Otsego Local School District

Join us tomorrow on campus to welcome home our State Champion, Molly Kramer!

Proud is an understatement! Set the bar high, and these girls will chase after it! 🧡🖤

📚🏀 Excellence On and Off the Court! 🏀📚

The 2025-2026 Otsego Lady Knights Varsity Basketball Team has been recognized as one of the Top 30 teams in Ohio for team GPA, earning an outstanding 3.90 unweighted GPA!

This achievement is a testament to the dedication, discipline, and character of our student-athletes. These young women continue to prove that success isn’t just measured by points on the scoreboard, but also by the commitment they bring to the classroom every single day.

We are incredibly proud of our players, coaches, teachers, and families who support a culture where academics and athletics go hand in hand.

💙🏀 Top 30 in the State
📚 3.90 Unweighted Team GPA
⚔️ Proud to be Lady Knights 👑

Congratulations, ladies! Your hard work is setting the standard for what it means to be a student-athlete.



Otsego Athletics
Otsego Local School District

(Thanks to Gibsonburg for posting- we’ve been anxiously awaiting these standings!)

🚒🚦Safety Town 2026 was a huge success! 🐾🦷👮‍♂️

This year marked the 3rd annual Safety Town, welcoming 60–65 incoming kindergarten and first-grade students for a fun-filled week of learning important safety skills. From fire safety and bike safety to dental health, transportation, animal safety, and much more, our students gained valuable knowledge while having a great time!

🖤 A special thank you goes to our 30 incredible high school volunteers who helped make the week run smoothly. Their leadership, patience, and enthusiasm made a lasting impact on our youngest learners. We are so proud of the way they represented Otsego!

We are also grateful for the many community partners, presenters, organizers, and contributors who generously shared their time and expertise:

🚒 All Local Fire Departments
☀️ First Solar
🐕 Wood County Dog Warden Jodi Harding
🌲 Neil Brokamp, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
🌾 Otsego FFA
🦷 Owens Community College Dental Students
🏥 Wood County Hospital
🚂 Operation Lifesaver
🚑 NW 190 EMS
👮 Jon Rife, JH Principal and former Wood County Deputy
🚌 Helen Bonnough and Tabitha Leiter, Otsego Transportation Department
🚔 Deputy Basler and Noel Crawford
🏊 Allison Martin, SafeSplash
👏 Kevin O’Shea
🧡 Mary Gase

Thank you to everyone who helped make Safety Town possible. The support from our volunteers and community partners continues to make this program a meaningful experience for our students and families.

🏃‍♀️🏈⚽ SAVE THE DATE ⚾🏀🏐

Otsego student-athletes in grades 7–12 — FREE sports physicals are coming Tuesday, June 16 at Otsego High School!

🗓 Tuesday, June 16
⏰ 8AM–4PM
📍 Otsego High School

This is a great chance to get your athletic physical completed before fall sports ramp up. Mark your calendars now and help spread the word to teammates and families!

Let’s go!!! 🧡🖤

Huge congrats to our six state qualifiers! These kids have worked very hard to get to this point and are up for the challenge of going up against the best in Ohio this week!!!

A huge THANK YOU to the Otsego Endowment Foundation for graciously funding our new Lü Interactive Playground in the elementary gym! 🎉

After its installation in February, our recent teacher work day gave our PE and Extended Care staff the opportunity to complete a full day of training and explore all the exciting possibilities the system offers.

Once everyone got comfortable, teachers and staff took a well-deserved break from packing and cleaning classrooms to head to the gym and become some hypothetical “students” for the afternoon. 😄

There were plenty of laughs, lots of movement, a few VERY competitive teachers, and definitely some calories burned! Most importantly, we’re excited about the opportunities this interactive space will provide for our students this summer during Extended Care and throughout next year’s PE classes.

We are incredibly thankful to the Otsego Endowment Foundation for supporting innovative experiences that help keep our students active, engaged, and having fun while learning.

Moments like these remind us of the strength, sacrifice, and support behind our military families.

Thank you to Lt. Col. David Atkinson and the entire Atkinson family. We are so grateful you are a part of our community and the Otsego family. 🇺🇸💜

Lieutenant Colonel David Atkinson, U.S. Air Force, embraces his father, former Whitehouse Mayor Don Atkinson, after surprising him during village Memorial Day services as the crowd looks on Monday, May 25, 2026, at Veterans Memorial Park in Whitehouse, Ohio.

Lt. Col. Atkinson, a 1992 graduate of Anthony Wayne High School, originally had been scheduled as the keynote speaker for Monday’s ceremony but was dropped from the program when he was deployed earlier this year during Operation Fury in Iran. He was able to secure a four-day leave to visit wife Pam, their children, and his extended family but kept it a secret. He had been gone for three months.

Mayor Atkinson burst into tears when his son approached and grabbed him in a tight hug. Lt. Col. Atkinson then briefly addressed those gathered in the park, thanking them for supporting U.S. armed forces, offering gratitude for spouses of military members who take care of families and households during deployments, and distributing notecards people could use to send messages to uniformed personnel. He also told the story of a Vietnam War POW whose struggle to escape captivity was inspired by the kind of love and support shown by the crowd at Veterans Memorial Park.

(Photo by Karen Gerhardinger, Anthony Wayne Free Press)

Everyone just sprinting out of here for summer like they’re never coming back...Remember, despite your departure, this break won't last...School'll Be Back!
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Congratulations to the following Otsego Track & Field athletes who placed in the Top 4 at the Division III District Meet this past Thursday and Saturday to advance to Regionals next week in Piqua! 👏🏅

🟧 Discus: Jayden Eberts, Anna Ayers, Callie Hartman
🟧 High Jump: Kayla McCabe, Leah McCabe, Weston Lucal
🟧 Shot Put: Ella Hartman, Autumn Mag
🟧 100m Hurdles: Molly Kramer
🟧 300m Hurdles: Molly Kramer, Weston Lucal
🟧 Long Jump: Weston Lucal
🟧 200m: Zachary Wilcox
🟧 Pole Vault: Callie Palmer

Best of luck at Regionals this week!