Congrats to the January Whippet of the Month Students listed below:
4th Grade: Josie Graham, Riley Strong
5th Grade: Laynee Joyce, Luke Werner
6th Grade: Zoey Calderon, Xavier Thompson
7th Grade: Adaire Crane, Evelynn Sharkey
8th Grade: Emili Barboza, Treven Keen, Gabbie Lee
Minden FBLA is selling Valentine's Day Cookies this week before school and during lunch in the high school commons area! The deadline to buy is Friday, February 3rd. All proceeds will be donated to March of Dimes, a nonprofit that fights for the health of all moms and babies.
These Whippet musicians auditioned and were selected to participate in the UNK Honor Band and Choir Clinic today! They spent the day rehearsing music with other students and will perform in a concert to conclude the day.
The middle school girls wrestling meet scheduled for today at Grand Island Walnut has been postponed due to an emergency situation at Walnut Middle School. An alternate date has not been set for this meet. The girls team was on the way to the meet but will turn around and return to Minden.
Congratulations to the SWC tournament champions!!!
In the regular season finale, the lady whippets finish in 4th at the Amherst Invite. Shoutout to Savannah Koch, who notched her 50th career win and pinned her way to first place!
Good luck to all of the whippet activities today including girls wrestling at Amherst, boys wrestling at Raymond Central, Speech and Grand Island, and girls basketball at the SWC Championship game at Kearney High at 4:30pm!
Please see the image for a look at the week ahead.
Our Whippets girls basketball team will continue in the SWC tournament today by taking on Broken Bow at 5 pm at Kearney High. Below is the link for live streaming. Go Whippets!
https://www.youtube.com/@kearneybearcats6424/streams
The Lady Whippets avenge an early season loss with a 39-30 victory over Aurora. A huge congratulations to Aliena Osterbuhr, who reached 50 career wins!
Congratulations to the Whippet Esports team on qualifying for the state contest next Saturday at York. Job well done!!
Riley Eden participated in the Elks Hoop Shoot Contest in Kearney and is moving onto the state competition in February! Congratulations and good luck Riley!
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Girls Basketball SWC continues Friday at 5:00 at Kearney High. Minden will play Broken Bow.
SWC Boys tournament continues tonight at 7:00 at Gothenuburg High School. Minden will play Cozad.
Go Whippets!
Middle School Sports Reminders:
The 7th and 8th grade boys basketball games initially scheduled for today against Cambridge have been CANCELLED. We did add a date with Lexington on February 21st @ Lexington Middle School 4:15pm start time. Both grades will play A-B and on 2/21
MS Girls Wresting: Reminder the first meet is scheduled for Friday 27th at Grand Island Westridge Middle School and is slated to start at 4:15pm.
Mrs. Gray's 7th grade language arts classes are looking forward to an exquisite "book tasting" today!
Members of the FFA chapter competed in Leadership Development Contests today in Aurora. We are proud of all of our FFA members and the hard work they put into their contests. Today, there were four individuals and one team qualify for the state FFA contest in March!
Reminder- No school for MPS students on Friday, January 27, 2023!
Congratulations to our newest group of Hunter Safety graduates.
Reminder that we will not have school, Friday, January 27th for teacher inservice.
