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Twitter account for Northwest Public Schools in Grand Island, NE

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6 years
This is Friday Night Lights... Senior Jared F. taking it down for the TD!!! 🙌🏻🏈❤️🏈 @strivsports @strivtv #nebpreps
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Diane Rouzee has represented NWHS with dignity and class in all of her years of coaching. Her career VB record and winning % places her amongst the greatest coaches in Nebraska. She is even a better teacher and leader of young people. Always a Viking.
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6 years
Viking friends and family: Please continue to keep Adam Mason and his family in your thoughts and prayers as he continues his recovery and healing. #ginwvikings
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2 years
Northwest Public Schools is proud to announce Derek Lindsey as head coach of the Viking Girls Basketball Program! Join us in congratulating Coach Lindsey...  #ginwvikings
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3 years
Congrats to @ShanaeSuttles for signing with Iowa Western Women’s Basketball!
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6 years
We are building a culture around here! It’s been a great ride! Thank you to our staff and student body for buying in! #Togetherness #ROW #WRStateChamps #GBBStateChamps #SportsmanshipAward
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Join us in welcoming Matt Fritsche as the new Northwest High School Athletic Director/Assistant Principal. We are excited to have him join the Viking family. Welcome @fritschehcwbb #ginwvikings
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7 years
Vikes get the win 48-41!!!!!!!!!
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6 years
Game over. Lady Vikings are going to the SHIP!!!!!!
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4 years
Collin Quandt made it official tonight and will be continuing his wrestling career at Nebraska Wesleyan University! Congrats Collin, they are getting a good one!
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Here they are with trophy in hand, the latest Northwest state qualifiers. Way to compete soccer team!
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Congrats to @GINWSoftball on two conference championships in a row!
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4 years
Big Congrats to Whitney Brown on being named female athlete of the year for Northwest!
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Congrats to Grady Griess on receiving Male Athlete of Year Award! What a career he has had!
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2 years
We would like to congratulate our Northwest Viking Softball team on creating state history and winning our school's first ever softball state title!!! We are so, so proud of this team❤🎉 #ginwvikings
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6 years
Lady Vikings get it done. Class B State Champs. Awesome run girls!
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6 years
With one match to go at the State Wrestling Championships no one can catch Northwest. Congratulations State Championship Team!
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Congratulations to the NWHS class of 2020... We can’t wait to celebrate your graduation on July 19, 2020. #ginwvikings
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3 years
Homecoming Queen Taylor Retzlaff and King Sam Hartman!
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The Northwest Softball Team are STATE CHAMPIONS for the SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR after defeating the Blair Bears!!🥎 #worthit
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7 years
We would like to welcome the softball coaching staff to Northwest: Coach Ritzdorf, Coach Prokesh, Coach Witt, Coach Sadd, Coach O'Neill.
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2 years
Northwest is excited to announce our new girls golf coaches. Welcome Coach Rouzee and Coach Traudt. #ginwvikings
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5 years
These teachers were 4 of the 600 nominated by former students for having a positive impact on their lives! We are proud of all of our staff for their investments in our students’ lives! Special congrats to Diane Rouzee, Beau Studley, Mike Witt, and Tara Martin (not pictured).
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👇🏻 Familiar Face Friday: New Staff Highlight Look 👀 who's joining the high school staff: We are excited to welcome Steve Spiehs to our 2022-2023 high school staff! Steve currently teaches our MS careers classes. #ginwvikings
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Congratulations Northwest High School Class of 2019! 🎓 #ginwvikings
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Congrats Queen Taylor and King Lucas!
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Garret, Peyton and Katie are at State FFA today and all three signed with UNL today!
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A big THANK YOU to all the Northwest faithful who turned out at Cedar Hollow to help sandbag to divert water this afternoon.
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4 years
Ummmm. Kind of a big deal here, congrats to @AvaArleen for throwing a perfect game tonight. Congrats to everyone playing behind her as well, y’all are kind of a big deal!
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5 years
Northwest Public School teachers love public schools! Thank you ⁦ @NElovesPS ⁩ for all that you do! #ilovepublicschools
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6 years
Congratulations to the NWHS top 15% of the Class of 2018!
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7 years
Congratulations to Kelsey Placke for continuing her education and basketball career at Hastings College!
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2 years
Familiar Face Friday: New Staff Highlight We are excited to welcome PJ Smith as High School Principal at Northwest. PJ is currently the assistant principal at Northwest. Congratulations, PJ! #ginwvikings
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Congrats to our @ginwtrack Boys’ and Girls’ track teams on their sweep of the Central Conference titles! Proud of you all!
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3 years
So proud of this group of young men and coaches. Congrats all on a great year. Runner-up 2022 Mens Bowling!
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6 years
Check out these highlights from the state championship!! Congrats to the Lady Vikings!!! #ginwvikings
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Congratulations Northwest wrestling. Third place finisher at the Nebraska State Dual Tournament!
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The Northwest Lady Vikings are B5 District Champions! They play in Hastings for State Softball next week! (📸- @_kjcphotography )
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6 years
Congrats to Payton Stein on signing his letter of intent to run track at Chadron State!
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Congrats to @GINWGolf on winning a district championship! Proud of our young ladies and the coaches! Scottsbluff here we come!
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4 years
Congrats to our @GINWSoftball Varsity team for defeating #1 Hastings in the semifinals of the Crete tournament! Championship coming up in a few!!!
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4 years
CONGRATULATIONS to Caden Keller today as he placed 13th at the Class B Boys STATE Cross Country meet today! 🏅 #ginwvikings
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What a day to be a Viking! @vikingsoccer308 and @GinwGirlsSoccer both qualify for state! Boom!
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Viking Nation, Let's give it up for a championship effort from some amazing young people and an awesome staff! Crete Invite Champs! Defeating: #8 Crete, #1 Hastings and #5 Seward. We are so proud of you all! #ROW
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4 years
ATTA WAY, TEAM!!! 3-2 extra innings against Crete 12-4 vs #1 ranked Hastings 6-1 in championship game vs Seward #HEREANDNOW #climbing #ginwvikings
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Our local police department has stepped up to cover the cost! They do so much for our community and we are thankful for them!
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7 years
Congratulations to Mitch Canfield for continuing his education and track career at Doane University!
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Congratulations to the Northwest senior class of ‘22. You’ve all done amazing work and we are so excited to see where you go in life!🎓 #classof22 #graduation
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We would like to announce and congratulate our new Northwest Boys Basketball coaches... #ginwvikings
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Northwest softball with a 10-2 win over #5 Beatrice to start the year!!!
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5 years
Congrats @LaurenHauser5 ! Briar Cliff Is getting a good one!
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A huge shout-out to our very own Coach Rouzee! Coach Rouzee was recognized as an Honorary Coach at the historic Nebraska Volleyball Day! Congratulations Diane Rouzee! 🖤💛 #ginwvikings
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Congrats: Addy, Nicole, Eli, Riley, and Parker! We are proud of you all!
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Kicking off July with some exciting news… Emelia Richling placed 2nd at National FBLA in Chicago today. She competed in Business Plan against 90 other teams across the country. It’s a great day to be a Viking! #ginwvikings
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We are so sorry to learn of the passing of Mike Shafer. He attended NWHS as a student, then returned to serve as a teacher and after retirement, a school board member.  Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, colleagues, and the entire community who knew him.
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8 years
Check out our #ginwvikings Spirit. Help our DM students win a contest.... like and share our video:
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Congratulations to Trey Randall for continuing his education and baseball career at York College! We are proud of you!
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Congrats to King Cooper and Queen Mazour!
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Viking Wrestling currently leading the team race at the state tourney. Go Vikes!
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As we celebrate our seniors today... a reminder that our commencement ceremony will be streamed live on our @strivtv channel at 2:00pm
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Coach Chip Bahe was introduced as head boys basketball coach today. Welcome aboard coach!
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Congrats King Fisher and Queen Bartz!
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Whether you were on the court, on the mat, in the stands or supporting from afar... Our Viking ship was full this weekend! Congratulations to our wrestlers, cheerleaders, dance team and lady Vikings basketball team on their state and district accomplishments! #ginwvikings
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Colin Williams signs his letter of intent for soccer with Heston College! Congrats!
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Congrats to the top 15% of the Class of 2019!
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Congratulations 2020 NHS Inductees!!! Noblesse Oblige... Created by- @Cmilton2020
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7 years
Another great weekend to be a Viking... State Runners Up: Wrestling, Cheer and Dance! Good Night Vikes! ❤️ 😴 🌙
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Congrats to our 2020 Homecomimg Queen Hannah Fjeldheim and King Damon Bennett!
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That’s game! @GINWSoftball defeats Seward for the conference championship! Congrats ladies and coaches! Proud of you all!
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Congrats to the ladies and coaches from @GINWGolf on their Central 10 Conference Championship today! We are proud of you all!
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Congrats to our Unified Bowling team! Finished with a tough loss to Ogallala in the state semi-finals. Thanks to Coach Bradley and her athletes! Tremendous representatives of Northwest!
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And your Conference Champions are... the Northwest Vikings! These girls fought hard all day long and won a total of 5 games in two days. #hardwork #ginwvikings 🏐
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Rans and Grady received All American Awards from the National Strength and Conditioning Association! This is a very prestigious award that is an accumulation of 4 years of work! @McNeilTroy has track each athlete for 4 years in order to see who qualifies and then provide a
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Viking volleyball headed to state tourney with 3-2 win over Sidney today. Way to go Vikes!
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Grady G with a major decision of the wrestler who beat him in the state finals a year ago vaults NW back into first place. FINISH!!!!!
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Thanks to a super generous donation from Mr. @tony_chapman76 the first 25 students to show their ID at District Soccer on Monday will get in free. @vikingsoccer308 Thank you Tony!
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Great Honors Ceremony! Congrats to the top 15 percent of the senior class of 2018!
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The newly formed Northwest High School Athletic Hall of Fame is pleased to announce our inaugural inductees. Inductions will take place at our home football game against Hastings on October 23rd and this spring at the Dave Gee Invitational Track Meet.
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This Saturday... the hope for a state championship is still ALIVE!!🏆🥇 The wrestling team travels to Kearney to compete in state duals! 🤼‍♂️ #ginwvikings
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Grady G state champion. Congratulations!!!!! Awesome performance.
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Our Northwest Public Schools administration team is wishing you all a warm and joyful holiday season! 🎄🎁
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Who’s ready for some district volleyball??? Check out this video made by student Brady Cornelius!
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Congratulations to Dalton Quandt who received his American FFA Degree today in Indianapolis. This is the highest degree earned in the National FFA Organization. #ginwvikings
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We are excited to announce @GINWSoftball will be hosting Bennington in a best of 3 series Friday Oct. 9th @ Vet's Park for a ticket to the state softball tournament! Game times are at 12:00, 2:00, and 4:00 if needed.
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The shipyard never quits! 🙌 great win tonight boys!🏈 #ginwvikings
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Good luck to the state track qualifiers as they compete at Omaha Burke on Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th! #ginwvikings
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Final 🏈 tonight... Northwest 34 Lexington 3 #ginwvikings
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HUGE congratulations to our Northwest track teams!!! Yesterday they competed at the District B-5 meet in Broken Bow and both boys and girls came out as CHAMPS💪🥇 Additionally, we're taking 28 entires to the NSAA state meet this year! @preprunningnerds @bigredoval @strivsports
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There was a high speed chase on Capital Ave that started in Kearney. @GIPoliceDept notified us and we locked down. The police took good care of us. They have apprehended the suspect and we are no longer locked down! Great job law enforcement!
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Wish our Lady Vikings Basketball Team luck as they head to the State Tournament!!!🔥🔥🔥 🏀Game 1🏀 WHO? @GINW_GBB vs @Sidney_Raiders WHAT? State Tournament WHEN? 10:45 WHERE? Pinnacle Bank Arena (Lincoln, NE) 🖊Created by- Destinee McIntosh
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We are ending the week with a fun surprise... Grand Island Regional Medical Center did a school supply drive and dropped off 3 boxes of supplies for NWPS students. #ginwvikings
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Collin’s win moves NW into the lead in the team race. Go Vikes!
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Not one, not two, but THREE wins on the day for the Vikings! One more game tomorrow for a shot at back-to-back state titles! #worthit
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We now have the first 110 kids tomorrow paid for! Special thanks to the Dorsey and Terry families : )
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Vikings get the 61-0 win tonight. They will be at McCook next Friday. Keep Rowing Vikings!
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Congratulations to the NWHS Class of 2018! 🎓🎓 #ginwvikings
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It’s time to spotlight a few more Viking Seniors... We are so proud of our class of 2020. #SeniorSpotlight #ginwvikings
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