Senior signings

Several Hot Springs County School District seniors signed letters of intent for the colleges they will be attending in the fall.

Ashley McPhie has signed a letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic career at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT.

McPhie will join the women's basketball team for the Battlin' Bears. She led the state in three-point baskets made (51) for the 2019-2020 season and finished the season second in the state in three-point percentage. She averaged 14 points per game, good for sixth in 3A scoring.

She was a two-sport All-State selection this past year, earning these honors in both volleyball and basketball.

McPhie maintained a 4.0 grade point average in high school and was a member of the National Honor Society. She will be studying Secondary Education while attending Rocky Mountain College.

Jarron Mortimore has signed his letter of intent to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to earn an engineering degree and participate in their football program.

Mortimore was named All-State in the 2A, 2019 class. He finished second on the team in defensive points with 99 defensive points, which placed him 37th in the classification. He had 45 tackles, seven for losses and two sacks.

He ended high school with a 3.8 GPA and was part of the school's Sources of Strength program.

Ashley Brawley signed her letter of intent to Northwest College in Powell.

Brawley participated in speech and debate, volleyball, drama, marching band, jazz band, choir and the concert band.

She is also the president of the National Honor Society chapter and tries to be as active in extra-curricular activities as she can after doing homework and working at TMS LightsOn.

Her plan is to attend Northwest for two years, possibly double-majoring in both music and music technology as well as participate in as many ensembles, musical groups and one-on-one lessons as she can.

Taydee Landrum's letter of intent was signed with the University of Wyoming where he will be on the Cowboy Cheer Squad as well as studying accounting.

Having been a cheerleader for the Cats for the past four years Landrum had to do a video of himself doing two different cheers and the school song as part of his online tryout for the team. He said it took quite a while since he is a perfectionist.

Landrum said words cannot express how excited he is about going to college and being on the Cowboy Cheer team.

Two other seniors, Olivia Weyer and McKenna Bomengen also signed their letters of intent but did not supply their personal information to the Independent Record by press time.