North Marion Athletes are State and National Champions!

Husky fans, here is another update from the high school. Many of our kids were busy competing over the long weekend.

Cheerleaders Capture AmeriCheer National Title

Congratulations go out again to our varsity cheerleaders. This weekend at the AmeriCheer National Cheerleading competition in California, our varsity cheerleading team won their division, and went on to win the entire National Competition! Kezia Molinsky (Beltz) has done a great job as the head cheerleading coach. All of the hours that she and the cheerleaders have put in during last summer, and through this school year have paid off. The athletes that participated in the National Cheerleading competition were;

• Stacy Amaya
• Ashley Bacon
• Breanna Baker
• Megan Berry

• Airelle Crivella
• Daysi Garcia
• Tiffany Healy
• Debra Jackson
• Casie Montgomery
• Christina Parra
• Jessica Parra
• Stacy Parra

Cody Randall State Champion at 125 lbs.

Congratulations to North Marion's own Cody Randall 125lb 4A Oregon state champion wrestler. Cody won his title this weekend at the Memorial Coliseum.

Levi Cooper 2nd at State

Congratulations also to Levi Cooper for finishing second at 4A state wrestling tournament. Levi has only lost two matches all season, once in the finals at large tournament earlier in the season, and in the finals at the state tournament- both to the same wrestler from Tillamook.Levi has had an outstanding four years as a wrestler for North Marion High School. Levi was recently voted as athlete of the month for the month of January.

Congratulations to head coach Mike Robinson and assistant coach Ford Stigall for an outstanding wrestling season.

Girls Basketball Clinches Capital Conference Title

Our varsity girls basketball team secured a first place standing in the Capital Conference after their win against Estacada on Friday night. The girls play their last regular league game on Friday February 22nd at Cascade. Congratulations to Head coach Dennis Melcher, and assistant coaches Gary Johnson and Shelby Maguire. Congratulations to the girls on the varsity basketball team;

• Kysteena Brickley
• Keri Erickson
• Makesha Bizon

• Hayley Casto
• Jamie Melcher
• Lauren Johnson
• Corby Johnson
• Brittany Garinger
• Patty Silva Ramirez
• Alma Silva Ramirez
• Caitlin Mason
• Faiena Snegrirev

Heidi Hermansen
Athletic/Activities Director
North Marion High School

Husky Cheerleaders Repeat as State Champions

We have more good news to share from the high school! Saturday our varsity cheerleading squad won the 4A state championship. This upcoming week they are off to California for the National Competition. Congratulations to Kezia Molinsky head coach of the cheerleaders, all of your hard work with the girls paid off.The girls on the state team were

• Stacy Amaya
• Ashley Bacon
• Breanna Baker
• Megan Berry
• Airelle Crivella
• Daysi Garcia
• Tiffany Healy
• Debra Jackson
• Casie Montgomery
• Christina Parra
• Jessica Parra
• Stacy Parra

Wrestlers Advance to State

Our wrestling team won two weight classes at district last weekend. We will be sending five wrestlers to the state meet on Thursday. Congratulations to head coach Mike Robinson and assistant coach Ford Stigall for producing so many high place winners at the district meet. The wrestlers going on to state are

• Levi Cooper Heavyweight Capital Conference Champion
• Cody Randall Capital Conference Champion for 125lb and voted as most valuable wrestler for the lower weight classes
• Tyler Wilson 3rd in the 119lb weight class
• Paul Cam 3rd in the 160lb weight class
• Victor Toran 3rd in the 171lb weight class

The state wrestling meet runs Thursday-Saturday at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland.

Swim Team News

The swim team will be sending several boys and girls to the state swim meet at Mt Hood Community College. The pre-lims for the state meet are on Friday, and the finals for the state meet are on Saturday. We will be sending a girls and boys medley relay (each swimmer swims a different stroke), and a boys sprint 200 free relay. Renae Garinger and AJ Basille will be swimming the 100 butterfly. Congratulations to head coach Chere' Moore and assistant coach Teresa Chan for taking so many relays to the state meet. The rest of the swimmers going on to swim in the relays at the state meet are

• Hailey Garinger
• Elisabeth Culton
• Michelle Kingsbury
• AJ Basile
• Zach Cuellar
• Jake Boudreaux
• Justin Sandoz
• Darren Wells

Congratulations to the cheerleaders, wrestlers, and swimmers who competed last weekend!

Heidi Hermansen
Athletic/Activities Director
North Marion High School

North Marion High School Athlete to Play in College

One of our High School Athletes will be playing football in College next year.
Dillon Neumann, a high school senior at NMHS will be signing a contract to play football with Western Oregon State University tomorrow at 12:00 noon in the high school commons (Wednesday February 7th, 2008). This is Dillon's second year at North Marion High School. He was a member of the varsity football team the last two fall seasons, and is currently playing on the boy's varsity basketball team. Congratulations to Dillon!

Basketball Ratings and other info

Good Morning All:

There seems to be a confusion about our girls basketball team ratings, so hopefully this information will help…

After the girl's win on Tuesday against Cascade, our varsity girls and boys basketball teams have played all six of the of the other teams in our league (Capital Conference) once. Our girls have won all six of those games. So at this point in time, based on their win/loss records in the league they are #1 in the Capital Conference. In the next few weeks (starting with Friday's game with La Salle) the girls and boys basketball teams will play all of the other six teams in the conference again. As each team in the conference plays another and one team wins while another loses the standings among the teams in the Capital Conference will change until all teams have played each other twice.

Since we are a large conference, we will send three Capital Conference basketball teams to the state play-offs to play other teams across the state. Based on win/loss records in the Capital Conference the #1 and #2 teams will go directly into state play-off games. The #3 has to play and win at least one other league play-off game before going on to play another team in the state play-offs.

There are other ratings that rank the 41 4A teams (schools with a student population of 401-850 students) across the state. Most of these are computer generated, and include win/loss records along with other data to come up with a ranking system. You can go to the link below to find out more information about those ratings. These ratings do not rate the 41 teams the same way, so where North Marion is ranked depends on the type of rating scale used.

http://www.oregonprepsports.net/girls-basketball/2007-8-ratings/Oregon/4A/conf_w_desc.html

Thank you all who came to the basketball games on Tuesday to support our high school students! The girls played well against Cascade. The varsity boys played a really tough game that went into overtime against Cascade.

Our wrestlers and swimmers have their district meets coming up on February 8th/9th. The wrestling meet will be held at Cascade High School and the swim meet will be held in Hood River.

Our varsity cheerleaders will perform at the state competition on Saturday February 9th at Memorial Coliseum.

Thanks again to our North Marion community and their support for our students.

Heidi Hermansen
Athletic/Activities Director
North Marion High School

Welcome to North Marion Boosters Blog

Welcome to the Brand New, North Marion Boosters Blog!

Look for our first posting very soon!

Keith Lee