Eight Sartell students earned academic honors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for spring semester of 2018-2019 academic year.
The students are: Claire Boschee, College of Agricultural and Life Science, dean’s list; Holly Greer, College of Agricultural and Life Science, dean’s list; Jacob Schumacher, College of Agricultural and Life Science, dean’s list; Brandan Carlson, College of Engineering, dean’s honor list; Morgan Gugger, College of Letters and Science, dean’s list; Nicholas Juntunen, College of Letters and Science, dean’s list; Matthew Murphy, College of Letters and Science, dean’s list; Alayna Runge, School of Education, dean’s list.

The sixth grade Sabres football team competed in the King of the Gridiron Youth Football Tournament in Big Lake and officials voted Sartell’s players, coaches and parents to have exhibited exemplary sportsmanship. The team won a Best Sportsmanship award of all teams competing at the tournament for grades three through eight. The Sabre team was coached by Nicholas Corrieri, Chad O’Hara, Chris Lang, Curt Landowski and Rodney Pederson and assisted by Sabre varsity mentors Jack Engle and Cody Lantis.

Rebecca Windschitl of Sartell received her first white coat and stethoscope at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Duluth Campus White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 16. The White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage that serves to welcome first-year medical students to the profession and reinforce the value of humanism as foundational to medicine.

Sartell High School Jazz Band members (left to right) Beckett Neil, Josiah Wolters, Tyler Norman, Emily Domres and Ethan Neid.
Five Sartell High School students were named to the CLC All-Conference Jazz Band. They are the following: Emily Domres, Ethan Neid, Beckett Neil, Tyler Norman and Josiah Wolters. On Oct. 28, they rehearsed and performed in Brainerd with the other All-Conference Jazz Band members. Director of High School Bands David Lumley said the students had a great day at the CLC All-Conference Jazz festival in Brainerd. Matthew Patnode from NDSU was the clinician/director who worked with the band.