Saint Paul’s Lutheran School Hosts 2nd Annual Tiger Invitational & 2013 Lutheran Conference Basketball Tournament: Both a Success!

What a busy January Saint Paul’s had hosting our 2^nd annual Tiger Invitational as well as the 2013 Lutheran Conference Basketball Tournament! Between both tournaments, we had 11 schools and 13 teams visit our school to compete. What a wonderful way to show off our facilities!

An enormous thank you is in order to the individuals who worked to keep our school sparkling clean and ready for our big events. Linda Craig, Ted Fedder, Todd Moore, Harold Niebruegge, and Greg Reynolds have worked tirelessly early morning hours, throughout the school day, and late into the evening to ensure our school building and gym are prepared to handle our events.

Another immense thank you is due to every single family with children participating in athletics who willingly volunteered to give up so much of their weekends handling these events. Thank you for helping with admissions, concessions, the score table, selling T-shirts, and cleaning up Saturday evening. A special thank you to Rhonda Lange for heading up the concession stand so that the 7^th/8^th grade class could raise funds for their class trip. She and the 7^th/8^th grade parents put together a fabulous concession stand!

Thanks to our coaches, Scott Martens and Greg Reynolds, for working with our young boys’ team and giving them the opportunity to experience a tournament. And thank you to Mr. Cluck for organizing the brackets, ordering T-shirts, and helping prepare for the entire tournament. Many thanks also to Mr. Cluck, Dave Meseke, and Ryan Kaffer for coaching our girls’ team and helping them come so far from where they started a year ago. It’s been an exciting season to watch!

And lastly, thank you to the fans who packed the stands to cheer on our teams! It was great to see so many new faces, as well as our veteran fans, cheering on our teams.

Our Tiger Invitational costs about $1,500 to run and we made a profit of $669. The money will be used to purchase new equipment for our basketball program. The 7^th/8^th grade class raised $1,270 working concessions at both tournaments and would like to thank everyone for supporting them as they work towards funding their class trip.

Thank you all for your hard work! It was a great success and we look forward to improving it next year. We hope to see a lot of you tonight for our 8^th Grade Recognition and Parent vs. Tigers Basketball Game to close out the basketball season.

In Christ,

Mrs. McLaughlin