Update from Allendale and the first round of the district tournament. Rockets 🚀 lead 2-0 at half.
Bonus Rocket Dawg of the week!
Last week we missed the RDW, so this week we get two!
Brookelyn Rought a senior cheerleader.
Coach Moore had the following to say about Brookelyn:
“Brookelyn Rought is the epitome of what a cheerleader should be. Brooke is hardworking, dependable, and tough. She takes initiative, leads the underclassmen with class, and goes above and beyond even after practice is done. Brooke treats everyone with kindness and is a model student as well! While others are goofing on bus rides, she's working math problems. Brooke has big goals and I have 100% confidence she will achieve them and continue to make Rocket City proud as she pursues her dreams. Brooke approaches each practice with grit yet somehow also patience and infectious joy. I hope my own children will be like Brooke. She's an incredibly special athlete and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been able to coach her these past 3 seasons! Brooke has helped me to grow as a coach, and I can't wait to see where her journey leads!!”
JT Fansler - Soccer - Rocket Dawg of the Week!
Coach Kody Harrell had the following to say about JT
Is the heart of our team he keeps everyone organized and is like having another coach on the field. His leadership and passion represents everything it means to be an athlete at RP! He has saved countless goals throughout the season on tremendous hustle plays!! Recovering for teammates, JT is the teammate who doesn’t make many mistakes but is always there to win a challenge and win the ball back when a teammate loses it.
JT has unbelievable heart and hustle and is a true DAWG on the field playing much bigger than his size. He hangs with the big boys and puts his body on the line EVERY GAME!
Update from Zeeland - Dux 14- Rockets 6 Brody Johnson with a touchdown. Rockets driving in Zeeland territory 6:00 left in the 2nd
This week in sports
Attention Reeths-Puffer High School Students: There will be a R-P High School Student ONLY fan bus going to Zeeland West this Friday for our Varsity Football game! $5.00 Sign-up and Pay in Athletic Office before the end of 2nd lunch on Friday 10-7. Students will meet in the Roberts Road Parking Lot at 5:15.
Updated, “This week in Sports.” Tennis regionals are Thursday NOT Friday.
This week in sports
We are so fortunate to have so many incredible coaches in this community working with our young people. This is written by a football coach but applies to so many coaches. On behalf of the Athletic Department, our athletes, and all of Rocket City, thank you coaches.
More game day staff shout outs. Ava Klopp, Ava Mavis, and Grace Seiber are our score keepers, scoreboard operator, and newly minted announcer for home volleyball games. Thanks ladies for always bringing the positive energy.
Over 36 years of combined service for the Reeths-Puffer community and athletics programs in one picture. Nancy Hess and Rita Medema, thank you for helping provide awesome opportunities for our student athletes. Stop and say hi to Rita and Nancy as your purchase your tickets for home events.
PLAY BALL!!!
We are so excited to have another opportunity to play football and cheer this season. Knowing that high school athletes have a finite number of opportunities to compete it has been very important to the athletic department and coaching staff to find a replacement opportunity for our week 9 game. We will be playing Friday October 21st at 6:00pm at Lansing Everett. Everett is a division 2 football team with a student population of 1,140 students (for context Reeths-Puffer has 1,149 students). Everett is located at 3900 Stabler St., Lansing , MI. 48910, Roughly one hour and 40minutes from R-P. Everett has a 2-3 record and should be a great opportunity for our community to showcase our football and cheer programs respectively.
Please understand that there will be no change to our sub-varsity programs, we will still plan to play a JV football game against Holland on Thursday October 20th at Reeths-Puffer at 6:00pm.
As always GO ROCKETS!!!!!
Cold, windy, and wet day on the course. But our Rockets are so tough. Great perseverance by all of the golfers today as we hosted the Rocket Invite. Rowan Bluhm made the all tournament team and Paige Anderson won the invite with a 78! Great work Rockets 🚀
Rockets 🚀 complete a previously scheduled rain delay against Forest Hills Eastern with a 5-0 win! Goals scored by Isaac Ritsema Owen, Cohen Beck, and Owen Ritsema netted 2.
Great work team
55-7 final Rockets 🚀
29-7 at half
22-0 Brody Johnson in again and Tayte Vanderleest in for the 2 point conversion.
14-0 Rockets Brody Johnson with a 3 year plunge.
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Kaden Malotke - Rocket Dawg of the week
According to Coach Hankinson
“This week Kaden pulled 2 slight upsets against two of the top three teams in our conference. He single handedly earned 2 of our 5 flight wins and was our only double winner of the week.
Beating a player from Shores 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2 in a 3 hr match where the entire opposing team continued to cheer against him as he persevered using it as motivation. He followed it up Thursday beating another good player from Holland 7-5, 6-4.
The manner in which Kaden wins is one of his best qualities. He kills his opponents with kindness (Polite, honest, encouraging, and complementary) during the match then contrasts it with non stop effort and determination to crush the tennis soul of each opponent. He moves like the energizer bunny racing from net to fence and sometimes nearly on the adjoining courts to attempt to get balls that are winners against anyone else.
Kaden also is respectful towards all of his coaches and self appraising following his earlier losses after the switch to singles.
Week 1: I need to serve better to win at singles I’ll work on that tomorrow. Week 2: I need to find my opponents weakness before coming to the net automatically like it doubles. I need to wait for my opportunity.
When asked about switching the lineup, from doubles to singles, he said sure, “ I will be friends with Zade forever, I just want to do what is best for the team to win. Now he is doing exactly that!
I love this young man.”
