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Past Winners of the National Spanish Exam

by Shirley Rytych on January 13, 2012

National Spanish Exam—State of Nebraska Winners

1996    Spanish I:

            Andrea Goesch                           2^nd       

            Kendra Boswell                          3^rd       

            Wendy Fangmeier                       3^rd       

            Theresa Sissel                             5^th       

1997    Spanish I:

            Heidi Hochstetler                        4^th                   

            Jeremy Kempf                         5^th       

1998    Spanish I:

            Katie Sissel                             1^st

            Several got into the wrong category, so they

            didn’t place. If they had been in the correct category: 

            Katie Sissel would have received 1^st, 

            Libby Fangmeier would have received 4^th,  

            Danielle Kempf would have received 4^th,

            Amanda Johnson would have received 5^th

            Sara Slingsby would have received 5^th 

1999    Spanish I:

            Kerri Kennel                           3^rd                                

            Melissa Hochstetler                 4^th

            Erica Lichti                             5^th

            Spanish II:    

            Katie Sissel                             2^nd

2000    Spanish I:

            Matt Troyer                             1^st

            Ben Schlegel                           2^nd

            Brad Schlegel                          3^rd

            Aftan Hoffschneider                  4^th

            Dustin Cullen                          5^th

            Kelli Kennel                            5^th

            Spanish II:

            Melissa Hochstetler                 4^th

            Stacy Miller                             5^th

2001    Spanish I:

            Erin Lichti                               1^st

2002    Spanish I:

            Rachel Schlegel                     1^st

            Matthew Schneider                 3^rd

            Robert Kempf                         4^th

            Stesha Crookshank                 5^th

2003    Spanish I:

            Andrew Brinkman                               2^nd

            David Row                                         2^nd

            Cole Schultz                                     2^nd

            Abbi Swartzendruber                          4^th

Outside experience (From this year onward we were basically in the Outside Experience category, because the students had several years of Elementary Spanish.)

2004    Spanish I:

            Katie Lichti                                         1^st

            Spanish II:    

            David Row                                         2^nd

            Andrew Brinkman                              3^rd

            Abbi Swartzendruber                          4^th

2005    Spanish I:

            No previous Spanish (Regular Class)

            Kylie Markey                                      2^nd

            Alex O’Brien                                      3^rd  

2006    Spanish I:

            Zac Schlegel                                        1^st          

            Andrea Schweitzer                             2^nd         

            Jessica Dowdy                                     3^rd

            Clark Schulz                                        4^th

            Michael Merryman                              5^th  

2007    Spanish I:

            Jaron Nelson                                       4^th

            Jacob Erb                                            5^th

2008    Spanish I:

            Stephanie Swartzendruber (OE)         2^nd

            Krista Swartzendruber  (Regular)       5^th

(If they had been in the correct category, Krista would have placed 3^rd and Brett Sheffield would have placed 5^th , but Brett didn’t place in the Regular Division.)

2009    Spanish I: Luke Schweitzer and Wade Walters got 3.5%  higher on their tests than the 4^th place winners, but they didn’t place.. Somehow their results were tossed out.

Spanish II:

            Stephanie Swartzendruber                  4^th

2010    Spanish I:

            Derek Swartzendruber                        1^st

            Tyler Lauenstein                                 2^nd

2011    Spanish I:

            Amy Hendrickson                               4^th