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By Jaime Gabel

 The 2007-2008 Seward High Decathlon Team, sponsered locall by the School District of Seward High Ability Learner program and the Seward Optimists, indluces the following students...

Honors Division:

Alyssa McConnell

Ciara McCormack

Jake Weber

Kevin Jerger

Scholastic Division:

Tanner Smith

Hailey Behlen

Aaron Powell

Kirsten Kohlwey

Varsity Division:

Karl Luebbe

Austin Taibemal

Britton Miller

Felicia Kolterman

The studnets will travel ot Omaha on January 19th to compete in tests in math, music, art, language, and literature, science and history. They will also compete in a Super Quiz Bowl. The 2007-08 theme is "The Civil War" and the students are test over the novel The Red Badge of Courage.

 The students will all take the same tests, however, they will only compete with their grade point average division. Team awards and individual awards are presented at the end of the day. The top 25% of the teams will advance to the state finals.

 This is the tenth year that Seward High has participated in the contest. Students are selected by their teachers, counselors, grade point average and willingness to participate. All of the students submitted their grades to the registrar at Creighton University for approval and are presented with packets of information and a novel to study. The Seward Optimist Club also sponsors team tee shirts for the students for the students for the day of the event.

 The local coach for the Seward Academic Decathlon Team is Clark Kolterman, SHS instructor for English and Speech.