Career Day at Malad High School

By Kenadei Wise and Tavanie Steed

On Tuesday, October 22, Malad High School (MHS) held a career day for students in every grade to participate in. MHS has been hosting career days for multiple years now, with relatively no changes other than the guest speakers who visit the school to present. This career day offered all students a chance to touch base with potential employers and gave them an idea of what schooling is available after graduating high school. 

Earlier this month, all students were sent a Google Form via Email that they could fill out to sign up to participate in four select classes of the student’s choice, where they could learn from people with experience in different careers.

Different classrooms around the school were set up so that guest speakers attending career day could teach any interested students about their line of work. All students attended their first-period class and then headed to their assigned classroom where they had the opportunity to hear a guest speaker talk about their experience in their career.

Each class provided to the students was twenty minutes long. In total, the four classes took up all of second period and the beginning of third period. 

Courses provided to the students include; Personal Trainer, Counselor/Social Worker, Esthetician, Pilot/Aircraft Maintenance, Space Dynamics, Graphic Design, Nail Tech, ASL Interpreter, Travel Agent, Archaeologist, Precision Ag, Engineer, BC Timbers, Law Enforcement, Musician/Audio Engineer, Nurse Practitioner, Artists, and Western States Cat. 

After the four career classes, students headed to the gym to walk around and visit different booths set up for the career fair by Tori Green’s seventh-period Sports Marketing and
Management class.

At the entrance to the gym, there was a booth set up where students would grab a plastic bag and paper. As students went around to different booths, the presenters who represented these booths would stamp the paper of any students who visited. Once a student filled out their paper, they would turn it in at the entrance booth for a chance at being drawn for a cash prize. On October 28, the three winning students were drawn.

With money donated by the Booster Club, MHS awarded Genevieve Henry with the grand prize of a $100 Amazon Gift Card, Hallie Palmer with a $50 Amazon Gift Card, and Tavanie Steed with a $25 Amazon Gift Card.

MHS offers many different opportunities for attending students to learn about different careers and schools, and will continue to provide more knowledge opportunities in the years to come!

Cross Country District

By Adi Schow and Bella McCullough 

On October 24th, the cross-country team competed in their district championship meet in Soda Springs. The course was located at Kelly Park, home of the infamous “Heartbreak Hill.” Aside from the hill, the course includes a variety of terrain, including dirt, grass, and gravel. However, despite a difficult course, cold weather arrived, helping the runners to achieve success. 

The races were smaller than usual, with a total of 38 girls and 58 boys. The runners from Malad did particularly well, boys taking first place with 38 points, and girls taking second with 37 points. Aezlyn Summers, the lead runner on the girl’s team mentioned, “Our spacing was really tight,” meaning that the Malad girls were able to stay close to each other during the race. She also said that the team exceeded expectations by beating their times from previous races. 

The boys also worked very hard during the race, and are looking forward to racing at State this weekend. Boston Burbidge, the lead runner of the boy’s team explained that the boy’s team has had a great season so far and that he hopes that the team places in the top three at State. 

State will take place on Saturday, November 2nd, at Eagle Island State Park. The runners will commence their races at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

We wish them luck on the rest of their season!

State Qualifiers

Girl’s Team:

Aezlyn Summers, Kaycee Venable, Ellie Angell, Samantha Schrenk, Adi Schow, Kallee Talbot, Brielle Bastian, Alternate: Jenna Talbot

Boy’s Team: 

Boston Burbidge, Levi Angell, Brycen Talbot, Braun Nalder, Carter Smith, Brex Martinsen, Jaxon Blaisdell, Alternate: Dawson Beutler

Volleyball

By Teagan Daniels

Our Malad girls have been ripping through the year. They have won 22 undefeated matches and destroying everyone that comes there way. Our volleyball girls had their district championship game Saturday the 26th. They played the West Side Pirates and won! We won in three sets making our record 26-6. The first set was 25-12, the second was 25-13, and last was 25-14. Our girls played hard. Liv Nelson played a great game with several kills and blocks. If you look at college scores for passing in volleyball, it is really good to have a 2.0, that means you are a good passer. Riglee Peterson had an awesome, 2.3, serve receive score! Our girls are doing amazing and Malad cant be prouder of them. Our volleyball girls will be heading up to Moscow to play for the state championship and will be playing in the first round. They will be playing West Side again. Good luck to our Volleyball team up in Moscow. 

Malad Dragon Football

by Addison Williams and Paisley Smith

This week the Malad Dragons went up against the West Side Pirates in West Side. The JV team lost their game this week 32-0, ending their 2024 season with 6 wins and 2 losses overall. Brooks Blaisdell said, “It was a good season and I think everybody has improved from the beginning of our season.” During the game, the JV team played for three quarters and then the C-team got to play in the fourth quarter.  

The Varsity team had a close game this week but in the end they unfortunately lost 29-20. It was a cold game, but they persevered through it and managed to score three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. This left them with 3 wins and 5 losses this season leading them to their play-in game where they will have another opportunity to compete against the West Side Pirates to determine whether or not they will make it to state. Their play-in game will be in West Side on Friday, November 1st at 7 p.m.