Lucas Prichard, son of Bluffton residents Pat and Kelly Prichard, has committed to play football at Yale University. Lucas is a senior at Bath High School where his father Pat teaches.
Prichard visited six schools before deciding on Yale. The Yale Bulldogs football program is part of the NCAA Division I and is one of the oldest in the world. It began competing in 1872.
District III of the Ohio Music Education Association held High School Solo and Ensemble Adjudicated Events at Lima Senior High School on Saturday, January 29. Bluffton High School band, strings, piano and vocal music students performed with the following results. They were among performers from eight counties in northwest Ohio.
BAND
Brass Quartet, class C, rating of Excellent
(Levi Fenzl, Dylan Hohenbrink, Will Neff and John-Paul Yoder)
Brooke Camper, class C Flute solo - rating of Superior
Hannah Davis, class A trumpet solo, rating of Superior
The December Student of the Month at Bluffton High school is Alyssa Speicher, daughter of Steve & Susan Speicher of Bluffton. Alyssa is in the 11th grade and has a 4.0000 cumulative gpa. (Her twin sister Lauren was the November Student of the Month.)
Alyssa is a member of the National Honor Society and Latin Club. Alyssa was awarded the "Student of the Year" in English 10.
She is currently taking a College English class through Findlay University/Bluffton High School and is undecided about what she would like to do after graduation.