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Girls:
Beatrice/Norris/Fairbury/Freeman 106
Hastings 69
Boys:
Beatrice/Norris/Fairbury/Freeman 83
Hastings 83
The Beatrice/Norris/Fairbury/Freeman Swim and Dive team competed against Hastings this evening.
Hastings has both a strong boys and girls team. We had been looking forward to having some strong competition to push some of our athletes. We were very pleased to come away with a win for the girls, and for the boys to have tied with Hastings. Our athletes have been working hard in practices and it is showing in their performances in the meets. Hayden Stevens had a qualifying score for state diving. Callum Olmer improved his qualifying score for state diving. Mikwena Lierman improved her automatic state qualifying time in the 50 freestyle and improved her secondary state qualifying time in the 100 butterfly. The Girl’s 400 free relay improved their secondary state qualifying time. Members of that relay team were, Mikya Lierman, Laci Havlat, Josi Mans and Mikwena Lierman.
1st place finishes
2nd Place finishes
We also had many of the swimmers perform their best times this evening. Those include:
The team competes at home against South Sioux City on Thursday,, Jan. 14th. The meet will begin at 4:00 with swimming. We will have the Skutt diving meet on Friday, and the Skutt swimming invitational on Sat., Jan. 16th.
The Beatrice Fairbury Swim Team will have a home meet with Pius on Sat. Feb. 6th since they can not attend the Elkhorn invite. Swimmers will need to be at the pool at 7:30AM.
Hello! My name is Mr. Dusso and I will be taking over as the new 7-12 Music Teacher for FPS!!
Congratulations to the following students for being selected as new members in National Honor Society based not only on their scholarship (grades), but also on leadership, character, and community service. The formal induction ceremony will be Tuesday, March 17th at 7:00 p.m. in the BFAC.
Three Fairbury High School students earned Excellent awards in the 2020 Journalism Education Association winter contest announced this week. Senior Josephine Blatny won an “Excellent” award for her newspaper layout for “State Champs – Softball.” Senior Carson York received “Excellent” recognition for his Sports/Action Photography for coverage of State softball. Junior Brynn Novotny received three “Excellent” awards in “Infographic Design,” “Newswriting” and “Yearbook Sports Writing.”
Across the state, 396 journalism students from 28 high schools earned an award in this year’s JEA Nebraska Winter Contest. Yearbook, newspaper, literary magazine and broadcasting students across the state will receive certificates for entries judged Superior, Excellent and Honorable Mention.
“It is one thing to share news within your school community, but quite another to be evaluated by a professional and deemed worthy of recognition,” said JEA state director Marsha Kalkowski.
2020 FHS Journalism StaffSince 2004, Nebraska’s JEA has sponsored this contest to showcase student work from the fall semester from across the state. Many advisers use this contest to test the competition in preparation for the NSAA State Journalism Contest.
Entries from each category were judged by professional journalists and veteran high school advisers from across the nation.
There are 21 traditional categories: Advertising, Column Writing, Editorial Cartooning, Editorial Writing, Review Writing, Newspaper Feature Writing, InfoGraphic Design, News Writing, Newspaper Sports Feature Writing, Newspaper Sports News Coverage, Newspaper Layout, Headline Writing & Design, News/Feature Photography, Sports/Action Photography, Photo Illustration, Yearbook Feature Writing, Yearbook Sports Writing, Yearbook Theme Copy Writing, Yearbook Layout, Yearbook Theme Development and In-Depth Coverage. Four broadcast categories: News, Feature, Sports and Overall Program and one literary magazine category.
Other FHS winners include:
Honorable Mention–
Hannak Knigge: Yearbook Layout
Josephine Blatny: Entertainment Review Writing
Brynn Novotny: Photo/Artistic Illustration
DeZaire Bishop: Editorial Writing and Infographic Design
Jane Culp: Newswriting
See original article on the FHS X-Ray
by Kennedy DeBoer
On January 15th, the Fairbury FFA had 16 members attend and compete at the District 5 Leadership Development Event (LDE) in York at the Holthus Center. The members included Kennedy DeBoer, Devin Wanamaker, Dalton Petersen, John Kerwood, Sara Huss, Jillian Caroon, Harlie Blas, Trayce Blas, Emily Huss, Toby Julin-McCleary, Madison Ohlde, Malayne DeBoer, Jason Marshman, Alexis Mau, and Ava Kroll.
In Senior Public Speaking, Junior Harlie Blas received a blue ribbon. Senior Sara Huss was a district champion in Employment Skills! She received a purple ribbon and qualified for the FFA State Convention in April!! Senior Jillian Caroon also received a purple ribbon in the Employment Skills Contest. The Conduct of Chapter Meetings team consisting of Toby Julin-McCleary, Madison Ohlde, Malayne DeBoer, Jason Marshman, Alexis Mau, and Ava Kroll (who are all 8th graders) received a red ribbon. Seniors Kennedy DeBoer, Devin Wanamaker, Dalton Petersen, and John Kerwood competed in Ag demonstration and received a purple ribbon. Freshmen Emily Huss and Trayce Blas both competed in Creed Speaking. Emily received a blue and Trayce received a purple. There was a lot of young talent that competed for the Fairbury FFA Chapter this year and the future is looking very bright for all of these FFA members. It was a GREAT day to be a Jeff!
Ashley Sanchez, Kodey Swartz, and Brook Tatro were 3 of 70 students selected statewide to be a part of the 2019 NCDA Middle Level Honor Choir (grades 7-9) this summer. The clinician this year is Ryan Beeken, who proudly serves as director of Choral Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he conducts the University Chorale, Chorus, and Chamber Singers. In addition, he teaches graduate and undergraduate choral conducting and supervises student teachers. Beeken also serves as artistic director for the Blair Concert Chorale, whose mission includes fostering a growing appreciation of quality choral music for the population of south central Pennsylvania.
Sophomore Hailie Nicholson was selected for the first-ever NCDA All-State Honor Choir. The inaugural clinician is Nebraska native, and NCDA veteran, Dr. Matt Hill. Dr. Hill is the Director of Choral Activities at Peru State, and is the founder of Sing Omaha. Matt is well known in our state, and brings energy, excitement, and expertise to the podium. Students will enjoy the repertoire and will be engaged through the rehearsal experience as they sing with this auditioned 60-voice concert ensemble; the first of its kind in NCDA history.
The NCDA Conference will take place at Doane University from July 7-10. Please congratulate these students on this awesome achievement!
