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Prep Volume 76, Issue 29

Fitzpatrick hired as next hockey coach

BY Nathan CORE STAFF

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or the first time in 42 years, there is a new head coach at the helm of the St. Louis U. High hockey program. After a month of taking applications and interviewing candidates, SLUH has named Kevin Fitzpatrick the new hockey coach.

Fitzpatrick comes from Timberland High School, where he coached the varsity and JV teams last year. His time at Timberland is his only experience with MidStates Hockey, but he has over 20 years of experience coaching prep hockey players. Fitzpatrick coached the 1997 and 1999 AAA teams in St. Louis, and has experience coaching Under-18 AAA programs in Phoenix and his hometown of Rochester, N.Y. Fitzpatrick played college hockey at Geneseo State University in New York. He played four years of minor league hockey in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League and the Continental Hockey League. Fitzpatrick also was the owner and general manager of the Missouri River Otters, a minor league team based out of St. Charles, from 2000 to 2003.

Besides coaching, Fitzpatrick runs his own business.

“I think it is a great opportunity and I am grateful for it. It is an awesome opportunity,” said Fitzpatrick. “It’s a high-profile school and team, and when opportunity presented itself, it was definitely something I wanted to pursue.”

Fitzpatrick was one of seven candidates who applied for the position. A selection committee, headed by Assistant Athletic Director Tim Rittenhouse and including three others, interviewed all seven candidates before narrowing it down to three final candidates. The second round of interviews involved the original four-team panel and a number of students, some hockey players and some not.

“We were happy with (seven candidates). Our pool was excellent. The quantity doesn’t matter as much as the quality, and our first-round interviews were excellent,” explained Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse also explained that it was Fitzpatrick’s previous coaching experience and his understanding of SLUH’s mission continued on page 10

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Weeks of preparation culminate in banner, ring ceremony

BY Mitch STAFF

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

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f you find your eyes roaming the chapel during prayer service, you might notice the prominent new class of 2013 banner hanging on the east wall.

The banner itself is striking in both its image and meaning.

The warm-hued arcs on the left half represent the sunset and the sunrise, both the ending of the class’s grade school career and the beginning of their St. Louis U. High career. The rings ebb into one of SLUH’s symbols, the fleurde-lis.

The signature-scoured white portion represents the class’s present time at SLUH, where they are falling though the hourglass, changing and forming ideas and opinions.

Finally, beams shoot from the fleur-de-lis across the right side, representing the class of 2013 at graduation. They will not be separate, like the arcs, but sideby-side, dyed blue from their experiences at SLUH. “We took different peoples’

Juniors Nick Wottowa, Joe Archer, Kenneth Warner, Michael Armbruster, Jimmy Wirthlin, and Chris Connor sign their class banner after school Friday. The signing was followed by a Mass, where they received their rings.

suggestions for different meanings and thing and used that,” said junior Kyle Lehmann, who helped lead the design work. “Some of it

during design, we decided, “Oh, if we tweak this a little bit we can use this symbolism.”

The conception of the banner

originated two months ago when junior class moderator Mary Russo called the first banner commitcontinued on page 2

Art show honors Whealon’s years of service Conversation photos | Ben Banet

Moran’s first four years as principal

BY Matt Cooley EDITOR IN CHIEF

Editor in Chief Matt Cooley sat down with principal John Moran this week to discuss what it’s like to be a “senior”­—this is Moran’s fourth year at SLUH.

BY Greg Fister STAFF ARTIST

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Top: Students and family members observe the various works on display at the Student Art Show last night. The show runs for the next two weeks.

Bottom photos: A sampling of various works of art on display at the exhibit.

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Departing Faculty, round one

Feature

Opinion

Opinion

Kainz, Flaherty, and Monetti depart Steven Kainz, Carson Monetti, and Tim Flaherty seek a life beyond SLUH after a year of teaching. Page 4 What leaving SLUH means to me On the doorstep of graduation, Ryan Dowd looks back on his four years at SLUH. Page 3

ou’ve seen the plays, you’ve been to the dance concerts, and you’ve heard the chorus at allschool Mass, but the fine arts that go on in the J-wing second-story usually stay there. Starting last night, though, the artwork made by students in drawing, design and ceramics classes are on display in the art gallery for all to see. The Saint Louis U. High 2012 Student Art Show opened this Thursday night to a crowd of art admirers and will continue to be open for the next two weeks.

This year’s art show is dedi continued on page 2

An alum, sailing through the air Greg Viverito ‘08 embarks on the unique career of a trapeze artist. Page 7 Academic integrity: check your email We’re launching a group with STUCO to spearhead the student-led effot on academic integrity. Page 3

Prep News: Over the past four years, what changes that you and the administration have made do you think are most noteworthy?

John Moran: Well, SLUH was an excellent school when I arrived.

This wasn’t a job I accepted thinking, ‘Oh, we have to turn things around here, we’ve got to go in a whole new direction.’ So there’s nothing grand, there’s no master plan in regards to ‘this is how we’re going to do things here from now on.’

We’ve made some changes to the way in which we interview and hire teachers. Again, nothing wildly different, but maybe a little continued on page 6

Sports

Baseball’s slide continues SLUH fell to MCC rivals CBC and Vianney in what has proved to be a very difficult month for the Jr. Bills. Page 8 Sports

Lacrosse continues to dominate Lacrosse stretches their record to 18-2 with a clinical victory over Clayton, and looks to be a State favorite. Page 12

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NEWS

Espenschied, Barron elected to lead Class of 2015 on STUCO

BY Joel Ocampo REPORTER

photo | Sam Gerbic

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y choosing their two officers to represent them next year, the class of 2015 finished off the long run of STUCO elections for next year. The freshmen began the month of May by choosing Tommy Espenschied as President and Matt Barron as Vice President to lead them through their sophomore year.

Coming back with a year of experience behind him, Barron hopes to give his class a “lively personality who is prepared and excited to give the class a great sophomore year.”

Although Barron has the experience of being the Freshman Social Represntative this year, this election did not come without opposition, as he ran against four other candidates in the primaries, and against Rocco Vienhage during the final round of voting.

Going into the speeches, Barron came in with confidence and humor.

“I let them know why I was qualified and then ended it by calling myself a ladies man and quite the dancer as a joke,” he said.

Barron’s humor and experience were enough for him to clinch the election, as the freshman class voted last Friday during lunch. His humor may come in handy for him next year in order to accomplish his goals for his

Matt Barron and Tommy Espenschied will lead the sophomore class as their elected Student Council representatives next year.

class.

“I hope to give my class a fun year with a rockin' dance while trying to have good relationships between all the members of my class,” said Barron.

Along with Barron, Espenchied was elected Sophomore Class President. Newcomer Espenchied will act as the representative for his class as he takes the reigns from Freshman Class President Peter Lynas. By electing

Espenchied, the freshmen have followed in the trend of electing a series of newcomers for the 20122013 STUCO team.

With the freshmen elections concluding the series of class STUCO elections, it seems STUCO is finally all geared up and ready to lead the way for next school year.

Juniors choose motto, receive rings (continued from page 1) tee meeting.

According to Russo, there was a brainstorming session before spring break. Juniors Kyle Lehmann and Brendan McDermott both committed to taking a leadership role.

After the first meeting McDermott formed a Facebook group including the entire junior class as a virtual whiteboard for their ideas. Juniors offered several mottoes, among them, “Learn from yesterday, Live in today, Hope for tomorrow,” and, more simply, “Learn. Love. Hope.”

The committee created a ballot listing six motto options, and the class cast their votes during homeroom in late March.

“Strangers we come, Brothers we go,” offered by Kyle Krause, won the poll with support from 53 percent of the class.

Then the committee brainstormed on designs. The committee decided on a three-piece banner with a thick middle panel and two side panels—much like the class of 2012’s banner—but with a simpler structure.

“It was sort of my minimalistic design,” said Lehmann. “Plus, we just wanted sort of a newer, modern banner.”

Lehmann put together a few crude designs on a graphics program and opened them up to critique at junior lunches.

“We took a few different suggestions that people gave us,” said Lehmann, “Then I took all of

them, took the best parts of each of them, and that’s how we got the final design.”

Once details like the orientation of the hourglass shape, the exact color scheme and design of the two halves of the banner were set, the design was finalized on April 5.

McDermott led the committee on construction four days later. A consistent group of five or six committee members met two times a week and slowly—too slowly—the banner came together.

“There were a few days when we didn’t get as much done as we wanted, so we had to make up for that in the last few days,” said McDermott.

The construction’s sluggish pace resulted from the committee’s multi-panel experimental design.

“What I haven’t seen before is the number of lines that move across every panel,” said Russo.

“The time and effort it takes to set up and line up so it’s going to look right is something I’ve actually discouraged in years before because of the time that it takes to do something like that and make it look good.”

Most of the juniors working on the banner also had no experience working on such a complex art project.

The banner had to be completed by Thursday, May 4, the day before its signing and blessing, and it was only half-complete

when the deadline loomed just a week away. Five or six juniors spent around eleven hours each the Monday and Tuesday of the long weekend before.

But with the banner still only around 70 percent complete on Tuesday, five committed committee members stayed after school Wednesday until midnight to knock out the last 30 percent of work to completion.

“This is the tenth banner that I’ve watched to go up on that wall, and I knew it was going to get done,” said Russo. “I know that guys at SLUH are committed to seeing certain things through at the end of the day, and seeing them through well.”

“I snapped one or two times at people,” McDermott said of the stressed working environment.

“But people were mostly calm and got things done. It turns out we work really well under pressure.”

On Thursday, the banner was revealed to the junior class at their class meeting. On Friday, the class signed the banner on the Schulte Theater stage amidst dozens of parents flashing their cameras.

Four of the committee members then carried the banner into the Commons and raised it beside the stage for the Junior Ring Mass, where Tom Cummings, S.J., blessed it.

“I think it was an ambitious project,” said Russo, “and it looks really, really well done.”

May 11, 2012

Art show, opened last night, dedicated to Whealon (continued from page 1) cated to ceramics teacher Mary Whealon, who has taught at SLUH for over twenty years and is retiring this year. Artwork from every art class, including 2-D design, Printmaking, and Advanced Ceramics, as well as one piece from every freshman in the Fine Arts Survey class is on display in the art gallery and the adjoining hallways.

Drawings and design projects line the walls of the mezzanine leading up to the gallery. In the center of the gallery itself are the three-dimensional projects, including those from Ceramics and 2-D design classes. A favorite of Wealon’s is a collection of vibrant, solid-colored bowls, displayed in the center of the gallery, made by senior Parker Schenk in the Advanced Ceramics class.

“This art show really highlights students who are invested in their work,” said Whealon. “A lot of this art shows students who made their work personal: they integrated the ideas of the teachers well to make some really great work.”

Whealon also mentioned a piece by Rob Laurentius, a pair of pitchers on a decorative tray, as a special favorite of hers.

Lining the walls of the hallway leading to the Prep News office are drawings from the Fine Arts survey classes and the inside of the gallery features lots of drawing pieces on display, including several large, colorful pastel still-life drawings. Students in the watercolor class have been working hard all semester and have

several pieces on display, including those they painted outdoors on block day.

Design teacher John Mueller is impressed with this year’s show.

“This year’s show is very colorful.

I’m very impressed with the 2-D design projects. Many of them look professional,” he said. “This year I stressed to my classes that they use images that they created, not just gotten from the internet.

The work that came from that is strongly personal and thoughtful.”

This year’s show, like every year’s, was judged by an impartial art teacher from the area. Annie Schembauer, a distinguished artist who teaches art at Ursuline Academy, considered this year’s artistic array.

The Fine Arts department chose to dedicate the show to Whealon because of her imminent retirement. In her time teaching at SLUH, Whealon developed and expanded the Ceramics program here into the strong aesthetic force that it is now. She now teaches three different classes: Ceramics I and II and Advanced Cermics.

“She has been and remains an integral part of the arts here, and in her last year we want to send her off right,” said Mueller.

“I’ll always fondly remember the annual art show,” said Whealon.

Everyone is encouraged to come up to the second floor of the J-wing from now until May 24 to admire the best of this year’s student artwork.

Stoltz to spend next year abroad, studying in Spain

BY David REPORTER

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ophomore Don Stolz will be spending the 2012-13 school year in Spain through a program called Rotary Youth Exchange.

Rotary Youth Exchange, a segment of Rotary International, is a program that helps young people between the ages of 18-25 to travel to a foreign country and learn a new way of living and a foreign language.

The Stolz family has been a host family before to other exchange students, but while Stolz is in Spain, they will not be hosting anybody.

Stolz will be staying with the Leòn family in Colada, which is a suburb of Madrid, Spain. He will attend a local secondary school, which is still undecided.

Not enough credits from the school that he will attend in Ma-

drid will transfer, so upon returning to SLUH in the fall of 2013, Stolz will be junior.

“I will graduate with the class of 2015,” Stolz said.

Currently, Stolz is taking Katherine Toussaint’s Spanish 2 course but does not speak any Spanish outside of that class.

Stolz is hoping to adapt to the Spanish language quickly. After approximately three months he hopes to be speaking the language fluently.

“It'll be a challenge, but it will still be fun,” Stolz said.

Stolz explained that the goal is to be completely immersed in the culture. “My family is not allowed to visit,” Stolz explained.

He will, however, be able to talk to his family via the phone or online video chat.

Stolz said of the experience, “I am excited but kind of nervous.”

“There are no dead.”

Maurice Maeterlinck

OPINION

May 11, 2012

Perspective Where did it all go? A senior looks back

BY Ryan Dowd SPORTS EDITOR

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sat at one of the exits to our Si Commons, chaperoning the freshmen dance, wondering how this wonderful “new space” might look after the dancing horde left.

Where did it all go? The beginning seemingly stretched for years. The ending came abruptly.

Tonight we have prom. Exams are for the most part over. Some of us even have wispy beards.

Our parents, teachers, friends, and the entire SLUH community have spent the month, more so the year, celebrating us while also pushing us out and away. Where did it all go?

While the quintessential graduate image is a young gent tossing his cap to the sky in jubilation or receiving a diploma from an esteemed principle, I don’t feel like celebrating. As a male who grew up in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, I also grew up on the Lord of the Rings. There’s a scene late into the Return of the King, probably near the fourth hour, where Frodo wanders aimlessly through his house, after he has destroyed the Ring of power and saved the world.

“But now what?” I imagine Frodo saying to himself.

It’s somewhat ironic that I have to reference a fictional, fantasy film to get at the truth of graduation. I could have easily refrenced the last scene of The Graduate, but I doubt most SLUH students would know what I’m talking about. I could reference the death of Junior Seau, the tragic story of a man who didn’t know what to do when the beating finally ended.

How can I move on? Where did it all go?

I spent the last four years of my life clawing my way through the Odyssey, Chemistry, Catch-22, and Calculus only to abruptly taste a bitter sweet victory, but what’s next? College, then a job, then your own family.

Where did it all go? How can any experience compare to this? What will I forget?

Besides my bewilderment at the apparent velocity (not speed because there was a definite change in direction) of these past four years, I also can’t help leaving with a slew of regret. My favorite character from Friday Night Lights, fullback, Tim Riggins has a mantra throughout his high school years of “No regrets.”

But Tim is wrong. I regret some of what I’ve done and a lot of things I’ve said. But more so, I regret what I have failed to do in my four years here, things I planned to do but was too lazy, friends and connections I wanted to make but was too shy. When I think about my SLUH years, I remember moreso the things I never did, than what I actually accomplished.

When I was a freshman, listening a another Friday morning Dr. Osburg homeroom rant, I thought if I was ever involved with the Prep News I’d probably have things figured out. As a cynical sophomore, writing unher-

alded spring rugby articles peppered with war imagery I thought if I ever reported on football, I’d probably have this place figured out. As a decorated and diligent junior football reporter, I thought if I was ever core staff on the Prep News, I’d probably have my entire life figured out. As a surprisingly still ambitious senior, I thought if I ever became an actual editor on the Prep News, I’d surely run this place.

But I don’t. I regret not playing a sport my junior or senior year. I regret not being involved in just one SLUH play. I regret the fact that I’ll leave SLUH knowing half of you half as well as I should like. It’s only after I have one foot out the door that I realize where I failed, who I should have been, and that’s the hardest part in leaving.

But the reality is that I only have four years of high school, and that’s it.

Some of my classmates I might never see again after graduation, except for occasional Facebook post.

Where did it all go?

If you ask that question though, can you handle the harsh truth? These were four of the best, but moreso brutal years of our lives. We remember the times in the stands and parties during the blessed weekend, but will we remember the times we woke up, looked at the clock blinking 6 a.m., and muttered an obscenity into our pillow. We try to forget those moments of anguish and terror, and we do. I’d say to you: Don’t. That is the essence of SLUH. An experience that will no doubt “make a man out of you.”

Amidst all these feelings of regret and nostalgia, I ask myself a question. Ryan, do you really want to be a SLUH student for another four years? No thank you. I’m sick of demerit cards, a dress code, underclassmen, lockers, and mostly a 20 minute commute to school. In the ideal world I’d go to college with all my SLUH classmates, plus a few girls, and we’d have four more jolly years, then all work together and raise families together. Maybe that last one went a little too far. But the point is I’ve finally realized that life moves at a rapidly accelerating pace. Life moves faster the older we get, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

People wonder after they’ve graduated, where did it all go?

That’s what I wondered as I watched as I watched pre-pubescent freshmen boys interact with girls at the freshmen dance, then turning to look at fellow chaperoning wrestling captain Will Whitney aggressively dancing with Gadflidian Tom Blood.

While an outsider might see that as an opportunity to wonder, “What disturbs us so fundamentally in these four years that we go from innocent freshman to Will Whitneys and Tom Bloods?

What’s wrong with us?”

I just thought, “I’m going to miss this.”

Not the morning commute or Mr. Kesterson, but the innate connection I have with my class-

I regret the fact that I’ll leave SLUH knowing half of you half as well as I should like. It’s only after I have one foot out the door that I realize where I failed, who I should have been, and that’s the hardest part in leaving. mates just by going to SLUH. Just like Frodo, Dustin Hoffman, or Junior Seau, I’ve been through something I can only share with Jr. Bills, whether that be emphatic mixer dancing or soaking freshmen on a Monday morning. I’ve seen Jr. Bills lie, cry, and die. But I’ve also laughed with nearly every classmate. Whatever SLUH did to us to make us the men we are today, that experience defines us, individually and collectively, and initially this apparent disconnect blindsides us.

I might not be ready to grow up yet, in fact I’m really not. I still like trampolines, although my doctor has told me for the past 18 years never to set foot on one. I can still eat 15 chocolate chip cookies in one sitting. I can still sleep for 18 straight hours if I choose to. One day though, hopefully, I will. And when that day comes, I’ll have a better grip on what really happened here at SLUH. I have to move on, and I will.

My life will change but not really.

So, where did it all go?

It went into late nights spent in a crowded 3rd floor J-Wing office. It went into late nights spent writing essays for books I may never remember. It went into nights spent with friends.

And whether I move on or not, I’m going to miss this.

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Check your email

A lot of times during my four years at SLUH I looked around and thought, “If I were in charge I would do things a lot differently.” If you’ve ever thought that, this is your chance.

In your inbox, there’s a message explaining how to get involved in a new and unique experience: you can apply for a spot on the student-led team we’re starting that will work to address issues of academic integrity at SLUH. Dr. Moran will seriously consider any proposal the group comes up with. As such, the students selected have an incredible opportunity to make St. Louis U. High a better place. We expect there to be plenty of qualified candidates, and if this is the type of chance that appeals to you, don’t let it pass by without your help. We need you and we’re excited to hear your input.

The link can be found at: sluh.org/prepnews/integrity-app

—Nate Heagney, Editor

Volume LXXVI Platform As the student-run newspaper of St. Louis University High School, the Prep News is a weekly publication that strives to inform the SLUH community about events and people, with its focus on those pertaining to the school, primarily through the written word.

The Prep News is neither the voice of the administration nor the students. Rather, the newspaper serves to gather and distribute information for the entire school.

The Prep News editors and staff members make every effort to be objective in their news coverage and editing.

The members of the editorial staff are co-workers and share equally the duties of writing, copyediting, layout, and staff management. All of the editors share responsibility and leadership of the paper. The editors are supported by a core staff of regular reporters as well as artists and photographers.

It is the role of the editors to seek out and facilitate the reporting of all significant news at SLUH. While any faculty member or student is welcome to submit suggestions to the editors for potential articles, the Prep News is never obligated to publish any article idea.

Our primary emphasis as editors of the Prep News is upon clear

and accurate writing and careful editing. We also attempt to include visual expression—photography, drawing, technical aids, etc.—in every issue and on our web site.

Despite our desire to make the paper visually appealing, we commit ourselves not to allow form to supersede substance.

The Prep News strongly encourages underclassman involvement, and our office on the second floor of the Jesuit Wing, room J220, is always open for involvement, criticism, praise, or suggestions. Contributed student opinions are also welcome under the Prep News Editorial Policy.

Without student reaction and feedback, the Prep News could not function.

If the Prep News is inaccurate, we will correct any significant error in the following issue and on our web site.

Furthermore, the editors assume sole responsibility for the text of news and sports articles, features, and editorials. We ask faculty or students who take issue with the manner in which the news was reported or find an error to bring it to the attention of the editors, not the individual reporters.

This is the platform of the editors of Volume LXXVI of the Prep News. photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

Editors

Matt Cooley, Joe Klein, Nate Heagney, Ryan Dowd, Jack Witthaus

Organized by Librarian Eleanora McCarthy, the May Crowning was held Monday morning as part of the freshman prayer service.

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PARTING WAYS

After filling in for George, Kainz will depart; plans to keep teaching English

May 11, 2012

Monetti concludes year of ASC service in English photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

English teacher Steven Kainz imparts some knowledge to one of his sophomore English classes. Kainz departs from SLUH after this year.

BY Brendan REPORTER

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ophomore English teacher Steve Kainz, ’06, will be departing St. Louis U. High at the end of the school year after a successful stint filling in for English teacher Bill George. After health issues forced George into retirement, Kainz received a call offering him the position.

“One day Mr. George just walked out of the room, he didn’t say anything, he just walked right out. We had a free period for the rest of that class, then for the next

few days we had Mr. Moran or another sub, and then one day Dr. Moran came in and then Mr. Kainz walked in (after him),” said sophomore Michael Daugherty.

But Kainz has been here before. A 2006 graduate and a student teacher for English teacher David Callon last year, Kainz had the benefit of some experience.

“I didn’t expect him to be as good of an English teacher as he was,” said Daugherty.

“Everything I taught this year I taught the year before, so people knew I wasn’t winging it,” said Kainz.

The extent of that knowledge was tested as his sophomores quizzed him over lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, important and otherwise. Kainz knew every line.

“It’s amazing what you pick up teaching this four times a day,” Kainz said.

But while his aptitude in the classroom was proven, his aptitude for surprises was not.

“We (the Surprise Club) had the whole scenario set up, the party hats, cupcakes and everything, and we get him in the room and he goes ‘Guys, I have to be in the Commons,’ and leaves,” said sophomore Larry Hoerr.

All was made right, though, as Kainz later returned and enjoyed cupcakes and Shakespeare Pictionary with the Surprise Club.

His investment in the material was palpable.

“He’s really emotional. He started crying about the McPheron’s relationship with Victoria in Plainsong, ” said Daugherty.

Over the course of the last year, teaching about characters from Okonkwo to Roubideaux, Kainz has attempted to fill the role of a St. Louis U. High legend, and did so in his own way.

“It’s a class I look forward to every day,” said Hoerr.

“We’re gonna miss having him, it’s pretty emotional. Pretty sad,” added Daugherty.

Kainz said his plan after SLUH is to continue teaching high school English, preferably in St. Louis.

After a year of coaching, teaching Global History, Flaherty departs SLUH

BY Jack Kiehl REPORTER

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

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fter one year at St. Louis U. High, freshman history teacher Tim Flaherty is leaving his position, taking with him new memories and experiences of coaching and teaching as well as a strong impact on his students.

Flaherty came to SLUH through the Alumni Service Corps (ASC), a program in which graduates of Jesuit high schools and colleges offer up teaching or coaching services to give back to Jesuit education. After a year of student teaching, Flaherty did two years with the ASC, including last year with his alma mater, Marquette University High School in Milwaukee.

His time at SLUH, however, was different due to new opportunities in coaching sports he wasn’t used to.

“Basketball in particular, I had no shot of making the team.

Track, this is my first experience with track,” said Flaherty.

Coaching freshman football, on the other hand, was something that he had experience with.

“He really understands the sport,” said freshman Parker Pence, a player whom Flaherty developed a friendship with.

ASC volunteer Tim Flaherty, in addition to teaching Global History, helped coach basketball, football, and track. He will depart at the end of the year.

Flaherty became interested in teaching history thanks to the number of good teachers he had in school. His passion for it showed in the classroom.

“He was really enthusiastic and he made history fun,” said Brian Luczak, one of his fresh-

man students. “I looked forward to coming to history class.”

For most of the year, Flaherty only had experiences with freshmen through teaching and coaching, but has recently had continued on page 6

English teacher Carson Monetti looks up while helping moderate the production of an issue of Sisyphus, which he helped advise this year.

BY Jack STAFF

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or one year, Alumni Service Corps (ASC) teachers volunteer their time to Jesuit high schools and middle schools. For ASC English teacher Carson Monetti, his year at SLUH is coming to an end.

Monetti, who graduated from Rockhurst High School in Kansas City and Swarthmore College just outside Philadelphia, he decided to become an ASC volunteer because he had an ASC teacher for world religion at Rockhurst who told him about the program.

“I’ve had about five different career plans since high school, but ASC is something I’ve always wanted to do,” Monetti said.

Monetti said that he has enjoyed his time teaching at SLUH. In fact, his year at SLUH has led him to shift loyalties.

“I have to go against my alma mater and say that I really like SLUH better,” Monetti said. “I think the academics are incredibly strong. Every student knows a lot is expected of them.”

As a junior English teacher, Monetti has continued SLUH’s academic tradition. According to junior Brendan McDermott, Monetti’s class is very flexible and he allows class to occasionally go in different directions. Monetti also has a wide knowledge of different works of literature and is adept at using that knowledge in class.

“He can make the class not just about this one book, but about how it connects to other books by a different author, other poems, how literature connects as a whole,” McDermott said.

Junior Robby Martineau, who said that Monetti’s love for English was apparent in his classes, described him as “chill,” and

praised the atmosphere of Monetti’s classes.

“As a teacher, he was probably one of the best I’ve had,” Martineau said.

Monetti’s favorite part about teaching English this year was teaching poetry, especially receiving student feedback.

“I really adore teaching poetry, so the reactions I got from kids who really responded to (the poems) were probably the best part of my year,” Monetti said.

Monetti’s love of rhyming extends also to rap music, which McDermott and Martineau would often talk to Monetti about after class.

“He’d say something in class and Robby (Martineau) and I would stay after,” McDermott said, “I would stay after two hours talking to him.”

Martineau agreed that Monetti was easily relatable to them and said that his talks with Monetti outside of class are his most memorable moments with Monetti.

“He was a dude you could talk to about anything,” Martineau said. “We talked about everything from what we discussed in class to rap music to the proper way to lean on a podium.”

This summer, Monetti will study Søren Kierkegaard, a 19th century Danish existentialist, on a fellowship from the Kierkegaard library at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

Monetti will start a master’s degree program in philosophy at Georgia State in Atlanta in August. Monetti plans to be a teacher in the future and hopes to teach at a college.

“I can’t imagine a more rewarding profession than teaching,” said Monetti. “I absolutely love teaching.”

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”

-C.S. Lewis

ACCOLADES

May 11, 2012

Prep News Volume 76, Issue 29

Awards assembly honors wide range of student achievements

BY Adam Thorp CORE STAFF

photo | Mr. Matt Sciuto

F. Joseph Schulte Dramatics Award

Jordan Bollwerk, Christian Probst and Spencer Vogel won the Joseph Schulte Dramatics Award for their work with the SLUH drama program. Bollwerk and Probst have had lead roles in many plays over the past four years, and Vogel has worked on sound.

Fienup Math Award Joe Szatkowski

The Fienup Math Award is given each year by the Math department to the “outstanding student in mathematics” from the Senior class. This year’s award was won by Joe Szatkowski.

Szatkowski is a National Merit Semifinalist who has been active in the Math club, Science club, and Climbing club. He had one of the highest scores from SLUH on the Missouri Math League tests.

Raterman Award Nathan Fox, Sakari McCullough

The Raterman award, given by the English department for accomplished work in reading and writing at SLUH was given this year to Nathan Fox and Zackary McCullough.

McCullough is currently directing a student-run production of Richard II after reading the book and deciding he wanted to see it on stage. The play will be shown on May 24, 25, and 27.

Nathan Fox was especially honored by being selected.

“It’s hard to find words to describe getting congratulated by the English department. I think it’s fair to say they’re one of the best in the nation, our English department,” said Fox.

He especially credited English teachers Barbara Osburg and David Callon.

The award winners posed with President David Laughlin after the award ceremony, held on Friday, April 27.

MLK Model of Justice Award Sam Bufe The Martin Luther King Model of Justice Award is given to one student at each high school in the St. Louis archdiocese who showed dedication to social justice. It was given to Sam Bufe earlier this year.Bufe said trips like the Ignatian Family Teach-In and service trips to Camden and Honduras helped form his outlook on social justice and life.

“I like to think those events have changed the way I behave every day,” said Bufe.

McConaghy Award Joshua Zink-Duda

The McConaghy Award is given for exceptional work in Latin and Greek at SLUH.

The award was given to Josh Zink-Duda, who was half of the victorious advanced team at this year’s Certamen competition.

Zink-Duda took Greek his senior year, and gained highest honors and a blue ribbon on the National Greek exam. In the

National Latin Exam he earned a magna cum laude honor, the second highest honor available.

Zink-Duda has been involved with cross country and track while at SLUH. Principal’s Leadership Award

Sam Bufe, Matt Cooley, Ben Hilker, Adam Hunn and William Whitney were honored by the school administration for their academic and especially leadership contribution. Bufe has worked with Gadfly, and was also a winner of the Model of Justice award. Cooley has served as Editor In Chief for this year’s volume of the Prep News.

Hilker has served as the a key contributor for photography throughout his four years. Hunn served as STUCO Pastoral Executive this year and has acted with the Dauphin Players.

Whitney has served as a varsity wrestling captain and was a member of the senior STUCO.

Dunn-Martel Award Sam Erlinger

The Dunn-Martel Award is given to honor a student who balances athletic participation and exceptional scholarship.

This year it went to senior Sam Erlinger.

“I felt pretty honored,” said Erlinger.

Some standout experiences in Erlinger’s time at SLUH include last year’s state water polo team and his perfect score of 36 on the ACT. He was named USA water polo Academic AllAmerican and National Merit Finalist.

Hinck-Hereford Award Mitch Klug The Hinck-Hereford is given to a student recognized by the senior class as standing out in leadership, athletics and scholarships. The senior class this year selected Mitch Klug. Klug has played varsity baseball and football, excelling in both. He will play baseball at Harvard next year.

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JSEA Award Christian Probst

The Jesuit Secondary Education Award goes to one student in every Jesuit high school in the United States who embodies the idea of the Grad at Grad. This year the award went to Christian Probst.

“I was very happy, just for the sheer fact that I won an award to begin with but also because of what the award meant,” said Probst. “That the person that won represents the criteria of the Grad at Grad best in the class—I felt very proud of myself.”

Probst is extensively involved in the Dauphin Players, starring in their productions of Of Mice and Men, Where’s Charley? and Filthy Rich.

Mac Boland Award William Edwards

The Mac Boland Award is given by the faculty to a student who, though not otherwise recognized, influences the school towards greater unity. The award was given to Will Edwards.

Edwards participated in the Dauphin Players, speech team and was very successful in the Poetry Out Loud competition.

His singing talents wowed many during Masses and teachers raved about his genial nature.

Ed Hawk Memorial Award James Griffard

This award is voted on by the senior class in order to recognize a student who fosters unity. This year’s award was given to STUCO executive Vice-President James Griffard.

“I felt very, very happy. A couple of people told me they had voted for me the day after we voted. I didn’t want to get my hopes up, though I felt really good that they would even consider me,” said Griffard.

“They said my name (at the award ceremony) and it was one of the best feelings I ever had.”

After his first year at SLUH, Kickham honored with Faculty Appreciation Award photo | SLUH photography

BY Sam Fentress REPORTER

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sychology teacher Tom Kickham enjoyed a pleasant end to his first year at St. Louis U. High when he was presented with the Faculty Appreciation Award at the all-school awards ceremony, an award given to one teacher every year who has demonstrated a commitment and love towards teaching and students at SLUH. The award, which is voted on by the senior class, also means that Kickham will be giving a speech at graduation.

“It means a lot to me. Not necessarily the certificate itself, or even the speech, but I do greatly respect SLUH students­ —they’re intelligent people, they’re goodhearted people—and it does give you some validation that maybe I’m doing the right thing,” said Kickham.

Kickham explained that the award was very humbling, and that every teacher deserves a shot at the award.

“I just think that, over the course of time, hopefully everybody who gives an honest effort

Delivering his trademark fist-bump, Psychology teacher Tom Kickham receives the Faculty Appreciation Award.

toward the subject and students gets their turn at (the award). I kind of look at it that I was fortunate to have my turn at the award.

I know that there are people who deserve the award and never get it.”

Kickham’s intimate teacher-

student interaction seemed to be an important factor among the reasons why he won the award.

“Every day, there was not one time where I was like, ‘Oh, damn, I got to go to Psych.’ Every class was interesting, every class was fun. He was always, you know, up

in our faces, but in a good way; he was always exciting to be in class with,” said senior Jarret Stein, who said that he had voted for Kickham.

In fact, during the interview for this article, Kickham excused himself several times to talk to

and congratulate students about their recent AP Psychology exam.

“I think what might have helped win the award is that I do try to deal with the students individually,” said Kickham. “There’s a saying that says, ‘The students don’t care what you know until the students know that you care.’

And that might not be applicable to SLUH students, because they’re so driven and motivated they do the work no matter what. But I think it’s easier to do the work when you know somebody cares.”

Kickham said that he had seen SLUH as the gold standard for high schools before he came here, and because of that, he tried very hard this year.

“I kind of feel like when you come (to SLUH) you have to step up your game, and when you come here as a teacher you’ve got to step up your game,” said Kickham, who sees the award as a privilege.

“I think (the award) is a tribute to the fellow faculty and the students because I think you have to work really hard to be worthy of them,” said Kickham.

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NEWS

May 11, 2012

After four years at helm of school, Moran sits down to look back, reflect photo | Giuseppe Vitellaro

(continued from page 1) little more streamlined. And the Instructional Council I think has done some great things behind the scenes—that a lot of students wouldn’t see—over the past four years that they could’ve been doing previous to that, but I can only speak for the four years that I was here. The curriculum mapping is happening at the school. Students have no idea what that is, and it doesn’t effect their day-to-day life very much, but it’s been a big project that really has been almost two years in the making. And now teachers have been doing it for a year on top of that. So some of those things, I think, have been really important in regards to the students.

I know here my first year, your first semester, we made a big deal about locking lockers, which certainly hadn’t been a major issue beforehand. Our goal there was just to reduce stealing. Theft was a big concern. Things were going missing and we were kind of asking, first and foremost, for students to be responsible for their own items, which was a big deal. Looking back on that now, it seems like a long time ago.

MC: During your first year here you compared yourself a little bit to a freshman who’s learning the rhythms and history of the school. As a “senior” now, what do you think are some of the biggest things you’ve learned, or are there things that you’re still learning?

JM: Well, I feel a lot more mature.

Keep in mind, as a freshman I wasn’t just learning a new school like you guys were, but I was learning a whole new city. I had just picked up and moved (hundreds of) miles away. I think I certainly understand the dynamics of St. Louis, and our admissions culture, much more than I did when I first came in. It took a while just to know different parishes, feeder schools—and even that demographic is changing.

Our traditional feeder schools are getting smaller, and we’re finding new feeder schools along the way.

In regards to the culture of the school, there were a lot of similarities between the school I was at and here, which I think also were part of the attraction. It wasn’t a simple ‘take everything that happened today and do it in St. Louis,’ but I feel like I was able to make that adjustment a lot more quickly in the first year.

MC: You mentioned that SLUH’s process has changed for hiring new teachers and coaches. Over the last four years, how has the culture of the faculty changed?

JM: One of the first things I noticed was that the average tenure at SLUH when I arrived was something like 22 or 24 years, and people may have been teaching longer than that. I think we’re blessed with a veteran faculty.

That brings stability, that brings continuity, that brings certainly experience and practice. At some point, however, that’s going to turn over and you’re going to have to prepare for people to come in.

How do they carry on traditions when they’re coming in new to the school? Some of the faculty members we’ve hired are actually graduates of the school, so they have that connection. But not everyone. And I think that diversity in regards to hiring is important to bring in new ideas and fresh perspectives.

I think we’ve definitely started to see that over the past four years. Some long-time faculty members, some of the icons of the school, have moved on. Some of them are still here teaching a class or two or are connected with the school in one way or another—when you’ve devoted 20 or 30 years of your life you’re always part of the community. But even just that reduction in some ways has started to bring in some of the change, and it’s brought in some of the new people. It’s been an exciting couple of years. I think that’s a process that’s ongoing too.

It tends to happen for different departments at different times.

MC: Does St. Louis feel any more home to you now than it did when you moved here from Boston four years ago? Any more help for the Cardinals?

JM: Hey, I was at game seven. I hope everyone knows that. I’m a very big sports fan and part of the attraction of moving to STL was that it’s a passionate sports town.

I still haven’t come around to the Rams. Sorry. Maybe I’m waiting for a bandwagon to jump on. I’ve had a ten pack of Blues tickets since I’ve arrived and went to all the playoff games this year and was blessed enough to wind up at game seven last year. Fortunately the Red Sox and Cardinals don’t have to face each other headto-head too often. And I’m not saying where my allegiance will lie when that happens until that point.

It definitely was an adjustment for the first couple of years but I would say yeah, at this point St. Louis is home.

MC: What would you say has been the biggest challenge you’ve had to face as principal?

JM: The plane crash (that killed Brendan Langford and Jacob Ritz). No doubt. I mean, that was the end of my first year too.

So I kind of adjusted to the point where, like a freshman, I felt like, “Wow, I made it, I survived a year,” and then we were thrown into that. I mean, that would have been difficult for a 20-year principal. Just the emotional roller coaster of it. And the job requires me to be taking care of a lot of details for the community. Your heart is really torn, and I needed to keep doing my job because there’s a lot of people who need information and communication and we just need a place to gather. Is the chapel open? Can I get some of the Jesuits to come over and help? Simple things, but all your heart wants to do is grieve and pray.

MC: The class of 2012 is the first class you’ve seen progress through all four years. Is there

Dr. John Moran at a Sustainability Committee meeting earlier this year.

anything special about seeing that class grow through SLUH? JM: Oh, absolutely. Now, remember, I’d been in education for 15 years prior to coming here. Arriving and saying I was a member of your class, I think I knew even then consciously that this would be the first class I get to see go that four years. That’s part of the thrill of doing this, watching a class come in and see who are the personalities, what the character of the class is, what are the talents, what’s going to be the thing they do thats a little bit different that’s gonna change us. What are they going to carry on from the classes around them or before them?

Think of what this place looked like four years ago and what it looks like now. Well, that’s not just because of a new administrator or a new teacher, it’s because of the 300 new kids that come through every year and what they bring to it. Is the Ben Hilker photo gallery gonna become a tradition now? Gadfly wasn’t really doing too much four years ago, but then the class before you guys and the one before that really lit the fire and now it’s still going. That’s the kind of fun stuff that is interesting, and why I paired myself a little bit with this senior class coming through because it would be the first time.

Now frankly, I could say I’ve seen the junior class through. I guess from now on I get to say that too.

MC: What are some of the things you see yourself focusing on here through the next few years?

JM: There’s a number of things.

Some of those go back to those behind the scenes goals I talked about earlier. Not to bore anybody with a lot of curriculum talk here, but curriculum mapping is the process of taking what we do, recording it, and then analyzing it. Well, when you have a veteran faculty and you’re starting to look at some of them retiring and moving on or just any transitions. We have two new teachers coming into the English department this year. It’s nice to plug them into a curriculum that’s already written. And then we’re relying on the experience of everybody of years and years and years of teaching.

So pushing that through, making sure we continue to stay focused on that has got to be important over the next couple years.

Every five years we go through the process of being accredited by an outside agency. The Jesuit high school world is experiencing some change that we don’t have to think about too much here. I think technology continues to be an exciting topic in education, but one that has to be done smartly. We went to the experiment of having you guys walk around with (cellphones). There certainly was some anxiety with that, and I think there’s still some rules and regulations to come in that regard. But I think that’s the exciting stuff of education.

MC: What were the most memorable experiences for you over the past four years as a part of the community?

JM: It’s been particularly fun watching this senior class come through in regards to their stage performances. I think we know that there’s talent year after year, but there’s an incredible mix of talent that’s come together. So some of those stage performances have been really mind blowing.

There have been great athletics successes over those four years.

Any time you gather the majority of the student body and faculty, some 1000 people at Soccer Park or Scottrade Center, those are memorable nights. The first time I saw the Running of the Bills I was taking pictures of that and send-

ing them to people back East, trying to explain what was going on to anyone from outside this world and culture.

The first all-school liturgy, which at the time was in the old gymnasium, not the Commons.

Still had the lines on the floor— and how loud the Alleluia sounded. And I would pair that with doing the Mass of the Holy Spirit in the old College Church this year.

How beautiful that was on the whole. It was probably 105 and humid, but the day itself and the Mass itself were beautiful. And the singing was beautiful in that.

That’s a pretty good list to start with.

I’ve been blessed to travel to Appalachia with students, and to see students working down in Honduras. This summer I’ll be traveling with the chorus to China. I’m not sure, but there will be moments to add to that list.

MC: Any other comments?

JM: There will definitely be some sadness in watching this class move on beacuse I’ve seen you all the way through. You guys get to go off all around the world to exciting places and I’ll be back here on Oakland Ave. But Oakland Ave. has become a pretty fun place to be, and at this point in my life, the idea that I get to come back makes me feel actually a little bit of “ha ha” while you all have to go off to different places. So that’s the good news, bad news of being a senior who doesn’t graduate.

Flaherty finishes year of ASC (continued from page 4) opportunities to work with upperclassmen.

“I’ve had more dealings with upperclassmen, with track and Kairos,” said Flaherty.

Flaherty’s plans for next year are still up in the air with hopes of settling down at a school with a master’s degree in the future.

“I’m interviewing at a couple of schools, checking my options … looking potentially at grad school,” said Flaherty.

While leaving SLUH is bittersweet, Flaherty will take many experiences and memories with

him.

“I look at the football game against DeSmet, I look at the track meet (last Thursday) when we won. … There’s almost too many (great experiences) to name,” said Flaherty.

Though Flaherty will be gone next year, he leaves behind friendships and memories with his students as well.

“He’s a friendly guy to be around. He’s one of my favorite teachers, even if I don’t have him,” said Pence.

FEATURE

May 11, 2012

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On a flying trapeze, Viverito hopes to makes career in circus

BY John Webb CORE STAFF

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he word “swinging” means something different to Matt Viverito, ‘08. It’s probably because he usually does it 30 feet off the ground. And since he will soon become a professional flying trapeze artist, he’s about to get paid for it.

Fresh out of Florida State with a degree in psychology, Viverito has decided to take an interesting career path and pursue trapeze artistry professionally, accepting a job with a circus troupe called the Flying Pages. To Viverito, the decision to become a circus entertainer doesn’t seem so strange. It’s something he’s wanted to do most of his life.

“I think I’ve always wanted to do circus professionally, but it’s a tough industry to break into so I’ve always had my reservations, knowing that it might never work out,” said Viverito.

Finding a job in the circus world presents some unique challenges. Over the past few decades, circus has become a more popular art form, leading to a subsequent interest in people wanting to become circus performers. Most small circuses are family-run enterprises that only occasionally have other performers travel with them.

The Flying Pages, for example, have been performing for generations. Viverito is friends with one of the Flying Pages’s son, whose parents decided to invite Viverito on for a series of shows running from June 13 to midSeptember.

“It’s pretty difficult to get a job in the professional circus world if you don’t have roots there already,” said Viverito. “A lot of kids at Florida State would love to get some kind of professional circus job doing any kind of act, but it’s pretty hard to break into if you don’t know somebody.”

The Opening Act When he was ten years old, Viverito attended a summer camp at a performing arts center near his house that taught basic circus skills, sparking an interest that continues with him to this day.

Through middle school and high school, Viverito performed as part of the St. Louis Arches, the circus group that performs at the

City Museum. In the beginning, he learned tricks mainly associated with juggling and balancing.

It was also during this time that Viverito established the contact that led to his connection to become a trapeze artist. The St. Louis Arches perform with Circus Flora when they come to St. Louis every summer. At the time, the Flying Pages were travelling with Circus Flora.

Viverito also participated in the Circus Club during his time at SLUH. “I was able to practice some skills in Circus Club that helped me with circus in general,” he said.

When it came time for him to graduate from SLUH, Viverito wasn’t quite ready to give up circus as a part of his life. Florida State, along with Illinois State, is one of only two major universities that have a fully functioning circus program. In the end, as a sign of how much he wanted to pursue circus, Viverito ended up filling out only one application— for Florida State, of course.

At Florida State, there’s a unique subset of around 100 students in the circus program.

Those same students are also all fighting for practice time in a limited amount of practice space.

For Viverito, trying to balance earning a psychology degree, his social life, and circus, not to mention sleep, proved to be the biggest challenge.

Swinging at Last At the beginning of his sophomore year, Viverito was selected to participate in the trapeze program. He not only had to be physically capable but also mentally capable to be selected. In order to develop a sense of aerial awareness, he had be able to grasp abstract physics concepts such as the period of a pendulum or how to generate maximum force when leaving the bar.

“They usually let their more senior members who have maybe a little more potential and have put in their time do flying trapeze,” he said. “Thankfully I was one of people they picked to try it out. It’s been a perfect fit ever since. I just fell in love with it.”

Next, Viverito learned how to swing, something not as easy as it sounds. Learning the proper mechanics for a fundamentally

photo | courtesy of J. Barry Mittan

Viverito (left) works on the trapeze.

sound swing is a difficult process.

“There are a lot of subtleties and nuances that really take years and years and years to not even perfect,” said Viverito. “It’s a big puzzle that takes a long time to put together.”

Once he learned a proper swing, he was able to start doing tricks. He built his way up to tricks with drills, repetition, and practice, and then put on safety lines to start practicing the tricks for real. Eventually the safety lines came off, with only the safety net lurking below.

“Because I’ve been doing circus so long, I have a rich acrobatic background,” he said. “The comfort level at least for me comes pretty quickly. It obviously also depends on what kind of trick you’re learning. … I think that it’s always been a good thing that I’ve never felt too uncomfortable up there, even from the start.”

Viverito was so comfortable, in fact, that he didn’t encounter a trick he was uncomfortable with until his junior year, as he began to encounter tricks with half twists and multiple rotations.

These tricks can take weeks or even months to perfect.

“There’s a lot of dialogue between coaches. There’s a lot of dialogue between teammates,” he said. “It’s just like anything else.

It’s just a lot of deliberate practice and repetition. It’s just like any athletic skill when you boil it down to its parts. It just happens

to be 30 feet up in the air.”

So far, the most complicated trick he can perform is called a double-cutaway half. Viverito stands on a bar even higher than the pedestal board in order to jump from a greater height. Instead of gripping the trapeze bar with both hands in an overhand grip, his right hand grabs the bar in an underhand grip. He swings out and does a half turn to face the pedestal board he jumped from, and then tucks himself into a ball to increase his angular velocity.

After he breaks at the explosive moment to generate maximum height, he does two front rotations and a half twist to the opposite pedestal bar where another trapeze artist catches him.

Swinging and flying through the air doesn’t appear to be safe, even only a short distance off the ground. There’s always an imminent threat of falling. Despite the cause for apprehension, Viverito isn’t afraid when he’s doing acrobatics.

“It’s something that’s more exciting than scary to me,” he said.

“When you do it right, it’s really not that dangerous of an activity.”

Jumping off the Pedestal Board As Viverito sets out to begin the next phase of his life, he admits that he is excited but nervous for the road ahead. For one, Viverito isn’t sure how he’ll react to the fast-paced circus mentality of constantly moving to a different

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environment. The Flying Pages’ upcoming round of shows will last three months, with two shows a day and days off only when it rains. At Florida State, he only did circus one hour a day five times a week.

“That kind of goes to show the stark contrast between five hours a week at Florida State, and I’ll be living and breathing it when I actually do it as my job,” he said.

As a profession, it’s difficult to assess how to move up the ladder because there’s no industry standard for upward mobility. For Viverito, the way for him to improve is by learning more difficult and breathtaking tricks and to hope for bigger contracts.

When Viverito takes to the sky on June 13, he will be fulfilling a lifelong dream. While he is sure to be nervous, he will also aim for perfection. Viverito has experienced nailing a perfect routine before at an alumni circus show at Florida State. In circus, when the whole team performs its routine without any mistakes, they call it “all across, all back.”

Viverito said of experiencing all over, all back, “It’s a pretty unique experience. It’s pretty hard to put into words. … It feels good to have all of your hard work validated and know that it paid off.

In trapeze and circus it’s a performance. It’s not a competition. You never really win, but that’s the closest thing I think you can get to winning a big game.”

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BY Jack Witthaus SPORTS EDITOR

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he St. Louis U. High Jr. Bills (14-9, 1-7 MCC) are wandering in the desert. For the last 40 days, SLUH has lugged a 7-8 record. Big wins and close losses stand as bright spots on their journey. However, a shortened DeSmet game and a Vianney whooping this week have set the team back.

MCC opponents have troubled the Jr. Bills over this stretch—SLUH hasn’t won an MCC game since March 21. This week the MCC woes continued, as the baseball squad extended its four game losing streak with losses against Vianney and CBC. “We’ve played pretty much every game close,” senior Andrew Pitts said.

“It’s almost like what else can we do? We are putting forth good effort. The other teams are just getting a break—that extra hit when they need it.”

On Wednesday, the Griffins nearly short-gamed the Jr. Bills, beating them 11-2 at home. Vianney pounded six SLUH pitchers for 16 hits. In relief, sophomore Mark Elbert, junior Matt Rancilio, and seniors Peter Gable and Trevor

Dorand combined for two innings of work. Left fielder and junior Kaleb King led the pack with two innings, giving up four runs and striking out four.

“As the season has progressed, it became apparent that we needed to try to find some other guys (innings) as well,” head coach Steve Nicollerat said. “(King) did fine.”

Junior starter Andrew Quinn was tagged for four runs as well, lasting only two innings.

Defensively, the Jr. Bills rode a roller coaster.

The squad turned two double plays, including a rare 8-4 (center field to second base). Senior Willie Floros assisted in four plays on the rocking chair at third. The Jr. Bills, however, committed three errors, including a passed ball that allowed a run.

On the flip side, Vianney starter Aaron Bossi hurled a gem. Bossi struck out six Jr. Bills and allowed only five hits. Senior LJ Hernandez paced SLUH with two hits, scoring once and driving a run home.

This past Tuesday, SLUH lost at Sheridan Stadium for the first time since May 14, 2010. Both losses were to CBC. This

year’s 4-0 defeat turned bitter. Cadet pitching stung SLUH hitters, striking out 11 batters, including four in a row at one point. However, senior Mitch Klug collected his first hit of the year.

Insult was added to injury later in the game, when the entire Cadet bench sang all the words to “Sweet Caroline” to a dejected SLUH bench.

However, the Jr. Bills stayed poised. Junior ace Brian Howard looked good in his start. Howard went the distance, striking out seven and allowing only one earned run.

“He pitched well enough to win, but we didn’t give him enough support offensively,” Nicollerat said. “You can’t expect a guy to be perfect. We still need runs.”

SLUH’s defense also made four errors in the defeat.

“You don’t win them all,” Nicollerat said. “And we have struggled. (But) no one can ever fault these guys for lack of effort. Their effort has been outstanding.

They’ve been through a lot.

This is not easy on the kids.

But they’re going to come through it.” continued on page 8

“It’s kind of a tough stretch where nothing is going right for us now,” Pitts said. “It’s tough for team morale. But we realize that Vianney player slides by junior Charlie Kretschmer in an 11-2 home defeat.

Third time not the charm for UltimateBills against Priory Rebels

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licking, jumping, sprinting, hucking, swinging, and flying, the St. Louis U. High Ultimate frisbee team charged the Priory fields in the State tournament with high confidence after beating Kirkwood and CBC, hoping to claim a State title. Even with their improved play and talented seniors, the Jr. Bills fell to Priory in the semifinals, ending their season and State title hopes.

On Sunday, April 24, while on a three-game losing streak, the team went to DeSmet to play a double-header against Kirkwood

and CBC. With the state tournament coming up the next week, the Jr. Bills’ wins were crucial to regain confidence for state.

“It was awesome to win two games straight after having a three-game losing streak,” said senior Ryan McHugh.

Although Kirkwood had taken a small lead against SLUH in the first game, the UltimateBills dominated for the rest of the day.

The Jr. Bills beat Kirkwood 15-8 and CBC 15-2.

“It was nice to get some momentum going into the State tournament,” said head coach Andrew Schroeder. “We started out a little

slow against Kirkwood like we had been doing in a lot of our recent games, but we recovered quickly.”

The following week the UltimateBills kept the momentum flowing with focused practices and high spirits, getting their flicks and defensive strategies down in order to have a chance to triumph against DeSmet, Parkway North, and Priory, the three teams that beat SLUH during the regular season.

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Senior handler Jeff Ullery flings the disk against Priory.

you’ve been preparing for weeks because cramming it all in two days isn’t going to get you very far.”

The seniors felt they had to leave it all on the field because this would be the last time playing together and for SLUH. “For me, it was sad going into the state tournament because I knew it was going to be my last weekend of Ultimate at SLUH,” said McHugh. “I kept that in mind while playing and tried to give it all I could.”

On Saturday, May 5, SLUH showed up to Priory for the first day of the State tournament full of energy and hope, sporting their new jerseys. The first day at State is pool play to determine rankings in Sunday’s bracket.

The Jr. Bills first challenged Kirkwood. After beating them the previous week, SLUH felt pretty confident against Kirkwood, and it showed. The UltimateBills started off hot and kept a substantial lead the entire game, ending the game with a score of 13-6.

“Beating Kirkwood by the margin that we did was surprising to me, so I was extremely pleased,” said senior Jeff Ullery.

SLUH’s momentum was finally thwarted by DeSmet’s offensive powerhouse. High temperatures and DeSmet’s fresh legs (its being their first game of the day) proved overwhelming to the Jr. Bills, who were a little worn down from their first game.

DeSmet had a solid 7-1 lead at half. The UltimateBills refused to let DeSmet’s lead get to them, coming out with new intensity

the second half. Although SLUH lost, SLUH tied DeSmet in points, ending the game with the score of 13-7.

“Our loss to DeSmet was humbling, but I was proud of the way our guys fought back in the second half,” said Schroeder.

After tying DeSmet in points in the second half, SLUH’s energy increased, feeling they were serious contenders for the state title.

Next, the SLUH squad took on Chaminade. With help from a few seniors from the JV squad, the UltimateBills trampled Chaminade, 13-1. The day ended with another solid win against CBC, 13-2.

“We really played well on Saturday,” said McHugh. “I think we all felt like we definitely had a serious shot at winning it all on Sunday.”

SLUH, ranked second in the pool after their strong victories on Saturday, took on DeSmet JV to start off their elimination play.

The UltimateBills kept their momentum and confidence going, smashing the DeSmet JV squad with a score of 8-0 at half on their way to a 13-7 lead.

“Very proud of the way we came out against DeSmet JV in the quarterfinal,” said Schroeder.

“We faltered for a minute early in the second after taking the first half 8-0, but (we) kept our composure and closed nicely.”

After beating DeSmet JV, SLUH was set to take on Priory in the semifinals. After losing to them earlier in the season, the Jr. Bills felt a little intimidated but continued on page 12

JV golf wins six straight

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he experienced St. Louis U. High JV golf team (9-3) that struggled to a fourth-place finish in the Missouri Catholic Conference tournament last year returned this year with seven returning sophomores and two new freshmen additions. Despite losing twice to MCC rival CBC, the JV Bills finished at 9-3.

Under new varsity head coach Scott Gilbert, the team underwent 12 weeks of off-season conditioning throughout the winter and played through tough conditions at the beginning of the year to make it through a difficult round of tryouts.

After dropping its first match of the season against CBC, the JV squad bounced back with six straight victories, including a onestroke victory over the Griffins of Vianney and a trio of 50-plus stroke wins over DeSmet, Lindbergh, and Parkway South before losing for the second time to CBC with a disappointing 13-stroke defeat.

The Bills traveled into South County to face rival Vianney, whom they bested by only one stroke in their previous encounter. Despite foul weather, the team pulled away to win by eight strokes

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on Vianney’s home course.

Coming into the MCC tournament, the JV squad dropped a close three-stroke decision to a newcomer on the schedule, Pattonville.

The MCC JV team, a combination between varsity and JV players, rocked the competition with three medalists but fell short to CBC for a third time. Varsity freshman Daniel Venker shot the low for the team with sophomore JV studs Ryan Pilcher and Will Doorack following close behind.

Doorack commented after the match that he was “glad with the personal results but disappointed with losing to CBC a third time.”

After the MCC tournament, the team returned for a final match to defeat MICDS handily by 15 strokes.

Coach Tom Wilson, commenting on the season, said, “It was a year with a lot of development. We certainly did well.”

The team went from 5-3 in 2011 to 9-3 in 2012.

Three new teams joined the schedule this year: Pattonville, Lindbergh and Parkway South.

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n an intense season of JV Ultimate frisbee led by coach Tom Kasper, a ragtag team of underclassmen and a few piloting seniors grew into a semi-formidable outfit of genuine Ultimate hurlers.

The season began with a lethargic first half against Clayton.

The JV ultimate squad fell behind 8-0 as they tested their new Frisbee skills in the first half. Despite an astonishing comeback that nearly overtook the Greyhounds, SLUH lost 15-10.

The game was the highlight of the season for Zach Beckemeyer and Josh Beckerle, two talented seniors.

“I laid out for an amazing catch in the end zone, but missed, bumping the Frisbee into the air past me,” Beckerle said.

Luckily for Beckerle, Beckemeyer stood behind Beckerle and caught the disk.

Next, an overwhelming 15-2 victory against Afton sent the team’s state dreams into reality.

Although still fresh to the season, a combination of natural luck from the freshman and gregarious senior leadership set the gang in good spirits.

“A game that was never in doubt,” said Kasper in an email out to his JV team. “It kept our hopes alive.”

This hope, however, would soon crumble in a long, frustrating run of losses against teams like Francis Howell Central (15-2) and DeSmet (15-1).

The only thing that held the team together were the practices where the “informative, knowledgeable enthusiasm of coach Kasper lifted our spirits,” Beckemeyer said. “He isn't commanding but more like one of the play-

Senior Aidan Kelly tracks the disk.

ers. He's really able to bond with the team and provides lots of wisdom for freshmen.”

Late in the season, a doubleheader on a warm Sunday afternoon breathed life back into the team. A crushing 15-1 victory against Nerinx Hall followed by another fun game with Metro (15-4) barely kept the JV boys in the running for State.

That Thursday on Stroup Field in Rock Hill the epic conclusion to a rumbling season played

out against CBC. With State on the line, Kasper “felt a wind coming.”

In the lead most of the game, the team's full force was on display. A late tie at 13 and then two more hard-fought points left the Jr. Bills with a 15-13 loss.

The season ended as many of the players gathered at State to watch their varsity brethren.

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Sophomore Ryan Pilcher watches his putt. JV golf finished this season 9-3.

Sign-ups are now being held for the 2012 Father-Son Golf Tournament, which will be held Saturday, June 16 at the Forest Park Golf Course. All teams will tee off at a shotgun start at 7:30 a.m.

Donuts, coffee, drinks, pretzels and lunch are included. Individual golfing skills really don’t matter in this event. There are attendance prizes and contest prizes for the longest drive, closest shot to the pin, and longest putt. Prizes already donated this year include

over 30 Cardinals baseball tickets, several rounds of golf from local courses, sports apparel, and a prize for all the sons that you can get only at the golf tournament!

You may pick your own team, or we will pair you with another father-son team. Visit sluh. org/parents/fathersclub for registration details. Attendance is limited, so please sign up early. Registrations requested by May 15!

Questions? Please e-mail Connie Leinauer (cleinauer@ sluh.org).

he JV tennis team (9-3) finished its season with a close loss to Kirkwood, losing by one match.

Assistant coach Steve Kainz said, “What really impressed me, from the brand new freshmen to the veteran juniors, was the team’s determination. There were no quitters on the tennis team.

Whether the SLUH guys were absolutely crushing their opponents or trying to stage a comeback, every player in every match played each point as best as they could.

You can’t really ask for anything more than that.”

“I’d say our season was pretty good. We had a lot of movement in the lineups, which shows how good the team is. Finishing with three losses is really good, considering the competition we faced has grown a lot stronger in the past couple years, and if we replayed the three teams we lost to, then we would probably come out on top,” said team captain and junior Greg Huggins.

JV tennis plays only doubles, and the top four teams consisted of Huggins and sophomore Kevin Benben at No. 1, sophomores John Sullivan and Reid Gillam at No. 2, sophomores Stephen Lu-

Junior Blake Gibson volleys a shot over the net.

metta and Michael Daugherty at No. 3, and juniors Blake and Jordan Gibson at No. 4.

The team had great depth, and these teams were often moved around depending on how certain teams were doing in practice.

The team did not cut anyone who tried out and will rely

on these young players, mostly freshmen, to be the foundation of next year’s team. Seven players on varsity this year were seniors, and the top JV players will be moving to these spots. This challenges the importance of this year’s lower JV players to step up their game.

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Fitzpatrick will be next hockey coach, brings high level of hockey experience (continued from page 1 ) that made him stand out from the other finalists.

“He brings in a whole bunch of different perspectives from his coaching experiences over the last 25 years,” said Rittenhouse. “Really, to the committee, he showed he understood how SLUH operates and what our school’s mission is, that there is more to life than the sport.”

Fitzpatrick explained that SLUH’s mission was something that drew him to the job, knowing the type of student-athletes he would get to work with.

“It is a great institution. The kids that go there are very intelligent and very well motivated,” said Fitzpatrick.

The hiring of Fitzpatrick rings in a new era for the program. Rittenhouse explained that one of the challenges in the process was to understand just what the school was looking for.

“We (were) hiring a hockey coach, and what we had leaving (Busenhart) was something no one else ever had. We are talking

about someone who helped build the groundwork for the league they play in,” said Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse noted that Busenhart not only created the program at SLUH, but also helped establish Mid-States, and many of the league’s laws were written with Busenhart’s help.

“That was one of the challenges. What does a normal person do when they are the hockey coach at a high school? Because what Coach Busenhart did, you don’t hire someone for that.

Someone becomes that over 42 years,” added Rittenhouse.

Fitzpatrick explained that he definitely feels pressure following in the footsteps of Busenhart.

While he said he doesn’t know Busenhart that well, he noted that Busenhart’s tenure as hockey coach at SLUH obviously demands respect and brings added pressure.

“Any time there is change, people (are) going to be curious as to what happens or how things are going to change,” said Fitzpatrick. “SLUH is a perennial

powerhouse. Anything less than a finals appearance will probably be viewed as a less than successful season.”

While Fitzpatrick has ideas about how to improve the program, he also has no plans to change any of its major traditions. He also noted that he is relatively unfamiliar with the nuts and bolts of the program. To gain a greater understanding of how the program has been run in the past, Fitzpatrick is meeting with Busenhart this weekend.

Fitzpatrick will have no teaching responsibilities at SLUH. “To have a varsity coach be from outside the building to a certain degree is always a concern, but it is the new reality of modern high school sports,” said Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse explained that while the hiring of an outside coach was a concern, it is not necessarily a brand new trend at SLUH. Rittenhouse noted that lacrosse, ultimate, rifle, and swimming all have varsity head coaches from outside the school, and most

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other sports have outside assistants or lower-level coaches. Rittenhouse explained that hockey is a bit trickier because its games and competitions take place offcampus, but he noted the criteria SLUH wants of the candidates still does not change.

“One of the things we are looking for in any one of our varsity programs is for it to be an extension of what is taught between 7:50 and 3:00,” said Rittenhouse.

“We are looking for someone to be a teacher and mentor to help guide the program.”

Rittenhouse explained that the Athletic Department hosts meetings and parties so that coaches from all sports can intermingle and have a sense of belonging within the school.

Fitzpatrick plans to make himself visible to students, faculty, and parents at SLUH. “I want to get involved and attend a lot of the other sporting events so I want to be visual there at the school so people get to know me and I get to know the other coaches,” said Fitzpatrick.

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Eight juniors and 63 sophomores were inducted Tuesday, May 1 into the National Honor Society. Above, command of the Society is formally handed over to its next generation of leadership. History teacher Bill Brown and Principal John Moran both spoke at the ceremony.

Class of 2013 (8 inductees) Anthony Connors Clark DeWoskin Roman Gusdorf Ryan McGrail Thomas Neyer Matthew Nicholson Parker Shumate Owen Smith Class of 2014 (63 inductees) Ben Banet Matt Marcouiller Sam Beckmann Jordan Belloli Robert Braddock Thaddeus Brown Joel Brumfield Ryan Bub Alex Burbee Jared Buss Maxwell Cannon

Luke Carron Mark Cerutti Adam Cooley Andrew Costello Nathan Dalaklis Michael Daugherty Joe Delsignore Joseph Edmunds John Espenschied Alex Ferrara Tristan Finazzo Brian Fletcher Robert Flood Jim Gasch Jack Godar David Greaves Samuel Greaves Craig Hanson Brenden Haselhorst Ramy Hawatmeh Robert Hayes Jacob Hilmes Sidarth Iyer Joshua Keil Brendan Keuss Stephen Lumetta Will Morrison

Colin Muehleisen Charlie Nester Jim Onder Patrick Oster Alex Piening Brian Powers Marcus Ramspott Thomas Riganti Josh Ritter Jack Robinson Luke Robinson Mark Robinson Danny Schneller Michael Schrock Alex Sextro Michael Sit William Smith Don Stolz Danny Sullivan John Sullivan Adam Thorp Matthew Thomas Nick Venhaus Noah Weber Matt Whalen

Senior Dan Warnecke was a member of the selection committee and sat in on each of the final three interviews. He noted that Fitzpatrick’s coaching experience and the intensity that he can bring to the program stood out to him.

“He has a good coaching history of coaching high level teams around the country, and I think bringing that kind of competitiveness and AAA-level practices will be very good,” said Warnecke.

Junior Chase Berger added that Fitzpatrick’s previous playing experience could be used as a valuable tool to the team.

“It will be good for the team to learn from a guy that has a lot of experience playing high-level hockey,” said Berger.

Fitzpatrick noted that one of his main goals is to bring the Mid-States trophy back to SLUH but also says that he wants much more than that.

“My goals are to help develop kids from where they are to improve throughout the years,” said Fitzpatrick.

t. Louis U. High’s Inline hockey team (3-13) picked up momentum toward the end of its season and gained some muchneeded confidence rolling into the final stretch.

The team’s first win of the year came in what coach Tim O’Neil described as “quite an astonishing game. ” Down 8-1 against Francis Howell Central with nine tantalizing minutes left, the team blitzed back with eight goals, led by junior Chase Berger’s and senior Jack Fogarty’s astonishing dual hat tricks. “(This win) helped to reinstill some confidence,” O’Neil explained.

The Jr. Bills carried that momentum into the next game against Oakville, a team consistently in the lower half of the standings. As with most games this year, SLUH started slowly, giving up three early goals.

Nine minutes into the first half, Fogarty took a pass from Berger, getting the much-desired opening goal for SLUH. Berger then smashed himself a goal with help from junior defender Scott McCartney. Thirty-two seconds later, senior Dan Warnecke tied the game. Senior Brendan Niebruegge gave SLUH its fourth goal right before half.

“I was so excited to score, because usually I play back,” said Niebruegge, a defender.

From then on, SLUH didn’t concede its lead for the rest of the game, scoring four more goals in the next half for the 8-6 win.

Berger ended up with a jaw-dropping three goals and four assists.

SLUH entered its next game hungry. The victim was Fort Zumwalt West, the eighth and last place team entered. In a previous match, SLUH had lost to Fort

Zumwalt West in a horrifically disappointing overtime loss.

“They got the best of us last time, so we wanted revenge,” McCartney explained.

The Jr. Bills got their revenge.

SLUH socked Fort Zumwalt West, 10-1.

“It was a cinch,” Niebregge claimed. Warnecke scored six of those 10 goals.

What was most impressive about the match was that all 10 goals were on assists. O’Neil said that toward the end of the season, “they just kept working hard together.”

With that win, SLUH cemented themselves a spot in seventh place, saving themselves from the embarrassment of finishing in last place.

After the three-game winning streak, the Jr. Bills headed into the playoffs. As the seventh seed, SLUH had to play No. 2 seed Francis Howell North in the first round. Francis Howell took an early lead, scoring 1:04, 1:15, and 1:25 into the first half.

SLUH couldn’t really get it together from there, and went down 5-1 at half. Though they matched Howell 3-3 in the second half, but it wasn’t good enough and they lost 8-4.

In the final game of the season, the second game of the series, was also against Francis Howell North. SLUH played strong, and was down by just one at half.

However, they fell apart in a disappointing second half, with only one goal versuse to Howell’s four.

O’Neil expressed content with how the team did. “It was a tight game,” he said, and noted that it’s more impressive when one considers that Howell North did end up in the final.

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Strong Rockhurst makes for disapointing MCC meet is setting for track victory, revenge end to impressive rugby season Clark DeWoskin small mistakes,” said Boeckmann.

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he St. Louis U. High rugby team ended one of the most impressive seasons in the program's short history with a disappointing finish at this past weekend's State tournament. The tournament was held at DeSmet, and featured teams from across the state. Favorites included Park Hill and Rockhurst out of the Kansas City area.

The Bills opened the tournament with a tough first-round loss to the Kansas City Jr. Blues (Rockhurst), a top team in the Midwest who was invited to compete at the U19 National Rugby Championships this summer. Coach Chris Keeven called the loss a “heartbreaker.”

Rockhurst was able to strike first, going up five early, and from then on it felt as if the Jr. Bills were struggling to catch up. Tries by seniors Paul Fentress, James Boeckmann, and two by Aron Kerwood kept the Jr. Bills close, and Kerwood's second try tied the score at 23 late in the second half.

“We played with a lot of energy, but we weren’t always technically sound and made a lot of

“When Kerwood completed our comeback with his second try, we were so pumped we kind of lost focus.”

The game remained tied as time ran out, but as the ball was still in play, the game continued, and Rockhurst was able to move downfield for a try that cost the Jr. Bills the game. Had the Jr. Bills stopped the Rockhurst advance, the game would have ended in a tie. The decision would have then gone to the team with the most tries, which was SLUH. Junior Patrick Mulligan was uncharacteristically out of sync throughout the match, missing three of four attempts.

“The Rockhurst game was frustrating, no other way to put it,” Mulligan said. “It felt like we were losing that whole game, but every time we went down we managed to battle back, we just came up a little short in the end.”

The loss pitted the Bills against a U. City team that they had previously defeated 27-10.

Demoralized by their first round loss, the Bills were unable to overcome the U. City squad, and were knocked out of the tournament.

DeSmet, lost to the Jr. Bills earlier in the year by a score of 20-15.

The tournament was far from the perfect ending to what had been a fairy tale season for the Jr. Bills. Coming into the tournament undefeated in the state of Missouri and 9-1 overall, the Jr. Bills had outscored opponents 381-90, holding six of their opponents to one try or less. Their season also included wins over DeSmet, Parkway United, and U. City, all of which competed at the state tournament.

The RuggerBills will graduate 20 seniors this season, a disproportionately large part of their roster, but Keeven and others are confident that next year’s team will be equally as competitive.

“Undefeated in the state tells most of the story. It was a great ride with a great group of guys, the end result just wasn’t what we had wanted or expected,” said Mulligan, who figures to be one of the major contributors to next year’s team. “We’ve got to learn from our mistakes and start gearing up for next year.”

Mr. Perfect: Lickenbrock and Wassilak on four years of no demerits or absences Seniors Matt Lickenbrock and Erich Wassilak were recognized at the awards ceremony for having no absences and no demerits over their four years at St. Louis U. High. The Prep News asked them just how close their demerit cards have come to teachers’ pens.

Was there any time you came close to getting a demerit?

How close did you come to being absent?

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Erich Wassilak

There have been a couple of close calls. I remember, I think it was freshman or sophomore year I left a book in the library in that one room that’s like the Chinese room. I was in my class and I was like, “Oh, I’m missing a book!” So I had to run back down there before the bell rang, and Dr. Moran was just standing there tapping his foot looking at it, and I grabbed it and he was like, “Okay, good.”

Well, once you have no demerits, you have a lot of leverage, basically. There was a little issue with Ms. Bugnitz about three months ago. I was reading an extra credit book, and she caught me with it. She said, ‘Oh, Erich, I hate to do this, but give me your card.’ And I said, ‘Okay’. And she said, ‘Oh, this is the first time this year?’

And I said, ‘Well, (it’s the first one) ever.’

And she said, ‘Oh, I can’t do that, you’re such a good kid usually.’ So she didn’t give me one.

My calculator was found and I was called to the office twice, and I was never given a demerit for it. I don’t get it—I was very lucky. I was prepared to get a demerit both times for that.

No. I’ve been late a couple of times, but it didn’t really (matter).

One time I got sick during Christmas break. We were off. (If it had been any other time of year) I wouldn’t have come to school. I would’ve regretted that, though.

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he St. Louis U. High track team entered the Metro Catholic Conference meet looking to re-capture the crown after falling to DeSmet last year. And that is exactly what the Jr. Bills did as they placed first in dominating fashion. The Jr. Bills outscored the second place Spartans by an impressive 41 points, 145 to 104.

“It was a great team day. On paper, it looked to be a real close meet, but guys continued to step up for us to have the results we did. On top of the varsity winning, our depth was really shown in the JV, which also won the meet,” said head coach Joe Porter.

Porter was correct in saying it was an all-around team day.

The Jr. Bills placed first or second in almost every event. The sprint squad, which normally has carried the weight this year, placed first in only two events: the 400-meter dash as Alex Groesch ran a 50.32, just milliseconds in front of second place finisher, and the 4x400 with senior captain Darion Baker setting up Groesch for a storybook win by only .23 seconds.

“You don’t beat two great teams like DeSmet and CBC without lots of great performances,” Porter said.

So, with the sprint squad not carrying its usual weight at MCCs, the other squads had to step up and grind out big performances. The throwers put up a huge performance, with senior captains Gerard Gayou and Greg Patton placing first and second, respectively, in discus with throws of 130 feet 5 inches and 123-04.

Gayou placed first in the shot put with a throw of 44-11, giving the Jr. Bills some solid points down the stretch.

The enduring distance squad performed spectacularly at MCCs to widen the gap between SLUH and DeSmet.

Sophomore John Esswein had a good day, anchoring the winning 4x800 team in 1:55, winning the 1600 in 4:31, and winning the 800 in 1:57.

The other members of the

distance squad, such as senior captain Nathan Rubbelke or senior mid-distance specialist Luke Gilsinger, pulled out some great victories in the 4x800 relay and the 1600. The hurdle squad put in some work as senior captains Matt McCarthy and Dan Williams took first and second in the 300-meter hurdles.

Once again, it was an allaround effort from the RunninBills as they closed out the regular season with a much-deserved conference first place trophy. The athletes are hungry for the state title, but have to get past districts first.

"We haven't lost a meet in the St. Louis area, so I think we are pretty confident going into Districts on Saturday,” said senior sprinter Terek Hawkins.

“We have got a lot of new guys out this year and part of the reason they came out is to win, but right now we are just taking it week to week try to see where the pieces fall,” said senior distance captain Rubbelke.

All in all, Porter just wants the guys to stay focused on the goal they have set for themselves.

“It's hard to stay focused with prom, graduation, and all the other things that come with the end of the school year. Our team focus has been great thus far, and we hope to continue to prepare for each level of the postseason,” Porter said.

Porter thinks the Jr. Bills will perform at their highest potential in districts and then at the State meet with the goal of a top four trophy.

“I think we have the ability score in almost every event at districts, which will hopefully put us in a good spot to be one of the top teams at Districts. In terms of State, there are a lot of things that can happen between now and the end of May. We just hope to continue to get better and focus on improvement and let results take care of themselves,” Porter said.

The Jr. Bills continue to work hard as they move on towards districts Saturday and then the State meet on May 25 and 26.

Band Concerts

St. Louis U. High’s band program put together two concerts in the last week in the Schulte Theater. The Jazz Band played its concert Sunday at 1:00. Concert and Symphonic band performed Wednesday at 7:00.

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ometimes in tennis, the whole season can come down to a single tennis match, a single game, a single break point. But the St. Louis U. High tennis team (9-5, 3-1 MCC) did not allow that to happen to them this year as they easily sailed through team districts earlier this week and finished up the regular season on a very strong note.

On Monday, April 30, the team traveled to Westminster, a traditionally strong team. Junior Mike Essma played at the No. 1 singles spot and lost 4-6, 1-6. Junior David Mayhall, at the No. 2 spot, also lost 0-6, 1-6. But that’s when things started to turn around for the team, and they never looked back. Senior Cam Trachsel won at No. 3 singles 6-3, 6-0, and senior Tony Ghazarian won at the No. 4 spot against a baseline lobber 6-2, 6-1.

The doubles squads fared even better than the singles. The No. 1 doubles team of sophomore Danny Schneller and freshman Kyle Schnell won 6-0, 6-2. Seniors Connor Madden and Matei Stefanescu won 6-3, 6-1 at the No. 2 spot, and seniors Kevin Madden and Austin Huelsing won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3. Senior Michael Hohl and junior Sean Philip rounded out

the doubles team by winning 8-4 in a pro set.

On Wednesday, May 2, the team faced the Priory Rebels at home on a blazing hot day. In a very contested match, the RoddickBills won 4-3.

Essma easily won at No. 1 singles 6-2, 6-0. Head coach Patrick Zarrick decided to have Schneller play at No. 2 singles, and he lost 3-6, 5-7, while Stefanescu won a three-set match at No. 3 singles 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. Connor Madden rounded out the singles with a “breadstick” loss 1-6, 1-6.

The dynamic duo of Mayhall and Ghazarian won at No. 1 doubles 6-7, 6-4, 6-1. Trachsel and Schnell also won at No. 2 doubles 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 while Hohl and Philip lost at No. 3 doubles 2-6, 1-6.

The next day, the Jr. Bills won against Kirkwood 4-3 in the last regular season match and a potential preview of districts. Essma, while putting up a good fight in the second set, lost 1-6, 6-7.

Mayhall lost at No. 2 singles 6-7, 2-6, and Trachsel put away his opponent 6-2, 6-2. Schneller played No. 4 singles and won 6-1, 7-5.

While Stefanescu and Ghazarian lost 6-7, 6-0, 5-10 in a super tiebreak at No. 1 doubles, the two other doubles teams won their matches. Connor Madden and Schnell won 6-1, 7-5 at No. 2 doubles, and Huelsing and Kevin

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Madden teamed up to clinch the No. 3 spot 6-3, 6-3.

Most in the St. Louis high school tennis world would agree that beating Westminster, Priory, and Kirkwood in one week is pretty good, and Zarrick is no exception.

“I thought we had our best week of tennis this week. We were coming off a two-match losing streak, and we had three very good teams that we were facing and we won all three, two in very tight matches. I thought the Priory match was fantastic with all the third-set victories that we pulled out,” said Zarrick, who also had high praise for Trachsel since he was still recovering from his ankle injury.

Despite closing out the regular season on a high note, the team could not relax as it has had Districts this past week. The Jr. Bills faced Vianney in the semifinals of their district on Tuesday and completely routed them.

Essma started the day with a bang, winning 6-1, 6-0. Mayhall won No. 2 singles 6-3, 6-2, and Trachsel won 6-2, 6-0 at No. 3 singles. Ghazarian won 6-4, 6-1 at No. 4 singles. Schneller and Stefanescu had no problems at the Nos. 5 and 6 singles spots, winning 6-0, 6-0 and 6-1, 6-3, respectively.

Zarrick said that the effort was “outstanding. Everybody

Lacrosse hopes for legitimate competition on the road to State Donnie Land reporter BY

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he Saint Louis U. High Jr. Bills varsity lacrosse team (18-2) finished off a very impressive lacrosse season after Wednesday night’s blowout game against the Clayton Greyhounds. The team is determined to keep up its fourteen-game winning streak as they make their move towards state next week in the playoffs.

After last Thursday night’s 10-3 Senior Night victory against Ladue, the team was ready to end the season with a strong victory as they continue on their road to State.

Playing against a young, less experienced Clayton team, the Jr. Bills held offensive possession nearly the entire game. Still, though they kept the ball on the offensive side, they couldn’t produce the big lead they expected.

The Greyhounds came out motivated, playing as competitive a game as they could play for their senior night at Gay Field.

The Clayton defense put on some great pressure to the slow-starting offense and kept SLUH to just three goals in the first quarter.

“We came out flat in the first quarter and tried to do too much

as individuals,” said coach Mark Seyer. “We got away from our fundamentals.”

But SLUH’s offense recovered in the second quarter building up an 11-0 lead by the half. Senior captain and attack Thomas Place and junior attack Justin Mayfield began to pick up the pace with the quick-footed midfielders, as the offense began to slide around the Clayton defense with little pressure.

“We did a much better job the second quarter working as a team and put nine goals in,” said Seyer.

Before the end of the third quarter, the younger varsity players were given the chance to shine on the field. SLUH won, 17-1.

“It was a good way to get a full head of steam going into playoffs,” said Mayfield. “Our job’s not done now, and State was our goal at the beginning of the season, and that has not changed.”

Place tallied up a total of six goals during his time on the field, while Mayfield finished with a total of five assists.

“I’m looking forward to playoffs. We’ve been blowing a lot of teams out lately so I’m excited for some legitimate competition,” said senior captain and defense-

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SLUH now puts their focus onto the playoffs, where they expect to face some tougher competition. With only one loss in Missouri Division 1—to undefeated MICDS in triple overtime for their first Missouri class game of the season—SLUH hopes for redemption against MICDS in the State championship.

“Our prep for the playoffs is going to be very important,” says senior captain and defenseman Sam Cannon. “Our second challenge is coming soon and we need the whole team to put the effort in to reach our goal of State.”

“The playoffs are when the real season starts. Our goal is a State championship, and now it’s time to prove we are the best team in Missouri,” said junior defenseman Stephen Lordo.

The Jr. Bills have earned the No. 2 seed in the State tournament. They will host the CBC Cadets this upcoming Friday in the Division 1 quarterfinals.

“Home field advantage for the first round is huge,” said Seyer.

“The boys are pumped up, and we’re looking forward to a large supporting crowd next Friday for our seniors in the last home game of the year.”

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played well.”

On Wednesday, SLUH took on Kirkwood in the final match of districts and walked away victorious.

Essma won at No. 1 singles 7-5, 6-3, but Mayhall struggled and fell at No. 2 singles 1-6, 3-6.

Trachsel and Ghazarian each won at Nos. 3 and 4 singles, 7-6, 7-5 and 6-1, 7-6, respectively.

The last two singles players won their matches relatively easily: Schneller won at No. 5 singles 6-1, 6-0, and Stefanescu won 6-2, 6-1.

Only one doubles team had to play to clinch the match, and Mayhall and Ghazarian took care of that 6-2, 6-1.

Now, the team will play in the individual district tournament.

Each school gets to send two singles teams and two doubles teams.

Schneller and Essma will be representing the singles players, and Trachsel, Schnell, Mayhall, and Ghazarian will represent the doubles teams.

“I think Essma stands a good chance of advancing. Doubles, I feel very good about. Cameron is playing with Kyle, and it will be a good experience for Kyle. They’re just starting to get used to each other, but our doubles look pretty strong,” said Zarrick as he looks toward individual districts.

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(continued from page 8) it’s over. The second season starts right now.”

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SLUH will go for its 22nd consecutive District title this weekend. The Jr. Bills hosted Sumner for the first round of Districts yesterday (check the Nightbeat for the result). On the season, Sumner has looked quite awful. They hold a 1-7 record that includes a 34-1 loss against Metro.

Districts will not be as easy as the Sumner game. If SLUH plays them in the next round, Ritenour poses a threat with a senior pitcher that nearly knocked them out three years ago.

The final District game will likely pit SLUH against Chaminade on May 15. The Red Devils have been on a tear recently, sweeping their two-game series against Vianney. Senior ace Jake Goessling leads the pitching staff with 35 Ks and a 1.53 ERA.

All that glitters is gold

The Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association (MHSBCA) named senior Willie Floros a senior All-Star this week.

Floros will participate in the AllStar game on June 9 at Missouri Western State University at 11:15 a.m.

Ultimate falls to Rebels (continued from page 8) like they had a chance.

“We were on the top of our game that weekend,” said McHugh. “I felt that the game against Priory was definitely going to be a challenge, but also something we could win.”

The two teams stayed neckand-neck the whole game, staying within one or two points the entire game until half. Priory had the lead at halftime, 8-6. The half started with a huge point. The Jr. Bills knew if they wanted to win, they had to score to start the half in order of keeping the game close.

“We had a couple of chances on the goal line to make it an 8-7 game,” said Schroeder. “It’s anybody’s game at that point. Unfortunately, we couldn’t convert, and they got what turned out to be a huge point to make it 9-6 with time running down, and we couldn’t claw back from that deficit.”

With time running out, SLUH put all their efforts into trying to keep the game close, but af-

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ter multiple games and excessive heat, the Jr. Bills couldn’t keep up with Priory’s athleticism. Priory scored to end the game, 12-7.

“When they scored that last point, a rush of emotion hit me,” said senior Danny Millar. “I’m going to miss playing Ultimate with these guys so much. I was more upset about Ultimate ending than my last day of school.”

The Jr. Bills ended the tournament by taking third place.

“I feel like I left everything out there on the field,” said Millar.

“I made mistakes, sure. I didn’t make a few throws. But I tried the best that I could in the moment to play as well as I can.”

Even though SLUH couldn’t pull off the title this year, the UltimateBills hope to improve the program over the summer and practice more in hopes of having a solid team next year.

“We will be graduating a lot of seniors, and we’ll obviously miss them,” said Schroeder. “But I’m excited to keep getting better with the returners and new guys we pick up for next year.”

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Golf falls at sectionals, Mimlitz takes aim Shortened volleyball squad still battles injuries at State as the squad’s sole qualifier

BY Adam REPORTER

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enior Jack Mimlitz, one of the varsity golf team’s five players in the Sectional round of play, has advanced to the State finals as one of 89 Missouri golfers to attend the State Championships in Bolivar, Mo. The rest of the St. Louis U. High varsity golf team ended its season last Thursday at Sectionals when the team fell to Rockwood Summit by two strokes, finishing in third place. The team needed to finish in the top two spots for the entire squad to advance to the State finals.

Sectionals took place at Crowne Pointe of Farmington last Thursday. Several golfers used the Monday and Tuesday off last week to play the course a couple times to familiarize themselves before the Sectionals round.

“The rough was thick,” head coach Scott Gilbert said of the course. “It was tough to get the ball out of there, and if you did it had no spin.”

The team had a tough time on the course, missing putts and not taking advantage of birdie opportunities.

“We had a lot of unlucky shots, and we didn’t catch too many breaks,” Gilbert said. The team’s top two two players, sophomore Scott Schaeffer and junior Ben Hutchison, shot an 84 and 85, respectively. Senior Fritz Simmon shot an 87, and freshman Alex Ciaramitaro shot an 82, missing the cut by only two strokes.

“I knew the numbers didn’t look good for us,” Gilbert said.

“Our guys had decent rounds, but it was just mediocre, and on that day we needed better.”

Gilbert and Mimlitz were both surprised at the scores coming in, dropping the cutoff to qualify for state to an 80.

“There were a lot of scores in the 70s on a tough course. I didn’t really expect it,” said Mimlitz, who thought that 85 would be the cutoff, and shot an 80, just making the cut.

The team shot a combined 418, two strokes behind Rock-

wood Summit, who finished second to a talented Poplar Bluff squad.

“All year we’ve been counting on those one or two guys to come in with a 78 or 79, which is exactly what we needed since we fell short by two swings of a club,” Gilbert said. “It was disappointing, because we’ve been playing well all year, and the time we needed it the most we fell a little short.”

The team’s confidence from winning Districts was crushed, as players—besides Mimlitz—realized their season was over.

“It felt like all season we were riding a big wave, and the wave finally just came to shore,” Gilbert said.

Despite the squad’s disappointment, the team is excited for Mimlitz to represent SLUH at State. Mimlitz’s sectional round started off great as he shot even par on the front nine, but he soon suffered from some of the same troubles his teammates did.

“On the back nine it really started to fall apart,” Mimlitz said.

After taking a quadruple bogey on the 18th hole, he reported his 80 to the scorers’ table hoping his score would make the cut.

Gilbert said, “The cut was at 81 until close to the end when someone brought in a score in the 70s that dropped it down to 80.”

And that’s where the cut stayed, allowing Mimlitz to advance to the State Championship along with around 89 of the top high school golfers from Missouri.

“He played a solid round last Thursday, striking the ball well and keeping the ball straight,” Gilbert said. “We’re really proud of him. He’s played some really good golf this spring.”

Mimlitz has had a passion for the game of golf ever since he was little, playing with his dad and grandpa whenever they went to play a round. He began to get serious about the game in seventh grade when he entered his first tournament.

“I never felt I was good enough to win anything, but I was definitely good enough to play,”

Mimlitz said.

Mimlitz made the JV golf team as a freshman at SLUH and moved up to varsity his sophomore year, the only underclassmen on the team at the time.

Mimlitz elevated his game to the next level as a sophomore. He had a fantastic year on the course, letting his talents prove that he was one of the better guys on the team. His excellent shooting carried him to the final round of play before the State championship, where he missed the cutoff by one stroke.

“That was disappointing, but I had high hopes for the future,” Mimlitz said.

However, Mimlitz’s success came to a halt after his sophomore year. He had the toughest year of his golfing career and didn’t advance to the district round of play last season.

“I had a rough year. I wasn’t swinging very well, and I had a lot of stress,” Mimlitz said.

But Mimlitz made a mental switch between his junior and senior years.

“I didn’t take not being successful too well,” Mimlitz said. “I expected more of myself.”

Mimlitz fully recovered from his junior slump during this year, shooting the lowest round of his career, a 31, at Forest Park.

Mimlitz said, “This year I decided I would take what came, and I’d give it my best.” This year he played in the districts, sectionals, and now the state finals as one of the top golfers on the squad.

“It’s vengeance for sophomore year,” Mimlitz said.

Mimlitz will play a practice round at the course in Bolivar, Mo. on Sunday to prepare for the rounds that count. He plays one round of 18 on Monday, and another round on Tuesday. Mimlitz, who feels he can shoot around a 78 or 76 at the course in Bolivar, said, “If I can keep my driver in the fairway, then (I can score) definitely lower than that.”

“Jack will do well,” Gilbert said. “He’s a smart golfer, he’s a straight hitter, and he’s been pretty consistent all year.”

JV Inline rolls through a successful season

BY Joseph REPORTER

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he JV Inline hockey team (97) had a strong spring. With coach Dave Richert at the helm, the team set a SLUH record for JV wins and points in a season and secured a 12-2 playoff victory over DeSmet on May 1.

The beginning of the season brought several new JV faces to the Inline rink. Seniors Stefan Sansone and Cameron Stubbs made their way from the football turf to the hockey rink. Juniors Cole Tarlas and Peter Burke also tried out their Inline game for the first time. With seasoned veterans like juniors Anthony Connors

and captain Joe Walsh leading the team, it is no surprise that the team was able to pull off a winning record.

Defenseman Cole Tarlas was one of the major contributors to the season. Ending the year with 32 goals and 10 assists, Tarlas led the team and much of the league in points. Guys like senior goalie Danny Meehan, and Sansone, who consistently performed in pressure situations, also helped the team to the nine wins.

Even a few freshmen, including Nic Pitti and Blake McCartney, stepped up from the C team to help the JV team.

However, it wasn’t smooth

sailing the entire time. Injuries plagued several players including Burke and Connors, who were both out for multiple games. The team had to rally around Walsh, who was always able to keep the team on track and lead by example.

With players operating to full potential, the team was able to make a short run in the playoffs, winning the first game against DeSmet before falling 9-5 against No. 2 seed Francis Howell.

Despite the playoff loss, the season was generally successful and hopefully the success this year will translate into more success next year.

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uys, they are scared!” yelled coach James Gioia in a timeout during the second game of DeSmet’s senior night home stand. The St. Louis U. High volleyball squad (13-4) had started out the night dropping the first game to DeSmet 25-16. But after a 13-1 onslaught by DeSmet in the first game, the Jr. Bills, led by Barrett Pazderka, put together a 1512 finish for the rest of the game.

“Even though we lost, if you look at it, we really won the second half of the first game,” said junior Jack Walsh, “and we did it without (junior) Tommy (Beckmann).”

The team sorely missed both Beckmann and senior Sam Adams at the net. Both were out with ankle injuries. Despite the heavy toll on the front net, sophomore Eric Ottenlips and senior Luke Naegeli stepped up the offensive.

The team as a whole stepped it up

so much that they had DeSmet on their heels most of the second game, leading by as much as four points. And they did all of it without two of their better hitters, at DeSmet, on their senior night.

“I think that we are definitely capable of beating (DeSmet) consistently,” said Beckmann, “Obviously it was coach’s decision to sit me, but the team stepped up and really performed well in the second half of the first game and the first half of the second game.”

Beckmann anticipates being 100 percent for the playoffs.

Unfortunately, the Volleybills lost the game down the stretch, even with clutch serving from Naegeli, Pazderka, and Ottenlips.

“Obviously the injuries were a killer in the game against DeSmet, but we expect to have everyone back for playoffs, and we are looking to make a run again,” said coach Dan Becvar.

The Volleybills make their playoff debut tomorrow.

PoloBills glide through Districts, will face Kirkwood

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he St. Louis U. High water polo squad (24-1) started its District tournament against Lafayette last Saturday. For the fifth time in the last six years, SLUH earned the No. 1 seed for the State tournament. After beating the best teams in Missouri, some up to three times, the Jr. Bills were ready to begin the Quest for Sixteen (#Q416 for those of you that are active on Twitter).

The Jr. Bills had won the game before the first quarter was even over. Seniors Sam Erlinger and Justin Ramacciotti and junior Darrian Castro led the charge against the Lancers, getting at least three goals apiece.

Tom Critchfield won Player of the Game honors, however, for his goal, assist, field block, two steals, and overall solid game on both ends of the pool. With a final score of 19-2, the Jr. Bills prepared themselves for the quarterfinals against the mysterious John Burroughs Bombers.

The Jr. Bills took the pool with some uncertainty about the Bombers. Not once throughout the season had anyone seen the Bombers play, so important questions ran through the Baudbills’ minds: Who are their strong players? How many players do they have? Do they sub often? Do they really exist? What color are their suits? All that SLUH knew before the game was that they had a talented goalie who has been noted nationally for his enthusiastic participation in the Olympic Development Program. Knowing this, the team prepared harder than before, and the outcome re-

flected their hard work.

Once again, the Jr. Bills put the game away in the first quarter.

As it turned out, the John Burroughs team did, in fact, exist, but unfortunately for John Burroughs, so does Sam Erlinger.

Erlinger’s stellar defense and frequent offensive attacks were too much for the Bombers to handle.

After his third breakaway after a steal, Erlinger even commented, “I’m tired!” for perhaps the first time this season. Thanks to Player of the Game Michael Slaughter’s three goals out of two-meter, the Jr. Bills bullied their way to an 8-0 lead.

Slaughter said of the game, “It’s hard to tell because of the score, but we played one of our best games all year against Burroughs. If we can continue playing at that level, we will have as good of a chance as anyone to win the State title.”

With an 8-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, all of the Jr. Bills found good playing time in the game, giving sophomore Victor Castro and Critchfield time to score some quick, beautiful goals. The Jr. Bills dominated the Bombers in a 17-2 victory to place themselves in the semifinals.

Tonight, the PoloBills will be taking on their club friends from Kirkwood High School at 7 p.m. at the St. Peter’s Rec Plex. After Kirkwood defeated MICDS in overtime in their own quarterfinal game, the Jr. Bills are anticipating a tough game.

If the Jr. Bills can pull off a win, they will play at 7 p.m. on Saturday against either DeSmet or the mighty Parkway West Longhorns.

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Class of 2012 College Plans

Adams, Sam: University of Missouri-Columbia Anders, Dalton: University of Missouri-Columbia Angieri, Jean-Paul: Deferred admission to Georgetown University to study in China Appelbaum, Daniel: University of Tulsa Archer, Charlie: University of Dallas Baker, Darion: Western Illinois University Baldetti, Michael: University of Missouri-Columbia Banks, R.J.: University of Missouri-Columbia Barry, Michael: University of Missouri-Columbia Barry, Zach: Truman State University Beckmeyer, Zachary: University of Missouri-Columbia Beckerle, Joshua: University of Missouri-Columbia Becton, Evan: University of Missouri-Columbia Behr, Geoff: Marquette University Behr, Tom: University of Dayton Berra, Tom: University of Missouri-Columbia BlasĂŠ, Tom: Undecided Blood, Tom: St. Louis University Boatman, Alex: University of Arkansas Boatman, Zach: University of Arkansas Body, Sam: University of Missouri-Columbia Boeckmann, James: University of Missouri-Columbia Bollwerk, Jordan: Elon University Bossung, Paul: St. Louis College of Pharmacy Boyer, Blake: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Boyer, Zach: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Boyle, Patrick: St. Louis University Bozesky, Eddie: University of Mississippi Breunig, Nick: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Bromell, John: Carleton College Brummell, Daniel: University of Mississippi Bubash, David: Rockhurst University Buckheit, Luke: Villanova University Buehler, Paul: University of Tampa Bufe, Sam: Marquette University Burke, Ryan: Franciscan University of Steubenville Cahill, Kevin: University of Missouri-Columbia Cannon, Sam: Marquette University Carroll, George: University of Evansville Cavallini, Reid: University of Missouri-Columbia Chipley, Evan: University of Missouri-Columbia Chura, Brendan: University of Missouri-Columbia Clark, Andrew: St. Louis University Clark, Matt: Case Western Reserve University Coleman, Tim: Lake Forest College Compton, Jeremy: St. Louis University Cooley, Matt: Vanderbilt University Cruzen, Chris: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Danter, Nick: University of Missouri-Columbia Davis, Joseph: St. Louis Community College-Forest Park De Legarreta, J.P.: Seton Hall University Dempsey, Michael: Undecided DePriest, Tom: Southeast Missouri State University Derdeyn, Pieter: Pomona College Dodd, Alex: University of Missouri-Columbia Dorand, Trevor: St. Louis University Dowd, Ryan: Boston College Dyke, Steven: St. Louis University Edler, Connor: University of Missouri-Columbia Edwards, Will: Loyola University-Chicago Eidman, Tim: Loyola University-Chicago Erlinger, Sam: Vanderbilt University Esswein, Joe: United States Air Force Academy Evans, John: Undecided Everson, Zach: University of Missouri-Columbia Fentress, Paul: University of Missouri-Columbia Ferber, Joey: University of Dayton Finn, Jacob: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Finocchiaro, D.J.: St. Louis College of Pharmacy Fister, Greg: Truman State University Fitzmire, Michael: University of Mississippi Floros, Willie: Spring Hill College Fogarty, Jack: Vanderbilt University Fogerty, Danny: University of Tulsa Fotouhi, Mike: Truman State University Fox, Nathan: Westminster College Franz, Matthew: Spring Hill College Freeman, Dominick: Mississippi State University Gable, Peter: Westminster College Gaines, Danny: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Gallagher, Tim: University of Missouri-Columbia Gasperoni, Joey: University of Missouri-Columbia Gayou, Gerard: George Washington University Ghazarian, Tony: Rockhurst University Gilsinger, Luke: Maryville University Glass, Elliot: University of Mississippi Goeke, Jack: Belmont University Gorla, Daniel: University of Missouri-Columbia Griffard, Jimmy: St. Louis University Hack, David: University of Missouri-Columbia Hagerty, Luke: Marquette University Hammel, David: Georgia Institute of Technology

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Moore, Brad: Purdue University Mueckl, Sam: Rockhurst University Mungenast, Joe: Indiana University Murphy, Sean: University of Missouri-Columbia Myers, Peter: University of Missouri-Columbia Naegeli, Luke: Indiana University Nelson, Stephen: Truman State University Neyer, Matt: University of Tulsa Niebruegge, Brendan: University of Missouri-Columbia Padberg, Kyle: Truman State University Palisch, Andrew: University of Dayton Pardo, Christopher: DePaul University Paschal, Amir: University of Missouri-Columbia Patton, Greg: University of Kansas Pazderka, Barrett: Murray State University Phillips, Kevin: Clemson University Pilla, Sam: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Pitts, Andrew: Marquette University Place, Thomas: Marquette University Pollihan, Michael: University of Missouri-Columbia Powers, Will: University of Tulsa Probst, Christian: Yale University Ramacciotti, Justin: George Washington University Rammaha, Sean: University of Missouri-Columbia Rauschenbach, Nick: University of Missouri-Columbia Reichold, Luke: St. Louis University Reinoso, Victor: University of Missouri-St. Louis Rodgers, Jerry: Missouri Western State University Rolwes, Eddie: University of Southern California Rubbelke, Nathan: St. Louis University Rubio, Stephen: Fordham University Sainz, Matthew: Bradley University Sansone, Stefan: Lehigh University Savio, Michael: University of Missouri-Columbia Schaller, Mark: University of Missouri-Columbia Schellenberg, Nathan: deferring one year, Truman State University Schenk, Parker: University of Missouri-Columbia Schmidt, Daniel: University of Missouri-Columbia Schoelch, Matt: University of Missouri-Columbia Seiff, Tom: University of North Carolina School of the Arts Sellman, Jack: University of Missouri-Columbia Shea, Ryan: University of Dayton Shelton, Jack: University of Missouri-Columbia Simmon, Fritz: University of Missouri-Columbia Simon, Paul: DePauw University Sipe, Alex: Creighton University Slaughter, Michael: University of Missouri-Columbia Smittle, Aaron: Missvouri U. of Science and Technology Stefanescu, Matei: DePaul University Stein, Jarrett: Rockhurst University Steurer, Sam: Ohio State University Stevens, Tom: University of Missouri-Columbia Stinehart, Connor: Lindenwood University Stubbs, Cameron: University of Dayton Stuckstede, Joe: St. Louis University Suddarth, Ryan: University of Dayton Suess, Mason: Texas Christian University Sullivan, Sean: Fordham University Sutter, Blake: University of Missouri-Columbia Switzer, Jacob: University of Missouri-Columbia Sykora, Nick: University of Dayton Szatkowski, Joseph: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Talerico, Aidan: Truman State University Thomas, Ben: University of Wyoming Thornberry, Evan: University of Missouri-Columbia Tlalpek, Daniel: University of Missouri-Columbia Trachsel, Cameron: Regis University Trebus, Geddy: University of Missouri-St. Louis Trieschmann, David: University of Mississippi Ullery, Jeff: Xavier University Vogel, Spencer: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Voss, Alex: University of Missouri-Columbia Walsh, John: Missouri University of Science and Technology Warden, Zachary: St. Louis University Warnecke, Dan: University of Mississippi Wassilak, Erich: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Weber, Mark: St. Louis University Welge, Logan: University of Notre Dame Whitney, Will: University of Missouri-Columbia Wilhelm, Brian: Missouri U. of Science and Technology Williams, Dan: University of Dayton Williams, Michael: Loyola University-Chicago Windler, Peter: University of Missouri-Columbia Witthaus, Jack: University of Missouri-Columbia Woodcock, Andrew: Indiana University Yoffie, Phillip: Undecided Zink-Duda, Joshua: Vanderbilt University Zinselmeyer, Nathan: University of Evansville

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Class of 2012 College Plans listed by college

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American University (1): Zackary McCullough Arkansas, University of (2): Zach Boatman

Alex Boatman,

Belmont University (1): Jack Goeke Benedictine College (1): Aidan Kelly Boston College (2): Ryan Dowd, Danny Hogan Bradley University (1): Matthew Sainz Carleton College (1): John Bromell Case Western Reserve University (1): Clark

Matt

Clemson University (1): Kevin Phillips Columbia University (1): Trevor McDonagh Creighton University (2): Alex Sipe

Drew Holtmann,

Dallas, University of (1): Charlie Archer Dayton, University of (10): Tom Behr, Joey Ferber, Trevor Havrilka, Matt Lickenbrock, Andrew Palisch, Ryan Shea, Cameron Stubbs, Ryan Suddarth, Nick Sykora, Dan Williams DePaul University (2): Chris Pardo, Matei Stefanescu DePauw University (2): Jack Kelley, Paul Simon Elon University (1): Jordan Bollwerk Evansville, University of (2): George Carroll, Nathan Zinselmeyer Fordham University (3): Chris Lynas, Stephen Rubio, Sean Sullivan Franciscan University of Steubenville (1): Ryan Burke

drew Pitts, Thomas Place Maryville University (1): Luke Gilsinger

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DePriest, Bryan Matthews

Miami University-Ohio (1): Trent Lulow

Southern California, University of (1): Eddie Rolwes

Minnesota, University of-Twin Cities (1): Nick Breunig

Southern Methodist University (1): Chip Moloney

Mississippi State University (1): Freeman

Spring Hill College (2): Willie Floros, Matthew Franz

Dominick

Mississippi, University of (9): Eddie Bozesky, Daniel Brummell, Michael Fitzmire, Elliot Glass, Brian Hiller, Johnathan Larkin, Will Meehan, David Trieschmann, Dan Warnecke Missouri University of Science and Technology (13): Zach Boyer, Chris Cruzen, Jacob Finn, Danny Gaines, Jacob Kloeppinger, Sam Knesel, Mark Kuehner, Sam Pilla, Aaron Smittle, Joe Szatkowski, Spencer Vogel, John Walsh, Brian Wilhelm Missouri, University of-Columbia (68): Sam Adams, Dalton Anders, Michael Baldetti, R.J. Banks, Michael Barry, Zachary Beckemeyer, Joshua Beckerle, Evan Becton, Tom Berra, Sam Body, James Boeckmann, Kevin Cahill, Reid Cavallini, Evan Chipley, Brendan Chura, Nick Danter, Alex Dodd, Connor Edler, Zach Everson, Paul Fentress, Tim Gallagher, Joey Gasperoni, Daniel Gorla, David Hack, Michael Henry, L.J. Hernandez, Tom Hoefel, Jordan Hopkins, Jack Howe, Eric Jackson, Andrew Jung, Mason Jungels, Joe Koch, Joe Kusky, D.J. LaPoint, Matthew Laskowitz, Daniel Laughlin, Michael Leritz, Alex Lewis, Ryan Lile, Brandon Lorbert, Danny Lucchesi, Danny Meehan, Sean Murphy, Peter Myers, Brendan Niebruegge, Amir Paschal, Michael Pollihan, Sean Rammaha, Nick Rauschenbach, Michael Savio, Mark Schaller, Parker Schenk, Daniel Schmidt, Matt Schoelch, Jack Sellman, Jack Shelton, Fritz Simmon, Michael Slaughter, Tom Stevens, Blake Sutter, Jacob Switzer, Evan Thornberry, Daniel Tlapek, Alex Voss, Will Whitney, Peter Windler, Jack Witthaus

St. Louis College of Pharmacy (2): Bossung, D.J. Finocchiaro

Paul

St. Louis Community College-Forest Park (1): Joe Davis St. Louis University (19): Tom Blood, Patrick Boyle, Andrew Clark, Jeremy Compton, Trevor Dorand, Steven Dyke, Jimmy Griffard, Brad Hoffmeister, Austin Huelsing, John Jedlicka, Dan Jost, Joe Luongo, Kevin Lynch, Jack McHenry, Jack Mohrmann, Luke Reichold, Nathan Rubbelke, Joe Stuckstede, Zachary Warden, Mark Weber Tampa, University of (1): Paul Buehler Texas Christian University (1): Mason Suess Truman State University (13): Zachary Barry, Greg Fister, Michael Fotouhi, Adam Hunn, Connor Madden, Kevin Madden, Jack Milford, Joe Milliano, Stephen Nelson, Kyle Padberg, Nathan Schellenberg (deferring one year), Aidan Talerico Tulsa, University of (11): Daniel Appelbaum, Danny Fogerty, Paul Harris, Sam Herbig, Matt Hruz, Andrew Klipfel, Jeff Mayberger, Brendan McEnery, Jack Mimlitz, Matt Neyer, Will Powers United States Air Force Academy (1): Joe Esswein Vanderbilt University (5): Matt Cooley, Sam Erlinger, Jack Fogarty, Nate Heagney, Joshua ZinkDuda

Gerard

Missouri, University of-St. Louis (4): Ben Luczak, Dominic Margherio, Victor Reinoso, Geddy Trebus

Villanova University (1): Luke Buckheit

Georgetown University (2): Jean-Paul Angieri (deferred for study in China), Kevin Kimes

Missouri Western State University (1): Jerry Rodgers

Washington University (1): Christian Lukas

Georgia Institute of Technology (2): Hammel, Alex Lombardo

Morehouse College (1): Jamil Irvin-Muhammad

George Washington University (2): Gayou, Justin Ramacciotti

David

Murray State University (1): Barrett Pazderka

Harvard University (1): Mitch Klug Illinois, University of-Urbana-Champaign (2): Blake Boyer, Erich Wassilak Indiana University (4): Joe Jedlicka, Joe Mungenast, Luke Naegeli, Andrew Woodcock Kansas, University of (3): Chris Kennedy, Perry May, Greg Patton

Niagara University (1): Ryan Merrifield North Carolina, University of School of the Arts (1): Tom Seiff Notre Dame, University of (4): Jesse Keipp, Jake Kinsella, Dominic Lanari, Logan Welge

Washburn University (1): Terek Hawkins

Webster University (1): Theodore Lodato Wesleyan University (1): Danny Millar Western Illinois University (1): Darion Baker Westminster College (2): Nathan Fox, Peter Gable Wyoming, University of (1): Ben Thomas Xavier University (2): Nick Lampe, Jeff Ullery

Ohio State University (1): Sam Steurer

Yale University (1): Christian Probst

Lake Forest College (1): Tim Coleman

Pomona College (1): Pieter Derdeyn

Lehigh University (1): Stefan Sansone

Purdue University (2): Ben Hilker, Brad Moore

Undecided (6): Tom BlasĂŠ, Michael Dempsey, John Evans, Joe Klein, Donnie Land, Phillip Yoffie

Lindenwood University (2): Aaron Kerwood, Connor Stinehart

Regis University (2): Michael Hohl, Cameron Trachsel

Loyola Marymount University (1): Keeley

Rochester, University of (1): Bryan Maas

Adam

Loyola University-Chicago (3): Will Edwards, Tim Eidman, Michael Williams Marquette University (10): Geoff Behr, Sam Bufe, Sam Cannon, Luke Hagerty, Tim Hof, Kevin Landgraf, Matt McCarthy, Ryan McHugh, An-

Rockhurst University (7): David Bubash, Tony Ghazarian, Rob Laurentius, Brian McAuliffe, Michael McLaughlin, Sam Mueckl, Jarrett Stein Seton Hall University (1): J.P. de Legarreta Southeast Missouri State University (2): Tom

Check the Prep News next week for a listing of seniors’ accepted scholarships.

16 More than 1,000 words: Hilker’s gift to SLUH Prep News

Volume 76, Issue 29

BABA O’RILEY

Photographs from last four years lined hallways

photo | Ben Hilker

May 11, 2012

Friday, May 11

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Senior Exam Make-Up Day V Water Polo @ Missouri District Tournament (through May 12) 7:30am AP US History Exam 8am Senior Book Buy Back 9:30am Senior Class Meeting AP Snack—Pretzel Braids 12pm AP European History Exam 7:15pm Senior Prom Lunch Special—Chicken Strips

Healthy—Grilled Cheese Italiano

Saturday, May 12 Saturday, May 12 District Volleyball Tournament 9am V Track @ District Championship Meet 12pm Dance Rehearsal

Sunday, May 13 The hallways of SLUH were decorated with over 400 photos this week, which were assembled by senior Ben Hilker.

BY Stephen STAFF

Lumetta

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our hundred seventeen color photos. One hundred eighty feet of blue tape. Ten hours spent at school on the weekend before Advanced Placement exams. 0.8% of the photographers’ kept photos from the year.

All these numbers culminated in a surprise gift to SLUH from senior photographer Benjamin Hilker.

Tired students who were still trying to rub the sleep out of their eyes on Monday morning were surprised not only by the senior prank, but also by the hundreds of photos taped up on the walls of the school, especially

the southern half of senior hallway.

“The end of the year was coming up, and I wanted to do something,” said Hilker, noting that he wasn’t too good at pranks but still felt compelled to do something after hearing stories from past seniors.

So Hilker decided to leave a surprise for the student body that was a little more up his alley.

“I know that I had a lot of pictures that no one’s ever seen,” said Hilker as he pointed out that most of the photos that SLUH photographers take are never seen by the SLUH community.

But Hilker didn’t do the project by himself.

“I got a clear by Dr. (John) Moran. Mr. (Matt) Sciuto got me in on a Saturday. Mr. (John) Mueller let me use his copier.”

Hilker also thanked senior John Bromell for helping him put up the photos.

“It is definitely a gift back to the school. Looking back on this project, I really like the silence of the photographs. I wanted people to remember how far they’ve come this year,” said Hilker.

Photos may be taken down today by anyone who wishes to keep them.

photo | Ben Hilker

7pm

Dance Concert

Monday, May 14

Schedule R V Golf @ MSHSAA State Championship @ Silo Ridge (through May 15) V Volleyball @ State Quarterfinals V Tennis @ Individual Sectional Tournament (through May 16) 7:30am AP Biology Exam AP Snack—Chili Cheese Nachos 12pm AP Physics Exam Lunch Special—Lil’ Charlie’s Pizza

Healthy—Chipotle Pulled Turkey Club

Tuesday, May 15

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Mothers’ Club Installation/Mass/Dinner 7:30am AP US Government Exam AP Freshmen FB Helmet Checkout Rosary

Snack—Pepperoni Boscos 10am Senior Grades Due 12pm AP Comparative Government Exam Lunch Special—Steak & Cheese

Healthy—Southwest Chicken Tornado

Wednesday, May 16

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Appreciation Dinner Schedule R 7:30am AP English Language Exam AP Snack—Apple Strudel Sticks 12pm AP Statistics Exam Lunch Special—Redi Ribs

Healthy—Popcorn Shrimp

Thursday, May 17

Before school Monday, many seniors arrived at school as early as 5:30 to prepare pranks, which involved spraying innocent passersby with water guns, decorating the “History Wall” by the Commons with Post-It Notes, lining freshman hallway with styrofoam cups filled with water, and piling all the Commons’ tables and chairs together and wrapping it with plastic wrap.

Classics students excel on Latin, Greek exams

BY Joe Kreienkamp REPORTER

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n early April, a cluster of Latin students sat down at the tables in the old cafeteria to take the National Latin Exam, a 40-question, multiple choice test given to Latin students around the country to test students' reading comprehension, and knowledge of Roman culture, vocabulary, and grammar.

For their knowledge of the language, the best scoring students receive the summa cum laude, meaning “with the highest praise.” The second best placing students receive magna cum laude, meaning “with great praise,” and the third highest grouping of scores receives the cum laude, meaning “with praise.” Each year, the national average dictates what percentage of students should receive the honors.

One month later, the results were received by the Latin teachers.

“I thought they did awesome.

Two students got perfect scores. Out of the 60 people who took it, 40 people medaled,” says Latin teacher Jen-

nifer Ice. “I thought we did well this year.

Overall, (the tests) were very strong,” says Latin teacher Jim Gioia. “There was (an) increase from last year’s (scores).”

The results showed the brightness of the classes. The national level for Latin I was 28 correct out of 40 possible points and the national level for Latin II was 27. Freshmen Jack Barbey and Thomas Hogan received perfect scores. Nationwide, 1,363 students received perfect scores, and only 29 of them were from Missouri.

In the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes, eight students received gold medals in each class. In the senior class, seniors Pieter Derdeyn, Jean-Paul Angieri, and Ben Hilker received gold medals.

The Medusa Myth exam, also taken by some Latin students, tests a student’s knowledge on Roman mythology. Freshman Noah Weisbrod received a bronze medal and junior Cullen Gerber received a silver medal.

While some students were busy taking Latin exams, 22 seniors were

taking the National Greek Exam for beginning Attic Greek. Out of the 22 who took it, 18 received onors. Among those who received the highest honors and a blue ribbon were seniors JeanPaul Angieri, Matt Neyer, and Joshua Zink-Duda.

Three other students, seniors Jake Kinsella, Dominic Lanari, and Danny Millar, received High Honors and a red ribbon; 12 other students received Honors and a green ribbon.

Greek teacher Mary Lee McConaghy said, “I was very pleased with the performance of the group this year. The students returned from senior exams, the Christmas break and Senior Project was essentially a sixweek hiatus from Greek. Five weeks later they took the exam, which was not an easy task,” says McConaghy.

According to McConaghy, the results were slightly higher from this year than others.

“I felt that they all worked hard to prepare for the test and the results showed their high level of preparation,” said McConaghy.

V Volleyball @ State Semifinals 7:30am AP Macroeconomics Exam

AP World History Exam AP Sustainability Committee Meeting

Snack—Waffle Fries 12pm AP Microeconomics Exam Lunch Special—Chinese

Healthy—Chicken Parmesan

Friday, May 18 V Volleyball @ State Championship AP Snack—Pizza Sticks 5:30pm Water Polo Mass and Banquet 7pm V Lacrosse @ State Quarterfinal Lunch Special—Chicken Rings

Healthy—Spicy Chicken Sandwich

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calendar | compiled by Stephen Lumetta

Chorus Concert The choral program, under the direction of Dr. Joe Koestner, had its spring performance last night. The show included performances from the Varisty, Concert, and ZeroHour choruses as the ensembles serenaded the audience with hits like “I Wanna Know What Love Is,” “Build Me Up Buttercup,” and “Pinball Wizard.”

The freshman fine arts survey chorus also performed their song, Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll.”

The varsity chorus dedicated the song “In Remembrance” to the memory of J.R. Strzelec, a graduate of SLUH from the class of ’03 who was dear to the fine arts program and who recently passed away. photo by Giuseppe Vitellaro