Athletics

October 8, 2014

Congratulations to the girls’ varsity tennis team for finishing second place in Section 4A! This is their highest finish in this section since 2009. There are no seniors on the team, so watch out for them next year. Way to go ladies!

September 21, 2014

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a beautiful Homecoming Saturday at MPA!

Girls Soccer defeated St. Paul Harding 5-0

Boys Soccer fell to St. Paul Harding 2-0

Girls Tennis lost to Woodbury 2-5 and defeated Cretin Derham Hall 4-3

Girls Volleyball defeated West Lutheran 2-0 in the championship match to win the Panther Volleyball Tournament

Cross Country had a strong showing at the Milaca Megameet and the Boys team finished 2nd in the Class A race

May 30, 2014

Congratulations to 8th grader Brock Bliese for winning the Section 4A Golf Championship at Victory Links Golf Course in Blaine! Brock shot a 78 on the first day and followed that up with a one over par 73 to finish in first place. Brock now qualifies for the Class A State Golf Championships on Tuesday, June 10 and Wednesday, June 11th at Pebble Creek Golf Course in Becker, MN.

Isabel McKeown (’14) finished in 5th place at the Section 4A Golf Championship to qualify for the State Tournament! The Girls Golf State Tournament will be held on Tuesday, June 10 and Wednesday, June 11 at Pebble Creek Golf Course in Becker, MN. Congratulations Isabel!

May 28, 2014

Junior Duncan Hart defeated Jack Barker from Blake in straight sets in the Section 4A semifinals to advance to the State Tournament. Duncan finished second in the Section to the States top ranked tennis player Charlie Adams from Blake. The top two players advance to the State Tournament from each section. The State Tennis Tournament is on Thursday, June 5th and Friday, June 6th at the Reed-Sweatt Tennis Center in Minneapolis.

Congratulations to Duncan! Go Panthers!

April 16, 2014

Ellie Hands
Ellie Hands is one of 30 senior female students from St. Paul area high schools selected as Athena Athletes for their athletic talents and accomplishments.  All of the Athena Award recipients were honored at a luncheon on Wednesday, April 16^th. Ellie was chosen for her accomplishments in cross country, nordic skiing and track and field earning 12 varsity letters. She was a four time Tri-Metro All-Conference nordic skier. Ellie also qualified for the State Meet in Nordic skiing three times and was a Junior National Qualifier her senior year. Congratulations Ellie!

February 18, 2014

2014 State Nordic Ski results are in!

Ellie Hands finished in 38th place
Kethan Dahlberg finished in 26th place
and Nick Gardner finished as state runner up!

Congratulations to all three of these students on a wonderful season and your tremendous Nordic ski careers at MPA. We are so proud of you! Go Panthers!

Boys results: https://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/upload/MSHSL173300HBoysPursuit.htm

Girls results: https://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/upload/MSHSL1636442014GirlsNordic.htm

January 30, 2014

The Nordic ski teams had a great day at the Tri-Metro Conference Championships yesterday at Elm Creek.

The girls team edged out SPA for the Tri-Metro Conference Championship. The girls’ conference championship team was led by Ellie Hands (3rd Place), Laura Nicholson (7th place), Molly Gardner (12th place), Erin Quam (13th place) and Katie Hands (17th place).
 
In the boys’ race, Nick Gardner was the Tri-Metro Conference champion and Kethan Dahlberg was the runner-up.

MPA had 7 individuals make the All-Conference and Honorable Mention teams. Here are their places of finish in yesterday’s competition.

Girls:
Ellie Hands                          3rd Place                               All-Conference
Laura Nicholson                7th Place                               All-Conference
Molly Gardner                   12th Place                             Honorable Mention
Erin Quam                           13th Place                             Honorable Mention

Boys:
Nick Gardner                     1st Place                               All-Conference
Kethan Dahlberg              2nd Place                               All-Conference
Keith Loukas                      14th Place                             Honorable Mention

Congratulations to MPA’s Nordic ski teams.

November 25, 2013

Mason Ferlic (class of 2011) finished in 22nd place at the NCAA National Cross Country

Championship to earn All American honors.

Mason led his Michigan team to 21st place. Here is a story about the race at the Michigan cross country web site and complete results.

November 2, 2013

From Cross Country Coach Dan Ethier:

State Championship

With 7 outstanding performances today, you earned 2nd place at the state championship!

The state championship is a challenging event. Some very fine runners face the fast start and big pack and fall short. Each of you met that challenge. You did not all run your best times, but you did all run well. The 32 seconds between our 1st runner and our 5th runner was by far the smallest spread of any team in this race.

Nick led our runners, earning all state honors with his 24th place finish. Kethan sprinted home only a few seconds later in 27th place. Logan had a side stitch, but finished with a long sprint in 36th place. Evan ran one of his better times of a year spent dealing with an injury. Nolan, in only his second cross country race, ran a personal record to finish 64th.

Lukas ran a spectacular race, improving his best time by over 30 seconds, and earning 18th place on our all-time best list. Wow! John edged past his personal record.

You should be proud of what you accomplished today. Many other teams were unable to put together enough good performances to be in the hunt. You all ran very well in a challenging situation. Congratulations!

Complete results are at the MSHSL web site.