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Wade McClanahan, a Tripp County 4-H archery shooter, competed with the South Dakota Recurve Archery Team at the National 4-H Shooting Sports Championships in Grand Island, Nebraska from June 26 through July 1. The three competition days included Field Target Shooting, FITA Target Shooting and a competitive 3-D Course. The three person team was made up of Brandon Haber from Beadle County, Michael Beusch from Brown County and Wade McClanahan from Tripp County. The South Dakota Recurve Team was coached by Kevin Haber.

This year was the largest participation ever with 679 participants from 36 states. The boys had a very successful competition. Their team place 4th in the Field Competition with Haber in 12th place, Beusch in 13th place, and McClanahan in 16th place individually.

In the FITA Competition the South Dakota team placed 3rd. McClanahan was 8th individually with Beusch in 13th place and Haber in 19th place.

After a very challenging 3-D course on competition day three, they came in at 7th place as a team. McClanahan ended in 13th place, Haber in 27th place and Beusch in 28th place.

Overall for the week, South Dakota placed 6th as a team, McClanahan 11th Beusch 19th and Haber 21st individually.

The boys qualified for the national shoot by competing at the state shoot in Pierre last April doing both indoor targets and at the outdoor 3-D range. Tripp County 4-H Shooting Sports practices weekly from January through the state match in late April. For questions about 4-H Archery contact the Tripp County Extension Office at 605-842-2858.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Winner Community Playhouse will present “Delval Divas” Oct. 21-22 and Oct. 28-28.

The cast includes Tami Comp, Barb DeSersa, Brandy Biggins, Sarah Gustafson, Donna Howland and Cally Foudray.
The play is directed by Sandra York with Dan Patmore as the technical director.

The play is written by Barbara Pease Weber and is produced with permission of Samuel French.

Dori Hollenbeck, Winner, claimed the championship barrel racing title and her bay horse, Snuffy, was named barrel horse of the year, at the Mid-States Rodeo Assoc. Finals held in Broken Bow,NE September 16,17, 18th. This association covers a five state region & has 54 rodeos from May to September.

Dori led the barrel racing throughout the summer and came to the finals in the number one position. She topped the money earners in the entire association with $16,923.88, followed by bareback rider, Dillon Tiede, with $10,019.3.

Hollenbeck placed 1st in the first go round, 4th in the 2nd go round, 2nd in the 3rd go round and 2nd in the average, to win $2,182.00.

Dori is known as the winningest cowgirl in the M-SRA, having won
numerous titles in the breakaway roping, goat tying, steer undecorating, barrel racing and the All Around in the 38 years she has qualified and competed in the Championship Finals Rodeo.

Rod Buckley, Winner, qualified for the Championship Finals Rodeo in the team roping with Marvin Mueller of Sutherland, NE. They placed 4th in the 3rd go round and won 3rd in the average and are 9th in the final standings.

Brenda Muhs, a financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Winner, has been awarded a professional designation in the field of long term care, certified in long term care.

The program is independent of the insurance industry and is designed to provide financial service professionals with expertise and tools to address long term care planning with their clients.

As a financial advisor, Muhs provides financial advice that is anchored in a solid understanding of clients needs and expectations and providing one on one relationships with her clients.

For more information, contact Muhs at 842-0748.

The Winner School District will host an open house for the public to view the new auxiliary gym on Oct. 5.

The open house will be from 7-9 a.m. and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Winner and Colome Future Farmers of America chapters attended a land and range judging school in Woonsocket on Sept. 7.

There were 26 students—17 from Colome and 9 from Winner—that either participated in land and soil evaluation or range management and plant identification.

This was a record year for Woonsocket land and range school attendance with more than 450 students from around the state participating.

Students used their knowledge from the ag classroom for a hands on application at the event.

In the land division, students identified soil characteristics, how those characteristics apply to land use and classification and determined soil health through types of erosion that takes place.

The range division requires students to identify species of native and non-native range plants, characteristics of the plants that affect pasture management and evaluate grazing practices of the land.

This is the first time Winner FFA or Colome FFA have participated in either of these events.

This event helped to prepare members for participation in the state sponsored western regional contest in Wall.