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Category: Press Releases

Athletics and Activities Update March 26th

Outstanding Ratings for the Choir, Orchestra and Band! Choir and Band Director: David Paulson Orchestra and Jazz Band Director Jeff Engholm On March 13, the Prep Concert Band and Orchestra traveled to Melrose to compete in the Minnesota State High School League instrumental large group competition. Both Band and Orchestra competed in category 1 where […]

Athletics and Activities Update March 19th

Congratulations Math Team on placing 1st! Coach Mary Rueter The Varsity Math Team traveled to South Saint Paul on Monday, March 12th to compete in the Beta class at the Minnesota State High School Mathematics League State Tournament. They qualified for the tournament by finishing first in the Central Gopher Division. At the tournament every […]

SJP Wins First Place in the Minnesota Mathematics League State Meet

SJP MATH TEAM EARNS FIRST PLACE! Saint John’s Prep is proud to announce the school’s math team has earned first in the state math team competition in St. Paul on March 12, 2018. The team is coached by math teacher Mary Rueter. The winning varsity team is made up of Upper School students. The team includes: […]

Athletics and Activities Update March 12th

Pictured from left to right are: James Liu, Christine Xu, Ally Wang, Tina Chen, Henry Chen, Zander Haws, Toto Chen, Emily Huang, David Feng. Math Team Coach Mary Rueter The Math Team is competing in the Minnesota State High School Mathematics League State Tournament today. The nine competitors on the Prep team; are Henry Chen […]

Athletics and Activities Update March 5th

Girls’ Middle School Basketball Coach Mary Jo Leighton ’80, Pat Bechtold and Carrie Hoover The MS girls finished their season in Upsala on Monday, Feb. 26. While we were hoping for our first win, the cards didn’t play out that way. We started out a little sluggish which got us down by 10 and it […]

15 Students Receive Honors on the National German Exam

Saint John’s Prep is proud to announce the achievements of our students in the National German Exam. The exam taken yearly by over 20,000 students nationwide and by about 1,000 students from Minnesota. The exam tests the reading and listening components and skills as well as grammatical structures. Students in the 90th percentile and higher […]

Athletics and Activities Update February 26th

Girls’ Varsity Basketball Coach Bryan Backes & Henry Smith, Jr. The girls’ notched another victory last Tuesday evening at Willmar Community Christian School defeating the Warriors 62 to53. The Johnnies took an early lead and never trailed, but the Warriors battled the entire game and several times the Johnnies had to find a way to […]

Katie Bergstrom ’83 to Serve as Interim Principal

Interim Principal 2018-2019 School Year Headmaster Fr. Jonathan Licari, OSB has named Katie Bergstrom ’83 as the interim principal for the 2018-19 school year. Katie currently serves as Chair of our Saint John’s Prep Board of Regents and will resign that role while serving as interim principal. This year, Fr. Licari and the Board of […]

Athletics and Activities Update February 20th

Math Meet Coach Mary Rueter Way to go Math Team! The SJP math team won their last regular season divisional meet. This was truly an amazing team effort! Two of the varsity competitors left school sick on Monday and were unable to compete at the meet, Steve Wang ’19, and Christine Xu ’19 stepped in […]