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The South Loup Bobcats sent four student-athletes to the Nebraska State Track & Field Championships last week and brought home one medal. Logan Recoy, Ella Cool, Charli Vickers, and Ethan Furne all qualified for the state meet in Class C based on their times and/or finish at the C-8 district meet in Ord on May 9.

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South Loup athletes and their families gathered on Tuesday, May 7, to celebrate all of the accomplishments the Bobcats athletic teams have enjoyed this 2023-24 school year. And that was BEFORE they knew the entire golf team, and four members of the track team, would qualify for the state championships.

South Loup ended their regular season on the track on Thursday, May 9, when the men’s and women’s teams traveled to Ord for the Class C-8 district meet. The Bobcats qualified four athletes for the Nebraska State Track & Field Championships which begin tomorrow, May 17, in Omaha.

Monday, May 13, was a successful day for the South Loup golf team at the D-3 district meet, played at the Ainsworth Municipal Golf Course. The Bobcats ended the day with two district medalists and district runners-up in the team standings, qualifying the team for the NSAA Boys State Golf Championships.

A handful of South Loup track and field team members made the trip to Sutherland on Tuesday, April 30, to participate in the Best of the Midwest invitational. Logan Recoy was the lone men’s medalist for the Bobcats, finishing in 6th place in the 800m run with a time of 2:06.71.

The South Loup golf team battled the wind in back-to-back meets last week, beginning with the North Platte St. Pat’s Invite on Thursday, May 2. Seventeen teams participated in the highly competitive meet, and though the Bobcats did not have a top-10 finisher on the day they shot very consistently as a team.

Terry Pettit is a retired American volleyball coach. He was the head women's volleyball coach at Nebraska from 1977 to 1999, where he led the Cornhuskers to the school's first NCAA national championship in 1995. On April 26, Pettit shared this on his social media page - highlighting one of our homegrown athletes!

It was a good day to be a Bobcat, as the South Loup boys’ track team was crowned MNAC champs with the Lady Bobcats finishing third in team scoring at the conference meet on Thursday, April 25. Individual gold medals for the Bobcats were won by Logan Recoy who ran his fastest time to date in the 800m, Rio Remund in the shot put, and Ethan Furne in long jump.

The South Loup golf team took on the four other schools in the Mid-Nebraska Activities Conference (MNAC) at the annual conference golf meet in Broken Bow on Tuesday, April 23, and at the end of the day the Bobcats were crowned MNAC Champs!