Boyd County Schools

Three Boyd County Junior High Cross Country runners headed to Papillion-LaVista on Saturday, October 10, 2026.  The State Junior High meet has two divisions for both the girls and boys, C/D Championship division and Open Class division.  Coaches, parents, and runners get to decide the division in which a runner competes, and all races are a challenging 3000 meter course.

Baleigh Koenig, 8th grader, competed in a tough girls C/D championship division along with 168 other girls.  Koenig placed 43rd with a time of 13:39.  Gage Schochenmaier, 8th grader, competed in the boys C/D championship race.  Schochenmaier placed 98th out of 244 competitors with a time of 12:50.  7th grader Asher Bruggeman competed in the largest sized race for the Spartans.  312 boys lined up for the Open Class boys race.  Bruggeman placed 133rd with a time of 14:49.  This race concluded the junior high cross country season.  Congratulations on competing at such a high level!

October 8, 2026 was a great day to be a Spartan as the Boyd County Cross Country Team  headed back to Ainsworth to compete in the Niobrara Valley Conference meet.  NVC honors are determined by placings.  Medals one through ten are considered All Conference Honors and medals eleven through fifteen are All Conference Honorable Mention.

The varsity girls stepped onto the course for the first race of the afternoon.  Senior Kaci Koenig led the Lady Spartans to the finish.  K Koenig ran the 5000 meter course in 24:22 for 7th place.  She was almost a minute faster on the course compared to running in Ainsworth at the beginning of September.  Next in for the Lady Spartans was freshman Savannah Zeisler.  Zeisler took over a minute and a half off her September time placing 10th with a 26:01 time.  Trina Bennett, freshman, grabbed the 13th place medal with a time of 27:28.  Following closely behind Bennett was senior Addi Janousek who took over two minutes off her previous time in Ainsworth this season.  Janousek placed 14th with a time of 27:42.  The last Lady Spartan took nearly four minutes off her September time, Corinna Reiser placed 19th with a time of 34:46.  The Lady Spartans finished as NVC Runner Up in the team competition! Ainsworth took home the Championship plaque with 14 points, Boyd County tied for second with Niobrara/Verdigre with 17 points, but the Boyd County 4th runner, known as the pusher, broke the tie giving the runner up plaque to Boyd County.

The varsity boys found themselves in a similar situation.  The boy’s team also claimed the NVC Runner Up plaque.  The boys competed hard against a strong Ainsworth team. Ainsworth won the meet with 14 points and Boyd County had 15 points.  Individually the boys had great races as well.  Junior Aidyn Garwood placed 3rd with a time of 19:31.  Hayden Warnke, sophomore, ran in the chute for 5th place in a time of 20:10, and freshman Case Reiman placed 8th with a 20:43.  

The junior high girls were next to lace up their shoes.  Their course was the longest of the season, 3000 meters.  Baleigh Koenig, 8th grader, continued her competitive streak winning the junior high girls race with a time of 13:23.  Fellow 8th grader Kyra Reiser also competed hard and claimed 11th place with a time of 18:17.  In the boy’s race 8th grader Gage Schochenmaier picked up the 6th place medal with a time of 12:37.  7th grader Asher Bruggeman came through the finish with a time of 13:44 in 13th place.  This was the last junior high race for those not competing at the junior state meet.

Congratulations to the Spartans on their team and individual success!  The varsity runners will race again in district competition on Thursday, October 15th at 3pm.  

BOYD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE
Boyd County School District Board of Education will conduct a
special meeting on WEDNESDAY, ОСТОBER 21ST, 2026, at 2:00
P.M. The meeting will be at the MS/HS School Building in the Board
Room. An agenda kept continually current shall be readily available to
the public at the Boyd County Business office.

On Thursday, October 1, 2026 the Boyd County Cross Country Team got to compete at the West Holt Invitational in Atkinson.  This was a race to remember for many reasons. Due to large amounts of rain in the state of Nebraska, many cross country meets in the state were canceled in the last couple of weeks.  Fortunately the Spartans only missed out on one competition last week when the BonHomme and then Ord meets got cancelled, but many teams throughout the state were not as fortunate. Some teams did not get to compete in over two weeks!  Due to these circumstances West Holt got creative to ensure they could host a competition and allow more teams to enter.

How did all this affect the meet?  Traditionally this meet is held at the Atkinson/Stuart Golf Course, but the course was too wet to run on so the competition was rerouted on the Cowboy trail, on the road through the golf course, to Mill Race Park, and back around.  This made it harder for spectators to see much of the race but was a flat, fun, scenic route for the competitors.  Also the number of teams and runners increased as well.  West Holt had a generous solution to the increased number of competitors.  They upped their medals from the original 20 for high school to top 35 medaling and original 15 medals in junior high to 20 getting medals.  

Excitement about a new course and near perfect weather conditions contributed to fast times and the majority of Spartan runners having PRs (personal records) on the 5,000 meter course!  In the varsity girls race 76 girls lined up to start.  Senior Kaci Koenig led the Lady Spartans into the chute. K Koenig earned the 32nd place medal with a time of 23:15 which is a season’s best for K Koenig.  Freshman Savannah Zeisler competed hard earning 50th place in a PR time of 25:06.  Addi Janousek, senior, hoped to break 27 minutes this meet.  She crushed that goal with a PR time of 25:23 finishing in 52nd place.  Freshmen Trina Bennett and Corinna Reiser rounded out the Lady Spartans team with PR times.  Bennett placed 62nd with a time of 26:38 and C Reiser placed 74th with a 31:02 time.  The Lady Spartans placed 11th as a team.

In the boys varsity race 162 (no that’s not a typo) runners consisting of 18 teams lined up to hear the gun start their race.  Junior Aidyn Garwood just missed bringing home hardware.  Garwood placed 36th with PR 18:38 time.  Freshman Case Reiman placed 53rd with a PR time of 19:27.  Sophomore Hayden Warnke also had a PR with his time of 19:41 placing him in 58th.  The boys team placed 10th.

The junior high raced a distance of 2400 meters on the Cowboy Trail and around the cemetery.  Sixty-five junior high girls lined up for the start of their race.  Baleigh Koenig, 8th grader, continued her medal streak.  B Koenig placed 4th in the field with a time of 9:59.  7th grader Raina Hammon also brought home a medal.  Hammon placed 16th with a time of 10:56.  Kyra Reiser, 8th grader, competed hard and raced for 57th place with a time of 14 minutes flat.  The JH girls placed 5th as a team. 

In the junior high boys race 86 runners stepped up for the start.  8th grader Gage Schochenmaier earned a medal with his 16th place finish in a time of 9:58.  7th grader Asher Bruggeman came in the chute with a time of 11:18 in 56th place.  

The cross country season is winding down.  The junior high have only one more competition left.  They will compete in the Niobrara Valley Conference Championships on Thursday, October 8th in Ainsworth.  High school competes that day as well.  Races start at 4pm.  The high school will then compete at the district meet on Thursday, October 15th in Neligh starting at 3pm.  The district meet determines who will go to the state meet which will be held in Kearney on Friday, October 23rd.

BOYD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

MEETING NOTICE

Boyd County School District Board of Education will conduct their regular meeting on MONDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 2026, at 7:00 P.M.   The meeting will be at the MS/HS School Building in the Board Room.  An agenda kept continually current shall be readily available to the public at the Boyd County Business office. 

After hosting their home meet on Thursday, September 10, the Spartan Cross Country team had a quick turn around for their next competition.  On Monday, September 14, 2026 the Spartans raced again in Neligh.  Neligh has been selected at the District D-4 host site where the Spartans will compete for a ticket to state on October 15th.  

The girls varsity took to the course to get things started.  After a couple of failed start attempts, the gun and timing system finally started and the girls were off and running.  Senior Kaci Koenig raced through the chute first for the Lady Spartans.  K Koenig unfortunately missed the medals by two places. K Koenig placed 17th with a time of 24:20.  Next through the chute was freshman Savannah Zeisler.  Zeisler continues to get faster on the 5K courses.  She placed 24th with a time of 26:16.  Racing in next was freshman Trina Bennett. Bennett placed 31st with a time of 27:39.  Senior Addi Janousek clocked in her fastest time of the season.  Janousek placed 36th with a time of 28:55.  Corinna Reiser, freshman, continues to improve every meet.  She took 3 ½ minutes of her first race time of the season!  Reiser placed 41st with a time of 35:05.  The Lady Spartans placed 5th in the competitive team competition.

Boys varsity laced up their shoes next.  The Spartans had some goals in mind and teams they knew they needed to compete with, and they were successful with some of those goals.  Junior Aidyn Garwood earned himself the 13th place medal with a time of 19:38.  Sophomore Hayden Warnke just missed the medal stand.  Warnke placed 18th with a time of 20:08.  Freshman Case Reiman raced in to finish 27th with a time of 20:37.  The Spartans placed 4th as a team.  Class C school Battle Creek won the meet.  Creighton placed 2nd and Elkhorn Valley placed 3rd.  The Spartans will see Creighton at the district meet.

In the junior high division the Spartans didn’t bring home one championship medal but two!  8th grader Gage Schochenmaier won the meet with a time of 9:05 on the 2200 meter course.  8th grade Baleigh Koenig said ‘me too’.  B Koenig won the girls JH division with a time of 9:38.  Asher Bruggeman, 7th grade, earned a medal.  Bruggeman placed 10th with a time of 10:17.  Kyra Reiser, 8th grade, just missed medals placing 11th with a time of 12:34.

The Spartans will venture into South Dakota next Monday, September 21st. They compete at the BonHomme Invite in Tyndall SD starting at 2pm.  Then they will not compete again until Thursday, October 1 at the West Holt invite.