Lyons-Decatur Northeast Schools

STATE WRESTLING UPDATE! 🏆🤼‍♀️ Alizabeth was down 7–3 and battled back to get the come-from-behind pin in the 3rd period to advance to the semifinals! 🔥 With the win, Alizabeth is guaranteed a medal at this year’s state wrestling championships! What a fight—keep it rolling! 💪🐾 #GoCougars #StateBound #EarnedNotGiven

State Wrestling Update 🏆 JaeLeigh earns a first-period pin in her opening match at the state tournament! 💪🔥 She’ll be back on the mat again this afternoon — good luck, Jayleigh! #GoCougars #StateBound #CougarPride

LDNE hosted the annual Burt County Spelling Bee last week. We are very proud to have students represent LDNE from both 5th grade and 7th grade as our winners! Leah Pond is the 1st place winner for the 5th/6th grade division and Zadia Menard placed 3rd in the 5th/6th grade division. Noah Coleman placed 1st in the 7th/8th grade division and will represent Burt County in the Omaha Sports Commission Spelling Bee to be held in Omaha in March!

🐾 STATE TOURNAMENT UPDATE 🐾 Alizabeth opens the state tournament strong with a 16–1 tech fall for the win in her first match! 💪🤼‍♀️ She’ll be back on the mat later this afternoon after the conclusion of Round 1. Keep it rolling and go Cougars! 🐾🔥

Second year preschooler and the 4th graders had a great meet up today. We learned about the Winter Olympics and made goggles for all the skiing and snowboarding games! Catch us tomorrow for some more Olympic fun!

Excess Property Sale: Contact Lindsey Beaudette at 402-687-2363 with any questions. Bids are due March 9th at 9:00 a.m.

Free Basketball Clinic for all K - 6th grade LDNE students. Sign up sheets are coming home or you can pick one up in the main office.

TODAY’S COUGAR ATHLETICS 🐾🏀🤼‍♀️ • JH Girls Basketball 🆚 Winnebago Public Schools 🏠 Home | ⏰ 4:00 PM • HS Girls Wrestling – Sub-Districts 🆚 Cedar Catholic High School 📍 Bancroft-Rosalie High School | ⏰ 7:30 PM 🎥 Live Stream: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/bancroft/organization/20033/bancroft-rosalie-high-school Good luck and Go Cougars! 💪🐾

GIRLS STATE WRESTLING STARTS TODAY! 🤼‍♀️🔥

Best of luck to our girls as they compete on the biggest stage!
Go Lyons-Decatur Northeast Cougars! 💪🐾

#GoCougars #StateBound #CougarPride

Congratulations to Kaden Knaak for being selected to play in the Shrine Bowl on June 6th in Kearney!

Don't forget to reserve your copy of the 25-26 Yearbook. If you'd like to personalize it, you must order online by February 28th! If you order online there are other accessories available for purchase when ordering your yearbook.

Congratulations to Kaylin Miller for representing Nebraska while being inducted as a fellow of the American Junior Academies of Science for her STEM research on exoplanet atmospheres this week in Phoenix at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting.

Yesterday 6 of our Junior High Choir students performed at the Stanton Junior High Honor Band and Choir Clinic! They had so much fun learning and making music with students from all over! Great job!

🐾 Today’s Cougar Athletics 🐾 🤼 HS Boys Wrestling — Districts 📍 At Oakland ⏰ 10:00 AM 🏀 JV Girls & Boys Basketball 📍 At Pender ⏰ 9:00 AM Best of luck to all our Cougars today—go get it! 💪🐾

Congratulations to the following students for making Class D All-State Honor Band! Wind Ensemble: Katie Tolle- 4th Chair Clarinet Symphonic Band: Layla Fisher- 6th Chair Flute Hunter Jensen- 2nd Chair Trumpet

We had 8 students selected to participate in the Easy Husker Conference Honor Band! These students spent the day with other students in our conference to create beautiful music! Well done! Wind Ensemble: Katie Tolle- 4th Chair Clarinet Miranda Prieto-Garcia- 7th Chair Clarinet Kellyn Knaak- 5th Chair Alto Saxophone Angel Sandoval- 5th Chair Trumpet Symphonic Band: Caroline Timm- 1st Chair Flute (not pictured) Layla Fisher- 4th Chair Flute Isabelle Schrader- Battery Percussion

🐾 Today’s Cougar Athletics 🐾 🤼 HS Boys District Wrestling 📍 At Oakland 🕒 3:00 PM 🏀 HS Basketball 📍 At East Butler High School • JV Girls: 2 quarters — 4:00 PM • JV Boys: 4 quarters — 4:45 PM • Varsity Girls: 6:00 PM • Varsity Boys: to follow 🎥 Live Stream: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ne/brainard/organization/14617/east-butler-high-school #CougarAthletics #GameDay #GoCougars

Happy Valentine's Day from The kings and Queens of Hearts in second year preschool

1st Year Preschoolers had a fun Valentine's Day! We passed out Valentine's, had a visit from our Cougar Mascot, and ended the day with our families playing games, making necklaces/bracelets, making picture frames and eating snack! We LOVE Preschool!

HS girls basketball sub-district brackets are out. We will be playing the first game in Bancroft vs Cedar Catholic next Tuesday at 7:30pm.