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The annual Central Conference Quiz Bowl was held on Wednesday, April 9th at the Living Word Lutheran Church in Seward, with Seward High School hosting the event.
It was a general knowledge quiz bowl and featured a “Round Robin” competition in the morning- serving as a “warm-up” event for the afternoon’s single elimination tournament.
The four winning teams each received a Quiz Bowl trophy and the first place team also won Conference Medals!
Seward High’s Team B placed Second or Runner-up -consisting of Emaline Janda, Izayah Lavicky, Liam Krahulik, Bethany Jurchen and Devon Kouma and the SHS Team A placed Third - Addie Slechta, Maddelyn Larson, Evelyn Theobald and Kayla Albright. Both teams are coached by Melissa Pohl- SHS English teacher.
The winners included….
First - York High- Team A- Coach Abbey Breinig
Second - Seward High - Team B - Coach Melissa Pohl
Third - Seward High - Team A- Coach Melissa Pohl
Fourth - Adams Central - Team A- Coach- Jill Houghtelling
Readers for the contest included Nancy Schulz, Sue Imig, and Andy Jensen of Seward, Ellie Janda of Beaver Crossing and Kathy Wilcox of Crete.
Riley Nuttleman was the Quiz Master- organizer, Clark Kolterman served as the coordinator with Scott Curry serving as event AD! Questions were computer generated by Academic Hallmarks.
Schools participating in this tournament from the Central Conference included Schuyler, Adams Central, Seward, Aurora, York and Crete. There are nine schools in the Conference!
Second Place Award Photo A -SHS Team B Emaline Janda, Izayah Labicky, Liam Krahulik, Bethany Jurchen, Devon Kouma.
Photo B- Third Place Team - Addie Slechta, Maddelyn Larson, Evelyn Theobald and Kayla Albright
Jack Schulz, the son of Brian and Lyndsy Schulz of Seward is the final Seward Youth Rotarian for the 24-25 SHS School Year. He was recognized and honored at the recent, May 7th noon Seward Rotary Luncheon at the Jones Bank Auditorium and introduced by Rotarian Amber Fiala.
Jack is first and foremost a scholar! He consistently was a member of the SHS Honor Roll and a leader in the SHS National Honor Society. His weighted GPA is 4.11 and he was honored for his outstanding ACT Score of 33!
He was the Captain of the SHS Academic Decathlon Team and won ten medals in the District Contest and three medals in the State Contest. Their Academic Decathlon Team was First in State in their Division of Competition. He was named the top score on the SHS Academic Decathlon Team both at Districts and State Level.
Jack won the First Place AMC (American Math Competition) Award in 2022, was Second in the AMC Contest in 2023 and was again the Champion in the AMC Award in 2024.
Jack is also an outstanding athlete. He participated in the SHS Cross Country Team since 2021 and was awarded a Varsity Letter the last three years in Cross Country. He is a member of the SHS Track Team and won a Varsity letter in 2024.
He was a team leader on the successful Varsity SHS Bowling Team-winning State in 2024.
He is very involved in the various service clubs and organizations at SHS. He has been a leader his entire high school career in the local SHS FFA program and place Third in the State in in Farm Business Management this year at the State FFA Convention in Lincoln.
Jack is a longtime member of the SHS Skills USA Chapter and a leader at the State level as a member of their successful Skills USA Quiz Bowl Team-named State Champion in 2024.
He is also a loyal member of the SHS Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), where he competed for several years at the State Contests and was named First Place Winner in Business Calculations at the UNL Business Day in 2024. He is also skilled in Microsoft Office-Specialist in Word and Microsoft Office-Specialist in Excel.
He has been employed with the Sloup Thorell Destasseling of Seward since 2021 to the present. He also works at Natty B’s Bar and Grill in Goehner-assisting preparation of the bar-b-que and food prep.
His community service centers around his sports activities, his service clubs -helping with food drives, and other community service endeavors. He volunteered and served as the Video Coordinator for the local Striv Internet Broadcasting program at SHS. He worked at many youth sports camps-promoting Cross County, Track and even Bowling. He also mows area lawns and volunteers to grill for his church youth group.
Jack plans to attend the University of Nebraska in Lincoln this Fall and major in Agriculture Engineering.
Jack was honored at the local meeting and presented with some Rotary and Seward mementos and will receive a Book Scholarship at the SHS Honors Night. He is also a finalist for the annual Seward Youth Rotarian Award and Scholarship-also announced that evening by Rotarian Brady Johnson.
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Six Seward High Sophomores were selected to represent Seward High, the community and local GFWC Women’s Clubs at the annual GFWC NFWC Sophomore Pilgrimage on Wednesday- April 2 at the Nebraska State Capitol.
Selected to attend were SHS Sophomores-Crew Potter, Jackson Einsphar, Austin Koch, Aubrey Hanes, Alexis Colling, and Alexis Solano. Their sponsor/ advisor for the day was Trevor Menke - SHS History Teacher.
The students met with the State elected officials- including the Governor and visited the Legislature- meeting with Senator Jana Hughes.
They toured the Capitol and enjoying their a pizza lunch with Senator Jana Hughes at the State Capitol. In the afternoon they visited the State Supreme Court and return back to school!
The day was coordinated by the GFWC Nebraska Federation of Women’s Club’s and the Seward High students were sponsored by the GFWC Seward Womans Club, the GFWC Seward Junior Women’s Club and the SHS HAL program.
SHS History teacher - Trevor Menke served as the sponsor. The students were selected last Fall through written application and interview!
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