Lyons-Decatur Northeast Schools

🔥 STATE BOUND AGAIN! 🔥 Kaden Knaak has qualified in his second event for the class D NSAA State Track & Field Meet! Kaden placed 2nd in discus with a throw of 139’1” to punch his ticket to state! 💪🥏 Congratulations, Kaden! Cougar Nation is proud of you! 🐾

🔥 SCHOOL RECORD ALERT 🔥 Congratulations to Karsen Olsen for setting another girls pole vault school record with a vault of 8’2” at Districts! 👏🐾 Karsen placed 3rd overall, narrowly missing a trip to State on attempts. What an incredible season and accomplishment. Cougar Nation!

🏅 STATE TRACK SHIRTS 🏅 Support our State Track qualifiers and grab your State Track apparel today! 🛒 Order here: https://lyons-decatur-state-track-field-2026.itemorder.com/ 📅 Orders are due by Friday, May 15th at 11:00 AM ⏰ No late orders can be accepted due to the quick turnaround time! Don’t miss out — let’s show our support for the team at State Track!

🏆 STATE BOUND! 🏆 Kaden Knaak becomes the first LDNE Cougar to qualify for the 2026 NSAA Class D State Track Meet! Kaden captured the District Shot Put Championship with a winning throw of 51’ 3½” 💪🔥 Congratulations, Kaden! Cougar Nation is proud of you and can’t wait to cheer you on in Omaha! 🐾

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The board of education was able to recognize these FFA students Monday evening at our meeting. Great work this year!

🏃‍♂️🐾 Today’s Cougar Athletics 🐾🏃‍♀️ Good luck to our Cougar Track & Field teams as they compete at Districts today! 📍 HS Track @ Hartington ⏰ 10:30 AM Start Link for live results: https://results.hnscats.org/meets/70632 Let’s go Cougars! #CougarNation #DistrictTrack #GoCougars

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🏃‍♂️🏅 District Track Meet – Wednesday, May 13th in Hartington! 🏅🏃‍♀️ Come out and support our track team as they compete for a chance to qualify for State! #RoadToState #DistrictTrack #GoTeam

Shoutout to our LDNE Junior High students who earned more than 100 AR points. That’s some serious book nerd status—and we love it. Keep it up… today a reader, tomorrow a leader!

These 11 students earned a combined 2022.2 AR points. I'd like to also recognize our top two readers, Meika Maryott with 397.2 points and Jenaveev Myers with 315.4 points.

“I have lived a thousand lives, and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.” - George R.R. Martin

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New Pictures will be posted daily. Items can be found in the principals office.

🐾 Today’s Cougar Athletics 🐾 ⛳ HS Golf competes at the EHC Tournament in Pender at 10:00 AM 🏃 JH Track heads to Homer for a 2:00 PM start Good luck to all our Cougar athletes today!#CougarNation

🐾 Today’s Cougar Athletics 🐾 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ JH Track 📍 at Oakland ⏰ 10:00 AM

Today for our Appreciation Week we say a big thank you to our drivers. It takes a team to run a school and we have the best here at LDNE!

🚨 NEW SCHOOL RECORD 🚨 Congratulations to Karsen Olsen for breaking the girls pole vault school record TWICE today! 🔥 Karsen cleared an incredible 8’ vault to set the new school record! 💪🐾 What a huge accomplishment — Cougar Nation is proud of you! #CougarNation #SchoolRecord #PoleVault

🏃‍♂️⛳️ Today's Cougar Athletics 🐾 Get out and support the Cougars today! • HS Track @ Oakland — 1:30 PM • JV Golf @ Tekamah — 3:00 PM Good luck to all our athletes! 💪 #CougarNat

Today for our Appreciation Week we say a big thank you to our cooks, maintenance crew, and custodial staff. Thank you for all you do!

Today for our Appreciation Week we say a big thank you to our Administrative Assistants and IT Department. There is always a lot going on behind the scenes and we are lucky to have such dedicated people helping to keep us organized! Thank you Beth, Julie, Heather, and Jeff!

The Yearbook Staff is in need of High School Track Pictures. Do you have any good ones you'd like to share with us? Email them to ldneyearbook@ldne.org Thank you for your help in making the 25-26 Yearbook amazing.

🐾 Today’s Cougar Athletics 🐾 ⛳ HS Golf @ Elkhorn Valley Golf Club — 9:00 AM 🏃 JH Track @ Tekamah-Herman Community Schools — 11:00 AM Good luck to all our Cougar athletes competing today! 💪🐾 #CougarNation