Owensboro Middle School Academic Team

03/15/2026

Congratulations to the OMS Academic Team on their showing at the Kentucky State Mathcounts competition today! Our team finished 8th in the state!

Official team competitors include Benjamin Sheriff, Zayne Stone, Ciel Vinson, & Maya Wendt.

We are proud of our Red Devils!

02/15/2026

Congratulations to the OMS Academic Team on their performance at this week’s Regional Governor’s Cup!

The following students placed in individual competition, earning points for the team.

Mathematics:
Benjamin Sheriff - 3rd Place
Wade Harper - 5th Place
Maya Wendt - 6th Place

Science:
Benjamin Sheriff - 3rd Place

Arts & Humanities:
Sylvie Johnson - 6th Place

Composition:
Maya Wendt - 4th Place

All of these students will advance to the State Finals in March!

Our Quick Recall Team placed 2nd in today’s regional tournament!! Team members include: Evan Block, Emery Eslinger, Benjamin Sheriff, Lydia Tin, Oliver Busse, Mason Gray, & Mike Kalambayi

Together all of these points added up to 2nd Place overall!

We are very proud of these hard working young people! Way to go Devils! Onward to the State Finals!

01/18/2026

Congratulations to our OMS Academic Team on their 2nd place finish in yesterday’s District 11 Governor’s Cup competition!

The following students placed in individual competition earning points for the team:

Mathematics
Benjamin Sheriff - 1st Place
Wade Harper - 4th Place
Maya Wendt - 5th Place

Science
Benjamin Sheriff - 3rd Place

Arts & Humanities
Sylvie Johnson - 1st Place

Composition
Maya Wendt - 2nd

Our Future Problem Solving Team finished 2nd and will advance to Regionals next month. Team members are Benjamin Sheriff, Lydia Tin, Ciel Vinson, & Maya Wendt.

And our quick recall team finished 2nd, also advancing to Regionals. Team members include: Evan Block, Emery Eslinger, Benjamin Sheriff, Lydia Tin, Oliver Busse, Mason Gray, & Mike Kalambayi.

We are proud of you all! Way to go Red Devils!

12/07/2025

12/07/2025

It’s a great day to be a Red Devil! Sixth Grade Showcase Champions!

Congratulations to our 6th Grade Academic Team on an outstanding performance at today’s 6th Grade Showcase Competition!

The following students placed in individual events:

Mathematics
1st Place - Cameron Quattrocchi
2nd Place - Adele Doyal
5th Place - Evan Block

Social Studies
3rd Place - Sylvie Johnson

Language Arts
1st Place - Emery Erslinger

Arts & Humanities
1st Place - Sylvie Johnson
2nd Place - Emery Erslinger
3rd Place - Josie O’Bryan

Composition
2nd Place - Ava Barnard

Our Quick Recall Team finished 2nd Overall. Team members include: Emery Erslinger (captain), Evan Block, Oliver Busse, Mike Kalambayi, & Mason Gray.

All of these events added up to a big team victory for the OMS Red Devils! We brought home the Sixth Grade Showcase Championship!

Way to go Devils! Congrats to all of the students and special thanks to all of our coaches - Mrs. Hayden, Mrs. Rickard, Mr. Murray, Mrs. Swift, Mr. Hinson, & the Sullivans.

03/17/2025

Some photos from our weekend at the Governor’s Cup State Finals competition.

03/16/2025

Our OMS Red Devils are having a great weekend at the Kentucky Association for Academic Competition (KAAC) Governor’s Cup State Finals.

Our FPS team competed Friday night, our students tested throughout the day yesterday, and today we advanced to the sweet 16 in Quick Recall.

So proud of these awesome young people!

03/08/2025

Good luck to our Academic Team as they compete in tomorrow’s state MATHCOUNTS event at Western Kentucky University!

Today we traveled to Bowling Green and enjoyed some team building at Mind Bender Escape Rooms BG. Then got our brains moving with practice at the hotel.

Let’s go Red Devils!!! We are so proud of all your hard work this year!

02/16/2025

We are so proud of our Red Devil Academic Team on a successful Governor’s Cup on Saturday!

The following students placed in competition today:

Mathematics
- Michael Swift - 1st Place
- Charlie Reeves - 4th Place

Science
- Adam Horton - 1st Place
- Benjamin Sheriff - 2nd Place

Social Studies
- Adam Horton - 2nd Place

Composition
- Maya Wendt - 4th Place

Our Future Problem Solving team finished in 1st Place! Team members include: Kenessen Schmied, Benjamin Sheriff, Ciel Vinson, & Maya Wendt.

Our Quick Recall Team finished 2nd in the tournament. Team Members include: Adam Horton (captain), Charlie Reeves, Benjamin Sheriff, Michael Swift, & Lydia Tin.

All of these placements earned the team a 2nd Place finish overall. All of the individuals and teams will also advance to the State Finals in March!

Way to go Devils!

02/02/2025

Congratulations to the OMS Academic Team on another fantastic performance at today’s Chapter MATHCOUNTS competition!

The following students placed in the top 10 overall:

1st Place: Michael Swift
2nd Place: Charlie Reeves
5th Place: Matthew Hall
7th Place: Benjamin Sheriff
8th Place: Miles King

Michael Swift also finished 1st in the countdown round!

Our team also placed first and advanced to the State Finals in March.

Team members include: Michael Swift, Charlie Reeves, Michael Hall, & Wade Harper.

Way to go Red Devils! We are so proud of you!!!!

01/18/2025

Congratulations to the OMS Academic Team on an outstanding performance at the District 11 Governor’s Cup Competition!

The following students placed in their testing events, earning points toward the overall team placement.

Mathematics
1st Place - Michael Swift
4th Place - Charlie Reeves
5th Place - Matthew Hall

Science
Benjamin Sheriff - 2nd Place
Adam Horton - 3rd Place

Social Studies
1st Place - Adam Horton

Composition
3rd Place - Maya Wendt
5th Place - Say Htoo

Our Future Problem Solving Team finished 2nd Place. Team members are Kenessen Schmied, Benjamin Sheriff, Ciel Vinson, & Maya Wendt.

Our Quick Recall team went undefeated to win the tournament for the 11th year in a row! Team members are: Adam Horton (captain), Charlie Reeves, Benjamin Sheriff, Michael Swift, & Lydia Tin.

All of these placements added up to a 2nd Place Overall finish for our Red Devil Academic Team! Way to go Devils! We are proud of everyone!!!