State Track Wrap Up:
Girls Distance Medley medals by placing 8th!
Addy Tesch PRs by 7 seconds to finish 19th in the 1500.
Boys 4x200 places 22nd 1:31.96 and 4x400 17th 3:28.22.
Carter Todd placed 10th with a jump of 6-1.
*UPDATED POST* Athletics Department has added games to the JVR Baseball Schedule.
Thursday , June 12th HOME vs Alta Aurelia 11:00AM
Monday, June 16th HOME vs Cherokee 11:00 AM
Thursday, June 19th at West Lyon 10:30 AM
Monday, June 23rd at Alta Aurelia 11:00 AM
Tuesday, July 2nd HOME vs. Sioux Central 11:00AM
RAPTOR NATION: A baseball date has been added for May 27th, 2025 JV /Varsity versus Coon Rapids Bayard slated for a 5:30 PM start in Holstein . Go Raptors! #CLAWSUP
G-H Lower Elementary: A great way to end the 2024-25 school year. Our final ROAR Award winners and some Silly String sprayed on Mr. Walls. Thanks for a great school year Raptors. #CLAWSUP
RAPTOR NATION: Reminder there is a 2-hour early dismissal today, Friday, May 23.
Day#1 state track photos. Day #2 kicks off tomorrow morning with Carter Todd in the high Jump competition. Go Raptors! #CLAWSUP
The Galva Holstein 6th Graders presented their Science Fair projects to their fellow Upper Elementary students, parents and family today. Great job done by all and congratulations to the top 3 place winners! #CLAWSUP
Today, the Galva-Holstein 4th graders got to enjoy their Pen Pal party. #CLAWSUP
State Track Meet Update: Addy Tesch runs a season best, 11:11 to place 18th in the Class 2A Girls 3k. The boys 4x800 team finishes in 15th. The Girls shuttle hurdle relay team finished in 16th place. Go Raptors! #CLAWSUP
The Galva-Holstein 2nd graders are now published authors! They got to experience the writing process and create their own illustrations. Each class has their own book about what they would like to be when they grow up. #CLAWSUP
The G-H 2nd graders enjoyed their Bike Rodeo Day on Tuesday, May 13th, with the weather cooperating beautifully. A special thanks to Officer Fred, the Holstein Kiwanis, and State Farm!
The State Track Apparel is in and sorted in the office in Holstein. If you ordered and would like to pick it up tonight, the office will be open until 4:45pm.
Tonights baseball games in Sioux Rapids vs. Sioux Central have been postponed due to field conditions. A makeup date will be determined at a later time. #CLAWSUP
News from Ridge View Middle School: Mr. Davidson challenged his 8th-grade science classes to conduct an experiment or research a science topic of their choice. The results were impressive. #CLAWSUP
STATE ESPORTS Livestream: The Ridge View High School ESPORTS team plays this morning at 8:55 versus Dike New Hartford. This is a link for the livestream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msp-sO55MsM
UPDATE: GH/SC Upper Elementary Track & Field Day in Early is CANCELLED due to wet grounds and cold temperatures.
Ridge View Industrial Tech News: On Wednesday the 7th of May, approximately 40 students in the Industrial Tech programs loaded up their projects and attended the NW Iowa Industrial Tech fair held at NICC in Sheldon. Students displayed their projects and had them judged among the other projects. While the judging was taking place, the students watched as some of their fellow Raptors ran their Junk Yard War vehicles around a couple different tracks competing for top honors. First run went well though they did not finish in the top spot.
On Friday the 9th of May. We again loaded up the trailer with the top finishers from NICC and headed to SE Polk High School with 7 of the award winning students from the NICC competition and these students displayed the 12 to 13 top places at the State competition for their peers.
Here is a run down of the NICC Finishers:
Cabinet & Furniture-making projects: Division A1-Aubrey Wagner, Division A2-Cole Ronfeldt, Division A3-Carter Padavich, Tyler Friedrichsen, and Brayden Blum
Metal Welding projects: Division C2-Blake Myrtue, Division C3-Quinton Wittrock
Furniture Restoration: Division G-Landyn Peterson
Cutting Boards: Division I1-Lucas Heilman
Crafts: Division J1-Brock Conover and Maddox V ela, Division J2-Caleb Hagen
Manufacturing-Router: Division P3-Cody Wunshel and Chayse Hansen
Overall Best of Show (all categories): Carter Padavich
Best of Show Beginner/1st Year (all categories): Aubrey Wagner
Best of Show-Manufacturing: Cody Wunschel
Here is the State Competition results:
Best of Show: Carter Padavich with his dresser
Best of Show: Aubrey Wagner with her coffee table
1st Place: Landyn Peterson with his refinished door
2nd Place: Brock Conover with his Cornhole boards
Congratulation to all!!! #CLAWSUP
RAPT NATION: Baseball games are on as scheduled with a JV 5:30 start, followed by the varsity game.
Best of luck to our Esports team: Jeremiah Hughes, Valeria Torres-Najera, Corbin Smith, Aubrey Wagner, Jared Friedmann, Aiden Stevenson, Anna Jacobson and Coach Pacza as they take off tonight to compete at STATE tomorrow in Marshalltown! We will be rooting you all on! #CLAWSUP
The State Golf apparel online store is now open!!!! Please follow the link below to order yours today! The store will close tomorrow, May 21st at noon.
https://www.walloffame247.com/ridge-view