West Fargo HS Head boys BB coach, asst FB coach, math teacher. Love nature, dogs & my family. Go Bison! RTs don't mean endorsement. EDC T&F Commissioner
Dear
@ValleyNewsLive
The headline should read “Students Vandalize School”
I have a standard. My WFPS colleagues do too. We aggressively confront vandalism of building we take pride in. Same for Sheyenne teachers who spent their morning cleaning. Thank you to those teachers.
@repmarkpocan
@BetsyDeVosED
The secretary said that
@SpecialOlympics
was well supported by private sector which led to cuts being made to that organization. Why aren’t we cutting charter school budgets if they could be supported by private sector as well?
Team building isn’t pizza parties and sleepovers. Team building is going through hard stuff together. It’s leaders not letting their teammates quit and people pushing past their perceived limits. It’s honest conversation. It’s truth. Every practice should be team building.
If you tell your basketball playing child their only value comes from scoring points you should stop talking to your child about basketball and just take them to get ice cream and say good job
“The game honors toughness.” Nothing could more embody this than the 2021 WF Boys Basketball Team. I am so proud of these young men. They will go on to do even greater things as men in their communities.
#PackerPride
#Leaders
#Heart
Congrats to Luke Lennon on becoming West Fargo High school’s all-time leading rebounder! Broke a 25 year old record. Great player and even a better person. Grateful to coach you Luke!
Do you want to know how fantastic NCAA womens’ basketball is today? If you’re a boy and you watched Caitlyn Clark play tonight you want to be like Caitlyn Clark. The is next level stuff, and it’s awesome!!!!
West Fargo boys basketball players. Practice has been canceled for today as per district announcement. You should get outside and shovel a couple of driveways and help any people in your neighborhood who need it, especially any elderly folks. Practice tomorrow 3:00-6:00 pm.
High school athletes posting videos of them working out on their own, without their teammates, isn’t the flex they think it is. You play with your TEAM every week, not your trainer. Your TEAM is trying to win a championship, not your local gym. Keep it straight.
I hope the entire state of North Dakota appreciates getting to watch Grant Nelson and Mason Walters play college basketball in their home state at the same time. They are top 10 players in state of ND history! Amazing!
@masonwalters24
@NDSUmbb
@Jamestown_MBB
Not a single one of these political candidates have committed to outlawing zone defense in developmental youth basketball. It’s awful and they need to take a public position and be held accountable for it!
Congrats to West Fargo Packer Luke Lennon earning
@NDHSCA1
Class A Boys Basketball Senior Athlete of the Year! Two in a row for WFHS! Proud to coach this young man!
3-class ND basketball passing today I want to give a shout out to a man who pushed hard for this & drove it forward from its infancy, former
@SheyenneHoops
coach Tom Kirchoffner
@tk_kirch
. I can speak for all .
@WFPSchools
your leadership was & will always be greatly appreciated.
Where are all the idiots who were saying how bad the Bison coaching staff was earlier this year? Maybe they should keep their mouths shut in September and October too!
#Bison
#BisoNation
Gov Burgum has announced new mask requirements in public spaces, where physical distancing is not occurring. Addit’l restrictions being placed on restaurants & bars to close at 10pm daily w/ occupancy limitations. HS activities are to be cancelled until mid Dec.
Before Hunter Luepke’s season is over he will score 25 touchdowns, win the Walter Payton, a national title, single-handedly end the war in Ukraine and also ensure Taiwan’s sovereignty by telling China F around and find out.
Going to 3 classes in ND boys basketball made the state so much more competitive. So happy the
@NDHSAA
fast tracked it for this year. My team might be battling for every win we get this year, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Only the hard things are worth doing.
Players, if you’re a JV player who won’t listen to the JV coach because you think you should be a varsity player what makes you think the varsity coach believes you will listen to him?
#BeWhereYourFeetAre
#Basketball
I was at a conference championship basketball tournament last night. It was competitive and intense, yet literally every person I engaged with from every different school is a good person. This is what our country actually is. It’s not the random stranger Twitter fighting.
Coaching a high school all star basketball game is a tremendous experience. Thank you to players, coaches, & Fargo Gateway Lions for an amazing 5 days. Best part was coaching w/ a great friend and having players with all star caliber character. ND basketball is in a good place!
Congrats to
@CarsonHegerle
on being named 2nd team all state. I’ll tell you this, if I have to pick one player on that list of 13 to have on my side in a must win game I’m picking him over everyone! Great career Carson! 1st class person, teammate, and competitor!
Words can’t express how proud of these future husbands, fathers, and leaders that I have been able to share this season with. Thats how I view these players. They left it all out there and they are the best young men I could choose to be around.
#PackerPride
#coaching
If you’re a Bison fan and you’re criticizing our coaches you obviously have never coached. Just remain quiet and don’t let people know you’re a fool. You can’t even draw up A Gap Power. Just cheer and donate $$ and it’ll all be good.
#GoBison
If all your accomplishments were taken away what would your value be? Win or lose our
#WFPacker
football players are championship people. So proud to coach this group of men and learn from them.
#PackerPride
I’ve watched A LOT of basketball games so far. The block/charge call is in shambles. Wildly inconsistent. Sometimes a flop is a charge. Sometimes it’s a flop warning. Really depends on the individual official and who the players are and that is not an objective measure of a foul.
I love seeing all the success at
@kstatesports
. I’ve seen a lot of leaders in my years. Not one is better than
@KSTATEADGT
. He treated me as a person of value even though I was a walk on who never played. Just an amazing human. That’s a role model. People make the difference.
Thank you Noah. For any of you who do not know him, Noah has given much more to me and to our basketball program and school than we could ever hope to repay. He is a young man destined to do great things and have a positive impact on our world.
Don’t know where to start from but all I can say thanks to my inspiring, motivational, as well my teacher and one of the amazing person and coach
@HeadBallCoachWF
for always teaching me what it takes to be great in and off the court. He’s bigger than what people think!
Parents of
#seniors2020
take the money you were going to spend on a graduation party and open an investment account in your child’s name and buy the S&P 500 index. Tell the kids they can’t touch it for 7 years. They will thank you.
#COVID19
#Graduation2020
With all these weather related issues I am grateful to have the AD I have at West Fargo High School. Jay DeCann
@WFPackerAD
is consistently working around the clock 7 days a week for our kids and never wavers in his devotion to them. IMO he is the best AD North Dakota has!
5 hours after tough loss the image that sticks on my mind is walking into the locker room after the loss & hearing the guys encourage each other, talking about getting better on Monday, shoulders back, eyes up heads up. That is how winners act when things are tough.
#PackerPride
School districts that cut back on recess & physical education are purposefully destroying the lifelong health of their students. It is an act of child abuse and negatively affecting physical health and mental health. Those contrived test scores better be worth it. (They’re not)
I have the greatest job in the world. My players gave everything to their team this year. They were inspiring and played through adversity every day without any drop in enthusiasm. Love these boys. So proud of these young men!
I want to take this opportunity to let the
@NFHS_Org
basketball rules committee know there was kid playing in a college basketball game tonight wearing white tights with a black arm sleeve and the world didn’t come to an end. Maybe time to lighten up on being the uniform police.
Integrity is on display when it hurts. I don’t know the whole story, but Sheyenne’s AD
@Cory_Herrmann
unequivocally made the right and difficult decision this week. Emotions are high & people are hurt but you can’t put a value on character and no organization can have too much.
Happy anniversary to my amazing, intelligent, and beautiful wife Melissa Palczewski . Thank you for everything that you do for me & our family. As beautiful as this wedding picture is, it pales in comparison to the beauty of who you are as a person inside & out. I love you.
Simplest way to state a complicated issue. Those who wanted a statewide mask mandate got it. They didn’t think what would come with it. The incentive structure for testing is perverse causing runaway positives in very social age group. HS athletics has to pay the price.
As a coach you need to know if the guys you have will never quit, even when things seem to be at their worst. I found that out today. Didn’t get the W in the score column but we passed the foxhole test. Very proud of my guys.
#PackerPride
#Toughness
Win or lose, I coach the best kids in the entire state of North Dakota. Proud of how they take ownership and always come back stronger. Can’t wait to wake up and get after it tomorrow.
#PackerPride
#Blessed
#Lovecoaching
There is no accomplishment I am more proud of nor any group of men, coaches and players, who have had a greater impact on my life. Grateful for every Bison to put on a uniform.
Cut day is hard for players and coaches. But I’d 100% rather be the guy to deliver bad news to players & have them sometimes in tears because it means so much to them than never see that emotion because it doesn’t mean anything.
A hard part of coaching is balancing what to be & when w/ your players. Can you be demanding and loving? Can you hold your kids accountable while displaying kindness to them? Can you be competitive & bring immense joy? All of it is necessary & when you figure it out it’s amazing.
Congrats Packer All-EDC players Carter Birrenkott, Carson Hegerle, and Brett Limke! Great years all of you! And a credit is due as well to Joel Pease who put up all-conference type numbers and just missed out
The reason recesses have been shortened or even disappeared from elementary schools isn’t to raise test scores or help kids learn to read or do math. The reason is that adults who run schools and propose these ideas are very very stupid and no one tells them that to their face.
Congratulations to Mitch Parker for being inducted into ND Officials Hall of Fame! First class guy and official. Always treated my kids with fairness and had best interest of the game in mind. Never had a personal agenda except do his best. Congrats Mitch!
#NDSuperA
@NDHSAA
I began the process of teaching my 76 consumer math kids how to budget. They began by looking at their monthly expenses. Many are going home to thank their parents and perhaps apologize for their spending habits. It was a good day.
Congrats to the
@ShanleyDeacons
football team. Wanted to be taken seriously as a football school so they opted to play in the highest division and committed to a Bring On The Competition mindset. Now they are state champions. Always fun to play against them. Congrats.
Getting to Coach 12 fantastic Young men & compete against 12 other fantastic young men was once again an amazing experience. Proud to serve as a coach for the Lions All Star game. Coaching with a good friend makes it even better. Thank you to the players & Lions for a great week!
Congrats to our boys Abdi Sufi, Joe Pistorius and Luke Lennon on their All-EDC awards! Great teammates and very coachable young men!
#packerpride
#proudCoach
I could make a HS class for students who want to improve their life by simply assigning podcasts for listening and writing summaries and key takeaways. It might be actually amazing and have lasting impact. Experiment may be coming.
There is no good reason the WDA can honor 20 all-conference players as their coaches see fit and the EDC is bound to 17. Deserving kids are missing out of recognition for having great seasons. Time for AD’s to step up because all coaches agree
@edcscores
@fargometrotourn
#NDPreps
Proud to have gotten the opportunity to coach another group of fantastic young men at a state AA basketball tournament. Thankful for these seniors who gave 4 years to Packer basketball. I hope they found their efforts valuable and transformational. Love these guys.
#PackerPride
When kids have a strong spirit & mental toughness inside of them they can do great things. Started 1-2, could have felt sorry for ourselves. Could have said “Let’s just opt down a class.” But that isn’t the Packer Way. We are excited for another challenge next Friday
#PackerTough
To all the HS seniors wondering what to do with their life, no matter what, start investing today! The math says you can invest $500 per biweekly paycheck starting at 18 in an index fund & have $1.14 million in the bank at age 40! Discipline your 💰 and gain financial freedom
If you make a shot from behind the 3-pt line but neither you nor any teammates put up 3 fingers and wave them around like an idiot does the shot still count?
School districts showed innovation & nimble decision making during Covid, shutting down individual classrooms & letting other classrooms carry on. Let’s apply same nuance to athletics. Allow practices during virtual school days if weather is ok. I’ll happily help craft guidelines
Congrats to the
@Daviesbball
on a hard fought win, and a tremendous atmosphere on senior night. 80 person band rocking the bleachers and tons of teachers and administrators supporting their athletes. I hope we can build that at West Fargo someday
Tournament time wouldn’t be possible w/o our assistant in the athletic office Dawn Peterson. She does so much for everyone, none of us coaches or ADs could do our jobs w/o amazing people like her! And big thanks to Jennifer Schultz in Fargo and Kari Welstad in Bismarck too!
Don’t care if we don’t win a state baseball title, these kids are the most amazing student athletes I have ever met. Couldn’t be luckier that to know, teach, and coach these young men.
#PackerPride
On a virtual day I’m still told I only can take a half hour for lunch…in my own home! Yep, that’s how I know I’m valued. On the other hand, I’ve never expected to be valued by a job so I got that going for me.
It’s never lost on me, not even for a day, that I am a very lucky coach to have the job I have. I get to coach fantastic people every day. What they will do after basketball will send massive positive ripples throughout their families, communities, and the world.
Really proud of my guys tonight. Battled through adversity and got stronger together. Definition of a closer:
@birrenkott33
allowed 0 points last 5 minutes and 6 def rebounds. Leaders finish games
@sunnylohmann
@ConceptualJames
I got my first math teaching job in Duluth in 2006. Spring semester I had some practicum students from the university & they were supposed to find a way to incorporate social justice into a class lesson. I distinctly remember telling them to teach math & forget about that stuff.
Time to completely decimate standardized testing $ from fed/state budgets. As a teacher I don’t need to hear about accountability from people who have voluntarily put my country $21 trillion in debt. I make a difference in kids’ lives. Standardized testing doesn’t.
#education
#Grateful
to all of our
#Packers
boys Bball parents & caring adults for writing letters to our players to tell them how proud they are of who their sons and loved ones are as people. Beyond proud to be in a
#culture
of fantastic people.
#PackerPride
1 of my favorite parts of coaching is when a kid tries to do what you ask even though it’s out of his comfort zone, then doesn’t go his way. You look him in the eyes, say “good job, trust what you’re doing” & they go back out & try again. One more reason I love coaching my team.
Solid win by the
@WFPackerHoops
77-62 over a tough Sheyenne squad who showed their toughness by battling until the end. However,
#PackerToughness
held the day on the defensive end making every possession earned. Very proud. Tomorrow back to work.