North Dakota High School Activities Bulletin December 2007
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North Dakota High School Activities Bulletin December 2007 Inside This Issue Season’s Greetings NDHSAA Board Candidates 2-4 Attention 9-Man Football 2 The NDHSAA Centennial Story 4 Fall NDHSA State Champions 4 Attention Class B Band Directors 4 from the NDHSAA Award of Excellence Recipients 5 What Is Good Sportsmanship? 5 National Anthem Performers 5 State B Basketball Ticket Order Policy 6 Staff! Fall Team Scholar Recipients 6 Respect 6 State Wrestling Ticket Order Policy 7 Board Actions - November 16, 2007 7 Board Actions - November 1, 2007 7 Boys’ Class B Basketball Districts 8 Girls’ Class B Basketball Districts 9 NIAAA Distinguished Service Award 10 Winter Sports - Online Testing 10 NDHSAA Board Candidates Introduced At the October NDHSAA General Member- District # 7 superintendent and continues to be in Todd Olson, Grand Forks Public Schools ship meeting, the following nominees were pre- that position today. The Belcourt School District Director of Athletics sented for the Board election to be administered is a K-12 school system with an enrollment of Todd Olson by mail ballot in December. Nominated for the 1600 students. is a 1986 gradu- Class A at large position to replace Kim Knodle, Viola is a member of the NDCEL, NDASA, ate of Cavalier Principal of Valley City High School are Super- NDIEA and Northwest Leaders. She is pres- High School. intendent Viola LaFontaine of Turtle Mountain ently the president for the North Dakota Indian He graduated Community High School (Belcourt), Superinten- Education Association. She also serves on the from Mayville dent Steve Swiontek of the Devils Lake Public Board of Directors for the North Dakota LEAD State Universi- Schools, Todd Olson, Athletic Director of the Center and has served on the SALT committee ty in 1991 with Grand Forks Public Schools and Mike Heilman, for DPI. a Bachelor of Principal of Bismarck Century High School. Viola has 4 children. Her oldest daughter is Science degree Nominated to replace Superintendent Brian a nurse and is currently back in school at UND in Mathemat- Duchscherer of Carrington, representing the working on her master’s degree. Her second ics Education. Class B Southeast, will be Superintendent Rick daughter is a full time mom and lives in Grand He received his Jacobson of Wyndmere Public School and Su- Forks, ND. Her oldest son is a plumber in Grand Master of Edu- perintendent Craig Johnson of Fairmount Public Forks, ND and her youngest son is attending cation degree in School. Turtle Mountain Community College in Belcourt. Educational Administration from the University The Athletic Administrators nominees to run Viola has 4 grandchildren of which 2 attend of North Dakota in 1998. for the position presently held by Lorell Jungling, school in Grand Forks. Todd began his teaching career at Grand Forks Activities Director for Mandan High School are Central High School in 1991. At Central High Pete Moe, Activities Director of Washburn High Superintendent Steve Swiontek School, he taught mathematics and computer School and Peggy Person, Athletic Director of the Devils Lake Public Schools programming for fourteen years along with be- Lewis & Clark High Schools (Berthold and North Steve Swiontek graduated from Mayville ing the head boys’ basketball coach for twelve Shore) and Berthold High School Principal. State University in 1979 and received his seasons and the assistant girls’ basketball coach Biographies and pictures of the candidates are Master’s Degree for three seasons. Todd was named the Class as follows: from Northern A Boys’ Coach of the Year in 1995 and led his State Universi- team to the Class A State Championship in 1996. Class A at Large Position Nominees ty of Aberdeen, During his coaching career, Olson served fi ve South Dakota years on the Board of Directors of the North Superintendent Viola LaFontaine in 1983. He is Dakota High School Coaches Association, act- Turtle Mountain Community School – Bel- presently in the ing as the President during the 2004-2005 school court UND ABD doc- year. Todd also represented the NDHSCA on Viola LaFon- torate program. the NDHSAA Athletic Review Committee and taine was born In 1979-80, served two terms on the Basketball Coaches and raised in S w i o n t e k Advisory Committee. Belcourt, North taught science In 2005, Todd accepted the position as the Dakota. She at- and coached Director of Athletics for the Grand Forks Public tended the Uni- basketball at Schools. In this position, he administers all 21 of versity of Mary Adams High the varsity sports sanctioned by the NDHSAA at a n d r e c e i v e d School. From both Central and Red River High Schools. Olson her Bachelor of 1980 to 1985 he has managed 12 NDHSAA State Tournaments Science Degree was a science teacher, track coach and assistant and 15 East Region/EDC tournaments. Cur- in Secondary football coach at Kenmare. He was the principal rently, Todd is representing the East Region on English. She and athletic director at Red Lake Falls, Minnesota the NDIAAA Board of Directors and the Athletic returned to Bel- in 1986-87 and accepted the position of principal Review Committee, as well as serving on the court and worked at Devils Lake High School in 1987. He became NDHSAA Tournament Committee. In 2006, he as a substitute the Superintendent of the Devils Lake Public was named the East Region Athletic Administra- teacher for one School system in 2001, a position he currently tor of the Year. Todd earned his Certifi ed Athletic year. She then returned to school and obtained holds. Administrator certifi cation from the NDIAAA in her Master’s Degree in elementary education Steve is a member of the NDCEL, NDASA, 2007. with an emphasis in special education from the AASA, Rotary, KC’s, NDOA, on the NDASA Todd and his wife, Beth, who teaches third University of North Dakota. Board and is presently President of the Lake grade at Ben Franklin Elementary, have a daugh- Viola worked at the Middle School for two Region Special Education Board ter, Katelyn, and a son, David, who are both years while working on her Master’s Degree. Swiontek has been very involved in activities students at South Middle School. She worked at the K-8 Ojibwa Indian School for as a football offi cial for 21 years, a basketball Board Nominees Cont. on page 3 9 years as a teacher, as the Bilingual Director and offi cial for 11 years, and a Region 4 track starter eventually as the principal. In 1990, she returned for 15 years. He was honored in 2000 as the Attention 9-Man Football to school to work on her doctorate in Educational North Dakota Speech and Theatre Association’s Administration. She worked as the reading spe- Administrator of the Year . As per NDHSAA Board Action on October cialist for the Turtle Mountain Elementary school Steve and Susan, a middle school English 17th, 2007, the 9-man regular season will end and then as the elementary assistant principal. teacher, have two children: Connor is a freshman Thursday, October 16th, 2008. In 1995 she was hired as the Belcourt School at DLHS, and Frank is in the U.S. Navy. This is necessary as when ending on Friday there was only one working school day to prepare 2 December Bulletin 2007 for the eight Tuesday play-off games. NDHSAA Board Candidates (continued) Michael Heilman Administration from the University of North old son, Zach and a 10 year old daughter Zadie Century High School Principal – Bismarck Dakota in 1988. Jo. Craig has two passions besides his family: Michael (Mike) Heilman is a native of Knox, In 1981, Rick began his teaching career at golf and Nebraska Cornhusker football. He has North Dakota and a 1978 graduate of Rugby High Beach High School. He taught and coached girls’ held season tickets for the past 3 years, attending School. He basketball and boys’ and girls’ track. He served 9 husker games in the fall of 2006 graduated from as secondary school principal/activities director North Dakota at Edmore from 1988 - 1996. While in Edmore Athletic Administrator Position Nominees State University he coached boys’ basketball for two years and in 1982 with a girls’ basketball for six years. In 1996, Rick Pete Moe Bachelor of Sci- became superintendent and business manager of Washburn High School Activities Director ence in Agricul- the Wyndmere Public School. He has also served Peter Moe is a native of Canyon, Min- ture Education as head girls’ basketball for seven years. nesota, and a and received his Jacobson has served as District 1 chairperson 1976 graduate Master’s Degree for the last nine years. He is a member of the of the Univer- from NDSU in North Dakota Association of School Administra- sity of Minne- 1994. tors, NDCEL and the North Dakota Coaches As- sota – Duluth. H e i l m a n sociation. He is currently serving on the board of P e t e b e g a n began teaching directors of the North Dakota Education Service his teaching Agriculture Edu- Cooperative. career in Lan- cation at Minot High School in 1982. In 1983, he Rick and his wife Deb, an elementary teacher caster, Min- moved to Garrison where he taught and coached in Wyndmere, have two grown children. nesota, teach- wrestling until becoming principal and activities ing physical director in 1992. He spent one year at Garrison Superintendent Craig Johnson education and State Bank as an investment representative before Fairmount Public School social studies. returning to the classroom in 1996. In July of Craig John- He also served 1997, he became principal at Dickinson High son is a native as the school’s School and is in his fourth year as principal at of Rugby, North head football Century High School in Bismarck.