Milded Hladek, age 89, of WaKeeney, Kansas, passed away Friday, April 6, 2018, at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, WaKeeney.
Services are pending with Schmitt Funeral Home, WaKeeney.
Month: April 2018
Mildred Ann Boyer
Mildred Ann Boyer was born August 27, 1928, in rural Reno County, KS. She passed away Thursday, April 6, 2018, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at Wakeeney, KS at the age of 89.
Education was important to Mildred. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Emporia State Teacher’s College and her Master’s Degree from Fort Hays State College. Mildred’s first teaching assignment was in Wakeeney, KS following the devastating tornado June 1951. She had a class of 50 students her first year.
It was in Wakeeney where she met and later married Richard L. Hladek on February 6, 1954 in Hays, KS.
After a few years, Richard and Mildred moved to Great Bend, KS for a brief period where she continued her teaching. Then they returned to Wakeeney. Mildred took a break from teaching while she raised her young children. When she returned to teaching, Mildred taught in Ogallah, KS before returning to the Wakeeney School District until retirement.
Mildred enjoyed time with family, cross stitching, antiques, flowers, quilts and her KU basketball.
Those left to mourn her passing are: a son, Mark Hladek, of Collyer; two daughters, Cindy (Charles) Nussbaum, of Topeka; Christy (Larry) Schmitz, of Reading, KS; two grandchildren, Carissa (Kirby) Eads of Bel Aire, KS; and Brannon Schmitz of Reading; and two great grandchildren, Grace and Nash Eads, of Bel Aire.
Mildred was preceded in death by her husband and an infant daughter, Merri Ann Hladek; and her parents.
The grief we feel today is a powerful and universal feeling, but in time will be survivable. We bid Mildred farewell today, but we’ll always have precious memories to hold in our hearts.
Funeral service will be 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at Schmitt Funeral Home, WaKeeney. Burial will be in the WaKeeney City Cemetery.
Visitation will be Monday evening, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Schmitt Funeral Home, WaKeeney.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Gove County Medical Center Long Term Care. Donations to the organization may be sent to Schmitt Funeral Home, 336 North 12th, WaKeeney, KS 67672.
Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.schmittfuneral.com.
Hydrant inspections resume today
HFD
The city of Hays Fire Department will be inspecting and flow testing fire hydrants on Mon., April 9, 2018 in the area of Ash St. to Vine St. between 8th St. and 13th St.
This is part of a coordinated effort by the city of Hays to inspect all fire hydrants in the city and flush all water mains annually.
Lois Marie (Stutterheim) Kellerman
Lois Marie Kellerman, 84, died Thursday, April 5, 2018 at CedarView Assisted Living, Hays, KS. Lois was born on August 2, 1933 near Logan, KS on the home place to Frederick W. and Elizabeth (Vandervelde) Stutterheim. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Norman and eldest son Lonnie. Lois is survived by daughter Tammy Stecklein and husband, Rick, Hays; two sons, Tim Kellerman, Richmond, MO and Dan Kellerman, Lawrence, KS; daughter-in-law, Cathy Kellerman, Baldwin City, KS; two brothers, Myron Stutterheim and wife, Norma and Robert Stutterheim and wife, Joyce; 11 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren plus 4 on the way and many family relatives and friends.
Lois was married to Norman L. Kellerman on April 23, 1955 and was a long-time resident of Stuttgart, KS. They enjoyed 62 years of marriage and were business partners at Kellerman Garage through most of their married life. She graduated from Prairie View High School and attended Fort Hays State where she earned her teaching degree. She taught school in Stuttgart and substituted in the area. Lois was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Stuttgart. She was active in the church choir and the Women of the Church group serving her parish and community.
Lois was a dedicated wife and mother who utilized her farming skills to grow the most amazing gardens for fresh produce in the summers and canned the mass excess for the winters and to share. She loved to bake her perfected coffee cakes, fried donuts and pies where fond memories of coming home from school to the delectable aroma was always met.
Lois was a diehard Kansas Jayhawk basketball fan and never missed watching or listening to a game. She will be remembered by her quick wit, her uncanny humor and her ability to always see the good in any situation.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stuttgart, KS, with Pastor Lee Bennight officiating. Burial will follow in the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Stuttgart.
Mrs. Kellerman will lie in state from Noon until 9 p.m. Sunday, and again Monday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg, where the family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Monday evening.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Online condolences: www.olliffboeve.com.
Joyce J. Banbury
Joyce J. Banbury, 83, of Russell, Kansas, died on Tuesday, April 03, 2018, at her home in Russell.
Joyce was born on August 24, 1934, in Holton, Kansas, the daughter of Charles and Loreda (Godsey) Raymond. She grew up in Smith Center, Kansas and graduated from High School in Topeka, Kansas in the class of 1952. After high school she attended Ft. Hays State University for 3 years and later received her B.A. from Kansas State University. She met, fell in love and was united in marriage to Conrad Banbury on August 20, 1969 in Smith Center, Kansas. From this union they took great joy in raising Joyce’s two sons Martin and Michael.
Joyce owned and operated Banbury Cross in the 1970’s, Wheatcraft in the 80’s and worked as a sales specialist for EBay from the 1990’s to current. With EBay she also worked as an education specialist teaching people how to buy and sell goods on EBay. With EBay she won several sales awards and was a well known presenter for EBay Live across the United States. She was a longtime member of Trinity United Methodist Church. She took great pride in helping raise her granddaughter Dannie’ll Heaton. She enjoyed painting, wheat weaving, gardening, growing flowers and power walking. Most of all she enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Surviving family include her two sons Martin Heaton (Suzann) of Salina, Kansas, and Michael Heaton (Linda) of Winfield, Kansas; 5 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Judy Berridge and husband Conrad.
A memorial service to celebrate Joyce’s life will be held at 11 A.M. on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Russell, Kansas, with Pastor Ezekiel Koech officiating. A reception will be held at the Trinity Fellowship Hall immediately follow the church services. Visitation with the family will take be from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M. on Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at the family home at 212 North Main Street in Russell. Memorials can be made out to the mortuary and sent in care of the mortuary. A memorial will be determined by the family at a later date. Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary of Russell, Kansas, is in charge of the funeral service arrangements.
Lois Maxine Summers Glenn
Lois Maxine Summers Glenn, followed her true love to heaven on Dec. 4, 2017. She was born Feb. 6, 1925 to Ralph and Courtney (Mitchell) Summers in Kansas City, KS. At age 7 she moved to Salina, KS, where she attended Salina High School and met the love of her life, Arthur Glenn. She attended Kansas State University and Marymount College before marrying Art in 1946. They moved to Memphis where she worked for the phone company to support them while he attended optometry school. After moving to Russell, KS in 1950, she was a homemaker for their family of five.
Lois was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Russell and Lakeview United Methodist Church in Sun City, AZ. She was a member of the Russell Hospital Auxiliary, Russell Arts Council, and Ladies Auxiliary of the Kansas Optometric Association. She worked with the Girl Scouts and volunteered with Meals on Wheels as well as other local causes. Lois enjoyed golfing with Art and loved to sing and dance.
She sang in the 1950’s with a female quartet, the Better Half Notes, and traveled with them to compete in a national competition. Carrying on her father’s legacy as a Shrine clown, she donned his costume and makeup and performed countless times at different events, one of the most memorable being at the state optometric convention as the Master of Ceremonies. Lois didn’t know a stranger and made friends wherever she went. What a truly one-of-a kind fun lady with a laughing spirit and always a positive outlook – we will miss those times when you broke out in dance steps, Mom!! Lois and Art were dearly loved by all who knew them. In the Brookdale community, where they last resided, everyone marveled at their blessing of a 72-year marriage and referred to them as a true love story. There’s some dancin’ going on in Heaven now! And a rooty-toot-toot!
Survivors include her 3 children, Mark Glenn (Melissa); Marilyn Staab (Lyle); and Wade Glenn; and 3 grandchildren, Justin Glenn (Katrina); Evan Glenn (Alex); and Lily Staab (Sean Cedillo); and 1 sister, Edna Young.
Celebration of the Glenn’s Life will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, April 13, 2018 at the Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary of Russell with Pastor Ron Wedel officiating. Family will greet guests from 9:30 A.M. to service time the day of the service. Burial of ashes will follow at the Russell City Cemetery. No visitation will be held. A Memorial has been established with the Shriners Children’s Research Hospital or Kansas City Hospice. Contributions and condolences may be sent to Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary, who is in charge of these arrangements.
Arthur Dale Glenn
Arthur Dale Glenn, 92, passed away peacefully on Nov. 7, 2017 in Overland Park, KS. He was born Novovember 21, 1924, to Arthur and Della Mae (Wilvers) Glenn in Salina, KS. He graduated Salina High School in 1942, and attended Kansas University before enlisting to serve our country in the Army Air Corp during WW II. He later attended Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, TN, graduating in 1949.
In June 1946, Art married Lois Maxine Summers and they shared 72 years of marriage and were blessed with 3 children. He practiced optometry for 52 years in Russell, KS. He served as president of the Kansas Optometric Association and was on the State Board of Examiners. He traveled to Mexico with VOSH, a humanitarian project to provide eye care. He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Russell and Lakeview United Methodist Church in Sun City, AZ. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge and Isis Shrine as well as a lifetime member of the VFW and Elks. His passions included boating, hunting, fishing and golf. He truly valued good friendships. In retirement, he and Lois loved to travel by motorhome and spent many winters in Arizona and Mexico. In 2000, they settled in Sun City, Arizona, where he loved being in his “little paradise” and orchard until 2013, when they moved to Overland Park, KS. We so enjoyed having them back in Kansas and will greatly miss this kind, generous man who truly had a heart of gold.
He is survived by his 3 children, Mark Glenn (Melissa); Marilyn Staab (Lyle); and Wade Glenn; and 3 grandchildren, Justin Glenn (Katrina); Evan Glenn (Alex); and Lily Staab (Sean Cedillo).
Celebration of the Glenn’s Life will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, April 13, 2018 at the Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary of Russell with Pastor Ron Wedel officiating. Masonic Rites will be conducted by the Russell Masonic Lodge. Family will greet guests from 9:30 A.M. to service time the day of the service. Burial of ashes will follow at the Russell City Cemetery. No visitation will be held. A Memorial has been established with the Shriners Children’s Research Hospital or Kansas City Hospice. Contributions and condolences may be sent to Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary, who is in charge of these arrangements.
Judith Ann Busby
PALCO — Judith Ann Busby, 77 passed away April 4, 2018 at Graham County Hospital.
She was born Elgin, Illinois, to Robert William and Norva Loretta (Cosgrove) Cleveland.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter: Josephine and a son: Mark.
Left to mourn her passing is sons: Robert (Kathy) Blessing, Pittsburg, CA; David Blessing, West Covina, CA; Ron (Sonya) Busby, Colby, Kansas; daughters: Susan (Greg) Morey, Mesa, AZ; Cynthia (Danny) Diaz, Phoenex, AZ; Michelle (Mike) Weed, Colby, KS; 16 Grandchildren and 15 Great-Grandchildren.
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Sen. Billinger newsletter, April 8
This week was the last week of legislative activity before First Adjournment. Early Sunday morning, the Senate gaveled out for adjournment and will reconvene on April 26th for Veto Session. The Senate voted on numerous conference committee reports, a tax reform bill, and a school finance plan. A conference committee is a small, bipartisan, and bicameral committee that works to smooth out the differences between the House and Senate’s version of a similar bill. Once the conference committee reaches a compromise, the negotiated bill is sent to both the House and Senate for a final vote before advancing to the governor’s desk. When the Senate gavels in on April 26th, we will begin Veto Session and will wrap up any legislative loose ends for the year.
School Finance-the House plan: In the early hours of Sunday morning and after a night of debate, the Senate voted to concur on a school finance plan that the House sent over earlier that day. On Saturday morning, the House narrowly passed a school finance deal on a vote of 63-56. The House placed their original K-12 finance plan into a Senate bill and passed it to the Senate to either concur or non-concur on the deal. The House’s plan would add $500 million to public school funding over the next five years. The funding plan almost doubles the cost of the Senate’s proposed plan that passed earlier that week. Some opponents of the bill believe the plan will make it difficult to earmark other priorities and require a possible tax increase. The Senate voted 21-19 to concur, sending it to Governor Colyer’s desk for him to sign.
Senate School Finance Plan: Sub SB 423 amends the Kansas School Equity and Enhancement Act by making appropriations to the Department of Education relating to school finance. Sub SB 423 would phase in a $275 million increase to education funding. Some major policy provisions included in SB 423 are: Base aid for student excellence will increase from $4,006 to $4,258 in 2018-19, to $4,334 in 2019-20, to $4,412 in 2020-21, to $4,492 in 2021-22, and to $4,574 in 2022-23. The bill will increase special education funding by $24 million in 2018-2019 and expand early childhood funding by increasing state aid for three and four-year-old at risk children by $3,000,000. Allow all students the opportunity to participate in ACT and ACT Work Keys funded by the state. Add $1,760,000 for ABC Early Childhood Program. Provide a pilot program for improvement of mental health services for school districts. Provides that all high school students may take a college class in Comp I at no cost to the student. This bill passed 21-18.
Kansas Tax Reform: Sub SB 2228 amends current law allowing Kansans to receive the anticipated state windfall from federal tax reform. The bill increases the state’s standard income tax deduction and allows Kansans to itemize deductions for state income taxes if they don’t itemize deductions for federal taxation. The bill would accelerate restoration of itemized deductions on state income taxes. Currently, state law allows a 50 percent deduction for medical expenses, mortgage interest, and property taxes in 2018. S Sub 2228 would raise the deduction to 75 percent in tax year 2018 and 100 percent in tax year 2020. The legislation also aims to bring more revenue into the state by taxing international income that is expected to flow back into the United States due to federal tax adjustment. An amendment was placed on the floor to grant a 50 percent state tax credit for donors to exhibit renovations at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene. The bill will allow Kansans to keep the windfall money instead of the state government. It is estimated that the windfall could be around $137 million in the next fiscal year, $179 million in the subsequent fiscal year, and $187 million the following fiscal year.
Senate Sub for HB 2028 would establish the Kansas Telemedicine Act. The bill would also provide for coverage of speech-language pathologist and audiologist services via telehealth under the Kansas Medical Assistance Program (KMAP) if such services would be covered under KMAP when delivered via in-person contact.
Two other bills of interest to Western Kansas were passed this last week. HB 2583 would create the Noxious Weed Act and repeal current Noxious Weed law. SB 263 creates a program to research the use of industrial hemp.
Exploring Outdoors Kansas: The pelicans at Curley’s Corner
Just north of Inman is an infamous intersection with sinkholes of various sizes on all four corners called “Curley’s Corner.”
A well-known local guy, “Curley” Neufeldt and his family lived there and actually had to eventually move because the house kept sinking. One of the sinkholes has dead standing timber in it and covers a few acres when full, often making it popular with waterfowl. As we approached Curley’s Corner early Easter Sunday morning on our way out of town, a large “feathery” looking patch covered a portion of the wooded sinkhole. We stopped to look and ponder what we were seeing, and as we sat there, heads began popping up out of the feathery mass. It was a big group of white pelicans, all with their heads down and huddled together to keep warm in the cold, blustery north wind.
Mike Rader, Wildlife Education Supervisor for the Kansas Dept of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) told me white pelicans are migratory and nest north in Minnesota, the Dakotas or southern Canada, so the pelicans we see this time of year are heading from Texas or wherever in the southern US they could find open water in winter, to their nesting grounds up north. I asked him about the white pelicans we see around Kansas lakes all summer, and he says those are probably birds that are either too young or too old to breed, or were sick or injured and couldn’t make the migration trip for whatever reason.
White pelicans are big birds; fully grown adults can weigh nearly twenty pounds, can stand 4 feet tall and can have a wingspan greater than 7 feet. There is no visible distinction between males and females (thankfully they can tell the difference.) Since they are such big heavy birds, they would never successfully migrate if they had to flap their wings most of the time like ducks or geese, so they have to rely on finding thermals to ride during most of their migration journey. During spring and fall we can sometimes see big groups of them high in the sky soaring around in circles. Rader says they are not just out for a cruise, but are in fact finding thermals to help them continue their migration flight.
Once in their summer breeding grounds up north, females nest in colonies sometimes numbering in the thousands. Rader told me females lay only 2 eggs, and other information suggested clutch sizes to be from 1 to 6 eggs. However Rader and all other sources I found agreed that only 1 chick from each nest usually survives to adulthood. During breeding season both male and female white pelicans develop a very prominent hump on the top of their bills that inexplicably disappears after breeding season ends.
The most prominent feature by far of white pelicans is their immense pouch or throat sac, thought to be the longest bill of any bird. Pelicans use those big pouches much like a fisherman uses a dip net to scoop fish from the water. One biologist I spoke with told me he has seen pelicans with carp weighing several pounds in their pouch, which is thought to hold upwards of 3 gallons of water. White pelicans are not diving birds, but use a feeding method known as “synchronized or coordinated feeding” where large groups of them work together to force fish into shallow water or into tight schools where the birds use those big pouches to scoop fish from beneath the surface. Once in the pouch, a backward toss of the head sends the fish whole and still alive into their throat and drains water from the pouch at the same time. Warnings that white pelicans eat hordes of sport fish are unfounded, as research shows the bulk of a white pelican’s diet consists of rough fish like carp, drum and buffalo.
With a diet like that, sounds to me like everyone with a farm pond should have a resident pelican to keep the carp out of there pond! The next time you’re at the lake, look for a group of pelicans, which by the way is called a brief, a pod, a scoop or a squadron, and watch them soar above you on the winds, or watch them fish. They’re a little majestic, a little handsome and a little goofy, but they really are quite interesting and majestic birds; white pelicans are yet another reason to Explore Kansas Outdoors.
Steve Gilliland, Inman, can be contacted by email at [email protected].
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Kan. lawmakers pass school finance plan, now must wait for court OK
By CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN & JIM MCLEAN
Lawmakers may not know for months whether a deal to pump half a billion dollars into schools goes far enough to end seven years of court battles over whether the state shortchanges Kansas children.
CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN / KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
If it falls short, the Kansas Supreme Court could call them back to Topeka this summer with yet another ultimatum to send even more money to local districts.
The deal to increase public education funding squeaked through with the bare minimum of votes amid desperate Statehouse gamesmanship over the weekend.
It will boost state aid to schools over the next five years, eventually adding more than half a billion dollars in annual funding.
In coming weeks, state lawyers will prepare briefs to the Kansas Supreme Court arguing this money is enough. Lawmakers, meanwhile, will wrangle over collecting online sales taxes to help cover the cost.
“We must keep our schools open,” Gov. Jeff Colyer told reporters at 12:30 a.m. Sunday after a 16-hour legislative day. “We must have a good response to the Supreme Court. … I believe that this bill — while it’s had a robust debate — has actually achieved those things.”
The night included a high-stakes game of legislative chicken between the House and conservatives in the Senate — all amid a backdrop of hundreds of teachers clad in red shirts who packed the galleries and hallways in a show of support for education funding.
CREDIT CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN / KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
“I look at this as an investment in our future,” said Karen Wilkerson, who teaches in the southwest Kansas town of Ulysses. “You invest in assets all the time for your business.”
Senate leaders wanted to add half as much money to schools as the House did. They fought the House’s plan to the bitter end, filibustering all the way through a midnight deadline that would kill the school finance bill and every single other piece of unfinished business from the 2018 legislative session.
“I could go on and on,” Republican Sen. Rick Wilborn said as he decried government spending with four minutes remaining on the clock. “As a matter of fact, I think I will.”
Just seconds before midnight, frustrated House members on the other side of the building took a procedural vote to keep the clock from running out on the session. But because of how that extraordinary action toyed with legislative rules, it will complicate things in the days ahead. It gives Colyer the ability to veto bills without risk of legislative override.
“We were 90 seconds from melting down the entire session,” House Democratic leader Jim Ward said. “The Senate is a very dysfunctional body right now.”
Earlier in the day, the school finance bill had seemed on an easier path to victory. Colyer had endorsed it and Attorney General Derek Schmidt had admonished lawmakers to finish fast amid a looming court deadline.
“Each day of delay,” he wrote to them, “further damages the State’s ability to prepare a proper defense.”
House Speaker Ron Ryckman and Senate Republican leader Jim Denning held closed-door talks. The House passed a compromise bill making minor concessions to the Senate’s own school funding plan. Proponents crossed their fingers as the bill headed to the Senate.
“I’m holding my breath,” said Rep. Melissa Rooker, who helped craft the legislation, “and hoping they live up to their end of the bargain.”
CREDIT JIM MCLEAN / KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
But optimism faded when the Senate launched into a tax debate that led to hours upon hours of discussion on amendments and parliamentary procedure.
Even after winning enough votes for that bill — which contained tax breaks that could cost the state treasury nearly $500 million over five years — Senate leaders stalled.
“I’m here standing for all my constituents,” Senate President Susan Wagle said. “My teachers, my administrators, my aircraft workers, my CPAs, my health care workers, my hotel workers, the maids. Everybody. I’m here for my whole district. I’m just not here for all the phone calls that have come in today from the teachers.”
In October, the Kansas Supreme Court found the state wasn’t meeting its obligation to suitably fund education. It pointed, in part, to the quarter of public school students lagging behind grade level in math and reading.
Dozens of school boards have helped foot legal bills for the seven-year lawsuit. Two of the state’s largest, highest-poverty districts are among its formal plaintiffs — Wichita and Kansas City, Kansas.
Their lawyers have argued the state should put at least $600 million into schools. Lawmakers opted to add less. They also phased the money over five years. That means they could face further challenges that inflation over that period will undermine the plan’s effect.
Meanwhile, groups such as the Kansas Chamber that think the courts have long overstepped their authority by meddling in school funding levels, will likely continue lobbying for a constitutional amendment to change that.
A proposal to do so passed the House judiciary committee earlier in the week.
House Democrat Pam Curtis, a member of that committee, said if lawmakers face another court order to increase school funding this summer, they could return to Topeka more eager to alter the constitution.
“I certainly wouldn’t want to see something like that give that momentum,” she said. “Because I don’t think then it’s considered in a very thoughtful manner.”
See how the House and Senate voted on the school finance bill.
Celia Llopis-Jepsen is a reporter for the Kansas News Service. You can reach her on Twitter @Celia_LJ.
Jim McLean is managing director of the Kansas News Service. You can reach him on Twitter @jmcleanks.
HaysMed Sports Medicine announces Athletic Testing Combine
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HaysMed Sports Medicine is hosting their 17th Annual Athletic Testing Combine on Saturday, April 28 from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. at The Center for Health Improvement, Hays, Kansas. Registration fee is $20 per person. This testing is for male or female, grades 6 through 12. A makeup combine session will be held on Saturday, May 5 at 3:00 pm at The Center for Health Improvement. During the 17 years the combine has performed over 5,000 tests on area athletes.
Every athlete strives to do his or her best in whatever sport they participate in. In order to achieve that goal, it is important to know at what level you are performing and how that performance can be improved. The Athletic Testing Combine is designed to assess athlete’s individual strengths and weaknesses in order to help them reach their highest athletic potential.
Tests performed during this event include: Height, Weight, Seated Shot Put, Pro Agility, Vertical Jump, Standing Long Jump, Bench Press and 10 Yard and 40 yard dashes which are electronically timed. HaysMed Sports Medicine provides highly qualified staff and professional testing equipment including the use of electronic timing equipment accurate to the 1/100th of a second. This ensures accurate and reliable results.
Each athlete in attendance will receive an individual athletic profile. This includes test results, percentile rankings, and an overall athletic rating allowing athletes to identify specific strengths and weaknesses. In addition coaches from each school will be provided similar reports. The results are also sent to Midwest colleges for their review of athletes interested in playing college sports. Participants also receive a T-shirt.
Registration can be mailed to Shawn Landers, PO BOX 8100, Hays, KS 67601, dropped off at The Center for Health Improvement, or participants can bring the registration the day of the event and pay the fee then. For more information contact Shawn Landers, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS at 785.623.6369, https://www.haysmed.com/the-center/athletic-testing-combine/ or email at [email protected].