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Maycee Hays

Maycee Hays, Junior writer

Maycee Hays is a junior and in her third year of journalism.  She enjoys taking pictures at school events and writing future stories.  Outside journalism, Maycee is involved in softball, basketball, club softball, speech, NHS, FBLA and FCA.

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Practicing for perfection

Practicing for perfection

Maycee Hays
March 28, 2023
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Senior Trevin Arlt prepares to begin his wrestling match at a Conestoga meet. Arlt finished the state tournament with a fourth-place finish.

On to Omaha

Maycee Hays
February 28, 2023
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Earning more points, Junior Derek Wacker wrestles his way to beating his Platteview opponent at Ashland-Greenwood. This was Wackers first meet back after his second injury of the season.

A bumpy road to the podium

Maycee Hays
February 28, 2023
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Hank Sauer raises his hand in salute as Taps is played.  Sauer has been the lead organizer of Yutans Veterans Day program for close to 30 years.

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Hank Sauer makes opening remarks to the crowd.  Sauer spoke about the high suicide rate among veterans and the need to better support those troops coming home.

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Back row left to right Charlie Baulisch, Sadie Higgins, Callum Suydan, middle row Everley Poole, Baylie Wiebelhaus, Vance Torrey, front row Tyler DiAngelo, Steven Reynolds and Gus Brand performed at the Veterans Day Program. The first graders sang Allegiance Rap to start the Veterans Day program.

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Band director Hunter Holoubek conducts the high school band. The band played three songs at the program: Star Spangled Banner, American Spirit Overture, and Marches of the Armed Forces.

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Derek Wacker plays Taps on the trumpet near the end of the Veterans Day assembly. Taps is played as a remembrance for all those service members who have died.

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Senior Alyssa Hussing receives her third place award for her Voices of Democracy essay about why veterans are important. Awards were given out by Yutan VFW commander John Martin and Yutan junior Honorary Command Sergeant Major Ollie Egr.

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Senior Janel Bussing performs a solo in the Veterans Day program. This year the choir honored veterans by singing Everyday Heroes.

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Seventh-grader Slade Shield receives his first-place award for Patriots Pen. Sixth- through eighth-graders wrote on the topic, My Pledge to Our Veterans.

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Eighth graders Emmy Tederman and Lexi Engel share a laugh while working on their art projects dressed in green. Each grade decorated a hallway in the same color they were wearing for Color Day. “I thought the hallways for Color Day were colorful and bright,” said Engel.

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Seniors Taylor Novak and Alexis Polak take pictures of the homecoming parade wearing Yutan football jerseys. Students lined up on the streets of downtown Yutan dressed in spirit gear to watch the parade. “The fact that small towns do parades and everyone gets to decorate floats, it’s really cool and fun,” Polak said.

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Wearing their black gear, seniors Shaylynn Campbell and Laycee Josoff discuss their internship class assignment. Though the colors are re-assigned yearly, the seniors’ color for Color Day is most often black. “I really liked that we kept the tradition going by keeping Color Day on Wednesday,” said Josoff. “I loved that we got black as seniors.”

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During the match against Syracuse, sophomore Gabi Tederman tips a ball past the block.

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Junior Braxton Wentworth runs the ball through traffic. Wentworth has a 61% completion percentage as the starting quarterback.

[Photo] Learning from losses

November 10, 2022
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Senior Brett Martin walks with his homecoming court partner, Abby Keiser. Both Martin and Keiser won court this year.

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Leslie Heise and her newborn Charlotte enjoy the Fourth of July night. They spent time together with friends and family while at a lake.

Bonding with baby

Maycee Hays
September 14, 2022
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Junior Abby Kieser poses for a picture.  Keiser shows her love for country through the outfits she wears.

Past fashion trends make comeback

April 27, 2022
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Sophomore Ellie Lloyd prepares to throw the discus at a 2021 track meet. Lloyd has goals of qualifying for state this year after placing third at districts last year.

[Photo] New people, new plan

March 24, 2022
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Third grade teacher, Alyssa Pascarelli receives a certificate after completing her treatments. Pascarelli was diagnosed with Diffuse Large B cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Staff members battle cancer

Maycee Hays
November 17, 2021
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The NHS members collected canned goods for the homeless shelter. They have been collecting goods for 13 years. Top row from left to right: (Mia Dyer, Carter Tichota, Sam Petersen, Jett Arensberg, Trevin Arlt, Jude Elgert, Isaiah Danielle, and Ben Denly) bottom row from left to right: (Zoie Nielsen, Alyssa Husing, Christina Kerkman, Kendyl Egr, Kaitlyn Bisaillon, Heidi Krajicek, Laycee Josoff, Shaylynn Campbell, Haily

[Photo] No tricks, lots of treats

November 17, 2021
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