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Exchange Student Makes Mark As Sun Prairie Football Kicker

 

Foreign exchange student Lukas Otto, a 17-year-old from Zurich, Switzerland, is in his first year of high school football, and he quickly picked up the game as the kicker for the Sun Prairie High School football team.

Producer Talks About Sun Prairie High School Lip Dub Video

The producer of a "lip dub" video talked about the production, in which 250 students from Sun Prairie High School participated in a lip sync video as the camera rolls through the school.

Watch the Live at 5 interview with video's producer, a senior at Sun Prairie Area High School.

Middleton Beats Sun Prairie In Prep Mania Game Of The Week

 

Sitting at 4-1, Middleton and Sun Prairie were battling for a tie for second in the Big 8 Conference on Friday night and that honor will go to Middleton as they beat the other Cardinals 17-14 in the Channel 3000 Prep Mania Game of the Week.

Otto Vasquez scored on a 72-yard touchdown to put Middleton up 7-0.

It was tied at 7-7 when Sun Prairie's Ryan Curran found Drew Mickalofsky. The Cardinals were up 14-7.

Second half action, and Middleton's A.J. Redders found Drew Haack to tie the score.

The tie was broken in the fourth quarter when Derek Rongstad hit a 31-yard field goal which turned out to be the game winner.

Sun Prairie High School Seeks Nominations For 2011-2012 Wall of Success

Sun Prairie High School Seeks Nominations For 2011-2012 Wall of Success

Each year, the Wall of Success program in the Sun Prairie Area School District honors an outstanding graduate of Sun Prairie High School.

By honoring distinguished graduates, the high school seeks to identify and honor models of success for our students to admire and emulate. 

The program demonstrates to students the relationship between the education they receive at Sun Prairie High School and success in life.

To nominate a Sun Prairie graduate for the Wall of Success Award, please contact Anne Weber at Sun Prairie High School at 608-834-6805 or by email at atweber@spasd.k12.wi.us.

Nominations will be accepted through Nov. 21.  A final selection of the winner will be made by a committee of faculty and community representatives.

The recipient will be honored at an assembly at Sun Prairie High School in the Spring of 2012. 

High School Student Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist

High School Student Named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist

Sun Prairie High School Senior Ellen Keal has been chosen as a semifinalist in the 57th annual  National Merit Scholarship Program.

Keal and other seniors nationwide have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $34 million that will be offered next spring.

About 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools entered the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.

Topnotch Teacher: Tony Bilgrien

 

Tony Bilgrien, a teacher at Sun Prairie High School, is passing his love of creating works of art onto his students.

Rob Starbuck reports.