After a hard-fought October 2014 football game at Grosh Field, Penn Manor players invited Warwick’s team to kneel together at midfield and pray for the injured Warwick quarterback and other sidelined players.
Ahead of a May 2015 Warwick School District Committee of the Whole meeting, LititzDailyNews.com laid out five reasons to attend, from a projected $3.9 million deficit in the 2015-16 budget to solicitor presentations and a new board policy.
Warwick’s boys basketball team, which upset Section One champion Cedar Crest and runner-up McCaskey during the 2014-15 season, ended its year with a 58-50 District 3 playoff loss at Reading despite a 24-point fourth quarter.
Elizabethtown held off a fourth-quarter Warwick rally to beat the Warriors 41-38 in Lancaster-Lebanon League girls basketball in January 2016, after Warwick scored just one point in the second quarter.
Warwick’s boys bowling team won its first Eastern Pennsylvania Regional championship in March 2016 at 222 Dutch Lanes, beating top-seeded Lancaster-Lebanon League rival Penn Manor in the Baker-game final to earn a trip to the state championships in Pittsburgh.
Republicans won all five open Warwick School Board seats in the November 2015 election, as incumbents Todd Rucci, Scott Shaub, Benedict Sahd and Nelson Peters and newcomer Leslie Penkunas each topped 3,000 votes and Democrats Cathy Gelatka and Charles Hample trailed.
Warwick High School’s 2014-15 School Performance Profile score fell to 89.5 from 96 the year before, the equivalent of dropping from an A to a B, according to data the Pennsylvania Department of Education released in November 2015.
In January 2015, Warwick School District said talks with the Warwick Education Association to start the 2015-16 school year before Labor Day had fallen through, leaving a proposed calendar running from September 9 to June 13. The union responded with its own statement.
After winning Lancaster-Lebanon League and district titles and placing fourth at regionals, a Warwick sophomore bowled a 1,272 series to finish 11th among the state’s top 24 bowlers at the March 2015 championships at Dutch Lanes in Ephrata.
In April 2015, Warwick High School was one of two Lancaster County schools awarded a $35,000 Dart Foundation grant to launch Project Lead The Way’s hands-on engineering courses over three years.
In February 2015, Linden Hall, the nation’s oldest girls’ boarding and day school, chose Michael E. Waylett of Virginia’s St. Anne’s-Belfield School as its next head of school after a six-month national search.
The Warwick High School girls’ varsity basketball team opened the 2014-15 season by winning the Elizabethtown Tip-Off Tournament with a 48-47 overtime victory over Susquehannock.