Congratulations to senior setter Alayna Bakke, who broke the single season assist record tonight! She now holds the single game, single season and career assist records for DesMoines Christian!
📢Congratulations to Carson Houg winning the 2A Co-MVP of the Iowa High School Track & Field State Championships. He shares this honor with Spirit Lake’s Jack Latham. 👏🏻
Congratulations to Coach Andrew Hamer on being named the 2022 XC Coach of the year for class 2A Boys. Thank you
@iatfcc
for this special recognition. 👏🏻
DMC senior, Carson Houg, has officially signed with the University of Iowa to run cross country & indoor/ outdoor Track. Congratulations Carson!
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#GoLions
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The Lions honored Clint Luscombe tonight as he coached his final home game. Coach Luscombe has been coaching, mentoring, and ministering to athletes at DMC for over 30 years including over 1,000 baseball games. Thank you Coach Luscombe and God's blessings.
📢 That’s a wrap to an amazing season for the Des Moines Christian Boys track and field team, best in school history - finishing 2nd as a team in class 2A with 65 points. 👏🏻🥈
Well done Lion Nation! This means more than any scoreboard outcome. Win or lose, do it with class. Thanks to our FB coaches and especially our seniors on an outstanding FB season! DMC AD
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🚨 New school record 🚨 Hadley Hardersen continues her impressive record-setting season beating her previous school record in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 15.69! This time hits the Blue Standard to qualify Hadley for the Drake Relays 🏆 Great job Hadley!
Congratulations to the varsity boys basketball team, our 2A West Central Conference Champs and State qualifiers, on such an incredible season! They finished the year 22-3 overall, 13-1 in the conference and 10-1 at home. What a season. Great job, boys!
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Carson Houg wins the 2A state title in the 3200m 🥇Aaron Fynaardt 🥈 Nice work out of this distance duo👊🏼 🔥Blazing hot conditions. More work to come for these boys on Saturday in the 1600 & 800.
Yesterday afternoon DMC senior, Moriah Prewitt, officially signed with Northern Illinois University to play basketball. Congratulations on such a great high school career and on your decision, Moriah!
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A huge thank you to the most dedicated teacher, Annie Pettit, who is giving an impromptu calculus lesson to the track kids during the district track meet to prepare them for tomorrow’s final. 🙌
#dedication
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Cal Matthes makes a shoe string catch in right and doubles up the runner at first to end the game. The Lions win their first state tournament game in history 9-7.
#ETD
#HIT
Carson Houg places 4th in the 1600 with a time of 4:18.92 at the
@DrakeRelays
This breaks his previous school record of 4:22.90. What a memorable Drake Relays for the DMC Lions!
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A record breaking, memorable season for the Lady Lions. Came up short in the state tournament semi-final, but made Lion Nation proud. Thanks for the memories!
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#we
>me
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🚨Carson Houg wins the 800 tonight in Van Meter with a time of 1:57.34. This is a new school record and achieves the Blue Standard
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#Blueovalbound
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The Lions marching band showed The Right Stuff again early this morning, bringing their best performance yet at the State competition in Waukee. Congrats to Director Lane, the color guard and the band on a 1 rating and their highest point score ever at State!
#imwiththeband
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The matchup is set. DMC will play Panorama in the Substate 7 final Tuesday night in Alleman. Game time is 7:00. Come cheer on the Lions as they try for back to back trips to the state tournament!
Congrats to Justin Groen! After anchoring our shuttle hurdle relay team to a 3rd place finish at state, he followed up with a 4th place finish in the 110 meter hurdles with time 15.48. What a great way to finish a stellar track career at DMC
Congratulations to the Des Moines Christian boys soccer team on an outstanding season, and gutsy effort in one of the best soccer matches of all time. The Lions fall in 2OT, PK shootout but take home a semi finalist trophy in the Class 1A State Soccer Tournament.
🚨State Qualifer Champs!
Congrats to our DMC Boys XC team for taking 🥇 today to head back to State! Fynaardt, Ten Pas and Houg go 1-2-3. McPartland 6th, Johnson 9th, Gummert 16th and Sisler 25th. Go Lions!
Congrats to Isaac Prewitt who was named a 1st team Class 2A All State Basketball player by the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association.
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#lionpride
🚨On to State! Congrats to our DMC girls for finishing 🥈tonight. Leading the way tonight was Erzren & Jicinsky in 9th & 10th - Shimp & Pothoven 16 & 17th. Casady, Zimmer and Grove 19, 20 and 22nd. Nice work! 🙌
DMC senior, Colby Shelton, has officially signed with
@nwciowa
to play baseball. Thanks for great seasons at DMC and best wishes to you at Northwestern Colby!
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#GoLions
Day 3 of The Iowa high school State track and field championships. The final event for DMC was the 1600. Fynaardt edges Houg at the line - as the distance duo goes 1-2 with a time a 4:20.63 and 4:20.78.
#legends
🚨New school record! ‼️Graham Antrim broke the DMCS high jump school record with a 6’4” jump! (The previous record was 6’3” set by Danny Clinton in 2010). Way to start off the track season strong! 💪
🚨Boys 4x200 breaks a school record from 2012 with a time of 1:32:35 🏅 Cameron McConnell, Jaxon Withers, Christian Anderson & Gavin Phillips.
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🚨DMC boys close out the state track meet with a 1-2 finish in the 1600m. Collin Houg with his first individual state championship 🥇 winning in 4:19.07 & Aaron Fynaardt 🥈 in 4:22.43. 🔥
Congratulations to our girls basketball team - they're headed to State! Order your state t-shirts here: Hurry - orders are only accepted through Monday.
Congrats to Ben Webster (DMC '18) who is leading the state (all classes) in scoring with 53 goals & 32 assists. He also owns the DMC records for goals in a season (53) & career goals (91). Ben also broke the DMC career assists (50) record this year.
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#golions
DMC boys and girls teams advance to the 2A XC State Meet for the 2nd straight year! Congrats to Coach Hamer, Coach Petitt and to every athlete on this amazing accomplishment!
#runDMCLionsXC
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The Lions lose to the Van Meter Bulldogs 6-0 and finish the season as the state class 2A runners-up with a record of 17-7. Thanks for a great year boys!
Congratulations to the Class 1A Girls State Soccer runners up - The Des Moines Christian Lions. Special thanks to our seniors for all the memories and leading with courage and class!
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💥Way to start us off guys! Crazy fast field. Both Carson and Aaron run new lifetime bests in the 3200m. Houg 9th in 9:16.03, Fynaardt 13th in 9:21.62. 🚨 New DMC school record! 🚨
@drakerelays
#justgettingstarted
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These 9 seniors completed their last home game on a high note winning a school record 25th game. Congratulations Bennett, Brett, Noah, Luke, Mason, Cal, Frankie, Grant, and Andrew on a great season and a great 5 years.
🚨Great night for Senior sprinter Cameron McConnell. He broke the 200 meter school record set by Jake Nelson in 2000 - winning with a time of 22.21. He also was part of the record breaking 4x200 team. 🥇
Congratulations to the DMC boys golf team for advancing to state!! DMC as a team came in third with a total score of 337. Senior Carsen Theis led the way with a 76.
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The Lynx 3rd baseman makes a spectacular grab of a Grant Christy liner to end the game. The Lynx win 3-0. The Lions finish 29-9 and lose in the state semifinals. Great season boys, we're very proud of you!