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Congratulations to the eSports Rocket League Team!

The STEM eSports Rocket League team made STEM extremely proud on Tuesday, December 9th. The team advanced out of the Round of 16 to the Quarter Finals of the CHSAA Fall 2025 State Tournament. The team, led by Sophomore Captain Jaxson Mills is poised to become a powerhouse in CHSAA Rocket League. Rounding out a young team are Kai Padilla, Kyle Shoemaker, and Mateen Zia. The team faced extremely difficult competition during the season ending regular season play in 3rd place with a 7-1 record.

This was a huge tournament for STEM as it was the first time eSports advanced to the in person tournament. The team played hard during the match, but ran into a much more seasoned Chaparral HIgh School team. While the results were not what the team wanted, we are so proud of their commitment and skill. The team is returning to CHSAA play in the Spring and look to extend their success and win it all!

Link to CHSAA article

Final eSports wrap up for the Fall 2025 season.

High School eSports finished its strongest season ever. 5/7 teams advanced to the playoffs. Smash Gold finished in the top 64. Marvel Rivals Blue finished in the top 32. Mario Kart finished in the top 16. Marvel Rivals Gold and Rocket League finished in the top 8.

Rocket League made STEM proud by advancing to the CHSAA in person finals, losing to Chaparral in the Round of 8. STEM was the only non 5A/6A school to advance to the in-person finals. STEM was further honored by CHSAA with Jaxson Mills earning a Player of the Year nomination and Rachel Espinosa and Geoff Pietrovito sharing a Rocket League Coach of the Year nomination.

Middle School eSports grew by leaps and bounds with a strong season. Smash Gold finished the season in the top ten coming in 9th out of 96 teams. Smash White was close on their heels with a 13th place finish. Smash Blue finished 38th. Smash Silver finished 48th and Smash Green finished 54th.

The Spring Season starts at the end of January with Marvel Rivals, Rocket League, and Valorant in Regional play. Smash Bros and Mario Kart will play CHSAA. Middle School will continue to play Smash Bros.

Congratulations to the entire team! We are so proud of you!

Basketball visited KIPP Denver on Friday night. Boys JV showed lots of grit in the second half of their game, staging a furious effort at a comeback, but falling just short in the end. Both boys and girls Varsity teams played great games and came out with wins!

Way to go Spartans!

Middle School Speech and Debate:

Our 28 middle schoolers had an amazing performance at Friday's Fire and Voice Tournament in Windsor! The tournament consisted of 77 competitors from eight schools, and eight of our parents served as judges--many thanks to them.

STEM School Results:

Speech: STEM brought 12 competitors of the 18 competitors total

6th: Aishi Bhardwaj (novice)

5th: Pehel Raghuvanshi

4th (tie): Rae Penar* & Mirabelle Lorenzana

2nd: Evika Bhatia (novice; placed 1st in two rounds; placed 2nd to Rae Penar in only other round)

1st: Aadya Inamdar (placed 1st in every round)

*First speech competition ever!

Public Forum Debate, Novice: STEM brought 5 teams of the 16 teams total

5th: Aarush Prasad & Ryan Liu* (undefeated)

3rd: Dana Jandos* & Lincoln Treece* (2-1, their only loss was by 1 point)

2nd: Ian Comerford & Chloe Drugan* (undefeated)

1st: Lakshman Ganesh & Charlie Zhang (undefeated)

Honorable mention: Salma Okanlawon & Vander Otley (2-1, their only loss was by 1 point)

*First debate competition ever!

Public Forum Debate, Varsity: STEM brought 3 teams of the 9 teams total

3rd: Shrey Pant & Anvit Yelgalwar (2-1, their only loss was by 1 point)

2nd: Ethan Liu & Michael Jimanov (undefeated)

1st: Faheema Shafeeq & Aarna Varre (undefeated)

We are incredibly proud of the time and effort all of our student competitors have put into this semester's competitions, and we are delighted that they are being recognized as some of the top speakers and debaters in the state! Please congratulate them when you see them.

Way to go Middle School Speech and Debate!

High School Speech and Debate is competing in the Cherry Creek Invitational on Saturday, December 13th. Good luck Spartans!