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Monarch Booster Bash Recap: Thank You & Share Your Feedback!

We are thrilled to report that our annual Monarch Booster Bash was a wonderful community event and a great success for our participating clubs and teams! Together, we raised over $12,000 that went directly back to our student programs.

A heartfelt thank you to each club and team that contributed silent auction items and helped make this event so memorable and fun. Your creativity, effort, and enthusiasm made this fundraiser a wonderful celebration of our Monarch community. We're excited that each participating club gets to keep 100% of what they earned to support their programs throughout the year. Here's how much each participating group earned:

• Boy's Lacrosse Team: $335
• Boy's Golf: $2,975
• Boy's Rugby: $988
• Boy's Soccer: $760
• Boy's Swim & Dive: $210
• Boy's Baseball: $445
• DECA: $670
• Football Team: $175
• Girl's & Boy's Tennis Teams: $125
• Girl's Basketball: $595
• Girl's Rugby: $725
• Girl's Swim & Dive: $680
• Marching Band: $200
• MHS Choirs: $1,980
• MoHi Cheer Team: $210
• Mountain Biking Club: $529
• Poms Dance Team: $650

Help Us Make Next Year Even Better

As we continue to grow and improve the Booster Club, your feedback is invaluable. We've created a brief survey to gather your thoughts on this year's Booster Bash and hear your ideas for the future. Whether you attended the event or not, we want to hear from you!

Please take a few minutes to share your feedback: Booster Bash Survey

Thank you again for your continued support of Monarch athletics and activities. Together, we're building something special!

Last Tuesday, both the JV and varsity teams hosted Prairie View High School. The JV team earned their first win of the season with impressive performances from every player. The varsity team followed suit, with all players contributing meaningful minutes in a commanding 74-25 victory.

Last Saturday’s game at Northfield High School was canceled due to a malfunctioning HVAC system.

The program has a busy week ahead. On Tuesday, the teams travel to Frederick for what promises to be competitive matchups. This Friday evening, Monarch hosts undefeated Broomfield. Please come out to show your support. The schedule is as follows:

- JV: 4:00 PM
- Varsity: 5:30 PM
- C Team: 7:00 PM

SKO YOKES!!

Varsity lost a hard fought game vs Cherry Creek with a score of 4-3 on Saturday night. Goals were scored by Jake Hulstrom, Luke Taylor and Lucas Kelnhofer. Goalie Ben Zelio had 21 saves on 25 shots with 2 of the 4 Cherry Creek goals on the Power Play.

Varsity will have 1 game next week with Regis at Family Sports Center on Friday night at 6:30.

JV won both games this weekend over Standley Lake and Heritage.

Andrew Clifford, Ben Stone, Luke Rosenberg and Jacob Juenemann had goals against Standley Lake in the 4-0 win. Goalie Julien Vachon had 14 saves in the shut out.

The team beat Heritage on Saturday with a score of 4-1. Goals were scored by Austin Pugh, Daniel Franklin, Ashton Kirby and Tyler Johnson. Goalie Aiden LeJeune had 14 saves with only 1 Power Play goal against.

The team will face Standley Lake again on Saturday at home at 2:00.

Congratulations to our 20 Combined League Honor Choir singers! They represented Monarch so well and worked hard to put on a great concert last week! Special congratulations to Berkley Spencer and Patrick Shiffer who were selected for solos.

Here is an update on all teams.

Varsity

Has a record of 3 wins and 11 losses. League record of 2 wins and 3 losses. Last week they beat Skyline and lost to Chatfield. The leading scorers this season are Jack Duster, Ryan Trujillo, and Tagg Hutton. This week, the varsity team has two away games!

Tuesday 1/20 7pm Frederick

Friday 1/30 7pm Broomfield

Junior Varsity

Has a record of 4 wins and 7 losses. The leading scorers this season are Will Bell and Andy Willcutt. Sophomore Mateo Bachman got his first varsity minutes and scored his first varsity point against Skyline!

Sophomore Team (C Team)

Really starting to play together as a team. Their offense has improved so much, they are being disciplined and taking care of the ball.

Freshman Team (D Team)

Beat Centaurus on Saturday. The improvement in fundamentals and working together is evident. The players are making huge improvements.

The Monarch Girls Swim & Dive team has had a thrilling season thus far! They have 60 swimmers out for the team and each swimmer is making massive improvements with their technique and times! Additionally, the team has swam competitively in all of their dual meets and invites throughout the season!

Boulder County Invite

This past weekend the girls swam to a 3rd place finish at the Boulder County Invite behind Fairview and Broomfield.

Meet Highlights

• 84% of the team achieved at least one best time and 62% of the races swam were a best time!
• Our fabulous Freshman 500 Freestylers, Lena Jaros, Maggie Rigney, and Brooke McGovern continued to make huge strides in this event and managed to drop even more time - 15 seconds, 17 seconds, and 23 seconds respectively.
• We also had 6 more people inch their way to qualifying for the 4A State Meet in one or two events... Allison Swett, Marlo Scherr, Tuva Bodizs, Riley Martin, Kylee Hartmann, Kat Dunlap Herreria.
• Freshman, Paige MacMillan, was named the 2026 Freshman BoCo High Point winner!

Upcoming Senior Meet

The team will host a Tri Meet between Centaurus, Frerick, and Monarch on Thursday, January 29th at 1:15pm at the Veteran's Memorial Aquatics Center. At this meet the team will honor their 13 wonderful Seniors, Class of 2026...

• Aanya Bhandari - Monarch
• Adeline "Adi" Coleman - Monarch
• Anna Lewis - Monarch
• Audrey Shambo - Monarch
• Carly Puccio - Monarch
• Ida Bodizs - Monarch
• Isabel Swarr - Peak to Peak
• Katalina Dunlap Herreria - Monarch
• Lauren Dixon - Monarch
• Lea Linossier - Monarch
• Miriam Altunsoy - Peak to Peak
• Samantha Blakely - Monarch
• Sofia Griepentrog - Peak to Peak

Looking Ahead

The team is currently training for the Granite Peaks Conference Championships and the 4A State Meet - both will take place in early February and be the culminating meets for the team for the 2025-2026 season!

Granite Peaks Conference Championships Meet

We are excited for the fast swimming to come at the Granite Peaks Conference Championships and the strong potential for numerous finals swims.

4A State Meet

Senior and multiple State Champion title holder Audrey Shambo was recently featured in an article written by CHSAA - you can read it by clicking HERE.

Additionally, thus far the following people have qualified for State and the team anticipates adding six more individuals to the State Team roster.

• Darby Merkel (9) - 200 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly, 100 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke
• Paige MacMillan (9) - 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke
• Marley Fogarty (11) - 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle
• Katherine Zerwekh Reardon (11) - 200 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle
• Audrey Shambo (12) - 200 IM, 100 Freestyle, 100 Breaststroke
• Carly Puccio (12) - Adaptive 50 Freestyle
• Ida Bodizs (12) - 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 100 Breaststroke
• Isabel Swarr (12) - 200 IM, 50 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly, 100 Breaststroke
• Sam Blakely (12) - 200 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke

Girls Flag Football is currently registering players for its spring season. This is a district

wide team, with practices being held once weekly on Tuesday evenings from 7:30-

8:30pm at Monarch High School, starting March 3 rd to the 31 st , with the exception of

spring break! Games will be held weekly on Saturdays from April 11 th -May 16 th .

All those interested can reach out to Coach Colin Hart @chart043095@gmail.com

about details and registration.

Monarch Baseball will be holding tryouts February 23 - 27. Additional details, including times and requirements, will be shared as we get closer.

If you or someone you know would be interested in providing sponsorships for the upcoming season, please see the document below.

Game Night Just Got Better!

The Rush Coffee is excited to be on-site at Monarch Varsity Girls & Boys Basketball games, proudly supporting the concessions on the following dates:

• 2/3
  
• 2/20
  

Swing by the truck for your favorite coffee-shop drinks while cheering on the Coyotes — and feel even better knowing that a portion of all proceeds will be donated directly to the Monarch Basketball programs

Great hoops. Great coffee. Giving back.
Sko' Yotes

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Volunteers aka Parent Reps can submit highlights with pictures to Monarchboosterclub@gmail.com by Monday morning at 8am. Then our newsletter volunteer, Rob Kalkofen, will generate the newsletter and get it over to the Monarch admin team to send out!