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Senior wins music composition contest pg. 3 Where are seniors going to college? pg. 8 Clothing shop abroad in store for senior pg. 11

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Inspired by her mother and educated through YouTube tutorials, junior Rachel Bernstein has developed a passion for applying makeup to herself and others. “I feel so special and extremely glad whenever people love the makeup that I do on them because I was able to make them feel good about themselves, which puts a smile on my face,” Bernstein said. Bernstein plans to pursue a career as a makeup artist. Photo

by Megan Wallis This photo was selected as the Missouri State Portrait Photo of the Year by the Missouri Journalism Educators Association.

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SPARK! program plans for expansion pg. 4 Senior pursues music education pg. 6 How statistics influence high school sports pg. 20 Tennis team bonds on Alex’s Appetite: Cookie battle and off court pg. 18 pg. 21

Ever wonder how to high jump? pg. 19

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Senior’s Jazz Comp Wins Big

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DANIEL ROMAN Staff Writer @danielroman1999

Speech team members place in State competition

Larimore finds success in Mizzou’s “creating original music project”

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very year, the University of Missouri holds a “Creating Original Music Project”, part of Mizzou’s New Music Initiative. Aiming to recognize Missouri students with a passion for music, the competition requires students to write and submit an original composition in a variety of musical styles.

This year, the award for the High School Jazz Division went to senior Nick Larimore. On Saturday, April 16, Larimore’s original jazz composition was performed by the Mizzou Jazz Band and members of the Music faculty. As a result, he was awarded a $1,000 cash prize with an additional $1,000 going to the school.

Part of the Central jazz band, Larimore applied his love for music as well as a background in jazz and music theory to create his piece.

“I’ve been in jazz band all 4 years of high school,” Larimore said. “I wouldn’t say that helped as much as taking theory did, because I think jazz band is a lot more applying what you know rather than learning beyond the basics of jazz.”

Larimore also drew influences from musicians and popular culture to build his composition, such as jazz tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.

“I was playing around with parallel harmony when I wrote the chord changes, which Joe Henderson used to do a lot,” Larimore said. “The ‘A’ section is minor chords moving in minor thirds and the ‘B’ section is major chords moving in major seconds.”

As well as using musical influences, Larimore also incorporated elements and aesthetic from the Woody Allen film, Annie Hall, to draft the piece, evident by the song’s title.

“I wrote it on a keyboard while I was watching Annie Hall, so I titled the song ‘I Need The Eggs’, which references the final scene of the movie,” Larimore said.

However, Larimore’s jazz career doesn’t stop with his award as the senior

Maddy Scannell and Jennifer Heiman finished third in Lincoln-Douglas debate, and Emily Pfau placed sixth in radio speaking.

Jazz Band members recognized for festival performance Seniors Alayna Clayman, Luke Mankovich, Charlie Mosley, Cole Edelstein, and Nick Larimore were recognized for Outstanding Musicianship at the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on April 29.

Students earn second place in Hack-a-thon Senior Nick Larimore plays with the Jazz Band at the Big Band Dance on April 2nd.

aims to continue working with music throughout college.

“I am pursuing a career in music,” Larimore said. “I’m still waiting to hear from schools to make a final decision but I will be majoring in Jazz Guitar Performance.”

technology-centric lower commons renovation excites students  booths  Charging stations T  Ethernet Cables  Chromebooks ANTHONY ZUANICH Staff Writer @anthonyzuanich

he commons is a main focal point of our school. It’s where we eat lunch, hold dances, and meet before the beginning of the school day.

In an effort to utilize the lower commons more, plans are being made for renovations.

On March 25, Head Principal Tim McCarthy held a meeting with student council board members to go over the plans for the renovations.

“I feel like it will be a great addition to the school,” freshman Jake Gaby said.

Not only will there be places to hang out but the plans detailed charging stations and ethernet cables in the proposed booths.

“I’m really excited to see how it turns out,” said junior class president Ethan Guller, who is on the student board for the project.

“It was also really nice to feel like my voice was heard by administration,” Guller said. “They brought in an interior designer to talk with us and go over our ideas and see how we could make them work.”

Not only are members of student council ex-

cited but, when informed about it, many students expressed interest too.

“That sounds like a good idea because right now it is very under-used,” junior Megan Wallis said.

“Some people eat lunch there, and it is used for the photobooth at dances, but besides that it stays pretty empty.”

Abigail Urnes, Yunchao Zhang, Leon Krugliakov, and Jack Weir placed second at the MICDS Hack-a-thon through their creation of a mobile app.

Sophomore participates in State ultimate frisbee tournament Sophomore Emily Cooper competed in the St. Louis Ultimate Frisbee Girls State Tournament on May 1.

Junior competes individually in state science contest Junior Tony Chen competed as an individual in the Wind Power event at the State Science Olympiad.

Chemistry tournament team places in regional contest Congratulations to Tony Chen, James Kim, Luis O’Campo, Michael Tian, Jonathan Yn, and Michael Zhou! They were awarded 5th place as a team in the relay round at the Washington University Chemistry Tournament this weekend.

They were competing against schools from states across the Midwest.

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spark! continues to grow despite small issues ALEX LANSON Social Media Manager @wutangclanson

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arkway, like most school districts, attempts to keep up with the latest education trends by developing alternative styles of teaching students that involve a more hands on environment.

One of the programs that Parkway has created is Spark!, where high school students in the district only take three classes at their respective schools and spend the rest of the school day at Spark! headquarters. The program included four strands this year: Business Incubator, Pre-Professional Health Sciences, Teaching and Learning, and Technology Solutions. Next year they plan to add two more strands, Engineering and Bioscience.

While all of these strands are different, they contain the same philosophy that the students should control what they are learning, as senior Greg Cordover explains.

“An average day consists of finding stuff to do for our final project or working on an existing project that we’ve been assigned or found on our own,” Cordover, who is part of the Technology Solutions strand, said.

Business Incubator >Students learn how to develop ideas in an entrepreneurial setting

Pre-Professional Health Sciences >Students get an overview of the healthcare industry

Because of these non-lecture based classes, teachers usually leave students up to their own devices.

“The teacher is more like a chaperone,” Ben Kraizer, who is also a part of the Technology Solutions strand, said. “He doesn’t constantly look over our shoulder. He just walks around once in awhile to make sure that we are all there, but he’s pretty lenient. We get to do our own thing.”

According to junior Taylor Fink, who is in the teaching strand of Spark!, that has the potential to cause problems.

“There should definitely be more back and forth with going back to the Spark! classroom and then going out into the field,” Fink said. “It’s a lot about being independent and on your own, but at the same time being able to talk to that teacher more allows you to ask questions.”

The six strands of

Teaching and Learning >Students get an introduction to the philosophies of teaching

Technology Solutions >Students learn how to fix technology problems and design tech products

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SPARK! is committed to fixing the possible problems that may arise, including the possibility of there being too much lenien-

“Certainly anytime there is a new program, there are challenges,” Dr. Jennifer Stanfill, the Director of Choice Programs, said.

“We reflect and learn daily so that we can continuously improve the program for future participants. New programs require us to take risks and learn from our challenges.”

And these problems have not held some students back from achieving.

“Our students have been successful in Globalhack winning $10,000, as well as the Worldwide Technology Hackathon where they won second place and $5,000.” Stanfill said.

Students agree that Spark!, although not perfect, is a legitimate way of alternative learning.

“I’ve taught myself more through that (Spark!) then I would’ve learned in a lot of other classes,” Cordover said. “It is amazing what we have looked into, gone over, and done.”

Engineering* >Students use cutting edge equipment to make 3D prototypes that allow them to fix problems

Bioscience* >Students spend time with experts researching about different types of organisms. *Future program

Spring Beautification day gives chance to give back KATE MCNEAL Editor-in-Chief @kateisgreat11

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ore than 50 students volunteered at the spring Beautification Day on April 23. Volunteers helped pick up trash, weed, and put mulch down in front of the stadium, the gym, the front courtyard, and outside of the science wing.

Freshman Dani Gottlieb uses a wheelbarrow to dump mulch in the area by the stadium. Photo by Tara Stepanek.

Senior Christopher Gu and junior Will Harold weed outside of the music wing at Beautification Day on April 23. After areas were weeded, new mulch was put down. Photo by Tara Stepanek.

Juniors Anthony Spears and Bryce Wright work to clean up the gardens by the science wing. Photo by Tara Stepanek.

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SARAH WHALEN Staff Writer @skatherine123

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ne academic requirement you must have in order to graduate is one physical education credit which is two semesters of PE, but the grading scale isn’t the same as a normal core class.

“I don’t like the grading scale because I miss two or three days and I have a C in strength and conditioning just because I wasn’t there, and now I have to run six miles to make that up and I only have three weeks to make it up,” Senior Quinn Conlisk said.

Unlike regular classes, in a physical education class 95 percent is a B, so you have to get above a 95 to receive an A. “Physical education is based on a participation scale and so the way it adds up with 20 points a day the thought behind missing 6 days or two weeks is that it should definitely impact the student’s grade,” Physical Education teacher Terri O’Leary said. “So, if it was set at a 90% for an ‘A’ then you could miss about 8 or 10

days before it started to really impact your grade.”

The grading scale prevents students from skipping class and makes them more commited to the class and getting the grade they want.

“They know that kids won’t take gym classes seriously, so if they skip all that time then they’re going to fail the class,” Junior Kathleen Cannon said. “But it is more difficult because if you prefer to miss a PE class instead of a chemistry class then it’s stressful and it affects your grade a solid amount.”

Participating in class is necessary if you wish to receive a high grade.

“At first I thought the grading scale was really harsh but as the year went on I realized it really wasn’t that bad and if you try then you can do well,” Freshman Ben Prywitch said.

When you miss a P.E class you are required to make it up at some point if you wish for your grade not to drop.

“So a gym makeup for Adventure Pursuits we had to go outside and we had to run about eight laps on the track so two miles,” Cannon said. “Which was a lot, or

you had to do a three mile walk/run outside of school using an app and then you would show them with the app.”

The grading scale being what it is makes it harder for students to receive the grade they want.

“If I had the chance to change the grading scale, I would probably make it a little less stressful and give kids a little more room to get and A because some of the units are really hard like the dancing unit,” Prywitch said.

students cash in turning favorite hobbies into jobs DANIEL ROMAN Staff Writer @danielroman1999

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riving past Waterway, you see an array of teenagers washing a never ending line of cars. As you walk into your local Noodles and Company, you see a friend working the register. Even while picking up groceries, a familiar face restocks the shelves across from you.

Lots of high schoolers have part time jobs, necessary to pay for gas, fund a night out with friends, or just to have extra cash around.

However, some students have taken it upon themselves to not just slug their way through a terrible work day in a dimly lit store, but put ambition into a job that they actually enjoy and applies to their passions.

Sophomore Brandon Hibbs started his own company during 7th grade.

“I started Hibbs Lawn and Landscaping around 7th grade,” Hibbs said. “I have a couple employees as of now, some teenagers and 20-30 year-olds. A lot of the teenage employees are good friends I know from the past.”

Aiming to put to use a passion for landscaping, Hibbs put a twist on the typical teenage lawn mowing job and transformed it into his own business, stocked with professional equipment and several clients.

“It’s a year-round business, right now I have around 25 recurring clients,” Hibbs said. “I usually work once a week for the lawn mowing and if a client calls me I’m happy to go do whatever they need, even on short notice.”

Juggling school and work seems to come naturally to Hibbs as he finds little problem with finding a balance.

“Honestly it’s not that hard to do both school and work, especially in the winter time when it gets dark around 5,” Hibbs said.

Building a business has taught Hibbs how to use money wisely, whether it be deciding how much to save, what to buy, and determining a price range for his services.

“One mowing usually costs $25,” Hibbs said. “Since I have a riding lawn mower it doesn’t take very long. Shoveling, stuff like that costs around $25-$35. I’m not really saving up for anything like college, I use a lot of the money for better lawn care equipment and I just like having cash around.”

Like Hibbs, sophomores Melissa Finn and Shannon Stolte have channeled their hobbies into a job, working with Utopia studios since 2014 dancing at parties, organized dances, and bar and bat mitzvahs.

“A senior on the dance team originally offered me the job at Utopia and I thought it’d be nice since I’m doing what I love,” Finn said.

Both Stolte and Finn were brought to the job by senior mentors on the dance team, and now they have expanded to work bigger Sophomores Melissa Finn and Shannon Stolte lead a group of children at Independence Elementary’s End of the Year Graduation venues now that they have ceremony. Photo courtesy of Shannon Stolte more experience.

“The job is basically danchas driven his decision to work as a vet intern this past year. ing with a crowd and getting people to join in so a basic dancing “I wanted to do an internship, because with this occupation experience is necessary,” Finn said. “Rarely, we show off some cool being so hard and rigorous in the first steps in college and on the tricks that we know how to do but besides that it’s not too hard.” job, I wanted prior knowledge of the career to make sure it is still The degree of difficulty isn’t too high for the sophomores and something I wanted to do,” Rudman said. they get to translate their hard work after school on the dance team Choosing to focus on future career possibilities, Rudman went into their paying jobs. to his veterinarian to see if he could intern at his practice.

“Everything is lead and follow,” Stolte said. “All that was needed “He immediately said yes,” Rudman said. “He has actually done is a dance background.” this before for Parkway and even had Dr. Baugus as an intern.”

Although it’s a job Stolte and Finn enjoy, they aren’t expecting a Not only has the job provided him with valuable experience and dance career to come out of it. new knowledge about the job, but it has opened his eyes to other “In the future I most likely won’t pursue dancing as a main capossible fields to study. reer, but I still love it a lot and I’m still young so you never know,” “Veterinary medicine is something I would like to pursue but Finn said.

I have also recently gotten interested in ecology, a new passion of However, they are still very loyal to Utopia studios and the mine,” Rudman said. opportunity the job has given them.

While most cash-deprived students tend to rush into typical “Even though I probably will not pursue a dancing career, I plan restaurant or local business jobs, a few tend to opt into part-time to stay with Utopia for as long as possible,” Stolte said. jobs that apply to their hobbies or passion, helping them to gain a While these students have chosen jobs that exemplify their first-hand experience on what working a full-time job will be like hobbies, senior Josh Rudman’s interest in working as a veterinarian later in life.

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collegiate athletics swimmer commits to missouri state KATE MCNEAL Editor-in-Chief @kateisgreat11

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eciding to continue his swimming career in college, senior Conner Ripp committed to swim at Missouri State because of location, level of team success, and team chemistry.

“I really like the team,” Ripp said. “It’s also a very good team so that’s really cool, and Springfield is a cool city. I really like the program as a whole.”

Along with Missouri State, Ripp looked into swimming at Truman State University, Michigan State University, George Washington University, and George Mason University. When a spot opened up at Missouri State in early March, because it was his top choice,

Senior Conner Ripp plans to swim at Missouri State in Springfield beginning this fall. Ripp currently swims for Rockwood Swim Club. Photo from Corral archives.

he decided to commit to swim there.

“If you look at their progress in the past years they’ve gotten a ton better, and their coach is very good and is really into the sport,” Ripp said. “The kids they’re recruiting get faster and faster, so the team is only going to grow, so it seems like it’ll only benefit me.”

According to Ripp, one of the most challenging parts of the recruiting process is communicating with coaches.

“The process as a whole is a lot of talking,” Ripp said. “On your part it’s really hard, trying to keep in contact with coaches.”

Although Ripp competed for the boys swim team his freshman through junior years, he decided not to his senior season so that he could continue training with his club team.

“Over the summer I qualified for some meets that were going to on on during the high school season,” Ripp said. “If I trained club, I

would be able to go to meets I had never been able to go to before.”

According to Ripp, the decision was based off of the opportunity to go to higher level meets, including Grand Prix meets and Junior Nationals.

“I think (head boys swim and dive coach Jeff) Spector is a great coach, and it didn’t reflect the team at all,” Ripp said.

Although not doing high school swim took away the opportunity to swim at the state meet, Ripp said that overall it was beneficial, and gave him the ability to improve in events that he will able to compete in during college meets. Looking to next year, Ripp said he is most excited for the new experience.

“I’m excited to try something I’ve never done before, and for being at another level of the sport,” Ripp said.

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because I couldn’t really exercise anymore.”

Mosley has been in the band for seven years. He has been in the jazz band for five years, two of which were at the middle school.

Mosley will be attending the University of Missouri after he received a prestigious scholarship from the music school.

“Just to get into the music program I had to prepare a 2 pieces and a solo of what they called ‘all state’ caliber music,” Mosley said.

“So I practiced that for 3 months and had to perform in front of four judges, which had some pressure.”

To get into the jazz program, Mosley had to perform in front of one of the jazz which he claimed was slightly easier.

Mosley hopes to go into music education and believes that Mizzou is the right place for him. Mosley said he was humbled when he received the scholarship.

“I was surprised when I got the scholarship because I haven’t really done any solo competitions, even though I probably should have,” Mosley said. “It was cool to compare myself to other people and it was also cool to get recognized for my skills. I’m excited for the future.”

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Saxophone player hopes to continue career JEFFREY EIDELMAN Managing Editor @jeffey44

D Playing a solo on the alto saxophone, senior Charlie Mosley performs at the Big Band Dance on April 2. Photo by Tara Stepanek.

ragging his 2012 Jansport backpack across the halls, aspiring musician senior Charlie Mosley found his passion through what ended up being a blessing in disguise from his junior year.

“I was playing tennis against University City and my wrist started hurting,” Mosley said. “And the pain spread to my shoulder.

One day my arm went numb and then my shoulder constantly hurt. After three long months of physical therapy I then found out the nerve in my shoulder was being compressed by my rib and some other muscles, so they had to take those out.”

Mosley missed 10 days of school after

surgery, and even then the pain in his shoulder lurked.

“After I got surgery, pain was a ten out of ten,” Mosley said. “Nowadays, I have to be really careful with what I lift, how I sit and stand, where and how I lay. I can’t lay on my right side. I have to be careful when I play tennis. When I play the sax, the neck strap around my neck would hurt my shoulder.”

However this injury, albeit constantly annoying according to Mosley, is poised to birth a star in the making as he now shifts his focus to music, specifically playing the saxaphone.

“It[band] has always been fun for me because I’ve been relatively good,” Mosley said. “Then I started practicing and taking more lessons which made it more fun. After surgery band became more important to me

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ven though the Class of 2016 is departing the hallways on May 6, their unique interests and talents will continue with them. Check out what makes each of these seniors unique. >Ori Galer is from Israel and is fluent in Hebrew. >Andy McEwen is attending Southeast Missouri State on a bass fishing scholarship. >Connor Aleksic spent a majority of the year in Canada playing hockey. >Shaun Sternklar had three knee surgeries in less than a year. >Danielle Sartori competed in the Junior Olympics for kayaking.

LIBBY ARCHER Staff Writer @LibbyArcher1

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oping to pursue a career in fashion, senior Hanna Abuzeid is working towards opening her second clothing store, this one in the United States.

“I’m going to community college to study ultrasound but I’m thinking about opening a fashion line,”Abuzeid said. “I’ve already opened this store back home.”

Abuzeid has a boutique type shop back in her birth country of Jordan and has family and friends back home running it for her. She doesn’t design the clothes in the shop but she decides what’s in and what’s out.

“The shop sells clothes, accessories, shoes, nail polish and makeup,” Abuzeid said. “I’d say it’s kind of like JCPenney with a little bit of Sephora.”

She is planning on spending her summer back in Jordan to get the shop completely up and running before returning to St. Louis to attend Maryville.

Though she wants to start her own fashion line, starting in Jordan and then moving to the U.S. after, she prefers to choose outfits instead of sewing and designing clothing.

“I bought the fabric and just sewed the pieces together,” Abuzeid said. “I wore the shirt that I made, it was too tight but I thought it looked good.”

Abuzeid has taken both Fashion Merchandising and Clothing 1 and 2 to help her get ahead with her designing.The fashion schools in Jordan didn’t reach her expectations because they were more focused on the appearance of the clothing, rather than making them useable in real life.

“It really mattered what it looked like on the outside not anything else,”Abuzeid said.After school is over she does want to move back to Jordan to be with her friends and family since she’s been staying with aunts and uncles in the states and misses her parents. “ I am going to miss a lot of things, my friends, the teachers, the beautiful things here,” she said.

She does want to eventually come back to the states though to start to branch out her store worlwide.

did you know?

>Juhi Nayak does Bharata Natyam, a type of Indian dancing. >Josh Mannis released his own album called “Turn Off the Lights.” >Anna Zhang has kept up an entirely vegan diet for over a year. >Hiroki Gavin competed in an international water polo tournament in February. >Alex Rehr is one-sixteenth Native American. >Sharanya Kumar got a perfect score on the SAT. >Trasean Stepney received a choir scholarship from Missouri Western University. >Kristine Tucker moved to the United States from Brazil when she was adopted at age 10.

Showing off her “outfit of the day,”

>Sydney Winders sings in the St. Louis Children’s Choir. >Kara Stark committed to run at Butler University.

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Jennifer Aykent Sarah Kanter Stephen Kreitman Adam Schellenberg

Loyola University Dominic Marren

Northwestern University Bobbi Throckmorton

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Jillian Hamill

University of Chicago Josh Konecek

University of Illinois Sarah Madsen

Kayla Branigan Sierra Downing Kania Kendrick Knija Kendrick Scott Prywitch

Kentucky

Murray State University Piper Rother

University of Kentucky Jennifer Wayland

Louisiana Tulane University Josh Oppenheim

Maryland Johns Hopkins University Jinghang Zhang

Indiana

University of Maryland

Kara Stark

Massachusetts Massachusetts College of

Butler University

Meem Ahsan

Austin Rader Zoe Raft

DePauw University

Arkansas University of Arkansas

Indiana State University

Nely Peshlova

Natalie Kesselring

Rachel Givens Isabel Mosley Christina Oxler

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Minnesota

California Stanford University Elizabeth Reichert

University of Southern California Josh Yang Shirley Yu

Colorado Colorado State University Brooke Pottinger

University of Colorado Boulder Nathan Dettlebach

Florida University of Florida Cameron Carriglio

Georgia Georgia State University Grant Evans

Tyler Rosen

Mike Conger Shannon Flynn Noah Grossman Amanda Herman Josh Mannis Tyler McDowell Kate McNeal Spencer Nathan Brandon Nathanson Jessica Randall

Purdue University Tony Aslin Emma Roberts Lucas Shanker Abigail Urnes Naomi Urnes

Iowa

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Kansas

Kansas State University Dean Randolph

University of Kansas Lily Bauer

Art and Design

University of Minnesota Hana Jeong

Mississippi Mississippi College Ashley Wilson

University of Mississippi Tyler Alms Mac Rogers

Missouri Drury University Justin Revelle

Fontbonne University Abby Mahiger

Hannibal-Lagrange University Rodney Walton

Kansas City Art Institute Mirose Song

Lindenwood University Dillon Bys Lauren Greenstein Matthew Kertzman

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seniors Tali Azar Mehak Lodhi Benjamin Scissors

Natilija Popenkova Jillian Roman Charlie Wenthe Melinda Winkelmann

Missouri University of S&T

St. Louis University

Adam Barr John DeStefano Hiroki Gavin Aaron Graham Christopher Gu Nick King Ryan Lander Noah Lieberman Leo Mankovich Andrew Powell Doug Ryterski

Mia Knowles Juhi Nayak Pundaree Pisutvong Kevin Seetharaman

Missouri State University

University of Central Missouri

Gregory Andert Hannah Bailey Christine Butler Nolan Cordes Parker Cuddihee Jack Durfee Eric Fenton Madeline Finkelstein Johnny Hall Erik Jost Alex Ke Roo Kodner Arion Love Justin McMullen Carleigh Nichols Katie Novak Jena Pollak Conner Ripp Cassidy Roach Alec Rothman Morgan Schwarz LaTasha Smith Kristen Stolte Jennifer Wade

Missouri Western University Trasean Stepney

Southeast Missouri State University Andy McEwen Kathryn Mezines Jacob Scissors Kaytlyn Sneed Samantha Starnes Madeleine Van Leunen Hannah Zenk

St. Louis Community College-Meremac Zahra Ahmad Brian Craig Ruohan Lou Nathan Mikitin Margaret Pariera

Truman State University Carlie Burns Sonia Giannotti Susie LaFever Connor Lovera

Pujita Ravichandar Ori Galer Austin Page Christian Page Michael Porfidio

University of Missouri Traci Baron Elyssa Beilenson Elena Bernstein Elizabeth Boedeker JP Byrne Mason Cloud Adam Cohen Quinn Conlisk Amanda Diamond Jeff Dicker Jake Dunbar Cole Edelstein Danielle Feigenbaum Samantha Fox Natalie Gibbs Jamie Goldberg Julia Guenther Connor Hank Katie Heitz Tucker Jesse Sean Kim Joanna Kolker Gajun Kumar Sharanya Kumar Alex Lanson Ben Levine Cooper Lohkamp Matias Martin Austin Mayfield Charlie Mosley Brandt Neuman Eli Newmark Valerie Pelts Thomas Rechenberg Joshua Rudman Nathan Sanders Joely Skinner Michael Smith Shaun Sternklar

Gavin Smallwood Leon Thomas Kristine Tucker

University of Missouri- Kansas City Haydn Dubman Kayla Hodge Simona Koverman

University of Missouri-St. Louis Yazan Akel

Washington University Daniella Bursak Simran Panwar Grace Peacock Michael Rembold

Webster University Tyler Kendrick Noah Whalen

Westminster College Emily McCann Robert Shifrin

Nebraska

Creighton University Kaliyah Meriwether

New York

Colgate University Max Baron

University of Tulsa Aidan Dunne Caroline Rodgers Eleni Schmitt

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania State University Jessie Mayer

Tennessee Vanderbilt University Alex Rehr

Utah

Brigham Young University Michelle Blasini

Vermont

Middlebury College Caitlin Magruder

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin Michael Bean

International Germany

Lilli Schlunt-von Pressentin Ole Vollbehr

Hamilton College

Goldsmiths, University of London

Anna Zhang

Noa Remi

New York University

Israel

Reina Kim

Tal Halperin

Ohio Columbus College of Art and

Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina

Design Courtney Millman

Miami University

Sofi Lasarte

Puerto Rico University Joel Cupeles

Jeffrey Eidelman Sam Schaeffer

Armed Forces

Ohio State University

Mingyu Kang

Niko Stamos

Navy

Oklahoma Oklahoma State University

Army (MAVNI)

Maximilian Jacques

Kelsey Ware All information was gather through May 2. We have made every effort to make sure this list is as thorough and accurate as possible, knowing that students’ plans may change after that time.

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the path less traveled

Seniors Courtney Millman and Nely Peshlova work on their AP Studio Art projects. “I started to become interested in art sophomore uear when I took advanced drawing,” Millman said. “After I took it I started to realize what art really meant to me, and I started to feel my skills grow.”

Seniors find passion in less popular majors MITCH BRODDON Staff Writer @mitchbroddon

As seniors make plans for the future, rather than choosing more traditional majors, some plan to take a more creative path.

There are tons of majors out there, and it may seem unusual for a student to go into fields such as art or music. Senior Courtney Millman can agree, as she plans to attend the Columbus College of Art and Design next year.

“Careers like this should be taken a whole lot more seriously,” Millman said. “Yes, they’re unique and different but reaching out for those goals, as long as you have the skill level and the determination, you’ll be able to achieve anything.”

Millman started taking art classes her sophomore year, and since then art has become a passion. This semester she is taking six art classes, and she has many to thank for getting her interested in the field.

“A lot of the reason I want to go down this path is because my older sister went up to Milwaukee to pursue art,” Millman said.

“Cara Deffenbaugh also really influenced me and basically taught me almost everything I know about art.”

Similar to Millman, senior Nely Peshlova plans to pursue a career in art, and plans to study at the National Art School in Boston following graduation.

“It started with really simple art classes because I needed the credits,” Peshlova said. “I kept taking more advanced classes until I was encouraged to finally join AP art, and from there I just became more and more interested in it.”

For her, she has recently had a hard time deciding what type of art she is interested in studying.

“I always thought that I wanted to go into art education, but lately I’ve been considering industrial design,” Peshlova said. “My dad really likes it and I wouldn’t mind designing car seats, as weird as that sounds.”

For some people, like Peshlova, it wasn’t clear at first what she

was really interested in studying, It took a little bit to find what she really wanted to do.

“I do a lot of theatre, and I took a ton of theatre classes in freshman year, and over time art classes started to fill that role instead,” Peshlova said.

Senior Simran Panwar wants to take a year in India before going off to college.

“I would spend the gap year with my family there and travel a little bit,” Panwar said. “I was born in India and I go back every other summer, but we don’t ever really get to go places other than New Dehli. India is so big and I want to take advantage of everything that it has to offer.”

This was the plan, but when she received a full ride scholarship to attend Washington University, the opportunity is hard to pass up.

“We are looking into if the scholarship can be deferred, but I’m not 100% sure that I’m able to do that.” Panwar said.

did you know? >Niko Stamos and Eleni Schmitt both dance at their Greek Orthodox church. >Josh Yang started the Ferguson Youth Tutoring program. >Bobbi Throckmorton wore a tiara to school for most of sixth grade. >Tyler Rosen committed to play football at DePauw University. He will be part of the offensive line.

>Andrew Powell rows for St. Louis Rowing Club. >Matt Kane closely follows baseball statistics and plans to have a career in sports stats. >Alayna Clayman, Adam Cohen, Cole Edelstein, Nick Larimore and Charlie Mosley play in a band together called West County Jazz. >Sarah Madsen committed to run at the University of Illinois.

>Kayla Hodge and Michelle Augustine were accepted into the six-year BA/MD med program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. >Christopher Gu qualified for the All-State Choir for the second year, first as a bass and then as a tenor. >Kevin Seetharaman is playing lacrosse at St. Louis University.

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s seniors make decisions about what they want to do in the coming years, many will follow the traditional route and attend a four-year college. But, there will be a few that take a different path, whether that is as close to home as community college, or traveling around the world to help at risk youth.

Many students, like senior Nathan Mikitin, attend a community college because they want to earn credit without the bills that often come with a college acceptance letter.

“It’s a good start for getting where I want to go in life,” Mikitin said. “Right now my plan is to see if I can find any classes that have transferable credits or hours and see if I can get into a four-year college.”

Others, like senior Tal Halperin, choose to travel farther from home to pursue different programs.

“The program is called Tzofim Shnat Sherut,” Halperin said.

Senior Tal Halperin leads a team-building activity while training In New York. Photo courtesy of Tal Halperin.

“The program places you in an apartment with 3-5 other 18 year olds in an area with poverty, crime, or at risk children.”

Students who partake in this program are placed in different areas throughout Israel and complete a variety of jobs.

“Each location has a different task ranging from creating or running an after school program for the kids, helping children in school who fall behind, to bringing the community together through events and activities,” Halperin said. “The overarching goal is to be an influential part of the community and to be a role model for kids who everyone else gave up on.”

Senior Mingyu Kang, who is originally from South Korea, is joining the MAVNI program so he can expedite the citizenship process.

“The thing with this program is they give out citizenship within 9 weeks of the program,” Kang said. “So I enlist and I get shipped out to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina this August 19th, and after 9 weeks of that basic training I get my citizenship. So, I bypass all the green card processes, and I will gain American Citizenship.”

While this might extend Kang’s time before he can start his

career, it does not seem to worry them.

“Initially I wanted to do programming, and I actually get to change to that job after completing two years of my initial job as a doctor,” Kang said. “I think I’ll take my job as programmer after that term. The thing with programming is, if you are skilled at it and people at the companies see you, then you don’t really need a college education to get a decent job.”

While some plan to attend traditional college after their current plans, many others continue their work and make a career out of it.

“The main purpose of the program is to work with at risk children in impoverished areas and be an active member of the community, which could definitely shape my future plans,” Halperin said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if I decide to join the Israeli Defense Force or go on to other community service oriented projects after doing this gap year.”

Mikitin echoes Halperin’s point that the time after high school is when people will begin to find their calling.

“College, and the years after high school in general, are there for you to find what you want to do with your life,” Mikitin said.

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ave you ever reached over to your friend’s lunch tray and grabbed a french fry?

Have you ever eaten in class? Borrowed a snack from a friend? Eaten a bag of chips without even glancing at the ingredient label?

The way that we interact with food is ingrained within school culture, but for students with food allergies it can be a much more complicated world to navigate.

Charged with the protection of almost 800 students with life-threatening food allergies, the district highlighted allergy awareness and safety this year by hosting an information panel organized by the St. Louis chapter of the Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America (AAFA) on April 7 at Parkway Central Middle.

“The incidence of food allergies has increased so much over the years,” Director of Health Services Robin Wallin said. “We have many, many more people with life-threatening food allergies than ever before.

It’s definitely something that all schools should be worried about, definitely an emerging concern.”

Food allergy basics

When those with life-threatening allergies encounter the food or substance they are allergic to, they risk a reaction called anaphylaxis. This reaction can cause various symptoms, including a tight throat, coughing, thick tongue, and swelling; often, the person cannot breathe.

Fortunately, a reaction can be stopped with the administration of a drug called epinephrine, delivered through an auto-injector, which is an easy-to-use syringe that delivers just one dose.

“You can do one [epinephrine injection], and truly you get almost immediate results like relief from the symptoms,” Hunt said.

Despite the effectiveness of the Epi-Pen, a hospital visit is always necessary after an episode of anaphylaxis.

“If you don’t get to the hospital quick enough, it can happen where it gets worse again until you get another shot of [epinephrine],” Hunt said.

“It’s absolutely necessary that it’s treated immediately.”

According to Dr. Ray Davis, a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine who spoke at the panel, four foods make of 90% of food allergies: peanuts, tree nuts, milk and eggs.

Statistically, teenagers and young adults with life-threatening allergies are particularly at risk.

“Most of the episodes of anaphylaxis actually happen to teenagers,” Wallin said. “You wouldn’t think that--you’d think it’d be mostly younger kids, but most episodes happen in teenagers and young adults.”

“Parkway’s mostly peanut-free,” junior Luis Ocampo, wh allergic to nuts and fresh produce, said. “They make sure the ings if something has nuts.”

Sometimes teachers take initiative to ensure safety in the “A lot of teachers don’t allow eating in their classes,” juni Chelist,who has a severe peanut and tree nut allergy, said. “T because if someone had like a peanut bar and then I sat down desk, that couldn’t be good.”

Food allergies in school

Even with all the precautions, public high schools simply late everything.

“In high school, we kind of consider it a small, little micr real world,” Hunt said. “This is not a ‘peanut-free’ school, we a ‘peanut-free’ zone, there’s not a ‘peanut-free’ table like the elementary schools--because high schoolers are thinking for more.”

The responsibility, then, falls largely on the food allergic “It’s just a matter of being alert, staying with it, thinking you’re eating, reading labels, asking friends, making the righ yourself,” Hunt said.

Students with severe food allergies always have to be awa what they, and the people around them, are eating.

“During lunch I’m just like ‘oh, careful with that sandwic said. “But I can still sit with people who eat peanut butter. So for events, I’ll have to bring my own food and stuff, especial birthday parties. I’ll eat before just to make sure that I’m not There are some activities at school that have to be almost avoided.

“When we eat in class, like when they have parties, I nor eat it,” Chelist said.

Most high school students have already learned how to li whatever their setbacks or limitations might be.

“Fruit and vegetables are obviously part of a healthy diet. to get canned vegetables and processed fruit in order to eat i said. “It’s something I just deal with in daily life.”

But accidents can still happen.

This year, there were only four total incidents in the district; of these, two were in high school. Our school has not had an incident this year, but last year there were several.

There are many things that happen behind the scenes to help keep students safe. At the beginning of each year, every district faculty member is required to watch a 15-minute training video on how to use an Epi-Pen. Hunt, like all school nurses in the district, also has a stock of extra epinephrine in her office.

But emergency response is only one way to address food allergy safety. At the panel, Kathleen McDarby, a member of the AAFA board, stressed that avoidance is the key to food allergy safety. She outlined some of the people involved in the process of avoiding dangerous food allergy situations.

“The parents have the responsibility to inform the school,” McDarby, also a registered nurse, said. From there, she spoke about teachers, administrators, and especially nurses as having significant roles. She stressed education and training as far as knowing how to administer epinephrine and recognizing the symptoms of a reaction.

“Every semester, confidential medical information is sent out to all of the teachers of the students who have a severe allergy, whether it be food or substance,” Hunt said.

The network of communication is extensive, and includes almost every faculty member who interacts with a food allergic student, from coaches to food service. There are also other rules in place that make things easier for food-allergic students.

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One of the best ways to avoid those accidents is for friends of food allergic people to be aware.

“It’s important for all the peers to know who’s allergic and what they’re allergic to,” Laurie Falk, a private-school counselor who worked with St. Louis Children’s Hospital on a Food Allergy Management and Education project, said at the panel.

When people feel uncomfortable about their allergy, they can feel pressured to make dangerous decisions.

“Sometimes teenagers might make a choice to put themselves in a risky situation just so they didn’t appear to be different than their friends,” Wallin said. “Some teenagers choose not to carry their epinephrine auto-injector. They’re not really small, they’re big, so it may not look good in their pocket. They might not want to have to carry a purse, so they make choices like that to not carry it.”

Because of this, one of the most important ways to make food allergies easier for high schoolers is for friends to be both educated and compassionate.

“Anything that we can do to help kids care about each other, and help protect each other, is a really good thing,” Wallin said. “Raising awareness with young people would be great to help protect our peers with food allergies.”

It can also be smart to have close friends who know what to do in an emergency.

“My friends, they all know how to use an Epi-Pen,” Chelist said. “My mom has taught a lot of them.”

One thing that everyone needs to understand is the significance of life-threatening food allergies.

“Sometimes if you’ve never known someone with a food allergy or never seen someone who has had a reaction, it may not even seem very real,” Wallin said. “It’s like, ‘yeah right.’ But it’s very real, and people die every year from anaphylaxis. So it’s something that we really need to be very careful about.”

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corral Communication needs to be more prevalent throughout the school Editor-in-Chief Kate McNeal

Managing Editor Jeffrey Eidelman Features Editor Kayla Benjamin Sports Editor Robert Shifrin

Entertainment Editor Piper Rother Social Media Manager Alex Lanson Staff Writers Libby Archer Mitchell Broddon JP Bryne Mike Conger Alex Kaiser Garrett Lierman Daniel Roman Sammy Weber Noah Weidner Sarah Whalen Graphic Designer Dean Randolph Business Manager Mac Rogers

STAFF EDITORIAL @pchcorral

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ave you ever been invited to something but were never told when or exactly where it was and ended up missing it? This lack of communication can be frustrating for not only you, but everyone else expecting you.

This lack of communication reigns throughout the school, as we, the student body, are consistently left out of the loop about the goings on in and around the building.

Granted, we don’t need to know everything, but times and dates of events and other happenings around the school could be helpful. For example, we were all invited to National Signing Day for our student athletes in February after school in the social studies commons, but just last week, a second signing day was held at second lunch and no one was aware of the event except for the participants involved -- and even they were only told the day before.

If that were the only oversight, we wouldn’t be so concerned. But it isn’t.

When the new scoreboard was constructed, no one outside of the in-season athletes even knew it was happening, much less the timeline of its installation. That makes it really hard to be excited about something new when by the

time students know about it, it’s been there for weeks.

Having the option to go to the events or to even just know about what is going on would be appreciated in helping us to become more informed citizens -- of our school and our larger community.

While most of us are still technically kids, one of the only ways that we are going to learn about what civic literacy is and how informed we should be as adults is for us to be educated by our school.

With technology advancing, communication has become exceptionally easy and more important than ever. Even just sending out a tweet on a school affiliated twitter account or going over the PA system at the end of the day to inform or remind everyone what is going on would be ex-

tremely helpful in the long run.

Now it’s a given that the administrators have a lot on their plates, and we as a student body don’t always make their jobs easy, but all we need is a little more communication around the school.

An up-to-date events calendar that students, faculty and parents have access to with all events on it such as sports, band concerts and even building maintenance projects is something we as a school need.

We need a greater social media presence from the school, not just the district, that sends out updates on building activities as well as cancellations of sports and different miscellaneous events that go on around campus.

It would be nice to have a way for 21st century students to recognize their classmates who have won awards, support their peers at games made up after rainouts, participate in a new club without having to wait for a poster to be hung on a wall advertising a meeting day and time, and continue to become involved in our school and community.

It’s a big job for one person, but we as a student body would be willing to help. Just give us the opportunity to do so.

Adviser Ms. Tara Stepanek

The Corral is a student-written, edited and produced publication of Parkway Central High School, 369 N. Woods Mill Road, Chesterfield, MO 63017; 314-415-7978.

The Corral is given away free of charge to students and faculty. Subscriptions and patronships for one year may be purchased, starting at $20.

The goal of this publication is to provide accurate, informative and entertaining information in the true spirit of responsible journalism and to operate as an open forum for students, faculty, administrators and parents.

The Corral is created on Hewlett-Packard computers using Adobe Creative Suite 6 and is published by Missourian Publishing.

Unsigned editorials reflect the views of the majority of the staff. Signed columns and artwork reflect the views of that individual.

The staff appreciates comments and suggestions. Letters to the editor, guest editorials and other correspondence are encouraged but must be signed. The Corral reserves the right to publish or refrain from publishing, as well as edit, all submitted material.

Graphic by Dean Randolph

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why the lou needs a basketball crew Alex Lanson Social Media Manager @wutangclanson

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lthough I understand that, in reality, the hopes of our city being blessed with an basketball team is slim to none, it is still worth at least trying to recruit one. The following are five semi-serious reasons St. Louis needs an NBA team:

1. If we can get this excited about baseball imagine if we had an exciting sport

3. We need to fill the void in our hearts

As of this winter we had a messy break up with a team that we‌ no longer speak of. When this team decided to head west in search for gold, we were left with a giant stadium space but no team. While there have been many ideas about what to do with the black hole known as the Edward Jones Dome. While some want it to be turned into a place where fish swim and others want it to be turned into a field where Europeans kick a ball around for 90 minutes, it should be turned into an NBA arena. Lets leave the fish in the ocean and the europeans in Europe, we can fill the void with a squad of 12 mostly american six and seven footers.

For some reason (and I’m not sure why) we get on average over 40,000 people to pack into a giant stadium and waste a summer night to watch men chew tobacco and occasionally throw and hit a ball while we buy overpriced hot dogs. Invision having a sport that is actually fun to watch. A sport where it isn’t uncommon for a team to score in the double, or even triple, digits. I mean last year the Cardinals scored, on average, 4 runs a game and averaged about 43,000 fans. The average NBA team last year scored around 102 points a game. If we get the same point to fan ratio that is 1,103,630 fans per game! An NBA record!

We are currently in a gridlock with the city on the west border in a battle to decide who shall be crowned the best city in Missouri. We have Budwieser they have Sprint. They have Barbecue we have Bread Co. But in the sports department it has become a much closer race. While we have split with the team we no longer speak of, they went out and beat us at our own game by winning a World series. If we add an NBA team we will once again have the prestigious title of Missouri’s best sports city.

2. We need some more tall people in this school

5. It will us on the map internationally

As as school, we are short. Most of us struggle to get over the 6 foot mark and for those who are, it is only by an inch or two. Absent are the freaks who hit there head on the ceiling and tower over the rest of us vertically impaired folk. But we can change that. Think about it: If we get a basketball team, the team will have to sign freakishly tall players. If the team signs freakishly tall players then freakishly tall people will move to St. Louis. If freakishly tall people move to St. Louis then so will their freakishly tall children, and these freakishly tall children need somewhere to go to school. So, if we get an NBA team it is up to you St. Louis realtors. Show them the beautiful houses in Green Trails and River Bend, and help make our school tall again.

4. We have to beat Kansas City as Missouri’s best city

In all seriousness, the NBA, unlike the other big 4 sports leagues, is about much more than just sports. Recently, the NBA has become a league that greatly influences fashion, music, and other arts. This is why NBA cities are distinctly different from non-NBA cities. Along with this, basketball is an international game. While in other sports it is only America and Canada that can bare to watch, basketball is that plus Asia, Europe, and Australia. This would allow St. Louis to get there name out internationally, as well as changing the culture of the city to a more vibrant urban culture.

Congratulations to PCH Publications staff members: >Jeffrey Eidelman, Shannon Flynn, Kayla Hodge and Kate McNeal were named to the State Journalism Honor Roll for their outstanding work in journalism and their other academic successes. >Megan Wallis’s photo was named State Portrait Photo of the Year. >Jeffrey Eidelman’s story was a State Finalist, one of the top 10 percent of entries in State Feature Story of the Year. >Alex Lanson’s infographic was a State Finalist, one of the top 10 percent of entries in State Art of the Year.

Why positive thinking is the key ROBERT SHIFRIN Sports Editor @brightfuturerob

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very day we have new challenges, assignments, and opportunities here at school. Though it all may seem scary, it doesn’t have to be. Though there are plenty of things throughout high school that we simply can’t control, we can control the way we think about them. The way we feel about each day’s journey depends upon how we look at it.

You might not realize how quickly high school goes by, but you’ll wake up one morning in April of your senior year and wonder where the time went. Whether or not we make the most of this four year journey depends upon our mind set, and how we think about our experiences.

Some of us have big goals and aspirations, but struggle to realize them. If you continue to come up short of your goals, you have to try a new approach. Instead of giving up, it’s so important that you keep trying, and trust what you love.

When you feel down, or afraid, you can change that. If you start to feel doubtful or negative about the obstacles in front of you, you should stop and take a minute to refresh your thoughts. You can force yourself to think positively, and it will make a difference.

Your brain will subconsciously find the easiest way, or most comfortable way to process things. This means that if you constantly think positively, you’re going to have a reliable positive voice in your head. It pains me that so many of us struggle with being positive, and might be afraid of failure. We’ve got to look at failure as an opportunity to grow, and accept that it’s going to

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happen. We all have those days where we have a full plate of tasks, and we feel overwhelmed.

I’ve found that on those days, it helps to think of all of your daily activities as opportunities, and not obligations. I try to think in terms of, “What can I do to make the most of this chance?� instead of “How am I going to get through this?�

The reality is that we only get four years of high school, and our experience will be what we make it.

We may not have the same opportunities as our adult lives begin that we currently have.

That’s enough motivation for me to enjoy the time I have left as much as possible. As high school quickly passes us by, I want to look back and think that I tried my best, and had a good time doing it.

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Rapid Responses to Quick Questions ALEX KAISER Staff Writer @AlexKaiser22

What are you too What is your favorite Disney/Pixar scared to try but movie? have wanted to?

What cartoon character do you relate to most?

What would you do first as President?

What is your most used non social media app?

Daria from “Daria”

Make Beyonce my VP

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Acting

“Toy Story”

Gerald from “Hey Arnold”

Legalize Hot Cheetos for everyone

Vine

Ghost peppers

“The Incredibles”

Funmi Ayeni (10)

Penny Proud from “The Proud Family”

End nuclear war

Pandora

Sushi

“Pocahontas”

Kallie Haugen (11)

Ed from “Ed, Edd, and Eddy”

Legalize marijuana

Winelo

Skydiving

“Snow White”

John Randall (12)

Spongebob from “Spongebob Squarepants”

Make speed limits higher

The calculator app

Skydiving

“Lion King”

Valerie Pelts (12)

Bugs Bunny from “The Looney Tunes”

Fix school lunches

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“Kung Fu Panda”

Roya Porshahidy (9) Chase Coleman (10)

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JEFFREY EIDELMAN Managing Editor @jeffey44

“eye in the sky” offers little in terms of excitement, entertainment

wouldn’t call “Eye in the Sky” a waste of an hour and 45 minutes, just simply an unnecessary use of it. The message was strong, but not many people let alone teenagers would find this film worth your time.

The main character, Col. Katherine Powell, played by Helen Mirren, is in charge of tracking terrorists in Africa. After stumbling across important leaders and an imminent problem, she

is stuck with a decision: bomb a house where children are located but risk the lives of hundreds more(the house was a terrorist controlled house with many explosives inside). This prompted the question that is the point of the film: Does consciousness play a role in today’s modern warfare?

After the first thirty minutes of the film, I was literally in and out of sleep. Now, it didn’t help that I had been awake for the 20 hours prior, but I still thought I’d be able to stick it out.

Everything was so predictable, especially after watching the trail-

er. Quality films will be entertaining beyond the trailer, but when I already know what’s going to happen, someone somewhere has done something wrong.

The message was strong, along with the acting cinematography.

My opinion is most definitely biased because I missed a good 20 minutes of the film asleep.

To sum it up, this is not a movie that you want to see at all.

If you’re going to see it at all, wait for the DVD and don’t see it in theaters. You can spare yourself the tiring and boring hour and forty-three minutes.

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ark Ziegler woke up from unconsciousness with a bump, hitting his head on a low ceiling. He panicked, hyperventilating and completely unaware of where he was.

“Where am I?” he screamed.

The shaky container he was trapped in screeched to a halt as a door slammed shut somewhere in front of him. The trunk opened up and O’Brien stood over him, radiating power.

“What’s going on, O’Brien?”

“Get out of the car.”

Ziegler stood up, blinded by the light as he grew accustomed to the sun again. He looked around at the empty field.

“What do you want?”

“Stop asking so many questions,” snapped O’Brien. “You’re gonna help me out in a couple days at Hubbard’s dinner party... don’t you remember our chat?”

“Yeah-yeah I remember,” he said. “But how am I gonna help you?”

“You’ll find out-but right now I just need you to keep cool. Both of us know if I let you go, you’d run spilling your betrayal to Hubbard. If you do that, though, they’ll kill you and my plan will be ruined. So we’re not gonna do that.”

“I wouldn’t say anyth-” He hit the floor with a thump, again.

“Don’t lie to me,” O’Brien muttered to himself.

The next time Ziegler woke up he was chained

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entertainment to a bedpost at the Charlie Rose Inn, a charming little motel on the outskirts of town. By now, O’Brien had left, leaving Ziegler alone with his thoughts. Obviously, O’Brien wouldn’t let his key to success wander around telling his associates of the plan, no matter how quiet he claimed he would stay.

As night fell, O’Brien stood at the top of the motel roof listening intently to his old police radio. At any time the troops could be closing in on him and he needed to know where they were.

Besides that, it served as a nostalgic reminder to him. How long it had been since he was driving around, working the job he loved so much.

Suddenly, static ceased on the radio and O’Brien heard his old boss over the speaker.

Dew had started to form on the pristine grass of the picture-perfect neighborhood, especially the front lawn of the Calvin household. A young man stumbled across the lawn, leaving bloody footprints and tainting the lawn’s innocence. He broke through one of the front windows, near where his parents were eating their dinner.

“Noah!” Mrs. Calvin screamed. “What are you doing?”

She stumbled backwards from the table terrified of what he would do. Noah was in a frenzied state, perceiving nothing and focusing on tearing his old house to shreds.

“Enough Noah,” Mr. Calvin said, nervously trying to calm him down. He had given up searching for his son a while ago and now the failure of his mission began to haunt him much more. The frantic animal pulled out a knife and the Calvins sprinted up the stairs, phone in hand, dialing 911, and looking for a place to hide.

“We have a domestic disturbance at 42 Whitewash Ave. Noah Calvin is wielding a knife at his parents... All units in a 10 mile radius report to the scene,” Hubbard said over the speaker.

O’Brien jolted up, finally able to locate his old enemy. As he sprinted down the stairs from the roof, he looked back into his room where Ziegler still laid chained to the bedpost. Everything was clicking for him. The detective jumped into his parked Lincoln MKZ, a personal vendetta burned into his head.

Sirens turned on and weaving in and out of traffic, Hubbard continued to rehearse how his plan would be carried out. If everything went well, at the end of the night Noah Calvin would be dead and blamed for the death of Katherine Greene. Of course he would kill Noah, otherwise the cult in the woods would get out-and that could not be allowed to happen. The corruption that defined the town’s police would be exposed

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and the aftermath would be apocalyptic. Yes, Noah would be killed in a “scuffle”, blamed for the murder, justified because of his “insanity” and so on.

“Officers,” Hubbard yelled as he stepped out of his car and onto the crime scene. “Use any force necessary this boy is a killer and more innocent lives could be harmed. He is in the house somewhere. Find him, find his parents, let’s all get home safe.”

Two houses down, a camouflaged O’Brien sat watching- observing the corruption that was unfolding in front of him. Of course there was nothing he could do now, Hubbard would arrest him on the spot, charging him as a murderer and enemy of the town.

For a while, nothing happened. He couldn’t hear anything happen inside the house, but suddenly something caught O’Brien’s attention as a lanky figure slipped out from the side of the house, sprinting towards the woods. He wasn’t the only one that saw him however.

“NOAH!” screamed Hubbard, streaking after him. “All units, the suspect is fleeing into the woods. Stop him by any means necessary.”

Gunshots went off, turning the civil neighborhood into the scene of a guerrilla attack. The peace was interrupted and the pleas of the Calvins were drowned out as Hubbard barked orders at his minions. Furious, Hubbard grabbed the boy’s parents from their hiding spot.

“You’re coming with us to the station,” he yelled, clearly enraged.

“Why? What did we do? What’s going on?”

Slowly, the rows of cop cars filed out of the neighborhood as O’Brien stood waiting and watching. When the last sedan had left, he quietly moved into the empty house, picking the lock and heading for the boy’s room.

“Why had Noah decided to come back to his parents house if he was really innocent,” he thought to himself. “If he was truly innocent he could’ve continued on living with the cult. Coming back here was essentially giving himself up to the police, especially if he had this plan to kill his parents. Nothing was making sense.”

The rogue detective pondered his situation. How quickly everything had escalated.

He lost a friend, his family was all but ruined, now he was too far into this endless, revolving corruption to quit it now. He and Hubbard were now in a twisted game of cat and mouse where the consequences for either were terrifying.

A small box in the closet caught the detective’s eye. On instinct, he picked it up and found a small button on the side revealing a picture of

KiIara

Gold

Hailing from Illinois, Kiiara was a hardware store clerk by day, singer-songwriter by night. That was until she released her debut single, “Gold.”

The song has been steadily gaining traction since it was introduced to the world in October of this year, culminating to a #5 spot on the charts. Featuring a minimal beat, electronic vocal edits, and a raunchy lyrics, “Gold” is an instant summer classic.

Noah and Katherine. It was clearly hidden for some reason, but why? He picked up the necklace inside the box, a grin beginning to form on his face while clarity seemed to reach his jumbled head.

Some distance down the road, a group of officers were following Noah’s trail led by Hubbard.

“Keep pushing!” he barked. “He’s got to be here somewhere.”

Suddenly, the group of officers stumbled upon a clearing. A noise grew from within the forest, unsettling the team and the usually calm director.

An arrow whizzed past Hubbard as he threw himself to the floor.

“Get down!” he screamed, trying to protect his valuable assets. “Fire on sight!”

The hoard of antlered man sprinted out of the woods at full speed with a purpose to kill as many of the officers as possible. There was no treaty anymore as the cult had nothing but an agenda to preserve their land and save themselves.

Terrified, the young officers either fired away or took off into the other side of the woods, driven by fear no matter the choice they made. Most of these boys had no idea of the cult, too low in the system to be involved in corruption. But no matter who you were, the sight of the murderous men was too much for anyone to bear.

As the night pushed on the slaughter grew more intense, and by the time the sun was forcing its way over the treetops the scene was indescribable. The last remaining cult members had either fled with the elders of their clan or died fighting for what they believed in. One thing was undeniable. The cult was revealed to the world, right in the backyard of the town and the police’s headquarters.

The corruption could be detained and suppressed, but the reliance of the citizens onto the law enforcement would obviously take a hit. “The Deer-Horned Massacre”, the media pinned it.

While the town’s attention was focused on the scene in the woods, O’Brien made his way to the home of Amy Palmer, catching her right as she was leaving her home. Before she could step outside, he returned to some of his previous habits shining his flashlight in her face and showing the badge...

Read the final part of the six-part serial at parkwaynews.net/corral

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daddy Lessons

Once again, Beyonce has dropped an album that no one saw coming. This time around, however, Beyonce takes more risks than ever, featuring many experimental sounds, but also displaying extremely personal aspects of her life. One of these songs is “Daddy Lessons,” a tribute to Beyonce’s father, in the style of country music. On paper, this concept sounds like a gimmick, but in the context of the album, “Daddy Lessons” sounds more authentic than many modern country music stars.

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Alex’s Appetite : Battle Edition

Hot Box puts insomnia Cookies to sleep Insomnia Cookies

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The M&M cookie was average. The soft middle cluttered with melted chocolate chips and M&M’s while the edges were a little more chewy with less chocolate, cooked perfectly. The dough itself, however, was severely lacking. It wasn’t very fresh, and there was nothing in the dough that really stood out. There was not much of a difference between the M&M cookie and the Pillsbury dough you buy and make at home.

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The snickerdoodle cookie was a delicious mess. Contrary to the M&M the snickerdoodle was super fresh. The buttery dough was complemented with a light cinnamon sugar topping. It added a subtle taste that put the cookie over the top. The only issue with it was that I couldn’t keep it together.

Although being slightly undercooked if anything added to the taste, it caused it to fall apart into a mushy mess of dough after one bite. Regardless of that, if you’re at Insomnia cookies snickerdoodle is the way to go.

In juxtaposition to the snickerdoodle, the double chocolate chip was actually slightly overcooked. The cookie was crunchy and much harder than the other two. However it was not burnt in anyway, which allowed it to have a strong chocolate flavor. The chocolate cookie had a slight chocolate taste by itself, while the chocolate chips added a rich chocolate flavor.

Although it slightly overpowered the calm cookie, it combined for a rich and tasty treat.

Ratings: 3 out of 5 cookies

Hot box Cookies

4 out of 5 cookies With a silky, soft inside and a flaky outside the M&M cookie did not disappoint. The dough had an incredibly sweet, fresh out of the oven taste to it that it seemed like it didn’t even need the M&M’s. But instead of the M&M’s making the cookie overwhelmingly sweet, it added a nice chocolate taste to the already appetizing dough. While the cookie had a warm, just cooked feel, the M&M’s remained not melted. While it definitely made less of a mess, I do enjoy biting into a cookie and having warm liquid chocolate rush into my mouth.

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While the large snickerdoodle cookie excited me at the beginning, it left me slightly let down. The cookie which was bigger than the others had the same soft middle and harder but flaky outside. The difference however was the dough did not have nearly as much taste. The small amount of cinnamon put on it did not cover up for the blandness. It needed a sweeter dough or something more added to it, because it lacking enough taste for it to be considered as good as the other cookies.

Hot Box decided to take a twist on the classic double chocolate chip cookie. Instead of regular chocolate chips, they used white chocolate chips to make the Chocolate white chocolate chip cookie. Anyway, white chocolate chips were a revolutionary idea that paid off big. It created a different, sweeter taste.

While the chocolate dough was already intensely chocolate, the white chocolate chips didn’t compete with that flavor, and instead added a new, sweeter flavor. This made it so the cookie and the topping were not fighting against each other but instead working with each other to make one ultimate cookie.

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RAISING THE BAR 5

Arch your back

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junior jumper CLears NEw Heights NOAH WEIDNER News Writer @FUTURTOPIA

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or junior Nathan Okpara, every day is arguably a technical one. Between a daily routine fraught with technique, preparation and competition, Okpara faces a distinct and largely mental experience in his specialty: high jumping.

Okpara says that his involvement with high jumping was next to none in his previous seasons.

“I started doing it as a joke one day,” Okpara said. “I told my coach I was going to jump over the bar and clear it, and he bet I couldn’t.”

However, the joke turned serious soon thereafter. The role Okpara previously held as a thrower was replaced with a new role being one of the high jumpers for the Boys Varsity Track team. Since having started in the later part of last season, Okpara has vastly improved in jump height, recently having topped 6’0. Something that teammate and friend Will Jost attributes to big improvements to his form since last season.

“You have to spend time on form and going over it, “ Jost said. “You can’t just walk in and do it, so he’s practiced it for a long time.”

He has continued progressing his form and jump etiquette to hopefully result in a higher jump height, a persistence that has transferred over to other members of the team.

“He’s been really good with teaching form to some of the new team members,” Jump Coach Brian Guilfoyle said. “He applies it well because he can teach them, and remain teachable.”

Nonetheless, it is important to acknowledge that independent of the jump form, there is another important factor to success in high jump.

In high jumping mental state is key. Coach Cameron Poole says that high jump is the most mentally exhausting event. He notes that if you’re “out of it” mentally, you won’t jump well. There is an aspect that deals with preparing yourself to do well, physically, and another part that has a large deal to do with where you are emotionally and intellectually.

Okpara employs a mix of personal methods, such as clearing his mind, focusing on his steps, and keeping in mind the form he practices so religiously to combat problems with both the logistics and mental-emotional scenarios of high jump.

“I spend most of the day of a competition just thinking about clearing the bar perfectly,” Okpara said. “But once I get up there to jump, I try not to think about it.”

The strategies have paid off for Okpara, who placed sixth in the High Jump at this year’s Henle Holmes Invitational, where he jumped 5’8. With several more meets in the remaining season, and plenty more waiting in his senior season, the junior will have adequate time to jump over expectations and continue progressing in high jump.

Okpara intends to make it to state this year if his personal progress remains on track.

“I’ve always loved how individual it is,” Okpara said. “It’s just you and the bar.”

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20 corral May 6, 2016 Pool Planned to have TIles Fixed

Sports stats getting more serious

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PIPER ROTHER Entertainment Editor @PIPEitup26

>The pool is getting new tiles >The construction will happen over summer >“It’s not going to be remodeled; they will fix up what they can fix up,” Athletic Director John Theobald said. “It will be more of just patch work, replace tiles and fix up that kind of stuff.”

What We DOn’t Know: >When the pool will be closed over summer >If there are any plans for a major remodel in the future >“It’s a lot of work to keep those things [pools] up and running,” Theobald said. “With the size of ours and the age of it, it takes a lot to keep it running.”

what you think: >“I think it is an incredible idea to get new tiles for saftey purposes,” sophmore Shelby Ripp said. “It will make it less embarrassing when other teams come to our school.” >“I’m glad they are fixing the pool,” junior Madison Brown said. “I have cut my foot twice on the wall and hopefully by repairing it, incidents like that won’t happen again.” > “I’m really excited about it,” freshman Alex Gelman said.

“The ones we have now are dangerous and really gross. I’ve seen so many people cut their feet on them and it’ll make our pool look so much nicer.”

GARRETT LIERMAN Staff Writer @garrett_lierman

rofessional sports are some of the most statistically focused pastimes in the world, with entire television networks dedicated just to following the numbers. But this is becoming a reality with high schools sports as well. With multiple websites filled with stats of schools in entire areas and conferences, paid apps tracking progress, and the ability to see another team’s stats, student athletes are becoming more stat focused.

“I think as time goes on we’re getting more competitive as a whole,” junior swimmer Annika Hofer said.

As college sports continue to grow in popularity, recruiters are beginning to look at high school sports more and more. There are a growing number of websites and apps that track statistics and performance of specific athletes or entire teams. One such website, Maxpreps.com even goes in depth to the point of listing stat leaders, team rankings, and even a tab especially for recruiting that contains stats, footage, and photos of high school athletes, the same level of detail put into scouting players for professional teams.

“I think it’s helpful,” sophomore swimmer Alexis Poe said. “It pushes you. It makes you want it.”

For some athletes, knowing the performance allows them to prepare and plan. They set goals and push harder to reach them. However, for others it stresses them out and distracts them, weighing them down with the need for improvement.

“It is easier said than done not to look at stats and just take your best swing or make your best pitch,” varsity baseball coach Scott Davis said.

At the same time, Davis said that athletes have to keep in mind that the numbers they are stressing over may not be entirely accurate.

“There is human error in stats, especially in high school,” Davis said.

“But for the most part they are relevant.”

Student athletes acknowledge becoming more and more focused on their own stats and performance. Some members of the swim team have gone as far as to pay for apps that allow them to track their times and the times of their opponents.

With the number of recruiters looking into high school sports and the coverage being given to the sports on local networks and streamed online, some athletes find a greater relevance of high school sports in the sports world is becoming more and more clear.

“I think it can help us prepare,” sophomore football player Andy Chen said. “Also I think there could be a psychological effect. They can intimidate opponents.”

The baseball team’s twitter account @PCBaseball will often post the statistic card from the most recent varsity game. The stat cards often contain every relevant stat for every player on the team. Even if individual coaches or teams don’t send their statistics out to the athletes, they have access through other websites and apps to evaluate their performance.

“If you’re really serious, you’ll get into the stats and figure out your goal,” Poe said. “It makes you want it, especially if you have a low-key rivalry.”

Also player rivalries are more common, according to students, as athletes focusing on the stats of another specific player. These rivalries don’t just extend to other schools’ teams, but to other athletes on the same team.

Varsity baseball coach Scott Davis tweeted out the stats from the April 24 game against Parkway North.

Swimmers track their times and places with the Swim Meet Mobile app.

Track and field and cross country athletes can use mo.milesplit.com for meet results and performance tracking.

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water polo having best season in years

ROBERT SHIFRIN and JEFFREY EIDELMAN Sports Editor and Managing Editor @brightfuturerob @jeffey44

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hile the water polo team has recruited a slew of new players without a great deal of polo experience, they’ve formed a winning team and their veterans are seeing potential in the team.

“I’d say the team is the best it’s been in a while and we’ve had a lot of club players over the years,” senior Hiroki Gavin said. “Everyone has come together and played as a team.”

Gavin and his teammates agree that they’ve grown accustomed to each other quite well, and enjoy strengthening their bond as a team. Sophomore goalie Pablo Espindola says that he’s enjoyed his transition into water polo.

“It’s like family,” Espindola said. “We do team dinners at Cecil’s pizza every tuesday.”

Though Gavin insists that the team ventures to Cecil’s Pizza primarily because they receive a discount, he also confirms that it is a tradition he plans on instilling with the water polo program.

Meshing well as a team has assisted the team’s younger players.

Freshman Thomas Gibson has found himself in a relatable situation to Gavin’s first endeavors with water polo, as a freshman on the jv team.

“I’m excited about growing a lot more, I feel like I’m just getting the hang of it and I’m excited to get more experience,” Gibson said.

“It’s really really intense. Basically I knew how to swim beforehand, and other than that the sport is totally new to me.”

Senior Hiroki Gavin passes the ball back in a game against Rockwood Summit on April 20, 2016. “I’d say the team is the best it’s been in awhile,” Gavin said. “We’ve had a lot of club players over the years. Everyone has come together and played as a team.” Photo by Eric Fenton.

Fortunately for Gibson, Gavin says that the seniors on the team are able to provide a lot of guidance to their newly acclimated teammates. Seniors John DeStefano and Adam Barr, as well as Gavin, have played water polo ever since freshman year.

“As captains of the team, John, Adam, and I correct mistakes we see and lead the team in other aspects,” Gavin said. “When I started playing my freshman year, it was a new experience and it wasn’t something I was familiar with, but I kept with it.”

Espindola has been one of those younger players to often take pointer from his coaches and teammates, as a newcomer this season

transitioning from volleyball. Espindola sought a more challenging physical sport, and he discovered water polo.

“Its pretty difficult to as a goalie to block their shots but coach has really helped me with teaching me the fundamentals,” Espindola said. “It’s pretty fun, and it’s pretty hard. We’re a solid team, we’re fourth in the area right now.”

With a record of 16 wins, 9 ties, and 2 losses as of press time, the team is moving into the postseason with their three seniors at the helm.

tennis players grow with practice, teamwork SAMMY WEBER Staff Writer @webers8817

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Jake Liebman serves to an oppenent in a match. Photo by Ms. Stepanek. March 5, 2016.

riving to improve themselves by working on the little things and having fun, the boys tennis team believes growth is just around the corner “We just have fun on the courts, and we think that winning or losing is second to having fun,” freshman Brett Goodman said.

Being a freshman, Goodman believes that getting to know a lot more upperclassmen has helped him get better as a young player.

“I haven’t changed much as a player but being on a team setting I have gotten better by working with other people and being on a team is just a lot more fun than playing alone,” Goodman said.

On the court’s isn’t the only place where the team gets rowdy.

The team’s bus rides are where the team gets really close.

“On our bus rides to matches we bring a speaker and we all pick songs to listen to and it gets really fun,” sophomore Kevin Koerner said.

Having an even balance of upperclassmen and underclassmen on the team has gotten the seniors hopeful that the team is moving into a bright future. But some upperclassmen realize there is a ways to go.

“Our underclassmen are still growing as high school tennis players,” junior Jake Liebman said.

Liebman also believes that as a team, losing can be the best learning and bonding experience.

“When we lose we have to find small victories for ourselves, such as not doing many push ups in practice, which is a good bonding moment,” Liebman said.

As an upperclassmen, Liebman believes that he has helped the team by winning and giving the team a humorous setting on the courts.

“I think that I help the team a lot because I have been winning a lot, even in doubles with my partner Charlie Mosley we have been

winning a lot,” Liebman said.

As an individual player Liebman believes he helps the team by controlling himself.

“I try to control my hits by trying to not hit the ball out, I try to keep the ball on the court, and I try to let the other team mess up so I get easy points,” Liebman said.

Liebman also believes that focusing on how the team will do in competition is better than focusing on the opponent.

“We have tried to get rid of all the small mistakes that we make and we just try to beat teams by letting them beat themselves,” Liebman said.

Koerner believes that the coaches help to fix the small mistakes.

“Coach is always watching us play, and when coach is watching you want to do your best and get better,” Koerner said. “I have practiced and coach has helped me have get better with my serve and I have been able to hit the ball harder lately”.

Senior Noah Grossman also believes that the coach is always giving good hints to make his players better.

“Coach will make a day of practice that focuses on a specific skill, when practice serving he would evaluate everyone and tell them what was wrong and he tell us how to fix it,” Grossman said.

Grossman thinks that as a senior he has been getting the most out of his last year playing school tennis.

“During a Saturday tournament which was in Columbia, we went out to lunch and had a good time and we also just had a really good time warming up with each other,” Grossman said.

Grossman also has taken his tennis career very seriously by working hard in the off season and putting his mind in the right place to compete.

“I think I have gotten a lot better by just playing with different types of people who have different playing styles,” Grossman said. “It makes me work on different things throughout my game, and coming into the season with private lessons have helped me because my strokes are a lot stronger and I just have had a different state of mind.”

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Spring Sports in Photos 1. Junior Kylee Bruchhof picks up sophomore Krishny Karunanandalaa off the turf after a collision against Hazelwood Central on April 14. Photo by Evan Mogley 2. Sophomores Jake Domalewski and Sam Pannett block against a Parkway North kill shot at home on April 7. Photo by Anthony Zuanich 3. Ranekka Whitfield completes the JV 100-meter dash at home during the Parkway JV Quad on April 6. Photo by Anthony Zuanich 4. Sophomore Johnny Wichlenski tees off on Hole 1 at Crystal Springs in a tri-meet on April 19. Photo

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by Sarah Whalen 6. Sophomore Rheanna Morris passes toward the goal in a home water polo match against Summit on April 20. Photo

by Piper Rother 7. Freshman Twshaun Flemon completes the first stretch of his 300-meter hurdle race at the Patriot Classic at Parkway South on April 28. Photo by Tara Stepanek

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Start: Have you been late to school two tmes or more this week?

JP Byrne Staff Writer @byrne_in_rubber

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spotlight

hammer Time

Sophomore molds coins into jewelry PIPER ROTHER Entertainment Editor @PIPEitup26

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ost people nowadays when they get bored turn to Netflix or social media to occupy their time, but sophomore Adam Kneznekoff turns to crafting rings as a way to entertain

himself.

“I was really just interested in starting up a craft to keep myself occupied, Kneznekoff said. “I thought it would be interesting to make something that I could keep around as well as something odd and unique.”

He makes the rings out of old coins using a hammer to pound them into shape.

“It takes about four to eight hours to make a ring,” Kneznekoff said.

“It takes a couple hours to pound the coin into its actual ring shape, and then it takes a few more hours for the drilling, filing and polishing in order to get it to its final state.”

Kneznekoff wanted a new idea of something to make, so he turned to the internet to find inspiration.

“I was just browsing YouTube and I was watching videos of people doing projects, and one of the guys I was subscribed to happened to make a video of it,” Kneznekoff said. “I looked into it more and I decided to try it out.”

This isn’t a newfound hobby of Kneznekoff’s, for he has been making rings for about a year now.

“He started making them after last summer,” sister Sophie Kneznekoff said. “Sometimes he gets requests for certain dates because he can leave those on there somehow; I don’t know how he does it.”

Making these rings is not Kneznekoff’s first work with metals, for he has made other pieces of jewelry as well.

“I’ve done some things in the past where I have made things like necklaces,” Kneznekoff said. “I have made my own chains and holders, using small gemstones to glue into the holders, but I thought the rings would be a cool thing to start making.”

Word has started to get around about his rings because of junior Paige Wallis who found out about the rings during one of their math classes together.

“He and I sit next to each other in math, and we sparked a conversation one day about what he was into,” Wallis said. “He said that he crafts these rings and I was like, ‘I love rings! Will you make me one’ and he said, ‘Yeah, just give me a few weeks.’”

Wallis had never seen any of Kneznekoff’s rings before but she wanted to support his work.

“I love rings and jewelry, and I thought it was so cool that I knew the person who made it,” Wallis said. “He was so passionate about it, so I for sure wanted one.”

All of Kneznekoff’s rings are made from coins, but many of them are made from foreign coins that he has collected from traveling the world.

“I go on a lot of vacations with my family and I like to collect foreign coins,” Kneznekoff said. “Most of what I do is take the coins from places I have been, but I only use coins I have multiples of so I’m not getting rid of my collection.”

The whole purpose of this hobby was to be an outlet for Kneznekoff to get away and relax.

“I started doing it as a peaceful meditation thing,” Kneznekoff said.

“Some people have yoga, I have this.”

Photo by Piper Rother