School Year Accomplishments and Honors

Athletic Director Jon Borer with "Athlete of the Year"
 award winner Jake Batenhorst

The 1st major award at the 2015 Awards Night was the presentation of the Athlete of the Year to Jake Batenhorst.  In his years at Mount Michael Jake served as the Knight’s quarterback in football and was also a starter for the Knights in basketball and baseball.

12 Season Athletes: The following seniors were recognized for having participated in athletics every season during their years at the Mount:
         Jake Batenhorst, Harrison Hohman, Logan Kalkowski, Caleb Pflug, Garrett Raabe, Mick Steier

HOBY Youth Leadership Award: Cade Johnson

Omaha Exchange Club Sophomore of the Year: Joe Coldiron

Cornhusker Boys State:  Michael Fischer and Jack Morrisey

The President’s Award for Educational Excellence: This is an honorary award presented to seniors who meet the following criteria:  they must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or better and tests at the 85th percentile or above on either the ACT (which is a 28) or the SAT (which is a 1900).

Mount Michael Award recipient Logan Kalkowski with
Head of School Dr. David Peters

These students must demonstrate high motivation, initiative, integrity, intellectual depth, leadership qualities, judgement, involvement in community service, extra-curricular activities.  Ryan Anderson, Cameron Bretsen, David Whee-Young Choi, Jonathan Collins, Marcus Cronin, Augustin  deMayo, Andrew Ernst, Zachary Frevert, John Gutsmiedl, Harrison Hohman, Alex Hotovy, Dujin Lee, Ashton Legenza, Dun Fletcher Lin, Jared Mikuls, Andrew Pace, Young-Joon Park, Zachrey  Starman, Eric Sullivan, Lucas Tucker, Andrew Whitaker, Thomas Wooten.

The night culminated in the Mount Michael award.  The Mount Michael Award goes to the student who most epitomizes the values of Mount Michael.  The selection is made by secret ballot by the Mount Michael faculty. Logan Kalkowski is this year’s recipient.

Congratulations to these young men and all of the other outstanding students whose accomplishments were acknowledged at the Mount Michael Awards Night.

Academic Decathlon: 3rd Place Nationally

Mount Michael’s Academic Decathlon team wrapped up their season by placing 3rd nationally in the Small School Online Academic Decathlon.

As individuals the Knights won numerous medals and Jacob Ramaekers finished 2nd overall in the nation on the varsity level.

Jacob Ramaeker
2nd Place Nationally 

Winning Medals for the Knights is as follows:

Honors Level:

• Jon Collins: 1st Mathematics

Scholastic Level:

• Jared Mikuls: 1st Art, 2nd Literature 
• Alex Hotovy: 2nd Literature, 3rd Mathematics
• Adam Terasinski: 2nd Social Studies

Varsity Level:

• Jacob Ramaekers: 1st Social Science, 2nd Art, 2nd  Essay, 2nd Economics, 3rd Mathematics
• Walt Wear: 3rd Economics 

In the competition each team is divided into 3 levels according to GPA. The three levels are Honors, Scholastic, and Varsity.

Chemistry Teams Sweep Division Titles

At the University of Nebraska Omaha Chemistry Field Day the Knights took both the primary and the advanced division titles for the first time.

 Congratulation Knights!

Team Mercury: Advanced Division Champions
Edwin Huang '16, Tony Tang '16, Zach Frevert '15, Ben Hynes '16

Team Uranium: Primary Division Champions
Jose Amian '17, Ryuta Kure '17, Michael Ecker '17, Alex Earsley '17

Team Hydrogen: Balancing Equations Champions 

Ryan Reid '16,  Luke Krajewski '16, Logan Baumberger '16, Elliott Heineman '16, Fletcher Lin '15

Advanced Division Team Members

Primary Division Team Members

Notable Editor produced Super Hero Knights video

Mount Michael's Night of Knights video for the annual fundraiser was created by Tom Elkins who was recently featured in an article from the Omaha World Herald.

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World Robotics Competitions

Two Mount Michael robotics teams competed with 450 high school teams from around the world at the Vex Robotics World Championship in Louisville, Kentucky last week.

Team 1970K, Knight Shift, with Sophomores Nick Huetter and Reilly Jackson, and Freshmen Nolan Huetter and Nolan Gottsch finished 9-1 and in 6th place. They moved on to the elimination matches as alliance captains, where they made it to the quarterfinals. They also finished in 15th place in the WORLD in robot skills, in 7th place among United States teams, and  in 1st place among Nebraska teams.

Team 1970B, Talladega Knights, with Senior Chase Goddard and Freshmen Will Fleissner, Blake Worsham, Ethan Tylski and Lukas Williams finished 7-3 in 18th place but did not move on in the competition. They finished in 50th place in programming skills. Way To Go Knights!

Nick Huetter, Nolan Gottsch, Reilly Jackson, Nolan Huetter