Spoiler Athletics

Congratulations to all spoilers involved with State Music in Bismarck! it was a highly successful event! Spoilers took home 9 stars out of their 14 entries, the highest possible rating. An added congratulations to Emily Kerian, who earned an outstanding performance award, which is only given once per judge. She will be honored at the 2025 Parade of Champions presentation!

Attention 6th-11th grade parents! There was an email sent out about summer weight training last week. If you are interested your student needs to login and fill out the google doc using their gospoilers email, parents will not be able to fill out. The link to the doc is on the gospoilers.org website.

We had fun in Bismarck while we were there. We checked out the mall and had some wood fire pizza. Congratulations to these two that competed at the state tournament. Bryce in Extemporaneous Speaking and Vangie in Inform.

We started our morning off with the walkthrough for our two students competing at the State Speech Meet tomorrow in Mandan. Congratulations to Vangie Larson and Bryce Kringstad for qualifying for state.

Members of Concert Choir and HS band were able to participate in the regional small group contest with their high school peers! It was a massive success with 14/27 of the entries receiving the highest possible rating and are eligible to move on to State Music in May! (Only 33% of entries can advance) Spoiler Freshman Emily Kerian also received an Outstanding Performance award, which are only awarded once per judge! Congratulations to all students involved. We are proud to have such dedicated students. Spoilers rocked. The following students have advanced to State Music! On to Bismarck! Go Spoilers! Izzy Jenkins Cove Johnson Mia Kasprick Vangie Larson Lexi Tompkins Natalie Bina Aubrey Tompkins Kathleen Kerian Bryar Morin Summer Moberg Vaya Stark Emily Bjerke Elsie Jelinek Aria Braaten Jen Reck Alyssa Heidt Summer Ebertowski Emersyn Van Camp Emily Kerian Ruby Gerszewski Trinity Parsons Julia Heidt Emma Narloch Samara O Izzy Cole Jack Kern Carther Stark Terry Denault Charlie Taylor Max Sillers Josh Lindberg Nate Denton Bryson Almen Jackson Douville Bryar Morin Aiden Rahn Jonathan Presteng Go Spoilers!

We competed at our Regional tournament at Northwood this past Saturday. We have Bryce Kringstad who is a regional champion in Extemporaneous Speaking and will be competing at the state tournament. We also have Vangie Larson who took second place in the category of Inform. She will also be competing at the state competition. Congratulations to all of these kids and all of the hard work that they have put in this season! Humorous Duo 💬: Vangie Larson and Natalie Larson 4th place Impromptu 💬: Dean Maney 8th place Entertain 💬: Natalie Bina 8th Place Inform 💬: Vangie Larson 2nd Place Poetry 💬: Cadence Kerner competitor Radio 💬: Cadence Kerner 6th Place Serious 💬: Terry Denault competitor Extemp 💬: Bryce Kringstad 1st place

We competed at the Park River speech meet this past Saturday. Big thanks to Ms.Lopez for driving them. We are looking forward to Regionals this weekend in Northwood. Humorous Duo 💬: Vangie Larson and Natalie Larson 6th Place Impromptu 💬: Dean Maney competitor Entertain 💬: Natalie Bina Competitor Inform 💬: Vangie Larson 2nd Place Humorous 💬: Natalie Bina Competitor

For anyone interested in playing at the next level, take a look at this.

Complete the form below to sign up for Summer Strength & Conditioning. All students going to be in 7-12th for the 24-25 school year can sign up! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEgvOib-tAE8l72x72eb4-E_2H1wLGbtS9iRWtBZtIOW4h5g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Come see what these hard working 6-8th graders have created! Show runtime is 60 minutes!

Spoiler Youth Basketball Camp Who: Boys/Girls K-4 (2023-2024 school year) When: May 20th, 21st, 22nd Time: May 20th, 21st ( K-1 4:00 to 5:00, 2-4 5:15 to 6:30) May 22nd ( K-1 3:00 to 4:00, 2-4 4:15 to 5:30) Where: Grafton Century Gym Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IFMLr2y0VaS01UnychxbEww07dU13f-vD8YsZkLvlPM/edit?usp=sharing

Good Luck

We competed in the Hillsboro speech meet on Saturday March 23rd. We had five students competing. Natalie had to leave a little early so she is not pictured. Humorous Duo 💬: Terry Denault and Charlie Taylor competitors Serious 💬: Terry Denault competitor Poetry 💬: Cadence Kerner competitor Impromptu 💬: Dean Maney 8th place Entertain 💬: Natalie Bina 6th place Persuade 💬: Charlie Taylor 7th place

We forgot one winter sports award winner from yesterday. Boys Basketball Coach Riley Lillemoen was also named Region 2 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year. Way to go Coach!

The Grafton Concert Choir represented at the North Dakota Music Educators association conference in Bismarck on Thursday! They were honored as the featured choir of the state for the concert hour! We are proud of all of these bright young kids and the joy that they bring through music! You can watch the concert session here! https://youtu.be/fHbVp6TcEvM?si=iSogz0b2xHXWUuV7

Our winter season wound down last weekend and we had several individuals receive individual accomplishments. Hockey - Siri Olson was both All-EDC and All-State Girls Basketball - Kate LeClerc was named All Region Wrestling - Kruiser Burns, Shaiden Thomas, and Emma Johner qualified for state with Kruiser winning the state title at 121 pounds. Boys Basketball - Braylon Baldwin, Tony Villarreal, and Kyler Droog were named All-Region. At the state tournament, Braylon and Kyler were named to the All Tournament team. Braylon also received All State Honors. Congrats to our winter sport athletes!

Happening at the GPAC on March 25 & 26 at 7pm!

Congratulations to Spoiler Senior Tony Villarreal who went over the 1000 point mark in his last game of his high school basketball career, yesterday's win over Shiloh for 3rd place in state. Way to go Tony!

Spoilers defeat Shiloh to finish 3rd in state! What a year for this group of young men! Congrats gentlemen!

Spoilers fall to the Firebirds. Will play for 3rd in state tomorrow at 3 pm.