The 2025 Swink Girls Golf Classic is off and running at the LaJunta Municipal Golf Course!!! What a beautiful day for our Lady Lions to kick off the season.
Good Luck to Coach Pearson, Coach Gilbert, and our girls team!!!
Go Lions!!!
Your Swink Lions Baseball Team wins 2 out of 3 at the Las Animas Tournament!!!
They move the 2025 Season Record to 4-1. Great start to the season!
Go Lions!!!
Lions Life for the Week of March 25, 2025.
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back on Monday.
Lions Life for the Week of March 17
Enjoy Spring Break with a lot of rest and fun.
#SwinkLions #GoLions
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Classified Staff and Teacher of the Year for Swink School.
Classified Staff of the Year: Ms. Veronica Salazar
Teacher of the Year: Ms. Skyler Jones
Special Thanks to 8th Grader Carter Pickering for all of his hard work on our new addition to the baseball complex!!!
Go Lions!!!
Mr. Krueger's Junior High Wood Shop students have been busy creating and building many projects this school year.
Go Lions!!!
7th Graders Brody Bauserman and Zeppelin Pacheco joined our 1st Graders today for their AR Reading time!!!
It's really cool stuff to see our older Lions give back to our Lion Cubs!!!
2025 SWINK FBLA CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION
MARCH 29 @ 9:00 AM IN THE NEW GYM
PLEASE FILL OUT this registration form in order to participate in the 2025 Swink FBLA Cornhole Tournament all registration fees of $30 each team MUST BE TURNED INTO SWINK SCHOOL OFFICE BEFORE MARCH 29th. Only one registration form will be needed per group.
GROUPS OF 2 ONLY!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScy8WqEJ9d7Xe2iqibxI8-0bN4shbAd2gsSypLm8EiHYiGK2A/viewform
Artist of the Week: Rio is holding her mirror project. This is an intense process in which students draw an image into a mirror in reverse. Rio has completed her stunning tsunami wave mirror. The frame was made by Mr. Krugers 8th grade wood shop students.
Lions Life for the Week of March 10
#GoLions
#SwinkLions
Your Swink Lions baseball team opens up the 2025 campaign with a record of 2-0 winning both games of a double header vs the Centauri Falcons!!! Great Job to Coach Mills and his staff for all of their hard work with our student athletes!
Go Lions!!!
A Special Thank you to Kimberly Gallegos from the La Junta Library for her visit to Swink School and reading with our students for the Dr Seuss week!!!
Go Lions!!!
Your Lady Lions Basketball Team have qualified for Regionals!!! They tip off this Friday night at 6 pm in Burlington!!!
Congrats Team and Good Luck!!!
Go Lions!!!
Check out Mrs. Jones 2nd Grade Class enjoying "Dr. Seuss" week as The Cat in the Hat!!! Our students are committed to practicing their reading skills throughout our themed reading week. Great Stuff!!! Go Lions!!!
Congratulations to Coach Bauserman, Coach Valencia, Coach Pearson, our Boys Basketball Team, and our amazing seniors for finishing their 24-25 Season winning 5 out of their last 6 games!!!
Great Way to finish strong!
Go Lions!!!
Lions Life for the Week of March 3. Stay tuned for Regional Basketball playoff information.
Look at those details--Russell, Artist of the Week, is seen here holding his drawing of underground pipes with a creative twist.
Respect our officials as they are human and our friends--without them there would be no sports.
Many people look at this shirt and just see a referee/official’s uniform.
Very few people look at this shirt and see what it really is - pure dedication, strength, and nerve.
They don’t see what goes on behind the scenes. Days away from families and one’s home, countless hours of studying, analyzing and reanalyzing one’s own calls, reading and re-reading the rule book, countless hours on the phones with other officials to ask questions and mentor each other, hours and their own money dedicated to associations and trying to make the world of officiating a better place.
What people think they see: “a horrible official”, “someone who doesn’t know the rules”, “a biased official who “clearly” has it out for their team”, “someone who should never be able to be an official”.
To those people who sit in the stands or sit behind their computer screens or phones making these comments – I encourage you to try it. Sitting in the stands or on the couch and making the calls is the easy route. Because you have the ability to be right or wrong with no consequences. The official out there on the mat, field, or court has to be right all the time (which is subjective to your eyes, your team, and your desired outcome, instead of the rules). I encourage you take the official’s test. Take it and you will see that you didn’t pass because you don’t know as much about the sport as you thought you did. And when you do fail, use it as motivation to join an association, read and study the rule book, and then take the test again. After taking the test (probably multiple times), maybe just maybe you will pass. And if you do pass, then go ahead and put on the uniform, muscle up the nerve and strength to actually become an official and step out into the center mat, court, or field.
Every sport is in need of more officials. The number of officials and number of younger people wanting to be officials has greatly decreased. Why? Probably because it is an extremely difficult position to be put in, and all you get in return is constant hate.
To the fans – I am not asking you not to root for your team. Root and scream for your team! If you don’t like a call, boo it, and then move on! What I am asking, is please be more respectful in person or online.
Officials walk out to a game or match knowing that by the end of it they will have one side hating and degrading them.
They are required to make tough calls over and over again, calls that will upset one side or the other.
It is a lose-lose situation regardless of the outcome.
So why do they do it?
My guess would be for the love of the sport.
Officials are humans, with families- wives, husbands, and children, with friends, with homes, other careers, and feelings.
They are people. Real people.
Who, after everything that they do, still have to listen and read horrible comments from people who wouldn’t dare or have enough courage or knowledge to step out into the fire.
Yet these officials have enough dedication and nerve to continuously step out onto the mat, court, field, etc.… over and over and over again because they love what they do, and they love the sport.
They are truly relentless.
Are they always perfect? The Answer is NO.
They are humans, in a world of sports where rules are ever changing and evolving.
They are dedicated, and every official that I know uses every call, match, game, and outcome as a learning experience, whether good or bad.
Officiating is one of the most difficult and thankless jobs that I can think of.
So, to every official out there – THANK YOU.
Thank you for doing everything that you do so that the world can enjoy the thrill and excitement of sports.
Thank you for the brotherhood and sisterhood that you provide each other, and for becoming each other’s lifelong friends and family.
Thank you for giving up countless hours and days away from your families.
Thank you for continuing to put yourself out there over and over again regardless of all of the negative feedback and comments/posts from spectators.
Thank you for the time and energy that you dedicate into your craft, so that we, as spectators, can sit, watch, and enjoy the sports that we love.
Swink School District is still seeking stakeholders to set the plan for the next five years for the district. Swink School District is beginning to embark on the strategic planning process. Strategic planning is a process that helps organizations define their goals and vision for the future. It involves assessing the current situation, developing a strategy, and putting the strategy into action to become more successful. We are seeking approximately 20 stakeholders to serve on the strategic plan task force. As a member of this task force, you will be requested to attend one of the following meeting dates: Tuesday, March 4, Thursday, March 6, or Tuesday, March 11. Meetings will be from 6:00pm-till approximately 7:30pm. If you are interested in serving on this task force or have questions, please email Mr. Lyder at larry.lyder@swink.k12.co.us or 719-384-8103 with the date you are available. All members who are part of the task force will need to attend a second meeting on Thursday, March 27, starting at 6:00pm, as well.
