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As Mother Nature tried to throw a wrench in the Lady Badgers postseason, the Lady Badgers weren’t ready for their season to be over. The Badgers entered the postseason as the number two seed in the subdistrict and had to play the number three seed, Bayard Tigers.

The Badgers played a great game against the Gordon-Rushville Mustangs. They came out a little slow in the first quarter but got their game going and didn’t look back. Outscoring the Mustangs in all four quarters, with the second quarter being the strongest, with a score of 21-4. They outlasted the Mustangs by a score of 80-43. With five Badgers in double digits, 80 is just one point shy of their highest for the season.

The Badger Speech team traveled to Battle Creek on Saturday, February 21, 2025. The team brought home six medals.

The NSAA Girls State Championship got underway Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at the CHI Health Center in Omaha. For the first time, the girls will have a two-day standalone state tournament separate from the boys. Also new this season, there are two classifications of schools for girls wrestling.

Valentine Badger wrestling team sent seven boys to NSAA State Championship Wrestling. As a team they scored 43.5 points.

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The Lady Badgers Varsity Basketball team is pictured, back row, L to R: Coach Julie Porath, Ashley Mora Lira, Annalena Nelson, Maeli Patterson, Rylie Sexson, Camilla Brown, Coach Alex Jensen, Mariana Azarcoya Haro.

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The small but mighty Badgers sentseventotheNSAAStateChampionships and earned the District Runner-Up title. All nine Badgers wrestled tough matches, and each helped earn that Runner-up title.

The Badger speech team headed to North Platte for one of their toughest competitions of the season. Bringing home medals were seniors Marybelle Ward, ninth in entertainment, and Jenalee Garwood, third in Extemporaneous..