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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS- In its 36th year honoring the nation's best high school athletes, Gatorade named 2021 Seeley-Swan High School graduate Klaire Kovatch its 2020-21 Gatorade Montana Girls Track & Field Player of the Year. Kovatch is the first Gatorade Montana Girls Track & Field Player of the Year to be chosen from SSHS. The award recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. Now a...
MISSOULA - Athletes from Seeley-Swan High School brought home more than a dozen medals and the Lady Blackhawks defended their 2019 team championship at the State Class C Meet May 28-29. Three school records were broken including one fast enough for a state record. The Lady Blackhawks cruised to the championship earning 72 points with second place Hinsdale coming in at 42 points. Fort Benton and Plentywood tied for third with 37 points each. The Lady Blackhawks 4x100 relay team put up a smoking f...
SEELEY LAKE – Seeley-Swan High School Sophomore Owen Hoag won the Missoulian's Athlete of the Week for the week of May 23 after receiving the most votes. He was nominated after winning the 100-meter dash, the 200 and the 400 as well as anchoring the winning 1,600 relay team at the District 13-C track and field meet May 14-15. He also owns the top 400 time in Class C this season. Hoag started running track in fifth grade at Seeley Lake Elementary. While he tried long jump in junior high, this yea...
POTOMAC – The Potomac School track and field team wrapped up their less than six week season May 20 with six track meets and 15 new school records. With two-thirds of the 18-member team never having tried track before, Coach Beth Copenhaver said it was a great season with "a good set of kids. The kids showed up, they worked hard and you can always tell those kids that wanted to push themselves harder and go out and break some records." Potomac's season started mid-April. There were more j...
BOZEMAN – Seven Seeley-Swan golfers headed to Bozeman last week for the State Golf Tournament, May 18-19. While hoping for a top five finish, the girls team finished seventh. Head Coach Kellen Palmer said almost everyone shot at least one round that was his or her best of the year. "I was proud of our kids," Palmer wrote in an email. "The biggest success, from my point of view, is I think we have some kids that are hooked on this game! Lots of fun memories were made going to tournaments and m...
MISSOULA - A dozen athletes from Seeley-Swan's track and field team advanced to the State C Meet through the Western C Divisional Meet May 21-22. The Girls finished in second place with 95 points behind Manhattan Christian with 104 and in front of Clark Fork with 58. The Boys took home the third place trophy with 55.5 points behind Twin Bridges with 60 and Manhattan Christian with 112. On the track, Sariah Maughan brought home the gold in the 400, 800 and 1600-meter races while Owen Hoag earned...
SEELEY-SWAN – Despite a shortened track season, Tyler Haines broke one Seeley Lake Elementary school record and Rilyn Richardson and Lillian Boyd set four new records at Swan Valley School. Both Head Coaches Brett Haines with SLE and Judd Binley with Swan Valley were proud of all their athletes and their effort this season. Seeley Lake Elementary Eagles There were around 30 fifth – eighth graders that joined the Eagles this year for track and field. The Zelda M. Haines Invitational (ZMHI) in...
SEELEY LAKE - Two Seeley-Swan boys qualified for state this past week following the tournament in Canyon River Tuesday, May 4 and the Wayne Cahoon Memorial Golf Tournament Thursday, May 6. In addition, the girls placed first overall in the Wayne Cahoon Memorial Golf Tournament at the Double Arrow Golf Course in Seeley Lake scoring 353, four strokes ahead of Plains. Bethany Hoag led the Blackhawks on her home course. She placed fourth overall with a score of 110. Cora Stone was second among her...
MISSOULA - The Seeley-Swan Girls track team took first place at the Kim L. Haines Memorial Track Meet May 8 with 90 points ahead of Broadwater in second place with 71 points. The top honors on the Boy's side went to Big Fork with 100 points while Seeley-Swan's Boys took fourth at the meet with 58 points. Sariah Maughan led the Girls on the track securing points with first place finishes in the 400-meter and 800-meter. Emily Maughan took second in the 200-meter with a personal record of 27.84...
GREAT FALLS - Seeley-Swan Blackhawk junior Walker McDonald broke school records in both the Discus and Shot Put at the Fairfield Belt Invite May 1. McDonald shattered Christian Jette's 1992 record by 7 feet 7 inches with a throw of 163 feet 10 inches. His shot put throw of 50 feet 10 inches was one inch farther than Barry Deleo's 1990 record throw. "This has always been a goal of mine since I started track [at Seeley-Swan]," said McDonald. "I first realized that the records were actually in...
GREAT FALLS - The Boys and Girls of Seeley-Swan took second place behind Fort Benton at the Fairfield Belt Invite May 1. More than 20 Class C teams attended the meet along with 10 Class B teams and one Class A team. The Seeley-Swan Boys earned 59 points to tie with Wolf Point while Fort Benton took first with 89 points. Walker McDonald led the Boys in points, taking first place in both the Shot Put and Discus with school record throws of 50 feet 10 inches and 163 feet 10 inches. Eric Lorentz earned fourth place in the Shot Put while Klayton...
SEELEY LAKE – Seeley-Swan High School hosted its winter sports awards banquet April 27 for athletes and two guests. Members of the SSHS varsity basketball teams received their varsity letters, pins, chevrons, All-Conference and Academic All-State awards. Letters, Pins & Chevrons: Students earned a letter if basketball was the first activity they have lettered in along with a pin. Pins are awarded to students who have previously lettered in another activity. Chevrons are awarded to students who have previously lettered in basketball. All C...
The athletes of Seeley-Swan High School's track team are getting faster by the week as the season passed its midpoint. They set 30 personal records at track meets last week in Corvallis and Missoula. The team started its week at the Sapphire Twilight Meet April 22 where both the Boys and Girls took fourth place in the team points. Then they hosted the SSHS Invitational April 24. The Girls secured second place with 78 points behind Beaverhead County with 105. The Boys earned fifth place with 58...
The Seeley-Swan Golf Team took to the courses in Thompson Falls April 20 and Anaconda April 22. The Girls Team placed first at the Thompson Falls High School Golf Invitational with a team score of 477. They had a 28 stroke lead on Bigfork who took first for the Class B Girls Teams. Trista Wendel led the girls with 110 placing third. Ava Thornsberry and Cora Stone tied for ninth with a score of 120. This qualified Stone for the State meet. Tegan Mauldin closed out the team card with 127. The Boys placed second in the Class C bracket in Thompson...
Friday, April 16 Seeley-Swan Golf teams placed second for the Class C schools at the Plains High School Golf Invitational. Girls Trista Wendel and Ava Thornsberry also qualified for State Golf. They will join teammates Bethany Hoag and Tegan Mauldin who qualified for State at the meet in Hamilton March 25. Several Seeley-Swan golfers also participated in the Steve Hullett Invitational in Bigfork, Montana Thursday, April 15. The Blackhawks met tough competition in Bigfork on Thursday. Of the...
The Seeley-Swan High School track team competed at two meets last week starting April 13 at the Darby-Florence Invite in Corvallis and then back at Frenchtown for the Bronc Open April 16. This week the team competes April 22 at the Sapphire Twilight Meet in Corvallis and then hosts the SSHS invitational at the Missoula County Public Schools stadium in Missoula April 24. Seeley Swan’s full stats from the Darby-Florence Invite. PR indicates Personal Record Girls 100 - 5. Emily Maughan, 13.65 PR; 9. Hannah Ayers, 14.11; 18. Trista Alexander, 1...
FRENCHTOWN - The Seeley-Swan Blackhawks and Lady Blackhawk competed against 20 Class A, B and C teams at the Frenchtown Invitational April 9. The Lady Blackhawks finished in second with 74 points behind Beaverhead County with 93 points. The Boys finished up in fifth with 45 points behind Beaverhead County with 54 points while Hamilton took the top spot with 65.5 points. Sariah Maughan lead the Lady Blackhawks on the track taking first place in the 400, 800 and 1600-meter events. Her time of...
SEELEY LAKE - Seeley-Swan High School Junior Walker McDonald was chosen as the Missoulian's Athlete of the Week for the week of April 7 after receiving the most votes from the public. This is McDonald's first time being named Athlete of the Week. McDonald placed first in both shot put at 45 feet 11 inches and discus at 140 feet 6 inches at the Blue Devil Invitational in Corvallis, March 27. It was the first meet he had competed in since his freshman season in 2019. He has been throwing discus...
EUREKA, MONTANA – The Seeley-Swan Golf Team brought three boys and three girls to the meet in Eureka April 9. Senior Bethany Hoag led the girls with a third place finish, 11 strokes shy of first. Sophomore Ben Haley led the boys with 115, placing 11th overall. While it was a two-day meet, the Blackhawks opted to play the first day on The Wilderness Club course. “This was a great opportunity for the athletes to get to play the #1 ranked course in Montana,” Head Coach Kellen Palmer said. Behind Hoag’s 106 card, Ava Thornsberry shot 138 placing...
BIGFORK - Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawk Klaire Kovatch furthered her own school discus record and shattered the Bigfork Invitational meet record on April 3 with a throw of 159 feet 3 inches. The throw moves Klaire up to eighth in the nation for high school discus throws this year. After the throw Klaire said she has been feeling good all week and some of the things she has been working on were starting to click. "I knew that if I got a hold of one it was going to go," Klaire said. She bested the...
CORVALLIS - Athletes from 15 schools across western Montana converged at the Blue Devil Invitational March 27 for the first high school track meet in nearly two years. Seeley-Swan High School was one of six Class C schools who joined seven Class A and two Class B schools. The Seeley-Swan Girls took third place with 77 points behind Corvallis with 97 and Beaverhead County with 103. The Boys finished in sixth place with 50 points while Hamilton took the top spot with 111 points. On the track,...
HAMILTON, MONTANA – At their first meet of the season March 25, the Seeley-Swan High School Blackhawks took to the Hamilton Golf Course in force. The Lady Blackhawks were the only school at the meet to have five players for a team. They won the meet with Tegan Mauldin and Bethany Hoag leading the Ladies. The Blackhawks placed second behind Clark Fork with Casey Carver leading the Blackhawks finishing in 13th place. This year the golf team has 13 players, eight boys and five girls. SSHS P...
SEELEY LAKE – Seeley-Swan High School Junior Sariah Maughan won the Missoulian's Athlete of the Week for the week of March 14 after receiving the most votes. She was nominated after averaging 8.7 points at three State C tournament games the week prior and scoring 12 points in a loser-out victory over Jordan. Maughan has been playing basketball for seven years after starting at Seeley Lake Elementary in the fifth grade. "Basketball has always been fun," Maughan wrote in an email. "I like the c...
LOCKWOOD, MONTANA - Tuesday, March 9 the Seeley-Swan Lady Blackhawks began their trek to the Class C State Basketball Tournament in Lockwood. The Lady Blackhawks, led by Head Coach David Cahoon and Assistant Coach Colleen Stone, once again entered the State tournament as the 13-C District Champions and Western C Division Champions. However, this year they also held an undefeated record. With last year's state appearance under their belts, they felt a little more comfortable. Senior Bethany Hoag...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley Lake Nordic Team wrapped up their 2021 cross-country ski season by competing in their second race, the Nordic Dance Invitational Saturday, Feb. 27. Normally the team would compete in five to seven races, including three at home. However, due to COVID-19, many were postponed to next year. Head Coach Bridget Laird said this was the first iteration of the Nordic Dance Invitational. There were only two teams involved, one from Missoula and one from Seeley Lake. To avoid...
