Girls Wrestling Tournament

By: Bella McCullough

This weekend from December 8th-9th the girls wrestling team had a tournament at Marsh Valley. There were many teams competing from in our district as well as out, the girls wrestled in the Marsh Valley Middle School while the JV and Varsity Boys had their tournament in the Marsh Valley High School and their center building. All of the girls did amazing in all their matches and learned great lessons from each and every one of them. Everyone was busy even when it wasn’t their match, watching others wrestling matches as a hawk watches its prey, studying other peoples moves and their ways of wrestling. One of our girls, Aubrey Shulz, almost went undefeated going into the first place round, but after fighting hard and trying her best, she was pinned. Everyone got at least one win each day and did great overall. We are looking forward to our next tournament, which will be December 15th-16th at Ririe, come and support!

Blackfoot Cheer Competition

By: Rebecca McCracken

On Saturday, December 9th, the Malad High School cheerleaders competed in their first competition of the year. At Blackfoot High School's ‘Stampede Showdown’ our MHS cheerleaders took third place in the 2A division pom. “We gave it our best for what we had. We endured tough last-minute changes, but we gave Blackfoot everything we had and came out successful.” Taylor Cowdin, a sophomore cheerleader, stated. Sophomore cheerleader Isabella Bowen added, “We did great, considering our circumstances. Our team is tiny this year, which puts us at a disadvantage against teams with twenty girls or more. We may be tiny, but we are mighty.” The cheerleaders will perform their pom routine during halftimes at Malads girls' and boys' basketball home games, and the annual Drill Team Christmas Show. 

FCCLA Fall Conference

By: Aubree Palmer, Tylee Wright

Wednesday, November 1st, the exciting collaboration of each FCCLA chapter in District Five of Idaho rallied together to access leadership skills, general FCCLA knowledge, and presentation skills for events within FCCLA. Led by District President Aubree Palmer from Malad, the opening session went off without a hitch. As each of the chapters filed in with their seventy members in all, Aubree greeted each with materials for the day. These were known as their passports, boarding passes, and carry-ons regarding the theme, “The Ultimate Journey.” With the uplifting speech about success and perseverance, Raegan Yamauchi, Miss Idaho 2023, delighted all members who attended. After the opening ceremony, attendees were split into workshop groups where they worked on service projects for the Salvation Army, preparing for their star events, and Just Dance. After lunch, the workshops were Careers in FCS, FCCLA Trivia, and Presenting Skills. Each workshop was led by a District officer, including Aubree Palmer with Presenting Skills. The highly awarded officer shared her success tactics that led her to achieve Top Gold in every event she has competed in, the highest score in Idaho, and Gold at the National Leadership Conference. All in all, each member loved the conference. A member remarked, “I loved the conference! I think Aubree and the other officers worked so hard to make it an enjoyable experience and succeeded!” 

Boys Wrestling Tournament at Marsh Valley 

By: Sydnee Sorensen and 

Karlee Palmer

The boy's wrestling tournament was held on Friday the eighth and Saturday the ninth, in Marsh Valley. The overall feeling gathered from the boy's wrestling team members after being interviewed was that the tournament went significantly well. Their attitude has a great deal to do with the overall idea from everyone before their matches being play well and don’t get pinned. Most of the boys had 7 matches between the two day tournament and wrestlers like Drake Morrison went undefeated in all their matches along with other wrestlers that went undefeated as well. Calem Mathews said that he had good matches and went against a Pocatello wrestler that broke his nose last year and won against him. Over all the wrestling team is doing very well and wining the majority of their matches. As a senior wrestler and the team captain Hunter Wray has had a good experience as being the team captain, which entails leading warm ups, making sure everyone is where they need to be at the time they need to be there, among other responsibilities. He feel he has been successful in his wrestling matches and stays determined during matches as well as getting focust before the match starts. Overall our wrestling team is doing a great job and succeeding in so many ways. 

Drill Show

By: Kaycee Venable

December 12th 2023-The Dragonettes had their annual christmas show yesterday. They have been preparing for this show for a long time. They did their Christmas dance, competition military, and competition Hip Hop. It went really well and it was a fun time. The younger girls did so good too. Thank you to all that came and supported.

Girls Basketball 

By: Liv Nelson and Tylee Wright

This past week has been an amazing week for the Lady Dragons. They started off the week by playing against the Firth Cougars on Tuesday, December 5th.  The C-team started off and won. The Junior Varsity played after and won. Varsity followed JV and got the win 75-55. The next game was on Saturday, December 9th against the North Fremont Huskies. The C-team fought hard the whole game but barely lost 16-19. The JV played amazing beating the Huskies. Varsity followed and won 48-34. The varsity team advanced to 8-0 for the whole season! This next week the Dragons play Aberdeen on Wednesday, December 13. They also play West Side on Friday, December 15th. 

Senior Project 

By: Brynlee Bastian 

Our first-semester Senior Project class is coming to an end! Students have worked hard on their projects all semester and will be presenting them on Thursday, December 12th. The class was taught by Mrs. Jacobson and the students were those who would be graduating early or were eager to get it done. Some student projects included Cianna Searle who did her project on building a scoring system in the bowling alley. Mason Breez did an engine swap for his car. Blake Willaims built a bench and Ike Dredge built a table. Zion McCullough made a website for his counselor, and Kendal Reeder rebuilt a tractor! Overall the first semester of the senior project went smoothly and the students can’t wait to present their hard work! Malad High School can’t wait for the second semester and the new projects the Seniors will be bringing! 

Boys Basketball

By: Brynlee Bastian and Katie Coatney 

The boy's basketball team traveled to Rire over the weekend for a tournament. The tournament was JV and Varsity and both teams played one game a day. Thursday both teams played Teton. The JV battled hard and lost by four. The Varsity team put up a fight ending halftime down by four, but lost to the Timberwolves by 22. Day two both teams played Firth. JV ended with a win against the Cougars. Varsity ended their game against the Cougar with a loss of 66-38. Day three brought on South Fremont for both of our teams. Our JV boys battled hard but fell short with a loss to South Fremont. The Varsity beat the South Fremont Cougars 63-43 ending the tournament with a win! Baylor Bean said, “It was a fun tournament that brought good competition and an opportunity for team bonding”.