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Summerland FFA members and their families gathered Tuesday, May 11, to celebrate the chapter's accomplishments from the past year. Contest award winners from the year were recognized, as well as...

The Summerland boys' track team outdistanced Niobrara/Verdigre by 25 points to earn the team trophy at the Boyd County Track Invite. The Bobcats scored 123 to bring home the gold from the April 27...

Hadley Cheatum added another gold medal to her collection from the 2021 track campaign after winning the 400m race at the Randolph Invite. Cheatum completed the oval in 1:02.90 at the May 6 meet. The...

Bobcat track team members brought home medals in four events from the Tom Martin/Wausa Invite, held April 22, in Pierce. Hadley Cheatum was a triple medal winner, securing medals in the 400m, 800m...

LUANN SCHINDLER lschindler@ summerlandadvocate.com Summerland track and field teams competed in two meets last week, bringing home hardware in multiple events. At the April 13 North Central Invite,...

Summerland FFA chapter had numerous members compete at state FFA events this year. Events were held virtually at the end of March and beginning of April. Levi Cronk and Carlee Livingston qualified...

The 2021 Orchard AAU Powerlifting Meet was Saturday, April 10, with an impressive line-up of 113 registered lifters from Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa representing 14 different teams. Thirty Summerl...

The 2021 Class D High School State Powerlifting Championships were held at Harvard High School this past Friday, March 26, and Saturday, March 27. The Summerland Bobcat lifters competed in the...

The first names to fill the Bobcat track record books were written Friday, when Summerland track team began its inaugural season at the Wayne State College Invite. Prior to the meet, Coach Shannon...

Summerland Bobcat track teams began the season, Friday, at the Wayne State College Invite. Several athletes made a trip to the medal stand. Girls' division: Hadley Cheatum earned three medals,...

Fourteen lifters from the Summerland powerlifting team traveled to Midland University, in Fremont, Saturday, March 13, for the All-Class Nebraska High School Powerlifting Meet. Coach Jeff Shabram...

Fourteen lifters from the Summerland powerlifting team traveled to Peru State College Feb. 13, for the Peru State Powerlifting Championships. Coach Jeff Shabram said the meet was large, with 230 Lifte...

Members from the Summerland FFA Chapter competed at the District IV Livestock Judging Contest, Thursday, Feb. 4, at Northeast Community College. Of the 15 members who competed, eight students came...

On a typical Saturday during speech season, students can be found boarding a school bus before the break of dawn, traveling hours to reach a destination to perform. While the possibility of those...

Summerland Schools released principal's honor roll and honor roll lists for the first semester of the 2020-2021 school year. Students qualifying for the Clearwater site's principal's honor roll...

SUBMITTED ARTICLE Fourteen lifters from the Summerland powerlifting team traveled to Lexington, Saturday, for the Lexington Powerlifting Championships. Coach Jeff Shabram said 130 lifters competed in...

Bobcat boys' basketball coach Brett Kaczor believes his team has handled COVID distractions during pre-season. "It's another aspect, as coaches, that we have to work around and find the best way...

Bobcat running phenom Trevor Thomson needed 94 rushing yards to join the 1,000-yard club before the Bobcats game at Ainsworth. Thomson reached that mark - and then some - as he rushed for 320 yards...

The Summerland football team experienced a case of second-half blues, Friday, as Creighton took control en route to a 50-14 Bobcat loss. Summerland hit paydirt first, when Trevor Thomson sprinted 53...

The Bobcats could not find an answer to slow North Central's Dolan Pospichal, who was responsible for five Knight drives, in Friday's 52-14 loss. Summerland scored first on a two-yard run by Trevor...

SUBMITTED ARTICLE Summerland FFA took 19 members to the district dairy judging contest in Hartington last week, coming away with the chapter's first-ever first-place team and first-place individual...

A two-quarter dry spell for Summerland’s offense resulted in lopsided loss, Sept. 25, as Neligh-Oakdale manhandled the home team, 68-14. The Bobcats struck first when Dalton Rotherham intercepted a...

CWC struck on the first play from scrimmage against Summerland, Friday, in Chambers. But the Bobcats stood their ground and clawed their way to a 26-13 win, the first in Summerland history. Cole Duba...

Turnovers plagued the Summerland Bobcats’ second straight loss of the season, yet Coach Jeff Shabram sees progress. “We played a much more physical game this past week vs. St. Mary’s. That was encou...

Homecoming 2020 will have a different look for Summerland School. Each site recently announced senior royalty candidates and underclassmen attendants. Student Council Advisor Shannon Schumacher said...