Upsala Area Schools

Planning to see "Legally Blonde-The Musical" this weekend? Bring your clean, gently used shoes to donate to the Ireland/Scotland trip fundraiser! The collection bin will be in the school commons through mid-May. Thank you for your support!!

Opening night for the spring musical "Legally Blonde Jr" is tomorrow! Come see one, two or all three performances! Friday's show is at 7pm, while there are two shows Saturday at 2pm and 7pm. No Sunday matinee this year. Tickets sold at the door: adults $7, students/seniors $5.

Today's track and field meet at Pierz has been cancelled, practice will take place instead at Swanville. Tomorrow's varsity baseball game at the MAC in St. Cloud against Browerville has also been cancelled due to projected below freezing temperatures.

Congratulations to seniors Brooke Opatz and Noah Boeckermann on receiving Student of Character Awards last night at the Region 5 banquet hosted by Sourcewell!

Tomorrow's USA Varsity Baseball game has been moved from West Central to Swanville, still starting at 5:00pm. USA JV Baseball vs. Albany will remain in Upsala at 5:15pm and USA JH Baseball will be on the UBA Heritage Field at 4:30pm.

The 2024 Upsala Clay Target Team - The season is off to a great start!

Wow! What a fantastic afternoon for our band students in solo/ensemble. All received Superior Ratings!!! Isabelle Leners - snare solo, Alyssa Young - Flute Solo, Evelynn Aleckson, Hailie Luedtke - Flute Duet, and Brayden Mack, Beau Ripplinger - Saxophone Duet. Congratulations!

THANK YOU! Thanks to everyone who has donated shoes. An amazing pile accumulated over the last few days. We are still collecting through May!

Updates for spring activities today due to weather: - V/JV Baseball @ LPGE ... Cancelled - No Practice - V/JV Softball vs. Osakis ... Cancelled - Practice in Upsala Gyms - JH Baseball vs. LPGE ... Cancelled - Practice in Upsala Gyms - JH Softball @ Osakis ... Cancelled - No Practice - Clay Target @ Albany ... Cancelled - No Practice

Registration opens on Monday for Upsala students for this summer's Upstage Junior Theatre Camp. This year's production is "The Little Mermaid." Out of district students can register starting Friday. https://www.upsala.k12.mn.us/page/upstage-junior

The spring musical gets a nice write up in the MCRecord! Performances are Fri Apr 19 at 7pm and Sat Apr 20 at 2pm & 7pm. https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/legally-blonde-jr-cast-works-to-snap-into-shape/article_e8baf0c2-f8dd-11ee-b99a-d71388c41adb.html

For those of you wondering when the next Drivers Ed class will take place, it has been scheduled for the summer: July 8-12 & 15-19 from 9am to noon in the HS media center. You can register at the Today's Driving School website: https://www.todaysdrivingschool.com/upsala.phtml

We have room for more kids at community ed cookie decorating next Wednesday, April 17. Visit our website for more info and to register: https://www.upsala.k12.mn.us/page/cookie-decorating

Upsala 9th grader Genevieve Mrozek made history last night at the BBE Track & Field Invitational, breaking the USA Patriots program record for girls' discus! Genevieve threw a distance of 103-06, breaking the old record of 94-00. Congratulations Genevieve!

The Upsala Jr. High softball game in Browerville this evening has been cancelled. The Jr. High softball team will instead have practice after school.

The USA JV baseball game against Holdingford for this afternoon has been moved from the UBA Field in Upsala to Holdingford High School. The game will still begin at 4:15pm, it will be on the Holdingford JV Field behind the school. USA Varsity baseball will still play in Swanville at 4:30pm.

It has been a fun start to the day! Competition will be going all day long. But. Now we have a break until after 1 for our next matchup!

The Robotics teams' schedule for Saturday and Sunday! Come down to the Rivers Edge Convention Center to cheer them on in person, or login to the blue alliance and watch via stream! Click the Minnesota Granite City Regional!

A productive first day for the Upsala Robotics team. Passed our inspections by noon and got onto the field for some practices. We were also joined by Hope Riska from the Gene Haas Foundation where we received another $2500 grant towards Robotics.

The 2nd grade class spent the day learning how maple syrup is made. Thank you to St. John's Outdoor University for the great experience!