Friday, August 28, 2026

Welcome back, Students.

Information

Clubs and Sports: Any student who is interested in clubs or sports, click here for a list of the coaches and advisors. 

Unified Soccer: Interested in being part of a fun, inclusive team that brings students with and without disabilities together? Sign up for Unified Soccer!

• Time Commitment: 1–2 days per week after school

• Requirement: A current sports physical is required

• Sign Up: Email Kayla Gearring at kgearrin@hollandpublicschools.org

All are welcome—let’s kick off an awesome season together!

Holland Theater: Auditions! Matilda the Musical is our fall musical, which means it’s audition season! Auditions will be Tuesday, September 1 from 3–5:30 pm and Wednesday, September 2 from 3–6 pm in the Choir Room.
• If you cannot make either of the audition dates/times, please reach out to Director Kate and we’ll find another time for you to audition.
• For your audition, please prepare 16 bars (or 1 minute long) of a song to perform. If you don’t have a song picked out, don’t worry—we can help you find one! 
• Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes, as there will likely be a movement portion of the audition. 
• Come prepared to fill out a conflict sheet with dates you are unavailable to rehearse. This will help us create a rehearsal calendar that is as accurate as possible.
• If you have any questions, please reach out to the director at kleighto@hollandpublicschools.org, or reach out to one of the students on the Theatre Leadership Team (Ka'Shay Louks, Izabelle Andrlik, Shiloh Maples, Tray Knox, Kelsey Leep, and Couri Strong). 

Sports - https://hollandathletics.com/

Men's Soccer: The Men's varsity soccer team started the season with a 1-1 tie with Grand Rapids Christian. Freshman Javonny Carrillo scored the lone Dutch goal. On Wednesday night, the Holland Varsity Soccer Team defeated Zeeland East 8-0. In the first half, Caelen Gray opened the scoring on a pass from Andy Andres; Jovanny Carrillo scored the first of his three goals on an assist from Caelen Gray. Carrillo scored twice more before the end of the half. In the second half, Asher Folkert scored on a long shot, Dre Lopez scored from an assist by Carrillo, Carter Hofland converted from a pass by Santi Salazar, and Pike Fletter capped the scoring from another pass from Salazar. Goalies Simon Ozimek and Landon Van Ingen shared the shutout. Holland is now 1-0-1. In JV action, the Holland JV had a comeback win against the Zeeland East JV 2-1. 

Cross Country: The Holland Dutch opened their cross country season on Friday at the Portage Early Bird with a 4th-place (Girls) and 13th-place (Boys) finish. Top awards for the day included Olivia Weiss, Johanna Mulder and Molly Murphy for the girls team and Aiden Lambers for the boys team. The Varsity scoring group for the day for the girls included Olivia Weiss, Johanna Mulder, Molly Murphy, Tessa Nienhuis, Ashlyn Depoy, Lexi Gibson, and Lucy Vanhuis. The Varsity scoring group for the day on the boys' side was Aiden Lambers, Caelen Gray, Jack Schulte, Will Rund, Luke Arendshorst, Myles Pitcher, and Louie Orme. We are proud of our Dutch runners on this early season race, and can't wait to see all of the improvements over the coming weeks. The Dutch return to the course on Sept. 11 in East Lansing to compete in the Spartan Invite.

Holland High Podcasts can be found here: https://hollandhighpodcasts.weebly.com/

Word of the Day

Tilde refers to the mark ~ placed especially over the letter n (as in the Spanish señor, meaning "sir") to denote the sound \nʸ\, or over vowels (as in the Portuguese irmã, meaning "sister") to indicate nasality. When a tilde appears as an independent character, it usually means "approximately" (as in "we'll be there in ~ 30 minutes").

A familiar example of the tilde appears in the name of the Brazilian city São Paulo.

This week we introduce you to the new Associate Superintendent of School improvement at HPS, Scott Joseph.

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