Club Highlights

Arrupe Club

The Arrupe Club organized a successful Polo Drive last July, selling more than 500 gently-used polos to incoming freshman students while raising $395 to benefit the Laudato Si movement, a Catholic response to ecological crisis and climate change. Their efforts not only helped keep uniform costs down for incoming students, but also saved additional clothing waste from ending up in landfills.

Chess Club

STATE RUNNERS-UP! The Chess Club Team of Ryan Calabrese ‘24 Becky Gelfer ‘25 Phineas Hagg ‘24 Robby Manoogian ‘24 and Matthew Proctor ‘24 placed second at the Chess State Championship Tournament in February. The team has competed in the State Tournament each year since 2001, with this as the second consecutive year the Raiders finished as Runners-Up.

Coding Club

The Coding Club team of David Fales ‘24, Max Ficco ‘24, Oliver Howe ‘24 and Matthew Proctor ‘24 took second place in the In-Person Advanced Division at the Colorado School of Mines High School Programming Competition in April.

Environmental Club

In April, the Environmental Club sponsored its first-ever Care For Our Common Home Week supporting the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus. During the week, students cleaned up more than 400 pounds of trash from the Platte River and streets around campus. On campus, the week featured fun and informative activities including sharing prayers for creation, daily-themed challenges, information on environmental issues, themed dress days and live webcam footage from the Monterey Bay Aquarium on displays in every classroom. They also presented a screening of the documentary The Letter about Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si where more than 100 attendees learned about the impacts of the climate crisis and our call to protect all of creation.

Esports Club

RJ’s first-ever Hearthstone Esports Team of Kona Burgess ‘25, Sean Speil ‘24 and Loten Vu ‘24 finished the regular season with a 7-1 record and competed in the Semifinal round of the Regional High School Esports Championship in April.

Deca Club

In its inaugural year, ten members of the DECA Club participated in the 2023 State Career Development Conference in February. Twelve members also competed in the 2022-23 Colorado State DECA Competition also in February where Petra Augustine ‘23 and Gabriela Contos ‘23 were selected as State Finalists. Caroline Gambrill ‘24 was chosen out of 1000 candidates by District 3 to be the State Voting Delegate responsible for interviewing and voting on 60 students across Colorado to be the next Colorado State Officers. The global DECA organization recognized the club with an Achievement Level award.

Ethics Club

Led by new social studies teacher Frankie Xavier, the Ethics Club placed third in this year's State Ethics Bowl in January, an annual competition where students analyze and debate cases dealing with difficult moral and ethical questions as well as practice skills of debate and rhetoric, while increasing their knowledge of Catholic

FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS OF AMERICA (FBLA)

In April, 55 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Club members participated in the State Leadership Conference competing against 3500 students from across Colorado. The team of Rachel Cooper ‘24, Drew Dougherty ‘24 and Connor Mohr ‘24 placed third in International Business, and Colin Dwyer ‘24 played fourth in Business Calculations, earning them an automatic bid to this year’s National Conference in June.

Mock Trial

The Mock Trial A Team placed first and the B Team place third at the Regional Championship in February, where nine students were awarded individual awards for their outstanding performance. The B Team went on to place fourth at the State Tournament in March, narrowly missing a chance to qualify for the National Tournament. Erika Danzer ‘24 earned the Best Attorney Award on both direct examination and cross-examination as a plaintiff attorney, securing the best Overall Attorney Award out of all lawyers on all 24 teams! Kael Boucharel ‘24 received the first-place Best Witness Award. Kyra Graham ‘23 claimed fifth place for Best Attorney as a defense attorney as well as third place for best closing argument.

Mountain Biking Team

Congratulations to the Mountain Biking Team of Ashton Goering ‘23 Elise Holt ‘24 Drew Nicotra ‘26 Nathan Sirovatka ‘24 and Noah Wills ‘26 on another strong season and successful performance at the State Championship competition in October in which the team placed 20th. Holt is the first rider for Regis Jesuit to compete in the Elite Division.

Rj Students For Life

The RJ Students for Life Club held another highly successful diaper drive, collecting more than 36,000 diapers to support Catholic Charities of Denver’s Bottom Line Diaper Bank.

Robotics Club

The Robotics Team 3729 took third place out of 36 teams at the Heartland Regional in Olathe, Kansas in March, receiving a top award, the Innovation in Control Award. They finished their season after competing at the Colorado Regional Tournament held at the University of Denver in March where they were drafted onto the Eighth Team during Alliance Selection.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS/PROJECT UNIFIED

In January, the Special Olympics /Unified Club hosted a pep rally and Polar Plunge kickoff in the Guy Gibbs ‘47 Gym for a morning of basketball, prayer and community and also an inspiring presentation of faith and love by guest speaker and Great Raider Kyle Speller ’89 who currently serves as the Denver Nuggets’ Chaplain and in-arena announcer. The entire community came together for the “Minute to Win It” Venmo and cash challenge raising more than $500 in just 60 seconds. On April 1, more than 300 student plungers participated in this year’s annual Special Olympics Colorado (SOCO) Polar Plunge and raised an incredible $34,000 in support of SOCO programming. In celebration of our successful efforts, Regis Jesuit was named the 2023 Hall of Fame School out of more than 600 participating schools. This is the third consecutive year that RJ has been recognized as a top fundraising school. Over the past three years of participation in the Plunge, Regis Jesuit students and supporters have helped to raise nearly $100,000 in support of local SOCO sports, health, educational and athlete leadership programs.

Rj Media

RJ Media earned several top honors at the J-Day State Journalism Conference in September, taking second place in the Best of Show category for Video Program. Elevate Magazine, Concordia Yearbook and RJTV /RSN were awarded the All-Colorado Award for their work in the 2021-22 school year. In April, students earned seven top individual awards at the 2023 JEA /NSPA National School Journalism Convention. Gabby Chernoff ‘23, Hayden Oh ‘25, Andrew Massie ‘23 and Owen Weis ‘24 each earned first-place honors in their respective categories and RJTV was awarded seventh place in the Best of Show category for Broadcast News Programming.

SPEECH & DEBATE

INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMPION! Three of the 12 members of the Speech & Debate Team who competed in the CHSAA 5A State Tournament in March earned top honors. Brigid Smith ‘25 won first place in Drama, Emile Ndikum ‘24 placed second in Humor and James Ritsick ‘23 took third in Lincoln Douglas Debate. The team placed fifth overall out of 37 teams and also finished in sixth place in Speech. Six members qualified for the 2023 National Speech & Debate Tournament in June.