Shawnee Optimists

Shawnee Optimist Honors our Scholarship Students and our Teachers of the Year.

Shawnee Optimist Honors Banquet. Congratulations to all the outstanding students!

Shawnee Optimist supports the Caring Closets for Shawnee and Perry Schools.

Shawnee Optimist honors our essay and speech winners for 2025.

The participants and winners from the middle school essay contest.
Judges: Renee Benedum, Wendy Perkins, Ashley Pritt

1st place: Peyton Sebota, 2nd place: Kelsey Collins, 3rd place: Shriya Naoor

Others: Sneha Mishra, Tofunmi Balogun

Pass, Dribble, Shoot 2025 is in the books!! Many thanks to coaches Triplett and Patterson and the SHS girls and boys basketball teams, Kim Custer, Barb Dukeman( Optimist President) June Bryan who was my Co-Chair, Karen Litke (Emcee), Sherri Jessel, Doug Parish, Steve Bryan, Jensen Litke, Kevin and Ashley Heilers and our photographer, Sam Heilers. I’m sure I’m forgetting somebody but to all who participated a huge THANK YOU!!!
Congrats to our winners: Boys 8-9 were Keith Jackson (1st Place), Noah Ramsey (Runnerup): Girls 8-9 were Madilyn Jones (1st Place), Ava Morangello ( Runnerup): Boys 10-11 were Cohen Fuerst (1st Place), Jax Lane (Runnerup): girls 10-11 were Samantha Jones ( 1st Place), Alexis Kaufman (Runnerup): Boys 12-13 were Isaac Heilers ( 1st Place), Riley Litke (Runnerup) 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

Shawnee Optimist having lunch at Freda's. Sad day for the Club because Brenda is moving to Columbus.