The Spirit Lake Indian football team has advanced to the Class 2A State
Semi-finals, this Saturday, where they’ll face Carroll Kuemper Catholic at the
UNIDome.
Spirit Lake goes into the game with a record of 11-1,
and are winners of their last six games.
The Indian Athletic
Booster Club is holding a Business Spirit Competition, this week, in
celebration of Spirit
Lake’s athletic success,
this fall, and it hasn’t just happened on the football field.
Heinitz talks about Will Norris
That’s Spirit Lake
Cross Country coach Tim Heinitz,
talking about senior Will Norris, who concluded his high school Cross-Country
career with a Class 2A State Championship, after being ranked number one in the
state throughout the season.
Norris, Heinitz talk about state meet
Sophomore swimmer Taylor
Sieperda is coming off a weekend where she was the state runner-up in the 100
backstroke and finished third in the 50 freestyle.
Sieperda has been
recording some of her personal best times, and breaking school records, as the
season comes to a close. She says that’s
partly due to the level of competition.
Sieperda talks about the level of competition
As part of the
Spirit Competition, area business are encouraged to decorate their windows or
store fronts with window paint, window displays, or lawn displays, and
competitors will be judges in the following categories: Best Window Display,
Best Outdoor Display, Most School Spirit, and Best of Show (Inside and Out).
Judging will take place
at 10 a.m., tomorrow, and winners will be determined by judges and community
members who will vote at Okoboji Motors, this Thursday afternoon, from noon to
6, during state football t-shirt sales.
Spirit Lake High School
has lined up a Tour Bus to take anyone, who is interested, to and from the
UNIDome, in Cedar Falls,
this Saturday.
The cost is $25.00
per person and they will leave the High School at 10:30am. You can contact
Michelle at the High School Office to reserve your space. The number to call is 336-3707.
If you can’t make it
to Cedar Falls,
you can always listen to the game on Campus Radio KUOO, coverage starts at
3:45.
Also, Saturday, we’ll
have Hawkeye Football, on Q102, as Iowa
hosts Purdue with pre-game coverage starting at 9 a.m. You can hear coverage of Emmetsburg, in Class
1A semi-finals, on Y100, Saturday afternoon at 12:45.
