The Madison C-3 School District held its annual homecoming events on the evening of Friday, January 24th. The events included the varsity boys' basketball game, followed by a cheerleading performance, the girls' varsity game and the king and queen coronation. While the games were exciting, the main focus of the night was the crowning of the royalty and the homecoming dance that was to follow. 

The Queen candidates were Abbie Painter, Kennedy Duff, Melena Bollman, Sierra Welsh, Sienna Brush, Sophia Mayfield, Monica Wahl, Makenna Feith. Princess candidates were  Emma Craigg and Vanessa Gonzales. The king candidates were Andrew Stultz, Alex Harrison, Tanner Wood, LaJen McIntire, Brady Bollman, Ethan Million. The crowned king and queen were Tanner Wood and Melena Bollman. 

Next, everyone who signed up in advance went to the commons to see all of the decorations and enjoy snacks and the dance. Mrs. Havercamp was playing the music. Everyone had a great time at the dance. Several students ended up going out to eat after the dance. 

The Madison Panthers Basketball program played their homecoming games on the evening of January 24th against the visiting Slater Wildcats! The girls' varsity team started off the night with a strong nailbiter of a game! Unfortunately, the girls did not come out with a win, but it was a loss by one point, 34-35 Slater. 

The boys continued the night and played the Slater boys. The boys sadly faced defeat losing 18-69. However, we didn’t let the losses affect our Homecoming as we had our king and queen candidates take the floor in advance of our evening dance. There was a great turnout from the study body and everyone danced the night away.

Homecoming week at Madison: We had dress-up days Monday through Friday, a poster contest and a dance Friday night after the basketball game. It was a week full of fun and anticipation.

Starting the week off strong, the first dress-up day was missed because of snow. Although the first dress-up day was missed, the rest of the dress-up days made up for it. Wednesday's dress-up day was pajama day. This day was for sure my favorite because you can still participate while being comfy. 

Thursday’s dress-up day was Disney duo. I definitely noticed that many of the teachers participate in this one as well as the students. The last dress-up day was to dress like your poster. Every class had a Disney themed poster that your class could dress up as. Personally, I thought the sophomores did a really good job dressing up as their poster, which was "Cars" themed. 

Homecoming week concluded on Friday with the varsity girls' and boys' basketball games, cheerleading dance performance and the coronation of the Homecoming king and queen. After the boys' basketball game, Mrs. Adcock announced the poster winner. 

The seniors won the contest with their poster, which was based off the movie "Up". After announcing the poster winners and the coronation of the Homecoming Queen and King, was the dance. This was Madison’s busy Homecoming week, hopefully everybody had a blast participating in the dress-up days, as well as the dance. 

The winter season is at full throttle here at Madison C-3 and with that comes a student's best friend, aka snow days. Students wish, pray and dream on these winter days hoping that the next day of school to be cancelled in light of inclement weather. Luckily here at Madison, we have had some snow days so far. 

So far this winter season has brought a total of four snow days and two days for ice. Now while there have always been snow days at Madison this year something new happened on these snow days. A new phenomenon was introduced among the upper-level study body. This trend involved jumping into the snow. This trend swept the frost covered streets of Madison starting with Jacob Fish who led the wave that swept through the students. The trend went rampant for two days as students tagged each other one after the other spurring the next person to video themselves to hurl their bodies into the icy snow. 

Earlier this January the Madison High School basketball teams competed in the Keytesville tournament The first set of games took place on the 28th of January. These contests included the girl's team face-off against Norborne and the boys' team went head-to-head against Northwestern.

 Regarding the Norborne team, there is still confusion regarding whether they are from the north or the west: regardless, it was a hard-fought game. Both the girl's and boy's teams lost the first game in the tournament bracket but the Panthers came back on Wednesday night to compete in the second round of the tournament. Both teams ended up battling Southwest. Speaking of location, the question remains if the Southwest team is from the south or the west?  Regardless of where the competitor is from, both Panther teams secured a spot in the consolation championship game. 

For the consolation championship games, both teams would face Northwestern.  Although it always takes a team effort, the Lady Panthers had plenty of help from their sophomore guard Kaylee Knight (5',8") and center Kennedy Duff (5',9"). The boy's game was close as it was dominated by fouls and clutch free throws. With extra efforts from Ethan Million the towering pavilion (6'3"), the shifty guard, Jake Jackson (6','0"), and power forward Brady Bollman (6',2") the boys came away with the win. Both teams sealed the win and brought home the consolation plaque to display in the Madison C-3 trophy case for years to come.