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This fall a 10 person committee met to make selections to the 2024-2025 class of the Winner Hall of Fame.

The committee made the selection of the 1981 Winner Warrior football team. The honor will take place in the fall of 2025. The school will find a home football game to try and get as many of the football members to a game to be recognized. Brian Naasz will spearhead the event.

In 1981, Winner won the first South Dakota state football championship with a 31-21 victory over Vermillion.

The Warriors were coached by Harvey Naasz and that year ended the season 12-0.

By Dan Bechtold

Editor

Colome football team will open the season Aug. 23 at Burke.

The new head coach of the Cowboys is Duane Wetzel who was an assistant coach for two years. The assistant coach will be Wyatt Cahoy. Chase Hrabanek served as head coach of the  Cowboys last season.

There are 13 players on the Colome team this season.

Returning lettermen are seniors Shae Munroe, Jonah Musser; juniors Tyson Wetzel, Sam Brandsgaard and Alex Larson. Tila Harter, student manger is also a returning letterwinner.

Also on the team are Rystan DeSmet, a junior; freshmen Ben Vandenbark, Bode Kingsley and Berkley Meeder. There are three 8th graders Harley Supik, Justin DeNoyer and Jackson Fredrickson.

Coach Wetzel says as of now Supik will be starting at quarterback. Running back will be Musser with Meeder full back, DeSmet, wide out. Tyson Wetzel will be the center and Kingsley will be one of the guards. Who will be the other guard is up in the air.

Though the staff is still working on the defense what is known is that Wetzel will play on the defensive line along with Larson. Meeder will play  middle linebacker and Musser will be one of the outside backs along with Brandsgaard.

DeSmet and Supik will play safety.

Wetzel said in practice the team has been working on a lot of fundamentals.

“We are trying to build this program, try to get the kids interested,” said Wetzel. “I think we should win some games this year. We have a couple of tough teams that will be a challenge for us. The team is buying into the program and that is what Colome needs is for kids to believe in the program.”

Last season the Cowboys won two games and Wetzel is looking to improve on that this year.

“I told the kids from the start that it will be an uphill battle but as long as they stick with the program and believe what we are doing I will always be behind them,” said Wetzel.

“I am excited for this year,” he added.

The Colome homecoming game is Sept. 6 when they host Sunshine Bible Academy.

The 2024 Colome football schedule includes:

Aug. 23—at Burke

Aug. 30—at Platte-Geddes

Sept. 6—Sunshine Bible Academy, homecoming

Sept.13-Bye week

Sept. 20—Avon, home

Sept. 27—at Corsica/Stickney

Oct. 4—at Scotland/Menno

Oct. 11—TDA/ACDC, home

Oct. 18—Conference

This year the Winner High School competitive dance team will compete in both pom and jazz.

This is the first time Winner has done jazz. Winner has done, hip hop, kick and pom put never jazz.

There will be eight girls in jazz says coach Sarah Taggart. “I am really excited for jazz. The girls have worked hard from May through the summer coming to practice two days a week. “I think we have a good routine and our song is cool to go with the performance,” added Taggart. Pom has always been a staple for the dancers and this year will be no different. There are 11 girls in pom and this will be made up mostly of the younger girls.

There are eight returning letterwinners on the team. They include Kacie Petersen, Avery Manke, Autumn Cook, Addi Heenan, Lena DeMers, Chloe Taggart, Amanda Edwards and Suchi Chaudhari.

“I am excited to see where we can go with these routines,” said Taggart who is starting her fifth year as dance coach.

“We have good group of girls that are going to work hard,” she said.

There are no seniors on the team so Taggart is excited that all these girls will be back for another year.

Marissa Meiners is the assistant coach. She was a member of Taggart’s dance team the first two years Taggart was the coach.

The first competition will be Aug. 31 in Gregory. The Winner Invitational will be Sept. 14.

The state meet this year is in Rapid City on Oct. 25.

The schedule for the dance team includes:

Aug. 31—at Gregory High School

Sept. 5 —at Mitchell Invitational

Sept. 7—at Pierre Invitational

Sept 14—Winner Invitational, 1 p.m.

Sept. 21-Douglas Invitational

Sept. 23—Wagner Invitational

Oct. 10—Sturgis invitational

Oct. 19—Platte-Geddes invitational

Oct. 21—Dance/cheer showcase before state, Winner auxiliary gym

Oct. 25—State meet in Rapid City

There were several runners and walkers that took part in the Lennox Lapsley run for health hearts on July 13 in Millboro.

Most of the runners took part in a half marathon.

The men’s division winner was Richard Tilton who finished in 2:07.48.

Taking first in the women’s division was Rachel Mairose in at time of 2:18.48.

The youth winner was James Burma in a time of 1:50.17.

There was a relay team and taking first place were the Ludwigs +1 in a time of 1:41.44.