Homecoming Executive Board announces totals, contest winners

Homecoming Executive Board announces totals, contest winners

Northwest Missouri State University capped its 2025 Homecoming with its awards ceremony on Wednesday to announce winners of competitions throughout the annual celebration.

Northwest hosted its Homecoming week Oct. 19-25 with a theme of "101 years in the books" in honor of 101 years since the University's first Homecoming in 1924. The week included traditions such as the Variety Show, International Flag-Raising Ceremony and the Homecoming parade and football game. The University also welcomed the class of 1975 for its annual 50-year reunion activities.

During the Variety Show, Riley Steele was crowned Homecoming king, and Abby Fisher was crowned Homecoming queen. Steele is a senior psychology major from Kansas City, Missouri, and Fisher is a senior from Ashland, Nebraska, who is majoring in biology with a biomedical sciences emphasis.

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 974 pounds of food to the Maryville Ministry Center and 615 pounds to the Bearcat Food Pantry.

Additionally, Northwest collected 112 units during a blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross.

Northwest's 2025 Homecoming Executive Board consisted of Sarah Linder, a senior social media management major from Des Moines, Iowa; Nessa Montgomery, a sophomore mass media major from Brookfield, Missouri; Olivia Owen, a junior social media management major from Kansas City, Missouri; and Jilliane Spiegel, a junior elementary and special education major from Kansas City, Missouri. 

All 2025 Homecoming competition categories and winners are listed below.

Philanthropy

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

Banner

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

Sidewalk Chalk

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

Donation Creation

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

Donation Creation: People's choice

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

Variety Show

Skits

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

Olio Acts

1. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
2. Chloe Tomney
3. Brittany Stallo

People's Choice Awards

• Best Skit Actress: Molly Bond
• Best Skit Actor: Jack Fritch
• Best Skit: Phi Mu and Sigma Tau Gamma
• Best Olio Act: Chloe Tomney

Parade

Paper Mache Heads

1. Sigma Sigma Sigma
2. Sigma Alpha
3. (tie) Phi Mu and Alpha Sigma Alpha

Dancing Clowns

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

Jalopy

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

Float

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

Overall Parade Winner

Phi Mu

Overall Homecoming Supremacy Winner

Phi Mu