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Violet Anderson
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
She loves playing piano, reading, music, various crafty things, the swim team, and her two pet cockatiels. She plans on attending a trade school and becoming a master bench jeweler and business owner
Jack Voller
Junior, Albany Area High School
Jack is in football, HITS, and archery. He enjoys hunting, fishing, throwing axes, and loves to be with friends. Jack is planning to go to a tech college to gain more useful skills to help him in his goal of owning his own
business.
Maria Navarrete-Ruiz
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Maria is involved in cross country, dance, track, yearbook, captains and leaders. She is a dietary aide at CentraCare. In her free time, she loves to meditate, journal, dance, and binge-watch shows and movies. Maria plans to attend school to pursue a degree in medicine and become a surgeon.
Jonathan Raya
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Jonathan works at a Brother's Market. He likes playing soccer, and basketball, and hanging out with friends and cousins. He plans on becoming a mechanic or welder.
Bryce Frericks
Junior, Albany High School
Bryce is involved in archery, trapshooting, robotics, 4-H, and water sports. In his free time, he likes to hunt, fish, and spend time with friends and family. Bryce plans on going to college for Agricultural Engineering.
Parker Sorenson
Junior, Sauk Centre High School
Parker is in track, swimming, archery, and trap shooting. In his free time, he likes to get out and have fun with his friends. Parker is considering starting a business of his own involving anything with the trades.
Hunter Donabauer
Junior, Albany Area High School
Hunter is involved in the fishing team. In his free time, Hunter loves hunting waterfowl, turkey, pheasant, and deer. He also loves his job at The Woodshop of Avon. Hunter plans on attending college after high school.
Megan Fiedler
Junior, Albany Area High School
Megan manages the girls basketball team and is on the golf team. She likes to hang out with friends and spend time on the lake. After high school, Megan wants to go to school for marketing or finance.
Jasmine Martinez
Senior, Melrose High School
Jasmine is involved in soccer and loves animals. In her free time, she works as a Nursing
Assistant at the Melrose Care Center and enjoys being able to help. Jasmine plans to attend
college to pursue a career in healthcare.
Fermin Abonce Juarez
Senior, Melrose High School
Fremin plans on going to college for either computer science or finance. When he is not in school he is working at Coborns in Melrose and hanging out with his friends.
Naomi Wiechman
Junior, Melrose High School
Naomi is involved in FFA, 4-H, trapshooting, and softball. In her free time, she goes hunting, milking cows on her grandparent's dairy farm, and spends time with friends and family. After high school, she is contemplating pursuing a degree involving agriculture.
Carmen Loxtercamp
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Carmen is involved in Swimming, Wrestling, Archery, and Track & Field. She is working at Dairy Queen, Fairway Pines Assisted Living Center, and occasionally lifeguards. When she is not working she enjoys hanging out with her two younger brothers and weightlifting. Carmen is also interested in owning her own business one day, but she is still unsure of which field.
Cal Berg
Junior, Albany Area High School
Cal enjoys Hunting and fishing along with almost all outdoor activities. He is on the Albany Trap Team along with the Fishing Team. After high school, he hopes to have his own small business in either the automotive or outdoor industry.
Dylan Crosthwaite
Senior, Albany Area High School
Dylan is in football and track. He enjoys hanging out with friends and working out. Dylan is unsure about his plans after school.
Isaiah Zink
Junior, Melrose High School
Isaiah is involved with cross country, swimming, and trap shooting. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and dirt biking. Outside of school, he works for Albany Chrysler. After high school, Isaiah will be attending a 2 year college for an undetermined major. His potential majors are sales and marketing, mechatronics, CAD, or other skilled trades.
Sevrin Anderson
Junior, Sauk Centre High School
Among other things, Sevrin is involved in swimming, cross country, and track. Outside of school, Sevrin enjoys playing chess and spending time with the people who matter. He plans on going to college for computers but also admits that life can be unpredictable.
Mason Hokanson
Junior, Sauk Centre High School
Mason plays baseball and works at Steiner Lumber and Dan Welles. He enjoys hunting geese, turkeys, ducks, and deer, and working on his truck. In his free time, he likes to help his grandpa and family out as well as going on drives at night.
Lanna Walter
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Lanna is involved in wrestling, softball, FFA, Captains and Leaders, and 4-H. She enjoys working on her family's farm and showing her dairy cattle. Her future plans are to attend a four-year college to major in Ag business and minor in animal science with an emphasis on cattle nutrition.
Zac Bick
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Zac is involved in hockey, baseball, and Captains and Leaders Club. In Zac's free time he likes to golf, play sports, and go to a lake with his friends. His future plans are to go to a four-year college to earn a degree in kinesiology.
Ethan Riley
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Ethan is involved in football, basketball, golf, student council, and Captains and Leaders Club. He spends his time working on a dairy farm or golfing with his friends. After high school, he plans to play college football and get his degree in nursing.
Owen Messer
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Owen is in baseball, trapshooting, and captains and leaders. He is currently working at John Wiese Ford. In his spare time he loves to hunt, fish, camp, and just spend time in the outdoors with friends and family. After high school he doesn’t have any concrete plans but, he can see himself going to college for either sales or business.
Dylan Gruenes
Senior, Sauk Centre High School
Dylan is involved in hockey, golf, archery, trap-shooting, and Captains and Leaders. He enjoys hiking, hunting, and fishing. He plans to go to college to earn a degree in engineering.