APRIL/MAY 2016 Lakeville South High School prepares students for 21st century success though individualized learning, community partnerships and a culture defined by integrity. Cougar Newsleer Directory Bravo Cougars ..................................... Page 2-3 Lakeville South Tidbits ............................. page 4 Acvies .................................................. page 6 Dear LSHS Families, Today we begin the fourth quarter of the 2015 – 16 school year. The last quarter of the school year is one that sees us compleng the current school year while planning for the next. To assist us in our goal of connuous school improvement, we are seeking your feedback via our Parent Stakeholder Survey. Please use the following link to complete the survey by April 29. hps://www.survey- monkey.com/r/2016_ISD194Parent Thank you in advance for your parcipaon. It is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, John Braun LSHS Principal Congratulaons to LSHS Educator Teresa Williams! Teresa Williams will be recognized as the Carpenter Teacher of the Year by BestPrep on May 17th. With over 600 educators parcipang annually in the BestPrep programs, Teresa stands out with her involvement with BestPrep spanning Classroom Plus, eMentors, Minnesota Business Venture and The Stock Market game during the past 4 years. Teresa’s dedicaon to the educaon of her students is admirable and will be recognized by receiving this award. The Carpenter Award is named for Joan Carpenter, who was a teacher in the Robbinsdale School District for more than 25 years. Joan’s dedicaon and commitment to children was recognized by all the lives she touched. In her memory, BestPrep recognizes one teacher each year who embodies the vision of BestPrep in honor of Joan Carpenter. Check out our school menu at: hp://isd194.org/lunch-menus/
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APRIL/MAY 2016
Lakeville South High School prepares students for 21st century success though individualized learning, community partnerships and a culture defined by integrity.
Today we begin the fourth quarter of the 2015 – 16 school year. The last quarter of the school year is one that sees us completing the current school year while planning for the next.
To assist us in our goal of continuous school improvement, we are seeking your feedback via our Parent Stakeholder Survey. Please use the following link to complete the survey by April 29. https://www.survey-monkey.com/r/2016_ISD194Parent
Thank you in advance for your participation. It is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely, John BraunLSHS Principal
Congratulations to LSHS Educator Teresa Williams!
Teresa Williams will be recognized as the Carpenter Teacher of the Year by BestPrep on May 17th. With over 600 educators participating annually in the BestPrep programs, Teresa stands out with her involvement with BestPrep spanning Classroom Plus, eMentors, Minnesota Business Venture and The Stock Market game during the past 4 years. Teresa’s dedication to the education of her students is admirable and will be recognized by receiving this award.
The Carpenter Award is named for Joan Carpenter, who was a teacher in the Robbinsdale School District for more than 25 years. Joan’s dedication and commitment to children was recognized by all the lives she touched. In her memory, BestPrep recognizes one teacher each year who embodies the vision of BestPrep in honor of Joan Carpenter.
Check out our school menu at: http://isd194.org/lunch-menus/
Lakeville South’s student of the month is Shea Bou-gie, her parents are David and Kara Barnes and Joe and Heidi Bougie.
Shea is a leader in our DECA program, swim team, and in the Lakeville South Community. She is an outstanding student, athlete, but most impor-tantly Shea is just a great person. Shea’s character can best be summed up by her swim coach Rick Ringeisen:
“Shea is one of the finest individuals I have coached in my career. Shea leads both by example and vo-cally. Shea trains hard to be her best when the team needs her. She is unselfish and consistently places the goals of the team above herself. Shea’s greatest qualities are that she brings joy and sunshine wher-ever she goes. People light up when they see her. The reason that happens is that Shea is one of those exceptional people who make everyone around her better. When you consider Shea’s intelligence, dedi-cation and abilities it all adds up to making her what I call a member of the 1% club! The 1% club consist of the top 1% of all people in the world.
It has truly been my pleasure to coach Shea Bou-gie!”
Rick Ringeisen LSHS Swim coach
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BravoCOUGARS
FebruaryRotary Student of the Month
Shea Bougie
Dean Murphy & Shea Bougie
MarchRotary Student of the Month
Alex Heuer
Dean Dr. Kelly & Alex Heuer
Congratulations to senior, Alex Heuer, as Lakeville South’s Rotary Student of the Month. Alex has been a great contributing citizen while attending Lakev-ille South. Alex is the leader of the Drama Technical Crew and Musical activities facilitating sound and lighting for nearly every production at LSHS. Alex is a pioneer in our STEM academy at Lakeville South High School. He helped plan and develop the STEM Academy design and production rooms and recently completed a weather station independent study project with Mr. Just. He is currently working on his STEM capstone project with John Berg from Terradata. Alex has a very promising future in the engineering field. He is undecided as to which university he will continue his studies. Another notable: Alex is a Na-tional Merit Finalist.
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Take a Bow
February
Zuri Blanco ...................................................Art Geena Gillen ....................................... Business Jacob Zabel ............................. CommunicationYasmine Abdullahi ....................................FACSDracco Hoang .................Industrial TechnologyJustin Nicoski ........................................... MathJoshua Burniece ...................................... MusicChris Williams ............................ Phy Ed/HealthPatty Jo English .....................................ScienceBoston Mast ............................... Social StudiesMiranda Peterson ....................................STEMKaren McCoy ..........................World Language
Students of the Month Minnesota 4-H Key AwardRecipients
Laura Stiles and Harmony Zweber-Langer
Congratulations to Laura Stiles & Harmony Zweber-Langer on receiving the Minnesota 4-H Key Award! The Minnesota 4-H Key Award is the highest award a 4-H member can receive in their 4-H career, very similar to the presitge of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scout program. Laura and Harmony have proven themselves as outstand-ing youth leaders by their generous service to the University of Minnesota Extention, Dakota County 4-H Youth Development program.
The recipients of the Minnesota 4-H Key Award serve as an educational resource to other 4-H members.
Signing Day Spring 2016! Mason Kohlbeck, Football, Augustana College
Jack Swanhorst, Football, Augustana College
Chase Wright, Men’s Scoccer, Loyola University
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Lakeville South DECA students, Geena Gillen, Taylor Garvey, Parker Schultz, and Maya Kramer helped with the creation of a convenience store for residents and visitors of Highview Hills, a Senior Living Community located at 20150 Highview Avenue in Lakeville, Minnesota. These students worked with Steve Wilson, Housing Director in every phase of the development from meeting with the residents, surveying residents on which products to stock, recruiting and training resident-volunteers to
Lakeville South DECA Students Open Highview Hills Store
staff the store, and designing and promoting the store. The South students were also there to assist in the Grand Opening on Saturday, January 23, 2016. The Highview Hills store will allow residents to purchase necessary items without having to leave their building.
Solving real problems, making connections, and helping our community is what these LSHS DECA students have accomplished through their project.
State DECA Results:Hannah Moland = 1st Place = Quick Serve Restaurant Management
Geena Gillen = Top Test ScoreJacob Fette = Outstanding DECA Student
Global Entrepreneurship Week Campaign: Allie Case, Brie Bluhm, Hannah Moland
4/1 ........................................... No School/Teacher Assessment4/4 - 4/7 .......................... MCA Reading Test (All 10th Graders)4/9 ................................................................................ACT Test4/11 ..................................... MCA Math Test (All 11th Graders)4/15 ....................................................... Extended Spring Break4/22 ......................................Student of the Month (Invitation)5/2 ...................................................... AP Chemistry Test (8am)5/1 ................................................. AP Psychology Exam(12pm)5/2 ............................................. AP Computer Science A (8am)5/2 .................................................AP Art History Exam (12pm)5/3 ............................. AP English Literature/Comp Exam (8am) 5/4 ............................................AP Calculus AB/BC Exam (8am)5/5 ................................................... AP US History Exam (8am)5/5 ...................................... AP European History Exam (12pm)5/9 ............................................... AP Music TheoryExam (8am)5/9 ........................................................ AP Biology Exam (8am)5/9 ................................ AP Physics C: Mechanics Exam (12pm)
5/10 .................................. AP US Government & Politics (8am)5/10 ............................Science MCA Test (All Biology Students)5/11 ............................... AP English Lang & Composition (8am) 5/11 .......................................AP Macroeconomics Exam (8am)5/12 .........AP Comparative Government & Politics Exam (8am)5/12 ..................................................AP Statistics Exam (12pm)5/13 .................................... AP Human Geography Exam (8am)5/19 ........................ Senior Awards & LSHS Scholarships (7pm)5/25 .............................................. Freshmen Awards (8:15 am)5/26 ........................................... Sophomore Awards (8:15 am)5/27 .................................................... Junior Awards (8:15 am)5/30 ................................................. Memorial Day (No School)6/3 ...........................................Cap & Gown Distribution (2pm)6/8 .........................................................Semester Finals (1,3,5)6/9 ......................................................Semester Finals (0,2,4,6)6/9 ................................................................ Last Day of School6/9 ................................... Graduation at Mariucci Arena (5pm)
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GOOD NEWS!Lakeville South Choirs having a great year! The choirs at LS have had a tremendous 2015-2016 school year. They recently received a ded-ication to a newly published “Editor’s Choice” work by Steve Sandberg (Lakev-ille resident) titled Laudate Dominum. At Region 1AA contest we received a “Best in Site” for Encore Women, and 4 students with perfect scores (Clara Bauer, Christian Brott, Mal-lory Lewis and a trio of students (Maddie Market, Clara Bauer and Tori Meier.) All our ensembles received superior ratings (Encore, Harmony and the Tritones) At the state level we have received recognition; we have had two students selected for this year’s Minnesota All-State Choir: Maddie Market and Erin Petersen. We have had 2 stu-dents selected for the ACDA-MN Honor Choir: Madeline Lee and Lynne O’Neill. Encore was re-cently selected to sing the National Anthem/God Bless America for a Minnesota Twins game this summer. Finally, our Concert Chorale had the opportunity to collaborate with some very fine musical ensembles for concerts -the MN Orches-tra (at Hosanna!) and the Dakota Valley Sympho-ny and Chorus at the Ames Center (Burnsville Performing Arts Center.
Congratulations to Alli Kennon! Alli placed 3rd in the Southern District of the National Qualifiers tournament in Dramatic Interpretation and will be competing at the national tourna-ment this summer in Salt Lake City. She will be the first speaker from Lakeville South to ever compete in Drama at the national tournament.
LSHS Student Earns Eagle Scout Rank!Keegan Sublette of Boy Scout Troop 269, sponsored by Lakeville VFW Post 210, has earned the Ea-gle Scout rank. This is the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America and is earned by less than 4 per-
cent of Scouts nationally. Sublette is a senior at Lakeville South High School. For his Eagle Scout project, he planned and led construction of new shelving for our high school’s satellite Commu-nity Food Shelf. He is the son of David and Tami Sublette of Lakeville. Sublette will be recognized for this achievement at his Court of Honor later this spring.
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Updates from the LSHS Activities Director: Neil StraderLakeville South Winter Accomplishments Report
Cougar Nation, - Congratulations to our Debaters at STATE! Karen McCoy 9, Sierra Mulhern 10, Alec Loftus 10 - Congratulations to Mr. Liberty and our talented Math League Team for qualifying for the State Tournament!
Solo Ensemble: - Choir had 1 Best in Site! Encore women for their Overture to the Magic Flute. The ensembles all earned superior ratings. Many perfect scores! - LSHS Band rocked the Region Solo Ensemble: Taking home 107 superior medals and 100 Excellent certificates.
- One Act Play made it to the Section Finals.
- Cougar Dance Kick Team qualified for STATE placing 5th in High Kick.
- Alpine Ski State Results for Lakeville South:
- Congratulations to Lauren Geary! She placed 6th at the State meet earning All State honors!
- Jake Abbott placed 19th for Honorable Mention.
- Brandon Wentworth placed 38th and Hannah Rost placed 37th.
- Nordic State qualifiers: Brianne Brewster (5th pl) Harmony Zweber-Langer (8th pl) and Violet Tessier (11th pl). Grant Halvorson (10th pl)
- Girls Hockey Team won the SSC Championship and placed 6th at State.
- Congratulations to Janna Haeg! Aspire athlete of the week!
- Let’s Play Hockey has our Chloe Crosby listed as a top 10 goalie and 2016 Ms. Hockey, Senior Goalie finalist.
- Elizabeth Ewert led her air rifle team with a 583/32X / 600 to a National Championship!
- Lakeville South’s Eric Rousemiller was selected to the All-USA Minnesota Football team from the USA Today
- Congrats to the Boys swimmers and divers for their outstanding performances at the section meet. The Cougars cut more time than any other team. The following boys qualified for the state meet:
- Brady Torborg, Jake Berg, Andrew Lind & Brandon Sandquest qualified in the 200 Medley Relay.
- Brady Torborg & Andrew Lind qualified in the 100 Butterfly.
- Andrew Lind, Brady Torborg, Tate Leverenz & Brandon Sandquist qualified in the both the 200 and 400 Freestyle Relays.
- Boys Basketball finished a strong season with a record of 18-10 making it to the Section Semi-Finals.
- Girls Basketball finished a great season at 19-9 closing their season in the Section Finals.
- Gymnastics sent three gymnasts to State: Bella Iversen-Beam, Kari Wenzel-Beam and Alli Dornbas-Floor.
- Boys Hockey finished an exciting season at 14-10-1.
- Wrestling sent four wrestlers to the state tournament: Brady Bastyr, Kelby Johnson and Grant Hendren participated in the State meet. Adam Lucast finished his career with a 6th place showing in State.
- Adapted Floor Hockey finished their season 10-5. The Cats qualified for State and placed 6th.
I hope your son or daughter enjoyed their winter season! Together with our coaches and activities our kids are developing life skills that will carry on far after high school. I invite you to review and complete the winter survey below.
SPORTS FEEDBACK SURVEYWinter Parent and Student-Athlete, Your feedback is important to us. Please take a few minutes to complete the below survey on your feelings related to your experiences this Winter season. Lakeville South High School Activities is committed to constant improvement while making each season be the best possible.Best wishes on a wonderful winter season! GO COUGARS!!!https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/1516LSHSWinAct
