The girl's wrestling invite in Winnebago has been postponed until Wednesday due to a possible storm moving into that area. Wrestling will start at 10 am and the live stream link is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYgmUrLvsNn5RsCRkjnWFDQ
VMS had their December Quiz Bowl with Badger Pause classes today. Mrs. Cronin's team won against Mr. Pettigrew's team in the final round with a tough competition of 8-7 as the final score. A great day was had by all with a great end to Christmas break!
What an act of kindness the employees of VCS were shown recently by generous people of this wonderful community. A mug filled with goodies was presented to all employees. Jan Smith, Tammy Lutter, and Scott McClellen visited all buildings to thank us for what we’ve done during this pandemic. Thank you to the community of Valentine for your support!
It was brought to our attention this morning that the tickets for the West Holt game have the wrong date and time printed on them. JV games start at 3:30 today. We apologize for not catching this.
A couple changes.
Chadron Holiday Tournament just changed fan numbers from4 to 6. If you want to add to your list please have your athlete contact their coach. We are sending the list first thing tomorrow morning.
Gothenburg JV Wrestling Tournament on Jan 7th has a time change from 3:00 to 4:30 pm.
The Valentine Middle School Band and Choir Holiday Concert! 🎄
Thank you to Badger Cast member H. O’Dell for making the video.
https://vimeo.com/492925053/795e358a70
The High School Band and Choir Holiday concert! 🎄
Video created by Badger Cast and Band member C. Stoeger!
https://vimeo.com/492926767/dc6d8a6d1d
More VMS students sharing their holiday spirit with their ugly holiday sweaters!
VMS students and staff had a little fun today wearing their favorite ugly holiday sweaters!
Congrats to Isabelle Salters who signed her letter of intent to run track for the Concordia Bulldogs! Way to go Izzy!!
Wrestling - We were unable to fill the 8th spot on Saturday for our Invite so with that we can now operate out of the High School gym only since we are under 8 teams and the 112 participant guideline. There will be no wrestling at the Middle School on Saturday.
Wrestling parents and fans:
We still need a few table workers for Friday and Saturday. It's your only chance to watch wrestling live. Your name has to be on the worker pass list to get into the gym either day. We will not be adding anyone to the list tomorrow after 11:00 a.m. If you would like to sign up to help please email Mr. Brown at gbrown@vcsbadger.net or call the school. Go Badgers!!!!
JV Boys basketball will only be 3 quarters on Monday at West Holt due to low numbers.
Reminder to Basketball Parents- Your athlete needs to let their coaches know tomorrow how many tickets you are requesting for the games in Atkinson on Tuesday. We were given 150 tickets total and will distribute them as equally as we can to household members and grandparents that want to attend. These will be distributed on Thursday at practice.
Attendance for Ainsworth Basketball tomorrow. We are unable to open it up to the public due to NSAA's protocol. We are going to increase it out to 6 household members including grandparents. People on the list can stay for both the girls and boys games. Parents please check with your athlete and see who they put on the list. If you need to add please call the school and have your people added.
Wrestling Invite - We are not allowing fans due to NSAA protocol. We had 14 parents sign up tonight to help and we need more help. If you would like to help at the Invite please email Mr. Brown at gbrown@vcsbadger.net or call the school. We will have an attendance list compiled by Thursday evening. Please understand that we have to operate 2 gyms so there is a chance you might not get to watch Valentine.
We will be staying in the "orange" phase for activities through the Holiday Break. The NSAA released the following statement:
To continue to support our NSAA member schools and their efforts to keep kids in school and participating in NSAA activities, the NSAA has decided to stay with the Governor’s “Orange Phase” of the Directed Health Measure regarding fan attendance and 6-foot separation between households. Additionally, schools may allow grandparents to attend contests. Spectators, coaches, and non-active participants are required to wear face coverings at all times while attending these events.
Non-compliance with the above may include but not be limited to reprimands, fines or exclusion from the post season.
This decision is based on an abundance of caution as we move through the holiday season. By doing these things now, we are hopeful we can host NSAA winter championships in February and March.
This is in effect until January 4, 2021.
We have had a few inquiries about fans attending the JV Wrestling tonight in O'Neill. The event is being held in their practice room and has very limited seating therefore O'Neill has decided they are still not going to allow fans.
We are waiting on word from the NSAA on guidelines for increasing capacity to events. Once we receive the guidelines we will go through them and put a plan in place for increasing attendance at home events.
We are still having the parent meeting tonight for wrestling at 6:00 pm in the commons area.
The Valentine High School Badger Band brought Christmas Spirit! The band has a tradition of having the seniors handing out candy canes during the Christmas concert. Well Mrs Rhoades and Mrs Springer wanted to continue the tradition in spite of COVID. Thanks seniors!!!!
Scheduling Updates -
Due to low participation numbers we have canceled all Reserve Basketball games.
12/29 - Girls Wrestling @ Winnebago 9:00 am
1/8 - JV/V Girls Basketball at Gordon moved back to 6:30 central time and the girls JV game will only be 2 quarters.
1/9 - Wrestling at Kearney Catholic
1/15 - Girls Wrestling at Battle Creek 4:30
2/11- JV/V Basketball vs North Central. All games will be played at the HS due to both games only being 2 quarters. Order of games will be Girls JV, Boys JV, Girls V, Boys V.
2/19 - JV/V Boys Basketball @ Gordon moved back to 6:30 central time and the boys JV game will only be 2 quarters.
Wrestling Fans:
We have the Valentine Dual Invite coming up next weekend, 12 pm start. We are not going to allow fans due to the size of the event (20 teams) and the 25% attendance restriction policy for our gyms (250 HS, 150 MS). By the time we have all of the kids, helpers, managers and coaches we are going to be at the limits. However, we do need lots of help and that can be your ticket in to watch. We will be operating out of both the MS an HS gym so we will need to have help to staff both gyms. We understand that everyone will want to watch Valentine but unfortunately that isn’t possible. We traditionally run one of the best tournaments in the state because of our volunteers. In a year where tournaments are being forced to shrink because of the restrictions we actually grew because of the format we have come up with and our hope is to keep these teams coming in future years as it is great for our community. We will give parents top priority for helping. If you would like to help please attend an informational meeting on Monday December 15th at 6 pm in the HS commons. Mask will be required to attend this meeting and also to be worn while you help at the invite. If you can’t attend and want to help please email Mr. Brown at gbrown@vcsbadger.net before the 15th. Go Badgers!!!