Regional MATHCOUNTS Competition

The following students competed Feb. 3 in the Regional MATHCOUNTS Competition at Gustavus Adolphus College: Lucas Baston, Jonas Fu, Lauren Smith, Nick White, Joseph Park, Gavin Honken, Lauren Hartman, Austin Bowyer, Zamaan Hashmi, and Ethan Patenaude from Dakota Meadows Middle School; Jacob Wilde, Avery Javens, Andy Schultze, Cole Theobald, Brady Becker, and Brian Kennedy from Mankato East Junior High School; Isaac Becker, Sean Willaert, Katerina Vitter, and Phil Goettl from Loyola Catholic School; and Damon Schmalzriedt, Luke Jennings, Mac Graupman, Tyler Hruby, Lane Hemish, and Ben Stewig from Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial School.

Austin Bowyer of Dakota Meadows Middle School finished third and Jacob Wilde of Mankato East Junior High School finished fourth in the competition.

Mankato East Junior High School was the top team, and Dakota Meadows Middle School was second.

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

The following students were named to the fall 2011 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire dean’s list: Courtland — Shaina Sieh; Le Center — Mitchel Lang; Madison Lake — Rebecca Brunz; Mankato — Hannah Gaspar, Meghan Kelly, Michelle Sparks, Forrest Toegel, Megan Zibrowski; New Ulm — Olivia Augustin; North Mankato — Kevin Ballard, Karlie Hinton, Rachel Streich; St Peter — Amanda McCabe; Waseca — Mackenzie Hoy.

Grand View University

Whitney Lynn Duncanson of Good Thunder was named to the fall 2011 president’s list graduated in fall 2011 from Grand View University.

Minnesota Valley Lutheran

The following students were named to the Minnesota Valley Lutheran honor, high honor and highest honor rolls: Honor Roll — 9th grade — Hans Bloedel, Karee Henrich, Andrew Kuester, Jacob Mielke, Anna Munsen, Samantha Tohal, Hannah Tressler, Sophia Weisensel; 10th grade — Samuel Bernau, Jessica Bovee, Broderick Brown, Logan Franzmann, Kayla Michels, Michael Panitzke, Karissa Schlottman, Rylee Weisensel, Monica Wellner, Ashley Zutz; 11th grade — Martha Johnston, Rachael Kuck, Rachel Lang, Kun Qian, Ann Schmidt, Mariah Schoof; 12th grade — Alex Ardolf, Jeanna Birr, Hunter Holden, Hyeon Jung Jung, Travis Kretsch, Emilee Plocher, Daniel Reinke, Louise Schmidt, Brady Tetzloff, Donn Tisch, Tiffany Wellner; High Honors — 9th grade — Claire Boeder, Alexander Bumgarner, Caleb Dinse, Peter Finken, Nicolas Gartner, Katelyn Hardtke, Joshua Koelpin, Seth Kroells, Allison Lease, Jordan Marotz, Riley Marth, Maria Muske, Rebekka Olsen, Hannah Paustian, Aaron Pietsch, Mary Kate Santelman, Timothy Schmidt, Daniel Wessel, Seth Wiechman; 10th grade — Martha Balge, Cheyenne Bjorklund, Brogan Flitter, Jessica Haag, Andrew Kassuelke, Samantha Kowalke, Chad Lease, Molly Maasz, Linus Meier, Gabrielle Miller, Kayla Norris, Talia Otto, Amanda Schoer, Kade Verley, Grant Wilson, Nathan Wong; 11th grade — Ella Andreasen, Christina Biedenbender, Carl Boeder, Justin Bruns, John Bumgarner, Sarah Burk, Kristoffer Goetzke, Mark Grunke, Ryan Grunke, Rachel Holt, Alicia Hulke, Samuel Koepsell, Deyuan Kong, Marisa Kroells, Benjamin Kuester, Jiaxin Liang, Emily Luehmann, Katie Sehloff, Justin Steffl, Mikyla Weilage, Raquel Wendler; 12th grade — So Mi Baek, Benjamin Balge, Allison Bovee, Joy Fastenau, Amanda Fox, Brianna Gildner, Annaliese Hoffman, Joshua Jones, Abigail Keranen, Brian Knepprath, Michael  Martens, Charisse Miller, Benjamin Moldstad, Emily Mueller, Kate Ruschmeyer, Amy Santelman, Nathaniel Siemers, Ryan Steffl, Megan Stein, Daniel Stelljes, Luke Wels, Cole Wersal, Emily Wessel, Rachel Wessel, Claire Wiechman, Amber Zibrowski; Highest Honors — 9th grade — Aaron Buch, Brianna Holtmeier, Lydia Schoof, Alyssa Tessmer, Shanna Thompson, Eric Westphal; 10th grade — Alexa Alfred, Ryley Davis, Shelby Hammerschmidt, Micah Holten, Nicholas Jones, Nicole Moldstad, Rachel Olsen, Charlotte Pfingsten, Grace Prins, Maggie Ruschmeyer, Beth Santelman, Laura Schoenherr, Rachel Stark, Mariah Stein, Abigail Trebelhorn, Emma Wendorff; 11th grade — Laura Albrecht, Allison Collum, Wesley Davis, Sam Dose, Stanley Draper, Molly Fleischer, Brianna Klugherz, Abigail Koelpin, Carlie Maasz, Michaela Otterstatter, Ryan Plath, Zachary Scharlemann, Shelby Smith, Matthew Tessmer, Izaak Wendorff; 12th grade — Philip Biedenbender, Alicia Evenson, Abigail Paustian, Bo Peng, Nathan Schoenherr.