Group Photo of Lori Thompsons Sports Class and the 6th grade students in Mary Alice Hawkins, Kristi Schultz, and Brett Hawkins classes. Photo by John McHaleladailypost.com

Eloy Salizar participating in the long Jump. He jumped 6’ 4”. Photo by John McHaleladailypost.com

SPORTS News:

The three 6th grade classes at Mountain Elementary School have been studying Greek history and as a collimation of their studies had a day of participating in Greek Olympics staged at Urban Park in collaboration with LAHS’s Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit Class to act as teachers of the Ancient Greek Olympic Games.

Emma Magnelind throwing the discus, she threw it 59’. Photo by John McHaleladailypost.com

Competition was fierce in the chariot race. Photo by John McHaleladailypost.com

Daxton Cazier participating in the javelin throw. Photo by John McHaleladailypost.com

Running with armor was a popular event. Photo by John McHaleladailypost.com

The prime movers of the event Lori Thompson LAHS Sports Lit instructor and Mary Alice Hawkins Mountain 6th grade teacher. Special thanks to the LAPS Foundation for the Big Ideas Grant and Mountain PTO for helping fund the Greek Day. Photo by John McHaleladailypost.com