Big Shout Out and Congratulations to Reggie Jones and his coach, Daryl Dotson! Reggie Jones Jr. placed 2nd in the district tournament on Saturday February 15th which also qualified him for the state tournament this week. We also had 3 …
Students in Mr. Williams’ Principles of Engineering designed and tested bridges this morning. This bridge built by Will Gunderson and Addison Williamson held more than 7133 times its own weight! Click on the headline to see the weights …
Congrats to Murphy Burke, Max Pilcher, Danny Drane, Jacob Thompson and Lily Nellans on qualifying for the national debate tournament, held in Kansas City starting June 15. Roosevelt was also the top team and Harry Strong named coach of the year at the qualifying tournament, hosted at Lincoln this past weekend. Click the headline for more information.
Last weekend high school thespians and orators from Des Moines Public Schools, who’d advanced through Iowa High School Speech Association district qualifiers, flocked to the IHSSA ’s Large Group State Contest in Ankeny. Roosevelt’s Jonah Kruse will perform …
A Visual Arts Display and Open House will be held during the Roughrider Roundup in the 3rd floor art rooms from 4:30-6:00 p.m. Please stop in!
The schedule said it was an off night at Roosevelt, but plenty of shots were taken and cheers erupted in a full gym as the Riders’ boys and girls basketball teams joined students with intellectual and developmental disabilities for the Best Buddies program’s Rider Pride game. Click the photo to read and see more about this special game.
If you missed the Game of the Century you can always catch the highlight reel by clicking the headline above. Roosevelt’s First Annual Rider Pride Game was action packed and a lot of fun!
Winter Formal was at Scottish Rite Temple on Saturday night! See pictures from the event by clicking the headline.
Friday night Rider Pride was on display as the Pep band, Bridges to Harmony, Cheerleaders, Best Buddies, varsity basketball teams, Dance team, Proud and many others came to celebrate! It was a close game that ended in a …
With today’s opening ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics, Lolo Jones (Roosevelt High, ’00) becomes one of only 9 Americans to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. The former world champion and Olympic hurdler is now a bobsledder for Team USA. Women’s bobsled is scheduled to begin February 18. Go go, Lolo!
