Monday 10/7/2019 Announcements

From: "Mountain Ridge Marquee" <webmaster@dvusd.org>
Subject: Monday 10/7/2019 Announcements
Date: October 7th 2019

Did you know about 32,000 pints of blood are used in hospitals every day in the United States? We Need YOU! The Fall Blood Drive is Tuesday, October 22nd. You need to be at least 16 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and be in good health. In order to donate schedule an appointment in Mr. Prey's room C209. Thank you!

What a great weekend for Ridge sports!

Girls Badminton played in the DVUSD Invitational Tournament on Friday and had three girls take 1st place. Congratulations to Shivani Bahl, Ali Roskelley and Samantha Rawson.

Girls Volleyball played in the Nike Invitational on Friday and Saturday coming back from losing their first game to win 6 in a row to win the Opal division, Jordan Kress was named MVP and Alissa Uhlenhop was named All Tournament. Shout out goes to the entire Varsity team for their hard work and determination! Great job ladies!

Varsity Football took on the Liberty Lions Friday, coming back from a double digit deficit to beat the Lions in an exciting double overtime 39-33. This awesome win puts our Mountain Lions to a 5-2 record going into their next game this Friday at Pinnacle. Way to go guys!

Freshman Football moved their record to 5-1 last night with a huge victory over Liberty 67-43. Great games were had by Luke Bender, Alex Doost, Christian Aguilar, Jaron Winters and Aiden Brogan. Congratulations!

Congrats to everyone - GO RIDGE!!

This weeks home games:

Tuesday - Badminton against Boulder Creek - it's teacher appreciation night, matches start at 3:30.

Thursday - Badminton against Sandra Day O'Connor - it's SENIOR night, matches start at 3:30

JV Football against Pinnacle - game starts at 6:00pm

COME OUT AND SUPPORT YOUR TEAMS!

Congratulations to our Marching Band! The Band competed this weekend at the PRESCOTT INVITATIONAL where they came in 1st place and swept all captions winning awards for Outstanding Music Performance, Outstanding Visual Performance, Outstanding Auxiliary, Outstanding Percussion and Outstanding General Effect. Way to go Band!

Food Drive- The food drive is here! For 14 of the last 15 years we’ve held the state record for the most cans collected. Let’s smash our record of 240,000 cans, and reach our goal of 250,000!  Just remember this is also a competition. The top two 1st hour classes with the most bulk food items will each receive a Pizza Party. The top two 1st hour classes overall will each receive their choice of a donut party or a cookie and milk party. Make sure to bring in those cans!

Hey PAC members, Principals Advisory Committee, be sure to get your teacher for Ridge Got Talent  AND....survey your friends for school improvement ideas.

The admissions representative from GCU will be on campus during AcaPrep on tomorrow, Oct. 8th. She will be able to answer any questions about the admissions process, scholarships, campus life and more. Make sure to stop by the Counseling office to get your AcaPrep pass today!

Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors are invited to a field trip to tour West-Mec Northeast Campus on Wednesday, October 9th from 9am-11am. Please sign up in the counseling office to attend.