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06/19/2024

Doubleheader Jr. Legion baseball at Leahy Bowl today June 19th, starting at 2pm as the Winner/Colome Royals host Rapid City Post 320. Second game will be around 4pm.
Catch the live stream on

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06/06/2024

Jr. Teener baseball tonight at Leahy Bowl as Gregory comes to town. First pitch is at 6pm. There will be two 5 inning games played.
Catch the live stream on www.winnerwarriorslive.com

Great night for baseball!

06/02/2024

Best of luck to the Winner Lady Warriors Golf Team and coaches as they are headed to Sioux Falls to prep for the Class A State Girls Golf Tournament June 3rd-4th.
Pictured left to right:assistant coach Stacy Halverson, team members Reece Halligan, Leila Balsiger, Gracie Root, Peyton Sargent Ava Craven and head coach, Jim Halverson. (not pictured Emily Sachtjen who is at Air Guard training but will meet the team in Sioux Falls)

You can follow the action on the Golf Genius app GGID # 24SDGIRLSA or through SDHSAA.

05/25/2024

Girls 1600 relay placed 8th. We had them run it as a workout about a month ago and they weren't happy about it. We decided to run it again as a workout a couple weeks later and they weren't happy about it but took 12 seconds off their time. So to make finals and to place is pretty darn impressive. Final race of the 2024 season was run by Lilly Barfuss, Keelie Kuil, Kylie Sachtjen, and Livvy Audiss.

05/25/2024

Girls 800 relay placed 7th. Daisy McIntyre, Livvy Audiss, Lilly Barfuss & Keelie Kuil.

05/25/2024

Congratulations Keelie Kuil on your 6th place finish in the Class A 200 meter dash!!

Keelie Kuil 6th place in the class A 200.

05/25/2024

Congratulations to Winner's Jenaya Schrader on placing 6th in the shot put at the Class A State Track Meet!

Jenaya Schrader 6th place in the class A shot put!

05/25/2024

Congratulations Shawn Hammerbeck on another accomplishment at the Class A State Track Meet!!

New School Record and a 5th place finish for Shawn Hammerbeck in the class A javelin. 153'11"

05/24/2024

05/23/2024

The 4 x 800 Winner boys relay team places 6th today at the Class A State Track Meet. Runners were Kellen Brozik, Konnor Osborn, Jackson Bachmann & Karson Keiser. Their relay time was 8:25.66. Congrats guys!💜💛

05/23/2024

Another school record! This time for Lady Warriors! Girls 400 Relay. Daisy McIntyre, Kylie Sachtjen, Lilly Barfuss & Keelie Kuil. 50.94. Finals on Saturday

05/23/2024

Congratulations to Winner's Shawn Hammerbeck who just won the Class A Boys Discus at the Class A State track Meet in Sioux Falls. Shawn also broke the Winner school record!

05/23/2024

The Winner Warriors and Lady Warriors track team is participating in the state track meet today through Saturday in Sioux Falls at Howard Wood. Best of luck to all the athletes!!

05/21/2024

The Winner Area High School Girls Golf Team place 2nd in the Region 3A golf tournament yesterday in Mitchell and qualified as a team for the Class A State Golf Tournament June 3rd-4th in Sioux Falls. Girls pictured left to right with their individual placing behind their names:
Reese Halligan (8th), Emily Sachtjen (12th), Leila Balsiger (4th), Ava Craven (6th) and Gracie Root (5th). Not pictured is coach Jim Halverson.
Congrats ladies and best of luck at state!!

05/12/2024

Yesterday the WHS Class of 2024 walked the stage in the Armory and received their diplomas. Congratulations from all of us at Winner Warriors Live and LiveTicket. Thanks for letting us be part of your lives the last 4 years. Best wishes to all of you!
A special shout out to our own, Kendall Dice, who joined our crew this last winter to help bring you the WWL Live streams. Kendall is heading to Black Hills State for communications and also working for LiveTicket helping to bring live streams to fans across the Black Hills area!

05/09/2024

WHS Seniors did their graduation walk through the Winner Elementary School this morning. Congratulations WHS Class of 2024!💜💛
(thank you Amy Sachtjen for the video)

04/28/2024

2024 WHS Prom Servers
(Credit Laura Root for the picture)

04/28/2024

Congratulations to the 2024 WHS Prom King Brody Kocer and Prom Queen Saylor Schuyler

03/02/2024

Winner Warriors boys basketball season comes to an end by an upset loss to Lakota Tech Friday night 61 to 48 at the Winner Armory.
The Warriors end with a 17-5 overall record. Thank you to the 3 seniors who have helped pave the way for a successful Warriors program. The program is being left in great hands with a bright future. 💜💛🏀

03/01/2024

Pictures from tonight's SoDak 16 game vs Vermillion. It was a packed, loud house and awesome atmosphere!

03/01/2024

Winner Lady Warriors fall tonight 60 to 30 to a tough Vermillion Tanagers team in the SoDak 16 game and fall short of the state tournament. Lady Warriors end up with a 16-5 record.
Congratulations on a great season ladies. It wasn't the way we wanted it to end but you all left it on the court tonight. Thanks to our 6 seniors who have given their time and dedication to the program. Underclassmen, bring it back bigger and better next season! 💜💛

02/23/2024

Winner Lady Warriors defeat Todd County tonight 61 to 26 to advance to the SoDak 16 next Thursday night against the Vermillion Lady Tanagers.
Time and location to be determined.

02/22/2024

Results from round 1 of the Class B State Wrestling tournament from this morning

02/21/2024

Best of luck to the Winner Area wrestlers, coaches and statisticians as they headed to Sioux Falls this morning in preparation for the state wrestling tournament starting tomorrow, February 22nd at 10am at the Denny Sanford Premier Center. The tournament concludes Saturday afternoon. 💜💛

12/20/2023

Winner Lady Warriors 58
Bon Homme Lady Cavaliers 35 (F)

Winner Warriors 55
Bon Homme Cavaliers 34(F)

12/20/2023

Congratulations to Coach Larry Aaker on his 200th Career victory…

His girls celebrating his success with him!

12/16/2023

What is the definition of a “legend?” Well, let me tell you a love story… Coach Naasz was a man, who was all about preparation, ex*****on, motivation, and expectation.

We prepared for our opponents like no others. We knew exactly what was going to be ‘thrown’ at us. Nothing was unknown; you may get lucky and out execute us occasionally, but you were never going to surprise the Warriors. Countless opponents of Coach Naasz’s teams were stifled by the Warriors because of our understanding of YOUR team. His teams were a direct reflection of his soul. The man prepared like no other. You could see in his mannerisms each game week he was terrified he wasn’t going to give us every tool to be successful…. he was afraid to fail the Winner Warriors. He was even preparing during the game. How many times did we catch “Fooda” pulling grass and tossing it into the air during the game? Not even Mother Nature was going to fool him or the Warriors.

Come Tuesday, Coach had outlined the game plan and we would go to work…. “Run it again!” “We’re going to run it again, and again until we get it right!” Come Friday night there was no thinking… it was simply recognization, immediate adjustment if needed, and blow the damn whistle so we could play ball. The schedule was August through November… but football season is year around in Winner. Don’t get me wrong, we all play other sports and find success, but the weight room was our off-season, and track was HUGE to coach. It was part of our preparation and ex*****on for success.

Expectations… this is where he set us apart from many, many others. I mentioned earlier “Fooda”… he was the Football god in our eyes. We knew he had given EVERYTHING he had to be ready for that next opponent… information, offensive and defensive sets, tendencies,etc… and he expected us to use it and go out and execute. He also let us know we could trust the man next to us to be ready for game time, and we needed to execute for our teammates. Not 100 percent but 105 percent. He wanted just a little bit more! And that’s how he/we rolled. If you were a backup he expected you to push yourself to the next level. Never settle for your role. Steel sharpens steel. Go earn the spot. Next man up. All very understood by Warriors… nothing given; everything earned! I was terrified to fail my Coach and my teammates, knowing how much sweat, blood, and stress he and you had put into the week.

Oh, and could Coach Naasz motivate. During our week of preparations, he let us know every single one of our opponents were trying to outwork us! Coach let us know that YOUR State Championship game was this Friday night versus the Warriors. And when game time finally arrived he would let us know pregame “You are ready!” I’m sorry for all of you at this point we would have “run through brick walls” for Coach Naasz and each other.

But it’s only with the passing of time, and conversations with Coach since, that I realized this was all just a game and part of a bigger picture! Yes, he wanted to be successful as a football coach…. But he knew the game of football would end for nearly all of us. Coach took as much pride in the tools he was giving to his young Warriors to win in LIFE. In my adult life he was still “Coach.”… and I could see he expects all Winner Warriors to be prepared in each of our own individual adventures and to go execute!

RIP Coach Naasz. He so loved the Warriors, that he BECAME the Warrior. You prepared us well; we got this for you from here on out. See you at the goal line!

Love,
The Winner Warriors
“3 yards and a Cloud of Dust”

12/16/2023

Day 2 of the Valentine wrestling tournament has started this morning.
Simulcast live action is on www.winnerwarriorslive.com or The Badger Cast YouTube page

12/16/2023

The lights are on tonight at
“Harvey Naasz Field”

They turned on in 1972 …
and will remain on forever!

12/13/2023

Winner Lady Warriors 61
Stanley County Lady Buffaloes 31 (F)

Winner Warriors 56
Stanley County Buffaloes 26 (F)