Congratulations to the following Whippets for earning All Southwest Conference Selections for basketball:
1st Team: Mattie Kamery
2nd Team: Kinsie Land, Myla Emery
3rd Team: Jake Ryan
Also congratulations to Taylor Maulsby on being name the Girls Southwest Conference Coach of the Year!
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Home Track Meet Helpers NEEDED!
Whippet supporters, we are in need of folks who would be able to help run the pole vault at our home track meets this season. Our home meets are as follows: 3/19/24 Early Bird Meet 4pm, 4/2/24 9/10 meet 4pm, 4/12/24 Marsh Beck Invitational 2:30pm, 4/27/24 Southwest Conference Championship 11am, and 5/9/24 Middle School Invite 3pm.
If you would be willing to help with the pole vault please call the high school office or email jason.strong@mindenwhippets.org
Thank you!
Congratulations to the speech team...the B5 District Runner-Up Team! Minden is sending SEVEN events to the state tournament! Four of our events were district champions! Megan in inform, Nathan in entertainment, Ayleigh in poetry, and Addison/Sophia/Dawson/Elizabeth/Nathan in OID!
DISTRICT SPEECH UPDATE: Minden has pushed 15 of their 20 events into the finals! More details to come later! Top three in each event head on to state!
This group of talented speakers will be heading to the B5 District Speech Meet tomorrow morning, March 9, in Gothenburg. The top three speakers in each event will advance to the Nebraska State Speech Tournament on March 20.
High School Cheer practice and tryouts are as follows:
Practice for Tryouts: Monday March 11th and Wednesday March 13th (6:45-7:45pm)
Tryouts: Friday March 15th at 6pm.
**All of these events will take place in the activities gym.
Speech performance night at MHS! What a talented group of participants and a highly dedicated group of coaches!
SUMMER DRIVER'S EDUCATION INFORMATION!
MHS Speech Team Showcase is TONIGHT! Don't miss out on seeing the great events our speech team has been working on this year! No admission charged!
Here is your Weekly Whippet Activity Update!
You are invited to attend our annual MHS Speech Team Showcase on Tuesday, March 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium! All speech team events will perform! Come see what they speech team has been working on this spring semester!
The Lady Whippets came up short to Bridgeport 65-57 today at the state tournament. While it was a disappointing end to the season, we are so proud of the great season from the girls. They finished at 20-4 overall!!! Great season Whippets!!!
If your business would like to partner with Minden Public Schools for an advertising opportunity to replace our current scoreboards, please get in touch with the district or high school office for more information.
Reminder: No School tomorrow, Thursday, February 29th. If the Lady Whippets win tomorrow, there will be No School on Friday, March 1st. If we lose, we will have school on Friday. Good Luck to the Whippet Girls' Basketball Team tomorrow at 10:45 in Lincoln!
The girls state basketball game will air on 92.1/92.7fm and 1460/1550am radio on Thursday. You can also watch the game live on the NFHS Network through Newschannel Nebraska (this option requires a paid subscription).
GO WHIPPETS!
The speech team had two great days of speech recently. Saturday, they won the Voices of the Plains Invite in both the varsity and combined division. We had 6 novice champs and 3 varsity champs. Monday, the team earned the runner-up plaque at the SWC meet with 3 event champs!
Congratulations to the Whippet Speech Team on a great day at the Southwest Conference Speech Meet! The team finished as the SWC Runner Up!! Individual champions included Nathan Althouse (Entertainment), Sam Cederburg (Extemporaneous), and Nathan Althouse/Sophia Cederberg/Addison Klabunde/Dawson Conyers/Elizabeth Hunt (OID). GREAT JOB WHIPPET SPEECH TEAM!!!
No School Thursday
Whippets are State Bound
The Girls' basketball team will play Bridgeport on Thursday, February 29th, at 10:45 in Lincoln. Due to the high number of students and staff attending this game, we will not have school on Thursday. If we win, we will not have school on Friday. If we lose, we will have school.
Girls State Basketball ticket information:
https://nsaahome.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-NSAA-Basketball-Ticket-Policies.pdf