Homecoming Executive Board announces totals, contest winners

Nov. 2, 2021

Northwest Missouri State University capped its 2021 Homecoming Nov. 1 with its awards ceremony announcing winners of competitions throughout the annual celebration.

Northwest hosted its Homecoming week, “Bearcats Remember When,” Oct. 24-30, with a variety of activities, including traditions such as the Variety Show, the annual International Flag-Raising Ceremony, the Homecoming parade and the Homecoming football game. The University also welcomed the classes of 1970 and 1971 during its annual Golden Years Society Reunion.

During Friday’s Variety Show, Ryan Shurvington and Annie Punt were crowned Northwest’s Homecoming king and queen. Shurvington, of Clever, Missouri, is a senior agricultural education major. Punt, of Omaha, Nebraska, is a senior communication major with a public relations emphasis.

As a result of Northwest’s annual Homecoming canned art contest, student organizations donated 600 pounds of food to the Maryville Ministry Center and 813 pounds to the Bearcat Food Pantry.

Northwest’s 2021 Homecoming Executive Board consisted of Rylie Goeders, a senior business management and marketing major from Story City, Iowa; Bailee Urban, a senior therapeutic recreation major with a minor in Spanish from Elkhorn, Nebraska; Rebecca Danforth, a sophomore applied health exercise science major from Kansas City; and Amberlea Auffert, a marketing, business management, and management information systems with an emphasis in web development major from Maryville.

All 2021 Homecoming competition categories and winners are listed below.

Philanthropy

1. Alpha Sigma Alpha
2. Sigma Sigma Sigma
3. Phi Mu

Banner

Highly competitive

1. Alpha Sigma Alpha
2. Sigma Alpha
3. Sigma Sigma Sigma

Donation Creation

Highly competitive

1. Phi Mu
2. Sigma Sigma Sigma
3. Sigma Kappa

People’s choice

1. Sigma Sigma Sigma
2. Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Kappa Lambda
3. Sigma Kappa

Variety Show

Skits

1. Sigma Sigma Sigma and Sigma Phi Epsilon
2. Phi Mu and Sigma Tau Gamma
3. Alpha Sigma Alpha and Tau Kappa Epsilon

Olio Acts

1. Riley Cardwell
2. Michael Verhoeven
3. Marcus Klein

People's Choice Awards

• Best Skit Actress: Courtney Rowe as Bobby the Bearcat, Tri Sigma
• Best Skit Actor: Ryan Rouch as B.D. Owens, Sigma Phi Epsilon
• Best Skit: Tri Sigma and Sigma Phi Epsilon
• Best Olio Act: Michael Verhoeven

Parade

Paper Mache Heads

1. Sigma Sigma Sigma
2. Phi Mu
3. Alpha Sigma Alpha

 

Dancing Clowns

1. Sigma Kappa
2. Alpha Sigma Alpha
3. Sigma Tau Gamma

Jalopy

1. Alpha Sigma Alpha, Sigma Kappa and Sigma Tau Gamma
2. Phi Mu and Alpha Gamma Rho
3. Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Sigma Sigma

Float

1. Alpha Sigma Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon
2. Sigma Kappa and Sigma Tau Gamma
3. Phi Mu and Alpha Gamma Rho

Overall Parade Winner

Alpha Sigma Alpha

Overall Homecoming Supremacy Winner

Sigma Sigma Sigma