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Archery

Our COD Jackson Kasson left all of us wide-eyed with his impressive shooting today! He’s made insane improvement since last week!

Arts and Crafts

Period 3: Miss Molly Russell brought the light and energy today in arts and crafts! Keep it up! Our COD Ryan Dehart spent the entire period painting plates in swirls…and had a great time doing it! #makeyourownF-U-N COD for 4th period arts and crafts is the super-duper Cooper Shackelford. Cooper had a ton of F-U-N with coloring pages. Keep it up!

Arts & Crafts Adv.

Miss Zella Stricklin was a superstar today, dishing out stellar succulent facts while making her craft!

Baseball Adv. 

Our COD today is Ryder Bracht! Ryder pitched strike after strike and lead the entire team.

Boating and Canoeing

Period 1: Quade Hanson displayed the pirate spirit on this fine pirate Tuesday! ARRRR!!! Period 2: Sierra Edelmon made second period boating and canoeing a splashing success! She tipped her canoe in the first 5 minutes of class! #boattippinggang #dripdrip

Broadcasting

Period 1: Our broadcasters of the day are Christopher Row and Connor Hill for being such great hosts and keeping all of Sweeneyland caught up on the news! #broadcastingrules

Challenge Course

Today at the power pole, Nicholas Equitz, Mackenzie Porter, and Meason Bakunas all conquered the challenge with strength, persistence, and courage!

Choir

Our camper of the day is Faye Barber!

Cross Country 

The XC COD is Eli Strittmatter! Eli did an amazing job today running to the campsite and cheering on his teammates who were struggling! Great job Eli!

Football

COD goes to to the talented Lily Anderson for her outstanding enthusiasm and effort in today’s game of football P-I-G!

Frisbee

Brady Almquist, Landon Clark, and Taralyn Moll were some spectacular spraying stars this shotgun Tuesday and earned COD honors!

Hiking

Alaina Urbach was the fire of 1st period hiking by leading in the front of the pack and pushing everyone to keep moving! 2nd period hiking was joined by Mandela the Moth! And the man the myth the legend, Lake Silcott carried him the whole hike! Good job lake! And it was a long walk!….

Mini Golf

COD is Tatelyn Alexander for battling through puddles on the course and staying diligent the entire class!

Paintball Combat

Hey gamers! You already know what’s going on- our campers of the day are Emily Kennedy and Will McClelland for overcoming obstacles and keeping the vibe F-U-N during our shorter classes! Thanks everyone!

Paintball Jr.

Camper of the day is the Prestigious Preston Thompson because of his ability to bent paint-balls like Beckham to pop balloons!

Rocketry

Grant Laughlin was super enthusiastic and engaged today as we started building our rockets!

Roller Hockey

Sydney Underwood defended Simmons and even took on an offensive role as she SKRRTTED over the ice!

Skatepark

Mitchell Cudworth is COD for not only teaching others to skate but also for getting after it right away and staying active the whole time!

Soccer

Today’s camper of the day is Ben Asarch!! It was an awesome day playing World Cup! Way to go Ben!

Sweeney Fit

Meier Turboff gave us a phenomenal dispay of his determination and grit today during the Sweeney Swoldier! He inspired others to persevere and compete this daunting challenge!

Swimming

2nd period: Emily St. Clair was extremely supportive of all her fellow swimmers and had a great time chasing around some little ones! Thanks for being you, Emily! 3rd period: Jessie Huberman was our swimming superstar of the morning!! She was a spider monkey on the Wibit and jumping frog into the deep end all period long!

Swing Dance

Swing Dance COD is Mara Matthews for her excitement and high energy. Love that doll!

Tennis

COD today goes to Alex Anderson! Alex did a great job with his forehand and backhands, and he hustled during crazy ball!

Tumbling

Our camper of the day is Cassie Sellers! She jumped right into a stunt group and totally rocked it! We are so proud of her!

Ultimate Frisbee

We had the *ultimate* first day of advanced ultimate! Huge s/o to our camper of the day Carter Cummings! Carter showed great sportsmanship, he hustled, and gave great suggestions on different ways to play the game! Great job!!!

Video Production 

Camper of the day, Jojo Ray was an absolute star in VidPro today! Way to show out on taping Tuesday!

Waterpark

Our COD, Amiracle Manzay, was as active as can be in waterpark today being a super silly splasher! 4th period: waterpark wouldn’t have been the same today without Miles Chase bringing the energy! Keep it up, Miles! #waffles 5th period: Connor Hill kept everyone engaged and moving during 5th period waterpark! Keep it up, Connor! #slide

Weightlifting

Today, the man, the myth, the legend Bates Pulliam, had a routine planned our for him and Deegan. I’ve never seen so many crutches in one session. #sweeneyswoldier Today, Brayden Florence learned what old man strength was. He also was busting out some tractor pulls in weightlifting!

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