Athletics

The NLRHS Cheerleaders are the 2020 6A Cheer State Champions! Congratulations to the girls and Coach Missy Sela.

Please read the following communication from Superintendent Pilewski at the link below, which addresses the extension of Virtual Learning Fridays. https://5il.co/o1kv

Congratulations to NLR Varsity Girls Basketball Coach Daryl Fimple, who reached his 500th career win on Tuesday night! Among the chorus of well wishers, Coach Fimple's players and staff celebrated the huge accomplishment just before practice. Battle on, Coach Fimple!

The Boys and Girls Swim Teams traveled to Batesville on Tuesday and here are the highlights from the meet: RELAYS: Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay 1st place: Betsy Ponder, Pierson Richart, Shelby Stanley, and Michele Potts Boys 200 Yard Medley Relay 1st place: Peyton Price, Jake Hale, Phillip Stanley, and Michael Potts Girls 200 Yard Freestyle Relay 1st place: Michele Potts, Shelby Stanley, Pierson Richart, and Betsy Ponder Boys 200 Yard Freestyle Relay 1st place: Phillip Stanley, Jake Hale, Michael Potts, and Peyton Price Girls 400 Yard Freestyle Relay 1st place: Shelby Stanley, Pierson Richart, Peyton Stafford, and Michele Potts Boys 400 Yard Freestyle Relay 3rd place: Hudson Cameron, Tristan Taylor, Clayton Jolly, and Luke Wilkins INDIVIDUAL RACES: Girls 200 Yard Individual Medley 1st place: Shelby Stanley Boys 200 Yard Individual Medley 2nd place: Michael Potts Girls 50 Yard Freestyle 1st place: Michele Potts Boys 50 Yard Freestyle 2nd place: Peyton Price 3rd place: Luke Wilkins Girls 100 Yard Butterfly 1st place: Betsy Ponder Boys 100 Yard Butterfly 1st place: Phillip Stanley Girls 100 Yard Freestyle 3rd place: Peyton Stafford Boys 100 Yard Freestyle 2nd place: Jake Hale Girls 100 Yard Backstroke 1st place: Betsy Ponder 2nd place: Pierson Richart Boys 100 Yard Backstroke 2nd place - Peyton Price Boys 100 Yard Breaststroke 1st place: Phillip Stanley 2nd place: Jake Hale 3rd place: Michael Potts OVERALL RESULTS: Girls team placed 2nd Boys team placed 1st Congratulations on a great meet!

The Junior Varsity and Varsity Boys basketball games against Izard County High School on 12/18 and the Varsity Girls basketball game against Houston High School (Tenn.) on 12/28 have been canceled.

Congrats to NLR Varsity Cheer! They placed FIRST at the Southern Spirit competition in Bentonville! They also won Best Use of Pyramid and Crowd Pumping Cheer. Way to go, ladies!

Interested in joining the NLRSD Trap Team? Contact Sally Jo Pryor at pryors@nlrsd.org for questions.

The North Little Rock School District has made a temporary and immediate change to its Point of Contact (POC) position for staff, students, and parents to report positive COVID-19 cases and to serve as the district’s liaison to the Arkansas Department of Health. Nurse Tonya Green will serve as the district’s POC from now until further notice. Nurse Tonya or another school nurse will manage the district’s COVID-19 hotline. The number to the hotline is (501) 240-1753. The hotline will be operational between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Anyone who calls the hotline after 8:00 p.m. is urged to leave a voicemail, and the call will be returned the following day. If it is an emergency, please call 911.

The survey to make changes for your academic learning option for the spring semester will be Wednesday, December 9 at 5:00 p.m. Please complete the survey if you would like one of the following academic options: 1. Virtual now and want to remain virtual for spring 2021. 2. Virtual now and want to return to your campus for spring 2021. 3. On campus now and want to be virtual for spring 2021. This is the link to the survey: https://tinyurl.com/yy62ugq7 Parents will need to log in with their student's email and password to access survey.

NLR Boys Track tryouts for 9th through 12th graders will be 12/9 and 12/10 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. at Charging Wildcat Stadium. Participants MUST have a physical and consent form on file in the Athletic Office or be able to provide the documents on the day of tryouts.

What. A. Game! Our Charging Wildcats fought, and they fought hard! Thank you for an exciting season and giving us something to cheer about, especially during a global pandemic. Congratulations to the NLR Charging Wildcats, the 2020 Class 7A Runner Up!

It’s Championship Day! Won’t be able to make it to War Memorial Stadium? You can cheer from home! Tune in to Arkansas PBS.

The North Little Rock School District has adopted new COVID-19 guidelines as it relates to quarantines. Please visit the following link to read them: https://tinyurl.com/y54496gc

Due to COVID-19, the NLR Boys Basketball games scheduled for 12/4, 12/11, and 12/15 have been cancelled. The Charging Wildcats will resume play on 12/18. The Lady Charging Wildcats will still play games scheduled for 12/11 and 12/15.

Congratulations to Tyler Parr, who signed a scholarship to play golf at Williams Baptist! We wish you the best!

Congratulations to Zoë Adebayo, who signed a scholarship to play softball at the University of Memphis! Way to go!

The championship game is Saturday at noon at War Memorial! Come and witness the 'Cats take care of business to bring home the trophy! Student tickets are $6. Adult tickets are $7. NLR fans will sit on the east side of the stadium. https://gofan.co/app/events/171256

Congratulations to Tavion Akins for being named "Player of the Week" by Pulaski County Farm Bureau! This is for Akins' stellar performance in the quarterfinal matchup game against LR Catholic (Nov. 20). Akins, a junior, had four tackles, three assists, two tackles for losses, two QB pressures, two interceptions, and one onside kick recovery. The Charging Wildcats defeated the LR Catholic Rockets, 34-7. Way to go, Tavion, and great job, Charging Wildcats!

“We’re going to the ‘ship!” Congratulations to the Charging Wildcats! They will take on the Bryant Hornets next Saturday at noon at War Memorial. Let’s go, Cats!

The NLRHS Varsity Football team will play Cabot in the semi-final 7A Conference Play-off games on Friday, November 27 at 7pm at NLRHS. Follow the AAA link for purchasing tickets: Ticket Link: https://gofan.co/app/events/169116 Come out and support your Charging Wildcats!