Kudos

) Fossil Ridge High School would like to honor the following students and teachers for their accomplishments.

A big thank you and Congratulations to FRHS Knowledge Bowl competitors and sponsors on winning the District Championship! Back to Back Champs!!!! Way to go!!!!

The FRHS Baseball Team and Booster Club would like to thank Steve Aronson, FRCC Building Trades and the following students for their incredible work designing and constructing a shed for them.

Mario Aguilera
Rob Batezel
Travis Brandsma
Kyle Flippen
James Jones
Anthony Longo
Braxton Murray
AJ Rodarte

We can hardly believe how our Fossil Ridge students performed at the FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) state competition in Vail these last few days!

We took 17 students; 14 of them competed.
Of the 14, 10 ranked in the top 10 in the state in their event.
7 of the 14 were top performers and will advance to national competition in Atlanta the end of June.
Sending any PSD student to nationals normally happens every year or two. 8 from PSD will go this year, and 7 are from Fossil!
FRHS was recognized for having the largest chapter (73 students) in District 1 (all of Larimer and Weld counties)
Nearly 2,400 students from Colorado participated.

This is huge! Thank you to all the teachers who contributed to the success of these students. Please congratulate the following Top 10 performers. Those in bold will advance to nationals.

Brandon Krizanovic (4th in Accounting 2)

Sean Sudduth, Kevin Bestor, Stuart Thompson (2nd in Banking & Financial Systems Team)

Matthew Whitney (6th in Business Math)

Patrick Foran (1st in Cyber Security)

Maddie McGuinty (6th in Cyber Security)

Claire Overholt (1st in Introduction to Business Communications)

Taylor Arenson, Cody Mivshek (2nd in Entrepreneurship Team)

Go Fossil Ridge Business Leaders! WE MEAN BUSINESS!

FRHS Spring Signing Celebration took place on Wednesday, April 16. We have an amazing group of young people that have signed to play athletics at the next level.

Liz Johnson – track – CSU
Cory McEvoy – baseball – Oregon
Ben Daily – baseball – NJC
Greg Rushing – lacrosse – University of Massachusetts
Tyler Whitcomb – lacrosse – Virginia Wesleyan
Brock Waddell – lacrosse – Virginia Wesleyan
Josh Hitchcock – football – Western State – Invited Walk-on
Bart Panella – football – Colorado School of Mines – Invited Walk-on
Cody Mivshek – basketball – Exeter Prep School

It is an incredible honor that student, Katie Burke has been selected as a Coloradoan All Star. Her success is a reflection of the quality educational experience she has had a FRHS. The awards dinner will take place on April 21^st, 6 pm at the Marriott. Congratulations Katie!

Please join us in a loud cheer and "congratulations" to our very own Jaime Gastelle for winning a NATIONAL GOLD AWARD for her self portrait in the Scholastic Competition!

Out of thousands of students and hundreds of schools – Jamie will be honored at Carnegie Hall – there were only 7 Gold Keys in Colorado. (Kinard and RMHS had silver key winners – congratulations to them!)

Past winners of this honor include (When they were in high school.): Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Sue Miller and Robert Redford.

To view the art work please go to: www.scholastic.rmcad.edu

As you may remember, she was one of three of our students who earned a "Gold Key" award at the state level. Additionally, her work won the "American Vision Award" for the drawing category. Her Drawing then went on to compete at the national level. Only 18 students from Colorado were honored with this prestigious award!

Go ART!

A big congrats goes to the Ambassadors Club who received the Cesar Chavez Award at a wonderful ceremony Thursday night (3/27/08) at CSU. Counselors Melissa Vasa and Rachel Eaton were present along with student ambassadors Gabs Lucero, Kathleen Trimble, and Jamie Shields to accept the award on behalf of the organization and our school. Kuddos to the Ambassadors for providing opportunities at FRHS for students to reach beyond social circles and accept others!

National Qualifiers

Congratulations DECA students!!! Fossil Ridge qualified four outstanding DECA students to compete against the top DECA students in the nation in Atlanta, Georgia April 24^th -26^th

	v Diane Vo-Ba and Whitney Porter – 1^st Place!!! Internet Marketing Team Decision Making
	v Alisha Jost and Taylor Jackson – 4^th Place!!! Sports Marketing Team Decision Making

Top Performers

These students were recognized as top performers in their event and represented FRHS with class!

v Sean Sudduth and Sarah Oliver - Accounting Applications

v Erin Petersen – Food Marketing

v Ashley Hewitt and Daniel Kotsides – Hospitality Services

v Rebecca Hutchens and Sarah Holt – Business Law

v Rebecca Ewing – Hotel and Lodging Management

v Brandon Lecher – Quick Serve Restaurant

On Wednesday, March 12th, the Fossil Ridge HS Wind Symphony will be the featured group on a shared concert with the Colorado State University Wind Ensemble for the annual High School Invitational Concert. This is a real testament to the work the Band students have been doing, as only one group from around the state is selected each year.

We would like to invite you all to share this great performance with us.
The concert will be held in the University Center for the Arts Concert Hall (attached to the "old Ft. Collins HS") at 7:30pm on Wednesday, March 12th.
FRHS will perform, followed by the CSU Wind Ensemble, and the two groups will be combining for an incredible finale!

Please come out and support these very talented students!

Abby Van Hoewyk, Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers New Teacher of the Year Award Winner.

The night of February 5, 2008 was the 2008 All-State Choir performance at the Lincoln Center. It was an incredible display of talent and class as our two representatives, Chelsea Kendall and Genevieve Shutzius, performed for a packed house of hundreds.

Please congratulate the girls on a job well done and let them know that you heard the performance was superb!

FBLA District Results

The Short Version:

FRHS took 56 students to FBLA districts in Greeley. This competition was between all the Larimer County and Weld County schools. 48 Top Ten Finishers! 18+ going on to state!

The Long Version:

Brandon Krizanovic, 1st Accounting II

Matthew Whitney, 1st Business Math

Patrick Foran, 1st Cyber Security

Kevin Bestor, 1st Banking and Financial Systems Team
Stuart Thompson, 1st Banking and Financial Systems Team

Sean Sudduth, 1st Banking and Financial Systems Team

Whitney Porter, 1st Impromptu Speaking

Claire Overholt, 1st Intro. to Business Communications

Sean Sudduth, 1st Personal Finance

Stuart Thompson, 2nd Personal Finance

Taylor Arenson, 2nd Entrepreneurship Team
Kelly Stine, 2nd Entrepreneurship Team

Andy Ferguson, 2nd Marketing

Mike Shaw, 3rd Banking and Financial Systems Team
Brad Penoyer, 3rd Banking and Financial Systems Team

Cody Mivshek, 3rd Business Procedures

Carly Jin, 3rd Digital Video Productions
Kara Kononen, 3rd Entrepreneurship Team

Sarah Holt, 3rd Entrepreneurship Team

Mackenzie Tappy, 4th Parliamentary Procedure Team
Becky Ewing, 4th Parliamentary Procedure Team
Liz Solberg, 4th Parliamentary Procedure Team

Katie Burke, 4th Parliamentary Procedure Team

Kevin Cornelison, 4th Business Law

Stephanie Schaulin, 4th Business Math

Rashmi Kumar, 4th Business Ethics Team
Erin Petersen, 4th Business Ethics Team

Jamie Wilson, 4th Business Ethics Team

Christopher Kelly, 4th Cyber Security

Derek DiMartino, 5th Digital Video Productions Team

Derek Videll, 5th Digital Video Productions Team

Maddie McGuinty, 5th Cyber Security

Kayla Carriker, 5th Job Interview

Mike Shaw, 5th Nametag

Maddie McGuinty, 6th Global Business Team
Afton Bartz, 6th Global Business Team

Lisa Parker, 6th Public Speaking I

Kevin Bestor, 7th Economics

Zane Sutherlin, 7th Accounting I

Emmett Larson, 7th Emerging Business Issues Team

Kyle Zimmer, 7th Emerging Business Issues Team

Lauren Wilson, 7th Marketing

Donna Clayton, 7th Management Decision Making Team

Robin Nicolai, 7th Management Decision Making Team

Elizabeth Cassie, 7th Management Decision Making Team

Tom Earnest, 7th Public Speaking I

Justen Thomas, 9th Website Development Team

Ryan Mansour, 9th Website Development Team

The FRHS Athletic Signing Celebration took place on
Wednesday, February 6 at 11:30 am

Fossil Ridge has the following athletes that will be or have signed
Letters of Intent to play college athletics:

Stuart Thompson – Western New Mexico – golf
Kelly Bieber – USAFA – soccer
Shannon Garlie – Kansas University – swimming
Madi Lane – South Dakota Tech – volleyball/track
Laura Wayland – Metro – soccer
Morgan Hess – Northwest Nazarene University – soccer
Kylie Marshall – Northwest Nazarene University – soccer

Please join us as we celebrate these athletes and their accomplishments.

If you see Jackson Stevens or Jacob Tegtman be sure to congratulate them for being selected to the All-State Jazz Ensemble.

Jacob is one of only 5 trumpets, and Jackson is the only drummer to be selected for this incredible honor, and both will be performing with the All-State Jazz Ensemble at the Colorado Music Educators Convention at the Broadmoor in January.

What a great day for Fossil Ridge DECA (11-26-07)! Twenty-six students qualified to compete at the state competition which will be held in February at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. This means that FRHS had the largest number of students qualify from all of the Fort Collins and Loveland schools!!!

Apparel and Accessories
5^th Place - Mackenzie Tappy

Accounting Applications
1^st Place - Sarah Oliver
2^nd Place – Sean Sudduth

Food Marketing
1^st Place – Erin Peterson
2^nd Place – Kara Kononen

Hotel and Lodging Management
1^st Place – Rebecca Ewing

Quick Serve Restaurant
1^st Place – Brandon Lecher
4^th Place – Kayla Carriker

Retail Merchandising
3^rd Place – Rebecca Lytle
4^th Place – Taylor Siebenaler

Sports and Entertainment Marketing
6^th Place Ashish Jha

Business Law and Ethics
3^rd Place Sarah Holt & Rebecca Hutchens

Buying and Merchandising
1^st Place Kassia Daniak & Lauren Tanner
2^nd Place Victoria Richardson & Julia Meininger

Internet Marketing
1^st Place Whitney Porter & Diane VoBa

Hospitality Services
3^rd Place Ashley Hewitt & Daniel Kotsides
4^th Place Kyle Zimmer & Emmett Larson

Sports and Entertainment
2^nd Place Taylor Jackson & Alisha Jost

Travel and Tourism
3^rd Place Elizabeth Cassie & Rashmi Kumar

Genevieve Schutzius and Chelsea Kendall have been selected to perform with the Colorado All State Choirs.

The Festival will be held in Fort Collins, February 3-5, 2008, at CSU, the Hilton Hotel and the Lincoln Center. There will be two performances on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 – one at 2:00 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m., at the Lincoln Center.

National Merit Commended Students
Mary Beenken
Autumn Murphy
Sean Rau
Sarah Rudeen
Diane Vo-Ba

National Merit Semifinalist
William McCollom
Bonnie Walker