Sweeter's Tiger Tracks

Honor Roll

GROTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL

SENIOR CLASS HONOR ROLL:  2^nd 9 weeks, School Year 2010-2011

4.0 GPA:         Samuel Smith, Jenna LaMee, Emily Kern, Jenaye Brenner, Kyla Larsen, Jackson Waage, Greyson Cutler, Tyler Kolb, Shawn Locke

3.99-3.50:        Kelsie Lemmon, Annie Hockhalter, Spenser Kavanaugh, Gavin Voss, Alex Hughes, Stephanie Fey, Tom Sternhagen, Narissa Weifenbach, Kalen Kjellsen, Jordan Miller, Shanna Geist, Jessie Krueger, Micah Harms

3.49-3.00:        Dylan Hanson, Zachary Herron, Erin Wanner, Tiffany Lerew, Tara Meints, Trevor Meints, Heidi Westby, Justin Harry

JUNIOR CLASS HONOR ROLL:  2^nd 9 weeks, School Year 2010-2011

4.0 GPA:         Marah Smith, Michaela Oleson, Alexandra Schuring, Eric Milbrandt, Austin Fordham, Erin Sternhagen, Brandon Stanley, Ryland Strom, Madison Cutler, Emily Larson, Hannah Luecke, Madelyn Anderson

3.99-3.50         Maycee Albrecht, Josey Helmer, Andrew Dohman, Eric May, Ashley Stene, Cheyenne Leonhardt, Noora Nummikari, Kendyl Hanson, Matthew Thorson, Travis Vickery

3.49-3.00:        Nora Bunn, Meghan Dohman, Clay Wattier, Jacob Harms, Mitchell Madsen, Taylor Leonhardt, Katelyn Hawkins, Jamie Jorgensen, Baily Ringgenberg, Christina Brunnert, Lexy Premus

SOPHOMORE HONOR ROLL: 2^nd 9 weeks, School Year 2010-2011

4.0 GPA:         Erica Schuster

3.99-3.50:        Savanna Larson, Tobias Carda, Amanda Worlie, Kaitlyn Sattler, Stephen Simon, Mikaela Kavanaugh, Rylee Winburn, Ellen Harms, Lauren Kulwicki

3.49-3.00:        Abby Gibbs, Andee Geist, Ashley Taylor, Kelsey Wieseler, Darrion Poppen, Grayson McCranie, Jordyn Opsahl

FRESHMEN GRADE HONOR ROLL: 2^nd 9 weeks, School Year 2010-2011

4.0 GPA:         Halle Dohman, Camille Sippel

3.99-3.50:        Alec Oleson, Wyatt Sombke, Gabriela Tinglund, Reilly Ell, Cheyenne Schaller, Caitlyn Fluke, Regan Lewandowski, Joellen Gonsoir, Darac Harry

3.49-3.00:        Braden Miller, Nicole Koehler, Jeric Albrecht, Mason Madsen, Schyler Sattler

EIGHTH GRADE HONOR ROLL:  2^nd 9 weeks, School Year 2010-2011

4.0 GPA:         Gabriel Dohman, Maryn Howard, Jacob Milbrandt

3.99-3.50:        Natalia Dohman, Kathleen Groeblinghoff, Taylor Gustafson, Luke Smith, Kaitlin O’Neill, Haley Unzen, Rachel Blackmun, Courtney Kurtz, Jocelyn Peterson, Sydney Thorson, Alyssa Sippel

3.49-3.00:        Maddison Colestock, Matthew Knecht, Lucas Sternhagen, Kyler Ell, Breanna Marzahn, Kasey Waage, Jackson Doeden, Brittany Kjelden, Nicholas Dalchow

SEVENTH GRADE HONOR ROLL:  2^nd 9 weeks, School Year 2010-2011

4.0 GPA:         None

3.99-3.50:        Marlee Jones, Amber Schuster, Lily Cutler, Maggie Simon, Megan Unzen, Emily Raap, Dakota Gonzales, Kiernan McCranie, Jaden Oliver, James Thompson, Hailey Hanson, Carly Wheeting, Mason Hanse

3.49-3.00:        Brody Sombke, Lane Weig, Mikaela Blumhardt, Kari Hanson, Andrew Helm, Margaretha Tinglund, Jasmine Schaller, Allison Weber, Aubray Harry, Katie Miller, Josephine Doeden, Jerick Hanson, Angela Locke

 

Mathcounts

Simmons Invitational MathCounts Competition - January 12, 2011

Eight Groton Area Junior High School MathCounts students competed in the Simmons Invitational MathCounts Competition on Wednesday, January 12.  82 students from a dozen Aberdeen area schools participated in the event.  It was a full competition with Sprint, Target, and Team tests as well as the Countdown Round.  Trophies were awarded the top four teams, and medals given to the top ten individuals.  The final individual placement was determined by the Countdown Round. 

Three Groton students earned the honor of participating in the individual countdown round and placed accordingly:  Jacob Milbrandt (first place), Luke Smith (fourth place), and Gabe Dohman (eighth place).  Their team, including Lucas Sternhagen, placed first in the team trophy division.  The other eighth grade team of Katie Groeblinghoff, Matt Knecht, Haley Unzen, and Kasey Waage had the sixth highest result.

MathCounts is a nationwide coaching and competition program for middle school students that promotes excellence in mathematics.  Eight Groton students advance to the South Dakota Northeastern Chapter Competition at Northern State University on Saturday, February 12.

 Individual Countdown Winners

Front Row, 1st - 5th (Left to Right):  Jacob Milbrandt (Groton), Ezra Aderhold (Temple Builders Academy), Dan Albl (Roncalli), Luke Smith (Groton), Mike Rogers (Warner)

Back Row, 6th - 10th (Left to Right):  Anita Raile (Simmons), Keegan Hovel (Simmons), Gabe Dohman (Groton), JP Lindquist (Milbank), Ashley Rozell (Warner)

 First and Second Place Teams 

 1st Place - Groton - Front Row (Left to Right)
Coach Darlyne Johnson, Gabe Dohman, Jacob Milbrandt, Luke Smith, Lucas Sternhagen

2nd Place - Warner - Back Row (Left to Right)
Kayla Baily, Kyra Bellikka, Tara Gascoigne, Mike Rogers

 

10 Minutes with Todd

This week's segment features a very charismatic young lady Camille Sippel.  She recently had quite the experience thanks to Snow Queen, and shared some of the highlights with me.

Mathlete Excellence

Congratulations to the following eighth graders for placing first in the team trophy division at the Simmons Invitational MathCounts Competition yesterday:  Gabe Dohman, Jacob Milbrandt, Luke Smith, and Lucas Sternhagen.  And, congratulations to those who received medal awards given to the top ten individuals in the competition:  Jacob (first place), Luke (4th place), and Gabe (eighth place).  Great work, mathletes!

National Horse Judging

We had several Groton Students attend the National 4-H Roundup in Denver Colorado.

The Horse Judging Team, which consisted of Sarah Bebo, Tarin Hupp, Cheyenne Leonhardt, and Taylor Leonhardt was coached by Kristen Gonsoir.  They placed:

-4th in Team Halter Judging

-7th in Team Oral Reasons

-Taylor Leonhardt was 5th in Individual Halter Judging

The hippology team, which consisted of Kendyl Hanson, Madison Cutler, Peyton Healy, and Baily Ringgenberg was coached by Judy Winther.

They placed :

-8th overall 

-9th in the written exam and slides

-8th in stations

-5th in judging

-3rd in team problems

Baily Ringgenberg got 8th individual in the stations part of the contest.

This was a National Contest and South Dakota hasn't had a Horse Judging Team place in over 7 years. The Horse Judging Contest had over 140 Competitors and 30 teams from 32 States in attendance.

Skills

I little video from last night's practice.  Ok I might be wishful thinking, but wow. 

http://tinyurl.com/2adfp8z

Golden Voiced Wow

Another example of how the Internet can be an incredible tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWG6zNf4xY0

I must be getting old

Last year the doctor told me my eyes were getting old, so I needed glasses.  It would stand to reason that if my eyes are old, I must be old.  Today I read an article that explains how many of the things that were significant in my youth are now or soon to be obsolete.  If I were a negative person this might be depressing, but for now I'll go with I am just more experienced.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents

SD Icons

Today Mrs. Nyberg forwarded me an article that discussed the legacies of two of South Dakota's greatest coaches.  As someone who has had the opportunity to play against their teams, then coach against their teams, and finally talk with them on occasions I took particular interest in the article.  I must admit that talking with them on a professional level was much more gratifying than either playing or coaching against them.  Let's just say that at either level the teams that I was apart of didn't hurt their winning percentage much, but I guess I can take solace in the fact that I am not alone.  Nonetheless I think it is incredible that these to SD legends are going to square off.  It might even constitute a road trip.

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/sports/article_4948fa90-1898-11e0-9bc1-001cc4c03286.html

Way of Life

I read this today and really liked the message, so thought I would share it.  Enjoy!!!

Subject: IT DON'T COST NUTHIN' TO BE NICE: Bear Bryant

At a Touchdown Club meeting many years ago, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
told the following story:
 
I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my
old car down in South Alabama recruiting a prospect who was supposed to
have been a pretty good player, and I was having trouble finding the
place.
  Getting hungry, I spied an old cinderblock building with a small sign
out front that simply said "Restaurant." I pull up, go in, and every
head in the place turns to stare at me. Seems I'm the only white fella
in the place. But the food smelled good, so I skip a table and go up to
a cement bar and sit. A big ole man in a tee shirt and cap comes over
and says, "What do you need?"
  "I told him I needed lunch and what did they have today?"

He says, "You probably won't like it here. Today we're having chitlins,
collard greens and black-eyed peas with cornbread. I'll bet you don't
even know what chitlins are, do you?"(small intestines of hogs prepared
as food in the deep South)

I looked him square in the eye and said, "I'm from Arkansas , and I've
probably eaten a mile of them. Sounds like I'm in the right place."
 
They all smiled as he left to serve me up a big plate. When he comes
back he says, "You ain't from around here then?"

I explain I'm the new football coach up in Tuscaloosa at the University
and I'm here to find whatever that boy's name was, and he says, "Yeah
I've heard of him, he's supposed to be pretty good." And he gives me
directions to the school so I can meet him and his coach.
 
As I'm paying up to leave, I remember my manners and leave a tip, not
too big to be flashy, but a good one, and he told me lunch was on him,
but I told him for a lunch that good, I felt I should pay. The big man
asked me if I had a photograph or something he could hang up to show
I'd been there. I was so new that I didn't have any yet. It really
wasn't that big a thing back then to be asked for, but I took a napkin
and wrote his name and address on it and told him I'd get him one.

I met the kid I was looking for later that afternoon and I don't
remember his name, but do remember I didn't think much of him when I
met him.
 
I had wasted a day, or so I thought. When I got back to Tuscaloosa late
that night, I took that napkin from my shirt pocket and put it under my
keys so I wouldn't forget it. Back then I was excited that anybody
would want a picture of me.  The next day we found a picture and I
wrote on it, "Thanks for the best lunch I've ever had."
 
Now let's go a whole buncha years down the road. Now we have black
players at Alabama and I'm back down in that part of the country
scouting an offensive lineman we sure needed.  Y'all remember, (and I
forget the name, but it's not important to the story), well anyway,
he's got two friends going to Auburn and he tells me he's got his heart
set on Auburn too, so I leave empty handed and go on to see some others
while I'm down there.
 
Two days later, I'm in my office in Tuscaloosa and the phone rings and
it's this kid who just turned me down, and he says, "Coach, do you
still want me at Alabama ?"

And I said, "Yes I sure do." And he says OK, he'll come.

And I say, "Well son, what changed your mind?"

And he said, "When my grandpa found out that I had a chance to play for
you and said no, he pitched a fit and told me I wasn't going nowhere
but Alabama, and wasn't playing for nobody but you. He thinks a lot of
you and has ever since y'all met." 

Well, I didn't know his granddad from Adam's housecat so I asked him
who his granddaddy was and he said, "You probably don't remember him,
but you ate in his restaurant your first year at Alabama and you sent
him a picture that he's had hung in that place ever since. That
picture's his pride and joy and he still tells everybody about the day
that Bear Bryant came in and had chitlins with him..."
 
"My grandpa said that when you left there, he never expected you to
remember him or to send him that picture, but you kept your word to him
and to Grandpa, that's everything. He said you could teach me more than
football and I had to play for a man like you, so I guess I'm going
to."

I was floored. But I learned that the lessons my mama taught me were
always right. It don't cost nuthin' to be nice. It don't cost nuthin'
to do the right thing most of the time, and it costs a lot to lose your
good name by breaking your word to someone. 

When I went back to sign that boy, I looked up his Grandpa and he's
still running that place, but it looks a lot better now. And he didn't
have chitlins that day, but he had some ribs that would make Dreamland
proud.  I made sure I posed for a lot of pictures; and don't think I
didn't leave some new ones for him, too, along with a signed football.

I made it clear to all my assistants to keep this story and these
lessons in mind when they're out on the road. If you remember anything
else from me, remember this. It really doesn't cost anything to be
nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable.

Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant          
*********************************
Editor's Note: Coach Bryant was in the presence of those few gentlemen
for only minutes, and he defined himself for life. Regardless of our
profession, we do define ourselves by how we treat others, and how we
behave in the presence of others, and most of the time, we have only
minutes or seconds to leave a lasting impression. We can be rude,
crude, arrogant, cantankerous, or we can be nice.
Nice is always a better choice.

You will never waste a day when you do this daily!!
********************************************
"I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I
can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now.
Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again 

Subject: IT DON'T COST NUTHIN' TO BE NICE: Bear Bryant

At a Touchdown Club meeting many years ago, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
told the following story:
 
I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my
old car down in South Alabama recruiting a prospect who was supposed to
have been a pretty good player, and I was having trouble finding the
place.
  Getting hungry, I spied an old cinderblock building with a small sign
out front that simply said "Restaurant." I pull up, go in, and every
head in the place turns to stare at me. Seems I'm the only white fella
in the place. But the food smelled good, so I skip a table and go up to
a cement bar and sit. A big ole man in a tee shirt and cap comes over
and says, "What do you need?"
  "I told him I needed lunch and what did they have today?"

He says, "You probably won't like it here. Today we're having chitlins,
collard greens and black-eyed peas with cornbread. I'll bet you don't
even know what chitlins are, do you?"(small intestines of hogs prepared
as food in the deep South)

I looked him square in the eye and said, "I'm from Arkansas , and I've
probably eaten a mile of them. Sounds like I'm in the right place."
 
They all smiled as he left to serve me up a big plate. When he comes
back he says, "You ain't from around here then?"

I explain I'm the new football coach up in Tuscaloosa at the University
and I'm here to find whatever that boy's name was, and he says, "Yeah
I've heard of him, he's supposed to be pretty good." And he gives me
directions to the school so I can meet him and his coach.
 
As I'm paying up to leave, I remember my manners and leave a tip, not
too big to be flashy, but a good one, and he told me lunch was on him,
but I told him for a lunch that good, I felt I should pay. The big man
asked me if I had a photograph or something he could hang up to show
I'd been there. I was so new that I didn't have any yet. It really
wasn't that big a thing back then to be asked for, but I took a napkin
and wrote his name and address on it and told him I'd get him one.

I met the kid I was looking for later that afternoon and I don't
remember his name, but do remember I didn't think much of him when I
met him.
 
I had wasted a day, or so I thought. When I got back to Tuscaloosa late
that night, I took that napkin from my shirt pocket and put it under my
keys so I wouldn't forget it. Back then I was excited that anybody
would want a picture of me.  The next day we found a picture and I
wrote on it, "Thanks for the best lunch I've ever had."
 
Now let's go a whole buncha years down the road. Now we have black
players at Alabama and I'm back down in that part of the country
scouting an offensive lineman we sure needed.  Y'all remember, (and I
forget the name, but it's not important to the story), well anyway,
he's got two friends going to Auburn and he tells me he's got his heart
set on Auburn too, so I leave empty handed and go on to see some others
while I'm down there.
 
Two days later, I'm in my office in Tuscaloosa and the phone rings and
it's this kid who just turned me down, and he says, "Coach, do you
still want me at Alabama ?"

And I said, "Yes I sure do." And he says OK, he'll come.

And I say, "Well son, what changed your mind?"

And he said, "When my grandpa found out that I had a chance to play for
you and said no, he pitched a fit and told me I wasn't going nowhere
but Alabama, and wasn't playing for nobody but you. He thinks a lot of
you and has ever since y'all met." 

Well, I didn't know his granddad from Adam's housecat so I asked him
who his granddaddy was and he said, "You probably don't remember him,
but you ate in his restaurant your first year at Alabama and you sent
him a picture that he's had hung in that place ever since. That
picture's his pride and joy and he still tells everybody about the day
that Bear Bryant came in and had chitlins with him..."
 
"My grandpa said that when you left there, he never expected you to
remember him or to send him that picture, but you kept your word to him
and to Grandpa, that's everything. He said you could teach me more than
football and I had to play for a man like you, so I guess I'm going
to."

I was floored. But I learned that the lessons my mama taught me were
always right. It don't cost nuthin' to be nice. It don't cost nuthin'
to do the right thing most of the time, and it costs a lot to lose your
good name by breaking your word to someone. 

When I went back to sign that boy, I looked up his Grandpa and he's
still running that place, but it looks a lot better now. And he didn't
have chitlins that day, but he had some ribs that would make Dreamland
proud.  I made sure I posed for a lot of pictures; and don't think I
didn't leave some new ones for him, too, along with a signed football.

I made it clear to all my assistants to keep this story and these
lessons in mind when they're out on the road. If you remember anything
else from me, remember this. It really doesn't cost anything to be
nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable.

Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant          
*********************************
Editor's Note: Coach Bryant was in the presence of those few gentlemen
for only minutes, and he defined himself for life. Regardless of our
profession, we do define ourselves by how we treat others, and how we
behave in the presence of others, and most of the time, we have only
minutes or seconds to leave a lasting impression. We can be rude,
crude, arrogant, cantankerous, or we can be nice.
Nice is always a better choice.

You will never waste a day when you do this daily!!
********************************************
"I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I
can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now.
Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again