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Your Swink Lions Track results from the Santa Fe League Meet!!! Adalynn Hart -2nd Place 100M Hurdles -2nd Place Long Jump -5th 200M Dash Karlee Knabenshue -1st Place 100M Dash -3rd Place Long Jump Rio Jensen -2nd Place 1600M Run -2nd Place 3200M Run Daisy Heberlie -4th High Jump -6th Discus Marissa Herman -7th High Jump Relays 4x100-5th(Adalynn Hart, Trinity Ortiz, Jocelynn James, Karlee Knabenshue) 4x200-3rd(Jocelynn James, Miley James, Laney James, Trinity Ortiz) 4x400-6th(Brianna Brusuelas, Melany Garcia Castillo, Sarah Howell, Rio Jensen) Boys Javin Summer -1st Place High Jump -2nd Place Long Jump -2nd Place Triple Jump -5th Place 100M Dash Kale Rouleau -5th High Jump -6th Triple Jump Jayden Jenkins -4th 300M Hurdles Gannon Hart -8th Discus Kathir Sasikumar -2nd 800M Run Go Lions!!!

Attention Swink Baseball Family and Fans: This weeks baseball games have been changed. Here are the new times: Swink at LaVeta - Mon April 7th - 4pm (1) Swink at Rocky Ford - Thur. Apr. 10th - 2 pm (DH). Thank you for everyone's flexibility. Go Lions!!!

Lions Life for the Week of April 7, 2025. Please note that games and activities are subject to change due to weather, transportation, other events, etc. Stay tuned to the website, live feed, and Facebook to stay up to date on possible changes. No Kindergarten on Thursday, April 10, due to the roundup for next year's class. #SwinkLions

Just a reminder that our Winter Sports Banquet is scheduled for Wednesday, April 9th at 6 pm in the MPR. Dinner is provided by our Booster Club. After the dinner and the athletic directors remarks the individual teams will move to breakout rooms for their awards. For all high school boys/girls basketball, wrestling, and cheer families we hope you will be able to join us!!! Go Lions!!!

Congratulations to the Graphic Designs Player of the Games for the Swink Lions as they hosted Crowley County for today's Double Header Baseball games ... Swink Senior Landon Mills!!! He received a shoe bag in recognition of his accomplishment. Go Lions!!!

Battling the cold weather today your Swink Lions baseball team moved to 6-4 on the season! The Lions came out with victories over Crowley County 1-0 and 6-3. Go Lions!!!

Congratulations to our Swink participants at the Otero College Art Show. Out of 1000 entries, Swink won several awards. Thanks Mrs. Cuckow!! Sol Tirado- Jensen- 1st Place Senior Portfolio Sol Tirado- Jensen- Otero Scholarship Award Sol Tirado- Jensen- Judge’s Choice Award, Senior Sydney Davis- Best of Show, Senior Emma Covington- Best of Show, Junior Katie Pickering- Judge’s Choice, Junior Go Lions!!!

Check out our Middle School Math student placing 6th in the state of Colorado using their online prodigy math program!!! Shout out to Mrs McBrain and all of her students! Go Lions!!!

Swink School will have three board member seats up for election in November. Come out on April 23 at 6:00 pm to BOCES to learn more about a member's responsibilities and duties. Hear from experienced board members on the role and impact that you can have. Please RSVP to 719.383.2623 or natalie.brown@sftboces.k12.co.us. Food will be provided.

Attention 2025, 6-12 graders interested in volleyball for next season. Please fill out the informational survey linked below. This includes home school and Pioneer School Swink athletes as well. Thanks. https://forms.gle/t7h4r94V1uxLA4KV6

Congrats to Derek and Emma for their award winning performance at the Otero Arts Festival. Derek placed 1st with his vocal solo and Emma placed 2nd with her instrumental solo. Both are such amazing musicians.

Saturday's baseball double header vs Crowley County has been moved to this Friday Apr 4 at 10am in Swink. Go Lions!

Due to High Winds today's baseball game vs Fowler has been rescheduled to tomorrow at Home 4/2 - 4 pm. Go Lions!!!

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Here we have Mr. Nick's reading club sharing a book with our Kindergarteners!!! Nick is a Senior at SHS. It's really cool to see our older Lions giving back to our Lion Cubs!!!

FFA Rent a Hand is April 24. Come enjoy a great meal and bid on all the great auction items.

Please go check out our students' art projects at the Otero Art Show.

Congrats to our Swink Track Athletes for a great day this Saturday at the Lamar Invitational!!! Here are winning results: Girls Adalynn Hart, Laney James, Jocelynn James, Karlee Knabenshue- 4th place 4x100 M Relay Adalynn Hart-2nd place Long Jump Rio Jensen-4th place 1600 M Run Adalynn Hart-5th place 100 M Hurdles Rio Jensen- 1st place 3200 M Run Karlee Knabenshue- 3rd place Long Jump Karlee Knabenshue- 3rd place 100 M dash Boys Kathir Sasikumar- 7th place 800 M Run Kale Rouleau- 7th place Triple Jump Kathir Sasikumar- 4th place 1600 M Run Javin Summers- 1st place High Jump Javin Summers- 1st place Long Jump Go Lions!!!

Lions Life for the Week of March 31 #SwinkLions

The Ray Headley Track meet is scheduled for Friday, April 11 at Swink. The date changed from April 4 a few months ago due to scheduling conflicts with the timing system. We apologize to those who may not have known of the date change.