Sports

Valentine Community School students participate in the Collaborative Nebraska Map project to commemorate the Fall 2024 reopening of MONA (Museum of Nebraska Art) in Kearney, NE. School students were asked to represent their county by designing on the provided county piece of the unique map of Nebraska.

Last summer, our community came together to support the Majors (12U), Minors (10U), and Rookies (8U) Boys Traveling Baseball Teams. All three teams play from the end of May until mid-July.

The Nebraska State Championship meet was held in Gothenburg, Saturday, May 11, 2024. This is an all class meet. Four girls qualified for the meet along with two alternates: Annalena Nelson (8), Addison Stec (8), Kealy Titus (7) and Danika Janssen (8), Clarrah Beebout (8) and Mia Sherbeyn (7).

The Badger Effort Award is based on the school's character education. Students who demonstrate Character In Action (CIA), responsibility, accountability, honesty, empathy, and respect were nominated by their classroom teachers and staff. Congratulations to the Valentine Middle School fourth quarter Badger Effort recipients!

Monday May 6, 2024, the dualcredit Business Communications/ Event Management Class hosted the It’s Your Life Conference at Valentine High School. Kaetryn Bancroft, Mataya Morrison, and Christen Larson were the lead planners on this project. They were supported by classmates Zoe O’Keefe, Makenzie Ward, Jessa Klabenes, and Jenna Purdum.

Coach Devin Muirhead said, “The team did not qualify for state but played a great round and a team score of 373. Individually no state qualifiers this season.” Individual results: Tanner Two Strike, 91; Caden Stankoski, 92; Thurston Ravenscroft, 93; Garrett Cumbow, 97; Cooper Jordan, 107.

The Cody-Kilgore Track Team qualified two athletes for the 2024 NSAA State Track Meet in Omaha at Burke High School on Friday and Saturday, May 17-18. Qualifying for Cody-Kilgore were: • Aubree Johnson in the High Jump.

The Valentine Badger Track Team qualified eight athletes for the 2024 NSAA State Track Meet in Omaha at Burke High School on Friday and Saturday, May 17-18. Sophomore Isaac Cronin earned two medals at the State Track Meet.

The Badgers placed third out of 10 schools with 374 at the Highway 20 Invite in Basset, May 7, 2024. Three medaled: sixth place, Tanner Two Strike, 90; 10th place, Caden Stankoski, 92; and 13th place, Cooper Jordan, 93.

Valentine team tied for first place with O’Neill with team scores of 348 at the Valentine Invite, held May 9, 2024. Valentine and O’Neill went head to head in a sudden death playoff with O’Neill winning by one stroke.