EHS WEEKLY MESSENGER
October 17th, 2021
NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Invest in EHS Day
Dear Cougar Families,
We hope you’ve heard by now that INVEST IN EHS DAY is Tuesday, October 19, at www.InvestinEHS.com. During our one-day fundraising campaign we aspire to raise enough money to be able to provide critical educational support for Evergreen High School. With $50,000, we can:
· Outfit every single classroom with a Mimio Touch Screen, which will positively impact learning for every student at EHS.
· Provide key classroom tools and software
· Offer training for teachers, staff, and student leadership
· Fund teachers’ special projects
· Help EHS stay competitive and maintain its level of excellence
On Tuesday, please consider making a donation at www.InvestinEHS.com. If every family contributes at least $50 for each of their EHS students, we will make our goal in one day. All donations are tax-deductible, and 100% of your donation goes to the EHSEF. If we all work together, we can do great things.
This year, thanks to the Pisula Development Company, with the first 100 donations of $150 or more, EHS teachers and staff will receive a gift card to a local business at the Bergen Village Shopping Center: Hearthfire Books and Treats, Chow Down, Bread Lounge, Evergreen Cooking School, or Nellybelle General Store. It’s a great way to support the school and our community businesses.
As always, thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
The Evergreen High School Education Foundation
National Honor Society Tutors
Need additional support in a subject? Check out our "Academic Supports" section of the EHS website for an updated list of NHS tutors:
https://sites.google.com/jeffcoschools.us/ehs-counseling/academic-resources
Colorado Free Application Day
Mark your calendars — Fee Application Days start next week!
To encourage high school seniors to continue their education, the Colorado Department of Higher Education is waving application fees for Colorado Free Application Days from Oct. 19-21.
Applicants who submit their admission applications to Colorado's colleges and universities during this three-day period can do so for free! Be sure to visit the Free Application Days website for instructions and additional information!
Warren Tech
WT TOUR AND VISIT OPPORTUNITIES
Potential students & families have the option to attend a monthly Information/Tour Night at the noted Warren Tech campus.
· All Information/Tour Nights are held from 5:00p.m. - 6:00p.m. No registration is required. Just show up!
· The evening includes a tour and a presentation on Warren Tech. Questions can be answered about all 37 programs.
2022-23 WT APPLICATION
· Opening December 7th! Mark your calendars
· We are excited to now align our application opening with all other Jeffco schools
· This move is meant to help streamline enrollment decision-making and logistics for families and students
· We’re excited to share more in November about the application platform
Congratulations Instrumental Music
& Mr. Goshorn
Jeffco Schools Costume Shop
Jeffco Costume Connection, the shared costume resource for Jeffco Schools, has lots of work to do pruning the collection of costumes and they are looking for student (& adult) volunteers willing to sort through costumes, look for stains, wear, etc that would indicate something to remove from the collection. Once we've weeded the collection, we'll start inventory, cataloging & tagging costumes with a scannable barcode for easier checkout & return.
If you are in need of service hours, or just love to work with costumes, sign up to help with this great project HERE!
Senior College and Post-Secondary Workshop
Seniors-
Your EHS Counselors are available every FRIDAY through Nov. 12th for walk-in help with future planning. This includes, but is not limited to, college applications, scholarships, essays brainstorming and researching options. Come join us in the counseling hall anytime between 7:30-2:30!
Supports
Teen Driver Safety Week
National Teen Driver Safety Week is October 17-23
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens (15-18 years old) in the United States. In 2019, there were 2,042 people killed in crashes involving a teen driver, of which 628 deaths were the teen driver.
Check out these websites for safe driving tips and conversation starters with your teen driver this week.
Jeffco Community Financial Aid/FAFSA Night
Thank you to all that were able to attend the Jeffco Financial Aid event the evening of 9-28-21. 300 people signed up to view the presentation either live or recorded. Red Rocks Community College led the event, and they shared a large amount of very useful information. If you were not able to attend live, you can access a recording of the presentation here. If you have more questions or need assistance as you begin filling out the FAFSA, please take advantage of the FAFSA completion events being offered on November 13th, and December 11th at Red Rocks Community College. A flyer with more details will be available soon.
JOIN THE TEAM
PTSA
PTSA MEETING THIS WEEK AT WILD GAME!
Our October meeting will be this Tuesday, October 19th at 5:00 pm at Wild Game on Bergen Parkway. We will be meeting in the room right next to the host stand. Our agenda, as well as last month's minutes, can be found here.
THANKS TO WILDFLOWER CAFE for our delicious Parent Teacher conference dinner and all of your generosity!
Athletics and Activities
This week’s Varsity events:
Monday - Boys Soccer will be @ the NAAC vs Golden at 7pm - No charge for those with Athletics Pass in hand
Thursday - Boys Soccer MOUNTAIN BOWL - Let’s gather at Conifer (4pm) and show our Cougar Pride! Next stop -- SLHS to cheer on EHS Volleyball @ 6:30 pm
Friday - XC Regionals will be here in Evergreen this year. Gather at Evergreen Memorial Park @ 3pm to support our runners on our HOME turf. At 4pm, stop by GMHS to wish EHS Gymnasts good luck at Leagues. Our Football team is HOME as well vs Lewis-Palmer with a 7pm kick-off.
Saturday - Volleyball would love to see you at Columbine - Varsity game starts at 1pm. ‘Sko Cougs!
(See this rSchool calendar link for all EHS scheduled games and MaxPreps for results)
To speed up entry into the games:
Be sure to bring your Athletic Passes or bring exact change if paying the $4/$6 entry fee
Gymnastics Seniors: Arden Burns, Carsen Burns,
Roxy Sanford & Isabel Wallace
Jeffco Field Hockey Team: Cora Blatchford and Riley McIntosh
STUDENT PASSES:
2021-22 Activity Stickers
If you purchased a pass for your student and they have not picked it up, then they will need to pay $4 to enter the games.
Please check if they have the 2021-22 sticker on their student ID. If not, send them to the Athletics office to pick it up.
Passes can still be purchased on Jeffco Connect for $60.
ADULT PASSES:
Adult Admission Ticket booklets:
Booklets of 10 tickets are sold for $55 in the EHS Financial office. These tickets save you 50c per game, save you time at the gate, can be used at all Jeffco stadiums, can be shared with others and do not expire. Stop by this week to get your booklet!
Honorary Lifetime Athletics Pass
This pass is FREE to Jeffco residents age 55 and over & good for entry to all regular Jeffco athletic events and activities.
Complete the application and drop it at the EHS Athletics desk. Passes may take one week to process.
Congratulations Boys Tennis
State Qualifiers!
FALL SPORTS - results, highlights, photos, updates and news:
XC - BOYS & GIRLS (results here) - Our top runners at jeffco Leagues were Ian Cormier (10th) and Micheal Mosby (30th) for the Boys race and Emma Flowers (15th) and Anna Gohman (31st) for the girls.
FOOTBALL (results here) - On 10/8, the Evergreen varsity football team lost their home conference game against Lutheran by a score of 46-2.
GYMNASTICS (results here) - EHS Varsity Gymnastics beat Bear Creek but lost to Arvada West by less than half a point during their last regular season meet. Sydney Burns took 2nd in the all-around competition and Carsen Burns 5th.
Top individual finishers for varsity included:
Emma Board (3rd bars)
Arden Burns (6th beam)
Carsen Burns (6th floor, 5th beam)
Sydney Burns (1st bars, 2nd floor, 3rd beam, 3rd vault)
Ailish Ocasek (6th vault)
Roxy Sanford (4th beam)
Top individual finishers for junior varsity included:
Betsy Bogdan (3rd bars)
Bella Palaia (2nd bars)
Julia Swanke (1st bars, 1st beam)
Good luck at Leagues!
MOUNTAIN BIKING (results here) - The Evergreen High School Mountain Bike Team had another great showing last weekend finishing 4th in Division 1 at the Haymaker Classic Bike Race in Eagle.
Our team left everything out on the trail with many great finishes in their last regular season race of the year. For a number of our seniors it was their last race. We are so proud of them and all they have accomplished in the last 4 years of mountain biking.
The Cougars swept the Toyota “Slingshot award” for moving up the most ranks. In the ladies division Chloe Lamb went from 17th rank to 11th and for the men's Nico Cicora from 88th to 22nd! As a team, they made a back-to-back win with the SPIRIT AWARD for the day. The theme was noise makers and we brought our drums out and made some noise! Way to represent Cougar Pride, EHS Racers!
The following were the top 15 points scorers for Evergreen:
JULIA WORDLEY
NIKO LEUNIG
MEGYN FONDA
TREVOR CHARTIER
BEN LEIFER
SOPHIA KRASOVEC
NICOLE WORDLEY
OLIVER EVES
CHLOE LAMB
GRAY OLSON
SAVANNA RALEY
MAX FOOTER
NICHOLAS CICORA
ELI KRASOVEC
FINN DUROSS
Next up - the State Championship Race in Durango in 2 weeks. Congratulations and good luck to the 21 EHS qualifiers!
SOCCER - BOYS (results here) - On 10/14, the Evergreen varsity soccer team won their home conference game against Green Mountain (Lakewood, CO) by a score of 4-2.
Don’t miss any soccer news by following the team on Instagram @ehs.co.boyssoccer.
SOFTBALL (results here) - Congrats on a great season!
EHS team finished 3rd at Regionals 2 weeks ago and had 4 State qualifiers.
Nicely done team!
Congratulations to the following EHS students who qualified for the STATE this season -
Senior Zach Short, Freshman Shepherd Maren (one of the only freshmen in the entire state to qualify),
Junior Jake Lewis, and Senior Joe Cuntz
Playing #1 Doubles, Zach Short and Shepherd Maren won their first match of the Colorado High School 4A State Tennis Championships, coming from behind to defeat a pair of regional champions in their match. Zack and Shepherd then played Colorado Academy and lost in the second round. We are awaiting semi results and have fingers crossed for the possibility of playing in the Finals on Saturday.
Playing #1 Singles, Jake Lewis, as a regional winner, played a #2 opponent and won his first round. Then Jake played the #1 player from Niwot and lost in the quarter finals. We had a lot of fun watching Jake win, win, & win this season in the #1 position. Results are not in at this time, but hoping Jake has a chance to play in the finals on Saturday.
And in #3 Singles, Joe Cuntz won both of his Thursday matches, and advanced to the SEMIFINALS on Friday. There are no results at the time of this posting. See the link below and look for photos and updates in next week’s Messenger.
(CHSAA State Results linked here)
VOLLEYBALL (results here) - On 10/12, the Evergreen varsity volleyball team won their away conference match against the Conifer Lobos by a score of 3-0. And On 10/14, the EHS volleyball team lost their match against D'Evelyn by a score of 3-1.
FIELD HOCKEY - The JeffCo High School Girls Field Hockey team is wrapping up their Fall 2021 season. This team is unique in CHSAA with the squad made up of athletes from many different JeffCo high schools. This varsity team is led by Coach Jacob Southern of Dakota Ridge and hosts home games on a new turf field in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Deaf School (next door to D’Evelyn High). The girls on the team came together from Evergreen, Lakewood, Chatfield, Ralston Valley, Golden, Green Mountain and Dakota Ridge. (Shout-out to EHS students Cora Blatchford and Riley McIntosh!!) Coach Southern creates an environment where the girls have fun together and show up to work hard. It has been amazing to see a cohesive team form from different backgrounds, grades, sports and levels of experience in field hockey. Many play multiple sports and bring their love of lacrosse, soccer and softball to the pitch. Over the last two and half months of this fall season they have become a team - starting off with a tough defeat versus 2020 State Champs, Regis Jesuit, to a late season shutout win at Cheyenne Mountain.
If interested in participating, check with EHS Athletic Director LeRoy Lopez for more information about next season’s team.
Parents, students, coaches -we invite you to send highlights and photos from our EHS Varsity events and we will try to get all your “shout-outs” posted in future Messengers, on EHS social Media or on our “Cougars in the News” wall.
Weekly Covid Testing is required for students who participate in EHS (CHSAA sanctioned) athletics and activities who do not have a vaccination card on file.
ALL students involved in these school-based extracurricular activities and athletics (vaccinated and unvaccinated) are asked to declare their vaccination status. If you have not already done so, please complete this Google form (or in person with our Athletic Secretary).
(Jeffco testing and procedure info linked here)
For those who require Covid testing ---
--- Please know that this digital Parent consent form must be completed prior to initial testing.
--- Testing is available at EHS Mon/Wed/Fri (2pm to 5:30pm) and Tues/Thurs (9:00am to 2:30pm) in room G412.
--- A test must be administered EVERY WEEK. Test should be completed by Friday at 6pm in order to participate in practice or competition the NEXT week (Mon - Sat)
---Home tests are not accepted
WINTER SPORTS - begin 11/15/2021
WINTER ATHLETIC REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
In order to receive the required Clearance for Athletics your will need:
- Jeffco Student ID # (non-Jeffco students see below)
- Sports Physical or signed "Statement by Physician" (for Athletic & Spirit Registration only)
- Covid vaccination card on file or consent to provide results of weekly covid testing
- Full-time courseload (2.5 units required)
- For full participation there must be No Fs from previous semester
AR linked above.
Click here to report Covid vaccination status.
Complete this consent form if weekly testing is required.
ALPINE SKI TEAM - Virtual MEETING Wed Oct 20th 6pm. Visit the Team website for the meeting link. Contact coach Broc Thompson to express your interest or for team questions.
GIRLS SWIM and DIVE TEAM - Team and Parent meeting in the EHS Library @ 2:45pm on Thursday 10/28.
See the links below for our Winter Sports Team Websites and Coach contact info:
Hal Farmwald
Maddy Hornecker
Broc Thompson
Holly Boggs
Mike Savoie
Lisa Morrow
Brett Brinkhoff
Luke Burrier
GO COUGS!
