Sports

The South Loup boys’ golf team kicked off the 2025 season on Monday, March 31, after the Sandhills Valley meet at Stapleton was rescheduled due to State FFA. That meet was originally set for Thursday, April 3, with the South Loup JV team planning to compete. However, the change in the date allowed Coach Jeff Cole to take his varsity squad to Stapleton, along with a couple of JV players to tee off the season.

The South Loup boy’s and girl’s track teams traveled to Elwood on Tuesday, April 1, to compete in the 12team Hi-Line Invitational. In the team standings, the men’s team finished right in the middle of the pack in 6th place, while the women finished in 9th place.

Josiah Coleman, 5th - 1600m; 2nd - 3200 m Caleb Mcfate, 5th - 110m Hurdles; 5th - 300 m hurdles CJ Quandt, 4th - 300m hurdles AJ Starr, 3rd - High Jump; 2nd - 4x100 relay; 2nd 4X400 relay Ethan Furne, 2nd - 4x100 relay; 2nd - 4x400 relay The girl’s team had fewer competitors and therefore, fewer medalists. The team was led by the Fitzgerald sisters who each medaled in three events.

The South Loup boys’ and girls’ track teams competed in the Arcadia-Loup City Rebel Invite in Loup City on Thursday, March 27. The Bobcats faced challenging competition from some much larger schools, including Ord, St. Paul, Ravenna, and Grand Island Central Catholic. Even so, both teams earned several medals and turned in some impressive performances.

The Spring sports season kicked off for South Loup with the UNK Indoor Track Invitational on Saturday, March 22, held at Cushing Coliseum on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Several members of both the Bobcats girls’ and boys’ teams participated in the opening meet.

In the 60m hurdles, freshmen Rae Hagler and Anna Coleman competed for the Bobcats with Hagler advancing to the finals and finishing in 7th place in a time of 11.49. Coleman turned in a time of 13.23 in the prelims.

Though it may not have felt like it these past 24 hours, today (March 20) is officially the first day of Spring, and while buds form on the trees and the grass continues to green up golfing enthusiasts are itching to hit the course once again. For the South Loup boys’ golf team, that opportunity will come on Thursday, April 3, for the season’s inaugural meet at Amherst.

This weekend kicks off the 2025 high school track season and the South Loup boys’ team is looking forward to what they will be able to accomplish on the track and in the field this year. They will get the chance to see what they can do, as well as get a look at their competition, at the season opener UNK Indoor Track Invitational this Saturday.

The South Loup girls’ 2025 track season gets underway this weekend at the annual UNK Indoor Invitational on Saturday, and the girls and their coaches are ready to get off and running. Under the leadership of longtime coach Mike Weverka and a talented team of assistant coaches, the Lady Bobcats are looking to do big things this year.