Minden Public Schools

💜🐾 HELP SEND OUR WHIPPETS TO STATE! 🐾💜

Community, friends, fans and family—join us THURSDAY after the Whippet Walk through 3:00pm -East Elementary, 3:10-3:15pm CL Jones Middle School and 3:20pm Minden High School!

The teams will load up and head to the Fairgrounds at approximately 3:35 p.m. Come show your Purple Pride and help give our runners a great State Meet send-off! 💜

Afterward, the team will travel to Kearney for pre-meet errands and a team meal.

👕 STATE CROSS COUNTRY APPAREL UPDATE
Apparel is scheduled to arrive at the High School by 3:30 p.m. Thursday. We’ll bring the orders with us to the Fairgrounds send-off and distribute them there. Any remaining orders will be returned to the High School Office for pickup Friday morning.

Let’s show these athletes how much their community supports them! GO WHIPPETS! 🐾

The MHS Whippet Band fought through some tough weather conditions today and came home with a DIVISION 2: EXCELLENT rating. It has been so much fun to watch them grow this season and improve every week. They truly care about each other and it’s such a fun environment to be a part of.

The Minden High School Band had a terrific performance at State Bandmasters in Kearney today! Great students, great help, and a great Director! Great performance Whippets!

Congratulations to Sam Cederburg, Hannah Donley, and Emma Grube, the FIRST American Degree recipients from the Minden FFA Chapter. Unable to make it to convention were Marah Dornhoff and Aiden Sinsel who also received their degree. What an amazing accomplishment to achieve this award as only 1% of all FFA members receive this degree. Way to represent not only our chapter, but Minden Public Schools. We are so proud of these members and all of their leadership and hard work!

💜🐾 STATE MEET PRIDE! 🐾💜
The Minden Whippets capped off the 2026 cross country season in Kearney with our GIRLS finishing THIRD in Class C with 54 points and our BOYS placing 11TH with 199 points!

🏅 Senior Alexa Warner led the girls with an outstanding 8th-place finish, earning her second STATE MEDAL! Alexa covered the course in 19:55.3, improving her own mark on our girls’ State Meet/UNK 5K record board!

💜 GIRLS RESULTS
• Alexa Warner — 8th | 19:55.3
• Regan Johnson — 22nd | 20:55.8
• Gemma Fritson — 25th | 21:01.4
• Adelyn Whitten — 30th | 21:17.1
• Emerson Kuehn — 35th | 21:30.3
• Aclynn Osterbuhr — 64th | 22:17.5
Five girls in the top 35—a strong team effort and plenty to be proud of!

🔥 A RECORD BOARD ASSAULT!
The girls also put their stamp on program history! Alexa improved her third-ranked time, while Regan, Gemma, and Emerson earned NEW spots on our State Meet/UNK Course all-time top 10!

Once the updates are complete, SEVEN of the TEN names on that board will belong to girls on our 2026 roster! Here’s how it will soon look:
1 - Jessie Hurt — 19:49.7 | 2020
2 - Adelyn Whitten — 19:53.76 | 2025
3 - Alexa Warner — 19:55.3 | 2026
4 - Emma Jons — 20:46.9 | 2013
5 - Regan Johnson — 20:55.8 | 2026
6 - Gemma Fritson — 21:01.4 | 2026
7 - Aclynn Osterbuhr — 21:08.1 | 2024
8 - Lindsey Rehtus — 21:18.1 | 2020
9 - Evie Sharkey — 21:29.7 | 2024
10 - Emerson Kuehn — 21:30.3 | 2026
Alexa’s medalist entry will also get an update: 11th in 2024 AND 8th in 2026! What a lasting mark this group is making on Minden Cross Country! 💜

📊 ANOTHER LOOK AT THE GIRLS’ TEAM DEPTH!
In an unofficial comparison combining the actual finish times from ALL FOUR CLASSES and scoring five runners with two pushers, Minden finishes 9TH OVERALL and FIRST among Class C teams!

This comparison includes teams with at least five finishers and counts up to seven runners per team. It offers another way to celebrate our depth alongside our official third-place Class C finish!

ALL-CLASS GIRLS TOP 15
Place | Team | Class | Points
1 - Millard West | A | 71
2 - Lincoln Pius X | B | 162
3 - Omaha Marian | A | 192
4 - Lincoln Southwest | A | 220
5 - Elkhorn North | A | 240
6 - PL South | A | 287
7 - Seward | B | 333
8 - Kearney | A | 353
9 - 💜 MINDEN | C | 390
10 - Gretna | B | 404

🐾 Our boys earned their place on the state starting line and finished 11th in Class C, led by senior Gage Thull in 27th place. We are proud of their commitment to this team throughout the season!

💜 BOYS RESULTS
• Gage Thull — 27th | 18:04.9
• Isaac Reed — 52nd | 18:28.7
• Trystan Sharkey — 90th | 19:23.6
• Seth Jacobitz — 98th | 19:47.6
• Blake Boudreau — 111th | 20:42.0
• Holt Aschenbrenner — 115th | 22:01.3

To ALL our seniors: THANK YOU for the time, leadership, and heart you have given Minden Cross Country. You have helped build something that will continue beyond your final race.
To our families, students, staff, alumni, and fans: THANK YOU for supporting our runners and filling the course with purple and encouragement! Every athlete on our roster helped make this season possible.

RESULTS - https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/288796/info

Proud of these athletes. Proud of this team. PURPLE PROUD! 💜🐾

#MindenWhippets #WhippetXC #PurpleProud #StateXC

Congratulations to our boys Cross Country team for finishing 11th as a team! Congratulations on a terrific season!

Congratulations to our girls across Country team for placing 3rd today at State and to Alexa for placing 8th overall out of 116 runners! Great job Whippets!

📍Kearney High School
🕝3:30PM
🗓️Saturday, October 24th
🎟️Tickets available online only https://www.simpletix.com/e/2026-nsba-state-marching-festival-kearney-tickets-286025

Congrats to Macy on being selected to the NCA Super-State Team! 💜⛳️💜

Just a quick reminder if you haven't ordered your Whippet Football Playoff apparel yet and still plan to do so the store closes tomorrow at 8 AM.

The State Cross Country Apparel Order has arrived - We will have them out and ready to pick up in the HS Office or Commons area. at 3:00-3:30. If this does not work, we will take them to the Fairgrounds Team Send Off at 3:30pm to 3:45pm. Then they will be available again at the High School. Office. Thanks

Halloween is approaching fast! Middle School students are allowed to wear costumes to school. Follow the link to see guidelines for those students who plan to wear their costumes.

Happy Halloween!!

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Minden volleyball team will play Holdrege today for a 3rd place finish in SWC! The match is best of five games scheduled to start at 4:30 at Cozad High School. Go Whippets!

The football playoff apparel store is officially open. It closes on Friday at 8 AM. Use the link below to access the store. https://minden-state-fb-2026.itemorder.com/

🐾Whippet Nation Network N🏈tice🐾

Live streaming for the week of October 19th through October 25th.

https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/minden/organization/8417/minden-high-school?src=favoritesSidebar

Minden Community- get your non-perishables ready! The high school FBLA, FCCLA, and FFA will be trick or treating for canned goods on Tuesday night! If you won't be home you could leave some on your porch and we will grab them!

Another great day to be a Whippet! The bands did a fantastic job today and have continued to get better and better each week. CLJMS Parade: SUPERIOR MHS Parade: SUPERIOR MHS Field: EXCELLENT Could not be more proud of the growth and commitment of all of the students in the band program. A special thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to help today. This event brings in somewhere around 1,300 band students and that's not even including people who come to watch! One more week for the MHS band as they head to Kearney for NSBA State Marching next Saturday.

Tomorrow is the big day, our home marching contest! Come out and support all the bands coming to town and be sure to cheer loud for the Whippets when they march by! 39 bands in the parade. CLJMS is #7 and MHS is #37. Parades goes East on 1st, North on Brown, and West on 5th.