Homecoming Executive Board announces totals, contest winners

Northwest Missouri State University capped its 2023 Homecoming with an awards ceremony Oct. 25 to announce winners of competitions throughout the annual celebration.

Northwest hosted its Homecoming week, “Welcome to the ‘Ville,” Oct. 15-21 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 class of 1973 for its annual 50-year reunion activities.

During the annual Variety Show, Darren Ross and Obioma Nwuba were crowned Northwest’s Homecoming king and queen. Ross, of St. Louis, is a senior computer science major; Nwuba, of Anambra State, Nigeria, is a junior early childhood education major.

As a result of Northwest’s annual Donation Creation contest, during which students build Homecoming-themed scenes with canned and boxed food items, student organizations donated 1,157 pounds of food to the Maryville Ministry Center and 482 pounds of food to the Bearcat Food Pantry.

Northwest’s 2023 Homecoming Executive Board consisted of Anna Musser, a graduate student pursuing a Master of Business Administration from Gower, Missouri; Nicole Dietzenbach, a senior digital media: visual imaging major from Des Moines, Iowa; Abby Linhart, a senior public accounting major from Cameron, Missouri; Riley Steele, a sophomore psychology major from Lee’s Summit, Missouri; and Blake Leasure, a senior biology education major from Keytesville, Missouri.

All 2023 Homecoming competition categories and winners are listed below.

Philanthropy

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

Banner

1. Alpha Sigma Alpha
2. Sigma Sigma Sigma
3. Phi Sigma Kappa

Sidewalk Chalk

1. Alpha Sigma Alpha
2. Alpha Delta Phi
3. Tau Kappa Epsilon

Donation Creation

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

Donation Creation: People’s choice

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

Variety Show

Skits

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

Olio Acts

1. National Pan-Hellenic Council
2. Michael Verhoven
3. Brittany Stallo

People's Choice Awards

• Best Skit Actress: Mallory Scheelk
• Best Skit Actor: Phillip Motazedi
• Best Skit: Phi Mu, Sigma Tau Gamma and Alpha Kappa Lambda
• Best Olio Act: Lucas and William Prater

Parade

Paper Mache Heads

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

Dancing Clowns

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

Jalopy

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

Float

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

Overall Parade Winner

Phi Mu

Overall Homecoming Supremacy Winner

Phi Mu