3rd Place team state finishes, three team conference championships, two team district championships, four individual state championships and eight additional state medals amongst our fall sports! Highlighted Recognitions are below.
COLLEGE SIGNINGS:
18 Students signed to continue their academic and athletic careers at the collegiate level
● Natalie Barnard – Women’s Track/Cross Country – University of Missouri
● Taylor Cloutman – Women’s Swimming & Diving – University of Kansas
● Emily Derucki – Women’s Soccer – University of Missouri
● Will Gebhart – Men’s Baseball – Drury University
● Hadley Hendrickson – Women’s Soccer – Eastern Illinois University
● Addyson Jones – Women’s Softball – Loyola University Chicago
● Emma Knoesel – Women’s Swimming – Rhodes College
● Talia Manor – Women’s Lacrosse – Missouri Baptist University
● Amelia Moser – Women’s Volleyball – University of Indianapolis
● Alyssa Nelson – Women’s Volleyball – Villanova University
● Tyson Oswald – Men’s Baseball – Wabash Valley College
● Melissa Pinkstaff – Women’s Lacrosse – Quincy University
● Paul Pratte – Men’s Baseball – Drury University
● Allison Risley – Women’s Volleyball – Northern Kentucky University
● Xander Schmitt – Men’s Baseball – University of Kansas
● Lucas Tran – Men’s Volleyball – Rockhurst University
● Jayden Wiese – Women’s Volleyball – Ithaca College
● Amber Yin – Women’s Tennis – Columbia University
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: Team GPA: 3.65 & Record: 36-2
● Team finished the season Ranked #13 in the United States
● Team was Suburban Yellow Pool Conference Champs
● 1st Team Suburban Yellow Pool All-Conference:
○ Alyssa Nelson, Allison Risley & Maya Witherspoon
● 2nd Team Suburban Yellow Pool All-Conference: Shaye Witherspoon & Mia Moser
● Honorable Mention Suburban Yellow Pool All-Conference: Ellie Emms
● Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Sportsmanship Award: Jayden Wiese
● Team was Class 5 District 2 MSHSAA District Champions! (Picture Attached)
○ 1st Team All-District: Alyssa Nelson, Allison Risley & Maya Witherspoon
○ 2nd Team All-District: Mia Moser & Shaye Witherspoon
● Team finished MSHSAA Class 5 State Champions! (Picture Attached)
○ 1st Team All-State: Mia Moser, Alyssa Nelson, Allison Risley & Maya Witherspoon
● Head Coach Zach Young was named the 2022-2023 MSHSAA/NFHS Volleyball Coach of the Year (Picture Attached)
● American Volleyball Coaches Association All Americans
○ 2nd Team: Alyssa Nelson, 3rd Team: Allison Risley & HM: Mia Moser
Head Coach Zach Young was named the 2022-2023 MSHSAA/NFHS Volleyball Coach of the Year
District Champions
State Champions
GIRLS TENNIS: Team GPA: 4.15 & Record: 15-4
● Team Finished 2nd Place in the Yellow Pool Suburban Conference
● Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Player of the Year: Amber Yin
● Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Coach of the Year: Emily Pestka
● 1st Team Doubles Suburban Conference Yellow Pool: Mary Sublette & Mia Yin
● 2nd Team Doubles Suburban Conference Yellow Pool: Kailyn Politte & Kendall Pauls
● 2nd Team Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Singles: Madison Pfeiffer
● Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Sportsmanship Award: Kailyn Politte
● Team was Class 3 District 3 Team Champions
● Team Finished 3rd Place at the MSHSAA Class 3 Team State Tournament (Picture Attached)
● MSHSAA Individual Class 3 State Tournament
○ Singles: Amber Yin – State Champion (Picture Attached)
○ Doubles: Mary Sublette & Mia Yin – 5th Place All-State (Picture Attached)
○ Singles: Madi Pfeiffer – State Qualifier
Amber Yin – Singles State Champion
Team Finished 3rd Place at the MSHSAA Class 3 Team State Tournament
Doubles: Mary Sublette & Mia Yin – 5th Place All-State
FIELD HOCKEY: Team GPA: 3.99 & Record: 13-4
● Team Made the State Quarterfinals
● All-Conference Offensive Player of the Year: Olivia Williams
● 1st Team All-Conference: Olivia Willams & Avery Brown
● 2nd Team All-Conference: Naira Bilbao Ramos & Peyton Kimack
● Olivia Williams set the single season goal scoring record for Lafayette (Picture attached of team with her in the center)
BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING: Team GPA: 3.86
● Team Finished 3rd Place Overall in the Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Meet
○ 1st Team All Conference:
■ 1st Place: Caleb Warner-200 IM/100 Breaststroke & 1st Place: Sam Bolla – 100 Fly
■ 2nd Place: 200 Medley Relay – *New school record*
● Ryan Huang, Cable Warner, Sam Bolla, Gregory Shao
■ 3rd Place: 200 Free Relay-Caleb Warner, Sam Bolla, Gregorary Shao & James Thompson
■ 5th Place: Jackson Tenny – Diving
■ 5th Place: Jonas Orpe – 200 Free & Ryan Huang – 100 Back
○ 2nd Team All Conference:
■ 6th Place: Adin Peper – Diving, Gregory Shao – 50 Free & Jonas Orpe – 500 Free
■ 400 Free Relay: 6th Place-JamesThompson, Mason Freire, Jonas Orpe & Ryan Huang
■ 7th Place: Gregory Shao-100 Free & 8th Place: Sreeram Manchikalapudi-100 Fly
● Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Sportsmanship Award: Owen Waeckerle
● Jackson Tenny finished 2nd Place at the MSHSAA Class 1 District 2 Diving Meet
● Team Finished 3rd Place Overall at the MSHSAA Class 1 State Championship
○ Individual All-State Events: (Images below of Top 3 Finishes)
■ 200 IM: Caleb Warner – State Champion – New School Record Time (Picture Below)
■ 100 Breast: Caleb Warner – State Champion – New School Record Time (Picture Below)
■ 200 Medley Relay: 2nd Place – Caleb Warner, Ryan Huang, Sam Bolla & Gregory Shao
■ 200 Free Relay: 2nd Place – Caleb Warner, James Thompson, Sam Bolla & Gregory Shao
■ 100 Fly: Sam Bolla – 3rd Place – New School Record Time
■ 400 Free Relay: 8th Place – Sam Bolla, Matteo Freire, Gregory Shao & James Thompson
200 Medley Relay: 2nd Place – Caleb Warner, Ryan Huang, Sam Bolla & Gregory Shao
200 Free Relay: 2nd Place – Caleb Warner, James Thompson, Sam Bolla & Gregory Shao
400 Free Relay: 8th Place – Sam Bolla, Matteo Freire, Gregory Shao & James Thompson
200 IM: Caleb Warner – State Champion – New School Record Time
Team Finished 3rd Place Overall at the MSHSAA Class 1 State Championship
100 Breast: Caleb Warner – State Champion – New School Record Time
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY: Team GPA: 3.93
● Team was Red Pool Suburban Conference Champions! (Picture Attached)
○ Conference Runner of the Year: Natalie Barnard
○ 1st Team All-Conference: Alexis Sandburg & Ashley Rinkenberger
○ 2nd Team All-Conference: Abigail McGinnis
○ Suburban Sportsmanship Award: Anna Burnett
● Team Finished 2nd place at the MSHSAA District Meet
○ All- District Individuals: 1st Place:Natalie Barnard, 6th Place: Ashley Rinkenberger & 12th Place: Alexis Sandberg
● Team Finished 10th Place at the MSHSAA Class 5 State Meet
○ Natalie Barnard – State Champion – Set New MSHSAA State record time!
○ Ashley Rinkenberger – 30th Place All-State (Picture Attached with Natalie)
● Big River All-Metro Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year: Natalie Barnard
GIRLS GOLF: Team GPA: 3.73 & Record: 7-0
● Finished 2nd Place in the Suburban Conference Yellow Pool
○ Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Player of the Year: Addy Surber
○ Suburban Yellow Pool 2nd Team All Conference: Lexi Napuli & Lila Dantuono
○ Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Sportsmanship Award: Lila Dantuono
● Team was 4th place in the Class 4 MSHSAA District Tournament (Picture Attached)
○ 2nd Place All-District – Addy Surber
● 9th Place MSHSAA Class 4 All-State – Addy Surber -now a 3x state medallist (Picture Attached)
FOOTBALL: Team GPA: 3.28 & Record: 8-2
● Team won the Suburban Conference Red Pool Championship & was District Semi Finalist
● Suburban Conference Red Pool Offensive Player of the Year: Jack Behl – Quarterback
● Suburban Conference Red Pool Defensive Player of the Year: Andrew Wier
● Suburban Conference Red Pool Lineman of the Year: Garrett Jackson
● Suburban Conference Red Pool Coach of the Year: Boyd Manne
● 1st Team Red Pool Suburban All Conference: Garret Jackson – OL, Jackson Pasley -OL, Bradley Ambrose-OL, Robbie Preckel-WR, Zae Jones-WR, Alex Behl-LB, Brady Calderon-LB & Jake Ference – Kicker & Punter
● 2nd Team Suburban Red Pool All Conference:Michael Callahan – WR & Nate Hutchinson – LB
● Honorable Mention Suburban Red Pool All Conference: Malan Graham – Linebacker
● Suburban Red Pool Conference Sportsmanship Award: Gavin Shelton
SOFTBALL: Team GPA: 4.98 & Record: 19-8
● Team Finished 2nd Place in the Suburban Yellow Pool Conference
● Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Pitcher of the Year: Abby Carr
● 1st Team All-Conference Suburban Yellow Pool: Addyson Jones & Sydney Berger
● 2nd Team All-Conference Suburban Yellow Pool: Addison Penn & Riley Mulligan
● Suburban Conference Yellow Pool Sportsmanship Award: Josie Alspaw
● 1st All-District Team: Abby Carr, Sydney Berger, Riley Mulligan & Addyson Jones
● 2nd All-District Team: Addison Penn & Addison Long
● 1st Team All-Region: Abby Carr, Addyson Jones & Sydney Berger
● 2nd Team All-Region: Riley Mulligan
● 2nd Team All-State: Abby Carr
BOYS CROSS COUNTRY: Team GPA: 3.87
● Team Finished 3rd Place as a team in the Red Pool Suburban Conference Meet
○ 1st Team All-Conference: 2nd Place–Jack Robeson & 5th Place-Dillon Cronin
○ Honorable Mention: 16th Place-Daniel D’Andrea & 18th Place-Michael D’Andrea
○ Suburban Sportsmanship Award: Dillon Cronin
● Team Finished 4th place at the MSHSAA District Meet
○ All- District Individuals: 3rd Place: Jack Robeson & 10th Place: Dillon Cronin
● Team Finished 13th Place at the MSHSAA Class 5 State Championships
○ Jack Robeson – 5th Place All-State – Ran PR time 25 seconds faster than previous one
● 1st Team Big River All-Metro Cross Country – Jack Robeson
● Academic All-State: Jack Robeson, Dillon Cronin, Michael D’Andrea, Daniel D’Andrea, Luke Snyder, Sanjiv Sainathan & Sagan Alsop
LANCER REGIMENT MARCHING BAND: Team GPA: 3.77
● Finished 1st Place Overall at the Francis Howell Invitational
● Prelims Competition: 1st Place – Blue Division
○ Outstanding Music Performance, Visual Performance & General Effect
● Finals Competition: Outstanding Music Performance, Visual Performance & General Effect
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
● The National Scholastic Press Association announced the finalists in the 2023 Individual Awards contest.These are the top prizes for individual work in scholastic journalism nationally. Winners were announced at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention.
○ Staff Editorial: 1st Place – Lancer Feed Staff
○ Newsmagazine Cover: 1st Place – Samantha Haney & Sonya Sud (12)
○ Infographic: 3rd Place – Adwyta Chelikavada (11)
○ Illustration: Honorable Mention – Samantha Haney (12)
○ Blog: Honorable Mention – Class of 2023 Graduate – Juli Mejia
○ Sports Story: Honorable Mention – Sonya Sud (12)
● National Scholastic Press Association Fall 2023 Best of Show:
○ Newsmagazine: Image – 7th Place
○ Yearbook: Legend – 6th Place
● Journalism Education Association National Student Media Contest Winners:
○ Excellent Rating: Editorial Writing – Sonya Sud (12)
○ Excellent Rating: Infographic Design – Adwyta Chelikavada (12)
○ HM Yearbook Copy/Caption Sports – Lauren Blosser (11)
○ HM Newswriting – Maddy Cox (11)
○ HM: Sports Feature Photo – Julia Dean (10)
○ HM: Video Package Editing – Vedha Inampudi (10)
○ HM: Yearbook Copy/Caption Academics – Sakhi Lal (10)
○ HM: Yearbook Copy/Caption Student Life – Morgan Stoermer (12)
○ HM: First Year Photo – Areej Younas (11)
CHOIR: Group GPA: 3.49
● The following students auditioned and made the St. Louis Suburban All-District Honors Choir. The students whose names are bold, qualified to audition for the All-State Choir.
○ Kadence Grey, Annie Jones, Katherine Limburg & Katie Rattenborg
○ Lizzie Rattenborg, Christopher Songco & Sanjiv Srinivasan
○ Rylee Stoffel, Lydia Lehmann, Kylie Wilkerson, Ella Nolan, Julia Cundy & Chloe Kim
● The following students had a wonderful performance at the St. Louis Suburban All District Honors Choir:
○ Lydia Lehmann, Katie Rattenborg, Lizzie Rattenborg, Annie Jones, Chloe Kim. Katherine Limburg, Kadence Grey, Julia Cundy, Rylee Stoffel, Kylie Wilkerson, Ella Nolan, Chris Songco, & Sanjiv Srinivasan.
○ These students were in the top 20 scores from their district audition and secured an All State Audition:
■ Annie Jones, Katie Rattenborg, Lizzie Rattenborg, Katherine Limburg, Kadence Grey, Chris Songco & Sanjiv Srinivasan.
○ Of these students only 4 per voice part makes the All State Ensemble with 2 Alternates. Honorable mention is also listed as one of the top 10 for the St. Louis Suburban district.
■ Lizzie Rattenborg is an Honorable Mention
■ Katie Rattenborg is 1st Alternate
■ Chris Songco is a member of this year’s All State Choir.
ORCHESTRA: Group GPA: 3.95
● The following Lafayette Orchestra Students were selected to the St. Louis Suburban MMEA District 5 Honor Orchestra. They will perform with the All-Suburban Orchestra on Saturday, January 6 at 4 pm at Clayton High School.
○ Lydia Lehmann – Violin
○ Declan Phipps – Cello
○ Lana Dauw – Bass
○ Yohann Lee – Cello Alternate
○ Cian O’Brien – Bass Alternate
CONCERT BAND: Group GPA: 3.86
● The following members of the Lafayette Band were selected to the St. Louis Suburban MMEA District 5 Honor Band on Monday night. They will perform with the All-Suburban Band on Sunday, January 7 at 2 pm at Kirkwood High School. All of these students are all eligible to audition for the Missouri All-State Band on December 2 in Columbia.
○ Claire Eltoft: Concert Band – Flute (9th Chair)
○ Gauri Kathula: Concert Band – Flute (10th Chair)
○ Jaclyn Morton: Concert Band – Bassoon (Alternate 2)
○ Carolyn Lee-Urcia: Concert Band – Clarinet (17th Chair)
○ Jessica Guan: Concert Band – Clarinet (Alternate 2)
○ Jonas Orpe: Concert Band – Bass – Clarinet (Alternate 2)
○ Eshwar Murali: Concert – Baritone Saxophone (1st Chair) & Jazz – Baritone Saxophone (Alternate 1)
○ Grayson Smith: Concert Band – Trumpet (4th Chair)
○ Alastair Hannah: Concert Band – French Horn (Alternate 2)
○ Ezra Leslie: Jazz Band – Trombone (2nd Chair) & Concert Band – Trombone
○ Andres Moeller: Concert Band – Trombone (2nd Chair)
○ Giancarlo Fernandez: Concert Band – Trombone (3rd Chair)
○ Ayden Mall: Concert Band – Baritone (3rd Chair) and Concert Band – Tuba
○ Owen Woody: Concert Band – Percussion (Alternate 1)
○ Lucas Brown: Concert Band – Percussion (Alternate 2)
