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The 2023-24 Pilot Staff

Springing into Sports

How Lindbergh’s Girls Track team is preparing for their upcoming season

As snow begins to melt on the curbsides and the sun peeks out from the clouds, Lindbergh’s Girls Track and Field team is entering their 2024 spring season! For all of the students on the team, garnering a sign-up count of 100+, now is better than ever to get their practices going and their skills primed in preparation for the beginning of many track meets. Though the question remains… How do these athletes maximize their abilities?

“Usually we divide the girls into two or three separate categories,” said Mrs. Keegan, an assistant coach on the team. “There’s the distance runners and there’s the throwers, the sprinters and the jumpers”

This categorization is vital to the team– as all different subcategories have their own needs and strengths that they cater too. The entire team tries to meet up as a whole for at least one day per week during regular season, and then split off into their separate events.

“A sprinter’s more powerful, a distance runner uses power over time,” said Keegan. “Sprinters don’t do a ton of reps; they [instead] do really powerful reps. You can’t jump 50 times in one practice, you jump a good 10 times maybe. It’s all about quality.

The most important thing for the throwers, jumpers and sprinters in the offseason is weight training to get stronger. Lena Nguyen (10), a short-distance runner on the team, has been one of many sprinters to participate in the weight workouts held for pre-season.

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“We just go to the new weight room and lift weights for around an hour, like 40 minutes,” said Nguyen. “But then we slowly start incorporating running [to] get more practice in.”

Contrasting their sprinter counterparts, distance runners are all about longevity and getting used to running fast for a prolonged period of time. Rather than focusing on exerting all of their power at once, like a thrower or jumper, they spread out their efforts. For Neyla Terzic (11), a distance runner on the team, it’s all about building endurance.

“I’ve just been doing legs and upper body,” said Terzic, “trying to run like five miles everyday.” However, all of these groups still have their similarities, such as in doing their dynamic warmups to prepare for the harder workouts to come. Athletes bond together, both during practices and in meets, and create friendships and memories that are just as valuable, if not more than a personal record.

“[Meets are] long– they end at like nine. But it’s super fun, you can just talk to friends, warm up together, and then the sun sets and it’s super nice,” Nguyen said.

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Take a Spring Break!

Skyler Daubendiek Staff Writer

Tips to avoid the exhaustion that comes with burnout

Entering the spring season, academic burnout is at its peak. For anyone who isn’t familiar with academic burnout, according to University of the People, “Academic burnout can be defined as a negative emotional, physical and mental reaction to prolonged study that results in exhaustion, frustration, lack of motivation and reduced ability in school.”

Tricia Hays, a counselor at Lindbergh High School, explained academic burnout mostly affects those in their later years of schooling, such as junior and senior students.

“The longer students have been in high school, I find that the burnout happens quicker. Sometimes we have seniors walking in on day one, saying ‘I’m ready for graduation,’” Hays said.

Many of the symptoms that come from academic burnout can be linked with stress. Stress can be caused by any number of sources from home life, work, or wanting to achieve academic excellence.

According to Cross River Therapy, “45% of students in high school admit to being stressed almost every day in school [and] 61% of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 feel stress over producing satisfactory grades.”

Despite the challenge that academic burnout poses to students, it’s not impossible to avoid.

“Try not to procrastinate, which I think is very hard to do. Try to have some sort of organization in the things you’re supposed to do; if it’s a planner, making a list, there’s a bazillion apps that you can try. Give yourself some form of organization, maybe an ongoing list of the things

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you need to do. Not that school isn’t important, because it is, but it’s not your only priority. Make sure you’re spending time with friends and family, getting enough sleep, spending time doing things you enjoy. If we’re not doing things to take care of ourselves and things we enjoy, burnout happens faster,” Hays advised.

Even when students feel burnt out, it’s not too late to get out of it. After recognizing burnout, a student can ask themselves some questions to take steps that will help them.

“What are some things that you can put into place to help get yourself to a better place? Maybe scheduling only a certain amount of time per day to be working on homework, or saying

‘what are the three things I’m going to get done today?’ Once those are done, just put the others to the side and know that you can come back to things tomorrow. Make sure you’re prioritizing yourself and spending time with others,” Hays said.

Always make sure to take care of yourself. School is important, but there’s nothing more important than ones health.

“It’s just really important to take care of yourself. It really is. Sometimes people forget that,” Hays said.

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Spring Fling

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Meadow Roy

Why are you going to Spring Fling?

What are you most looking forward to?

“I really like taking photos with my old, hand-held camera. Looking over the photos of fun moments

“Overall, I’m mostly looking forward to hanging out with my friends and the possibility of meeting

What are your plans for Spring Fling?

“Take pictures with a big group of friends at my friends house, bring food and eat it before the dance, go to the dance, then go to an afterparty,” Bethany Goodson (12)

“Getting ready with friends and going to dinner,” Lucy Thomas (9)

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Staff Writter

Senior Showtime

Seniors in theater get a chance to direct

Elliot Lentz Staff Writer

Just like the spring or winter musical, the Senior One Acts are performances that many students look forward to. However, different from other performances, seniors have full control writing, directing and casting all on their own. This year, four One Acts with variously interesting plots are being put on.

“This show is completely our own, which is new. Usually, there are things in a show that I don’t love or lines that feel awkward to say. This show is completely different in that we are in charge of how we want the show to be and we can change anything we don’t like,” said Alathea Peters (12), who wrote “The Seven Deadly Seas” with Lily Kimbrell (12).

For this One Act, Peters and Kimbrell constructed a dark comedy story following a group of pirates on a mission to find treasure, dying in “outlandish” ways throughout the mission.

“Lily and I have been working on this show for almost two years now. We actually started with an idea for the last scene and then worked backward, created the characters, made a plot outline, and then started writing,” said Peters. “A lot of research has gone into this to make sure we’re portraying pirate life semi-accurately, although historical correctness is not the main goal.”

The next One Act, “To See What Your Insides Look Like,” is described by director Kendall Hoffman (12) as a “satirical apocalyptic play” which follows three best friends along with other survivors as they “adapt to this new gruesome environment and band together to find out not only how to survive in a crumbling society, but how to overcome it as well.”

“This story expresses themes of morality, friendship, and how our survival instincts can take precedence over ethics in life-or-death situations,” Hoffman added.

While some One Acts may have larger casts, others execute their stories with just a few characters such as Scarlet Mahne (12) and Em Aguinaga (12) did while writing their One Act “Cinderella Goes to Couples Therapy.”

“Our plot is basically: Imagine an angry married cou ple who are fed up with each other and turn to a therapist for help, but they’re also Cinderella and Prince Charming. That’s basically it, the characters are just the Therapist, Cinderella and Prince Charming,” said Mahne.

The final One Act, “Fake News!” includes two news anchors who serve up interesting news despite accusations of being fake.

While these students may be new to directing, they have all been a part of theater for multiple years, putting in work both on stage and behind the scenes.

“I’ve been in theater all four years, my first production at Lindbergh was the Senior Directed One Acts in 2020 and I’ve done every mainstage show since then,” Hoffman said. “I’ve always wanted to direct or help produce a show, and was a good opportunity to get to see some of my ideas come to

life on stage.”

With this new chance to direct, these students are putting in lots of effort to make sure the story they have envisioned is displayed just as they imagined it.

“The story building itself took a pretty long time because I wanted to make sure everything I wrote had a purpose, that all the characters had depth, that their motives made sense, that the timeline was concise and that when it got into the actors and crews hands that they had a pretty clear idea of what they needed to portray when building the show,” said Hoffman.

Being in theater elevated these students’ high school experiences, allowing them to build their skill and knowledge of the arts along with giving them a comfortable environment.

“I met a lot of great people through the shows, and I’ve learned a lot about the arts and what all goes into producing art and live theater. Our past director, Mrs. Winingham, taught me so much about performance and she showed me that there is a ton more to theater than just actors, said Hoffman.

These theater students will soon be completing their high school journeys, so having a chance to put on these One Acts is a great farewell along with a learning experience for these students.

“I hope to get leadership experience and create a show that’s interesting and runs smoothly,” Peters said. “More importantly, though, I hope to have a lot of fun with whoever ends up in the cast. I want this to be a worthy goodbye to a program that has meant so much to me.”

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What’s “In Vogue” for LHS Students

The student body discusses spring fashion and what’s currently trending

Elizabeth Cleary

As students take off their heavy winter coats, unwrap scarves and pull off mittens to welcome in the warm spring weather, a shift is seen in the day-to-day fashions of the student body. Whether it be a switch from pants to shorts or a whole closet-refresh, it is evident that fashion trends are changing in lieu of the season.

“During colder months I’m almost always in a graphic tee, some sort of hoodie or sweatshirt, leggings or sweatpants. During the warmer months, I switch between cute dresses or skirts,” Maggie Kavanaugh (10) said.

site where users can directly purchase the items they see. For consumer purposes, students can rely on specific brands or stores to fulfill their fashion aspirations.

“I thrift most of my clothing or I buy from second hand websites or small businesses,” Jordan Datus

While many students opt to thrift clothes, finding unique pieces of clothing that they otherwise could not have found, some students have tried-and-true brands that they use to fill out their wardrobes. In the survey, LHS students said that they shopped frequently at places like Brandy Melville, Target, American Eagle, H&M, Garage, and Lululemon. With much variety in these brands, students ensure that they find the clothing that best reflects their individual looks. So even with the wave of new spring fashion, many students find ways to keep their dress true to their own styles.

“I think that clothing is a beautiful means of self expression that shouldn’t be suppressed because of peer opinion or definitions on what’s ‘fashionable and what’s ugly.’ Clothes [are] a valuable form of self expression, especially in a place as limiting to expression as school. I think that anyone should be able to dress how they want and how they feel comfortable,” Thomas Duong (10)

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Hacking and Slashing with a Virtual Reality Tournament

Gavin Berry Staff - Writer

Beatsaber is a virtual rhythm game developed around the idea of slashing blocks in different directions to the player’s choice of adrenaline-pumping music. As of late February to early March, CoPilot chose to host this virtual reality game as its next game for their quarterly tournaments. It will be hosted in the library, the same location that has previously been used in tournaments for games such as Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.

“People participate in tournaments like this because it’s an exciting competition and a great way to show off and a fun change of pace from the day-to-day routine of school,” Brian Gretzschel (12), one of the recurring tournament hosts, said.

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with other people is super exciting for me,” Daubendiek said.

However, one challenge that CoPilot faced during the planning process for the tournament was how they were going to display the perspective of the player for the audience to watch and how people would be eliminated. Nevertheless, Gretschel and the other hosts came up with solutions on how to display the tournament.

“This tournament is different because of the game design and technical challenges. I don’t think Beatsaber was designed for an elimination-style tournament, so we had to make our own format that is both fair and fun,” Gretschel said.

Daubendiek shared her thoughts, as well.

“We’re hoping to wire the headsets to the tv so that we can get the display working. difficulty will go up and the people that score the highest out of those three move forward,” Daubendiek said.

As the days decrease towards the start of the competition, all students are invited to the library as they can watch the fast paced virtual reality tournament, full of compete for first place as the tournament will soon begin before Spring

“This is something that is fun for the student body and I just appreciate the opportunity that the librarians make the library available for us to use for these Keith Loveless, Lindbergh’s Technology Internship sponsor for the CoPilot

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