Happy Friday!

The district has received a grant for the UF vs Vanderbilt homecoming game on Saturday, Oct 7th, so the event is now FREE and we have 27 seats remaining. The charter bus will leave Nease at 12:30pm and return around 9:30pm. Students who would like to attend MUST complete a field trip form found in main office and have it returned by Wednesday, October 4th. The students who paid the $40 fee can pick-up their refund check in the main office.

Please remember for parent drop-off in the morning to move to the left lane after dropping off your child. If cars are meeting at the merge, please take a you go, I go approach so we can keep the car line flowing and get students to class on time. Thank you!

Please read the PSAT information below. We will NOT accept an online early dismissal for Oct 11th. Students need to pick-up the early release form from the main office or print from the link below.

PSAT Date is Wednesday, Oct 11th. Since the exam is digital this year, we initially planned for 9th graders to test on planning day, Monday, October 16th. Since registration has closed, we have determined that we have enough computers to test ALL of 10th and the 9th & 11th who registered on Wednesday, October 11th. To provide the best testing environment for students and to have enough teachers to administer the exams, students not testing have the option to take a digital learning day at home. All students will be given an assignment from their teacher that will be submitted. Students not taking the PSAT who choose to attend school, will sit in the cafeteria and use a laptop to complete online assignments.

If you would like your child to leave after testing at 12:45pm on October 11th, an early release form MUST be signed and submitted on Oct 11th for your child to leave campus. You can print the form or have your child pick up a form from the main office.

YEARBOOKS ON SALE NOW! We sold out last year, so make sure to reserve yours while they are at the lowest price of the year. Go to yearbookordercenter.com and enter code 15476

Grad Bash Update: We have very few tickets remaining for Grad Bash! Students who paid their senior dues by the deadline of August 18^th are eligible to purchase a ticket at this time. If tickets sell out, a waitlist will be available at a later date. 

Friday, May 10^th is the last day for seniors who have met all graduation requirements.

Graduation - Tuesday, May 21st at 6pm at UNF - students will receive 7 graduation tickets.

SENIOR PARENT ADS -- Don't miss out on your opportunity to honor your special senior with an ad in the 2024 yearbook! You can purchase, upload photos and design your ad with ease on yearbookordercenter.com. (Code 15476). Ad sizes are a quarter page, half page or full page. Space is limited and our plant deadline requires a cutoff of Nov. 1.

DEADLINE TO ORDER CAP & GOWN - December 1, 2023 www.hjjax.com

Monday, October 2^nd – GREEN Day – 1, 3, 5 & 7

• AWAY: 11:30am – Boys’ Golf at PVIC Lagoon Tournament

Tuesday, October 3^rd – GOLD Day – 2, 4, 6 & 7

• Marine FT to Guana (Fagan)
• 7:30am – PTSO Mtg in PH104
• AWAY: 4pm – Boys’ Golf at Bartram (JCP CC)
• AWAY: 4:30pm – Girls’ Golf at PVHS (??)
• AWAY: 5:30pm/7pm – JV/V Volleyball at Creekside

Wednesday, October 4^th – 1, 2, 3, 4, EXCEL, 5 & 6 – 2:50pm dismissal

• 8am – NHS Meeting in auditorium (Morrison & Robbins)
• EXCEL – Hispanic Heritage Celebration in Media Center
• AWAY: 4pm – Girls’ Golf at Tocoi (King & Bear)

Thursday, October 5^th – GREEN Day – 1, 3, 5 & 7

• Marine FT to Guana (Fagan)
• AWAY: 6pm – JV Green at Ed White HS
•  HOME: 6pm/7pm – JV/V Volleyball vs Providence
• AWAY: 6pm – JV Gold at St Augustine HS

Friday, October 6^th – GOLD Day – 2, 4, 6 & 7

• 7:30am - NJROTC FT – Air Rifle Meet at South Effingham in Guyton, GA
• AWAY: 5pm – JV Volleyball at JVAA Tournament
• HOME: 7pm – V Football vs St Augustine

Saturday, October 7^th   

• NJROTC FT – Air Rifle Meet at South Effingham in Guyton, GA
• NJROTC FT – Orienteering Meet at Blythe Island State Park in Brunswick, GA
• Speech & Debate Team FT – NE FL Civics & Debate Tournament
• UF vs Vanderbilt FT at Gainesville (Morrison & Cockey)
• HOME: 2pm – Swim & Dive vs PVHS & Beachside at Planet Swim
• AWAY: JV Volleyball at JVAA Tournament
• AWAY: 9am to 8:30pm – Marching Band FT to Tocoi Creek HS

Juniors and Seniors can register for college visits through Naviance. A list of all available visits is available in Naviance. Students are allowed 5 visits per year. All visits will receive a pass in the first/second period. This pass should be shown to the teacher PRIOR to the visit. Students should NOT miss summative assessments to attend a college visit. Visits will take place in the media center, unless otherwise indicated. 

 

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

First Coast Technical College: 11:00

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Washington University: 1:00

Nease Homecoming Dance 2023 “A Night in Greece” will be Saturday October 14, 2023 from 7:00-10:30pm. The dance will take place outdoors in the school courtyards. Tickets will be $25 for Nease students and $30 for guests.

Student tickets are on sale now and will close on Thursday October 12. All student ticket purchases must be made through Go Fan using this link: STUDENT TICKET LINK . Student will present their Go Fan ticket and school ID to enter the dance. Please pay all debts and fines before purchasing ticket.

Guest and Homeschool Tickets:

1. All guest, virtual, and homeschool students must complete a guest form to purchase ticket.
2. Forms available in front office, D-27, or by clicking here Guest Form
3. Guest form must be filled out and turned in to Coach Case in order to receive access to guest ticket link. Coach Case will accept guest forms before school (8:45am – 9:15am) during Excel (A or B) or after school (3:50pm – 4:15pm, Wednesdays 2:50 – 3:15pm) in her classroom (D-27).
4. Please make sure to bring completed guest form and printed copy of the guest’s ID. They will show an ID to match the printed one along with their ticket to get in the dance.
5. Guest tickets are $30, and the link to access guest tickets will be shared after the form is complete. You may also bring a debit or credit card to purchase the ticket with Coach Case when you bring the form.

Homecoming Court: Voting will take place starting Monday! QR codes will be displayed around campus and on Wired for students to vote. Voting ends Friday at 4:00pm.

Homecoming Spirit Week! Get ready for the homecoming game and dance with spirit week October 9-13. The spirit days are listed below. Students are encouraged to dress up (within dress code) and show their school spirit!

Monday – Barbie and Ken

Tuesday – Crazy Hat or Crazy Hair Day

Wednesday – Western Wednesday

Thursday – Celebrity v. Paparazzi

Friday – Class Colors (12th – Black / 11th – White / 10th – Green / 9th – Gold)

All questions regarding homecoming shoud be sent to Amy.Case@stjohns.k12.fl.us

SGA NEWS:

Congratulations to Freshmen officers:

President – Lena Asadi

Vice President – Mitchell Davis

Secretary – Faith Sanders

Elections for class representatives will be this Wednesday October 4. Voting will be via Microsoft Forms and QR codes will be posted around school for students to access the form. Voting is open to all students! To get to know our candidates please check out this link: Meet the Class Representative Candidates

Are you a junior or senior who loves history? Join Rho Kappa!

Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society is the only national organization for high school juniors and seniors that recognizes excellence in the field of social studies. Rho Kappa will meet to discuss history, social studies, and other topics.

See Ms. Fertig in P53 for more information, applications, and permission slips. Applications are due on October 2^nd. 

National English Honor Society

Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Lopez are excited to reestablish a chapter of the National English Honor Society at Nease. Applications are available from Mrs. Lewis in B102 before school or during EXCEL. Application deadline is October 13, 2023.

What is NEHS? It is an organization for those with exceptional ability and interest in such areas as literary analysis, media studies, composition, linguistic study, and creative writing, and who meet the requirements of membership.

Scholarships and contests are available through NEHS. The organization also focuses on quarterly projects and literary discussions.

How do I know if I am eligible?

• You must currently be a junior or a senior. 
• You must have an overall cumulative. 3.0 GPA.
• You must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA in all English courses. (You must have received above a B in all secondary English classes and in your current English course.)
• You must currently be enrolled in an Honors/AP/IB/Dual-Enrollment English class.)

Are there dues? Each student pays a one-time induction fee of $15.00, which covers national registration and a membership certificate, and which makes the member eligible for full Society benefits. Dues will be collected at a later date after acceptance letters are distributed. 

Football Home Game Themes

10/6 vs St. Augustine – Pink Out

10/13 vs Flagler Palm Coast – Let’s Glow (Homecoming)

10/27 vs PV – White Out

11/3 vs Tocoi – Aliens vs Cowboys (Senior Night)

 The St. Johns County Education Foundation d/b/a Investing in Kids (INK!) is once again hosting our annual Jail Break 5K – starting at the Old Jail in downtown St. Augustine and finishing at Vilano Beach. We’d love to have your students assist INK! with our Jail Break 5K on Saturday, October 21^st AND earn service hours for their time. We will need groups for cheering runners and handing water to runners along the race course. All student volunteers will receive a letter documenting their volunteer hours.

Here is the sign-up link for volunteers: https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/FL/SaintAugustine/EscapeFromStAugustine

You will see a list of cheer and water stations we need volunteers to sign-up for. If you click on the yellow volunteer button for a station, it will open a window to register for that station. If anyone has problems registering on the site, I can always add them manually. I just need a list of names that you want me to register. I’d love to have volunteers registered or your list of names by October 6^th.

I do ask that volunteers register (in pairs, etc.) at different stations. We’d like to have a few volunteers at each station first, before filling up a single station.

Volunteers will need to check in at volunteer registration at 6:45 a.m. at The Old Jail, 167 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine, FL 32084 (I know it is early, but they will be finished by 9:30/10:00). At 7:00 a.m., they will be shuttled from the Old Jail to their station location along the race course. A shuttle will return them to The Old Jail after the race for post-race festivities. Student volunteers in need of service hours will go home with a documentation letter at the end of their volunteer time on race day.

FRESHMEN/LINK CREW TAILGATE CELEBRATION!! 

Friday, Oct. 6^th is our home game against St. Augustine High and our Link Crew Leaders are planning a fun pre-game tailgate party behind Panther Hall from 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Freshmen will need to complete the online form below, and donate $5 to cover the cost of food, snacks, and drinks. This does not include tickets to the game. Those must be purchased separately. Students can bring the money to Mrs. Milian in the media center. Please understand-students CANNOT remain on campus after school because there will be no supervision for them. They must go home and can return to campus after 5:15 p.m. and meet us under the pavilion next to C-pod. We’ll have corn-hole, ladder toss, and other

fun activities for them as they get hyped for the game. At approximately 6:45 p.m. the Link leaders will escort the freshmen attending the football game to the stadium. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Milian at carolyn.milian@stjohns.k12.fl.us

Freshmen/Link Crew Tailgate!

We will be holding our very first book club meeting of the year on Friday, Oct. 6^th, from 4-5 p.m. in the media center. Our first book for this month will be The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky, which also happens to be one of the Florida Teen Reads for this year and a perfect read for October! 

“Rachel Chavez is the victim of a home invasion that ends with a death. Since the incident, she has moved and changed schools, but is still haunted by that night. To cope, she has taken up watching horror films in the hope of overcoming her fears. Friendless at her new school, she discovers a secret group, The Mary Shelley Club: a strange group of teens fascinated by the dark and macabre. They meet to watch Horror Films and put together elaborate Fear Tests, to scare a chosen victim. Whoever scares their victim the most wins. But, what starts out as mean spirited, but physically harmless, pranks begins to become all too real. Will Rachel be able to discover who is escalating the Fear Tests to real violence before she becomes the next victim?

Mrs. Milian has approx. 10-13 copies available for book club members, but if your student would like to purchase their own copy to keep, here’s the link: https://a.co/d/3GS1ZYP

On Friday, we’ll start discussing the book, have snacks and a little Halloween craft for our members to work on in groups. Please remember that all club members must have a parent permission form on file with me before they can participate in the club. Please email me if you need a form. We look forward to a FRIGHTENING good time with our readers!! 

Nease DECA is currently accepting donations of used shoes for our Helping Hands Shoe Drive. If you have any old shoes that still have a little life in them, please consider sending them in to us and we will take care of the rest!

PSAT PRACTICE!! 

The Princeton Review is offering FREE webinars on practice for the PSAT in addition to other valuable information for your students. ALL sophomores will be taking the PSAT on Oct. 11^th so this is a great opportunity to get them familiar with what the PSAT is about and some testing strategies. Please scan the QR code to learn more. 

Tutoring: The National Honor Society hosts afterschool tutoring on Wednesdays from 3pm-4pm in A107. If your student needs help in math, science, social studies, foreign language, or English, please use the link below to sign up for a tutor!

https://forms.office.com/r/njRJDfUVkQ

National Merit Semi-Finalists in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program

Over 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state's percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

Congratulations to Nease's Semi-Finalists!

Jack Hilbert

Shreya Kalarikkal

Alan Li

Jake Russo

Vincent Schifano

Lucian Slayden

Zarrar Talukdar

Commended students in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program

About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2024 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the 2024 competition by taking the 2022 PSAT/NMSQT. Those being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success. These students represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation.

Congratulations to Nease's Commended Students!

Noah Ali

Kyle Bae

Tristan Bireley

Hannah Dykeman

Jamie Fishbeyn

Peter Gray (not pictured)

Shubhangi Maitra

Sailalit Mudunuri

Rudra Patel

Pryanna Pradhan

Petyon Radcliff

Matthew Ryan

Zachary Servello

Devan Shah

Sanya Shah

Aadithyaa Vishegu

Robert Vohs

Sawyer Wiltfong

Mason Zobel

Below is a letter that I received from College Board. This is the first time in my tenure at Nease or in my 10 years as an AP in various high schools that we have ever received a perfect score on an AP test. Congratulations to junior, Braden Leonard!

Congratulations on Perfect AP Scores at Your School!

Dear Lisa Kunze,

I'm writing to share some exciting news about one of your students. Braden Leonard's performance on the AP^® Computer Science Principles Exam in May 2023 was so superior that it falls into a rather select category.

As you know, Advanced Placement^® Exams are scored on a scale of 1 to 5. Braden not only received the top score of 5, but was also one of only 459 students in the world to earn every point possible on the AP Computer Science Principles Exam, receiving the maximum score on each portion of the exam.

This outstanding accomplishment is likely a direct reflection of the top-quality education being offered at Allen D Nease High School. We applaud Braden's hard work and the AP teacher responsible for engaging students and enabling them to excel in a college-level course.

Sincerely,

Trevor Packer

Head of the Advanced Placement Program

Six students from our NHS speech & debate team participated this past weekend in our first Incubate Debate league tournament. All six moved on to tribunal rounds or semi finals. Three moved on to final rounds and placed in this competition: Rachel Ball (placed 2nd), Nihal Kondabrolu (placed 5th), and Roshan Chak (placed 8th). 

The semi final and final topics were on Ukraine joining NATO, and the voting age being raised. It is incredible to see high school students discussing these topics at such a high level, and they received feedback from the judges (college professors) that praised them for this as well. 



Outstanding job to all participants: Rachel Ball, Nihal Kondabrolu, Roshan Chak, Rishi Chandra, Pranav Devanand, Saicharan Ramineni. 

It was a perfect morning for racing, and the Nease girls' cross team took advantage of the ideal conditions at the Bale n' Trail meet on Saturday, September 23. Emily Rackley led the Nease Junior-Senior team and ran a personal best of 22:25. In the Freshman-Sophomore race, Sophia Holmes ran a new PR of 24:29 and placed first among the Nease team. All eleven athletes competing at the Bale n' Trail meet established new personal records. The Nease cross country team will travel to Tallahassee on Friday, September 29 for the FSU Pre-State Invitational.

Impressive showing by @neaseswimdv at the 3rd annual Frank Holleman Invitational at Planet Swim. Congratulations to our 1st place finishers and all who participated! 

Girls 400 free relay 1st place finish:

Charlotte Driesse

Jolie Nguyen

Caroline Triplett 

Olivia Moore

Boys 400 free relay 1st place finish:

Walker Lanoue

Brandon Gear

Jack Mainville

Luke Zardavets

Girls 200 free relay 2nd place finish:

Charlotte Driesse

Anna Michael Driesse

Alexis Petrosevich

Olivia Moore

Boys 200 free relay 1st place finish:

Jack Mainville

Declan Costello

Walker Lanoue

Brandon Gear

Girls 200 medley relay 5th place finish:

Jolie Nguyen

Anna Driesse

Caroline Triplett

Alexis Petrosevich

Boys 200 medley relay 2nd place finish:

Nate Caswell

Luke Zardavets

Anatoli Monsalve

Declan Costello

Out of 20 high school teams and 500 swimmers & divers that competed at the Frank Holleman Invitational on Saturday 9/23/23, Nease Swim & Dive Team Boys took 2nd place overall and Girls placed 4th overall!!!

Congratulations to our first place individual finishers:

Charlotte Driesse: 200 individual medley

Olivia Moore: 200 free

Brandon Gear: 200 free

Anna Driesse: 100 breast

Luke Zardavets: 100 breast

Congratulations to our second place individual finishers:

Charlotte Driesse: 200 free

Anna Driesse: 200 individual medley

Jack Mainville: 50 free

Olivia Moore: 100 free

Jack Mainville: 100 free

Brandon Gear: 500 free

Savannah Petrosevich: 1 meter diving

Aaron Storlie: 1 meter diving

Congratulations to all swimmers and divers who scored points at finals:

Gabi Allen

Evan Blase

Nate Caswell

Jillian Cejka

Declan Costello

Anna Driesse

Charlotte Driesse

Brandon Gear

Katie Key

Walker Lanoue

Rylie Larkin

Jack Mainville

Finn Mariani

Anatolie Monsalve

Olivia Moore

Jolie Nguyen

Alexis Petrosevich

Savannah Petrosevich

Murilo Rodrigues

Mac Spence 

Aaron Storlie

Caroline Triplett

John Wilcox

Luke Zardavets

It was a great showing during our first race of the season!!! Go PANTHERS!!!

200 medley B relay:

John Wilcox

Noah Ali

Caleb Laguens

Caeden Dye 

200 free B relay girls:

(1st swimmer unknown name)

Elizabeth Parker

Mariia Nosenko

Kristina Campbell

200 free B relay boys:

Jacob Palmer

Caleb Laguens

Caeden Dye

Dylan Harrison

400 free B relay girls:

Mariia Nosenko

Rylie Larkin

Gabi Allen

Katherine Elliott

400 free B relay boys:

Murilo Rodrigues

Nate Caswell

Anatoli Monsalve

Dylan Harrison

In addition to the excellent racing, Nease Swim & Dive Team hosted the Frank Holleman Invitational as a charity fundraiser raising $1,000.00 and over 600 plus items food donation drive to benefit Homeless Coalition of St. Johns County.

OCTOBER PTSO MEETING - When: Tuesday, October 3rd at 7;30 a.m. Where: NHS Front Office Conference Room; a virtual link can be found on the PTSO Facebook page a day before the meeting.

Gold Level Plus Business Partner Spotlight

Part of the Publix mission is to be involved as responsible citizens in our communities. For over 90 years, Publix has been a company our schools & communities can count on. Publix is honored to be a part of the Nease family. Thank you, Publix, for supporting Nease Hiigh School.

Partner Spotlight

With over 20 years of experience, Party Time Designs is a professional party decorating company specializing in custom design for all your special events, big or small.

Thank you, Party Time Designs, for helping Nease celebrate the special moments!

Academy of Hospitality & Tourism Seeks Professionals to Judge DECA Competitions

The DECA chapter at Nease has become a very successful Career and Technical Student Organization attached to our Academy of Hospitality and Tourism. To ensure all our student members are prepared and ready to put their best selves forward, Florida DECA has started a mock competition program this fall. They are currently looking for industry professionals interested in serving as judges in the virtual competitions. If this is something any of our parents would be interested in, you can follow the link below to register. The hospitality events are November 7th and 14th, but there are also other opportunities to judge events in marketing, business management, entrepreneurship, and finance: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1jYU4vujQM6c_IlV7-77TpQcitJbL6yvfCzySJxVfOng/viewform?pli=1&usp=forms_home&ths=true&pli=1&edit_requested=true

If you have any questions, please reach out to Tara Amato at tara.amato@stjohns.k12.fl.us 

Academy Guest Speaker Permission Forms

The Academies are scheduling upcoming guest speakers to share their professional experiences with students in the Academy classes, or during Excel time. This year, students MUST submit a parent permission form to take part in a guest speaker event. These permission forms will be sent home with students within their Academy classes, and need to be turned in with parent signatures before the guest speaker event takes place. Please be sure to sign these forms and remind your student to turn them back in to their teachers. If we have a guest speaker event during an Academy class, and your student has not turned in their permission form, we will have to send the student out of the classroom to complete an alternative assignment in order to be in compliance with new state rules. This is a new process, and it will impact all Academy programs. 

If you have any questions about the Communications Academy, Stellar Academy of Engineering, or the Academy of Hospitality & Tourism, reach out to Mrs. Combs at jaime.combs@stjohns.k12.fl.us

Mrs. Kennedy will visit TOK next week to register students for Spring IB examinations. We will also work on AP and IB exam conflicts, if they arise.

Seniors were given their gold envelopes to begin their college application process with Nease. Please see the contents of the envelope so you are aware of how to request transcripts, secure letters of recommendations and get secondary school reports completed by Mrs. Kennedy. More information is located in the guidance section of this Panther Press.

Lots of information is being posted on the Nease IB Schoology Page. All IB students have been placed in the group and provided the group code to join during the meetings mentioned above. Please ask your student what has been posted lately.

College visits have begun. Juniors and Seniors can sign up to attend through Naviance. There is a limit of 5 per year. See guidance section for those listings.

Our 1^st IB Social for students was unfortunately cancelled due to weather. Thank you to everyone who purchased drinks. We will schedule again for next month.

Thank you to those that have joined our IB Booster Club.  They are a non-profit charitable organization run by a volunteer board of parents. All parents with students in the IB program are encouraged to join and participate in the IB Booster events. Parent participation, whether occasionally or on a routine basis, contributes to the success of our students in the IB program. Please visit the website at www.neaseibboosters.org for more information. We are looking forward to meeting you and hope to see you get involved! The next Booster Club meeting will be held at 9:45 on October 24th in the Nease Media Center. We look forward to seeing everyone there. All visitors are required to sign in, so please make sure you are an approved volunteer with the St. Johns County School District.

Carolyn Milian – School Librarian Media Specialist

Lorna Patterson – Media Clerk

Media Center phone number – 904-547-8367

Email – carolyn.milian@stjohns.k12.fl.us

ATTENTION ALL FAMILIES OF HISPANIC HERITAGE!! PLEASE READ!

We will be celebrating our 3^rd Annual “Hispanic Heritage Celebration” in our school media center and we need your help! 

To celebrate our culture, our heritage, and our people, we will be hosting this FUN event in our media center once again on Wednesday, Oct. 4^th during Excel time. We would LOVE parent support and help! We are hoping to have a showcase of hispanic foods, music, dress, flags, decorations, arts & crafts stations AND we will have TREMENDOUS Zumba instructor – Awilda Quezada – doing mini-Zumba sessions with our students! If you are able to help us out in some way, PLEASE email me as soon as possible so that I can count on you!! Thank you so much!!

Nease Tennis will have a Chick-fil-A Spirit night Thursday, October 12th from 5pm to 8pm at the State Road 16 location. 10% of all proceeds will go the Nease Tennis Program.

Follow Nease Athletics on Instagram #NeaseAthletics and Twitter @NeaseAthletics

You can support Nease Athletics by becoming a member of our Booster Club! Everyone is welcome to join. There are five membership levels. All funds will directly support Nease High School athletic programs. All athletes and coaches will benefit from the funding. Show your Panther Pride and sign up here https://neaseathletics.com/gpbc-membership/

Link Below for Apparel purchases:

https://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/florida/pontevedra/nease-high-school

Athletic Clearance

Prior to participating with a Nease High School athletic team, all students are required to complete the athletic clearance process.

Please keep in mind that the FHSAA requires all student athletes to view free NFHS video courses on concussions, heat illness, and sudden cardiac arrest (see instructions below). Signatures on the EL3 form indicate that your athlete has completed these three video courses. The FHSAA also requires that all student athletes have at least a 2.0 unweighted GPA to be eligible for participation.

For step-by-step athletic clearance instructions please visit: https://neaseathletics.com/athletic_clearance/

Athletic Fee/Pay to Participate

The purpose of the Nease Athletic Fee is to help address the costs associated with operating a high school athletic department. Currently the St. Johns County School Board pays each coach’s coaching supplement, and all remaining costs are the responsibility of the athletic department and teams. The athletic fee helps cover the following expenses:

·        Game officials

·        Indoor and Outdoor Athletic Facility maintenance

·        Sports Medicine

·        Security

·        Athletic Leadership Council activities

·        Student-Athlete Letters and Awards

·        FHSAA membership dues and other fees

The 2023-24 fee will be as follows: $75 Per Sport Played

This fee must be paid prior to the student-athlete participating in his/her first contest. Nease Athletics appreciates your attention and compliance regarding payment of this fee. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Nease Athletic Department.

Looking ahead:

Boys Soccer

Boys Soccer will have an informational/interest meeting on Thursday, October 5^th at 4:00pm in P24

Girls Weightlifting

First Practice: Oct 9 (7:15am)

Girls Soccer

Anyone wanting to try out for girls’ soccer must be registered and have athletic clearance before October 16^th.

Tennis

Nease Tennis will have a Chick-fil-A Spirit night Thursday, October 12th from 5pm to 8pm. 10% of all proceeds will go the Nease Tennis Program.

Fall Sport Schedules:

To view the fall sports schedules visit https://neaseathletics.com/calendar/

Nease Athletic Ticket Sales will be GoFan this school year