Holy Trinity Nets CYO 3rd Grade Volleyball Championship

November 17, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

November 17, 2018 CYO Volleyball Championships Portland, OR

Home Team: St. Joseph (Vancouver) (Red) Coaches: Ronan Eggleston, Shari Eggleston, Gretchen Nwoke Players: Evelyn, Paige, Lizandra, Madelyn, Ezinay, Lyla,Gracie, Malia

Visiting Team: Holy Trinity (Red)

Coach: Tara Cenova Players: Samantha, Josie, Hadley, Maya,Alessandra, Amira, Katie, Skylar Coaches: Ronan Eggleston, Shari Eggleston, Gretchen Nwoke

Scores: Set 1: 25-17 St Joseph, Set 2: 25 – 20 Holy Trinity, Set 3: 15 – 12 Holy Trinity

Highlights: Third grade volleyball is best defined as who can consistently serve and “one bump” over the net. Both teams did a very good job in their championship game and a keen eye could see future “players” in the making. Both teams will be fun to watch in the coming years. Today it went to Holy Trinity.

Holy Trinity took home the 3rd Grade Girls CYO Volleyball Championship Trophy November 17, 2018 games played at Valley Catholic School

St. Joseph School in Vancouver, WA took home the 3rd Grade Girls CYO Volleyball 2nd place Trophy November 17, 2018 games played at Valley Catholic School

Valley Catholic Claims 2018 CYO 4th Grade Volleyball Championships

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

November 17, 2018 – Fourth Grade Girls Spike Championships

**2018 CYO Volleyball Championshp 4th grade Team:** ValleyCatholic (Royal Blue & White), **Coach(s):**Lois O’Halloran, Tim Coppermoll, **Players**:Claire, Leah, Meghan, Madeleine, Makenna, Malia, Liza, Ryann, Natalie

**2018 CYO Volleyball Championsships Second Place 4th grade Team:**St. Pius X, **Coaches:** Isabel DePasquale, Molly Meyers, **Players:**Tristan, Tillie, Bianca, Gabriela, Claire, Elizabeth, Marissa, Thyvan

Scores:

Set 1: 17 – 24 St. Pius X

Set 2: 25 – 14 Valley Catholic

Set 3: 15 – 13 Valley Catholic

Game Highlights: Two very equally balanced teams. Some very good back and forth between the teams for fourth graders. The game could have gone either way today but it went to Valley Catholic and both teams should be commended.

FINAL: Valley Catholic

9 CYO Women at Valley Catholic See State Championship Success

November 14, 2018November 13, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

With Gratitude to Kelly Alfieri for sending in the photo from Valley Catholic letting me know how 9 of her former CYO participants did in fall sports! The 4A team took first place this month in the Championship game against Cottage Grove at Forrest Grove High School.

Congratulations are in order to the entire team including former CYO participants: Abby Rewers, Allie Merz, Haley Gentry, Gretchen Kibbe, Kayla Robbins, Kylee King, Caitlin O’Kief, Madeline Klopcic and Zoey Van Vleet!

CYO is always interested to see and hear how former participants fare in high school and college!

Motherhouse Road Trip Makes a Stop at My House!

November 8, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

Motherhouse Road Trip is a podcast put out by “A Nun’s Life”, a not for profit in Ohio that sheds light for young women interested in religious life on various religious communities around the country. They made a stop at the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon in Beaverton to record a show which ended up being a lot of fun for the sisters and students at our Valley Catholic School as well. Sister Adele Marie Altenhofen and I were the “interviewees” and it was actually a lot of fun for us as well! I have included a link in case you would like to listen in!

Champions of Faith Stories

September 22, 2018September 19, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

The Catholic Sentinel provides a perfect platform for CYO/CH to get out some great stories about what is going on with us. The insert (attached here) will run in the upcoming copy of the Sentinel as well as be made available to all guests at the Champions of Faith event October 9th. You can get a sneak peak by clicking on the attachment!

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Sentimental Journey

September 21, 2018September 20, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 WINONA LAKE, INDIANA

Every year I make my annual vacation to Indiana to visit my Aunt Nancy (Mom’s sister) and her family. It is always very special to me because these are really some very special people to me. One of the things we ALWAYS do is take our sentimental journey to visit the places that were important in our family history on that side of the family.

Highlights on the trip include a visit to Sidney, Indiana where my Grandfather and Grandmother met. Grandpa lived on the street that Grandma’s sister lived on. She would come to visit and Grandpa must have had a keen eye! The sad part of the story is that she died when my Mom was 4 and Aunt Nancy was 3. We visit her gravesite every year along with other family members who are buried there in Collamer near South Whitley, IN.

Next we go to North Manchester, IN to visit Benders Funeral Home where Grandpa was an embalmer. After his wife died he quit the business.

We have such a good time retelling the stories that my cousins are now interested in taking the tour with us. My cousin Dan Hoeppner asked to join us this year and of course we were thrilled to have his company. We have a place on the trip where we always take pictures in front of the Indiana Street sign. It on the street my grandparents met.

Keeping Up With My Aunt Nancy

September 20, 2018September 19, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

WINONA LAKE, IN SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

I’m on vacation this week in Indiana visiting my Aunt Nancy (Mom’s sister) and her family. It is an annual event I look forward to in order to keep the family connection strong.

This year, she enrolled in art classes at the retirement center. She had been a very skilled oil painter and her work was sought after by many family members and others. It has been a while since she painted but she got into it and it is all coming back. She had to switch to acrylic which she finds challenging but I think she is doing very well.

Below: My Aunt, the artist with her Art Coach, Michael. Below: Art Show of my Aunt’s work:

CYO Volleyball up to the Challenge!

September 19, 2018September 18, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

The annual CYO Volleyball “Challenge” tournament kicks off regular season volleyball as the teams gather to get some pre season scrimmages under their belts and work out the bugs. Teams from all over the Greater Portland area including Clark County, WA were on deck for a great weekend of volleyball.

CHAMPIONS OF FAITH – Join Me!

September 18, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

I am pretty excited about our upcoming Champions of Faith event at the Oregon Convention Center! We expect 700 to 800 of our friends to join us for the evening and listen to Terry Porter (our former Trailblazer hero and current coach of the University of Portland Men’s Basketball Team) share his story with us.

I hope you will consider joining me for the evening which is our annual CYO/Camp Howard benefit dinner. There is an ask at the end of the evening. The event has absolutely TRANSFORMED CYO/Camp Howard!

OCTOBER 9, 2018 @ THE OREGON CONVENTION CENTER 6:00 PM SIGN UP WWW.CYOCAMPHOWARD.ORG

The New Face of CYO Youth Football

September 18, 2018September 17, 2018Sr. Krista von Borstel Leave a comment

Youth participation is up by nearly 150 participants for the first time in 10 years as CYO moves to implement a new design for youth football replacing Tackle with flag while dressed in full uniform.

This new formula is nothing new to CYO as the third and fourth grade program operated the same way for many years. Today 1st grade through 6th graders in the CYO program play a modified “no tackle” game with variations at each grade level.

Scott Kneefel is the CYO Director of youth football http://www.cyocamphoward.org