Dear EPCHS Families: 

As the calendar has hit March, we'd like to express our appreciation for your continued dedication to our school community. We've already seen quite a few stellar accomplishments coming from our students this year, and look forward to celebrating many more as we progress further into 2025. 

February in particular was a month filled with great successes at Evergreen Park Community High School. We were thrilled to see senior wrestling athlete Genesis Ward make his way up to the podium at the state finals - with three of his teammates who also qualified for state in attendance - by finishing in 4th place among everyone in his weight class statewide. Our wrestling program as a whole has wrapped up another spectacular season. The team won the South Suburban Red Conference championship for the third year in a row and Head Coach Ron Zimmerman was named the conference Coach of the Year for the third straight year as well. 

On the basketball court, our girls team amassed the 20-win total, and Keshaun Vaval, the star player on our boys team, became the second Evergreen Park basketball player in as many years to reach 1,000 career points. 

We also saw several students represent our school at the state level. In addition to the wrestling group, Xalani Mitchell qualified as an individual in girls bowling, and our chess team made it to state for the third time in the last four years. Next month, the Mustang Mathletes will send at least eight students to the state finals in that event. Another kudos goes out to our scholastic bowl squad, which won the varsity conference championship for the second consecutive year. 

Academically, March is a perfect time to check-in with your child and ensure they remain on a path to success this year. It's also time to start planning for what the 2025-2026 school year will look like. We'd like for you to encourage your child to meet with his or her counselor and explore the options available to them when selecting their courses for next year. EPCHS has a tremendous amount of curriculum offerings, including many courses that can earn college credit for our students.

Parent-teacher conferences will be held this month on March 18. Make sure to double check the time you've scheduled with your child's teachers as to help make this process go as smoothly as it has in the past. 

Sincerely, 

Thomas O'Malley, Superintendent 

WELDING WIN: EPCHS student Matt Feeley took home a 3rd Place plaque at the Moraine Valley Community College high school welding competition this past month.

In all, EPCHS sent nine students to compete in the event: Dianna Rosillo, Wilbur Smith, Caitlyn Feeley, Matt Feeley, Jack Bledsoe, Aaron Flores, Liam Sefcik, Johnathan Quinn and Damian Torres. 

ART AWARDS: The art department at Evergreen Park Community High School is proud to announce that eight students have been recognized as recipients of the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. 

In addition to seven students receiving honorable mentions for their artworks across various platforms, EPCHS student Ava Chandler received a “Gold Key” recognition and has had her work, a drawing/illustration titled “Distorted Portrait,” sent to the national level of the competition. Chandler is shown below alongside an image of her artwork. 

Gold Key works like the one created by Chandler are being judged at the national level in New York City. National medalists will be announced in March. 

EPCHS students who received honorable mention awards were: 

Student Name, Artwork Title, Medium

The EPCHS Fine Arts department puts on an amazing performance of 'Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella'

See 'Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella' at EPCHS: 

MATHLETES MAKE STATE: The Evergreen Park Mustang Mathletes had a fine showing at regionals, advancing at least eight students to the state finals! 

Evergreen Park students qualifying for state are Adam Bosch, Kevin Reyes, Chloe Ortiz, Zoe Robertson, Ryan Brennan, Raymond Cipolla, Maggie Troglia and Julia Woody, all of whom were part of regional first place teams and/or individual events. 

Bosch, Ortiz, Reyes, Robertson, Brennan, Cipolla, Troglia and Woody qualified as part of the freshman/sophomore 8-person team, Reyes and Brennan qualified separately as a freshman/sophomore 2-person team and Reyes and Bosch both qualified as individual medalists.

Second place EP finishers from Saturday's regional were the Algebra 1 team of Bosch, Ricardo Leon, Ortiz, Reyes and Robertson and the Geometry team of Brennan, Cipolla, Malaya Cook-Davis, Charlotte Mankowski, Troglia and Woody. 

CHESS SUCCESS: The EP "Checkmaters" chess team qualified for the IHSA state finals for the third time in the last four years. The team is pictured below just prior to a clap out held before their trip to Peoria. 

BACK-TO-BACK! The Evergreen Park Scholastic Bowl squad has won the South Suburban Conference championship for the second year in a row. Both our varsity and Frosh/Soph teams finished 1st at the South Suburban Conference tournament. 

All-Conference Scholastic Bowl Mustangs are Ben Long, Megan Klimowski, Callum Galloway and Adam Bosch. 

Representatives from six unions shared information on joining the trades during an engaging IDEA session at EPCHS 

Two EPCHS student-athletes held Signing Day ceremonies this past month. 

Arshawn Powell made official his decision to attend Southern Illinois University and play football at the NCAA Division I level, and Itzel Alvarez will be a member of the Moraine Valley Community College women's soccer team next year. 

Important Dates to Know in March