Thank you to our FIVE candidates for Junior Class President (Alex, Annabelle, Arielle, Giana, and Kunal) for joining us today to share their reasons for wanting to be Class President, and also to help deliver our daily announcements!

Dead pens, exhausted Expo markers, mechanical pencils with neither lead nor eraser? Don't throw them, terracycle them! McLean's advisory is collecting spent pens, markers, glue sticks, and mechanical pencils to recycle through Bic's terracycling program. To participate, simply pile up that plastic and wait for a student from McLean's advisory to come around on Fridays to collect anything to recycle. Questions? Email mcleana@kmsd.edu

Come and see the KM All Campus Musical, Beauty & the Beast! All seats are reserved for our live performances November, 11-13, and tickets are on sale now! Click here for more information or to purchase tickets.

Out of town or busy November, 11-13? No problem! You also have the option to purchase a Scheduled Content ticket to view a recorded version of one of our live performances. This video content will be available for viewing Nov. 18-20 and tickets can be purchased at the same information link listed above.

Attention all Laser Leaders! Please sign up for the Laser Leader advisory session with Mrs. Adamczyk TOMORROW , Tuesday, October 19th. Email Mrs. Adamczyk with any questions!

Student Senate is hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive on Friday, October 29th in the Auditorium entryway. Not only will your donation help save a life, but you will also receive a Green Bay Packer fidget spinner and 2, yes, 2 $5 e-gift cards to a merchant of your choice!

17-year-olds and older donors, and anyone who wants to sign themselves up:

UPDATED TIME… PARENTS - Join us for the next KM Music Parents Association meeting Monday, October 18 at 6:30 pm at the KM Perform Community Room at the High School. A huge thanks to all of you who attended our very successful Homecoming Chili Dinner and a special thanks to all the parents who volunteered and made donations. We appreciate the tremendous support! We look forward to seeing you on October 18th to learn more about upcoming events for the KM music programs.

KM Perform students have partnered with Old World Wisconsin to produce their annual "Halloween Legends & Lore" event. Our students have written scripts, made costumes, and will be performing for the live event!

Students and staff have also produced an amazing commercial to promote the event, running TODAY and TOMORROW and October 22/23.

Are you pro-life? Pro-Life KM will be meeting in the front office conference room this Tuesday during advisory. Donuts will be provided. Hope to see you there!"

Start clearing out your closets and dresser drawers! Mrs. Karls’ and Mr. Mattke’s advisories are teaming up to host a clothing drive. They are asking for all types of gently used middle and high school clothing sizes to be donated to the Journey House in Milwaukee. Bins will be located in the front entrance, laser entrance, and cafeteria starting November 1st and going until the 19th.

Adam Langreder and Cade Ziegler are running a community service opportunity for Dick Olm in Mr. Bestor's advisory on Wednesday, October 20th.

They will be picking up trash around the school campus during advisory for 30 minutes. Trash bags and gloves will be provided.

Students Adam Rife, Cade Buchholz, Eli Rife, and Oliver Muehleck, are setting up a food drive for the next couple of weeks where you can bring in canned and maybe packaged food. This food will all be donated to a homeless shelter in the area to help those who are in need. These bins will be showing up at the Front Entrance and West Gym doors, as well as at some sporting events. Please consider supporting this important cause.

UPDATE: A food drive box will be at the entrance of the football game for nonperishable donations. 

Seniors, join the counseling team for a college workshop advisory if you are in need of extra time to explore your options, to work on your college applications, or you just have questions about the process. You can find these sessions in Responsive Scheduling in Infinite Campus. College Workshop advisories will be held in the library on October 20, and 27.

Interested in the University of Alabama? "Bama" will be visiting Milwaukee on Tuesday, October 19 at 7:00 p.m. Attend this event at Discovery World in Milwaukee to meet our local recruiters and to talk with representatives from some of their top academic departments. Click on this link to register.

Attention Juniors and Seniors: Admission Representatives will be at our school during Advisory on the dates shown below. Interested students may sign up for this through responsive advisory. Please see the Counseling Office with questions.

The Kettle Moraine Girls Tennis Team showed their muscle at the WIAA State Tournament this weekend. Anna Sueflohn and Ella Martin dominated on Friday, easily winning against 2 seeded Arrowhead 6-0, 6-4. Then they trampled 7 seed, Whitefish Bay, earning them the title of 4th best doubles team in the state! 

Brooke Graf and Alison Abhold won their first round match against Homestead and then were pitted against the 5 seeded team from Franklin, which ended in a loss. Josie Sueflohn got a tough draw and was defeated by Neenah's singles player in the first round.

It was exciting tennis - the girls put everything out there. Congratulations to Ella and Anna on earning recognition as the 4th best doubles team in the state!!

Your Lady Lasers are playing their strongest volleyball of the season at just the right time. They finished off Waukesha West, Slinger, and Muskego in two straight sets each and beat them more solidly than we did during conference. While we lost to Ocon in the finals in two sets, we are still playing better and the girls will be ready should we face them again in Green Bay. Come to the Laser Dome on Saturday, 10/23 @ 7:00 pm to cheer us on during Sectional Finals as we look to play at the Resch in two weeks. #WeAreKM #RushTheResch

 

The Lady Lasers' freshmen went 4-0 for the day and won the tournament for the first time in KM history. They finished the conference in 3rd and lost to Arrowhead in conference and during our tournament as well as Mukwonago, all in three sets. At the tournament, they turned a corner and beat Arrowhead and Mukwonago in the medal bracket to complete the perfect day. 

 

JV also had their conference tournament yesterday and started off the day beating Oconomowoc. They finished the day 2-2 and ended up taking 4th in the conference tournament after finishing 5th in the conference. Both teams finished higher than in conference which is proof that the program is strong and learning. Well done ladies.

Congratulations to the Varsity Boys' Volleyball Team that finished 2nd in their Conference Tournament on Saturday. The Lasers beat #4 Waukesha West 2-0 in a quarterfinal, and then beat #1 AHS 2-0 in the semifinal. Their only match loss came in the final against Muskego. Well done Lasers!

The JV2 and JV1 Boys' Volleyball Teams travel this afternoon to their respective Conference Tournaments in Muskego and Mukwonago. The JV1 team enters as the #1 seed, and the JV2 team enters as the #2 seed. Good luck Lasers!

The Girls Cross Country programs finished their regular season on Saturday with the Classic 8 conference meet. The Varsity led by first-team all-conference performances by Tara Braun (2nd overall) and Ella Lephardt (6th place overall) finished in 5th place in the highly competitive race.

The team had 10 of the 15 runners finish with either season-best or career-best, including a special shout-out to senior captain Kayleigh Kopidlansky finishing her career with a career-best time by over a minute.

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The Varsity Team moves into the postseason by co-hosting the WIAA sectional meet at Nagawaukee Park on Saturday, October 23rd. The boys race at 11:00 am and the girls at 11:45 am. The teams would love a ton of support on Saturday, so pop out to the park and watch your lasers fight through one of the strongest sectionals in the state.

The Boys Cross Country Lasers took home a 6th place team finish at the conference meet. The Varsity were led by Noah Straka earning 2nd team all-conference. AJ Memmel and Rogan Leistiko followed closely behind, and a shout out to Jackson Braun for joining the sub 18 club finishing in 17:44. The JV crew took home a 5th place finish, with Nick Beilfuss and Ryan Montes de Oca leading the Lasers. The boys had 16 more lifetime PR's set this past weekend! This week the Varsity will race at home for the sectional meet, come cheer on the Lasers as they attempt to qualify for State.

Attention student-athletes planning to try out for the KM Baseball Program in 2022. There will be a mandatory meeting for student-athletes planning on trying out on Monday, October 25th in the Library. The meeting will start at 630am. This will give coaches and players an opportunity to meet each other. Coach Wolbert and staff will go over many topics to include, cultural expectations, core values and their vision moving forward. 

We look forward to seeing everyone there!!! 

GO LASERS!!!

FOX6 is giving you the chance to tell us where we should go for the High School Blitz Game of the Week. The three choices are Marquette at Milwaukee Marshall, Milwaukee King at Nicolet, and Kettle Moraine at Racine Horlick.

The polls will close Wednesday at 10 pm and we will announce the winner right after on FOX6.

If you are interested in joining the 2021-22 Kettle Moraine Alpine Ski Race Team, join us for our virtual information meeting on Thursday, October 21 at 7:00 pm.

You can go to the Kettle Moraine Alpine Ski Race Team webpage found on the KMSD.edu website for more information and a link to the meeting.

Girls - interested in playing soccer this spring? There will be an informational night on Wednesday, November 3rd from 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm in the library. If you have any questions, please email Coach Kapitan at kapitank@kmsd.edu

F Football vs Fort Atkinson 6:30 pm

B JV2 Volleyball @ Muskego 5:30 pm

B JV Volleyball @ Mukwonago 5:30 pm

G JV2 Volleyball @ Sussex Hamilton 5:00 pm