Category: Activities

Saint John’s Prep Triple A Award Winners Each year the Minnesota State High School League honors students from member schools with the Triple A Award (Arts, Academics, Athletics). This year’s Triple A Award female and male award winners from Saint John’s Prep are Sonja Johnson and Cullin Egge.  Sonja is the daughter of Stephanie and Whitney […]

Robotics Team Coach Steve Larson This past week the Robotics Team met at Apollo High School. This was the first of two meets this year, and really the first opportunity both teams have had to test their robots. Team A (YaBoi) had technical challenges from the start, and were continuously working to better the robot […]

Girls’ Basketball Coach Bryan Backes Assistant Coach Henry Smith, Jr. The Johnnies opened their season with a come-from-behind 31-28 victory over the Saint Cloud Christian School ‘Warriors’ on Friday night. Captain A’ishah Smith ’18 made 4 crucial second half free throws-while grabbing 6 rebounds, 2 steals and handing 2 assists. Reid Nydeen started the comeback-hitting a […]

Girls’ Hockey The River Lakes Stars girls’ hockey team opened the season last Tuesday against Buffalo and were defeated 6-4 playing without SJP senior goalie Jordyn Tomaszewski. Jordyn ’18 returned to the line-up Saturday against powerhouse Roseau. In the game Jordyn had 51 saves and kept the team in the game throughout. One spectacular save […]

Boys’ Soccer Awards Granite Ridge All-Conference Honorable Mention  Ben McGee ’19 – Ben’s calm and steady play at the center midfield position resulted in solid control of many matches.  Zander Haws ’18 – Zander often had the unenviable task of defending the opposition’s biggest threat. Zander played consistently tough the entire season.  Nick McGee ’18 […]

Girls’ Swimming and Diving Head Coach Jen Daiker The Girls’ Swim and Dive Team have had a busy week with sectionals held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday! Thursday night the girls had their section preliminaries to qualify for finals on Saturday. While the team as a whole did fantastic, Justine Meyer ’20, Sophie Hwang ’22, Ari […]

Congratulations to Bob Ellenbecker!! Prairie Conference Assistant Coach of the Year Mr. Ellenbecker received the Prairie Conference Assistant Coach of the Year for his work with the discus and shot put athletes at Saint John’s Prep. The award was presented at the Prairie Conference Coaches Banquet on November 1st at the Clarissa Ballroom. Mr. Ellenbecker […]

Athletics & Activities Update Support our competing teams! This is our weekly email to share news and updates about our athletic teams and competing activity teams. The coaches provide the highlights from the past week’s matches and games. A schedule of this week’s competitions is posted at the bottom of the email. For more information, […]

Cross Country Head Coach Lance Nydeen The Cross Country team ended the regular season at the Kimball Golf Course on October 17 for the Central Minnesota Conference Championship! After a great season of hard work and athlete dedication, the Boys’ Varsity Team finished 6th place out of 9 full competing teams. Andy Moen ’18, Nate Salzl […]

Girls’ Soccer Head Coach Eric Yanke The Girls’ soccer team had a thrilling last week.  Our final regular season game was played in Cold Spring on Tuesday versus Rocori.  It was an incredibly even game.  The score was tied at zero until the last minute thanks to an incredible defensive effort from Jordyn Tomaszewski ’12 […]