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Summerland Public School hosted the GNAC Choral Clinic, Tuesday Nov. 12. Celeste Ditter, Clumbus Middle School vocal instructor, worked with 120 students during the day. The group presented a concert that evening. Bobcat choir members named to the all-conference honor choir include Lenora Kester, soprano; Luke Kester, tenor; Yazlin Zermeno, alto; and Brandon Pruden, bass....
What does success sound like? A vocal soloist nailing a high note, a choir blending in perfect harmony and a band blasting its way through a peppy march. Summerland musicians experienced sweet success, Friday, at the district music contest in Ainsworth. High school music director Emily Heithoff reported both the band and choir earned a I, or superior, rating. Several musicians received superiors in individual or small group performances, including Brandon Pruden, vocal solo; Lenora Kester,...
The Nebraska School Activities Association and the Nebraska State College System have announced the 15,970 recipients of the 2023-2024 Nebraska State Colleges Multi-Activity Student Award. The award recognizes students in grades 9-12 who participate in at least three NSAA-sanctioned activities during the academic year. Each high school student who participates in at least three NSAA activities will be recognized and awarded a certificate of achievement by the NSAA and the Nebraska State Colleges. Activity participation will be tracked using...
Carlee Livingston will represent the Summerland speech team at the 2024 NSAA Class C2 State Speech Championships, Thursday, March 21, at Kearney High School. Livingston advances after a third-place finish in persuasive speaking at Monday's Class C2-3 district meet in Hartington. Six other speech students qualified for finals. Alanna Doll finished fifth in informative speaking. Brandon Pruden placed fifth in oral interpretation of humorous prose. In oral interpretation of drama, Addisyn...
Summerland speech students have competed in three invites since Feb. 17 and several students have placed in finals. At the Battle Creek Invite, on Feb. 17, Alanna Doll placed fifth in informative speaking in the next-in finals and 11th in overall event standings. On Wednesday, Feb. 21, the team traveled to Stuart for the Niobrara Valley Conference meet. Three students received medals. Doll ended fifth in informative speaking. Brandon Pruden placed sixth in humorous prose. In persuasive...
Seven members of the Bobcat speech team competed Saturday at the West Holt Invitational. Summerland’s lone varsity medal winner was Yuliana Olivan who came in second in entertainment speaking. Also competing at the varsity level were oral interpretation of drama team members Brandon Pruden, Owen Jeffords, Olivan and Addisyn Fletcher, who came in one place out of the medal round. Pruden also competed in humorous prose. Carlee Livingston competed in persuasive speaking, while Raina Krebs competed in entertainment speaking. The team was eighth o...
Six members of the Summerland speech team competed at Hartington on Saturday. Award winners in varsity competition in the Honors Division included Carlee Livingston, fourth persuasive speaking and Yuliana Olivan, Addisyn Fletcher, Owen Jefford and Brandon Pruden, fourth, oral interpretation of drama. In the junior varsity division, Fletcher finished fourth in oral interpretation of poetry finals. Jadyn Hobbs received fourth place in informative public speaking. Also competing were Olivan in entertainment speaking; Pruden, oral interpretation...
The Summerland Bobcats hosted their home speech meet on Saturday with seven schools in attendance. West Holt and Stuart took championship and runner-up honors, respectively, with Neligh coming in third and Summerland fourth. Also competing were Stanton, Wheeler Central, and Boyd County. Individual varsity medal winners from Summerland were Yuliana Olivan, second, entertainment speaking; Brandon Pruden, Addisyn Fletcher, Yuliana Olivan and Owen Jeffords, second, oral interpretation of drama; Alanna Doll, fourth, informative; Pruden, fourth,...
A memorial service for Joel Christopher Pruden, 62, of Ewing, will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023 at the Full Gospel Church in Ewing, with Pastors Mark Hoffman and Mike Durre officiating. A memorial visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 8, at the church, with a 6:30 p.m., prayer service. Joel died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, at his home in Ewing, surrounded by his loved ones. Levander Funeral Home, of Elgin, is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be sent to the family at...
Summerland School's one-act production participated in the Gator Play Production Festival, Nov. 2, in Wisner. Two Summerland actors received the Ellen Philbin Memorial awards. Brandon Pruden was named overall top actor and Julie Olivan, outstanding supporting actor. Seven Summerland students received outstanding performance recognition, including Alanna Doll, Talya Nilson, Olivan, Jadyn Hobbs, Owen Jeffords, Raina Krebs and Pruden....
The Summerland one-act team traveled to Lutheran High Northeast on Saturday, Nov. 11, to perform their show, "The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza" by Don Zolidas. Also performing were Battle Creek, Columbus Lakeview, Newman Grove, Lutheran High Northeast, Crofton, South Sioux City and Riverside. Crofton was named winner of the competition. Summerland performers recognized for outstanding performance were Alanna Doll, Carlee Livingston, Amor Zermeno, Lenora Kester, Raina Krebs and Brandon...
The Bobcat golf team shot 393 in district play, May 16, at Fair Play Golf Course in Norfolk. The score placed Summerland 10th in team competition. Dane Miller set the pace for the Bobcats, shooting 93. Kelton Bruhn finished with 96; Matthew Potter, 101; Dylan Rotherham, 103 and Logan Kester, 112. Miller tied for 30th. Pierce won the event, shooting 322, while Ponca took home the runner-up trophy, with 346. Norfolk Catholic finished third, totaling 350, followed by Cedar Catholic, fourth, 357;...
Dylan Rotherham carded a 45 at the Santee Invite, held May 1. He was only three strokes behind first-place medalist, Chase Furstenau, of Neligh-Oakdale. Bryson Gadeken finished second, with a 43. Christian Behnk ended in fifth, place shooting 50, while Matthew Potter and Kelton Bruhn both finished with 54, to finish eighth and ninth, respectively. In junior varsity competition, Logan Kester led the field with 50. Barrett Stearns shot 57, finishing fourth; Bennett Flenniken finishing fifth, shooting 58; Brandon Pruden ended in 10, shooting 77...
The Nebraska School Activities Association and the Nebraska State College System recently announced the 16,149 recipients of the 2022-2023 Nebraska State Colleges Multi-Activity Student Award. The award recognizes students in grades 9-12 who participate in at least three NSAA-sanctioned activities during the academic year. Each high school student who participates in at least three NSAA activities will be recognized and awarded a certificate of achievement by the NSAA and the Nebraska state colleges. Activity participation will be tracked using...
The Summerland varsity golf team shot 197 and finished second at an April 9 invite held at the Plainview Country Club. Summerland JV finished fourth, finishing with 214. Dane Miller led the Bobcats, finishing second after carding 45. Dylan Rotherham ended fourth, shooting 46. Barret Stearns finished with 52 and Matt Potter, 54, to place 14th and 15th. Logan Kester ended 21st with a 59. Christian Behnk, shot 47 for the JV squad. He finished fifth. Bennet Flenniken ended ninth, shooting 50 and Kelton Bruhn carded a 51, placing 11th. Matt...
The Bobcat golf season will wait until April 5 to tee off for the 2023 season when the team competes in the CWC quad at Summerland. Tee time is set for 1 p.m. Originally, Summerland was scheduled to compete March 28, in a triangular with Niobrara/Verdigre and Santee. That meet has been postponed. The team will compete in Class C2, according to head coach Bill Tabbert. Kris Tabbert will serve as assistant high school coach and lead the junior high squad. Cole Gaughenbaugh, a student teacher at Summerland, will work with the team as a volunteer...
Faith King, Olga Mendoza and Adrienne Parker will be among the 1,153 competitors descending on Kearney, Wednesday through Friday, for the 2023 Nebraska School Activities Association State Speech Championships at Kearney High School. The three Bobcat speakers qualified for this week's Class C2 state competition last Wednesday, as 14 Summerland speech team members traveled to Plainview to compete in the C2-3 district speech competition. Seven students broke finals in 10 events. Following the...
Trivia pursuers • The Summerland high school quiz bowl team finished third in the Niobrara Valley Conference quiz bowl contest, Monday, at Elgin Public Schools. Team members include (front row, l-r): Christian Behnk, Jesse Thiele, Hadley Cheatum, Irelyn Bearinger, Brandon Pruden; (back row, l-r): Raina Krebs, Gavin Whiting and coach Jim Schutt. The team's lone loss was to West Holt. The Bobcats defeated St. Mary's to finish in third place....
Summerland "speechsters" earned four medals at the Creighton Speech Invite, held Friday, Feb. 17. Champs finals medal winners included Faith King, third, informative speaking and poetry interpretation; Olga Mendoza, third, serious prose and Yuliana Olivan, fourth, entertainment speaking. Award winners in the next-in division included Brandon Pruden, fourth, humorous prose; Carlee Livingston, fourth, entertainment speaking and Adrienne Parker, Audrey Parker, Talya Nilson and Olivan, fourth, oral...
Fourteen members of the Summerland speech team competed at the West Holt Invitational on Saturday, coming in seventh of 18 teams. Earning top honors in entertainment speaking was Yulianna (Julie) Olivan, who earned a first-place rating from both judges in preliminary rounds and also from both judges in the final round. She earned 197 of a possible 200 rating points. Other medal winners were as follows: Faith King, fourth, poetry interpretation; Olga Mendoza, fourth, serious prose and sixth,...
SUBMITTED ARTICLE Summerland hosted its own speech invitational, Saturday. A dozen teams competed in the meet. Summerland placed fourth behind West Holt, 318 points; Stuart, 258 points; and Elgin Pope John, 214 points. Summerland earned 158 points and O'Neill St. Mary's was fifth with 152. Other schools competing were Stanton, Neligh-Oakdale, Creighton, Verdigre, Wheeler Central, Boyd County and Rock County. Olga Mendoza earned the gold medal in serious prose. Two Bobcat speakers placed second,...
Ten members of the Summerland speech team competed at the Practice Makes "Perfekt" Invitational at Wisner-Pilger High School, Jan. 14. The Bobcats earned sixth place as a team behind Twin River, Wisner-Pilger, Homer, Laurel-Concord-Coleridge and Archbishop Bergan. Scribner-Snyder was seventh, followed by West Point-Beemer, North Bend, Stanton, Pender, South Sioux City, Wakefield and Allen Consolidated. Senior speaker Olga Mendoza took top honors in serious prose while Yulianna Olivan and Alanna...
Members of the Summerland speech team compete and judge, Saturday, at the Stuart Novice Speech Tournament. The novice oral interpretation of drama team participated in the meet. Varsity speakers Adrienne Parker and Olga Mendoza judged events. Attending were Sydni McConnell, Parker, Irelyn Bearinger, Mendoza, Emma King and Brandon Pruden....
