Monthly Archives: October 2016

Peters Awarded FFA Scholarship

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The National FFA organization awarded a $2,000 MetLife Foundation scholarship to Sydnie Peters of the Winner High School FFA.

Peters is a graduate of Winner High School. The scholarship is sponsored by MetLife Foundation as a special project of the national FFA Foundation. Peters plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at South Dakota State University.

This scholarship is one of 1,820 awarded through the national FFA organization’s scholarship program this year.
The 2016 scholarship recipients were selected from 8,383 applications from across the country. Selections were made based on the applicant’s leadership, academic record, FFA and other school and community activities, supervised agricultural work or work experience in agricultural education and future goals.

Cheer Competes at Dakota Valley

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The Winner competitive cheer team traveled to Mellette to compete in the Northwestern Invitational on Sept. 26.
Winner went up against four other teams, all from the northeast side of the state.

“It was great to have the chance to see schools that that we haven’t competed against this year but will see at state,” said coach Val Ewing.

“We have seen 12 of the teams that we will compete against at state and I feel we should be bringing home some hardware with the routines we have been working on. These girls are putting in the hours to perfect this routine and as long as we can stay healthy we will be a team to beat at state.”

The girls competed Oct. 1 at Dakota Valley, and will be at Faulkton on Oct. 10 and at Platte on Oct. 15. Ewing said these last three competitions will give Winner a more rounded idea of the teams they will see at state. “I am confident we will come out on top. The bad thing about cheerleading is you only get one chance—you can have stunts that go up 100 times perfect but all it takes is for it not to work once and that’s your score. We have a lot of difficulty in our stunting and tumbling and we need go keep working to perfect what we have,” said Ewing.

JOAD Finishes Summer Session

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The Tripp County Range Robins JOAD students recently completed an 8 week summer session.

JOAD (Junior Olympic Archery Development) is a class that is designed to provide beginner instruction to archers ranging from age 8 to 20.

JOAD offers both recurve and compound archers the opportunity to learn range safety and proper shooting technique in an environment that also fosters focus, increased self confidence and team building skills.

Persons interested in joining the JOAD club contact Brad/Mary Whitley or Tim Pravecek.

WHS Students Chosen for All-State Chorus

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Winner High School students have been selected for all-state chorus.

Students selected are sopranos: Mackenzie Irick and Sadie Woods (alternate Lilly Jelinek); alto: Mary Calhoon and Emmarie Kaiser (alternate Ronae Klein); tenor: Trace Larson and Izak Moleterno (alternate Atlas Willuweit); bass: Nick Blare and John Kludt (alternate Trace Larson).

The all-state concert will be Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls.

The guest conductors will be Dr. Jerry Blackstone from the University of Michigan (chorus) and Dr. Ruth Lin from Gustavus Adolphus College (orchestra).

The Winner High School students went though auditions before they were selected for all-state.

Danielle Catoe is the WHS choir director with the assistance of Vicky Covey.

Colome Picks Up Fourth Victory

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The Colome football team defeated Andes Central/Dakota Christian 60-6 Friday in Lake Andes.  This was the fourth victory for the No. 5 rated Cowboys.  The game was called at halftime due to the mercy rule.

O’Bryan had 100 yards rushing. Layton Thieman was 5-9 in passing for 138 yards.

Matt Campbell and Wiley Heath both had 7 tackles.

Colome will host Parker on Friday, Oct. 7.

Girls Place First at Burke Meet

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The Winner Area girls cross country team won first place and the boys took second at the Burke/South Central Invitational on Thursday.

Sidda Schuyler won first place for the varsity girls. She was followed by Chloe Bartels, 5th; Sam Schuyler, 6th; Jaclyn Laprath, 8th; Aryn Meiners, 10th; Meagan Blare, 14th and Saige Schuyler, 16th.

The varsity boys were led by Izak Moleterno who placed 3rd; Kade Watson, 4th; Wyatt Turnquist, 18th; Andrew Laprath, 27th.

Lady Warriors Place 1st at Todd County

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Winner Area cross country girls team took first place at the Todd County Invitational on Sept. 27.

Sidda Schuyler led the girls as she placed second followed by Chloe Bartels, 4th; Sam Schuyler, 6th Jaclyn Laprath, 8th; Aryn Meiners, 9th and Saige Schuyler, 15th.

Izak Moleterno led the Winner Area varsity boys as he took fourth place. Wyatt Turnquist was 25th and Kade Watson, 37th.

Coach Jayd Schuyler says all athletes are running well. “Izak Moleterno is training hard and it is showing in his races,” said Schuyler.

This was the fifth time the girls have ended up in first place out of seven competitions. “We were second behind Todd County twice but beat them in the last two races. It is shaping up to be a very interesting region meet,” said Schuyler.

Glenford Wayne Chasing Hawk, 43

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Glenford Wayne Chasing Hawk was born May 23, 1973 to the late Clifford Sr and Velma (Roubideaux) Chasing Hawk in Rosebud, South Dakota. He died September 27, 2016 at the Platte Hospital in Platte, South Dakota at the age of 43 years.

Glen graduated from Bonesteel-Fairfax High School in 1991. He was active in all sports throughout high school. He was part of the 1987 State B Teener Team that won the championship. He then went to two years of College at Dakota State in Madison, South Dakota.

He worked various jobs including working at Nolz Dragline and Construction, Fort Randall Casino, Rainbow Play Systems and his final job at Divine Concrete. His summer passion was softball. His team, Mad Dogs, consisted of his family including brothers, his sister, son, daughter, nieces, nephews, cousins and all his brothers and sisters he met along the way.

He won a lot of awards throughout his softball career. He was known for his athletic ability on third base and for hitting home runs. Mad Dogs won the 2009 State Co-Ed tournament, and won the 2016 Wagner Softball League Tournament. These are just some of the tournaments they placed in.

He loved spending time with family, his kids, and friends. He enjoyed teasing his nieces and nephews and had a nickname for all of them. Everyone will miss his endless teasing on Facebook and in life.

Roxanna Geneva McCollam, 84

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Roxanna Geneva McCollam was born May 26, 1932 in Sioux Falls, SD. She died September 29, 2016 in Grand Junction, CO. Her parents were Stearl and Gudrun (Peterson) Gonyo. Roxanna attended five different one room country schools to complete first through eighth grade. She enjoyed riding her horse to and from school. She took fresh sliced onion sandwiches to school for lunch until her teacher said no more onion sandwiches and they smell up the school. Roxanna went on to graduate valedictorian from the Baltic High School in Baltic, SD. She later received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Education from the University of Wyoming.

Roxanna’s family were dairy farmers. Roxanna was awarded 4-H Winner in Dairy and attended the National Club Congress in Chicago, IL. Several of the families’ Brown Swiss and Ayrshires were county, state, and national champions.

While in college she met and married Philip B. McCollam. The formed a housing construction company in Yankton, SD with several extended family members. In 1961, Phil took a job with the United States Geological Survey (Water Resources Division). The family moved to Casper, WY. The McCollam’s moved fourteen times all around Wyoming. They built homes in Worland, Green River, and two homes in Riverton, WY.

As the children grew the family became involved in Little League, Babe Ruth, 4-H, Jobs Daughters, Blue Birds, Brownies, Boy and Girl Scouts, Sunday School, Bible School, Girl’s Softball, and school activities which included many sports.

Roxanna was a substitute school teacher for thirty-six years throughout Wyoming.
Roxanna will be buried at the East Nidaros Lutheran Cemetery near Baltic, SD. She will be the fifth generation to be buried in this country cemetery.