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Rocklin Student Athletes

Many times athletes forget that they must put their job as being a student first. Getting the extra reps but not finishing up your history homework is not what being a student-athlete is. The members of the varsity women’s soccer team from Rocklin High School know this better than anyone else. These athletes put in just as much work on the pitch in the classroom, which allowed for each and every one of them to keep themselves eligible to play the sport they love. Through this dedication, it is difficult not to commemorate these athletes on a job well done.

The varsity players will be officially commemorated in Lodi, California at a SJS Board of Managers Meeting in April with a Section Banner. The team was awarded the, “Winter Academic Champions Award Section for the highest GPA in the Sac Joaquin Section with an unbelievable team GPA of 3.89” (Pappas). This high of a GPA just adds to the fact of how incredible it was of an accomplishment their studying was. To put this into perspective, the overall sports GPA at Sacramento State is merely a 2.839, which includes every sport. The Alabama Crimson Tide football team’s overall GPA is a 3.90, another impressive team. First year varsity defender Jessica Trubell remarks, “I was definitely impressed and surprised [about our team GPA]”. The sophomore claims to have had to work a little more to keep her grades up. Trubell knows “it wasn’t easy… but it was doable” Trubell has always had to work a little harder than most in school, since she is always challenging herself with difficult classes that many students stray away from. Ever since middle school, Trubell has kept a 4.0 GPA even though she was in the Key and Quest academies at Granite Oaks, which are the notorious GATE academies. This young student athlete is only one of the many pristine examples the varsity soccer team produced within its season.

A twitter post from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section page personally congratulated the team as well, saying “Congratulations to the 2021-22 Academic Champions in Girls Soccer… The Rocklin Thunder.” Underneath there is an image of the soccer team. This is a huge win for the Rocklin High School athletic program, as this school has not won an award such as this in recent years. With athletes as hardworking and talented as the women’s soccer program, it is safe to say that everyone hopes they manage to inspire others to follow in their path by becoming a true student athlete.

Story and Original Design Inspiration by: Destin Armstrong, Introduction to Journalism Student

The 3.89 GPA Rocklin High varsity women’s soccer team

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The Flash | Volume 29

Rocklin High School’s Dance 1 program finally got to have their very own dance showcase after two and a half years on March 3, 2022. Three out of four shows were sold out.

RHS Dance students, led by Mrs. Blankenship and Dance 4 student directors, were ecstatic to finally have their first showcase after two years. This showcase was a long work of progress that took lots of prep and planning, “...it’s a lot of time, casting the show, deciding which students are in which dances, determining which styles the choreographers are teaching, each student needs four costumes…”

Mrs. Blankenship also said that she started planning the show in August, “I was so excited. It’s difficult to have a performing arts class when there is no performance so it was very exciting to get them onstage and for them to know the dances they learned were actually going to be seen by a live audience. It was exhilarating.”

Through all of this preparation Blankenship’s passion and care for her students shines through. Blankenship was overjoyed about how hardworking and successful her dance 1 students were. Junior dance 1 student Maddie Wiebe who never got to be in a show due to COVID said “It was a great experience… being able to actually have a dance show was nice.”

Story and Original Design Inspiration by: Kacey Mickschl