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“Have you donated before?” the volunteer asked. I shook my head, no. “Read this.” She handed me a bind-er with the basic information. After reading the materials, a man in a lab coat led me behind a curtain where he recorded my name, date of birth, blood pressure, and other necessary information then gave me a quick pinprick on my finger to measure my iron levels. After passing the iron deficiency test, I answered a series of questions to confirm that I was eli-gible to donate. He then led me to a bench where an intense, two-step

cleansing of the extraction area com-menced. I watched as a large needle pierced my skin and blood began to flow. Ten minutes later the Red Cross had one more pint for their blood bank.

However, after a standard donation such as this, the blood is not yet ready to be transfused to a patient. First, it undergoes processing in which a centrifuge separates the platelets, red blood cells, and plasma. The blood is then tested for blood type and various infectious diseases. After passing in-spection, the blood is put into storage. Red blood cells, stored at 43 degrees Fahrenheit, can last for up to 42 days. Platelets, stored at room temperature,

last up to 5 days. Plasma is frozen and lasts up to a year. From these storage facilities, necessary components can be shipped at any time to a patient in need.

Georgetown Prep has held an an-nual blood drive for many years, but Mr. Brogan has been helping along-side with the Arrupe Society since 2004. Since then, a total of over 358 students, faculty, and staff have pre-sented to donate 301 productive units. For certain reasons, donors who show up and fill out the paper-work still cannot donate as a result of exposure to infectious diseases such as HIV, a history of malaria infec-

As the life of Eva Peron came to an end and the harsh white spotlight closed in around her lone figure, the au-dience should have recognized that the Prep Players production of Evita was of a theatrical caliber the Prep stage has not seen in many years.

In 1810, Argentina declared its in-dependence from the Spanish crown. That makes this year the nation’s bi-centennial celebration. On director Dr. Watson’s annual trip to Buenos Aires, the sprawling capital of Argentina, he was moved by the thrilling and emotive celebration of their nationality. “Seeing so many Argentine flags furling made me think that we should somehow cel-ebrate back at Prep, Evita, of course,” he said later. Dr. Watson, who lived two years in Buenos Aires, calls this show his “love letter to Argentina.” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical follows the true rags-to-riches tale of Eva Peron. Peron, once a B-list movie actress, transformed herself into the most powerful female political figure in Latin American his-tory through her marriage to Juan Per-on. The Evita cult infected Argentina, and she took the world by storm with her advocacy for the poor and expan-sion of Argentina’s international politi-cal presence.

Many high school directors would be afraid to touch Evita with a ten foot pole, opting for more simple musicals. Dr. Watson recognized the challenge of the show. The Players past few choices have focused on light, humorous, and playful musicals such as Seussical and Godspell. Evita on the other hand pre-

sented the cast with one of Broadway’s more serious and difficult shows. “I have to say that the Prep Players have worked harder and longer on this event musical than any other in the past four years,” said Dr. Watson.

Obviously casting would make the difference in pulling off a show of this nature. Holy Cross junior Madeline Lee was chosen to play Eva. The high

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Volume 31, Number 11 Thursday, December 9, 2010 Georgetown Preparatory School

INSIDE

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CommENtary

A Look at Prep EmailThe Little Hoya investigates the recent problems with Prep’s email system. Page 3

The Little Hoya is the student newspaper of Georgetown Preparatory School.

SportS

Let There Be Light!After years without night games, the Prep football team finishes its season under the newly installed lights. 0

¡Ándale Señora!

The Little Hoya sits down with the Prep teachers who love rocking the stage. Page 7

Players Celebrate Argentina

Hockey off and RollingJustin Butler leads the team with three goals and three assists as Prep beats Whitman 9-1 for its first win of the season Page 10

Photo by Michael GarateThe cast of Evita gather onstage to perform the exhilirating number “A New Argentina” at

the close of the first act.

See EVITA on Page 8

See BLOOD DRIVE on Page 4

By Joey Allaire ’11Editor-in-Chief

By Peter Delaney ’11Editor

Men for Others, Blood for Others

Music Men of Prep

Sra. Toussaint discusses yoga and running marathons around the country. Page 6

CampuS NEwS

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Editors-in-Chief

Joey Allaire ’11Greg Bourdon ’11

Section Editors

Peter Delaney ’11Joe Giammittorio ’11

Daniel Camp ’11Charlie Loulakis ’11

Photography Editor

Michael Garate ’11

Staff Photographers

Nick Guthrie ’12Andrew Nugent ’11

Staff Writers

Jack Cleary ’12Kyle Chadwick ’13Matt Conaghan ’11

CJ Doyle ’13Dan Iaona ’12

Kevin Malinak ’11Nick Matese ’12Alex Mattei ’14

Andrew Mattei ’14Elliott McKoy ’13Tim O’Donnell ’12David Rauber ’12Matt Royer ’12

Kevin Schwartzman ’11Tyrise Shepard-Lewis ’11

Faculty Moderator

Mrs. Karen Napolitano

Graphic Consultant

Miss Melissa Joseph

Commentary The Little Hoya Thursday, December 9, 2010

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Contact us at:

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The student editors and

writers of The Little Hoya strive

for accuracy in each issue, and

we regret any misspellings or

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LittleHoyaStaFF

Dear Hoyas,

Long time no see.First, I believe we owe an apology

to our deeply loyal fanbase. We real-ize that you have been eagerly await-ing a newspaper for more than two months. I must admit that the col-lege application process and general senior sloth got the better of us, as our publication deadlines came and went and came and went and came and...well, here I am finally writing you. The journalism gods were frown-ing upon us (sorry Walter Cronkite). With this edition we hope to make up the lost time!

We hope you all find this Decem-ber issue interesting and entertaining. Our writers put a great deal of effort into each article.

I’d like to take a moment to re-mark on an occurrence with this issue that exemplified what I hope for in the Little Hoya. About a week ago, I received an article from a senior. Having not recognized the topic, I scoured our notes on this issue to find what I had missed. Remarkably, no such article had been assigned to this writer. As I read on, I found my-self engrossed and engaged in the ar-ticle. When I spoke to the writer the

next morning, he recalled for me a moment of inspiration, striking mid-Government class lecture, which left him scrambling for a pencil and pad (in his case the margins of an assign-ment pad -- I was not aware that se-niors still kept these handy anymore) to begin writing his thoughts. Those quickly scribbled thoughts hashed out into a well-structured, coherent article. The article reminded me of why I started working for the Little Hoya four years ago: because I had inspiration and motivation to turn my thoughts into readable material. I encourage students and certainly faculty to send us your thoughts on anything from solutions to the spatial dilemma in the chapel to the reaction to the current Korea crisis to the ir-relevance of the doorbell (as Matt has so cleverly noted in this issue).

Although this will not be the last letter I write as Editor-in-Chief, the Little Hoya will soon begin a new chapter. Our time is soon up. But fear not, dear readers, Greg and I will not abandon ship until there is not a fragment of a doubt in our minds that when we leave, the Little Hoya will not implode into another single-paged leaflet. This lull in publication we just experienced reminded us ex-

actly how much work goes into one page of this paper. With that in mind, we are now delicately and thoroughly screening candidates. A warning to those who wish to succeed us: Mr. Gallagher was shocked to discover that I do not in fact live at Prep, but only spend hours and hours after school working on this paper. When Prep gathers again in the New Year, our first edition of the Little Hoya will bear the names of two “chiefs in training,” our apprentices for the next few issues. We look forward to intro-ducing them to you!

In the meantime, enjoy these pages and have a holly jolly Christ-mas. See you in 2011.

Sincerely,

Joey AllaireEditor-in-Chief

Greg BourdonEditor-in-Chief

eal Talkwith Matt Conaghan R

Think back to the last time you went to pick up a friend from his house. Well unless you’re a social outcast or you’ve been quarantined in your house for the last five years, you probably remember this hap-pening. Let me ask you this ques-tion then: did you walk your lazy butt up to the door, or did you just whip out your cell-phone and call, no, text your friend to come open the door?

In this high-tech world we thrive in, we’ve grown so attached to things that didn’t even exist a few years ago. Let me give you some examples. For the last week I’ve been called down to dinner through Facebook Chat. I haven’t made a phone call in who knows how long, and the txting lexicon has been bashed into my brain so that I cnt rmembr how to rite like the scholar I wuz raised to be (smh).

One of the oldest innovations, the door knocker (which was prob-ably invented around the same time as the door itself ) has almost be-come obsolete in the teenage world. Can you honestly imagine going to pick up a girl from her house and having to talk to her parents? Un-less you’ve been going out for over three months, I can’t see that hap-pening. What’s more astonishing to me is that the technology era in which we live has added different scenarios to relationships. What used to be “They’re going steady,” has turned into “Yea, they’ve been texting for like 2 weeks now, it’s getting pretty serious” (actual quote from an anonymous person). The whole girl wearing the guy’s letter-man jacket is long gone. That pre-historic nonsense has transformed into the more recent next-step: “I think this relationship’s Facebook official.”

Websites like eHarmony and Match.com are going to make ac-tual dating a thing of the past, and thanks to the iPad and the Kindle, books are considered old news. Old fashioned newspapers across the country have fallen prey to their .com counterparts. No one wears a watch anymore because of cell-phones, nobody uses dictionar-ies thanks to dictionary.com, and phone books are basically just cum-bersome encycoplediaes with land-line numbers (I don’t even have a landline anymore so where’s the point in that). And honestly, we are probably the last generation to even know how to use a payphone.

Love it or hate it, technology is constantly stretching the boundar-ies of just how lazy society can be. Call it innovation, call it whatever you want, just don’t call or text me if you come to my house. Ring the damn doorbell.

Is the Doorbell Extinct?


Prep went retro for two weeks due to a server failure. The email server, our oh-so-important communica-tions hub located on campus, is a computer used to send, receive, process, and store all of the email sent to and from our beloved @gprep.org email addresses. Because of its location on campus, it is subject to the same technol-ogy problems that the board-ing students face on a daily basis: outages due to usage spikes, power loss, and In-ternet service problems. This extended outage, however, was due to a failure of the server itself. Two of the ma-chine’s hard drives and their controlling device failed, and Prep had to order an entire replacement server.

“I use my Prep email for things other than school, so the outage had a huge im-pact on my communication,” shares Brandon Zingone ’11. While email was unavailable, students and school offices had to find other means of communication. The offices

of admissions, residential life, and the Headmaster re-portedly relied on third party email services. “We remained calm,” shares Mr. Gallagher, Director of College Coun-seling; “We created a new account through Gmail.”

Gmail dominates the lo-cal teen email market. Nick Matese ‘12, uses Gmail be-cause “it’s simple to use and has other features besides Email.” Yahoo, AOL/AIM, Windows Live/Hotmail, and Comcast represent other popular email sites currently used by local high school students. Many Prep stu-dents say they check their non-school email address much more frequently than their school-provided ad-dress. “Oh. I don’t use the current system,” responds Rene Lavigne ’11. “I came [to Prep] with my own email account.”

Local high schools have quite different attitudes to-ward student email accounts. By and large, public schools do not provide students with email accounts. Teacher-student communications at Falls Church High School

are conducted in a very mod-ern, professional way. The school recognizes the mas-sive maintenance required to provide email to its large

student body and that the students already use their preferred services. Students and teachers at the school use Blackboard to find each other’s contact information. Prep’s Blackboard is con-figured to work in a simi-lar, powerful way, although few on campus use it. From

the main page, select “Send Email” under the “Tools” menu. From there, any user can message a teacher, indi-vidual other students, or an entire class using the pre-ferred email, not necessarily the @gprep address. Other public schools use the Edline platform in a similar manner.

Private schools tend to provide students with per-sonal addresses. Zach Jes-sen ’12 likes that the vanity @gprep.org address “makes [him] look important.” A lo-cal private school knows one of the best-kept secrets of the email world: Gmail of-fers these custom addresses for free. Washington Inter-national School uses Google Apps for email, which is free for all nonprofit K-12 schools, like Prep. Students and faculty check their school email by logging in to Gmail, using their @wis.edu address as the username.

While the recent upgrade of Microsoft Exchange, our email software, improves usability and aesthetics, it further restricts functional-ity. Users can no longer set automatic replies, which a

student could use to notify a sender that he does not regu-larly check his school email. It maintains the restriction on automatic email forward-ing, which could otherwise allow virtually seamless communication between ad-dresses. The only real setting available for regular users is choosing what image to use for the background.

Zach had plenty of sug-gestions for improving Prep’s Microsoft Exchange system, among them requesting a re-liable hosting solution and, most importantly, the abil-ity to change the account password away from campus. With the current system, us-ers are unable to access their email over the summer after the password expires. For students to take an email service seriously, they must be able to access it easily and consistently. The free Google Apps email system provides the best combination of fea-tures for the simply unbeat-able price of free. We are a generation of communica-tors: email is how we work productively and must be taken seriously.

Prep Email Living in the Past: Time for ChangeBy Michael Garate ’11

Editor

A Prep Perspective by Joey Allaire

The Dash Between Your Dash

“One of the best-kept secrets of

the email world: Gmail offers these custom addresses for

free.”

My friend closed his phone and turned to me. With calm voice but troubled eyes he said, “My cousin just killed himself.” Earlier that day I learned that another friend’s mother had died of cancer.

It was two days before Thanksgiving.Later that evening I imagined the families of

my two friends gathered around their Thanksgiv-ing tables staring at the empty chairs that would not be filled again. I was quieted by a sadness I could not overcome until Sunday morning’s Gospel.

Matthew wrote of the swiftness and surprise of death, “Two men will be out in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left...You do not know on which day the Lord will [call].” The evangelist also of-fered an insightful warning to his audience about how to prepare for this. “If the master of the house had known the hour of the night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you must also be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”

The extrapolations from Matthew’s passage are two. On one hand he warns that we might be the ones taken from this life at any time, and on the other hand the ones taken might be our best friends and closest family.

Since our lives on Earth could be over at any time, we should spend out time here fulfilling our dreams, creating a bucket list and slashing off one by one the things we wish to accomplish be-fore we move on. Whether it’s speaking Chinese, traveling the world, or playing the guitar, we have a limited amount of time to achieve our goals.

Of course, that is important to bear in mind; but the other implication of the passage struck me deeper in light of my friends’ recent losses. The way we treat our friends and our family must revolve around the notion that every sec-ond spent together is precious because at any moment our time with them could run out. This does not mean to me that we should go through life feeling as if every morning we may wake up to find our friends gone. Rather, it reminds me of something Prep has been teaching us all along: we are called to be men of compassion. This means doing everything I can to help my friends and to show them that my relationship with them matters deeply to me.

Ms. Lehn recently shared with me a simple poem by Linda Ellis that is useful here. The poet speaks about a man describing his friend’s tomb-stone. She writes,

“He noted that first came the date of her birthAnd spoke of the following date with tears

But he said what mattered most of allwas the dash between those years.”

The irony of a tombstone, an insignificant line incised between two overshadowing dates, is precisely what Matthew cautions against in his passage. While the emphasis seems to lie on the days of birth and death, the years in between are truly the times that define a person. To find comfort in the reality of mortality, our own and our friends’, we must reallocate the weight from the dates to the dash.

While the two implications of Matthew’s passage seem at first separate, something Ms. Hanes said in her eulogy for Mr. Drozd this summer reveals their inherent interconnected-ness. She gave thanks for the small things he did throughout his whole life that, added to-gether, formed a bigger thing: a beautiful mem-orable life of love. Mr. Drozd knew the simple truth that in treating others with compassion he would be able to move on from this life with a greater sense of achievement than with the completion of the most ambitious bucket list. He understood what Ellis’ poem said: “What matters is how we live and love / And how we spend our dash.”

I know a sign when I see one. The recent passing of my close friends’ close family was meant to remind me to show my friends and family my love for them because I can not know “the hour, nor the day” when I or the people I love will be called from this life.


tion, time spent in foreign countries, or previously taken medications.

This year, for the second time in Mr. Brogan’s tenure, the Arrupe Society held a sec-ond blood drive specifically for fall athletes whose com-mitments prevented them from donating earlier in the year, collecting a total of 47 units. In September, Ricardo Dira ’12 and Hanzhi Wang ’11 worked hard to recruit their classmates, obtaining for the first time a 100% at-tendance rate from registered students. In November, fall sport captains recruited an-other 12 presenting donors. Some such as Father Sauter, S.J. donated in both the Sep-tember and December drives while Chris Zorc ’11 donated for his third time this year. The other time a second col-lection was held, in 2007, the

Red Cross collected 58 total units, the most on record at Georgetown Prep.

According to the Ameri-can Red Cross website, one

pint of blood, the amount of a standard donation can save up to three lives. Some do-nors such as Mr. Brogan even go through a special process

to donate twice the amount of red blood cells. Therefore, spending less than an hour of your time and suffering a quick pinch of pain on the arm is more than bearable for such a great dividend to the community. After donating, Charlie Alexander ’11 said, “I was a little scared of the nee-dle at first, but I knew that it was worth a pinprick to save a life.”

So if you missed either of the donations this year and are feeling inspired to save lives at almost no cost to you, visit www.redcrossblood.com to make an appointment. The Red Cross Donor Cen-ter in Rockville holds daily donations while churches and other volunteer organi-zations will often have dona-tion dates on weekends. So overcome your fear of needles and blood and get out there to the next donation possible, or at least donate next year.

We’ve reached the Holi-day season, and once again the Arrupe Society is hard at work helping the Prep com-munity in its mission to serve others. Over the past month, group leaders Ricky Dira, Hanzhi Wang, Chris Kearns, and Mr. Brogan have helped the Prep students and faculty realize how fortunate we are and how many people live in need within the Washington, D.C. area.

Beginning in early Nove-meber, the Society began preparations for the annual Thanksgiving food drive. Looking for greater partici-pation, Mr. Brogan raised the food minimum to 15 pounds this year in addition to the usual five dollar mon-etary donation. Likewise, the school increased the reward for greatest class participa-tion to two days of free days. So, after religion teachers handed out collection bags in their classes and a repre-sentative from the McKenna Food Center spoke at mass, students and faculty alike be-gan the food drive, hoping to increase its totals from 2009.

By the third week of

November, after weeks of collecting cans, juices, and other non-perishable items, the Prep community had amassed a total of 8,448 pounds of food. Led by the freshman, the students and faculty doubled its donations total of 4,102 pounds from last year.

Just as last year, the Prep community participated in a “simple lunch” the week be-fore Thanksgiving in order to raise further awareness about hunger in the metro area. The $1,000 saved from the meal of rice, broth, and beans was added to the $2,275 of mon-etary donations and sent to the McKenna Center along with all the collected food the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

Two weeks removed from Thanksgiving, the Arrupe Society has now turned its attention to children in need. The Society is working this year with the Consortium of Catholic Academies’ Secret Santa project as well as with the Prep English department once again. Prep is paired with St. Thomas Moore School, the only Catholic School in Ward 8 of South-east, DC.

With each English class assigned a grade and gen-der at St. Thomas Moore,

each student has been asked to bring in a gift of 10 to 20 dollars by Friday, December 10. The Arrupe Society will then team with Best Buddies in the afternoon to wrap all gifts before sending them to St. Thomas Moore.

After such a successful food drive, Mr. Brogan and

all the Arrupe Society hope this year’s toy drive will have an equal impact. With the whole community’s help, Prep will be able to create happy Christmases for hun-dreds of kids in D.C.

Mr. Brogan and the Ar-rupe Society would like to thank all faculty and students

for their great generosity over the past month. As we begin feasting with our families and receiving gifts, the Ar-rupe Society has helped us remember those who live in need so close to home. With their help, though, we have all been able to live in the Jesuit mission of “Men for Others.”

Campus News The Little Hoya Thursday, December 9, 2010

From BLOOD DRIVE on Page 1

Photo courtesy of Mr. Brogan Chris Zorc ’11 restores circulation after giving blood for a third

consecutive year.

Prep as “Men for Others” This Holiday Season

Photo by Mr. Brogan Arrupe Society President Ricky Dira ’12 directs the organization of bags for the Thanksgiving Food Drive

earlier last month.

By Greg Bourdon ’11Editor-in-Chief

“I knew that it was worth a

pinprick to save a life.”

- Charlie Alexander ’11


The Ace of ClubsAn inside guide to Prep club life

By Nick Matese ’12Staff Writer

Started late last year by sophomores and juniors, Club Tetris is quickly devel-oping into one of the most popular clubs on campus. Bored with constant games of Baloono on OMGPOP, they looked for a new way to en-tertain themselves. One day they stumbled upon Tetris-friends.com, and they found a valuable time investment. Today, Club Tetris continues to grow stronger. In fact, the club meets daily, making it the most active on campus. In addition, the club seeks to extend their influence out-side of Prep. Some members practice at home to increase their skills for competitive play at school. Also, the club has been talking with girls with the intention of starting a sister club at Holy Cross.

While Club Tetris exists as only a club, the members structured it to look more like a sport. When a person starts out his career, he is on the Bronze level. To earn a higher rank in the game, the player needs to win match-

es against other players to gain points. If a player loses the match, then he will lose points and possibly rank down. In this game, original-ly released in Russia in 1984, the player must manipulate shapes to fall into even bal-ance. Each tumbling shape represents a different con-figuration of four squares. As the player strives to achieve greatness, he will be reward-ed with Silver rank at level 6, which the club members have nicknamed JV. To reach the Varsity, he must continue to play to reach Gold rank at level 11. Only one player, Aaron Okello, has reached the legendary Platinum rank and dubbed himself Varsity Captain.

While some people might think that Club Tetris may be a waste of time, it has as many positive effects for the players. Michael Garate has said “Tetris is a metaphor for school. The blocks are like in-formation that needed to be sorted and stored by the stu-dent in order to succeed.” In

Team Arena games, a player learns that if he tries to act like a lone wolf, he will get knocked out of the game quickly. He will accept team-work and then succeed as a result. Club participation will also teach forward thinking and planning. To succeed in Tetris, the player needs to think about where they want

to put their pieces ahead of time. If he doesn’t, he may spend the whole game try-ing to undo one tiny mis-take. Timed game modes will teach quick decision making and reflexes, both of which are necessary for test taking too. The club has even given new meanings to words. To a normal person, jambalaya

might seem like a delicious soup, but to a Tetris player it could act as the difference between a win and a loss.

Club Tetris meets in the Computer Lab usually dur-ing 5th and 6th period, and after school. For more infor-mation, talk to Mr. Church or stop by for competitive fun.

The Tetris Club

Screenshot by Michael Garate Image from tetrisfriends.com, Club Tetris’s website of choice

LH: How long have you been a teacher and what schools did you teach at be-fore Prep?

Mr. Daum: 33 years; first year I was a grad-student with Catholic University

LH: What activities do you participate/ teach right now?

Mr. Daum: I teach Fresh-man Music and Algebra

I; Digital Photography, AP Computer Science, String Ensemble, Photo Club, Oasis.

LH: Where did you at-tend college and what sub-jects are your degrees in?

Mr. Daum: I have a Bach-elor in Music Education from Clarion University; Master Comprehension from Catho-lic University

LH: What do you enjoy most about teaching?

Mr. Daum: To me teach-ing is discovery, I love en-abling students to discover.

LH: What is your most memorable moment as a teacher?

Mr. Daum: The most memorable moment is when

teaching photography, help-ing students make their pic-ture special.

LH: How many instru-ments can you play?

Mr. Daum: I can play:

flute, piccolo, french horn, trombone, violin, viola, string bass, electric bass, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboard, theremin, harmonica, sitar, and percussion.

LH: If you weren’t a teacher what would you be doing?

Mr. Daum: I’d be doing something creative, either a writer or a citric or a commer-

cial photographer.LH: What CD is in your

car player right now? Mr. Daum: Lots of Bea-

tles, Debussy, and MahalerLH: Who is your favorite

director?Mr. Daum: Alfred Hitch-

cockLH: What is your all time

favorite book/author?Mr. Daum: The Day the

Universe Changed by James Burke

LH: What is your favorite food?

Mr. Daum: New Mexican Chile

LH: What is the most adventurous thing you have done in your life?

Mr. Daum: It would have to be orchestra conducting, especially the “Copland Ro-deo.”

LH: If you could eat din-ner tonight with anyone, liv-ing or dead, who would it be?

Mr. Daum: I’d love to see my parents again.

LH: When did you first know you wanted to become a teacher?

Mr. Daum: In middle school, my brother and a cou-ple of my uncles were teach-ers, it seemed right.

By Dan Iaona ’12Staff Writer

Teacher Feature: Mr. Daum

Mr. Daum seen playing guitar in the ampitheater outside the basement of George and directing the Prep String Ensemble.



Spanish teacher Señora Toussaint has been an avid runner since high school. She hasn’t given up on her passion for running and still finds time to run even with a hectic “teacher’s schedule.” Señora Toussaint has run the Chicago Marathon. She also continues to run 10k races in the Washington Metropoli-tan Area, including the Capi-tal Hill Classic.

LH: How long have you been running?

KT: I ran cross-country in high school but chose not to run in college. I picked up long distance running after my college years, and haven’t stopped since.

LH: What are things you do in preparation for races and also training?

KT: Other than running, I do yoga, I ride my bike, and I swim.

LH: Have there been things that you have had to

overcome during your run-ning career?

KT: In high school, I broke my foot and wasn’t able to run for a while…that hurt pretty bad! Also, I had some constant knee pain in prepa-ration for the Chicago Mara-thon.

LH: What has been the biggest race that you have run in the past? Army Ten Mile? New York Marathon?

KT: By far, the biggest race I have ever run is the Chicago Marathon; in which 37,000 people were in attendance. Like I said before, I was hav-ing the knee pain while I was training for it. Fortunately, it was not a factor on race day.

LH: What are some goals that you have set for your-self ?

KT: I want to continue to run and eventually run more marathons. The biggest goal that I have set for myself is eight-minute miles. Eight-minute miles are going to al-low me to have good times in my races. I would like to get

to consistent eight-minute miles, and then continue to try and make my time even lower.

For Señora Toussaint, run-ning is a passion. She enjoys all of the benefits that come

from it (good conditioning, endurance, fun, etc). Are you playing a sport? Do you want extra conditioning and en-durance for that sport? Then get a pair of running shoes and hit the track! You may

find that running exhilarates you. As for Señora Toussaint, running is her sport! The en-tire Prep community supports and cheers for Señora Tous-saint in her future races and wishes her the best of luck!

Señora Toussaint Just Keeps on RunningBy Eliot McKoy ’12

Staff Writer

Photo by Joe Giammittorio Sra. Toussaint streches before a recent yoga session in the Hanley Center.

Don’t Cry for Me...

Any Pre-Show Rituals?

Favorite Techie?

Dream Role?

Big Tony or Little Richard?

Peter Fanone(Che Guevara)

...Or the Duppy Will

Get You

Listening to Matisyahu in my dorm room as I drink throat coat tea

and make facial expressions in my

mirror

Nicholas “cut throat” “duppy slayer” “gut”

Guthrie III

Nelson

MandelaLittle

Richard

Matteo Moran(Juan Peron)

Mr.Church No.

Ben “Silent Saint” Mauri

AnythingMel Brooks

LittleRichard

Javee Bascon(Magaldi)

...Because I’m a Sympathetic Crier

None, unless running around

looking for missing parts of my

costume counts

Nick “Cuttrhoat” Guthrie (and his

mini sidekick Aaron Okello)

Young Frankenstein or

Spamalot?

LittleTony

Mike Brown

...Because I Won’t Care I’m a natural

Big “Cuttthroat Casper” Guthrie “The Dude” Neither?

Alex Conrad Mr. KaniaYelling at People to

Get Out of My Way!!

Guthrie...for leaving me in the

plant!

Joseph with the Amazing Technicol-

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Little Richard

Compiled by Joey Allaire ’11

“Prep” Culture Grid[Evita Edition]


EntertainmentThursday, December 9, 2010 The Little Hoya

Hidden Oasis: The Music Men of Prep

Although much attention is often given to the talented stu-dent musicians at Georgetown Prep, behind the scenes, Prep’s musically gifted teachers, Mr. Ashur, Mr. Conlan, Mr. Daum, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Bowen add a new dimension to the Prep music experience.

Mr. Ashur, who teaches music and directs the Prep Singers, is no rookie in the music business. His website, mirrormorning.org, boasts, “Tony has performed across the country from Maine to California. His concerts com-bine his music with inspiring stories that enlighten and en-tertain.” Over the years, he has produced a number of piano albums which include both traditional piano pieces as well as original compositions. His most recent release, “All Things Bright and Beautiful”, arrived in 2009.

Mr. Conlan plays bass gui-tar, takes lessons from The Levine School of Music, and considers himself an amateur. He shared that Dan Napoli-tano created Oasis in 1989 when “we had everything from Drama to Choir, everything except for Oasis.” Many stu-dents lacked the opportunity to discover their hidden musi-cal talent. He said, “There was a missing link, and I believe Oasis fixed it.”

Mr. Gary Daum, who also directs the Prep String Ensem-

ble, was the original advisor and moderator of Oasis. He is also an experienced orchestral director, who annually con-ducts a full orchestra on the Prep stage. He stated that, “A lot of past students - alumni are involved in a music busi-ness today.” One student went on to make an album in Phila-delphia and one went on an international tour. Prep alum-nus Nick MacDaniels sings for Big Something, a band formerly known as Anony-mous. They have released one EP and one album under the old name as well as one album under the new one. See them at anonymoustheband.com. “The recording studio (headed by Sean Gaiser ’98) should get people interested.” Mr. Daum believes Oasis generates its own interest.

Mr. Smith, an avid musi-cian, said that, “the first op-portunity I had to perform in front of people was when I was a sophomore at Prep.” He is grateful to Mr. Daum and Mr. Napolitano for providing him the opportunity of an informal venue to explore. After college Mr. Smith began playing pro-fessionally. Pautexant Music, with whom he released a few albums, cited “unrivaled work ethic, technically impressive playing, a profound sense of aesthetics“ as factors in mak-ing him a respectable jazz art-ist. He now performs regularly at the Fontina Grille and has released multiple compilations of his jazz guitar music. His

latest album is available at the Prep Store.

Mr. Bowen, the current moderator of Oasis, believes there is a lot of underground talent of students at Prep that wouldn’t otherwise be ex-pressed. This year’s December Oasis will take place at the

George Center’s Hoya Café which he says, “will allow for a more intimate setting.” Oa-sis doesn’t try to be too formal and to get in there is an audi-tion leading up to the show. The program is also planning a larger show in the theater for February, which will return to

its roots as an oasis in an oth-erwise dreary and uneventful winter. The proceeds of Oasis go the McKenna Center in Washington D.C.

Joey Allaire and Peter Delaney contributed to this article.

Photo by Michael Garate Mr. Conlan shredding his guitar at a past Oasis.

By CJ Doyle ’12Staff Writer

a play by John Guare

The Georgetown Prep Playerspresent

Auditions: Monday December 13, 20103:30 PM

Figge Theatre

Flea in Her EarA a comedy by Georges Feydaeu


energy portrayal of the first act gave way to a weakened, withering Evita which Lee ex-ecuted with even greater skill. In one of final numbers of the show, as Evita gives her final radio broadcast, Lee delivered a heart-wrenching perfor-mance that reflected her ability to communicate with the audi-ence throughout the show.

Matteo Moran ’11 and Peter Fanone ’11 returned in lead roles once again. Fanone’s performance mirrored the pro-duction as a whole. The veteran Prep actor has been in many different roles during his time at Prep, however, they, like the Prep shows themselves, have tended towards the funny and playful. Fanone faced the same challenge as the whole show, and just like the show he sur-prised and impressed.

Moran played Juan Peron, the military husband of Evita. In the past four years, audi-ences have praised Moran for his ability to work in this role. This time, however, a new dimension of performance accompanied his usual me-ticulous movement and rich voice. Moran showed that he is indeed capable of delivering emotion. His infatuation with Eva and eventual passionate jealousy of her international success eclipsed some of the more tightly constrained per-formances of the past.

Mike Brown ’12 displayed shocking versatility and com-mitment as an actor. Although not cast as a named character,

Brown spent almost the entire show onstage portraying a vari-ety of very different characters. Brown convincingly played an amorous lover of Evita, a taci-turn priest, and a rigid military opponent of Peron within min-utes of each other. Brown also led the cast in dance numbers, exhibiting incredible flexibility and agility with well-executed and complex choreography.

Two praiseworthy actors took center stage during Evita for the first time. Holy Cross junior Elena Napolitano ap-peared in a lead role, and as-tounded the audiences with a pleasant, well-delivered song as well as precise movement in the show’s many tango-in-spired numbers. Javee Bascon ’12 also delivered an astonish-ing debut performance. What he may have lacked in organic movement, he certainly made up for with vocals. His songs offered a break from the some-times exhausting operetta lyr-ics with a voice reminiscent of contemporary artists like Jason Mraz. Bascon and Napolitano delivered mature performanc-es and much can be expected from their future work with the Players.

The staging and affects of the show helped the Players deliver a cohesively master-ful piece. The set, designed by Kevin Kuchar and built by a team of Prep and Holy Cross crew members, was simple but stirring. The backdrop of harsh wooden planks dominated the first act until Eva’s ascendancy, when they parted, giving way to a projection of the Argentine

presidential palace and real bal-cony where Lee delivered the musicals most famous number, “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina.” Frequently real footage of Evita and her people, los descamisa-dos, was projected onto moving screens on the stage, emotion-ally tying the show to the reality

of the events. The technology of the show marked a change for the Prep stage and completed the piece. The rented lights, fog machine, and new microphone system added a new dimension to the show. The smart use of color and spotlight added an element of professionalism and

drama.In modern Argentina, Evita

remains one of the most con-troversial figures in their his-tory. The Prep Players, how-ever have put one controversy to rest. A high school can do Evita! Well...our high school can, anyway.

Photo by Michael Garate Fanone and Napolitano during “Another Suitcase in Another Hall”

From EVITA on Page 1

Photo by Michael Garate Holy Cross’ Madeline Lee depicts the final moments in the life of Argentina’s spiritual leader Eva Peron.

Photo by Michael Garate Bascon’s debut performance left audiences stunned by his mature, suave voice.


Music Review

By Joe Giammittorio ’11Editor

’Rise’s Ratings

The BeginningThe Black Eyed Peas

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

By Tyrise Shepard-Lewis ’11Movie Reviewer

The moment I saw the trailer, I had to see it. Lines of fans com-prising of all ages began to form roughly at 7:30 pm for the midnight showing, awaiting the premiere of the most successful film series of the century, Harry Potter, and its newest installment: The Deathly Hallows. Fans across the nation witnessed the most successful Har-ry Potter midnight premiere of the series, grossing 24 million dollars. In addition, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 earned the third highest midnight gross of all time, trailing only the last two in-stallments of the Twilight series.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 delivers another action-filled, emotional adventure of Harry Potter. This epic fan-tasy film follows Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Herm-ione Granger on their quest to search and destroy the remaining horcruxes, Lord Voldemort’s seven secrets to immortality. Throughout all the excitement, the wizarding trio encounters dangerous situa-tions where they need to use their witchcraft, rely on the house elves, and most importantly trust one an-other in order to succeed.

The director David Yates, who also directed The Order of the Phoe-nix and The Half-Blood Prince, takes his audience for a cinematic journey across the varying terrains of author J.K. Rowling’s world. While past movies in the series focused on life during the school year at Hogwarts, The Deathly Hallows follows the characters through downtown London, across

vast swamplands and prairies, and into dense forests. Constantly on the run from Voldemort’s min-ions, Harry, Ron, and Hermoine must disguise themselves using the polyjuice potion when down-town and conceal themselves with a dome of protective enchantments in the woods.

Amidst their adventures, the main trio is able to capture and de-stroy one more horcrux and discov-er more about the histories of their families, Dumbledore, and Volde-mort. After seeing a mysterious symbol several times throughout the movie, Harry, Ron, and Her-moine consult Xenophilius Loveg-ood who informs them about the Deathly Hallows.

In telling the tale of the three brothers from the hallows, Yates uses a fascinating and captivating scene of shadow-puppet animation designed by Framestore’s Ben Hi-bon. The uniqueness of this clip, in addition to the awesome panoramic shots and improved computer gen-eration, show that the Harry Potter series is leading the development of the cinematographic experience.

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson star as the leading characters once again in the first half of the last installment in the Harry Potter series, and regulars Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rick-man return as Voldemort, Bellatrix, and Snape, respectively. Although sad that the ride nears its end, the action packed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is a must see motion picture.

The Black Eyed Peas are back, and with more bravado than ever. In their sixth studio album The Beginning, the dance/pop/hip-hop superstars attempt to surpass the energy of their double-platinum release last year, The E.N.D with more Auto-tune, heavier synthe-sizer tones, and more club-inspired dance beats. Though expertly pro-duced, the album falls far short in terms of musical worth: strong bass and Auto-tone drown out Fergie’s vocals, while the buzzing repetition of synth rhythms drags on in the background.

Will.i.am’s humorously weak lyrics exacerbate the situation and raise questions about the group’s progression: What happened to the soft background vocals, slick lyr-ics, and smooth hooks of the El-ephunk/Monkey Business-era Black Eyed Peas? When will.i.am boasts on “Don’t Stop the Party”, “Kill you with my lyricals/Call me ver-bal criminal,” it is hard not to laugh at the absurdity of it all. The group these days is more dance than hip-hop, and while that’s not necessar-ily a bad thing (the dance-heavy The E.N.D. may have been their best album yet), The Beginning has no tracks that can compete with “I Gotta Feeling,” “Boom Boom Pow,” or “Imma Be.” The gems of the al-bum, the high-energy single ‘The Time,” the more reserved “Light Up the Night,” and the quintessen-

tial last-dance-song “Play it Loud,” will surely make DJs’ playlists all over the world, but they are far from flawless. One of the strongest aspects of the group, its originality, disappears entirely; the Peas borrow from eighties pop ballads and Eu-ropean club hits so frequently that the album sounds hackneyed, and at times, derivative. In “The Time,” a track which borrows its chorus from Dirty Dancing’s “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” apl.de.ap wails, “All-all these girls, they like my swagger/They callin’ me Mick Jagger,” a rhyme that Kanye West crafted in T.I.’s “Swagger Like Us,” Ke$ha subsequently stole for “Tik -Tok,” and Twista and Chris Brown eventually stole for a second time in “Make a Movie,” making the Black Eyed Peas the third artists to steal the line.

As will.i.am himself declares in “Fashion Beats,” “I’m a club rocker, that’s my personality.” The Beginning truly is a new start for the Black Eyed Peas: a transition from producing timeless, listenable tunes to churning out ephemeral, synth-heavy club beats. Released in the same week as two far supe-rior hip-hop albums (Nicki Minaj’s solo debut Pink Friday and Kanye West’s masterful My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy), The Beginning could easily slip through the musi-cal cracks, though it would be no great loss.


Coach Sean O’Leary’s 2010-2011 Prep hockey team begins the season as the defending IAC Cham-pions, finishing last season with a number 3 Washington Post ranking in the metro area, and an overall record of 19-4-3. Last year’s team experienced many highlights including victories over De-Matha and Mt. St. Joseph’s, and a close loss in the semi-finals of the Mid-Atlantic Private Hockey League (MAPHL) playoffs to even-tual MAPHL champion Gonzaga. The Prep hockey team looks to challenge once again for the IAC cham-pionship, as well as for the MAPHL championship.

Five seniors return this season, including all-Met, all-IAC, and MAPHL play-er of the year left wing Jus-tin Butler, who scored more points last year than any high school player in the metro area (39 goals, 36 as-sists, for 75 points). Also on the forward line will be tenacious senior center Joe Brogan, hard-checking two-

way senior winger Geo Roux, returning All-Met junior AJ Taylor, and sophomore cen-ter Kyle Chadwick. The blueline will be led by senior captain and all-IAC rushing defenseman Davey Chad-wick, along with senior Scott Melby, hard-hitting junior Mike McDonald, and fresh-men recruits Lazar Zamu-rovic and Matt Billings. In goal, the Hoyas will feature junior All-Met netminder PJ McNamara (2009-2010 save percentage of 86%), along with sophomore back-ups Jack “Ringo” Ring and Ed Pepelnjak.

This year, Prep will play traditional IAC rivals Land-on, SSSA, Bullis, and St. Al-bans, along with MAPHL foes DeMatha, Mount St. Joseph’s, Spalding, Calvert Hall, and Gonzaga. Over the Christmas break, the team will also participate in the prestigious Purple Puck tournament, hosted by Gon-zaga at the Fort Dupont Arena in Washington, DC. In mid-January, the team will venture north to play games against St. Joseph’s of Philadelphia and Salesianum of Delaware.

In the first pre-season

scrimmage, Prep handily defeated the Churchill Bull-dogs by a 7-4 score. Then, in the regular season opener last Friday at Cabin John, the Little Hoyas took care of Walt Whitman by a score of 9-1. It was a terrific start to the season for Prep, with Butler leading the way with three goals and threes assists.

K. Chadwick (three goals), Roux (1 goal), and McDon-ald (1 goal), and Cole Taylor (1 goal) also contributed to the scoring. Melby summed the game up by saying, “It was honestly the most fun I’ve ever had playing hockey.”

The biggest game of the season, however, will not be until after Christmas break.

Mark your calendars now, though: the Prep-Landon hockey contest will be held at 4:15 pm on Wednesday, January 12th at the Rockville ice rink.

For a look at the team schedule and overall team statistics, go to the hockey team website: www.gprepho-ckey.org Go Hoyas!

SportsPage 6 The Little Hoya Thursday, December 9, 2010

Photo by Michael FeganSenior captain Davey Chadwick and the rest of the Little Hoyas have their eyes on IAC and MAPHL

Championships in their sights after a 8-1 win over Whitman.

Hockey Starts Season with Win over WhitmanBy Kyle Chadwick ’13

Staff Writer

Last month’s match-up against Loyola was almost a twofold first for Prep foot-ball. The game was the Hoyas chance to win their first MIAA title, but unfortunate-ly, Prep fell short (49-24). The mid-November game was also Prep football’s first ever nighttime game.

After much anticipation light has arrived at George-town Prep’s football field. While the idea had floated around for a while, four light towers were finally installed this past month around the football field. An outside committee consisting of par-ents and alumni headed the fundraising for the newest addition to Prep’s campus. After discussion with repre-sentatives from surrounding neighborhoods, the idea was

eventually approved. On No-vember 13 at four o’clock, the varsity football team played in its first ever night game at Fegan-Galvin Field.

The lights garnered most-ly positive reviews after the game from fans, players, and coaches alike.

Running-back Dominic Bryan ’12 had nothing but praise when asked about the lights Not only was playing under the lights more excit-ing, but Dominic believes a lit field will create new opportu-nities for the athletic program and fan support. “I think it help with getting the student section even more involved in the game,” said Bryan. The idea of night games will cre-ate a larger event, he added, “Playing night games makes it easier for people who don’t go to the school to come to the games.”

Mr. Dugan, an assistant

on the varsity staff, agrees. He believes that playing on Friday nights under the lights could ignite a spark for the program and increase the attendance of the stu-dent body. He also looked beyond football, when exam-ining the long term effects of the lights. “They can be used for so many things: soccer, lacrosse, rugby, maybe even track and field.” Perhaps, the lights could even have recre-ational use. The lights could allow residents to play pick-up football on the field at night.

Although only one game has been played so far, the new installations promise a very bright future. Both stu-dents and players are gear-ing up for next year’s football season under the lights. And who knows? Maybe someday light will illuminate the base-ball diamond as well.

By Tim O’Donnell ’12Staff Writer

On the First Day, Paro Said: Let There Be Light!

Photo by Michael GaratePrep’s unveiled its newly installed lights for the final home football

game of the season against Loyola.


A new era has begun for Georgetown Prep basketball. The Prep community knew things would be different after the departure of first team All-Met and the face of the Little Hoyas for the past two years, Markel Starks. In addition to Starks, who is now averaging over eight minutes per game at Georgetown University, Prep has lost its other two starting guards from last year’s team. Thurgood Wynn graduated and now plays for the Naval Acad-emy and senior Nat Eggleston has decided to sit out this season to focus on his soccer commit-ment to Duke.

The most dramatic change for the Little Hoyas, though, did not involve any players. Rather, Dwayne Bryant, the coach for the past eleven sea-sons, stepped down from his position at the end of last year to become the Athletic Director at Stone Ridge. After an extensive search over the summer, Prep introduced Herb Krusen as its new coach on September 15.

Krusen, who has seventeen years of experience coaching at Division I schools such as Wake Forest, James Madison, Loyola

(Md.), and Old Dominion, was a standout high school player in his own right during the 1970s, earning All-Met honors twice while at Northwood High School.

In his first season, Kru-sen looks to build around the lone returning starters, senior forward Taylor Abt (who has committed to Holy Cross) and junior forward Michael Bo-land, with a large crop of new talent. Senior guard Jeff Hale returns to the team after a one year hiatus and he will look to revitalize the back court along with returning seniors Denny McCarthy, Adam Dyson, and junior JT Strickland. Juniors Brady Beck, Joel Chapman, and Michael DePaul will provide depth at the wing position with senior Devin Wadell and junior Jerry Ugokwe helping out in the paint.

Rather than relying on a sin-gle player to score this year, the Little Hoyas began their season on December 1st at St. John’s looking for a broad distribution of scoring. While Prep received a great performance from Tay-lor Abt, who scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, the Little Hoyas fell behind the Ca-dets early, ultimately losing 71-45. Then, in their second game of the season, the Little Hoyas

traveled to outside of Philadel-phia to take on Malvern Prep. Prep played remarkably bet-ter and Abt turned in another double double, but the team ultimately fell once again 54-53.

After a game at Ireton this Friday, the Little Hoyas will host their first home game of the season next Tuesday ver-sus Archbishop Caroll. After a game at WCAC foe Good Counsel next Thursday, Prep will play three more non-con-ference games before Christ-mas. Then, for the third con-secutive year, the Hanley Center

will play host to the National Jesuit Christmas Classic. With seven other Jesuit schools com-ing to compete from around the country, the Little Hoyas will look to defend their home court after falling in the semifinals last year.

After break, Prep will begins its IAC schedule where it looks to contend against conference favorites Landon and Episco-pal. With a new coach and a fresh new group of players, the Little Hoyas hope to improve on last year’s record and capture the illusive IAC crown.

New Coach, New Look for Basketball At a Glance...Hockey

Current Record2-0

Results12/3 vs. Walt Whitman

W 9-1

12/7 @ St. AlbansW 4-2

Upcoming Games12/10 vs. Spalding

12/13 @ Mt. St. Joe’s

12/15 @ SSSA

12/17 vs. Calvert Hall

12/28-12/30Purple Puck @ Ft. Dupont

BasketballCurrent Record

0-3Results

12/1 @ St. John’sL 71-45

12/4 @ MalvernL 54-53

12/7 @ McDonoghL 69-56

Upcoming Games12/10 @ Ireton

12/14 vs. Carroll

12/16 @ Good Counsel

12/18 vs. Sidwell Friends

12/20 vs. Loyola

12/22 vs. Spalding

12/28-12/30Jesuit Christmas Classic

SwimmingUpcoming Matches12/10 vs. McNamara, The

Heights, Oakcrest, and Edmund Burke

12/17 vs. O’Connell and The Heights

WrestlingUpcoming Matches

12/11 @ Mercersburg

12/18-12/19Beast of the East (Delaware)

12/28 @ Arundel Holiday Tournament

All Results as of Tuesday, Dec. 7th

By Greg Bourdon ’11Editor-in-Chief

The Prep swim team kicked off their 2010-2011 season with their an-nual tri-meet with Loyola Blakefield and Gonzaga. The meet marked the start of a season leading up to the potential 8th straight Metros title, which seems to be within reach of this year’s team. Even though the team graduated 15 se-niors last year, all of these spaces have been filled by new incoming talent, such as freshman Andrew Gib-son who had an impressive debut in the Hanley Ath-letic Center natatorium against the 2 powerhouse teams. The diving team has also grown from 2 to 4 divers with newcomers like freshman Zach Fahmy, who will help the team tre-mendously this year. Al-though the team did not win their first meet, Coach Matt Mongelli says that he is very pleased with the team’s finish as a whole.

Looking down the road

for the swim team, they hope to be successful in their dual meet season as well as continue their win-ning streaks in some of their championship meets. The Prep swimmers will face their regular season dual meet opponents such as Gonzaga, Good Coun-sel, Paul VI, Bishop Ire-ton, Bishop O’Connell, and Collegiate. All of this season’s meets will be held at Prep. In terms of cham-pionship meets, they are looking to hopefully bring home a National Catho-lics title this year and are also looking to continue their winning streaks in the IAC’s (10 straight), WMPSSDL’s (2 straight), and of course, the most important of the season, Metro’s (7 Straight). Coach Matt Mongelli predicts if the team performs as well as they have the past 7 years in the regular dual meet season and in the first 3 championship meets, they will have no trouble bring-ing home Metro’s title for the 8th straight year.

By Matt Royer ’12Staff Writer

“Another IAC title shines at the far side of the tunnel,” said senior captain Matt Laux. “We’re the defending champs, and we plan to reach that mark again.”

This year the Little Hoyas wrestling squad returns many key varsity wrestlers to a team that went undefeated in IAC matches last year, and eventu-ally graduated three All-Met honorable mentions in Junior Monzey, Jenkins Monzey, and Eric Fessel. Laux, the defend-ing 119 pound IAC champion, and fellow senior captain Chris Fegan are set to lead the way.

Juniors Thomas Wilson, the reigning IAC 140 pound runner-up, Ryan Schnieder, the 285 pound runner-up, and Ricky “The Rhino” Dira, as well as sophomores Troy Murtha, the 145 pound cham-pion, and Daniel Sanchez, 112 pound champion, will provide further firepower to this year’s team.

“We’ve got the talent. Now it’s about putting in the work at practice and getting it done

on the mats,” Laux said.Prep kicked off the season

with the annual Ray Oliver Tournament last weekend in Baltimore, and are now prep-ping for a meet with Mercers-burg this coming Saturday, the 11th. The Little Hoyas will fol-low with several more tourna-ments including The Beast of the East (Newark, DE), and Mount Mat Madness (Balti-more, MD) before beginning IAC matches. The Prep wres-tlers will then take on all of their league foes through the IAC tournament which takes place on February 2nd. This season concludes with Mary-land States at McDonough and National Preps at Lehigh University.

“One thing I ask of the student body this season,” said Dira, “is that we get more sup-port from the student body at our home matches. It really jacks me up when I’m hitting a double-leg takedown and the crowd goes wild and starts yell-ing, ‘Pin Him! Pin Him!’”

You heard it fellas. The Rhino wants the support. So you better be at the matches to support our grapplers!

By Jack Cleary ’12Staff Writer

Swimming Looks for Eight in a Row

Laux Leads Little Hoya Wrestlers

Georgetown PrepNorth Bethesda, MD

Belen JesuitMiami, FL

Cansius High SchoolBuffalo, NY

Loyola BlakefieldTowson, MD

McQuaid JesuitRochester, NY

New Orleans JesuitNew Orleans, LA

Regis High SchoolNew York, NY

St. Xavier

Cincinatti, OH

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