Kokomo High School

🏆Congrats KHS Unified Tack and Field Kats on your award and your historic season! This spring, our KHS Unified Track Team went all the way to the IHSAA State Finals, earning an incredible 5th place finish!

For those who may not be familiar with how Unified Sports work, Unified Track & Field is an officially recognized IHSAA sport. It brings together students with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team, competing side-by-side in a variety of track and field events. Every single athlete scores points for the team, and the focus is on teamwork, shared achievement, and true sportsmanship in competition. 🔴🔵

When you watch this team, it’s not just individuals out there running their own race. There is a collective drive, and it’s this exact momentum that earned a Top-5 State Finish.

This team continues to show everyone what happens when athletes genuinely celebrate each other's success and help each other across the finish line.

Congratulations Wildkats on an unforgettable, podium-finishing season!

Congrats Kats! The 2026 Kokomo Tribune Sports Awards wrapped up this evening, and the representation from Kokomo High School was outstanding! Looking at the program, it was incredibly clear how much effort, dedication, and heart our Wildkat athletes and coaches poured into their seasons this year.

Earning a spot as a finalist takes a serious, everyday commitment to your team, your sport, and yourself. Congratulations to every single Wildkat who was recognized tonight as a finalist:

Fall Sports
•Torre Willis (Girls Volleyball)
•Caleb Taflinger (Boys Tennis)
•Averie Stiner (Girls Golf)
•Cooper Cage (Boys Cross Country)
•Alaina Thompson (Girls Cross Country)

Winter Sports
•Korbyn Hammel (Boys Basketball)
•Eliana Stewart (Girls Basketball)
•Shanna Fowler (Girls Swimming)
•Ja’Layia Williams (Girls Wrestling)
•Dorian Barbour (Boys Wrestling)
•Megan Leavitt (Gymnastics)

Spring Sports
•Ashtyn Goff (Boys Golf)
•Claire Callane (Girls Tennis)
•Omar Daniels (Boys Track & Field)
•Jeremiah Young (Boys Track & Field)
•Giyanna Thornton (Girls Track & Field)

Scholar Athlete Finalists
•Madison Armstrong
•Ethan Lytle

Teams & Staff
•Team of the Year Finalist: Boys Track & Field
•Unified Sports Team of the Year Finalist: Unified Track & Field
•Coach of the Year Finalist: Travis Taflinger (Boys Tennis)

🔴🔵 You each represented the RED & BLUE exactly the right way tonight. We can’t wait to look through tomorrow’s edition of the Kokomo Tribune and see the official write-up with photos announcing the award winners.

This Wildkat community is proud of each one of you!

Definitely worth a visit! Our KHS students helped to build this incredible sculpture, from the Kokomo Area Career Center Welding Class to downtown City of Kokomo!

You Won’t Believe High School Students Built This Half-Ton Masterpiece: Forging the Future for the USA 250th Fusing half a ton of raw industrial steel and hand-hammered copper into a massive, 11-foot-tall monu...

What a great day to be a Wildkat at the Haynes Apperson Festival, with so many of our KHS students, alumni, and families in and along the parade path!

We have some huge news to celebrate from the festival court too! Let’s give a big shout-out to KHS Class of 2027 Taraji Pollard for being named 4th Runner Up, and a massive CONGRATULATIONS to KHS Class of 2026 Christina Durham, your newly crowned Haynes Apperson Festival Queen! 👑

Our KHS community was everywhere you looked today, from the iconic Wildkat Bus rolling down the route to the many students and alumni volunteering and participating throughout the entire parade. Here are just a few of the amazing KHS faces we saw out there today:

✨Alayna Kline (2026 Distinguished Young Women)
✨Amelia Duncan (2025 Miss Howard County)
✨Dani Gomez (KHS Alumna and IU Red Stepper)

🎶 The excitement continues! 🎆 KHS Alumnus J’Lan Stewart is performing the National Anthem right before the sky lights up tonight, and you won't want to miss his incredible voice setting the stage for a spectacular grand finale and fireworks show!

ONWARD KOKOMO!

This is what it’s all about. Seeing the contagious smiles and big energy on the faces of these young athletes is exactly why we love hosting our KATS youth sports camps.

Standing on the giant Wildkat logo holding up those certificates, you can just see how proud they are of themselves —and each other. They may look little next to our high school athletes, but they are already playing with big heart, paws-itive hustle, and an undeniable Wildkat team spirit. The future of Kokomo Lady Kat basketball is looking incredibly bright!🐾✨

😺There is nothing quite like the energy in Memorial Gym when it’s filled with our youngest athletes. This week, these Lady Kats had a blast practicing their dribbling and shooting, making new friends, and learning directly from our KHS athletes and coaches.

The fun is just getting started, too. We have a whole lineup of KATS youth sports camps running throughout the summer. It’s the perfect way to keep kids active, as they learn and have fun.

🔗KokomoAthletics.com/Registrations

Let’s keep this momentum going!

🏐 SUMMER CAMP ANNOUNCEMENT! Middle School Girls Volleyball has just been added to the lineup! Get ready to improve your skills, build teamwork, and have fun the Wildkat Way.

Who: Girls in 6th - 8th Grades
When: July 20, 21, 22 | 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Where: Kokomo High School | Haworth Gym
Registration Fee: $40

✨ Why she’ll love it: This isn't just about passing and serving drills—it's where the next generation comes to build confidence, reach their personal best, and make unforgettable summer memories on the court. Whether your athlete is gearing up to try out for the school team or just wants to have fun with friends and a supportive Wildkat crew, this camp is the place to be.

Register today and check out all our summer camps:
🔗Online: https://kokomoathletics.com/Registrations
🖨️Printable Forms: https://bit.ly/2026katscampsprint

🇫🇷✈️ 🇺🇸Our KHS exchange travelers are officially home from France, settling back into the familiar rhythm of Indiana life with suitcases full of memories!

Now that they are back, we are excited to share this journey directly through their eyes—starting with a breathtaking excursion to the northern coast of France, where the students explored the historic walled port city of Saint-Malo and the iconic island castle of Mont Saint-Michel.

Perched right on the English Channel, this region is a landscape of dramatic ocean tides, massive granite ramparts, and a wild history. Walking the ancient fortress walls of Saint-Malo and looking out toward the island gave our Wildkats a chance to truly absorb the history of where they were standing.

“The salty air and whitecap waves of Saint-Malo gave me a quiet moment to reflect. Standing here, a high schooler from Kokomo in France, I felt the incredible reality of this journey and the space to truly process it all. Seeing Mont Saint-Michel in person was unreal; the unique architecture has so much rich history as an ancient pilgrimage site, a fortress, and even a prison. Experiencing the dramatic tides that can temporarily turn it completely into an island made me realize how incredible this opportunity really is."
— Avery, KHS Student Perspective

“Walking along the top of the ramparts was a good experience because the strong wind from the English Channel was blowing all around us. On one side, I could hear the waves crashing against the rocks, and on the other, I could see all of the old buildings and slim streets below. Inside the walls, there were lots of cute little shops, cafés, and bakeries... Learning that Saint-Malo was once home to privateers (which I learned was another name for pirates) made the experience even more interesting!" 🏴‍☠️
— Hadley, KHS Student Perspective

🤫 Nothing to see here...👀 We’ve noticed some major stadiums are covering up logos to keep things "completely anonymous." So, we decided to try it out.

It turns out that when your logo is a razor-sharp, roaring Wildkat bursting with energy, a tarp doesn't do a whole lot to hide it💥😺

Honestly, that's exactly the kind of uncontainable spirit we are bringing to our KATS Youth Sports Camps this summer!

We’ve tried to keep the excitement under wraps, but looks like the Kat is out of the bag (well, almost), so don’t wait!

Secure your spot today: Sign up and Play the Wildkat Way!

🔗 KokomoAthletics.com/Registrations

P.S. Hey Levi's, we could use some gear and you could use some visibility. We wouldn't cover you up—because like quality, LEGACY never goes out of style! 🤝👖🫶