Congratulations to VCHS Basketball Player, Wade Brannon for making the All-Tournament Team!
Congratulations to all of the players named on the All-Tournament Team. Updates will be on the website soon: https://www.vandals203.org/page/holiday-tournament
Congratulations to the VCHS Cheerleaders- 1st place at The FNB Community Bank Vandalia Holiday Tournament!
Congratulations to the Boys Basketball Team - 5th Place at The FNB Community Bank Vandalia Holiday Tournament!
Congratulations to VCHS Cheerleader Makenzie! She has been selected as one of the top 10 finalists for the ICCA Scholarship! Senior cheerleaders from all over Illinois applied and finalists were selected based on a combination of GPA and cheerleading skills.
Her next step is an interview on the evening of Friday, January 10th, the day before the championships that our VCHS Cheerleading Team will compete at!
This year the coaches of the Holiday Tournament agreed to a new tie-breaker format for 3 way ties: Quarters won. Each of the teams involved in a 3-way tie take all four of their pool play games and tally the number of quarters in which they scored more than their opponent. Quarters that are tied are not counted for or against. Any Overtime periods, per NFHS rules, are extensions of the 4th Quarter, not separate quarters. If two or three teams have the same number of quarters won, the criteria immediately moves to team cumulative free-throw percentage to break a 3 way tie. Once the top team has been determined, the remaining two teams head-to-head result in pool play determines who receives the 2nd and 3rd spots in the 3-way tie. If the three teams all have different numbers of quarters won, once the three-way tie has been broken and a winner determined by "quarters won", the remaining two teams are sorted by their head-to-head matchup in pool play.
In this year's case in Pool B: Cumberland, Vandalia, and Flora all had 2-2 records. Cumberland won the most quarters in their four pool games with 8. They go to the 3rd place game via this new tie-breaker. The remaining teams are sorted by their head-to-head result in pool play, in which Vandalia defeated Flora. So Vandalia plays for 5th and Flora for 7th place.
See you tomorrow for the final day of the 52nd Annual FNB Community Bank Holiday Tournament. https://www.vandals203.org/o/vandalia/page/holiday-tournament
The Vandalia High School competitive cheerleading squad attended the ICCA Invitational at Peoria yesterday. They had a strong showing, scoring 6th out of 18 teams in their small varsity routine division, and getting a qualifying score for the ICCA Championships. At a previous invitational they attended at Pinckneyville, they received a qualifying score in their game day routine. They will be doing both routines at the ICCA Championships on January 11, 2025, at the Bank of Springfield (BOS) Center in Springfield.
Next competition for us is in Greenville on January 5th.
2024 Football Awards
VCHS Student Council would like to thank the community for supporting their recent bake sale during Red/White Night in November. Through the proceeds from the bake sale, we were able to donate $500 in gifts and gift cards to the Caring & Sharing program. Thank you for helping us spread some Holiday Cheer!
ATTENTION VCHS Fresh/Soph Boys Basketball:
Tonight's (12/19/24) game at Teutopolis will only have 1 Freshman game with a 6:15 pm start time.
VCHS Student Council hosted a Christmas Tree Decorating Contest during lunch periods. Students rallied together to get their class tree decorated. Trees were then voted on by all staff in the district. The results of the competition are as follows:
1st Place: Freshmen
2nd Place: Seniors
3rd Place: Juniors
4th Place: Sophomores
Great job VCHS Students!
VCUSD #203 will be dismissing school early on Thursday, December 19th and Friday, December 20th. Dismissal times are as follows: VES - 2:00 PM walkers/pick-ups/and early bus students. Pre-K AM 8:00 – 11:00 Pre-K PM 12:00 - 2:00 . VJHS – 2:00 PM 4th Grade walkers/pick-ups/and early bus students; 2:15 PM - 5th thru 8th Grades . VCHS - 2:15 PM. There will be NO school from Monday, December 23rd thru Friday, January 3rd. School will resume on Monday, January 6th
The 52nd Annual FNB Community Bank Boys Basketball Holiday Tournament will be held December 26, 27, 28, & 30 at Vandalia Community High School. Visit the Tournament Website for continued updates throughout the tournament: https://www.vandals203.org/page/holiday-tournament
ATTENTION VCHS GIRLS BASKETBALL:
Due to low numbers of players for North Mac, tonight's JV girls' game will be shortened to 2 quarters instead of 4. This will cause the varsity to start 20 to 30 minutes earlier than normal. JV game will begin at 6:00pm
12/16/24
ATTENTION VCHS Fresh/Soph Boys Basketball:
Tonight's (12/16/24) game at St.Anthony will only have 1 game with a 6:00pm start time.
VCHS, get ready to sleigh the last Spirit Day before Finals! ❄️
Monday's theme: Extreme Christmas! 🎄 Think over-the-top, festive, and fabulous!
We will also have a Vandal Pride Assembly 1st hour tomorrow!
VCHS Art Club Cardboard Gingerbread houses!
What do you get when you combine chemistry and Christmas?
A Chemis-tree!
Merry Christmas from Mr.Forbes' Physics Class Elves
Schedule Change: Boys Basketball @ North Mac Friday 12/13/24:
Just a quick heads-up: There won't be a F/S game at North Mac on Friday, December 13th. The JV game will start at 6:00 PM, and the Varsity game will follow.
HEY VCHS - Spirit Week starts TOMORROW!
Check out Mrs. Lay's classes having a blast coding their robots to play Twister! 🤖These VCHS coders are learning to program their robots to follow specific instructions, change colors, and make a victory sound!
Congratulations to our November Students of the Month! Thank you to Ponderosa in Vandalia for rewarding our students with a complimentary lunch! Not Pictured- English
Drew Lewis- Science
Kiah Perkins- CTE
Kiki Givens - Social Science
Sara Blackburn - Fine Arts
Khaden Litaker- Math
Not pictured - PE/Health
