Winter Royalty Candidates
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It is time for winter royalty again. On Tuesday, December 9, the 9-12 grade students voted on winter royalty candidates. The 2026 queen candidates are Abigail Cone, Emily Endorf, Elizabeth Furstenau, Sami Painter, and Naomi Sullivan. The 2026 king candidates are Hayden Bauer, Jax Bauer, Brenden Bolling, Brock Collison, and Boston Krueger.
Abbie Cone is the daughter of David and Steph Cone. She has been in girls letter club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes for four years, National Honor Society for three years, and student council for two years. Abbie is the current president of National Honor Society and girls letter club. She has participated in band for two years, journalism for three years, and quiz bowl, volleyball, basketball, and track for four years. She has been on the academic team and part of quiz bowl for four years, and earned letters in volleyball, basketball, and track for four years. Abbie was all conference in volleyball and basketball for two years, and earned Academic All-State for basketball, journalism, and track all for one year. She also received principal’s honor roll all four years. Abbie was a peer mentor for one year. Abbie is a member of Northern Heights Baptist Church and has been in Hands for Christ for three years.
Hayden Bauer is the son of Trevor and Kelsey Bauer. He has been in boys letter club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes for four years. Hayden did band, basketball, and wrestling for one year. He participated in track and football for four years. He achieved honor roll for four years and was named to the All-District football team one time. Hayden attends Zion Luthern Church.
Emily Endorf is the daughter of Joel and Sarah Endorf. She has been a member of the girls letter club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes for four years, the National Honor Society for three years, and student council and FFA for two years. Emily is the vice president for both the student council and the National Honor Society. She has participated in volleyball, basketball, and track for four years and band for two years. Emily has received principal's honor roll for four years. She has been on the academic team for one year, and received letters in volleyball, basketball, and track for four years. Endorf has received Academic All-State for track and field and volleyball for one year, and she also peer tutored for one year. She is a member of Zion Lutheran Church and has been in Hands for Christ and 4-H.
Jax Bauer is the son of Trevor and Kelsey Bauer. He has been in boys letter club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes for four years. Jax was in band for three years, and basketball, football, and track for four years. Jax was named to the All-District team for football. Jax has also been in Secret Kindness Agents for one year. Jax is a member of Zion Lutheran Church.
Elizabeth Furstenau is the daughter of Cathy and Kevin Furstenau. She has been in National Honor Society for two years, girls letter club for four years, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes for one year. She is the current vice president of girls letter club and the current cheer captain. Elizabeth was in band for three years, drama for four years, journalism for four years, and cheerleading for four years. She has earned two academic letters, one semester of honor roll, five semesters of principal’s honor roll, and Academic All-State in journalism. She got an NCA academic excellence in cheer for two years, as well as being a UCA All-American cheerleader for two years. Elizabeth is a member of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Norfolk.
Brenden Bolling is the son of Adam and Alisha Bolling. He has been a member of the boys letter club for four years. Brenden has been in football, wrestling, and track for three years, and in cross country for one year. He has received honor roll for one year, principal's honor roll two years, and was All-Conference in wrestling for three years, All-District for wrestling one year and track one year, and finished sixth place as a freshman, second place as a sophomore, and was state champion his junior year in wrestling. He also finished sixth in the 800-meter run his junior year at state track. Bolling is a member of the Zion Lutheran Church youth group.
Sami Painter is the daughter of Les and Sharon Painter. She has been in girls letter club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Sami has participated in speech for two years, and volleyball, wrestling, and track for four years. She received letters in volleyball, wrestling, and track for four years. Sami has been on principal’s honor roll for four years, and was Academic All-State in wrestling for one year. Sami is a member of Life Point Church and has been in Hands for Christ for four years.
Brock Collison is the son of Ryan and Brooke Collison. He has been a member of boys letter club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes for four years, National Honor Society for three years, and student council for two years. He also is the treasurer for student council. Brock has been in football for four years, basketball for four years, and track for one year. Brock earned honorable mention All-District football this year. He has been on the academic team and principal’s honor roll for three years, All-Conference for one year in basketball, and Academic All-State for one year in basketball. Collison is a member of Zion Lutheran Church youth group and has been involved in Secret Kindness Agents (SKA) for two years.
Naomi Sullivan is the daughter of Sara and Jason Sullivan. She has been in girls letter club for four years. She participated in journalism for three semesters, cheerleading for one year, volleyball for four years, and track for four years. She was on honor roll for two years. Naomi attends Our Savior Lutheran Church.
Boston Krueger is the son of Chris and Lydee Jo Krueger. He has been in FFA for four years, National Honor Society for three years, student council two years, boys letter club for four years, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes for three years. Boston did band for one year, drama for two years, quiz bowl for one year, track for three years, and football and wrestling for four years. Boston got one academic letter, four years of principal honor roll, All-District two times both for football, and he attends Zion Lutheran Church.
