We are rapidly nearing the end of the Fall Season, and we have groups of Grizzlies finishing strong! The Grizzly Band had a great run at the Quincy Music Festival over the weekend. JV Girls Volleyball and JV Boys Cross Country brought home Conference Championships this past week as well.

There were some awesome individual Grizzly Performances as well. Hunter Stahl won the GAC Central Boys Cross Country Race, and Greysen Curran qualified for State in Girls Golf to become our first State Qualifier of the 2024-2025 School Year.

As we start to close our seasons, please take a moment to give our programs feedback with the anonymous survey linked below.

Please consider taking a few moments to fill out this anonymous survey to help provide feedback for our fall programs.

The all school booster club continues to fund requests for activities and organizations here at North Point High School. Last month the Grizzly Way contributed funded toward a Track Record Board for the gym as well as new wrestling bags.

Be on the lookout for Winter Concessions signups soon! Remember as a parent volunteer you can earn $20 toward your program every time you volunteer! Mrs. Gonzales, our Best Buddies Sponsor who is pictured below, has been picking up shifts to help earn money for her school club!

A huge shout out to Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Krug who are running the North Point Community Outreach Club this year! They have been working with sponsors with campus cleanup this year. So far Art Club, Girls Golf, and most recently the Freshmen Class Club (Pictured Below) have helped beautify our campus by picking up trash after school!

Thank you for all you do!

Plan on playing a winter sport (Basketball, Wrestling, Girls Swim, Winter Guard)? You'll need to make sure you register in order to tryout.

This is a very similar process to fall sports, but all potential winter participants will need to log in to the registration site linked below to register for the winter. All participants will need to have a current MSHSAA Sports Physical and a valid Impact Testing Baseline.

This registration will open on September 23 and close on October 28.

The first day of practice for Boys and Girls Basketball, Girls Wrestling is November 4.

The first day of practice for Boys Wrestling and Girls Swim is November 11.

If you have specific questions about tryouts, you can reach out directly to winter coaches:

Boys Basketball - matthewnicholson@wsdr4.org

Girls Basketball - damondlacy@wsdr4.org

Boys Wrestling - christopherpurcell@wsdr4.org

Girls Wrestling - denniskakrah@wsdr4.org

Girls Swimming - danielzammit@wsdr4.org

Winter Guard - zacharyoconnor@wsdr4.org

If you have missed the three previous testing dates over the past few weeks, there is one final opportunity to take an impact test and be cleared in time for the start of winter tryouts.

October 29th - After School - Held in the Library

If you missed the senior night photolink from Dr. Adams' Instagram page you can access Senior Night Photos in the link below.

The Grizzly Band had a great run at halftime of the game against FZN. They'll be back in action tomorrow at Bands of America competition at the Dome!

The North Point Boys Soccer team notched a great win over Troy last week, and followed it up with a 3-1 victory over a very tough Francis Howell team this week!

They'll head back to Troy this evening to take on the Trojans, and will have their senior night next week on Tuesday night v. Duchesne.

The GAC Championships were held last week, and the Grizzlies turned in strong performances across the line up!

The JV Boys came home as team champions, and Hunter Stahl won the GAC Central Race!

The Grizzlies took on the number one seed FZW in district play last week. The girls competed well and worked hard but ultimately fell to a tough Jaguar team. Thank you for all your hard work this season ladies!

It was a great season for North Point Volleyball. The JV team won another conference championship this year after the move to the GAC Central! Excellent work ladies!

The varsity team fell in 5 sets to FZW in the first round of districts earlier this week. They played hard and pushed the higher seeded Jaguars to the limit at St. Dominic.

NP Cheer on the sidelines at this past Friday's Pink Night game v. FZN.

NP Dance performing their halftime routine on Senior Night.

In what turned out to be a defensive battle, your Grizzlies fell to the undefeated FZN Panthers 10-7.

A special thanks to MIchelle Shellhamer for organizing and planning another successful Military and First Responder Appreciation Night. We also appreciate Pilot Doug Reinholz and Metro Air Support for delivering the game ball in style!

The NPHS Student Athlete of the Month is a new award that is open to any student participating in a sport or activity during the month it is awarded. Coaches and sponsors have the ability to nominate any student in their organization that they believe is excelling on the field of play and in the classroom.

This winner for September is Cooper Griffin of the North Point Volleyball Team! Congrats on all your hard work Cooper!

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!

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!

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.

Don't forget that we have PT conferences on Oct 29 from 3:30-7pm, and on Oct 30 from 10am-8pm.

We will be signing up for conferences a bit differently this year, be on the lookout for an email from Dr. Shelmire on Oct 1 for more information on how to sign up.

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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