Nebraska City and Lourdes Join Forces for Spring Sports

NEBRASKA CITY- In the monthly Hot Topics meeting, the Lourdes Central Catholic Knights announced they would be partnering up with the Nebraska City Pioneers for baseball, golf, tennis, and soccer.

Lourdes Central Catholic principal, Curt Feilmeier, says there will be roughly 20 Knights participating in the co-op girls tennis, three-to-four involved in boys golf, as well as five boys that will be on the Nebraska City baseball team. Feilmeier also adds that both soccer programs will be sent five-to-seven for both boys and girls.

According to Feilmeier, the Knights will still have track at Lourdes Central Catholic. Although this week is the first official week for spring sports, Feilmeier says that the school has a good turnout this season for those participating. 

Feilmeier also adds that the school's high school quiz bowl team will be traveling for conference this week and that the middle school quiz bowl team will be gearing up for the same.

Nebraska City principal, Brian Hoover, says that the Pioneers speech team was district runner-up this season, and they will be sending two participants next week to represent the school in state.

Hoover also states that Nebraska City high school has a reported 50% of all students being involved in a spring sport. Hoover accredits that rise in number due to COVID-19 restrictions around this time last year. 

Hoover says that the schools in the conference are still trying to finalize protocols for the spring sports, but is eyeing to duplicate the winter sports protocols. Hoover says that according to the Nebraska Schools Athletic Association (NSAA), the guidance has been minimal. Hoover says he wants to make it easier on the families traveling from venue to venue, so that they don't have to adjust to different guidelines in different schools.