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.

March Madness Comes to WLMS!

 Tiger Shark Pride!

Last night, we held our third annual March Madness 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament and Family Wellness Event at the school. We had over 300 families, friends and supporters of WLMS attend this event. I am happy to report that this broke last year's attendance record by over 100 people! The proceeds from this tournament are used to purchase books and other materials for our media center.

I want to congratulate Ms. McNeill-McBrien, Ms. Todd and Mr. Spicher for doing such an outstanding job organizing this event and to all of the PTSA volunteers who helped make this tournament such a huge success. In addition, I want to commend our very talented student musicians who performed during the tournament under the direction of our very own Mr. Messick! I believe this is the first-ever Pep Band WLMS has ever had! Great job!

I also want to thank Mr. Todd, Principal of Running Brook Elementary, Mr. Martin, Principal of Bryant Woods Elementary, and Mr. Walsh for playing on my team. It was a blast playing with these scholar athletes and showing the WLMS students that old guys can play, too.

I also want to thank the Book Ladies for making an appearance at the tournament last night. As you might recall, the Book Lady is somewhat a celebrity at our school. She is a famous rapper, book reader, TV personality and now basketball player. She came to support the cause and brought two of her friends! Simply AMAZING! ; )

Thanks to everyone who played, cheered, performed and attended last night! And a special shout-out to the 2011 tournament champions - the Souljas!

Kyree Press

Jarrett Cromarti

Kenaurd Tharpe

Nasir Robinson