It has been a great start to the school year here at North Point High School! We appreciate you checking out this edition of "Inside The Den", we will continue to try to publish a newsletter per week to keep you updated on everything happening with sports and activities here in the Den.

This week's newsletter has info on our fall sports and activities that are underway, a quick clarification about attendance, and some reminders about using your WSD Sports and Activities Passes.

Having great attendance is a must for athletes and activities participants. Not only does being in class regularly help with your grades, but it is required to be able to participate on a day when your sport or activity has a contest or game!

Our North Point parents have been great so far about keeping my office up to date, thank you for your efforts! Here are a few quick reminders:

- If your student will miss all or a portion of a school day that falls on the same date as a game/contest, this absence will need to be pre-approved by Dr. Adams.

- Parents should email Dr. Adams at least 24 hours in advance of the absence on a contest day, including partial absences for doctors appointments. He will respond back approving or denying the ability to play/participate.

- Students should bring a doctor's note back with them to give to the attendance office upon their return.

- Remember, any absence that isn't pre-approved (including leaving school for lunch or for forgotten items at home) on the day of a contest will make the student ineligible to compete that day.

- Be careful with Fridays or days prior to breaks, if the contest is on a Saturday and the absence occurs on a Friday, a student will not be eligible to compete on Saturday.

- All absences should be called in or emailed to the attendance office, and absences from a practice should be communicated directly with coaches and sponsors.

Thank you for your continued help!

The Grizzly Band is already off to a busy start this season. They sent members of the Percussion section to the Midwest Marching Percussion Classic hosted by THS band, and debuted their program "David" this past Thursday to a packed house at the Den!

Good luck this season NP Band and Guard!

The Varsity football team defeated the visiting Francis Howell North Knights in the season opener on Thursday. There were a number of great performances to help entertain our season opening crowd.

A huge thanks to those parents who volunteered to work concessions to help raise money for our programs here at North Point!

The team travels to Holt this Friday for their next game, good luck Grizzlies!

The Cheer team turned in an awesome performance on Thursday night. They introduced some new elements in this year's routine that are sure to turn heads!

The dance team understood the assignment and brought their best tropical spirit wear to the game on Thursday!

All 3 levels of the Girls Volleyball program opened at the Brace For Impact Tournament hosted by MICDS over the weekend.

It is a great experience to get the season rolling, and the tough competition will help our program get going to start the season.

The JV team opened their season in the St. Dominic Tournament, they'll wrap up play in that event this Friday.

The Varsity team opened up their season vs. a tough FZS team last night, and ultimately lost in PK's after two intense overtime periods. They'll be back in action this Thursday v. Timberland.

The softball team has been busy to start the season competing in the Troy Season Opening Tournament. The weather didn't cooperate on day two of the tournament, but your Grizzlies played some tough competition at FHC before playing Timberland yesterday in a conference game to start regular season play yesterday. The girls have battled every game, be sure to get out to the Den to catch them in action soon!

Girls golf split their season opening Tri-Meet with Holt and FZS yesterday. They are on the road at Hannibal today for a tournament.

The Boys swim team will open their season tonight at the Rec-Plex at 8:30pm. They'll be competing in a tri with FHC and Liberty High School. Good luck Gentlemen!

The tennis team played in the FHC kickoff tournament this past weekend, and fell to conference foe Washington in a well played match.

They'll welcome the Eagles from LHS today!

Cross country opens their season today at the Fleet Feet CC Classic! The team has increased their numbers this year and will be following up a season in which the Girls and Boys teams both qualified for State last year. Good Luck this year XC!

With this year's move to online sports passes and digital ticketing, here are few helpful pieces of information to have your digital ticket ready before trying to enter the game on Thursday.

- Download the GoFan App and create an account (If you purchased an online season pass you should use the same email you used when you purchased the pass)

- Once in the app you can pull up your digital ticket, or your season pass. If you need to distribute season passes to family members you can do that here as well. Again have them create a Go Fan account, get the app, and for students use a non-school email.

- Your season pass or single game ticket will be a live ticket. They can only be used once per game. We will not accept a screen shot in place of the actual digital ticket. The ticket takers at the pass gate will physical tap your phone to redeem your ticket.

See the links below if you are interested in a single game ticket, or a season sports pass.

If you have a student participating in a sport this year, or just enjoy visiting the Den for events, an Activity Pass is your best value, and the easiest way to gain quick access to NP venues for games!

The Activity Pass will even get you into road contests at other Wentzville School District Schools - Liberty, Holt, and Timberland.

A family pass (for a family of 5) is only $80 for the entire year! Admission into home events in the fall like football and volleyball is $5 for adults and $2 for students. If you attend all the varsity home games and games at our district opponents (Holt, Timberland, Liberty) you would spend $112 at the gate! By getting the family sports pass you can attend those games, plus lower level football and all the home volleyball you can handle this fall! Your activity pass will continue to pay off the rest of the year as you can use it at home basketball and wrestling and boys volleyball in the spring! It really does represent a great value as it will pay for itself during the football season alone!

Click on the link below to purchase your activity pass today!

The district and NPHS are trying to move to a cashless gate as much as possible. In order to help you get into events quickly with your Activity Pass these will only be digital this year. Please use a parent email to purchase the pass so that it does not get blocked in student email accounts.

Check out the link for the GoFan:How To Guide below to learn how to access your pass, how it will work at the gate, and how to distribute your family passes.

You can access fall sports schedules now on the webpage linked below. There is also an "Activity Scheduler" app available for your mobile device that will alert you of schedule changes. It is a great idea to go ahead and save that link to your browser for future reference.

Please remember that there is a good chance for early season schedule changes due to other school's participation numbers or unanticipated scheduling conflicts. We thank you for your patience as we iron those out with other schools.

The Grizzly Way Booster Club is an all school booster club that helps fund requests for all school sponsored teams and activities. Please check out their website to see how they've helped fund requests, over $75,000 worth in just a few short years since the opening of the building!

You can also check out their online spirit wear store, and look for opportunities to volunteer and get involved! Click the picture below to consider becoming a member today!

Please remember that participating in sports and activities here at North Point is a privilege, not a right. Student participants are expected to maintain their eligibility and citizenship by following our district and MSHSAA Guidelines. Please click on the pictures below to review the attached resources to help ensure your eligibility for the entirety of the school year.

Be sure to follow the Activities Department to stay up to date of everything happening at North Point.

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