Vernon ISD

Day 1 of the District 7-3A Track & Field Meet was held yesterday with the field events and running preliminaries being completed. We had two event champions and seven Lions and Lady Lions qualified for the area meet in nine events. The top four finishers in each event move on to the area meet. The finals of the running events will be held Thursday in Holliday beginning at 5 p.m. To see all of Vernon's field event results, please follow this link https://www.vernonisd.org/article/2808477

The Lions will square off against the Eagles this evening in a District 7-3A game being played in Holliday. The JV game will begin at 4 p.m., with the varsity game set to get underway at 7 p.m. Good luck Lions!!!

The Lady Lions are on the road today for the last time this season, as they travel to Holliday to meet the Lady Eagles in a District 7-3A Softball game. The game will begin at 5 p.m. Good luck!!!

We still have 6 weeks left of the school year, but it's never too early to start putting events on your summer schedule!!! The Champs Volleyball Camp will be held June 9-June 11 at D.O. Fulton Gym. The camp is open to incoming kindergartners thru incoming freshmen. There will be two camp sessions --incoming sixth thru ninth graders will be in one session, with incoming kindergartners to fifth graders in another session.

Named as our McCord Students of the Month for March were: Journey Atnip, 1st Grade; Taelyn Williams, Kindergarten; Collins McIntosh, Pre-K, and Zane Torres, Specials, (not pictured). Day in and day out, these students come to school with smiles on their faces ready to do the best they can do in their classroom. And, have a little fun with their friends as well. Great job!! Congratulations!!!

April showers bring May flowers, but you know what else does?
The Vernon FFA Plant Sale!!
Come out and see our varieties of bedding plants and decorative flowers for 2026. Great deals and a few steals!
See you Saturday, April 25, 8:00am to 12:00pm.

Receiving our Student of the Week honors for last week (March 30-April 3) are: 2nd Grade -- Tommy Teague; 3rd Grade -- Angela Simja; 4th Grade -- Leia Englishbee; and 5th Grade -- Blake Thatcher. Outstanding job!! Congrats!!

Selected as our Students of the Week for last week (March 30-April 3) were: 6th Grade -- Kryleigh Perkins & Jacob Montoya; 7th Grade -- Evanny Quintero & Braxton Nail; and 8th Grade -- Khloe Zamora & Cooper Copeland. Congratulations!! Keep up the great work!

Our VHS Key Club donated over 1,100 eggs to the Vernon Community-Wide Easter Egg Hunt that was held Saturday in downtown Vernon. This year, members of the Key Club have completed over 500 hours of community service across 20 different volunteer opportunities.

Yesterday, VMS & VHS PTO coordinated a flower bar to show their appreciation for the second-to-last six weeks! 🌸
A big thank you to Amanda Lehman with Texas Farm Bureau Insurance for donating the vases, and to Flower Boutique along with Brian & Karen Bayer for providing the beautiful flowers.
It’s moments like this that remind us how a community that supports and serves one another truly makes a difference!
We appreciate your generosity and support of our staff! 💐

Here are our Vernon Lion medalists from the District 7-3A UIL Singles & Doubles Tournament held last week. We have two bracket champions, as Hunter Boatman is the Boys Singles district champ and the duo of Lily Beam and Will Castleberry is the Mixed Doubles district champs. We also took silver in two brackets -- Truett Schur in Boys Singles and the team of Sarah Black and Maddie McLennan in Girls Doubles. These six students will now move on to the Class 3A Region 1 UIL Singles & Doubles Tournament.
The duo of Amy McLennan and Thomas Gonzales grabbed a bronze medal in Mixed Doubles at the district tournament.

The District 7-3A District Track & Field Meet is being held today at Holliday. The meet begins at 10 a.m. with field events, and the track preliminaries will be run this afternoon. The running finals will begin at 5 p.m., Thursday, back in Holliday. GOOD LUCK!! to our Lions and Lady Lions!!

We would like to wish all of our Vernon ISD family, and our students and their families, a Happy Easter!!

This morning Principal Dr. Cynthia Jackson, Assistant Principal Jeremy Reeder, and Counselor Sandra Kieschnick visited two classrooms to surprise the two recipients of our VHS Teacher of the Year and Staff Member of the Year honors for 2026. Selected as the Teacher of the Year was Libbi Garnett, while the Staff Member of the Year went to Hilda Moreno. The awards were voted on by VHS faculty and staff. Congratulations to Ms. Garnett and Mrs. Moreno!!

The Roarin' Lion Band Winter Guard performed the routine they learned for their competition last night during a Community Showcase held at D.O. Fulton Gym. Toward the end of the showcase a few parents joined the group on the court for a little fun.

Our 7th Grade and 8th Grade girls' track teams did well when they competed earlier this year at the Seymour Jr. High Track meet and the Burkburnett Jr. High Track Meet. The 8th Grade girls finished second in the team standings at Seymour and third at Burkburnett, while the 7th Grade girls finished 3rd at the Seymour meet. To see who earned medals in their individual events, please follow this link:: https://www.vernonisd.org/article/2803938

Our Senior Recognition Night for Lady Lions softball, track and golf was originally scheduled for tonight, however when the softball game was moved to last night and then relocated to City View, the event was postponed. Next week's games against Holliday will now follow the original schedule of being in Holliday on Tuesday and home on Friday, but we will not be having the Lady LIons' Senior Recognition Night on Friday. Instead, we will be combining softball, baseball and boys' and girls' golf and track into one Senior Recognition Night that will be held on Tuesday, April 21, at Jabe Brazzle Field. The ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. We apologize for all of the changes and any confusion they may have caused.

Don't forget about the Vernon High School Pep Squad meeting set for 6 p.m., Tuesday, in the VHS Cafeteria. VHS is forming a Pep Squad for the 2026-27 school year and this meeting will provide information for parents of students who would like to be a member. The Pep Squad will be away for enthusiastic students to sit together and show their Lion Spirit in the stands. If you're interested in joining, please fill out the form found here: http://bit.ly/40uNopp

Instead of having an Easter Egg this year, our 1st grade students held a food drive. For each item the students brought they received candy as a prize. The classroom that collected the most items earned a Popcorn & Peeps Party. Miss Fryman's class won the contest, as her students brought a total of 417 food items for the drive. As a group, all of our 1st grade class collected a total of 886 canned food items that will be donated. Congratulations to Miss Fryman's class and good job to all of our 1st grade students and teachers!!

Some of our FFA members have been busy competing in Career Development Events. Last week four students -- Aidan Hernandez, Kenneth Cordero, Lyric Thompson, and Brodie Heath traveled to Canyon to compete in Entomology at the West Texas A&M Invitational. The team placed 18th. Earlier this week, an Entomology team and a Livestock Judging team competed in the Weather Invitational CDE Contest. Competing on the Entomology team were Kenneth Cordero, Aidan Hernandez, and Karson Rich, while members of the Livestock Judging team were Lyric Thompson, Brodie Heath, Kirby Lehman, and Bentley Dobbs. Students will be competing in the Area IV Contest on Wednesday, April 8, in Stephenville.