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Vol. 35 Issue 5 May 10, 2021 • Edward S. Marcus High School • 5707 Morriss Road Flower Mound, TX 75028

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Riverwalk development progressing Seniors from Pakistan accepted by top schools Discover your new favorite artist, based on your music taste

editor in chief Madi Olivier managing editor Tara Connick photo editor Maya Hernandez design editor Emily Seiler news & entertainment editor Shriya Mukkavilli graphics editor Amber Luther business manager Sophia Craig reporters Garrison Acree Hyunsung Na Muna Nnamani Vaibhav Sridhar photographer Brooke Luther designer Alex Thornfelt adviser LaJuana Hale associate adviser Corey Hale principal William Skelton The Marquee newsmagazine is a student-generated publication of Marcus High School. It is produced, edited and maintained through the efforts of the school’s advanced journalism class. The Marquee is designed to serve the school and community as a forum for open discussion and student expression.

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Juniors and seniors take photos on the football field on April 24. Students could go to three stations with groups of up to 20 people at the free event Photo submitted by Gina Karbs

Class of 2021, There’s no need to sugarcoat it. This year has been difficult for everyone.

Students didn’t have a normal high school experience, teachers had to figure out how to engage kids through a laptop screen, and some of us lost family and friends along the way.

But we made it, and we did it together. We’re stronger than we were when schools shut down over a year ago, and with vaccines becoming widely available, hope is making a comeback — not that it ever faded completely.

If this year has proven anything, it’s that there are always good moments in uncertain times, whether it was trying TikTok whipped coffee in quarantine or laughing with your classmates after someone knocks over a desk shield. When added to the years we grew up together, these memories create an experience we’ll never forget.

So, to honor this year’s senior class, we dedicated our last issue to reminiscing on our time as Marauders, comic book style.

Congratulations on graduating! Wherever you’re off to next, may it be full of good moments.

Sincerely, Madi Olivier Editor in Chief

Special thanks to next year’s editors, who managed the first half of this issue. I can’t wait to see the things you accomplish next year!

Sophia Craig, Editor in Chief Shriya Mukkavilli, Managing Editor Alex Thornfelt, Graphics Editor

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Quite the catch

Bass fishing club advances to state story Garrison Acree

the darkness, a short burst of wind throws the boat off its course, threatening a wind storm. As the team stabilizes the boat, Naug feels a bite on his hook. This fish is a strong swimmer, fighting back against the reel, but Naug has fished

Club seventh place in the contest and scholarship money to put toward new equipment.

The student-run club formed Splash. The hook falls away in 2015 and initially struggled from the boat and lands in the to win competitions. But as water, creating a small ripple. It the years went on, the club may seem that junior and angler gained more members. Matthew Blaise Naug is enjoying a lazy Schwolert joined the group as the sponsor at the beginning of this school year and wants the anglers to continue participating in competitions.

The club’s members use their own boats and tackle, and their competitions are entirely catch-and-release. Once the fish are caught, they’re put into a water tank on the boat to keep the fish safe. Once the competition is over, the fish are weighed before being released.

“If there’s no fish, we can’t have these tournaments. So it’s really important that we take care of them,” Naug said.

Junior Blaise Naug, senior Jacob Kelley, freshman Zane Niziol and freshHe and Jacob Kelley man Troy Liverman won seventh place in the High School Bass Fishing will advance to the state Regional Competition on April 17. The club qualified for the state competicompetition at Dam tion May 16-17. Photo submitted by Matthew Schwolert Site Park Ramp on Lake day fishing on Lake Lewisville since he was a kid and knows Texoma, May 15-16, where over but he’s also competing against how to adjust for it. Just as the 200 teams will compete.

“It’s rewarding because you 290 other boats. It’s the Texas wind hits again, Naug pulls the put a lot of time in,” Naug said.

High School Bass Fishing bass on board.

This fish was the one of four “I think we put [in] about four Regional Competition, and Naug feels confident that his that the team caught that day. weekends, and each of those They weighed a combined 10.71 weekends are about six to eight team will win.

As the sinker descends into pounds, giving the Bass Fishing hours per day.”

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The chapel and reception hall at the Flower Mound Riverwalk both began hosting private events in October, and opened to the public in January.

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Riverwalk chapel opens, restaurants closer to completion

Editor’s note: this story includes interviews by The Marquee from spring 2020, unpublished due to the pandemic.

The Flower Mound Riverwalk’s chapel and the adjoining reception hall recently opened up to the public, while two restaurants also appear close to completion. Numerous apartment complexes have also been built and opened in the past few years, but the chapel and reception hall are the first amenities to host public events.

The Riverwalk, which was approved in 2008 and is located near the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital between Morriss and 2499, has a history of missed opening dates.

Currently, amenities such as the splash pad and farmers’ market have not been started. There is also no construction on the amphitheatre that was included in the original plan, but on March 9, the Community Impact Newspaper reported that it may be replaced with a commercial event space. There are no specific dates for when the next amenities will open.

A grand opening for Phase One of the Riverwalk was held on April 25, 2017 to show off the new water feature, large art pieces and walkways.

At this event, former Town Manager Jimmy Stathatos told The Marquee that he believed seven new restaurants, an

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amphitheatre, a waterpark, retail stores and a wedding chapel would be fully completed within 12-18 months, or by the summer of 2018.

CEO and President of Centurion American, the development company for the Riverwalk, Merhdad Moayedi was also at the event.

The chapel and reception hall are the first Riverwalk amenities to open to the public. Photo Brooke Luther

“Now it’s time to go vertical with all the restaurants and the amphitheatre,” Moayedi said.

Since then the shells for future restaurants have lined the flowing waterfalls for several years with slow progress being made toward opening. In February 2018, Centurion American spokesperson Sarah Dodd told Community Impact Newspaper that the chapel would be available for

wedding services in early 2019, while the restaurants would open by the summer of 2019.

When Community Impact Newspaper interviewed Dodd again in January 2019, she said the plans were on track. But by the end of the year, nothing opened.

Over the years, citizens have expressed frustration about the lack of promised amenities. This includes local real estate agent Robert Day, who was interviewed by The Marquee in 2019.

“It was supposed to be a vibrant community around the Riverwalk and it hasn’t materialized,” Day stated in a text. “It’s smoke and mirrors, they tell people restaurants are coming and then we forget… then we remember later and they say it again.”

Graduate Devansh Dalal was interviewed by The Marquee in 2019. He said that he was also frustrated with the lack of developments on the Riverwalk, although he enjoyed looking at the scenery with his friends.

“But then you want to eat,” Dalal said.

“What do you expect me to eat? Water and grass?”

Chapel, reception hall

The Riverwalk’s Chapel opened last August. The chapel and the adjoining Water Works Reception Hall began

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hosting private events in early October.

On Jan. 17, both locations officially opened to the public, where Centurian American hosted an open house for citizens to meet vendors. Citizens had to reserve a spot on a guest list because of COVID-19.

In an email, Centurion American Marketing and Brand Development Manager Miles Danielson stated that while the pandemic has limited large gatherings, the event was a big success.

“Inviting the residents into Water Works Hall was a glorious time,” Danielson stated. “It was very exciting to experience the first event with our fellow neighbors.”

The vision for these two amenities was a beautiful location for citizens to have their weddings and other events, according to Danielson.

“We are a unique build featuring classic chapel design elements combined with our modern and state of the art hall finish outs,” Danielson stated.

The chapel and reception hall hosted their first wedding on April 3. Five events were held between the grand opening and March, with an additional 20 scheduled upcoming events. Prices are not posted for renting, so anyone interested must fill out an online form.

Students have already found the scenic location, as dozens lined the sidewalks at the Riverwalk on the night of prom, taking photos by the waterfalls.

“No other venues in the DFW Metroplex offer the unique waterway backdrop that the Riverwalk development has,” Danielson stated. “We look forward to making memories with our friends and neighbors.”

Riverwalk timeline 2008:

• Riverwalk plans approved.

2013:

• Centurion American bought the property.

• “Riverwalk at Flower Mound” Facebook page posted a photo with the caption “Pre ground breaking at the Riverwalk” but has not posted since.

• Official groundbreaking held on Sept.

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October 2014:

• Former Mayor Tom Hayden tweeted “In this picture today you see dirt, in the Spring of 2016 you will see a hotel, and amphitheater, and Journey on stage.”

December 2016:

• The Cross Timbers Gazette published “FM Council OK’s Riverwalk Amphitheater,” stating that the amphitheater would be completed within nine months.

Restaurants

The management company responsible for the restaurants has changed to Refined Hospitality Concepts, causing the selected restaurants to change over the last two to three years. In a press release, CEO Robert Hall said he looks forward to opening several restaurants ranging from upscale to casual dining.

“We are excited to bring a wide variety of dining options to our neighbors in Flower Mound,” Hall stated. “The upscale neighborhood and friendly community are perfect for the food and fun we hope to share.”

According to a press release from Centurion American, Primo’s and Sfereco will be the first restaurants to open. At press time, the restaurants were furnished, with lighting and seating set up, and appeared Primo’s and Sfereco are furnished inside with seating and lights. near compleThey both appear almost ready to open. Photo Hyunsung Na tion.

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May 2017:

• Grand opening for Phase One of the Riverwalk, including the water feature, art pieces and walkway.

September 2018: • Primo’s Tex-Mex Grill, Pizzeria Ascoli, FloMo’s Burgers, Nate Champion’s Prime Steak and Chop House, Cuvee Wine Restaurant, and River Social announced for Restaurant Row.

March 2019:

• The Cross Timbers Gazette reported that Centurion American was working on the farmer’s market and splash pad designs.

2020:

• Permits approved for Primo’s, Sfereco and Scout.

• Chapel and reception hall open.

2021:

• Plans for Boi Na Braza and Parliament announced.

Centurion American also said that Scout, an adult gaming, dining and drinking destination, will open after the two restaurants. The Scout location in Dallas has activities such as pool and bowling, but it is unclear what amenities the Flower Mound location will offer.

Centurion American also said that two additional restaurants, Boi Na Braza and Parliament, are set to open this summer. However, the buildings for those restaurants don’t have signage yet and have unfinished interiors that look significantly further behind in construction than the other restaurants.

Parliament is currently a cocktail bar in Uptown Dallas.

“We’ve listened to our neighbors in Flower Mound,” Hall said. “We know they want a sophisticated date night destination full of fun, food and fine wine and spirits.”

Julio Matheus created Boi Na Braza, which is a Brazilian steakhouse. In a press release, Matheus said he is excited to relocate the restaurant to Flower Mound after more than two decades in Grapevine.

“We’re thrilled to continue building community connections in our new Flower Mound flagship,” Matheus stated.

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Senior twins emigrate from Pakistan, plan to attend top colleges story Madi Olivier A lot of words can be used to describe seniors Alsa Khan and Muhammad Jee. Twins. AP students. Alsa, the senior class president. Muhammad, the nationally-ranked athlete and future Ivy League student.

But only 10 seconds into their interview, Alsa proudly labeled herself as older. Five minutes older, to be exact.

Seniors and twins Alsa Khan and Muhammad Jee moved to America from Pakistan the summer before sixth grade.

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Muhammad was quick to say he didn’t like it.

Four minutes later, Alsa giggled when asked if they ever bicker.

“I had to remind him like five times for the interview today,” Alsa said. “Like, ‘Get ready. Have you done this? Do you have your ID?’” Muhammad cut off his sister.

“Living in a household with three sisters, all the responsibility of a brother teasing his sisters lies only on my shoulders,” Muhammad said. “So I try to do a good job and make sure that they’re always running around.”

They sounded like every pair of siblings, constantly switching between hot and cold, going from reminiscing on their huge birthday parties as kids to complaining about who got the bigger room.

But the one thing that separates the recording of their voices from every other pair of siblings on campus is their accent, reminiscent of the nearly 8,000 miles between them and their first home.

••• Alsa and Muhammad were born in Lahore, Pakistan to a family of passionate entrepreneurs. Their family moved around often to chase business opportunities throughout their childhood. They were only a few weeks old when their family moved to Singapore so their parents could attend college.

But even as 1-year-old babies, Alsa and Muhammad had a special bond.

“There’s a picture of us as kids, as twins, and she’s feeding me the milk with the [bottle],” Muhammad said. “And there’s another video of us playing with this toy, and she’s scared of it. It was a bunny, and I came in and I grabbed the tail of the bunny and hit the bunny, so we support each other in different ways, even as kids.”

After four years, they moved back to Pakistan and lived in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.

“We literally changed schools practically every year, so we were used to shifting around and adapting to different situations,” Muhammad said.

However, Pakistan was home during their early years.

“Both of our grandparents, our dad’s family and our mom’s family, were living in Lahore, and then we had a house there too,” Alsa said. “So it was really, really fun because we had all our cousins or uncles, aunts in the same place.”

Alsa and Muhammad settled into a routine in Pakistan, and it seemed like they were done moving. They spent time with their friends and tried different activities, from playing the flute to gymnastics and roller skating.

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“We were blessed with a really good life in Pakistan, and we had great education there as well,” Muhammad said.

So they didn’t think much of it when their dad took business trips to America every few months. But what they didn’t know was that he was building a healthcare technology business, and at the beginning of their fifth grade year, their parents quietly began planning to move across the ocean.

Alsa and Muhammad didn’t find out that they were moving until a few weeks before. They had moved often, but this time was different.

“We felt kind of sad, because that was the best time of our life,” Alsa said. “We loved our friends. I was crying, but I was excited at the same time, because I love change.”

If their life in Pakistan was a puzzle, then each piece would be a different tradition, family member or friend.

“In Pakistan, the culture is so vibrant and stuff,” Muhammad said. “Practically anywhere you live, you would love it.”

Now that they were leaving their home country, they had no idea how the pieces would fit together.

Everything would be different. Alsa and Muhammad had never even visited America before, and they wouldn’t get a chance to do so before moving. They only had one aunt and a few family friends living here at the time.

Alsa and Muhammad spoke English fluently after taking it in school, but they were used to speaking their native language, Urdu, outside of class.

All they knew was that America was for people like them.

“My parents and my family wanted to make a difference in people’s lives, and they knew that America is a beautiful country that supports big dreams,” Muhammad said.

••• Muhammad scribbled in his four-by-six inch diary in messy fifth-grader handwriting. The previous pages were filled with homework assignments, formatted with a date and teacher signature. But this one was different.

It was the last page he would be filling out before moving to America. He went to each of his friends, writing down their moms’ phone numbers.

“When I think of school, the first thing that pops up are my memories from Pakistan schools,” Muhammad said. “I made a lot of good friends over there.”

He and Alsa said goodbye to their teachers before walking through the doors for the last time. They had grown close to their teachers over the years and excelled in their classes.

“They were very proud of us, that we were moving, and they were very excited for us,” Muhammad said. “Because I guess they saw something in us at that age, and they were very happy that we were going to be given an opportunity to make them proud.”

Their father had already bought a house in America, so they didn’t pack much. In addition to the diary and a yearbook photo, Muhammad and Alsa only brought a few pieces of clothing to wear for the first week, while their mom packed special antiques, kitchenware and awards her kids won over the years.

“I remember seeing my empty house and I was like, ‘This is happening,’” Alsa said.

“Because we’ve moved, but we’ve never really had to move from like one side of the world to another.”

••• Alsa and Muhammad don’t remember much about taking off from the airport in Pakistan or landing in America on July 5, 2014. Their memories start in the car, driving from the airport to their new house.

The twins looked out the window, watching as rows of houses flew by. They all looked identical with reddish-brown bricks and a dark roof, like they were mass produced on an assembly line. The garages were all plain and automatic, a far cry from the painted gates that personalize each house in Pakistan.

“In Pakistan, each house is so beautiful and so architectural,” Muhammad said.

But when they stopped in front of their new home, Alsa and Muhammad didn’t think about Pakistan. They dashed upstairs to claim their rooms, and Alsa claimed the bigger one. She is older, after all.

“We were like, ‘Wow, this is so cool,’” Alsa said. “There was a chimney here and automatic garages. We had never seen that before. And the dishwashers, I’d never seen that before.”

My parents and my family wanted to make a difference in people’s lives, and they knew that America is a beautiful country that supports big dreams.

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I was crying, but I was excited at the same time, because I love change.

- Alsa Khan, 12 They spent the next few weeks settling in. They went shopping for new clothes and visited Briarhill Middle School, where Alsa and Muhammad would start sixth grade.

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“I’ve always been used to having responsibility with my “It was an easy transition,” Alsa said.

They didn’t have much of a language barrier when they little siblings and him, so I really wanted, first, the platform of started school, and Muhammad said that when compared to helping my teenage friends,” Alsa said.

She has been elected as the class president every year since his classes in Pakistan, the American curriculum seemed easier.

However, the structure was completely different. In Pakistan, she was a sophomore.

“This is the best opportunity ever because the feeling of students wore uniforms and stayed in one class while teachers knowing that people want you to be a part of something bigger rotated.

“Over there, the school was super formal and bureaucratic, is amazing,” Alsa said. “And I’ve felt that since we moved to but here it’s very nurturing and very casual,” Muhammad said. America.”

Muhammad, on the other hand, was an athlete at heart and Alsa and Muhammad went to private school for seventh grade but moved to Lamar Middle School for eighth. They knew that joined the track team.

“Junior year was very they would be moving onto good,” Muhammad said. “I high school with the class, started running fast and and finally started feeling getting good, and my last like they could find their race actually, I was nationally places in school. ranked 14 in the relay race.”

“Every year I’ve made The past four years were a lot of new friends,” Alsa a learning process for Alsa said. “I’m still friends with and Muhammad. When they everyone that I’ve ever started, they didn’t know talked to.” about AP classes or any They didn’t have to think colleges beyond the worldtwice about what their roles famous Universities like in the school would be. With Harvard. the spirit of entrepreneurship But when Alsa and in their genes, Alsa and Muhammad started doing Muhammad knew they research at the end of wanted to help people.

2020, the grades and “We just followed our heart extracurriculars they held and followed our dreams,” for the past four years were Muhammad said. on level with top schools.

They both took advanced Their teachers and peers classes and worked together encouraged them to apply. to start a program called “At first, I literally wasn’t Twin Bits their sophomore even thinking anywhere year, where they focused beyond colleges nearby,” on finding solutions and Alsa said. “And then I talked resources for families to my teachers, and then I impacted by autism and other realized... the opportunity. I developmental disabilities. should at least try.”

Muhammad and Alsa, who Cornell found their were inspired by their Senior twins Alsa Khan and Muhammad Jee attend the senior signing event in the cafeteria. Alsa has been involved in Student accomplishments were Ivycousins who have autism, Council, while Muhammad was on the track team. worthy, accepting both spoke with experts and Photo Brooke Luther Muhammad and Alsa. partnered with a company in Currently, Alsa will attend the University of Texas, although Silicon Valley to help develop new software.

“We felt grateful and blessed that we got the opportunity to she may transfer to be with her brother after a year.

“America supports big dreams,” Muhammad said. “This contribute and at a young age, see what it feels like to make an impact in someone’s life,” Muhammad said. “And since reinforced that when you see all this inspiration and we had already experienced this in our family, we knew how encouragement... that we can do it, and we just needed to trust in ourselves and just share our stories.” meaningful it would feel for them.”

As they head off to college in the next few months, Alsa and They also joined school organizations.

Alsa was drawn to student council. She didn’t know what it Muhammad said that they know their parents made the right was, but Alsa was a natural-born leader and used to read the decision to move.

“Pakistani culture and all that you experience there defines announcements during her school’s morning assembly every day in Pakistan. After seeing a tweet about class president us,” Muhammad said. “[It’s important] to hold on to that and elections at the end of her freshman year, she decided to put also while holding on learning new cultures and immersing yourself in new experiences in the U.S.” her name on the ballot.

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Backstitch to ballgown Sophomore designs costumes, wins award story Shriya Mukkavilli When the eyes of the cast of the UIL Theatre one-act play “Picnic” fell on the dress sophomore Jordan Thompson made, they gasped.

Working with another student, she designed the costumes for the play, set in small-town Kansas in the 1950s.

Jordan remembered how she spent eight hours carefully sewing appliques onto the dress for the character Madge, working quickly but mindfully to finish one of the dresses in two days.

Seeing the amazed looks on their faces, Jordan felt proud. The best way she can describe how she felt isn’t with words, but with a color.

“It’s like a shiny gold that fills your chest and you can say ‘yes, I did that.

That was me,’” Jordan said.

that,’” Jordan said.

Over last year’s lockdown, Jordan’s mom gave her the idea of dressmaking as a way to pass the time. They visited the clearance sections of Walmart and

••• Jordan lives for a challenge when it comes to costume design. She loves knowing that she can turn thread and cloth into wearable art.

“It’s something about the challenge of making something beautiful and making something vibrant that’s telling a story in itself that’s so attractive to me,” Jordan said.

When Jordan was younger, she dragged her feet when her mom took her shopping, but fashion was always something that sparked her interest.

“There’s always been something about it that’s really drawn my attention and being like, ‘Oh my goodness, look at

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Sophomore Jordan Thompson created this dress (pictured above) from satin over a span of two months.

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Joann’s Fabrics and Crafts, looking for the cheapest fabrics that could turn into colorful dresses that flare out when she twirls.

After the first few dresses, her new hobby became a family event.

“My dad, he likes to play with photography,” Jordan said. “So I was like,

‘Okay, let’s do this.”

Jordan’s main inspiration for her pieces come from history. After watching the movie “Marie Antoinette” last summer, she fell in love with the corsets and ball gowns the characters wore in the movie.

“It’s just so appealing to me with the ribbon and the skirt and how it shines and lays on the body,” Jordan said. “And how...it makes me feel powerful.”

Her love for designing dresses prompted her to take Tech Theatre last semester. Her teacher Grayson Merchant witnessed her talent firsthand, and he prompted Jordan to enter the competition.

“Right from the beginning, I could see that she had a really fantastic aesthetic and had a great eye for design,” Merchant said. “I was really happy to kind of guide her towards it.”

The theme for the contest was “Man of La Mancha,” a Don Quixote play. She only had to create an inspiration board for the costumes for the contest, but her parents encouraged her to take it one step further and create the costumes.

Jordan eventually advanced to the state UIL costume design, one of three people in the UIL district.

Jordan plans to start a business named Elise designing clothes with her mom.

She hopes that with the clothes she makes people feel empowered to wear what they want.

“I just want people to be comfortable being themselves and not really caring about what others think of them,” Jordan said. “Being who they want to be and who they are in their heart and being like, ‘I’m okay being me.’”

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Shooting into history Senior basketball star scores 1000 career points

story Vaibhav Sridhar Senior Nick Donnelly was one game away from making school basketball history. Up until the last home game of the season, he had scored 988 career points. As one of the varsity team’s top scorers and a high percentage shooter, the upcoming game was his chance at reaching 1000 career points, a record only reached by seven others in school history.

While confident he could reach it, he felt anticipation about being so close to something every high school player coveted.

He took a deep breath as his team lined up for pre-game warm ups, reminding himself to ignore the numbers and focus. It was going to be a game just like any other.

••• In early elementary school, Donnelly’s start in basketball was due mainly to his dad.

“My dad played in college at Michigan State with Magic Johnson, and they ended up winning the 1997 national championships,” Donnelly said. “I always wanted to follow in his footsteps.”

Through elementary school, Donnelly played football, soccer and pretty much every other sport he could, but basketball was special. In seventh grade, he made the Briarhill team.

“At the time, I kind of just played it for fun,” Donnelly said.

“I didn’t really see myself coming this far.”

From there, though, he started to get serious. In eighth grade, he made the team again and met Clay Cody, his first coach at Marcus.

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“Coach Cody was great. I’ve known him for a long time,” Donnelly said. “Back in eighth grade, he used to call me to the gym to come play with the older guys, so that was a really cool experience.”

When Cody left Donnelly’s sophomore year, Shane Rogers was named the new head coach. He’d seen Donnelly play from the opposing side, as a previous coach for Lewisville High School. But as he blew the whistle for their first practice, he knew coaching him personally would be entirely different.

“As a sophomore, he was a catch-and-shoot kind of player, with very little defense game,” Rogers said. “Very immature kind of player, then.”

Over time, Rogers had a firsthand look at Donnelly’s progress.

“Junior year, he started to get more mature, started working on his defensive game and seeing where he could contribute,” Rogers said. “It’s all because of just how much he’s worked.”

In the weight room, on the court, and just as a person, Donnelly appreciates his mentors.

He said coaches Austin Rodriguez and James Singleton have taught him just as much about life as basketball.

“Since [Singleton] has played in the NBA, he knows a lot about the game and a lot about being a person,” Donnelly said. “Coach Rod and I have known each other a long time, and we’re really close.

He’s a great guy.”

Over the years, meeting new people and working with his teammates on the court have been Donnelly’s favorite part of basketball.

Senior Cale Martens, captain of the varsity team alongside Donnelly, has seen the Senior Nick Donnelly searches for a team develop through nearby teammate to pass the ball. high school.

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Senior Nick Donnelly dodges Plano opponent as he passes the ball to his teammate. The team won the game 65-43. Photo submitted Ana Maria Myers-Olvera.

“Playing with each other, whether it’s in practice, open gym “I think some of us knew we weren’t going to play at Marcus or whatever… we start learning each other’s tendencies and again, so that was kind of a downside to everything, but we just know each other really well,” Martens said. “And I think, still dumped a bunch of water on Nick,” Martens said. “We after four years, we seniors, and especially Nick and I, have just were going crazy. It was a lot of fun. I’ll definitely remember clicked on a really high level.” that for a long time.”

••• Donnelly says his success is thanks to his mindset— to keep As the game began, Donnelly needed 12 more points to turn pressing forward and put in whatever it takes to get to where his 988 into 1000 and he averaged he needs to be. around 14 points per game, so his “Hard work and dedication will team and coach assured him that overcome anything thrown at you,” he could just play normally.

Donnelly said. “I knew that if I kept The fans were on the edge of that in my head, I could pretty much their seats as Donnelly found an accomplish anything I wanted to.” opening and took aim on the three Donnelly recently committed to point line.

University of Texas at Dallas where It was a shot he’d made he plans to play through college. hundreds of times before, and One of his main ambitions is the everyone was reminded of that opportunity to play overseas, like as the ball dropped through the - Nick Donnelly, 12 Singleton. Meeting new people and basket, marking over 1000 career growing as a person is what he really points to his name and winning wants to gain from playing, and even him a historic spot in the basketball program. when he gives everything he has out on the court, he always “My teammates were going hype, going crazy on the bench plans to take away something different. when I hit that last shot,” Donnelly said. “I think everyone in “You learn a lot about being a person from the game of the stands knew too, and it was just cool to feel all that.” basketball,” Donnelly said. “I advise anyone coming through After the game, Donnelly was congratulated by his the program to keep learning, keep working hard, and your teammates in the locker room. The seniors had mixed emotions. dreams will come true.”

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Spicing up your songs

New artists to try based off mainstream music story Vaibhav Sridhar

You can only listen to a song so many times before it loses the magic it had the first time. The music world is huge, but even if there’s a singer or producer out there you can enjoy, it

can be hard to navigate the endless playlists and find something that fits your taste. Fortunately, there are hundreds of lesserknown artists that have the same appeal as your favorites.

Harry Styles has a beautiful voice and charisma. He is a singer many enjoy, and that is something hard to accomplish. If any artists come close to reflecting him, though, it’s these ones. With over a million listeners on Spotify, Sam Fender is by no means underground, but still not nearly as popular as Styles. Fender’s music is similar to Styles’ more somber songs, with the exception of “Hypersonic Missiles,” which is just upbeat and fun. The rest of his discography is also well worth the listen. D.B Ricapito is different, and he doesn’t mirror Styles as closely, but that shouldn’t stop anyone who’s a fan from enjoying “Picture” and “California King.” Andonov doesn’t have many songs to his name, but “Faithful - Stripped” is great for anyone who enjoys Styles’ gentler music.

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“Two People” - Sam Fender “Hypersonic Missiles” - Sam Fender “California King” - D.B. Ricapito “Picture” - D.B. Ricapito “Faithful - Stripped” - Bobi Andonov

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Billie Eilish’s chilling vocals and atmospheric presence are difficult to replicate. However, certain creators follow the same lines her music does. Alex Maxwell’s production will sound familiar to anyone who’s listened to Eilish, especially “Because the Night.”

Amilli, on the other hand, has the same eerie style as Eilish, which is most noticeable in “Wings.” Laufey has similarly vocal-focused music, but goes even further with it. Her singing sometimes borders on opera, but stays relaxed. If you’re a fan of her style, you’ll be able to put on a song from her pretty much anytime to enjoy. “Magnolia” is a great listen for anyone who prefers more laid back music.

If you like Billie Eilish, try:

“Because the Night” - Alex Maxwell “Just for Tonight” - Alex Maxwell “Wings” - Amilli “Pulling Punches” - Amilli “Magnolia” - Laufey “Someone New” - Laufey

Rex Orange County’s relaxed, yet profound style of lyricism, as well as unique production, set him apart from most pop artists, but there are several lesser known artist fans would love. Grant Schaffer covers a lot of the same romantic and bittersweet themes that ROC does, perfect for your heartbreaks and honeymoons. His guitar work in “Indigo Dreams” is beautiful as well. For fans of ROC’s older album, “Apricot Princess,” I’d recommend Oscar Welsh’s “Get Yourself to Sleep,” which has a similar quiet and more reserved style. At first listen, Peter Fenn sounds like your average pop singer, without the distinct feel of ROC, but he blends R&B in the mix with songs like “Mona Lisa.” Once fans get accustomed to his specific style, they’ll be hooked.

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“July” - Grant Schaffer “Indigo Dreams” - Grant Schaffer “Get Yourself to Sleep” - Oscar Welsh “Avery” - Oscar Welsh “Nobody” - Peter Fenn “Mona Lisa” - Peter Fenn design Emily Seiler

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TASTES OF TIKTOK I love finding new recipes as much as anyone, but a lot of the recipes on TikTok only look edible at best. Every day I find myself scrolling past foods with ingredients I can’t begin to pronounce or videos of people dumping unknown ingredients

in a bowl, whisking them together and claiming to have discovered “the world’s easiest cake.” However, I decided to take advantage of my spare time and try a few of TikTok’s most popular recipes and foods.

Nature’s cereal

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2/5 After seeing Lizzo eat “Nature’s Cereal,” fruit, ice and coconut water, I absolutely needed to try it. I went to the store to buy all my favorite berries to try the viral dish.

However, I quickly found that it was not the meal for me. At all. It had so much potential–blackberries,strawberries and raspberries–but the coconut water ruined it all. Admittedly, I’m not the most qualified person to judge a dish with coconut water, because I don’t like

it. Overall, if you like coconut water and healthy snacks, you’ll love it. It makes the fruit super juicy and the ice makes it super refreshing, but don’t think that this’ll be the recipe that makes you love it. You’ll be disappointed.

Recipe: A handful of your favorite berries- I used blackberries, raspberries and strawberries 1 cup coconut water A handful of ice cubes

oreo cake 3/5 Many TikTok chefs claim that Oreos+ milk = chocolate cake, which seems a bit too simple to be true. I opted for a simple recipe that called for Oreos, milk and chocolate chips. It’s hard to go wrong with chocolate chips, but the texture of the cake was too dense. It was more thick than a typical chocolate cake and a little more spongy. The flavor was less rich but more sweet than a typical cake. Even though it was tasty, I would still choose

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a couple of Oreos in milk or a slice of chocolate cake over this recipe. Oreo mug cake is somehow the worst of both worlds.

Recipe: ¼ cup Oreo cookie crumbs-any kind but I used original 3 tbsp milk Microwave for 1-2 minutes in a microwave-safe mug

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Mug Mac ‘n’ cheese 5/5 -

Macaroni and cheese is about the hardest thing to mess up. Whether you fail an important test or get accepted into your dream college, macaroni and cheese has your back. That being said, I was really excited to try this three minute mug macaroni and cheese.

It only called for three ingredients: cheese, milk and noodles. It was super easy to make, quick to cook and relatively easy to clean up after. Overall,

it was gooey and delicious and gave Kraft macaroni a run for its money. I would definitely recommend this recipe to anyone.

Recipe: ½ cup dried pasta ½ cup water Microwave for 3-4 minutes Add 2 tbsp milk and ½ cup shredded cheese Microwave for 30 seconds

Feta pasta 5/5 I’ll admit that I was skeptical when I first saw all the people raving about TikTok’s new feta pasta recipe. In my defense, the way that the pasta “sauce” cooks—a large block of cheese surrounded by cherry tomatoes— doesn’t look all that appetizing.

I Googled a recipe for the famous TikTok feta pasta and there were a TON of different ways to make it. After seeing so many different takes on the dish, I decided to improvise a little. I took out the lemon juice but kept the garlic, red pepper flakes and thyme. Meanwhile, I boiled my favorite pasta. Slowly, my fear of the feta subsided.

My kitchen smelled like heaven and I was excited to try the pasta. I took the cheese and tomatoes out of the oven and mixed in the pasta.

It was creamy and rich, the perfect mix of sweet and savory. Overall, it only took about 45 minutes from start to finish and the flavor was top notch. I

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would definitely recommend this pasta to anyone, even if you don’t love feta.

Recipe: 1 box pasta of your choice (I used bowtie) ½ cup olive oil 1 block of feta cheese (any type–sheep feta melts best) 2 containers of cherry tomatoes 3 cloves of garlic, pressed 2 tsp basil (fresh is always best) 2 tsp Italian seasoning (optional) ½ tsp crushed red pepper (or to taste) Place the block of feta in the middle of a baking dish and surround with tomatoes.

Press garlic and sprinkle salt, red pepper and Italian seasoning over the top.

Bake for 30-40 minutes or until the tomatoes are mostly popped, then add basil to the top.

Boil your noodles to al dente and save ½ cup of pasta water Mix it up and enjoy!

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Going for goal’d Girls’ soccer finishes season strong, makes it to regional semifinals story Muna Nnamani

to have a great season and to stay focused through all of the chaos happening currently in our lives and in the world,” Both teams’ student sections were Hebert said. packed when the varsity girls soccer COVID-19 had taken away playoffs team played against the Flower Mound and the latter half of their last season, Jaguars on April 9. The Lady Marauders so they were determined to make up for had practiced endlessly because they what they missed. knew everything was on this game.

However, building team spirit was a It would determine whether they challenge. In previous years, athletes would advance to the state semifinals. were able to bond over bus rides and “We knew that this was going to be a team dinners, but this year, none of that total battle,” Assistant Coach Erin Hebert was possible. said.

“It definitely took a toll on just the

••• way we warm up, the way we do stuff,” Hebert said that while concentrating varsity member and senior Emma on the season during this year’s Lasater said. “And the little things that uncertainty was difficult, the team made you would think that [are] so customary sure to prioritize soccer. [we] couldn’t do anymore.”

“I just think the girls were determined Team bonding wasn’t the only challenge the team faced. Training was vigorous before the season started and only became more intense once they started playing again.

However, the players pushed through it because they had a goal in mind: the playoffs.

“We all just kind of agreed as a team, ‘We’re going to work our hardest because this is all or nothing, pretty much’,” Lasater said.

They practiced and watched opposing team footage to prepare, but the first stretch of the season Sophomore Bella Campos chases after the ball before stealing was rocky. While the it back for her team. Photo Brooke Luther team had some wins,

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they also had their fair share of ties and losses.

To advance to the playoffs, they needed to place in the top four teams in the district, but during that period, they were sixth. To turn their luck around, they knew they needed to work on changing their mentality.

“We have a little saying that ‘It’s just another team in our way,’” Lasater said.

“And so kind of just shifting our mindset from what’s happening to, ‘It’s just another team our way, just go out there and play like we know how to play.’”

The coaches encouraged them to focus on future games instead of dwelling on past ones, and on March 5, the team beat Hebron 1-0.

The victory turned into a month-long winning streak. The Lady Marauders advanced to play Lewisville, who they beat 5-0. Then Coppell, 2-1, Plano East, 5-1.

Because of the number of games they had lost before, they would have to win every game afterward to get a chance at playoffs.

“They knew, ‘This is either the end of our season, or we’re going to win this,’” varsity member and sophomore Maddie Reynolds said. “And then it’s like you can feel the energy coming off everyone.”

They advanced through teams until they had reached the regional quarterfinals, and then regional semifinals. With each team they beat, the student section at games became more crowded.

Lasater says that support from the school is what motivated the players to push themselves to their limits.

“When you have people cheering for you and you have people supporting you, it kind of just puts you in the game mode and makes you really focused,” Lasater said.

On April 6, the Marauders beat Keller

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Senior Leah Roulston attempts to score a goal during the game on April 6, which Marcus won 3-0 against the Keller Indians.

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High School 3-0, moving on to the regional finals against Flower Mound. If they won this game, they would advance to the state semifinals, and have a chance at the state championship.

They knew Flower Mound would be a challenging competitor, and there was tension because what stood between them and the state semifinals was a rival.

“You have the anticipation of how the game is going to go over, and you feel those nerves, but you’re also excited,” Reynolds said. “Because this is a good matchup, and you know it’s going to be a good game.”

••• After the game was over, the team came together in a huddle, and the coaches offered them encouragement.

They had lost 3-0.

“Right after the game, we gathered together and Coach Hobbs talked to the girls,” Hebert said. “And he let them know that even though the game didn’t go our way… he was so proud of them and all the success they had had this season. And that they needed to keep their heads up.”

The end of the game was bittersweet because the team had advanced farther than anyone had expected them to.

But their season was over. This was heightened by the fact that it was the

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seniors’ last game.

“I was devastated,” Reynolds said.

“Not only because we had lost, but I didn’t feel like I could have done my best for my team. I feel like we could have done better, and the seniors were leaving us. And all of this was hitting us at once.”

While the outcome wasn’t what they had hoped for, the team had much to celebrate.

“I think that us getting this far was an accomplishment in itself,” Lasater said.

Hebert says she is proud of the hard work the girls put into this season.

“They’re always lifting each other up,” Hebert said. “They never stopped going. They’re super tough, fierce and competitive against whichever opponent, whoever the opponent may be.”

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VICTORY LAP photos Brooke Luther Despite COVID challenges, our sports teams prevailed. Football won both the Battle of the Mound and Battle of the Axe and made playoffs. Baseball finished first in the district and won against IMG Academy at the Globe Life Field in February. Many track athletes beat their personal records at the Steve Telaneus Invitational held in honor of their late coach.

Junior Jake Duer cheers alongside senior Hunter Teplanszky after he catches the ball, which was hit by an IMG Academy player.

Senior Tyler Schott congratulates his teammate, senior Cade Bradford, on a perfect pitch that struck out an opposing IMG Academy player.

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My secret crush

Sidney Grennan . . . . . . Meghna Srinivas Cole Pulsipher . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Lilly Brock Susko . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elisa Sullens Toby Taylor . . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Andrew Poles . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Too many to name . . . Geremiah McLeod My boyfriend . . . . . . . .Cadence Comeaux Harman “the hotty” Strother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias Morgan Woodland . . . . . . Reece Bunnage The Keanu Reeves cutout . . .Madi Olivier Segun Oluwole . . . . . . .Rushil Gangisetty Gwen from “Total Drama Island” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Peyton Drew Alex Smith . . . . . . . . . . Collin Carpentier My girlfriend . . . . . . . . . . .Payton Newell The Weeknd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Naim Alibhai . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman NONE of y’all . . . . . . . . . .Ashton Norrell Karl Marx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler Eli Yap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelie Padilla Cade Doggett . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout

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Myself, I truly really love myself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Valeria Corona Jaelon Dennis, duh, I am Pretty Boy Jae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaelon Dennis Allie Crinklaw . . . . . . . . . . .Cole Pulsipher My crush is Raegan Tackett, but it isn’t a secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Matthew Hill Noah Lao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mari Kerby Harry Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shelby Oakes Greyson Gravitt . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Addie Nerius . . . . . . . . . . . . .Addie Nerius Myself! (Self love baby) . . .Jessica Dunlap Madeleine Felan . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Dion Aiden Lyons . . . . . . . .Annelise Sprayman Hannah Spear . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger Bold of you to assume I like people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Christina Sanchez Regan Weaver . . . . . . . . . . Katie Pendleton Chris Kirwan . . . . . . . . . . Sydney Moates Xoxo Gossip Girl . . . . . . Angela Abraham Reece Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maddi Robb Cole Dion . . . . . . . . . . . . Madeleine Felan

Never actually had one, I’m too open for secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maggie Moore Victoria Finklea . . . . . . . . . .Garrett Brady Preston Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . .Leah Roulston Too many . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Ria Chacko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tori Rees Oh no, no, he doesn’t even go here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford The men’s bathroom man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .McKenna Bump Myself. I’m a Leo . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko Justin Bieber . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza Chantel Jeffries . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick Draco Malfoy . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Fictional characters from books...hehe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Claire McDaniel Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nolan McCanna I’m not telling . . . . . . . . . . .Abigail Kubin Madison Beer . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman Porter P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith Makayla from Ma and Pa’s Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz

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WHAT I’LL MISS THE LEAST STAAR tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maryn Jones Stats Edgenuity . . . . . . . . Meghna Srinivas Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisa Sullens One-way hallways . . . . . . Abigail Kubin School itself . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Shamlin Having to put on my ID every morning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aislinn Davis The snobbiness of some of the students and the inability to fit in due to everyone having known each other for years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer STAAR testing . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona Obama school food . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher I will not miss the hot, stuffy classrooms and the cold cafeteria . . . . . Matthew Hill COVID rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Homework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby The cafeteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelby Oakes Prom because we never had it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Waking up at 7:30 . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap The high school environment is naturally very uncomfortable and stressful. It’s taught me a lot but I will not miss it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti The W Hall boys bathroom . . . Cole Dion Being on the verge of a mental breakdown . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman Math class . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger The early times I’d have to wake up to in the mornings . . . John Murphy Hours of homework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Sanchez Rude people in the hallways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Angela Abraham The strict rules about certain things . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb

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Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Being forced to socialize and come to school with little kids . . . . Maggie Moore Homework and tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Wearing IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier Waking up early . . . . . . Mathew Newman Social pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona Chun Homework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith

Being on the verge of a mental breakdown.

- Annelise Sprayman

Whenever any teacher said “I’ll wait” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Running to Hobby Lobby six times during Saturday rehearsals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford S Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko Four different lunches . . . . Maddie Garza The SAT/ACT . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Rude peers. . . . . . . . . . . . Claire McDaniel One-way hallways due to COVID!!!!!!!!!!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman Wearing masks . . . . . . . . . Ben Sunderman

Freezing in the classrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elise Hopkins Having to pay to park at my own school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz This entire senior year . . . Ashton Norrell Wearing an ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias Every single person that says they like chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler Awkwardly walking through the cafeteria to class during A lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Luther Taking the SAT over and over again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelie Padilla Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Develin Hamilton Homework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack School as a whole . . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin AP classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout Homework and tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod IDs and mean people . . . . Priscilla Serrato The bells . . . . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman Schoolwork and sitting in classrooms all day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Classes I don’t care about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payton Newell Exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collin Carpentier Homework and having to wake up early . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Drew Having no freedom . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole English class . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner Waking up at 5 to go to practice before school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaylyn King One way halls and ID badges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alec Farris Being chased by cockroaches in every hallway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier Walking in one-directional hallways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bunnage

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in 20 years ___ will be ___ Life will be wonderful . . . . . Maryn Jones Ben will still be in high school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Lilly Instagram will be overrated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisa Sullens High school will be a memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Andrew Poles will be my husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Aubrey Plaza will be my wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Soape

I hope that I will be graduated from college and have a family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collin Carpentier My friend and I will be opening a cafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Sanchez Allison Rook will still be bullying me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Pendleton Josh will be married to Aubrey Plaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick In 20 years, Matie Wolkow will be planning the biggest celebrity parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin

In 20 years there will definitely be flying monkeys.

- Maggie moore COVID will *hopefully* be gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer In 20 years, the 9th grade campus will be outdated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill Kaitlyn Williams will be extremely successful and rich . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Addie Nerius will still be awe-inspiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius Tori Petersheim will be the exact epitome of the Batman nurse in John Mulaney’s “New in Town” set . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap Maddie Felan will be super rich and successful and a neurosurgeon and win the Nobel prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Dion Colton Castaneda will be bald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman In 20 years COVID will be gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger In 20 years Marcus will be still a good school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Murphy Corona will be gone forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire McDaniel

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Social media will be what dictates everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb Matthew Hill will be president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier In 20 years there will definitely be flying monkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore I will be successful . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady Lauren R will be pregnant with her 10th kid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston I will be successful . . . . Geremiah McLeod Shayda Tabari will be the biggest soccer mom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Joshua Soape will be the next Eminem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford Mr. Howard will be married and with kids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko In 20 years Kanye will be on my contact list . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman My boyfriend will be my husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux My car will be dead . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin Cash will be obsolete . . . . . . Aislinn Davis

In 20 years Alex Warren will be the president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith Maddie Davenport will be a heart surgeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz Lauren Robison will be Irish dancing her way through life . . . . . . . . . Emma Lasater Cole Dion will be my husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madeleine Felan Maya will be living on a communal farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Luther Brooke will be wildly successful and rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya Hernandez Owen Shaw will be a professional diver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brayden Canole America will be in ruins. Or a zombie apocalypse . . . . . . . . . . . . Develin Hamilton Marcus will have one of the best athletes at the school ever . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack COVID-19 will be taught in history classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout Marcus High School will be winning a state title in sports . . . . Geremiah McLeod Mrs. Karbs will be my maid of honor at my wedding . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman In 20 years COVID will be over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza AOC will be president of the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Voldemort will be still dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payton Newell I will be making sure goth IHOP becomes real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Drew Grayson Turner will be rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole My brother will be still single . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner My current problems will be unimportant to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaylyn King Matthew Hill will be president (of what, I don’t know) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alec Farris Ian Farrar will be a billionaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Will Vasquez will be a bodybuilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bannage Colby Rohr will be pitching double-a baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias

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In 20 years I will be ____ An animator . . . . . . . . . . Meghna Srinivas Successful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Lilly Working my dream job as a NICU/ Peds nurse in California or Florida and married to an NBA player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisa Sullens Married with kids . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Married to Andrew Poles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari A mother and a nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux Air Force General . . . . . Anthony Shamlin As far away from Flower Mound as possible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aislinn Davis Likely traveling in China or South Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer Successful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona A multi-millionaire if not close to a billionaire with a successful fashion business, living in my lavish mansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaelon Dennis I’ll be traveling across the world taking the million dollar photos...Cole Pulsipher I will be the President of the United States of America . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill Happy with a family of my own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt A makeup artist . . . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby Writing and publishing a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Married to a rich man or dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius Teaching choir! Hopefully with a house with a big library to go home to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap Happy. That’s the goal isn’t it? I can’t say where I’ll be for sure but I’m going to make sure that I go there with a smile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti In space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Dion Happy and married to Eli Messick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman Raising my kids with my husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger Hopefully a Special Education Teacher/ School Counselor in Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Murphy Not living in Texas . . . . Christina Sanchez

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Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Pendleton 38 and have a job . . . . . . . Angela Abraham Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Pendleton 38 probably . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Soape Married with kids and a degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb Wiping my kids’ butts and living the life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore

Homeless, in prison or in Oregon.

- ria chacko Famous and rich . . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston An NBA player or sports agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod An astronaut . . . . . . . . . . Mathew Newman An engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona Chun A stay-at-home mom with a rich husband in a house with a white picket fence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Writing my second feature film with my very own team . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford Not attending the reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKenna Bump Homeless, in prison or in Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko Married with kids . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza Living on Mars probably . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick An occupational therapist for the military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Most likely a nurse, married, owning a cute house and carrying out possible business plans . . . . . . . . . . Claire McDaniel An aeronautical engineer working for one of the big aerospace corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna

A successful lawyer . . . . . Angelie Padilla A successful engineer living on my 1000acre ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin On a yacht with Kanye talking about his albums . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman A traveling real estate agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elise Hopkins A pediatrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith A Ma and Pa’s employee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz In a classroom, teaching Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Lasater Studying neurological disorders in humans and animals . . . Madeleine Felan Fulfilling my dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah Mcleod A nurse, hopefully . . . . Cadence Comeaux A Soundcloud rapper . . . . . . . . Chris Elias A dad and chiropractor . . . Reece Bannage Still tired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier A cardiothoracic surgeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Hung up on the one that got away, Stephen Ranieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Farrar An aerospace engineer . . . . Evan Cavalier Head of my own company . . . Alec Farris Living a great life . . . . . . . . . . Kaylyn King A mechanical engineer making six figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole A pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt In debt due to college . . . . . . Peyton Drew Graduated from college with three kids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Collin Carpentier An animator doing concept art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payton Newell Traveling the world and having a successful career . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Probably alone with a bunch of dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priscilla Serrato Working in a corporate law firm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashton Norrell Hopefully financially stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya Hernandez Hopefully retired $$$ . . . Brayden Canole Driving the same car . . . . . . . . Will Irwin Married, a mother, wealthy, hopefully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout

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The best thing I learned How physics works . . . . . . . . Maryn Jones How to multitask by being on TikTok, Edgenuity and Netflix all at once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meghna Srinivas Be yourself because people appreciate you more when you’re real with them and not fake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisa Sullens How minds work in psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Don’t fall in love with someone a year younger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Never give up . . . . . . . . . Anthony Shamlin School is awful unless you take time to enjoy the small things . . . . .Aislinn Davis High school isn’t about being better than anyone, it’s about surviving through whatever gets thrown at you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer Senior year you realize who your friends are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona To never take no for an answer and to always fight for what you want because it can happen. There will always be bigger opportunities waiting for you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaelon Dennis Live in the moment . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher The best thing I learned is that standing alone on matters of consciousness is hard, and that while giving in to groupthink is easy because of pressure, you can hold your head high and never have to look over your shoulder if you do what is right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill Connect with everyone and being friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt How to deal with high school boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby Cherish every memory . . . .Shelby Oakes I can do a lot better in school than I ever expected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Though people may not help in the way you need, and even make it worse than what makes you happy, be it One Direction or anything else, it is still enough to save your life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius Success is arbitrary, what matters most to you may not matter a lot to others. We all have different goals and aspirations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap

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No one and nothing can make you happy, you need to find that within yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti How to use Brainly and Quizlet like a G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman How to find true friends, and I learned who I truly am . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger To really enjoy taking the time to do things because things definitely speed up in life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Murphy Group punishment is a war crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Sanchez IMPROVEMENT IS KEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Abraham It is not that hard to get to the roof if you really want to . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Soape Friends don’t always stick around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb The best things I’ve learned in high school weren’t academic, they were all about people, social skills, respect, self worth and also realizing my own potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore Hard work always pays off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady Things that will help me for my future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod To try my best and move on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona Chun To not care what others think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Just wait until everyone leaves the parking lot to pull out of your senior spot. Everyone is mad, they will hit you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford “High School Musical” isn’t accurate AT ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKenna Bump Always trust your gut . . . . Maddie Garza Respecting those around me is integral to a good learning environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick A small circle of good friends is better than a big circle of bad friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Learning is a lifelong process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna Quizlet is your best friend!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin If you ain’t first, you’re last . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman

Cherish every single moment of every single day!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith Time management . . . . . . . Emma Lasater Voicing my opinions doesn’t mean that I’m aggressive, even if society thinks that women should be silent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler To wait until the end of passing period before leaving . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Luther Success is measured in so many different ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelie Padilla Economics. Not all people are bad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Develin Hamilton Not to take life so serious and just to have fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack I still can’t add and subtract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin Be nice to everyone, you never know what someone is going through or how it can affect you in the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout To push through the struggle to end up with great results . . . . Geremiah McLeod That I shouldn’t care what anyone thinks because I won’t remember them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priscilla Serrato Hibernation does not actually mean animals take a four month nap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman Don’t worry about what other people think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull How to talk to people...Collin Carpentier Operation paperclip, it’s wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Drew Connecting with everyone even though we’re all different . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Anyone can be a leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole How to rely on my friends and how to use my confidence . . . . . Grayson Turner Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier These four years go by very, very quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Nose piercings solve everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier Life skills and responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bannage How to efficiently use Sparknotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . Mathew Newman

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Most embarrassing moment Manzy asking Riley to hoco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Lilly Having my poster for the varsity basketball team my freshman year ripped in half . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisa Sullens When I fell back in my chair in the middle of a silent class . . . . . . .Macy Krupovage Fights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Shamlin I broke down into tears on stage during theatre because I was stressed, but the class thought it was because of our assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer I walked into the boys bathroom my first day of senior year on accident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona I got secondhand embarrassment watching my dear friend, Emma Angerauer, trip down the W Hall stairs freshman year . . . . . . . . . . . Angelie Padilla Wearing my jorts to school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher It was not publicly embarrassing, thankfully, but getting lost in the S Hall and walking in circles after being at the same school for four years is discouraging . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill 4x400 relay. I dropped the baton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Tripping and falling in the hallway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Tripping in front of the judges at my AcDec state competition . . . Abby Seeger I don’t feel embarrassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius First day of freshman year I was going down the W Hall stairs and I tripped...

I fell down three steps and landed on a very tall, very scary looking senior boy... great start to high school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap When I was jumping a hurdle and I fell right on my butt . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack Falling up the stairs on a daily basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones

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Falling up and down the stairs, in front of everyone, multiple times a school year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout It’s high school, every time you walk down a hallway as a freshman you feel embarrassed . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti When my teacher tried to set me up with a kid two years younger than me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman Too many of them . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger Getting wheelchaired to the nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sydney Moates Just Dance in AP Humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Abraham Going down the W Hall stairs only to find a puddle at the bottom and slipping then ramming myself face into the wall and turning to look down the hall to concerned faces full of judgement, but I didn’t fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Luther Dressing up as Buddy The Elf but I’d do it again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Soape Getting hit by the boys D Hall bathroom.

I knew the kid and it was his birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb My friends singing me happy birthday in the commons . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady Losing in the state championship my freshman year #mmfcg #awkward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston Dancing in basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Pooped myself in first grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathew Newman Tripping up the stairs at least once a month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees I walked around an entire day with chocolate on the back of my jeans and nobody said anything . . . .Haley Lawford Messing up the lyrics to the national anthem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko Having to stand in for Finn during Seussical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick All of it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire McDaniel

Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna When I accidentally spilled some water and someone slipped later on, so I just walked away like I didn’t even know what happened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman Throwing up at a basketball game freshman year . . . . . . . . . . . . Elise Hopkins Doing the “We Believe” chant and nobody saying it back . . . . . . . Alex Smith Getting slapped in the face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashton Norrell Falling down the 9th grade campus stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler I dropped a cup of water and it spilled down the stairs in the back of W Hall.

I ran away because class was about to start. So sorry to anyone who might’ve slipped <3 . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya Hernandez Presentations in front of class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Falling up the stairs, causing others to trip as well . . . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman Whenever someone would talk to me that I didn’t really know my face would always turn super red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collin Carpentier All of freshman year . . . . . . .Peyton Drew Kiss cam sophomore year at the football game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt My teacher had my iPad, and when they were trying to switch apps, they saw my camera roll opened to my album dedicated to anime cat girls . . . .Ian Farrar Poetry slam in ninth grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Falling up the B Hall stairs in front of half the football team :( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier Freshman year awkwardness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bannage Falling down the stairs after leg day at the gym . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias

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Friend I’ll miss the most and why I have a lot of friends I’ll miss because they have been there for me during hard times, and they are fun to hang around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maryn Jones All of them because I got super close with a lot of friends . . . . . . . . Austin Lilly Sophia Dooley. We always had the best locker room hype and our best conversations during athletic training treatment during track . . . . . Elisa Sullens Andrew Poles because I love him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Katrina Voight. We recently became friends and got really close fast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux Dillon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Shamlin All of them. How would I not miss the people that made high school a notable time in my life? . . . . . . . . . . Aislinn Davis Kate Ontiveroz — she wasn’t rude towards me when I first came, and she was always very understanding and caring. She never held anything back and always told the truth . . . Jeseil Retzer Anabella Garcia. She changed my experience at Marcus for the better. I’m forever grateful for her . . . Jaelon Dennis Dallin Felt because he’s always been there . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher I will miss Will Teeters the most for having such an appreciation for my four-hour-long board game, “Star Wars: Rebellion,” and for always being willing to talk, as well as listen to my rants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill

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Caelyn Edinburgh . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby Jordan Dusckas. We’ve been friends for 10 years and we are going to college nine hours away from each other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelby Oakes All of them because they are all family to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod

Nat, she always brings the good out of me.

- Maddie Garza Annelise Sprayman because she lights up my life and so many others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Shelby Davis cause she is always there when I need her and can always make me smile. Also she’s just a fantastic girl and I can’t wait to see what comes now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius Emily Kane, she’s been my best friend for years, and I don’t know how I’ll function without her . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap Nathaniel Erichson . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier

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Elise because we’ve been close since 7th grade and it’s gonna be hard going to school without her next year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady Sadie Shorter because she always makes me laugh during the rough times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaylyn King Jack McConnell . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole

None of y’all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko Morgan Woodland because we hang out a lot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bannage I will miss Ryan Lassahn the most. Most know him because he runs through the hallways from class to class, but he is the most genuine kind hearted person I know. He puts a smile on the face of every person he talks to, and is always full of joy while doing so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore Jack Shurtleff . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack

Downstairs W Hall door because it’s my mosy loyal door to leave out of.

- McKenna Bump Nat, she always brings the good out of me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza So many amazing people have helped me find my way. I don’t think I could name just one . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti Victoria Finklea because we always understand each other and love to know everything about each other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout Jack Shurtleff . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack Morgan Woodland and Abby Seeger because they have helped me see myself as I should . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman Hannah Spear because she has become my person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger My friend Abby as she has always been there for me since the beginning of our friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Murphy Vi Ngo, she’s a freshman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Sanchez Jasmine Alvarez because she makes me smile and keeps my life interesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Pendleton Fiona Chun, she is my business partner! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Abraham Angela, she’s my business partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona Chun Abby Wright she makes golf fun and interesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb Alex Warren because she’s going to Miami . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz Piper Hemperly because we are the same person, and she laughs at all my jokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Lasater

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Lauren, Emma, Alyssa and Kelly because they are my bffs . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston All the ones I have or had because everyone is family . . . . Geremiah McLeod Zoe Mertz because she’s been my close friend for almost seven years now, and I don’t know how I’m going to live being a few states away from her . . . . Tori Rees Molly and Shane, you had to be there . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin Erin Mylett, she always walks with me to class and tells me all her embarrassing stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford Downstairs W Hall door because it’s my most loyal door to leave out of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKenna Bump Josh and Finn because they are some pretty cool dudes . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick Most of my friends already graduated in December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Halle Blount because we will be in different places and won’t be able to see each other a bunch . . . . Claire McDaniel Cade Nelson. He is a great guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna Matie, Amelia and Mickey for all the fun times we’ve had together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin Caleb Moudy became my best friend, and a brother to me throughout high school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman Garrett Brady because we have been best friends since 7th grade, and it will be crazy to be separated . . . . . Elise Hopkins

All of them because they helped me survive high school . . . . . . . . . .Chris Elias Marley Sternberg. She is my person and brings me the most happiness out of anyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith Maya and Milena; they are my best friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madeleine Felan Dylan Bathish because he’s funny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashton Norrell Madi Olivier because she’s my only friend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler Emily Seiler because she fuels my ego and insecurities simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier Christina Sanchez . . . . . Maya Hernandez Jonathan Liles, he’s the only friend I get to see in school . . . . . . . . . Brayden Canole Allie Herrera because she is the only person who is my height so she makes me feel tall . . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman Nick Delamarter because he’s a baddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull All of them because they made me who I am today . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Collin Carpentier Josh, because I like messing with him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Drew Carson Boyd. I’ve had some of the best moments with him . . . . . .Grayson Turner

All of them because they helped me survive high school.

- chris elias Ian because he’s “quirky” . . . . Alec Farris Stephen Ranieri because he is tall, dark, handsome and smart . . . . . . . . Ian Farrar Noah Kuzmich . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Katrina Voight because she’s a junior and isn’t graduating with me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux Brenda Jaimes. She is my best friend, so I don’t think she’s going anywhere, but I’ll miss the school memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priscilla Serrato

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editor in chief managing editor madi olivier tara Connick

the marquee staff

sophia craig

shriya mukkavilli

muna nnamani

garrison acree

maya hernandez

emily seiler

amber luther

hyunsung na

vaibhav sridhar

alex thornfelt

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like mother, like daughter

column Madi Olivier

My mother glared at me from across the kitchen.

It was the same look she’s given me since I was little — the one that allowed her to tell me exactly how she felt about me pinching my twin sister in the middle of the grocery store without saying having to say a word.

If looks could kill, this column would be my obituary.

I had told her that I wanted to go to Black Lives Matter protests, immediately leading her down a path of worst-case scenarios that ended with me either arrested or injured.

I knew what was coming next — a lecture telling me not to get myself killed in college because I don’t know

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how to shut up.

I’ve always had strong opinions supporting social justice, but when the Black Lives Matter movement gained traction a year ago, I realized my privilege outweighed my shyness and I had to use it to actually fight for change. Suddenly, I was trying to talk about everything from feminism to immigration and LGBTQ+ rights with anybody who would listen.

It terrified my mom, making this argument a weekly occurrence. But every time she glared at me, I could see her trying to hide a smile, because it was like she was looking at herself.

I am a carbon copy of my mother, who is one of my biggest idols. It’s not so much about physical appearance, but more so the way that we exist as people.

We are both loud and talkative with a dry sense of humor. But more importantly, we are both angry about injustice and refuse to be silent about it.

As much as my mom wishes I’d choose any other trait to steal from her, she’s the one who taught me to find my voice in the first place.

I used to be quiet and never stood up for herself, and my mom spent my childhood trying to change that. It was like a switch was flipped my sophomore year of high school.

I was suddenly old enough to see the injustices of the world, especially as a smaller female with Persian roots and an interest in journalism. While it was clear on a large scale, I began to see these breaks in justice in my own classes and

on social media.

Suddenly, everything my mother had been trying to teach me made sense.

When faced with injustice, many people stay silent, and I was often expected to do the same; as a five-foot girl with a high pitched voice and energetic persona, I don’t blame people for assuming I would turn a blind eye to racism and sexism.

These expectations are exactly what my mom, who shares my energetic persona, was preparing me for. She made sure I could find my voice and break the silence when the time came.

I now like to believe that I have embraced her lessons to become a strong woman. Although I am still learning, I do my best to stand up for myself and others when I see injustice, whether it be against a male classmate who continues to touch my shoulder after I tell him it makes me uncomfortable or a classmate who left Islamophobic comments on Instagram.

The most difficult instance was taking a stand against my grandmother, who always preferred me over my sister and mother because I have pale skin, while theirs is darker. However, my mom supported me when I decided to write about it in The Marquee.

Although my mother and I have our differences, I could never express enough gratitude for the strength she taught me in the last 17 years. I hope that when I go to college, I am able to take this piece of my mom — the woman I always wanted to be like when I grew up — with me to stare injustice in the eye.

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signing off

Herding two of my classmates through the main campus hallways we had never explored would have made any morning stressful, but adding the task of walking into the newsroom made it almost unbearable. I was terrified. I couldn’t stop contemplating what they would think of me.

What if my application was rejected?

What if I wasn’t talented enough? What if they didn’t like me?

If only 14-year-old me knew that what I was so anxious about that morning would end up being the best decision of my entire high school career.

If only I knew that at 15 I would attend my first week of summer training and fall absolutely in love with photography

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and spend the next three years on sidelines, in stadiums and on stages. That the senior with pink hair that seemed so intimidating on my first day of class would become my mentor and introduce me to the world of graphic design.

That one day complaining about not wanting to learn design would be funny because now it’s not only a passion project but a job and possible career.

That the two girls I sat next to would become some of my best friends for the next few years.

If only I knew that at 16 I would become the publication’s design editor.

That I would consider staff to be my family and form unbreakable bonds. The shy girl who sat in the corner during my first year on staff would eventually open up to me, and we’d stay to work on the paper until it was dark outside everyday.

That all of the extra time in front of the computer would pay off, and I’d win one of the highest awards I could.

If only I knew that at 17 I’d be going into my third year on staff as managing editor. That the idea of having to walk out of C108 for the last time in a few short weeks was already a heartbreaking thought.

Many of the people I considered family either graduated, left staff, or have been stuck at home because of a pandemic. I’d have to find a way for staff to become a family again, make a fantastic paper, and stay organized completely online; the long hours spent making the transition would

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be exhausting. But none of that matters to me; now I have hope because although it once seemed like just another class, newspaper ended up meaning so much more than that to me.

It’s made me believe that even in the tough times, late nights and seemingly unwinnable situations, it’s important to take a step back, take a breath and have some fun. It’s made me grow into a content optimist after walking in as a confused, scarred little girl. When I joined I dreaded going to college, thinking that it would just be more nights spent unhappy because class and work and life can be way too overwhelming. Now I’m excited to find a new hobby and explore a city with new friends. I used to be scared to grow up, but now I know that even if things don’t go according to plan — or if there is no plan — everything always works itself out and that if it doesn’t, it’ll at least make a great story.

If only I knew that the decision to fill out a single piece of paper would help me in so many ways, I don’t think I would have been so scared. The late night Zoom calls, countless iced coffees, new traditions and genuine happiness that that piece of paper would bring me would cancel out the stress, burnout and fear that almost defined my high school experience. I wish that 14-year-old me knew that change doesn’t always have to be scary because sometimes all it takes is one stressful day to start the best years of your life.

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Teacher I’ll miss the most and why Professor Sultanov because I connected with her during class . . . . . . Maryn Jones Mrs. Reyburn because she was really nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Lilly Mr. Kelly because he always put on the best lectures and class . . . . . . Elisa Sullens Mr. Poe because he was my favorite teacher ever . . . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Ms. Courtney because she is pregnant and cool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Mrs. Stone she kept me on my toes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Shamlin Mr. Osborne, because he made nothing feel impossible. He would always create an environment that everyone felt comfortable in . . . . . . . . . . . Aislinn Davis Mr. Davis — he isn’t judgmental towards me. Instead he’s understanding and works really hard to see growth in his students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer All my teachers were very sweet. I’ll miss them all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona Mrs. Murdock! She was so nice and had a great fashion sense. She deserves a raise !!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaelon Dennis Henderson because he’s just a funny guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher Mrs. Walta and Mr. Pike, because they not only taught me how to be a better student but they also helped me learn to love myself and keep my head up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman

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I will miss Mr. Kelly the most because his lectures were informative and interesting, and his mannerisms were hysterical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill Jacque Felan because her class is the coolest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Dion Ms. Dack because she has taught me so much more than she even knows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger Reyburn, she’s awesome . . . . . Dallin Felt Ms. McLeod because she was very understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby Mr. Ramirez . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty

Mrs. House. She a real one . . . . Will Irwin Mr. Poe... best teacher ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston Really, I feel that all of my teachers I will miss, but to choose one would have to be Mrs. Varin, as she was just super amazing with helping me understand the material and keeping things positive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Murphy Mrs. England — she’s really funny and welcoming and it’s really easy to talk to her and ask questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Sanchez

Mr. Ramirez because of his cheesy science jokes.

- Fiona Chun Mrs. Regent she makes my day every day and makes me laugh, and Mrs. Schwolert she’s helped me through so much . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelby Oakes Mr. Pike and Mrs. Walta because I’ve never met a teacher that cares more than them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Mrs. Jacquess, my middle school theater teacher, cause she always made me excited to learn and I always had fun in her class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius Mr. Howard, he’s helped me through a lot and is the reason I’m going into music education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap Mr. Ramirez, he’s one of the only teachers I’ve ever had who is straight with me.

He isn’t afraid to be honest with us. His class is challenging but fair and it always seems like he’s trying to give us all he can to set us up for the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti Mrs. Felan because she made my junior the best ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady

Mrs. Dirks she was and awesome who made the class fun in a tough time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb Mrs. Santos she is my fav person ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Pendleton Magistra because love of my life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sydney Moates Mrs. Walta! She’s an awesome teacher and mentor! . . . . . . . . . . Angela Abraham The humanities teachers, they’re all G’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Soape I’ll definitely miss Mr. Aquino the most, because he is the coolest man ever. He really taught Spanish like no other teacher I’ve ever seen. I’ll definitely remember him as the best teacher to EVER exist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore Mrs. Yonis because she makes learning fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Mr. Bohnsack. He was weird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathew Newman Mr. Ramirez because of his cheesy science jokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona Chun

Mr. Ramirez because he always says hi and brightens the days of many . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bannage Mr. Howard because he always knows how to make us laugh, and tells us what we need to hear to become better versions of ourselves . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Mrs. Brininstool, she really pushed me to be a better writer, and she’s the first teacher who made me feel like I was growing in ability . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford Poe because he cares about us as people rather than numbers . . . . McKenna Bump Mrs. Freeman — she was very genuine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko Mr. Ramirez . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Sunderman Mrs. Strauss . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza Every Humanities teacher because they are the best at what they do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick Mr. Hale, he was the first teacher to be nice to me when I moved to Marcus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Mrs. Lawrence, she was one of my favorite teachers. I love how real she is and she’s just a nice person in general.

She’s who I aspire to be like when I’m older . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire McDaniel Coach Farris, Coach Gabel, Sra. Taylor, Mrs. Kirby, Mrs. Dodson, Mrs. Murdock; because they are great teachers and are also very supportive . . . . Nolan McCanna Mr. Osborne for his jokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin Mr. Aquino. Most funny, creative teacher I’ve met . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman Mrs. Walta: She has helped me through her class, other classes, and has always been somebody I can come to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith Coach Miller because she always saw the best in me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Lasater Mr. Crump because he was very detailed in his teaching . . . . . . . Geremiah Mcleod Mrs. Stone and Coach Baker. They are fun teachers! . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux Mrs. Felan because she always made class fun and interesting . . . . . Chris Elias

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Mrs. Wilson because she was able to put up with our class . . . . . . . Ashton Norrell Hutley. She’s so cool . . . . Maya Hernandez Hale — they can fight to decide which one I’m talking about . . . . . . Madi Olivier Mr. Ramirez because he is cool and physics is cool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Farrar Chief Salinas . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier Mrs. Forthun because she was super nice to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaylyn King Mr. Pike/Mr. Ramirez. They both have made class so much fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner Ms. Hutley because she was very nice and a great chemistry teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole Reyburn because she is the most kind and awesome teacher . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Mrs. Petfkoff. She’s chill . . . Peyton Drew Coach Wales and Coach Reinberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collin Carpentier All of them because I like all of them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payton Newell Coach Lawrence because he was fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Mr. Kelly. He is the teacher I can always joke around with and give a hard time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman Mr. Crump because he tried his best to make sure he didn’t stress out his students, and he’s a great person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout Mr. Ramirez and his fun intensity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alec Farris Mrs. House because she always wanted the best for me and always put a smile on our faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack Mrs. Varin, Mrs. Gabel, and Coach Able . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Develin Hamilton Mrs. Felan, because she’s the GOAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brayden Carole Mrs. Forthun, she’s a very kind teacher and she even wrote me a letter of recommendation for UC Berkeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelie Padilla Mrs. England. She tells it how it is but in a nice way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Luther

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What I’ll miss the most Everything . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux Going to nurse pretending I was sick so I could go home . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias Seeing people every day because it’s good to socialize with people your age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bunnage Staying in the newsroom until Hale kicks me out . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier All the shots I don’t take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Football games . . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza Stephen Ranieri . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Farrar R.O.T.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier Hangin’ in class with friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alec Farris The swim team . . . . . . . . . . Kaylyn King Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole Football and basketball games. Track and field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Free Adobe products . . . . Brooke Luther Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Drew The opportunities I missed for being so quiet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collin Carpentier Making my teachers mad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payton Newell Football games . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Having my cry pillow in Mrs. Karbs room . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman Leaving class adventures or sleeping in class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priscilla Serrato My friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maryn Jones My AP Physics C class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meghna Srinivas Having lunch with my friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisa Sullens The routine . . . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Andrew Poles . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Shamlin I’m gonna miss seeing everyone that I grew up with every day. It’s such a big change happening all at once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aislinn Davis Being a kid . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius

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Tossing flags with my freshmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer The iPads . . . . . . . . . . . Mathew Newman Those mashed potato bowls in the cafeteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona Walking the hallways with my friends and looking amazing. . . . . . Jaelon Dennis Going to all sporting events and yelling at the other team. . . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher I will miss the relative ease of a high school workload when compared to college and a professional career beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill Student section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt My friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby Walking with friends during passing period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelby Oakes Academic Decathlon . . . . . . .Abby Seeger Dually Noted . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap Every time I could get someone to smile from something I said at the wrong time always made me happy. I live for that kind of thing . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti Seeing everyone in class every day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Dion The teachers . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman Feeling like a kid and seeing all of my friends in the commons, the pep rallies, the football games, classes with friends, all of it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger The daily routine and energy in the halls between classes . . . . . . . . . . .John Murphy Spirit days and Dually Noted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Petersheim Eating lunch with friends every day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Sanchez Getting 5 on all my AP tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sydney Moates Staying after school waiting for my ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Abraham Lunch with the boys . . . . . . Joshua Soape My teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb The Marcus football games, and our strong school spirit . . . . . . Maggie Moore Pep rallies/games . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady MMFCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston

Everything . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Staying after school . . . . . . . . Fiona Chun The adrenaline rush whenever the lady that quarantines people walks in the class you’re in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Taking pictures at thespian meetings and getting to meet all the new members who worked up the courage to finally attend a meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford Getting scolded by adults I don’t know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKenna Bump Football games . . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick Having a normal senior year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Being able to socialize with people around my age every day. There’s a lot of opportunities to make friends with other people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire McDaniel The golf team . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna Softball season and having fun with my team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin My friends, homecoming, football games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elise Hopkins All of the people I have met in the past four years!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith Mason Patterson (famous TikToker) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz The girls in MMFCG . . . . . . Emma Lasater The swim/water polo team . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madeleine Felan Sophomore geometry, 4th period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashton Norrell Newspaperians . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler Free Adobe products . . . Maya Hernandez Constantly meeting so many fun people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelie Padilla The Marcus athletics programs. Soccer and baseball should have won state last year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brayden Canole Seeing my friends in class and just always having something to do . . Brennan Stack Doing nothing in class then doing all my work for the semester in one week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin Having minor responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout

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What got me in the most trouble Skipping class every day . . . . Austin Lilly The ID because I forgot it ONE TIME freshman year . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Talking to Andrew Poles during class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Fights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Anthony Shamlin Not wearing my ID . . . . . . . Aislinn Davis My love of freedom . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer Skipping class . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona Was probably my short temper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaelon Dennis Not wearing my mask or sitting on the “X” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher The ONLY thing that got me in “trouble” at school was talking when I should not have been talking . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill Not social distancing . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Being dress coded . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby Spending too much time on homework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger My confidence . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius My inability to shut up. You would think that eventually I would learn to keep quiet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Passaniti Napping . . . . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman My inability to be on time . . .Riley Berger Teachers not understanding sarcasm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katie Pendleton Vaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sydney Moates I forgot my ID! . . . . . . . . Angela Abraham Sneaking into the auditorium to make memes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Soape I guess talking in one class. I was a good kid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb Vaping freshman year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz

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Trying to get away with not buying a parking ticket until the AP caught me at my car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore Talking to my friends while in the front row of a football game . . . . Leah Roulston Standing around in the commons with friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Being late to morning rehearsals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford Having opinions . . . . . . . McKenna Bump Sleeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko Nat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza Doing my job in Marcus Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick Zoning out in class . . . . . . . Rebecca Jones Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna Having too many absences sophomore year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin Not wearing my ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman Social media #iykyk . . . . . . . . Alex Smith My friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Lasater Our entire class made a sub quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashton Norrell My loud mouth . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler Wearing a tank top that fit the dress code but was deemed “too strappy” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelie Padilla Not listening to my mom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brayden Canole Not being on time to school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack I wrote a rude email to a teacher and she didn’t like it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin Procrastination . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout

Having a locker in the locker room since 10th grade without even being in gym class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priscilla Serrato Leaving a study hall in soccer to get Chick-fil-A and getting chased down by security in the parking lot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morgan Zimmerman Talking in class until I get yelled at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Hiding a speaker in my teacher’s desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payton Newell My own teachers . . . . . Collin Carpentier Not wearing my mask above my nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Using the bathroom for long periods during class . . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner Showing up late to morning practice with Coach Shannon . . . . . . Kaylyn King Yelling too loud in class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Sunderman Playing Among Us . . . . . . . . . . Alec Farris ID infractions . . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier Nothing; I am a perfect being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian Farrar Talking to a friend in the hallway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Swearing during newspaper meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier Walking around during lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bannage Sat upstairs for lunch freshman year and got ISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias Being in the same class with people you aren’t friends with any more and your ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux

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___ is most likely to ___ Alex Thornfelt is most likely to be the best designer that The Marquee’s ever seen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tara Connick Antara is most likely to succeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maryn Jones Ian Farrar is most likely to become a dictator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meghna Srinivas Hannah Spear is most likely to be my maid of honor . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Berger

I am most likely to binge watch anime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby Geremiah is most likely to have faith and confidence and all things he does . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod Annalise Nevitt is most likely to go her whole life without getting her driver’s license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout

Naim Alibhai is most likely to hack me in Bulldog Bytes.

- Olivia Stankiewicz Brenda Jaimes-Alonso is most likely to become rich or have eight husbands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Priscilla Serrato Cale Martens is most likely to go to the NBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisa Sullens Macy Krupovage is most likely to sing in the middle of a sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Andrew Poles is most likely to be my husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Anna Nunley is most likely to become more trusting of herself and her heart after this year . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer Jaelon Dennis is most likely to end up a model or with a fashion empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaelon Dennis Will Rogers is most likely to be a millionaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher Cole Dion is most likely to marry Maddie Felan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Hill Raegan Tackett is most like to win a gold medal in the Olympics . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Garrett Nussmeier is most likely to get drafted to the Cowboys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashton Norrell

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Kaitlyn Williams is most likely to become valedictorian . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Brooke and Amber Luther are most likely to become the twins from “The Shining” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier Addie Nerius is most likely to build a shrine to herself . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius Caroline Miles is most likely to become president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Garza Nicole Frenzel is most likely to always be my school mom. ILY . . . McKenna Bump Sidney Grenan is most likely to marry a 4 foot tall horse jockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annelise Sprayman Abby Collinsworth is most likely to succeed at whatever she wishes to do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Murphy Christina is most likely to say some questionable things . . . Christina Sanchez Katie Pendleton is most likely to have a crush on every guy in our senior class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sydney Moates Matthew Hill is most likely to be President of the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin

Alana Thomson is most likely to work for NASA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb Nolan Dobson is most likely to get in another fight with two sharks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore Emma Lasater is most likely to become a trophy wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston Cadence is most likely to become a nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cadence Comeaux J. Mike is most likely to be an NFL football player . . . . . . . .Mathew Newman Zoe Mertz is most likely to climb Mount Everest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tori Rees Doris Olenkiewicz is most likely to be the next Speaker of the House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford Caleb Moudy is most likely to sleep with his socks on . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman Naim Alibhai is most likely to hack me in Bulldog Bytes . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz Allie Herrera is most likely to be the richest out of my friend group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Lasater John Hamilton is most likely to succeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Develin Hamilton Garrett Nussmeier is most likely to go into the NFL . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack Will Irwin is most likely to leave Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin Tori Rees is most likely to become a famous singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull Peyton is most likely to cause the downfall of McDonalds . . . . Peyton Drew Ian Farrar is most likely to be successful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole Ryan Ordini is most likely to become a car salesman . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner Matthew Hill is most likely to become president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evan Cavalier Pranav Sridhar is most likely to be rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty Alec Farris is most likely to be financially stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reece Bannage Chris Elias is most likely to be a beast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Elias

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The Marquee to Sophia Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Olivier Marcus to go to college . . . . Maryn Jones My love to Andrew Poles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shayda Tabari Having an actual senior year to every grade below us . . . . . . . . . . . Aislinn Davis All of my love to my underclassmen who I hope have learned something from me this last year I’m with them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeseil Retzer I leave class to be social and I came back 20 minutes later . . . . . . . . . Valeria Corona My brother to dominate Marcus while I’m gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jaelon Dennis I leave my jorts to Omar Ajam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cole Pulsipher My pencil to the floor . . . . . Evan Cavalier

The cockroaches on main campus to every freshman.

- hayden patrick August 1st to serve a LDS church mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dallin Felt Marcus to go to Ogle Beauty School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mari Kerby I leave my Academic Decathlon role as captain to Kaitlyn Williams and Jack Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abby Seeger Everything to my dog if I die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Nerius The Dually Noted groupchat to Emily Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Dunlap My senior parking spot to Emily Jacoby.

It’s great spot in terms of location to the cafeteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nolan McCanna

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I leave ___ to ___ I leave hope to the next future generations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Murphy My brother to everyone, gl you’re gonna need it . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Sanchez I leave the redemption of Marcus Theatre to Will Gange and Reed Lyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Soape High school golf to play college golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddi Robb I leave my house to come to school every day, but not for much longer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Moore My legacy to Logan Bryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett Brady Kennedy Wise to be MMFGC captain #dsquad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Roulston High school to fulfill my dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod I leave being the girl that’s a part of “the boys” to Alex Covarrubias . . . . . Tori Rees I leave organizing the costume loft to Ms. Mudd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haley Lawford My sincerest apologies to underclassmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McKenna Bump High school to froomie time at UNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ria Chacko The cockroaches on main campus to every freshman . . . . . . . . . Hayden Patrick My notes/Quizlets to Mikaela Olguin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Kubin I leave Marcus to my sister to deal with now . . . . . . . . . . Robert (Levi) Scheinman I leave “We Believe...” to Ella Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Smith Being sexy to Anneliese Pecunia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Stankiewicz

School to go to work . . . . . Reece Bannage My cleats and shin guards to Chloe Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Lasater High school to go to college . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macy Krupovage Design editor to Alex Thornfelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Seiler Cameron Bushnell to successfully sell “Band of Brothers” apparel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brayden Canole All of my belongings to my dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Develin Hamilton High school to go onto college and out my future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennan Stack My snap to the school, will_2241 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Will Irwin My best dressed legacy to Ella Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Bookout High school to go to college . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geremiah McLeod My tears to algebra . . . . . . . . Elaina Dull My younger brother to everyone . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collin Carpentier My hopes and dreams to capitalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Drew Marcus High School to be successful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Segun Oluwole My physics desk to some random kid next year . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grayson Turner My team spirit to the Marcus swim team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaylyn King My desk to the next person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Sunderman My physics textbook to the next Rushil Gangisetty . . . . . . . . . . . Rushil Gangisetty

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MARAUDER MEMORIES

photos Maya Hernandez

This year brought new challenges to how students showed their school pride. But true to the Marauder spirit, they found ways to overcome. From sports to the fine arts, many student activities continued with new regulations.

Junior Sydney Johnson encourages the football team through a cheer cone at the game on Nov. 27.

Members of the track team cheer on their teammates during relay and hurdle events at the Steve Telaneus Invitational on April 1.

Fourth period theatre student senior Finn Mackimmie hands junior Bethany Boerger a prop while rehearsing.

Sophomore Logan Stahl paints during Art 1. This piece was the final project in their Acrylic Painting unit.

Junior Bryce Fenton molds clay into the shape of a car for his Ceramics 1 midterm project.