The Eagle’s Wing4 Wednesday, October 14, 2015 The Keota Eagle

Keota Jr./Sr. High School Student Newspaper

JUNIORHIGH

VOLLEYBALL

BY MEGAN HILL

7th Grade Junior High Volleyball The 2015 7th grade Keota Junior High School Volleyball team consists of (left to right): Front: Bailey Sieren, Lexi Purkeypile, and Lindsey Imhoff. Back: Jenna Jaeger, Sky Weber, Paige Minard, Callie McNurlen, and Coach Jennifer McClenahan.

Pictured above is the Keota FFA Soil Judging team of Luke Greiner, Jack Eakins, Riley Conrad, and Lexi Black.

The Keota High School Band plays for the crowd during the SK Football Homecoming Parade on Fri., Oct. 4, 2015.(photo courtesy of Christel Ives)

The SK Jr. High Football boys enjoy the ride and the perfect weather at the Homecoming Parade on Fri., Oct. 4, 2015. (photo courtesy of Christel Ives)

Sigourney-Keota football players get the crowd fired up for the Homecoming Parade on Fri., Oct. 4, 2015. (Photo courtesy of Christel Ives)

Keota students showed up to support their SK Cobras.

(Photo courtesy of Christel Ives)

Keota band members played during the parade and at the Homecoming game that night.

The SK Cobra Cheerleaders get the crowd fired up for the Homecoming game.CORRECTION:

Last week’s issue incorrectly identified one of the students in the Fall Play cast photo. The student in the back row, third from the left, is sophomore Jacob Moeller. The Eagle’s Wing staff sincerely apolo-gizes for this error.

The KHS Band provided music and team spirit for the Homecoming Parade on Fri., Oct. 4, 2015.

8th Grade Junior High Volleyball The 2015 8th grade Keota Junior High School Volleyball team consists of (left to right): Front: Kendall Wilson and Aaliyah Heldman. Back: Bailey Baumert, Jamie Schulte, Addison Swanson, and Coach Jennifer McClenahan.

SK COBRA HOMECOMING PARADE

FFA SOILS TEAM TO COMPETE AT STATE

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QUESTION OF

THE WEEKBY AVERY CONRAD

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE?

ISAIAH HAHN12TH

KAITLYN KAPLANSTAFF

BIANCA CARDONA11TH

HUNTER WILSON10TH

ALEX JOHNSON 7TH

“GO CONFIDENTLY IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR DREAMS. LIVE THE LIFE YOU’VE IMAG-

INED” -HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“I’M HERE SO I DONT GET FINED”

-MARSHAWN LYNCH.

“O.C. DIZZAL” -JACOB WICKENKAMP

“GONE FOREVER, AARON HERNADEZ”

-KENT MURPHY

“LIFE’S A GARDEN, YOU DIG IT”

-JOE DIRT

“IF YOU AIN’T FIRST, YOU’RE LAST” -RICKY BOBBY

“YOU MIGHT WANNA PUT A FIELDER UP IN THOSE MOUNTAINS”

-KENT MURPHY

KOLTON STRAND 9TH

COOPER SIEREN8TH

STAFFAVERY CONRAD

MEGAN HILLGRACE SHEMANSKI

COLE STOUTELISE SWANSTROM

KYLEA TINNESJACE UPHOLD

ADVISER: ANGELA CONRAD

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Issue No. 4

Article submitted The Keota FFA Soils team will be competing at the State Soils Competition at Iowa State University on Sat., Oct. 10. This group of students has seen success at their first

two soil judging competi-tions. They began their sea-son with a first place win at the Quad County Soils com-petition. They then moved on to the SE Iowa District Competition at Muscatine, where they placed 4th out of

27 FFA soil judging teams. Each FFA District in the State of Iowa takes their top five teams to compete at State FFA Soils. Congratulations and good luck to these outstanding students!

KHSATHLETE

OF THE WEEK

JR. HIGHATHLETE

OF THE WEEK

This week’s Athlete of the Week is Nate Sieren. Nate has played a great football season this year. Nate has had 41 rush attempts, 238 rushing yards, averages 5.8 yards per carry, 2 touchdowns, and his longest touchdown was 63 yards. He has had 6 receptions, 97 yards off catches, and he has averaged 16.2 yards per catch. Nate has 16 solo tackles, 15 tackle assists, and 23.5 total tackles. He has scored 18 points this season. Though he recently sustained a leg in-jury that would take him out for the sea-son, Nate looks forward to getting back with his team and watching them battle out the last few games. Nate’s goals in-clude being there to motivate his team-mates and rehabilitating his leg for bas-ketball season. His ultimate achievement for football would be to make an impact on his team and finish the season. Nate’s favorite motto is “Don’t not Run,” which Coach Jarmes tells them to push them, make them hustle, and stay in shape. Nate plays runningback and outside linebacker. Nate loves the team aspect and the tough mentality it takes to play football. Nate’s favorite moments in football were watching Cole Brenneman’s celebra-tions after a good play and listening to his reasons for missing his block. Nate also said, “Injuries may bring you down, but the support you get from others brings you back up every time.”

This week’s Athlete of the Week is Patrick Clarahan. Patrick is a 7th grader involved in junior high football. Patrick says that he is looking forward to win-ning more games throughout the season and becoming an all around great team. Patrick is trying to improve on running the ball down the field and scoring more. He says that his ultimate achievement for the football season would be to get a 40 yard run. Patrick and his team have one favorite saying that they al-ways say when something goes wrong, “Shoot Bud”. Patrick plays wingback on the offense and his goal is to score more touchdowns. Patrick says that football is his favorite sport and he loves every-thing about it.

BY COLE STOUT

BY JACE UPHOLD