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Crystal Richter retweeted
Led best hit % average in B1G + 2nd nationally ✅
Season high 58 assists vs. Mich ✅
Guided 5 players to double digit kills ✅
Bergie is your @B1Gvolleyball Setter of the Week!
Crystal Richter retweeted
A plane tragically crashed earlier today, killing at least nine people. We've all seen the clips. None of those people were planning to die today. They were all making plans for tomorrow undoubtedly, but unfortunately, tomorrow never comes for more than 150,000 people every day. Nobody but God knows when our time is up, but every last one of us has an appointment with death. This is a very scary thought, but it doesn't have to be. Jesus Christ conquered sin and death on the cross, and through faith in Him and His resurrection, you can have your sins forgiven. Those in Christ no longer need to fear death, because death has lost its sting for believers. Heaven awaits all those who repent and trust in Christ. Put your faith in Christ today and be ready for death whenever your time comes.
Crystal Richter retweeted
Congratulations 🎉 to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ @AvaRuml31 on her offer from @SCSUHuskies_WBB‼️
Ava is getting some well deserved opportunities!! She spends a ton of time working on her game and you see those dividends paying off!!
#SanfordSports | #StrongerTogether
Crystal Richter retweeted
Orwell's great observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that to shrink a person's vocabulary is to shrink his capacity to think.
An impoverished version of English removes the mental tools needed to formulate and communicate complex (and dissenting) ideas. Such is the deep, complex relationship between language and thought.
We don't read "difficult books" to say that we've read difficult books. We read them because they expand the boundaries of what we are capable of thinking and feeling — we ascend to their level. Vocabulary helps us to recognize truths otherwise beyond our grasp.
This revelation is worse than you may think. This must be reversed.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
Crystal Richter retweeted
Congratulations 🎉 to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ @KaceyJaton on her offer from @USFCougarsWBB‼️
Kacey EARNS another offer from the nearby University of Sioux Falls!! Look for Kacey to have a big year for her West Central High School squad!!
#SanfordSports | #StrongerTogether
After a great visit and conversation with @coach_trap I’m excited to announce I’ve received an offer from @USFCougarsWBB thank you for the opportunity!
@sanfordhoops_sf
Crystal Richter retweeted
Congratulations 🎉 to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ Ava Ruml on her offer from @BSUBeaversWBB‼️
Ava brings size, physicality, and a workers mentality!! She has poured a ton of time into developing her game and the fruits of that labor is being seen!!
#SanfordSports | #StrongerTogether
Crystal Richter retweeted
Evil will always seek to destroy beauty because beauty is proof of objective standards and universal Truth.
"Beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." — Dietrich von Hildebrand.
Crystal Richter retweeted
🇺🇸 HERO! The armed man who RAN AFTER and NEUTRALIZED the Bend, OR elementary school shooter has been identified as Kaylub Giamanco, his brother tells NBC
This man should receive the PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM!
Kaylub was reportedly driving by the school on his lunch break when he saw the gunman enter the school, deciding to bolt after him and take him down before police were anywhere close.
This private citizen risked his life to save other people’s kids. Just incredible. Very American.
Crystal Richter retweeted
A HUGE S/O to all these young ladies that are still chasing their passion at the NEXT LEVEL 🏀🔥‼️
Over the next few weeks, 5️⃣0️⃣ of our #SanfordFam alumni will tip off their college basketball seasons!
We are proud of every one of you. Now go live your dreams!!
#SanfordSports
Crystal Richter retweeted
Celebrating a life that touched every single one of ours.
Happy birthday, Charlie ❤️
Crystal Richter retweeted
Tonight in Washington state, nearly half the Camas High School girls cross country team refused to compete against a boy on their own team.
He switched from the boys' team just one month ago.
Now he's placing in every meet.
Courage always wins.
@xx_xyathletics
Footage: @KnownHeretic
Crystal Richter retweeted
After a good visit and talk with @CoachK_NSU I’m excited to announce that I’ve received an offer from @nsuwolves_wbb thanks for the opportunity!
@sanfordhoops_sf
Crystal Richter retweeted
The same arguments used by a culture that has normalized dehumanizing and then killing precious babies in the womb will inevitably be used to justify the killing of human beings outside the womb.
When the value of human life becomes contingent on size, development, ability, independence, or someone else’s assessment of its quality, there’s no principled moral reason for that abhorrent standard to end at birth.
My Grandmother (one of my favorite people in the whole world) needed oxygen and multiple medications to sustain her life for the last decade she was with us. She was deeply dependent and vulnerable, but she was no less valuable because of it.
No size, stage of development, disability, or degree of dependency determines the value of a human life. It’s INTRINSIC.
This was murder!
If our civilization is to endure, we have to repent of this and reject this satanic idea that human life can be disposable!
The Netherlands has 'aborted' a 2-year-old baby, just one year after the country legalized euthanasia for children under 12.
In 2025, 10,341 people in the Netherlands were euthanized, up nearly 4% from the year before.
According to the Assessment Committee for Late Termination of Pregnancy and Termination of Life in Newborns and Children Aged 1 to 12 Years, the baby had "both mental and physical" disabilities, so they decided it was best to kill the child.
"The child had multiple, very severe disabilities, both mental and physical, and the prognosis was that the child would be dependent on support with all activities of daily living for the rest of their life."
After getting consent from the child's parents, the baby was killed.
Horrific.
Crystal Richter retweeted
“The most important thing is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ every single day. The second most important thing is making sure you can do the first thing.”
My husband dedicated his life to protecting the freedoms given to us by our Creator and ensured by our Founders.
I’ll forever be inspired by the wisdom in his words. I pray they inspire you too, not simply to cherish the freedoms we’ve inherited, but to defend them so our children and their children inherit them too.
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