Published Bi-Weekly for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska • Volume 44, Number 7, Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Indians Begin 2016 Track Season Bago Bits… The HoCak Nation’s Bronson Koenig has generated support from Natives across the Great Turtle Island, as he lead his Wisconsin Badgers team in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Winnebago Indians and Lady Indians begin their Spring Sports schedule recently with the Indoor Wayne Relays and the USD Track Meet. Here’s Momo, Bear & Kainyn getting ready for the days events, both meets went well into the evening with the Indians & Lady Indi- ans competing in a number of the events. A full schedule of Winnebago’s meets appears in this issue of WIN. Frank LaMere was recently awarded the “Member of the Year” at the National Indian Child Welfare Association Confer- ence for his work on Children’s issues Annual Easter Hunt Goes Slicker En Snot throughout the three state area. Congrat- ulations Frank! Easter Egg hunting after the Winter Sea- son’s last big snow storm. The Winnebago Tribal Health Department’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt, hosted again this year by Dr. Monif and his Dental Clinic Staff went The Winnebago Indian New’s Sports very well, despite the last winter storm of the season dropped 6 inches of snow on the Rez the day before the event. With temperatures in reporter/photographer is also a volunteer the 30’s and a steady southern breeze, Dental Clinic staff hide over 5,000 Easter Eggs for all the kiddies in attendance. Again this year the Track Coach for the Winnebago Indians. kiddies were also treated to a Petting Zoo of bunnies, birdies, goats, burros and this year some spitting lamas. The big hit tho, Pony rides The fi rst track meet of the season went a and a visit from Peter Cotton Tail. There were many runny noses, but the kids made the best of the weather and enjoyed themselves at this bit too long for him at the Wayne Relays. marvelous event. Indianz.com… Indian Country cheers on Ho-Chunk players in basketball playoff Friday, March 25, 2016 year. But he's also being supported by a Dame (23 wins and 11 losses) as March Filed Under: National | Sports fellow Ho-Chunk citizen -- Will Decorah, Madness reaches a fever pitch. More on: basketball, bronson koe- who joined the Badgers as a walk-on "Bronson and Will have displayed nig, glitc, ho-chunk, ncaa, will deco- last fall. true character, and are great role mod- rah, wisconsin els for our Native youth. On behalf of For this and more sto- our GLITC members, we wish them much success tonight and in the fu- The Winnebago Boys have been busy ev- ries from around Indian Coun- ery weekend since the State Tournament. try visit us at www.indianz.com ture," Mike Allen, the executive director This past weekend they were at the All Bronson Koenig, number 24, on the of the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Native Classic in Lakewood, Colorado court. Photo from Wisconsin Men's said in a press release. representing the Winnebago Rez. Basketball / Facebook The game tips off at 7:30 pm Eastern Two young members of the Ho- on the TBS Network. Chunk Nation of Wisconsin are making history on the basketball court. Related Stories: Indian Country has already been Sunnie Clahchischiligi: Get on board cheering on Bronson Koenig, a point Bronson Koenig, left, and Will Deco- with Ho-Chunk Nation player (04/17) guard for the University of Wisconsin rah. Photos from University of Wisconsin Ho-Chunk Nation player makes his- Badgers. In 2015, he was the fi rst Na- tory with championship fi nale (4/9) tive American to start and play in an After a strong season of 22 wins and College basketball player proud to serve NCAA fi nals game, according to NDNS- 12 losses, Koenig and Decorah are in as Native role model (01/28) ports.Com. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a big For this and more stories from around Koenig is repeating that success by game on Friday night. The Badgers are Indian Country visit us at www.indianz. leading his team back to the NCAA this up against the Fighting Irish from Notre com The Annual Easter Egg Hunt is more than just a hunt, it’s all out Easter Celebration. Visit us at www.winnebagotribe.com Page 2 — Winnebago Indian News, Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Winnebago Wrestling Winnebago’s Derrell Zagurski Makes 9/10 Nebraska National Dual Team Derrell Zagurski fi lled in for a hurt member of the 9th/10th grade Nebraska National Dual Team that wrestled March 26th and 27th in Des Moines, IA. Derrell was the 285lb wrestler on the Nebraska Will team. On the weekend Derrell wrestled very well and showed improvement in his matches but went 1-7 in the duals. Coach Adam Tranmer from Winnebago joined Derrell on the team coaching kids from all over the state. At the National Duals the team wrestled against the all of the top Freshman and Sophomores. Congrats to Derrell and your community, family and friends are very proud of you. NEBRASKA WILL BRONZE BRACKET CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The 9/10 National Duals was a great experience for a lot of boys from Ne- braska. I was honored to coach the Nebraska Will Team for the weekend and we ended up Bronze Bracket Champions. The weekend started off with a dual against South Dakota Silver. We had some great wins but let a few slip away. We ended up tying in the dual with 34 points and it came down to criteria which South Dakota Silver won 8 matches to Nebraska Will's 7 so we started the day 0-1. It didn't get any easier from there. Nebraska Will took on Indiana Black where we came up short in a few matches and lost 45-27. The third dual we matched up with, the to-be Gold Bracket Champion, Iowa Black. Iowa Black took it right to us and showed they were on another level but we did fi ght really hard in every match. Nebraska Will lost 76-6 with the lone victory coming from Carter Kuchera who scored a defensive pin over his opponent. We then took on Polaris Elite and was handed another loss 56-15. In the cross-over dual to Pool 2 Nebraska Will faced off against Team Vision Quest Colorado and were defeated 51-22. That dual ended the day for the young squad ending the day 0-5 placing Nebraska Will in the Bronze Bracket on Sunday. Even though the team went 0-5 there were a lot of boys that got great wins and were on the verge of earning All-American status with big victories on Sunday. The Nebraska Will team had a goal to win the Bronze Bracket on Sunday and it had to start off with a big victory against South Dakota Bronze...and it did. The Nebraska Will team dominated the dual 74-10. The next dual would match Nebraska Will against Wyoming Gold. Nebraska Will poured it on at the end winning the dual 50-23. The redemption dual was up next. Nebraska Will vs. South Dakota Silver. Nebraska Will was not going to be denied the Bronze Bracket Championship earning some huge victories that they did not get in the fi rst dual against them and came out CHAMPIONS 45-25!!! It was a great weekend overall for the Nebraska Will team going 3-5 on the weekend in duals and had a couple of kids get close to All-American status but we did have 4 total All-Americans. Every member of Nebraska Will that was from Nebraska got a victory over the weekend 285- Derrell Zagurski from Winnebago went 1-7 on the weekend. Jesus Magada at 220 from Schulyer went 4-4 one match short of All- American. Jaden Rhan from GACC (West Point CC) went 3-5 on the weekend at 195. At 182 Will Howell from Morrill was 4-4 but had a chance at the end of every match to win in his 4 loses one match away from All-American. Caleb Novak was at 160 were he was one match away from All-American going 4-4 with some really tough loses. At 152 Connor Donscheski from Palmer got a little banged up in the opening match on Saturday and didn't wrestle well going 0-5 but set a goal of winning all three on Sunday which he did to set his record at 3-5. Lane Applegarth from Alliance, at 145, had one of the most exciting weekends wrestling he would come up one match short of All-American going 4-4 but won some very close matches showing his potential for the years to come on how he will grind out wins. Holden Schleve from Morrill at 120 showed his toughness going 2-6 but showed a lot of improvement though out the weekend. Devon Sell wrestled at 106 and had some tough matches but came away with 3 wins for a 3-5 record. Nebraska Will had two boys fi ll in from other teams that helped us on the weekend Derek Faul 138 from Team North Dakota went 2-6 and Bo Meyer from Montana Silver who went 0-8 at 126. Bo was a 120lb kid that bumped up to 126 to help us out. Earning All-American Silver status on the weekend was Izaak Hunsley from Hastings at 98lbs. Izaak went 7-1 and had some huge wins for the team.