Mena High School

Post Season Honors have been released for the Mena Ladycat Basketball Team.

All State
Chloe Hooper

All Conference
Chloe Hooper
Makenley Sullivan
Mollee Sharp

Post Season Honors have been released for the Mena Bearcat Basketball Team.

All State Honorable Mention



JoJo Hernandez







All Conference



Daeton Miller



JoJo Hernandez 



Brody McCauley







All Conference Honorable Mention



Madox Plunkett 



Jackson Thompson



Owen Simpson

The Mena 7th grade and Jr. High Track Teams have competed at the Booneville Relays on Monday & Tuesday. Skylar Bahr was High Point for the Jr. High Meet.
7th Grade Girls
800 Meter Run-Avori Gortemiller 1st
7th Grade Boys
800 Meter Run-Dawson Manley 1st
4x800 Meter Relay- 1st
See complete 7th grade results at the link below:
https://ar.milesplit.com/.../723650-booneville.../results
Jr. High Girls
100 Meter Dash - Skylar Bahr 1st
400 Meter Dash-Skylar Bahr 1st
Triple Jump- Skylar Bahr 1st
Pole Vault - Skylar Bahr 1st
1600 Meter Run - Avori Gortemiller 1st
Jr. High Boys
400 Meter Dash - Bentley Brewer 1st
800 Meter Run - Dawson Manley 1st
See complete Jr. High Results at the link below:
https://ar.milesplit.com/.../723649-booneville.../results

Mena Soccer hosted Centerpoint at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Tuesday.

Ladycats-5 (1-2)
Centerpoint-0

Bearcats-2 (0-3)
Centerpoint-3

The teams are back in action on Friday when they play Cossatot at BCBS.

Mena High School Senior Tripp Hensley and Coach Chad Arnold will be participating in the Red River FCA Senior Showdown. All Showdown events will be May 27th-29th, 2026.
https://www.facebook.com/RedRiverFCA

Students in Mrs. Wilson’s Introduction to Education and Education Technology Classes have been presenting “HIP” lessons to Coach Morris’ and Coach Gardner’s health classes at Mena High School. HIP, also known as the Health Information Project, is a peer-to-peer comprehensive health education program that aims to create a safe space for discussion of critical health topics, helps to build a sense of community, and helps 9th graders more easily acclimate to high school.Through peer-to-peer classroom sessions, HIP’s mission is to empower teens to have the information necessary to live healthy lives, while also fostering a safe, supportive, and inclusive school campus. HIP addresses critical health topics such as suicide, eathing disorders, obesity, depression, diabetes, bullying and abuse. The students who have presented the lessons have improved their communication and speaking skills and have learned invaluable skills about classroom management.

This is only the second year we’ve had Technology Student Association (TSA) at Mena High School, and we’re still learning and growing, but we had a successful state conference experience on Wednesday.
Please congratulate ALL of these awesome students on a job well done! Many were participating in competitions completely out of their element and that we’ve never experienced before!
Competed in Dragster Design:
Adam Hughes (first person from MHS)
Competed in Prepared Presentation:
Bre Crider (first person from MHS)
Competed in Technology Problem Solving (first teams from MHS):
Team 1- Adam Hughes & Mason Hughes - won 3rd place out of 36 teams!
Team 2 - Vaughn Vacca & Caleb Seitz
Team 3 - Kate Wilson & Eli Swall
Team 4 - Fahri Sofi & Jacob Farthing
Competed in Promotional Design:
Grace Brewer
MK Poo-ai - 2nd place! (2 year state finalist and national qualifier)

Mena High School students participated in a Reverse Career Fair at UA Rich Mountain on Wednesday. The career fair flips the traditional format with students staffing the tables and showcasing their skills, interests, and career goals while employers rotated and engaged in meaningful conversations with students.

Mena soccer played their season opener on Tuesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium.
Ladycats-2 (0-1)
Greenwood-5
Bearcats-0 (0-1)
Greenwood-2
Mena is back in action this Friday when they host Alma at BCBS.

Mena Bearcat Baseball will be playing in the Ralph Gross Memorial Tournament in Nashville this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Ms. Kropp's Theatre Arts I students performed "Briar Rose" for 8th grade Literacy classes on Thursday. Public performances will be on Saturday and Sunday at the Ouachita Little Theatre...

Mena High School hosted the Basketball Skills Competition for Special Olympics on Monday in the Union Bank Center. Athletes from LD, HHE, MMS, MHS, and PCDC competed.

Mr. McCormick’s Animal Science and Animal Science 2 classes have been busy learning about sheep and goat production by bottle feeding, vaccinating, docking tails on the lambs, and banding the males of the orphan lambs and (goat) kids.

The Mena team won 1st place on Friday in the Sr. High Quiz Bowl at the Dequeen Mena Education Service Cooperative.

Mena Coach Zen Valencia was the guest speaker today at the Polk County Rotary Club. He spoke about how much the program has grown over the past four years as well as their postseason performance. He educated the audience on the sport of wrestling; acquired skills, nutrition, training, and confidence that is gained through the sport of wrestling. Additionally, he spoke about the new youth wrestling program in our community.

Mena High School students earning community service hours for highway trash pick-up!

The Arkansas State Wrestling Tournament is in the books and what a show your Mena Wrestlers put on here in Little Rock!
We had 16 kids qualify for state reaching All Region status, out of those 16, seven of them reached All State status!
We had 2 young ladies that wrestle their hearts out for 3rd place but fell just short.
Paisley Burger 4th place
Evergrace Anderson 4th place
On the boys side we had two wrestlers won their matches for 3rd place!
Tycen Baber 3rd place
Auden Woods 3rd place
We had three boys reach the State Championship match but sadly all three fell short.
Braxton Barker 2nd place
Tripp Hensley 2nd place
Guice Anderson 2nd place
As a team the boys finished 4th out of 23 schools, quite the accomplishment!
Great job to all our young ladies & young men!