Chloe Elarton is Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year
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Senior Chloe Elarton is Colorado Player of the Year
In its 40th year of honoring the nation’s most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Chloe Elarton of Valor Christian High School is the 2024-25 Gatorade Colorado Volleyball Player of the Year. Elarton is the second Gatorade Colorado Volleyball Player of the Year to be chosen from Valor Christian High School.
Gatorade Player of the Year is the top honor in high school sports, celebrating the nation’s best high school athletes for their success on the court, in the classroom and in the community.
Chloe joins recent Gatorade Colorado Volleyball Players of the Year Delaney Russell (2023-24, Valor Christian High School), Izzy Starck (2022-23, Rampart High School), Carter Booth (2021-22, Cherry Creek High School) and Anjelina Starck (2020-21, Rampart High School), among the state’s list of former award winners. Read the full CHSAA article here!
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Congratulations to Valor's Hockey team for winning the state championship
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Congratulations to Valor's Cheer team for competing at Nationals and getting 2nd in the Nation!
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Congratulations to Eliza, Chloe, and Kendall for being named 2024 Sportswomen of Colorado!
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Congratulations to Valor Poms for doing so well at UDA Nationals and getting third in the nation!
Congratulations to Chloe on being named Gatorade Player of the year!
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Congratulations to the girls volleyball team for being recognized for being the first team in nearly 40 years to three-peat in volleyball.
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Congratulations to the Valor Boys Basketball Team for winning the 6A State Championship!
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Congratulations to the Valor Hockey team on a tremendous season!
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Eliza Osburn headlines as an elite in women's lacrosse in Colorado.
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Congratulations to Senior, Delaney Russell, who was named the 2023-24 Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year!
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Congratulations to the Valor Cheer team, for its fifth straight State Championship, earned on Thursday!
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Two Valor students who are competitive equestrians recently earned ribbons in the United States Hunter Jumper Association! Megan Holliday (Class of 2024) and Ava Uhrig (Class of 2026) each qualified to compete on a four-person team at the Associations' West Coast Jumper Championships in Temecula, California last month.
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Spirit got it done at the Jeffco League Finals once again! This week our Cheer team won their League Championship while our Poms team dominated another Varsity Jazz performance! Both teams won their eighth straight League Championship. Way to go, girls! Be on the lookout for upcoming competitions and the CHSAA State Finals schedule soon!
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Congratulations to the Girls Volleyball team for winning State again and for an undefeated season again!
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Valor Cheer had their first competition last week where they were named Regional Champions. They also earned a bid to UCA Nationals.
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Girls Volleyball wins Jefferson County League and earns the #1 seed in the Regional Tournament!
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At the State Tournament for Boys Tennis 2 of Valor's team win 5A Individual State Titles! Congratulations to Jace Nakamura, Harrison Wentworth and Drew Summers!
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With a 2nd place finish in the 5A CHSAA Western Regionals, Valor Christian Boys Golf automatically qualified all four players to the State Championship Tournament! |
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The Boys XC team ran to a championship win over several nationally ranked teams at the Nike Portland Invite! The Eagles triumphed over nationally ranked Franklin (OR) by 42 points, led by Dane Eike's 3rd place finish. The boys saw Kaeden Dendorfer (18th), Judah Crooks (21st), Cory Gilbert (43rd), and Porter Warren (45th) round out the top 5 Valor scorers followed by Griffin Mazeski and Isaac Yang.
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For the second year in a row, Valor Christian running back Gavin Sawchuk has been named the 5A Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year. Sawchuk, a senior and University of Oklahoma commit, first won the award after his junior season in 2020.
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Senior soccer player Mason Louth capped off his high school soccer career with a cherry on top when he was named to the 2021 Fall Boys High School All-America Team.
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Miko Lewis (’25) is hitting the slopes and showing his powder precision in Alpine racing this winter.
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Congratulations to our Eagles-on-ice for a hard-fought battle for the 2021 5A state title, edging out Fort Collins for the second year...
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Class of 2012 Valor Alum Janine Beckie stopped by with her gold medal this week to greet the Valor team!
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Valor alum Christian McCaffrey ’14 (right) spent time with PGA golfer and fellow Valor grad, Wyndham Clark ’12, when they played together at the PGA Pro-Am tournament in May.
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Congratulations to Gavin Sawchuk ’22, for being named the 2020 Colorado Football Gatorade Player of the Year!
Congratulations to our Eagles-on-ice for a hard-fought battle for the 2021 5A state title, edging out Fort Collins for the second year in a row! See CHSAA story and video highlights.
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On November 5, 2020, Valor girls distance runners finished #5 in the nation at the Terra Haute, IN “Meet of Champions” to cap off a record-breaking season.
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On November 11, Valor had its highest number of signing commitments in recent history with 33 student-athletes committing to college and accepting scholarships to play at some of the top schools in the country.
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Valor’s football program seeks to embody the same qualities in its players and coaches. On the varsity through freshman teams, players are constantly pointed toward their most important goal of glorifying God and growing into men of character.
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In 2015, the boys tennis team qualified just four varsity athletes for the 4A State Tournament and came away with a 21st place finish. They’ve been on an upward climb ever since then, finishing a little bit stronger each year, and coming even closer to that prized title: State Champions.
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When CHSAA announced that football, volleyball, and boys soccer would be postponed until next spring, many athletes scrambled to make adjustments.
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Valor Christian High School Athletic Director Brian Bonn announced today that the school has appointed Donnie Yantis as the Eagles’ next head football coach.
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For the second consecutive year, the girls’ volleyball team competed at the 5A State Volleyball Tournament at the Denver Coliseum and finished their season as State Runners-Up.
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The Valor girls and boys cross country teams can run fast, but that's not the only thing that sets them apart.
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![Getting to Know Josh Hoffman]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1628871223/govalorcom/yc2uaguetcgk0nqp3pih/HoffmanFCA-768x509jpg.webp","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1628871223/govalorcom/yc2uaguetcgk0nqp3pih/HoffmanFCA-768x509jpg.webp","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1628871223/govalorcom/yc2uaguetcgk0nqp3pih/HoffmanFCA-768x509jpg.webp","width":768}])
We sat down with Mr. Hoffman to talk about his heart for student ministry, his transition to Valor, and what he looks forward to as he begins his time here.