This week’s Hotline! includes the following articles:

This week’s Hotline! includes the following articles:
• Hotline moves to biweekly schedule for summer
• Viking Scramble to be held June 9
• Viking sports update
• What’s going on at VCSU and around Valley City…

The VCSU Hotline! online newsletter will be published every other Monday from May 21 through August 13. Deadline to submit articles (photos encouraged) is 3 p.m. the Friday before publication.

Hotline moves to biweekly schedule for summer

With this issue, the Hotline newsletter will move to a biweekly schedule for the summer. The next issue will be published Monday, June 4. Weekly publication will resume Aug. 13.

Viking Scramble to be held June 9

The annual Viking Scramble Golf Tournament will be played Saturday, June 9, in Valley City.
Open to the public, the 18-hole, 4-person scramble will be played at both golf courses in Valley City. Registration is $90 per person, which includes 18 holes of golf, dinner, door prizes, hole prizes and an entry gift.

The event tees off with registration and a social hour from 8–9 a.m. on Saturday, June 9, at the Valley City Town & Country Club. A shotgun start is set for 9:15 a.m. at both the country club and Bjornson Park Public Golf Course.

Online registration is available at secure.vcsu.edu/vikingscramble/vp.htm?p=1452.

To reserve carts for the tournament, contact Jill DeVries at 701-845-7160 or jill.devries@vcsu.edu.

The Viking Scramble is hosted by the VCSU Athletic Department and the VCSU Century Club. All proceeds are used to provide athletic scholarships for student-athletes at VCSU.

Viking sports update

VCSU Track & Field athletes to compete at nationals
Five VCSU student-athletes will compete at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships May 24–26 in Gulf Shores, Ala.

Senior Megan Johnson is competing in women’s long jump and triple jump; juniors Sayge McKrill and Mackenzie Huber will throw in the women’s discus competition; and freshman Kyle Odegard and sophomore Garret Roemmich are both competing in men’s javelin.

VCSU distance runners Grace Miller and Dennis Gonzalez also qualified for the marathon at the national meet but are unable to compete.

Opening ceremonies for the national meet will be on Thursday, May 24, at 2 p.m. Live video coverage of the national championships is available on a pay-per-view basis at portal.stretchinternet.com/naia/.

Here is the schedule for the Viking student-athletes:

Thursday, May 24
2 p.m. Opening Ceremonies
5:30 p.m. Women’s long jump (Megan Johnson)
6:30 p.m. Men’s javelin (Kyle Odegard, Garret Roemmich)

Friday, May 25
5:30 p.m. Women’s triple jump (Megan Johnson)

Saturday, May 26
2 p.m. Women’s discus (Sayge McKrill, Mackenzie Huber)

What’s happening at VCSU and around Valley City…

Monday, May 21

Tuesday, May 22
12:05 p.m. Rotary, VFW

Wednesday, May 23
noon Kiwanis, Valley City Town & Country Club

Thursday, May 24
7 a.m. Optimists, Vicky’s Viking Room
noon Toastmasters, Student Center Norway Room

Friday, May 25

Saturday, May 26

Sunday, May 27

Monday, May 28
Memorial Day—no classes; VCSU offices closed

Tuesday, May 29
12:05 p.m. Rotary, VFW

Wednesday, May 30
noon Kiwanis, Valley City Town & Country Club

Thursday, May 31
Payday
Track & Field @ NAIA Championships, Gulf Shores, Ala. (May 24–26)
7 a.m. Optimists, Vicky’s Viking Room
noon Toastmasters, Student Center Norway Room

Friday, June 1
Valley City Special Olympics & Dacotah Bank Golf Benefit

Saturday, June 2
28th Annual Take-A-Kid-Fishing Day, Mel Reiman Recreation Area, Lake Ashtabula (for kids ages 6–10; preregister by May 26, call 845-2087 or 845-2378)

Sunday, June 3

Monday, June 4

Go to www.valleycitynd.org/calendar.php to see more events happening in and around Valley City.