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The Bulldogger
The student news site of North Platte High School

The Bulldogger
The student news site of North Platte High School

The Bulldogger
The Pacer Dance Team preformed their state Pom routine at NPHS' winter sports' state send-off. They have taken many hours out of their morning and weekends to learn and practice both of their routines.

Winter State send-off

Emmalynn Berry and Jonathan Dekleva • February 20, 2020

The girls from NPHS and McCook get ready to do the first race of the night.

NPHS Home Swim Meet

Sierra Winder, News Editor • February 3, 2020

The local Rec Center was packed on Thursday for the yearly NPHS home meet against McCook. North Platte's pool is not regulation size, but the swimmers and divers do the best they can with what they have....

Winter sports trading cards

Priscila Mondragõn, Managing Editor • January 31, 2020

State Showouts

State Showouts

Avery Munson, Layout Editor • February 25, 2019

Senior Zane Leibhart will leave his permanent mark after breaking the school record in the 100-yard breaststroke at the McCook Swim and Dive Invitational on Dec. 8.

NP swims away with first

Beckett Allen, Staff Writer • December 15, 2017

Senior swimmer Zane Leibhart broke the NPHS 100 yard breaststroke record at only the second swim meet for North Platte High School, with an exceptional time of 1:04.23 at the McCook Invitational on Dec....

Montana Heffernan swims butterfly to prepare for the upcoming swim season.

From homeschool to the public pool

Josie Koubek, Online Editor • September 15, 2017

Juniors Luke Entz and Montana Heffernan are competitive swimmers who decided to take on the struggles of public school, so they could join the North Platte High School swim team. Both boys have a dream...

Senior Quentone Larson. practicing his dives for an upcoming competition.

Dive into the action

Princess Saguban, News Editor • December 2, 2016

Swim and dive season has just begun. Divers are elegantly gliding through the air and swimmers tearing up the water. A new season brings its challenges as usual, but this year a bigger change will take...

The state qualifying swimmers and divers walk through the tunnel of students on the way to state

Shaving time, diving for success

Will Stone, Sports Editor • March 4, 2016

After over three months of preparation, the time had come. On February 25-27, North Platte High School swim and dive state qualifiers splashed into Lincoln to compete against the top in the state. Diving...

Sophomore Jamon Davis swims the breastroke at the Dawg's home meet on January 28.

Whip kick king

Will Stone, Sports Editor • February 8, 2016

“Coach Jahnke, singing along to ‘Stitches’ while we were waiting around at a meet, definitely. He will probably hate me for saying that,” sophomore Jamon Davis said about his favorite memory of...

Hungry 2 overcome

Bailey Hiser, Staff Writer • January 8, 2016

H2O is the motto for this year’s North Platte swim and dive team; they are Hungry 2 Overcome. “We swim in a pool that is not legal; we aren’t allowed to do dive starts in our pool. So the swimmers...

Waves of Experience

Will Stone, Sports Editor • December 4, 2015

The North Platte Swim team is hitting the pool for the 2015-2016 season. The team brings back a lot of major contributors. “We have a lot of depth coming back for girls and boys. The girls’ returning...

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