Mena High School

Congratulations to the Mena Middle School Band! Tuesday they traveled to Vanburen to participate in the Region 8 Concert & Sightreading Assessment. The band scored a second division excellent rating from all Concert judges and a first division superior rating in Sightreading. Great job Mr. Huffman and the middle school band

Post season honors were released for the Mena Bearcat basketball team on Monday. A total of eight players were recognized for their efforts this season. Including: COOPER PLUNKETT-All State & All Star 1st Team SEAN SULLIVAN-All Star Honorable Mention & All Conference DAETON MILLER-All Conference JOJO HERNANDEZ-All Conference KALIB COX-All Conference OWEN SIMPSON-2nd Team All Conference JACKSON THOMPSON-2nd Team All Conference LEVI NEUFELD-2nd Team All Conference

Bearcat Soccer played their home opener on Friday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Bearcats-6 (1-1) Danville-0 Mena is back in action on Tuesday against Heavener at BCBS.

Ladycat Soccer played their home opener on Friday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. Ladycats-6 (1-1) Danville-0 Mena is back in action on Tuesday against Heavener at BCBS.

Mena Theatre students performed "12 Incompetent Jurors" for 11th Grade English, 12th Grade English, AP Language & Literature as well as Business Law classes on Friday. Those participating in the production include Ella Ballew Lilly Davidson Nevaeh Day Ryker Erickson Andrew Gomez Conner Lafollette Gabriel Lawrence Stori Margraff Jonathan McClure Trent Moore Nayeli Pinon Hailee Pullen Jayden Scott Ashleigh Townsend Norah Williams

Congratulations to Mena High School Senior Abi Koppein for racking up a career milestone with her 400th career strikeout during Tuesdays softball game. Abi and the Ladycats are back in action Thursday at Nashville.

And another round of applause for Spotlight Singers. They achieved a Division I rating and will be going on to compete at State CPA in April. Thank you for your hard work and commitment to your choir. Congrats Spotlight!

Post season honors have been released for Mena Ladycat Basketball. All Conference Chloe Hooper Kate Wilson Isabel Cross All Conference Honorable Mention Laney Gilchrist Elliott Dugan Isabel Cross was also nominated for the All-Star Team.

Mena Jr. High Track competed at the DeQueen Cub Relays on Tuesday. The Jr. Ladycats finished 2nd as a team and the Jr. Bearcats finished in 5th place. Brynlee Bahr won the Pole Vault, Blayden West won the 200 Meter Dash & Bentley Brewer won the 300 Meter Hurdles. You can view complete results at the link below. https://ar.milesplit.com/meets/651615-de-queen-cub-relays-meet-is-full-2025/results

Theatre Arts II students performed "10 Reasons You Should Have Stayed Home Sick" for 6th grade English classes on Tuesday. Key roles in the production were played by: Nevaeh Baldwin Megan Lee Finleigh Robertson Carolina Romine Payton Rose Kenny Thomlison Olivia Vanarsdale

The 2024-2025 wrestling season came to an end at the State Tournament on Saturday. The Ladycats had four All Region Wrestlers Lanie Taylor Paisley Burger Sydney Jones Evergrace Anderson The Bearcats had 11 All Region Wrestlers & 2 All State Wrestlers. Wyatt Head Cody Short Andrew Threlkeld Auden Woods Tripp Hensley (all state) Chance Hughes Beck Vacca Jace Hankammer Brody Peters Guice Anderson (all state) Carter Cossey The Bearcats finished as Back to Back Regional Champs! & 6th at the State Tournament! A special thanks to our volunteer coaches Sheriff Scott Sawyer & Cody Woods for spending so much time and energy into our kids.

Congratulations to Mena High School Junior Tripp Hensley on his 3rd Place finish in the 144 pound weight class and Guice Anderson on his 4th Place finish in the 190 pound weight class on Saturday at the 4A State Wrestling Tournament in Little Rock.

The Mena Bearcats kicked off the 2025 baseball season with a win at Union Bank Park on Thursday. Bearcats-12 (1-0) Subiaco-2 Mena is back in action on Monday at Fort Smith Northside.

Mena High School hosted the 2025 Special Olympics Basketball Skills Competition on Tuesday in the Union Bank Center. Athletes from Mena, Polk County Development Center, Cossatot River and Woodcrest competed. MHS students and community members helped coordinate the events and encouraged participants.

Mena High School athletes Elliot Dugan & Brynlee Bahr competed at the Arkansas Indoor High School Championships at the University of Arkansas on Saturday. Dugan finished 7th in the high jump and was 1st for 4A athletes. Bahr finished 7th in the pole vault and was 1st for 4A athletes. Several other Mena athletes also competed and you can check complete results at the link below. https://milesplit.live/meets/644394

Congratulations to the 2025 4A South Regional Champion Mena Bearcat Wrestling Team. See complete results at the link below. https://www.trackwrestling.com/predefinedtournaments/MainFrame.jsp?newSession=false&TIM=1740272898974&pageName=%2Fpredefinedtournaments%2FTournamentResults.jsp&twSessionId=hgtvhmeobl

Mena Ladycats wrestlers competed at the 5A South Regional today for an opportunity to qualify for state. Three young ladies from Mena will be representing your Ladycats at State! 110 lb: 3rd place All Region Wrestler Lanie Taylor 130 lb: 2nd place All Region Wrestler Sydney Jones 155 lb: 4th place All Region Wrestler Evergrace Anderson We had a few more barely miss out on qualify for state. 105 lb: 5th place Harlee Pannell 115 lb: 6th place Emmi Hensley 120 lb: 5th place Paisley Burger All together as a team of six wrestlers we finished in 7th place as a team which is a very good job! Congratulations to all our Wrestlers!

NEHS loves MHS! The National English Honor Society celebrated teacher appreciation early with teacher goody bags.

Mena High School FBLA attended the District Spring Leadership Conference in Fort Smith on Wed, Feb 12th. Several came away with awards from their chosen competitions and qualified to compete at State in April: 3rd Business Management - Bryant Thomas and Auden Woods 2nd Cybersecurity - Makenzie Vega 1st Economics - Zach Sweet 1st Graphic Design - Kili Cox 5th Healthcare Administration - Brylee Cox 1st Impromptu Speaking - Elijah Smith 5th Intro to Business Communications - Vaughn Vacca 1st Intro to Business Concepts - Ailiyah McEntire 4th Intro to Business Presentation - Adelhi Look 2nd Intro to Business Procedures - Madison Fowler 5th Intro to Financial Math - Mason Hughes 6th Journalism - Jayla Smith 3rd Marketing - Daniel Edgmon 3rd Sales Presentation - Sophia Cummings and Tessa Williams 2nd Sports & Entertainment Management - Tripp Hensley, Eli Swall, Jackson Thompson 4th Visual Design - Jerzie Abel The following students will compete in events that go straight to state: Broadcast Journalism-Jayden Cox, Addison Thomas, Isabel Vacca Business Plan-Hunter Cannon, Reese Montgomery, Kate Wilson Client Service-Yennyte Tecson Coding & Programming-Jimmy Glenn, Max Rocha, Beck Vacca Digital Video Production- Rylie Bentley, Sailor Stricklin International Business-Carmindy Ashcraft, Kaylee Thomas Congrats and good luck!!!

We finished our first cycle in the weight room! 7th grade did their first ever maxes and 8th graders saw good improvements from their initial maxes. Pictured is Coach Morris’ group , who won the overall competition for the first cycle for the High School.