March Madness at WLMS!

Just like the rest of the nation, here at Wilde Lake Middle we love March Madness. As a result of our love of basketball, four years ago, we began the tradition of holding a 3 on 3 basketball tournament to showcase our ball playing skills and to raise money for our media center. 

Last Friday evening, the tradition continued. This year, we had the largest field of teams enter the tournament. 33 teams registered to play. We had 29 student teams, a police officer team, two teacher teams and one principal team made-up of some of WLMS's feeder schools and me. It was a great event which raised money to support our media center and brought our community together to celebrate basketball, wellness and school pride.

I want to extend a huge thank you to those people who made this year's event so special - Ms. McNeill, Mrs. Todd and Mr. Spicher for working to organize this event along with parent volunteers from the WLMS PTSA. 

Thanks to:

• Mr. Walsh, Mr. Helms, Mr. Spicher, Mr. Rankin, and Mr.Doherty for doing such a magnificent job refereeing and managing all of the games.

• Ms. Berla for being our MC & Mr. Messick for providing the entertainment for event - you guys are awesome!

• Ms. Middleton and Ms. McNeill for helping to maintain the bracketology!

• Mrs. Ward, Ms. Hughes, Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Motaung for setting-up the book fair and running it.

• Ms. Hughes, Ms. Ryan, Mrs. Ward, Mr. Douherty, Ms. Drakes, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Spicher, Mr. Ortega, Mr. Larner, Mr. Todd and Officer Littlefield for showing us your basketball skills.

• Officer Littlefield, Ms. Creamer, Ms. Drakes, Ms. Nelson and Ms. Corbett for helping to monitor our hallways and provide student support.

• To all the staff and parents who came to support the kid! 

• To our wonderful student-athletes who participated!

• To our amazing PTSA for their help with refereeing, concessions, crowd control and all of theother little details.