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Our Fall athletic teams are in the thick of things! We have been hosting games and traveling to others. Our athletes have represented STEM very well in their competitions. Below are some results from the past week.

The team traveled to Nederland on Monday, losing 1-3 against a good team, with only one sub for the game. Good effort. The team drops to 2-5 overall and 0-1 in league play. They play next week on Monday vs William Smith at Marcy Park, on Wednesday at Mile High and then on Friday at Aurora West College Prep.

Girls Volleyball also traveled to Nederland on Monday, coming away with a JV and Varsity wins. Varsity then hosted Poudre Community Academy on Wednesday, defeating them in straight sets 3-0. The team is now 4-6 overall and 1-0 in league play. Next week we host Ascent Classical DC on Wednesday and then travel to Aurora West College Prep on Friday.

The team has played a few pre-season scrimmage matches this week. Although they have struggled a bit, they played very good teams and got some excellent feedback. The regular season starts next week!

Boys Golf has also been busy, with several players getting into some 18 hole tournaments and the rest of the team participating in 9 hole tournaments and matches.

As all golfers know, tree luck can work both in your favor (a bounce back out to the fairway) or against you (a ball nestled right up against a tree trunk) when you're out on the course.

Despite plenty of the latter tree luck for the STEM Boys' Golf team in Tuesday's (Sept. 16) dual meet against Denver Academy at Foothills Golf Course, the Spartans put together some encouraging rounds in their inaugural 18-hole tournament of the season.

Junior Aarav Singh tied for third place with a season-best round of 86, leading the Spartans against a much more seasoned Mustangs squad that was led by senior Matthew Welch (81) and junior Luc Stanley (82).

Also breaking 90 for STEM was sophomore Jaxson Martin (89), who rebounded from a rough start -- that included the aforementioned trees -- to finish just 7-over par over his final 14 holes.

Spartans junior Joey Arnold made it to the clubhouse with a 115 for the day, with sophomore Emmett Cumbler rounding out the team's scores with a 120 -- while winning the Don Quixote-esque honor of having battled the most trees over the course of the round.

Rounding out the scores for Denver Academy were juniors Wes Peters (86) and Teddy Peterson (93).

The tournament was delayed briefly when a fast-moving lightning system passed over the course near the end of the players' front nine -- but after the storm cleared, the players resumed play in ideal (if a bit soggy) conditions.

Lightning unfortunately followed the Spartans in a dual meet against Highlands Ranch High School the next day at The Meadows Golf Course, with play suspended on the 15th hole due to a storm system that paused play until darkness ended all hope of completing the round. Plans to resume Wednesday's dual meet are pending. SIngh, Martin, Cumbler and Jacoby Van Winkle were STEM's representatives in the tournament.

The Spartans will host the STEM Invitational at Lone Tree Golf Course on Tuesday, Sept. 23 before wrapping up the regular season at the Golden View Classical Invitational at Fox Hollow on Sept. 29.

See photo above of Joey Arnold and Emmett Cumbler play the 18th hole on Tuesday at Foothills Golf Course.

HS Cross Country is really off and running!

The Liberty Bell invitational cross country meet. If you've never heard of it well it's known nationally and teams from all over come to race this course.

With deep competition and a fast course surely great things were going to happen. On this Saturday we found most top Colorado teams along with the STEM XC team competing at the LBI.

At 9:27am and 9:31am our boys and girls began their journey to see where we would stand among the elite teams. The boys finished a competitive 12th as a team with Cooper finishing in 13th place and setting a new school record from 17:12 to 17:01, a huge PR for Cooper!!!! Most of the team ran personal best times Tyler Marquez, Ben Yoder, Aiden Littlehorn, Rey Ruiz, Grayson Stutz, Ben Stephens, Isaac Bell, Ian"Vivian" Fletcher and Eva Austin. We also had first timers that ran fantastic times with Kolden Korsmoe and Trevor McKee. Season best with Preston Martinez. Ares Simmons and Sarah Hathaway were very competitive in their races and look to put down a new PR in upcoming meets.

Overall it was a great meet and the team is headed in the right direction with our times and placing improving each week.

Come see us race next week at the Arvada West Durden Invite!!!

MS Cross Country is also deep into their season.

The STEM middle school had a great race at the Slavens invitational this past Friday, September 12. Our sixth graders shined in the sixth grade races. James Grinter finished 12th. Abby Schmidt finished 16th and Vivian Lemorande (in her very first race) finished 21st.

Our top overall girl finisher was Grace Gotto, and our top boy finisher was Kathan Arabally.

All runners competed hard and we are looking forward to our next race on Friday, September 19 at the hawk invitational.

Go Fan Tickets Available:

All STEM home athletic games are broadcast on the NFHS Network. A subscription is needed to watch. It is a streaming service, so Spartan (Volleyball/Basketball) games can be watched live or later 'on demand'. In fact, you can watch any game broadcast on NFHS, including Spartan games where we are visiting other schools with cameras (we play at D'Evelyn, Vail Christian, Nederland, AWCP, Two Roads, Loveland Classical all have NFHS).

A subscription is a nice gift for family members who live elsewhere; they only need internet access and a phone/tablet/computer/TV to watch! STEM also receives a portion of the subscription fee! To learn more or subscribe, go to: www.stemspartanathletics.org

Viewing Instructions:

1. Click the link above to open the homepage.
2. In the yellow top section, find the word “FAN ZONE.”
3. Hover your mouse over “FAN ZONE.”
4. A white drop-down menu will appear.
5. From the drop-down menu, select “NFHS Live Stream.”

Let’s Go Spartans!!!!

In the spirit of teamwork,

Mrs. Susan Jones, RAA

Let’s Go Spartans!

Contact us at:

athletics@stemk12.org