Saints News - 3.24.22

March 24, 2022

Greetings! Enjoy our Saints News!

HEAD OF SCHOOL MUSING

Sunday Monday happy days

Tuesday Wednesday happy days

Thursday Friday happy days

Saturday what a day

Rockin' all week for you

Only a few weeks away, mark your calendars for April 21-23 when our Saints will take the stage and perform this year’s musical – Happy Days. Why did Theater Director Melinda Carlson choose this musical? She told me, “We need something lighthearted, with lots of male roles, and that accommodates almost one-third of our student body.”

Think about her last point for a moment – 1/3^rd of the VCHS student body! Do you know of another school not solely devoted to the performing arts that has so many students involved with their school’s musical production? Mrs. Carlson has developed a Vail Christian culture in which the arts and athletics excel, are highly valued, and one in which the lines are blurred between artists and athletes. I’m thrilled to see so many of our young men play lead roles such as Alec Bruno (Richie), Carlos Chavez (Fonzie), Aiden Kelley (Ralph), John McAbee (Potsie), and Jack Pryor (Richie), just to name a few.

Be ready for some magical choreography especially with roller skating. Enjoy the story as the kids plan to save Arnolds from being demolished by hosting a dance contest and wrestling match.

Shout outs also go to Mrs. Heidi Cofelice (set/prop director), Ms. Kasey Desmond (stage crew), Mrs. Krista McClinton (costumes), and Mr. Colin Meiring (choreography).

Break a leg, Saints!

Steve O'Neil

Head of School

BRAVOS

Congratulations VCHS Science Club Students

Eleven VCHS Juniors will represent our school at the Steadman Philippon Research Institute’s Summer Scholars Program (SPRI SSP) this summer: Nate Bishop, Carlos Chavez, Maya Darnall, Ava Garrison, Ollie Grems, Cole Kirkham, Nancy Liu, Landen Schmidt, Andre Skweir, Payton Vermeer, and Patricia Zhang.

This is a week-long program of medical exploration in SPRI’s state-of-the-art orthopedics labs. Students will have the opportunity to:

interactively learn about many facets of scientific and clinical research
engage with engineers, scientists, researchers, and clinicians at SPRI
experience hands-on activities in the Biomotion Lab and Robotics Lab
perform stem cell experiments in the Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine
dissect specimens in the Surgical Skills Lab
observe a surgeon in the operating room

ANNOUNCEMENTS

VCHS Welcomes Guest Speaker to Chapel

Scott O'Grady, main character of the movie "Behind Enemy Lines" will speak at VCHS Chapel on Wednesday, March 30th.

Scott loves the Lord and has a great testimony.

For the stretch of a few weeks in the mid 90's, there was nobody more famous than Captain Scott O'Grady. An American hero, Scott's F-16 was struck by a surface-to-air missile and forced to eject, he had to survive behind enemy lines for 6 days. As the whole country prayed and held their breath, the radio transmitted a voice from a hill in Bosnia, "I'm alive, I'm alive." The United States Marine Corp soon rescued Captain O'Grady and he still tells this harrowing tale today.

At 11:00 am on March 30th in Grace Auditorium, come hear his story as the Theology Department of Vail Christian High School welcomes this special guest.

Click here to purchase tickets!

Parents - Theater needs you! Please contact

Melinda Carlson to see how you can help with

sets, costumes and more!

SPORTS

VCHS Lady Saints played hard against VMS on Monday

First Home Game vs. Gateway

Friday | 3.25.22 | 4:30 & 5:30 pm

Come cheer on your Saints!

Click here for the Vail Daily Article about the inaugural season

Baseball season is underway for Battle Mountain Huskies and Saints athletes: Shaeffer Dodds, Sutton Dodds, Hayden Lavelle and Vincent Nowicki (not pictured, Keagan Collins).

VCHS athletes and Battle Mountain Huskies take a 10-6 victory over Steamboat last Friday. Saints, Orion Adelman, Nate Bishop, Max Darling, Mason Darnell, Hunter Gilbert, Ollie Grems, Andrew Gruell, Brock Petersmeyer, Jack Pryor, Leo Rothenberg and Asher Silberman play lacrosse at BMHS.

Click here for the Vail Daily Article

STUDENT LIFE

SAINTS Senior Stuff

Cap & Gown

Please pick up all Cap & Gown orders from Front Desk by April 4th

Senior Yearbook Parent Ad Page

Customize Your Senior Page | Deadline March 31st | Click here to start

Log into your account

Click on "Design Ad"

Upload photos and add custom text

Senior Boards

Senior Boards | Decorate yours with photos, etc | Displayed at Graduation Events

Pick up at front desk by 3.11.22| Deadline to return is 4.4.22

Senior Photos Due for Slide Show | Upload here

EXTENDED!

YEARBOOK ORDER DEADLINE

NOW 3.31.22

Purchase yearbooks from the

VCHS Yearbook Store for $35

or $40 (if you purchase the four additional customized pages).

Call For Entries

Articulation Art & Literary Magazine Vol. 6 - Metamorphosis is seeking entries of art, photography, poetry, creative writing + more to be published in the 2022 edition.

Please email articulationmagazine@vchsweb.org

with questions or to send submissions.

VCHS COMMUNITY

Alumni Micah Sharpe Deployed

Please keep Micah Sharpe '20 in your prayers as he was deployed last week to the Poland-Ukraine border. Micah is an Army combat medic. Micah is in the 563rd CO 91st Military Police Battalion supporting the 82nd Airborne. Micah was recently promoted to E-5 Specialist.

Also pray for his family - Missy and Dave and Caleb