Penn High School’s Girls Soccer Team, ranked No. 1 in the nation, dominated in the season-opening Indian Invite held at Newton Park in Lakeville on Friday, Aug. 18, and Saturday, Aug. 19. The Kingsmen outscored three opponents by a score of 18-0.

Penn beat No. 14 Zionsville, 5-0, beat No. 15 Warsaw, 5-0, and beat Chesterton, 8-0.

First-team All-American Kristina Lynch, a Florida State recruit, led the Kingsmen against Zionsville with three goals. Maya Lacognato scored two goals. Brooke Van Dyck had two assists, and Kelsi Carrico and Lexi Scott had one assist each.

Notre Dame recruit Brooke Van Dyck blasted in three goals to power the Kingsmen to a 5-0 victory against Warsaw. Kristina Lynch and Maya Lacognato scored one goal each. McKenzie Blankenbaker, Kelsi Carrico and Kristina Lynch had assists.

Kristina Lynch stung Chesterton for three goals in Penn’s 8-0 victory. Maya Lacognato scored two goals, Lauren Cernak scored two goals, and Kelsi Carrico scored one goal. Brooke Van Dyck and Allie Lankowicz had two assists each. Kelsi Carrico, Lauren Cernak, Maya Lacognato and Kristina Lynch had one assist each.

Penn High’s Kingsmen won the championship of the Tom Heck Invitational, held at Penn on Saturday, Aug. 18.

The Kingsmen beat NorthWood 25-14, 25-21, to win the championship match.

Penn beat North Central, 25-15, 25-13, beat Lake Central 25-20, 25-10, and beat Carroll, 25-27, 25-16, 15-11 in pool play.

The Kingsmen are now 6-0 for the season.

Italia Fields (25 kills), Alyssa Torres (24) and Ally Hickey (23) powered a dominating Kingsmen attack at the net.

Rachel Hickey  sparked the Kingsmen with 58 digs. Kylee Hixenbaugh had 25 digs, and Sophia Cruz and Naomi Willis had 23 digs each.

Naomi Willis ignited the Kingsmen with 87 assists.

Julia Beers led the Kingsmen with nine assists.
 

Penn High’s Boys Cross Country Team captured the team championship of the Northern Indiana Conference Stomp Junior-Senior on Saturday, Aug. 19.

The Kingsmen placed third in the Freshmen-Sophomore race.

Penn placed five runners in the Top 15 of the Junior-Senior race.

Colton Shail led the Kingsmen showing in the Junior-Senior race with a time of 16:52.597 for fifth place overall.

Curtis Cornell placed 10th, Chad Piatt placed 11th, Nick Sergeant placed 13th, and Chandler Neal finished in 14th place.

Penn's Girls Cross Country Team started off the year with a great showing at the NIC Stomp invitational. The Junior-Senior Kingsmen Team placed second, and the Freshmen-Sophomore Team placed first.

With 14 teams in attendance, Penn's Freshman/Sophomore squad came home with the team championship and placed eight girls in the top 15, led by Sophomore Riley Keppler, who was 3rd overall in a time of 20:47.4.  Not far behind were Sophomore Brooke Neal in 4th, Sophomore Aislynn Alkire in 6th, and Freshman Haley Makowski in 8th.

Not to be out-done in the Junior/Senior race, the Lady Kingsmen placed 2nd to a highly competitive Chesterton team.  They placed three in the top 10 with Senior Lauren Frank 2nd overall in 19:40.6.  Senior Dani Spring and Junior Ellie Jankowski were also hot on the trail finishing 5th & 9th respectively.

“When I combine the two races, I see the makings of a very formidable team that is ready to make the next entry in a distinguished history of Lady Kingsmen Cross Country teams,” Penn Cross Country coach Michael Clements said.

Penn High’s Lyvia Li tied for medalist honors at the Rochester High School Girls Golf Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 19.

Li shot a 75, sharing medalist honors with Reese Wilson of Culver Academy.

Penn placed fifth in the Tournament with a score of 363. Culver won the event with a score of 325.

Abbey Hamilton shot an 86 for 10th place.

Ryen DeToro finished play with a 96, and Kate Burnett had a score of 106.

Penn High School Principal Sean Galiher conducted New Teacher Orientation for Penn’s 18 new faculty members on Friday, Aug. 18.

Galiher guided the new teachers through topics that included the improtance of Rigor, Relevance and Relationships in the classroom, Technology at Penn, and a Scavenger Hunt to help new teachers become familiar with the Penn campus.

There was also a luncheon that paired the new teachers with Academy Leaders and Instructional Leaders.

A Photo Gallery of Penn’s New Teacher Orientation is posted below:

Sammy Atkins blasted in a goal to help the Penn Kingsmen tie Concord, 1-1, in Boys Soccer action on Thursday, Aug. 17. 

Penn High School's Kingsmen opened the Boys Tennis season with a 5-0 victory against Northern Lakes Conference power Warsaw on Thursday, Aug. 17.

A.J. Antonelli led the charge with a 6-3, 6-2 victory at No. 1 singles against Warsaw's Colton Lind.

Will Thurin scored a 6-1, 6-0 victory at No. 2 singles against Bailey Buhrt.

Aiden Sucharetza completed the Kingsmen sweep at singles with a 6-0, 6-0 victory against Caleb Williams.

Eric Spaargaren and Aiden O'Day beat Spencer Britton and Nolan Knight, 6-4, 6-2, at No. 1 doubles.

Maity Spitters and Nick Casetti completed the shutout with a 6-2, 6-2 victory against Kyler Bartol and Reuben Williams at No. 2 doubles.

Next Wednesday, Aug. 23 is the first day for grades 1-12 (Thursday, August 24th for Kindergarten), but today Penn-Harris-Madison’s newest teachers had their first day of school!

It was a busy New Teacher Orientation Day for this group of creative, talented and energetic teachers. This year P-H-M hired 41 new elementary, middle and high school teachers, as well Exceptional Education professional staff.

These newest teachers joined the ranks of one of Indiana’s highest ranked public school districts. As an “A” rated school and Four Star School District, 100% of our teachers are rated “Highly Effective” or “Effective.” Ongoing professional development supports and empowers our teachers to then in turn provide an excellent education to our students!

Browse the new faces you’ll be seeing throughout the 2017-18 school year!

Group 1: Elementary

Group 2: Middle School

Group 3: Penn High School

Penn outlasted NorthWood, 25-11, 25-15, 23-25, 27-25, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, in the high school volleyball season opener for the Kingsmen.

Italia Fields and Alyssa Torres powered the Kingsmen attack with 10 and 9 kills respectively.

Rachel Hickey contributed 19 digs.

Penn (1-0) plays at Plymouth on Thursday.