Blackfoot H.S. Monthly Newsletter

• March 9th - Spring Fling Dance, in the Legacy Gym from 9pm - 10:30pm.
• March 11th-14th - SAT Testing
• March 12th - Blood Drive in New Gym
• March 14th - Tech Expo for Jr.'s and Sr.'s @ 8:15-11:45am
• March 18th-22nd - Spring Break
• March 25th - School Resumes
• March 31st - FAFSA Deadline (has been extended)
• April 15th - Launch Deadline
• April 15th - Parent Teacher Conference in the New Gym, 5-7:30pm

College scholarships are open and waiting for seniors to apply, accessible through the Senior google classroom.

The Idaho esports competition is officially underway! We have 4 teams playing for Blackfoot High School: two Super Smash Bros. Ultimate teams, Valorant, and an Overwatch team. We will be playing high schools all over Idaho every week Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have about 20 students who are a part of esports this year. And there is only talk for more games to be adopted within the Idaho Esports League. One day, esports might be elevated to the same level as other traditional sports, but in the meantime, our teams are busy practicing and playing to represent BHS.

Blackfoot BPA went to Boise to compete in the annual State Leadership Conference. Blackfoot took 18 kids and competed in many different events. We placed in many events and had 11 kids qualify to compete in the National Leadership Conference held in Chicago, Illinois this year. The following students competed and placed at state for these events:

The computer Animation Team took 2nd with James VanOrden, Daxton Thompson, Laci Chandler, and Alivia Clapp as the team members. The computer animation team plans to compete at Nationals in Chicago.

Jeb Adams, Ben Andrew, Tyler Hall, and Tegan Caudle placed 5th in the website design team and will also be going to Nationals to compete against the rest of the United States in Chicago.

Alivia Clapp took 5th in Basic Office Systems and Procedures

Daxton Thompson took 6th in C# programming

Matthew VanOrden took 9th in C++ programming

Nicholas Shipley took 6th in C++ programming

Joshua VanOrden took 7th in Java programming

Nicholas Shipley took 8th in Java programming

Tyler Hall took 8th in Python Programming

Blackfoot BPA has had a great year and looks forward to going to Chicago to compete against the best teams throughout the country. Both teams will be great representatives for Blackfoot High School and Idaho.

Ballroom competed at the Skyridge Classic in Lehi, UT in February. We received superiors on all of our routines, as well as 3rd place for our Tango and 3rd for our swing. Also 4th place for our Salsa. We also held our end of the year showcase and I have 9 seniors graduating.

Winter sports is coming to an end but not without fun things happening first!

Our Fillies Dance team competed at Districts and placed in three of their routines taking them to State to compete with those three dances. They competed at state with Dance, Pom and Hip Hop routines. The Fillies did an amazing job and danced their hearts out. They took 4th place overall at State.

Our cheerleaders also competed at Districts and were able to sweep the competition, taking first in all three routines and overall District Champions. Two weeks later they headed to State in Boise to defend their 1st state title they received last year. They were named Academic State Champions with a combined GPA of 3.814. Coach Christa Stufflebeam was named Coach of the Year. They received 1st place in Show, 1st place in Sideline, and 2nd in Pom. Giving them 2nd place overall.

The wrestlers were next up competing at Districts. We had quite a few qualify for the State competition that was held in the Holt Arena in Pocatello.

They go as follows:

Boys:

Mack Mauger - District Champion

Kylan Guerra - Champion

Dawandey Dilus - Champion

Sam Smith - 2nd

Brayden Cosens - 2nd

Tyson Welker - 2nd

Jett Hone - 2nd

Ty Adams - 3rd

Tanner Ellis - 3rd

Porter Dansie - 3rd

Damion Avila - 3rd

Aiden Anguiano - 4th

Parker Christiansen - 4th

Jakeem Ashley - 4th

Ethan Ayuso - 5th

Boone Bowman - 5th

Maddex Hone - 5th

Ronin Navarette - 5th

Bodi Riley - 5th

Taiten Romriell - 6th

Kaycen Edwards - 6th

Calvin Abercrombie - 6th

Girls:

Keanna Conrad - Champion

Myriam Riley - 3rd

Mily Bartolo - 5th

At State the wrestlers were able to secure some State hardware as well. Mack Mauger beat his opponents and became a 4 time State Champion. Keanna Conrad was able to take down the competition and became a State Champion as well as a freshman. Kylan Guerra took 2nd place, Sam Smith 4th, Tanner Ellis 5th, Porter Dansie 5th, Jett Hone 6th, Ty Adams 6th, Dawandey Dilus 6th. The team as a whole was able to secure the 3rd place trophy.

Boys Basketball was the last of the winter sports teams to compete at Districts. They fought a hard battle and were able to beat the competitors and take second at Districts this year. They will travel to Boise on February 28th to prepare for their State competition that weekend. Watch next month's newsletter for updates on the competition.

We are now heading into our Spring sports. We are hoping the weather will cooperate with us while we compete on our new state of the art baseball and softball fields. As well as at our track meets and tennis matches. If you drive past the football field you will see some construction happening. Part of that will be a new track so next year we will be able to hold track meets here again. We are so excited for that!

Speaking of spring sports we have had a couple seniors sign their letter of intent to further their education while playing softball. We had Quincy Cronquist sign to College of Idaho, and Kaili Verlanic sign to Yakima Valley Community College in Washington.

We are so proud of the hard work and dedication our student athletes have. Thank you to all of our student athletes and to the parents/guardians and family members that have helped make them who they are.

As always if you would like to come out and watch these great athletes follow us on Facebook or click on the link below for the schedule.

The math teachers at BHS are looking forward to celebrating Pi Day with students on Thursday, March 14. On March 14 (3/14) math students will participate in math- inspired activities and presentations to learn more about one of math's most famous constants: the irrational, never-ending number π, pronounced pi (3.14159....) .