The Melrose Archery team competed at Sauk Centre this weekend. Placing for Melrose - Sawyer Frieler, 285, 1st for high school boys. Caden VanHavermaet, 285, 3rd from middle school boys. Bailey VanHavermaet, 278, 3rd for high school girls. Gretta Kasper, 278, 4th for high school girls. Itzel Chisco Guerro, 209, 3rd for elementary girls. Many others had personal bests! Congrats!
Parents, you can order your Elementary Yearbooks online! The order deadline is March 15. Order here: https://ybpay.lifetouch.com/Order/SelectStudent?isAdvertisementOnly=False
A great Valentine's Day picture of our future Dutchmen and their mamas!
Our HANS Spotlight Award Winners!
Please join us at the girls basketball game tonight for a celebration or 50 years of girls activities at Melrose Area Schools. We will be honoring some of our founding coaches and would love to see former athletes as well!
Two perfect rounds at Archery last night for Gretta Kasper and Sawyer Frieler. Good luck to the Archery Team at the Sauk Centre Tournament tomorrow!
Weather Related Announcement: The 2/10/22 Wrestling Meet has been CANCELED, due to weather. The 2/10/22 Boys Swim Meet has been postponed to 2/11/22, due to weather. Thank you!
Our awesome preschool classes celebrated "100 Days of School" yesterday!
Do you need First Aid Training? Register here for class on February 16. Registration closes soon!
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Our preschoolers enjoyed a visit with Freddy, the therapy dog, today!
Melrose Area Schools will host Section 2A Dance at Home - 11am - on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. Dance Team tickets are available online: https://www.vancoevents.com/BBTK Livestream: https://prepspotlight.tv/MSHSL There will be a fee to watch this event.
The Knowledge Bowl Team had success at Kimball on 2-8-22.
Varsity First Place - Natalie Enright, Abigail Welle, Brandon Stalboerger, Philip Job, Grant Hellermann. Varsity Second Place - Kevin Galicia, Austin Kelzer, Julia Toenyan, Cole Chellgren. J.V. Third Place - Caraline Braun, Yasli Jimenez, Lydia Prout, Logan Rue.
Girls Basketball Senior Spotlight - Brooke Finken!
Making slime today in preschool!
The 11th Annual Father Daughter Ball was so much fun for the girls and their dates!
No Open Swim or Open Gym on Sunday, February 6.
It has been Culture Week at Melrose Schools. The final event for the week is a Culture Panel with guests from around the world!
Congratulations to swimmer Adam Wilwerding, who set a Melrose school record tonight in the 100 Backstroke in a 110-65 win over Dassel-Cokato/Litchfield!
No Open Gym on Sunday, February 6.
We will still have Open Swim, please enter door 7 for Open Swim.
Here is a message from the Melrose Area High School Activities Department. Everyone is invited, and it would be especially great if former players, managers and assistant coaches could come to celebrate these awesome coaches. Please feel free to share!
The Melrose Athletics Department would like to invite everyone to celebrate some of the first coaches of our Girls Activities at halftime of the Varsity GBB game on February 11th. Below is a list of the first years coaches for many of our girls activities. It will be an honor to recognize these individuals for their pioneering efforts as we began our first teams. We look forward to seeing you on February 11th.
Girls Activities - First Coaches - First Year
Girls Track - Mary Tousignant 71-72
Sync Swim - Carol Prijatel 71-72
Girls Swimming - Carol Prijatel 72-73
Girls Basketball - Mary Tousignant 73-74
Girls Golf - Jim Ploof 73-74
Volleyball - Mary Tousignant then Jackie O’Brien 74-75
Gymnastics - Gloria Rylander then Judy Hendrickson then Nancy Oja 74-75
Dance Team - Pam Haugen 76-77
Girls Cross Country - Dave Sieben 78-79
Softball - Jerry Pfannenstein 88-89
Girls Tennis - Joe Timmins 93-94
Thank You!
Go Dutchmen!
