STATE CHAMPIONSHIP #2

The second state championship of the

2019-2020 school year was won the

first week of October.

GIRLS TENNIS

FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE 2019-2020 SCHOOL YEAR

And . . . it's a 5-peat!!!

How many state championships will Lone Peak receive this year?

Boy's Golf is the first.

I don't know how many years in a row this makes.

SIX STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS . . . SO FAR

Lone Peak High School has earned

6 state championships so far this year!

SIX!!!

Boys Golf

Girls Soccer

Girls Tennis

Marching Band

Girls Volleyball

Football

#PowertothePeak

3-PEAT . . . STATE VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONS

Three in a row.

Lone Peak High School

State Volleyball Champions!

ANOTHER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Another state championship for Lone Peak!

Marching Band in 3-A!

#PowertothePeak

(Of course, AF took first in 5-A!)

SOCCER = NUMERO UNO

It NEVER ends!!!

Another State Championship for 

Lone Peak High School!!!

Girls 6-A Soccer!

This is the 3rd State Championship THIS YEAR!!!
Girls Soccer
Girls Tennis
Boys Golf
Cross Country Girls #2 in NATION!!!
They haven't even been in school 2 months!

#PowertothePeak

TENNIS CHAMPS

LONE PEAK HIGH SCHOOL

GIRLS 6-A STATE CHAMPIONS

#PowerToThePeak

GOLF STATE CHAMPIONS

Boys #6A State Champions

Boys Golf

Lone Peak High School

#PowerToThePeak

STATE - STATE - STATE - STATE - STATE - STATE

WOW!!!

It is extremely difficult to win a state title in high school,

in anything!!!
Well, Lone Peak, in spring sports, etc., took 
SIX
6-A State Championships!!!
(6-A is the highest class in the state, for the huge schools)

Boys Swimming
Featuring Coach Hannah Siebach Christensen
My Former Student

Girls Golf

Featuring Vienna Higbee

Girls Swimming
Sterling Scholars
Boys Basketball (previous post...winter sport)

Girls Track & Field

Boys Tennis
Featuring Josh Bearss


Josh and his partner, Niles Cochran (also from Alpine Elementary)
won state in Doubles!

And . . . a few extras

Girls Softball (seniors and parents)

Featuring Alexis Wallace

2018-2019 Student Council
Featuring Jane Greer
Student Body Vice President

NUMBER NINE IS MIGHTY FINE

It doesn't get any better than this!

(Unless it was Lone Peak & AF in the championship)

In 2017, Lone Peak played in the 5-A Basketball

state championship game.

They were up by 7 points with 4 minutes left.

They lost.

To Bingham.

Lone Peak also lost the state championship to Bingham

that year, too.

2018.

Lone Peak is now 6-A!

March 3, 2018.

State Championship vs Pleasant Grove Vikings.

The school where my nieces and nephews went.

CJ played his high school ball here.

PG hasn't won a state championship since 1961!

The first half was not played well by either team.

Too many turnovers.

PG led at halftime . . . 22-18.

Then, the 3rd quarter happened.

Lone Peak made adjustments at half time.

Pleasant Grove did not.

Lone Peak won their 9th championship.

61-44.

Lone Peak has been in existence for 20 years.

This is the high school my students go to!

They have even won the

Best of State

for high schools in Utah in 2016 and 2017.
In 2013, they won the National Chamionship
in basketball!!!

So, Lone Peak is one championship shy of

having won the state title half of the years

they have been in existence!!!

This is Max Brenchley.

He went to Alpine Elementary.

His dad, Shawn, grew up in my ward!

Max is the spitting image of his dad at that age!

This kid from PG is 7'4".

As tall as Mark Eaton!

Look how high the Lone Peak player has to jump!

And, he's only a junior!!!

Number nine is mighty fine!

26-PEAT

26-PEAT???

THAT MEANS REPEATING A CHAMPIONSHIP
26 TIMES IN A ROW!!!

WHEN IT COMES TO THE 
AMERICAN FORK HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND,
THAT IS CORRECT!

STATE CHAMPIONS 26 YEARS IN A ROW!!!
1/4 OF A CENTURY + 1.

AND, I AM ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT HELPED MAKE THIS POSSIBLE!

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HERE'S THE STORY:

I WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN FOR HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND

 1973-1976.
WE DID PARADES AND CONCERTS IN:
RENO & LAKE TAHOE . . .  SEATTLE . . .THE WORLD'S FAIR
IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON . . . AND HALFTIME OF THE
FIESTA BOWL FOOTBALL GAME.
(PLUS THE REGULAR SUMMER PARADES)

HALF WAY THROUGH MY JUNIOR YEAR, OUR

BAND DIRECTOR, MR. FADLEY, MOVED TO OREGON.

OUR NEW TEACHER, MR. KING, WAS HORRIBLE!!!

I HAD BAND 0 PERIOD...MEANING THE CLASS

STARTED AT 7:30 AM, BEFORE THE REGULAR

SCHOOL DAY BEGAN.

KIDS STARTED DROPPING OUT. 

WE WERE DOWN TO 16 KIDS!

MY PARENTS WOULDN'T LET ME DROP OUT.

WE WERE SENT EVERY MORNING TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE.

ALL OF US!!!

MR. BRADY, OUR PRINCIPAL, HAD SOMETHING

READY FOR US TO DO TO HELP IN THE OFFICE.

IN MAY, I WAS CALLED TO THE OFFICE.

I, ALONG WITH 3 OR 4 OTHERS, MET THE

NEW BAND DIRECTOR, MR. CHESLEY.
(HIS BROTHER WROTE THE BOOK, 
SEVEN YEARS IN HANOI)
WE HAD OUR PICTURE TAKEN WITH HIM FOR THE LOCAL PAPER.

MR. KING WOULD NOT BE GIVEN A CONTRACT.

WE LOVED MR. CHESLEY!

HE WAS AWESOME!!!

ON CHRISTMAS DAY, MY SENIOR YEAR, WE LEFT

FOR TEMPE ARIZONA...TO PERFORM AT

HALFTIME OF THE FIESTA BOWL!

IN MAY, MR. CHESLEY TOLD US HE

WOULD NOT BE RETURNING.

HE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO "GO HOME"

TO HIS HOMETOWN...BURLEY, IDAHO, TO BECOME

AN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL.

MY SENIOR CLASSMATES AND I

PETITIONED THE SCHOOL BOARD TO

HAVE DON PETERSON, OUR STUDENT TEACHER,

BECOME THE NEW BAND TEACHER.

SCORE!!!

HE STARTED THE BAND'S AWESOMENESS

IN COMPETITIONS!!!

LATER, HE LEFT TO DIRECT THE

BYU MARCHING BAND!
HE IS CURRENTLY THE DIRECTOR OF BANDS AT BYU.

MR. MILLER, MR. PETERSON'S REPLACEMENT, 
IS AN ICONIC LEGEND!!!

THE BAND HAS BEEN STATE CHAMPIONS

FOR OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY!!!
HE BROUGHT AMERICAN FORK NOT ONLY STATE RECOGNITION, 
BUT NATIONAL RECOGNITION!  AND THE BAND
IS NOT EVEN A SPORTS TEAM!!!
HE IS ALSO IN THE NATIONAL BAND DIRECTOR'S
HALL OF FAME!!!

THE BAND BECAME KNOWN AS
"UTAH'S BAND."

THEY WERE THE BAND AT THE

1997 ANNOUNCEMENT THAT SLC WOULD

HOST THE 2002 OLYMPICS

TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE...THREE TIMES
1972, KNOWN AS THE "CAVEMAN MARCHING BAND"
(EVERYONE FORGETS THIS ONE, BECAUSE OF THE NAME)
1998, 2012

(I went with the band in 2012.  Not as a chaperone,
but as a "Band Groupie.")

GEORGE W. BUSH

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL PARADE

MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE...TWICE


BANDS OF AMERICA REGIONAL AND NATIONAL COMPETITIONS

AND OF COURSE, COMPETITIONS AROUND THE STATE EVERY FALL.

WHEN MR. MILLER RETIRED 2 YEARS AGO,
THE BAND DIDN'T MISS A BEAT!!!

CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO

BACK-TO-BACK

ANOTHER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR

LONE PEAK HIGH SCHOOL!

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

BACK-TO-BACK

THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS KEEP ON ROLLING

The Lone Peak High School

girls tennis team just won

the 6-A

state championship!

6-A is new this year.

The boys tennis team won the

state championship last spring.

6 of the 7 girls from

Lone Peak won individual state championships!

ANOTHER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR LONE PEAK

Girls Ultimate Frisbee

(Boys Basketball won National Championship, too)

STATE CHAMPIONS

THE LONE PEAK TENNIS TEAM

WON THE 5-A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

IN TENNIS.

HOLDING THE TROPHY, IS MY

STUDENT...JOSH BEARSS.

LONE PEAK ALSO WON IT'S 4TH 

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

IN ULTIMATE FRISBEE.

ANDREW

Congratulations Lone Peak Drama!!

Last week was the State Drama Competition. We are proud of our

 Lone Peak Team for taking 3rd Place in Sweepstakes and 2nd Place

 in the One Act! The following won individual State Awards:

Andrew Rice - Best Actor Award

Oakley Thacker - Best Character Actor and First Place in Musical Theatre

Andrew Rice & Hannah Baker - 

2nd Place in Contemporary Scenes

Annika Mikkelsen & Russell Davis - 3rd Place in Contemporary Scenes.

YUP. ANOTHER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR LONE PEAK

I'm not sure how many state championships
Lone Peak has won this year.
I know of golf, marching band,girls
volleyball, and now, Boy's Swimming!
(2nd in football)
AND THEY DOMINATED!!!
They basically just had to show up 
for the second day!

Photos by Daily Herald

YUP. ANOTHER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Lone Peak volleyball team won its

6th state title since 2005!

Not surprised!!!

They beat Pleasant Grove

25-22, 22-25, 25-22, 24-26, 17-15

Closer than close!!!

Former student, Brittany Rischer Evans (right),

with her daughter, Olivia.

As far as I know, 

the Lone Peak State Championship count

this school year is . . . 3!

Golf

Marching Band

Volleyball

ANOTHER LONE PEAK STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Hmmmmmm.

I use this post title quite a bit!

Once again, it's marching band.

Lone Peak won in the 3-A Division.

And of course, American Fork won in the 5-A class,

and won the entire Red Rock Championship!

Schools competed from the Western United States!

Former student, Deisy Archibald, colorguard

Jacob & Mary Neves