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theNewtonianIssue 9, Series 89 Newton High School; 900 W 12th; Newton, KS 67114 March 1, 2013

The student section at the boys basketball game on Feb. 19 amped up the energy by performing the Harlem Shake during halftime. This was the second time NHS students gathered to perform the dance, the first being at McDonalds. Snap and send photos of the next Harlem Shake to the Newtonian for the chance to be featured in the next issue.

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According to the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) Web site, 2,638 students who speak English as their first language are enrolled in Ger-man in the state of Kansas. This is compared to 43,097 students enrolled in Spanish. Seventy-six percent of the students enrolled in world language classes are learning Spanish, and German is part of the other 24 percent learning a different language. Also, the number of students en-rolled in German is 3.3 percent of the state language enrollment and 4.4 percent of the national language enrollment as of 2008.

In Harvey County, 373 stu-dents are enrolled in German. Eighty-five of these students are taught by German teacher Nan Bergen. Bergen said she has in-vited 10 students to be inducted into the German Honor Society this year, and five seniors will be receiving honor cords for gradu-ation.

“I think it’s particularly im-portant, because it’s a heritage

language. There are quite a few people in the community who still speak German or can understand it,” Bergen said. “Also, it is beneficial to those who are interested in engineer-ing or a science field. The world is so small that any language is important, because you never know where you’re going to end up in the world.”

Senior and fourth year Ger-man student Andrew Thiesen also said one of the reasons he enrolled in German his fresh-man year is because his grand-parents are Russian-German Mennonite.

“I felt it was part of my fam-ily’s heritage. I didn’t just feel like I should take it, but I wanted

to take it as well,” Thiesen said. “I thought it would be interest-ing and entertaining.”

He said he does not plan to continue taking German in college, but he “does not plan to stop using it.”

“It’s a good thing to be well balanced. If you know a second, third or fourth language, it just makes you that much more pre-pared for any career,” Thiesen said.

French teacher Nora Kelting also said having world languages available to high school students is important.

“I think that [high school stu-dents] should have as broad and deep a knowledge as possible of at least one other language so

that if [they] find [themselves] as a grown-up having to know a critical language of the time, [they] will be able to transfer that knowledge to that new lan-guage,” Kelting said.

February was dedicated as world language month, and several events and activities will be taking place. The German and French clubs will be celebrating 50 years of collaboration since World War II. Also, on March 29 in Topeka, the state of Kansas

and the region of France will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding. They will sign simultaneously along with the ambassador in Washington D.C. The purpose is to strengthen ties between the two regions and to provide partnerships between schools including students, teachers, and administrators. Coming up before this event, French and German will have its annual honor society induction ceremonies on March 10.

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March 8 and 9, Interact Club will participate in the annual Gown Town event in Wichita. Gown Town reuses prom dresses and makes them available to girls for free or a small donation.

Gown Town merged with the Interact-sponsored Prin-cess Closet this year to give girls a wider dress selection. When only 15 girls came to Princess Closet last year, the events were combined.

“Gown Town provides a good opportunity for girls to share dresses and save money,” Interact Club sponsor Janel Hamrs said.

Fifteen members of Inter-act Club are signed up to help with the event.

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Name: Henriette Nordli

Home Town & Country: Rakkestad, Norway

What has the hard-est thing been so far for you? Missing my friends and fam-ily. That’s been the hardest thing by far.

What do you like the most about America? Every-thing is much cheaper here and a lot of people are more open and much more friendly. It’s easy to make friends.

What are you most excited about for this school year? I can’t wait for prom and graduation. We don’t have the same form of graduation and everything in Norway. It will be a new experience.

worldviews: NorwayFood, shopping, schooling, traditions differ

ALYSSA GAEDEreporter

“Dear Tweeters, Today John Doe and I broke up like three times, and I totally got away with breaking rules at school and that girl I always subtweet about totally subtweeted me back, as if!”

This is an example of what our social medias have begun to look like, website diaries. People have started posting more and more of their personal lives on these websites, including Facebook and Twitter, and making that informa-tion public. I am not trying to tell you how to post but point instead to the line between inappropriate and decent.

Use social websites as a way of communication, a little bit of rant-ing, or maybe writing down your favorite song lyrics, but pick your words wisely. Vulgar and indecent language does not make you look cool or sound intelligent to others around you. Using words that are not accepted by you grandmother should find their way out of a status.

Posting pictures and statuses about things that may be seen as crude and frowned upon are somethings you may want to avoid. Drunken nights, lip locked couples, and immature drama are scat-

tered throughout theses websites and, even when deleted, leave an impression on others and how they view the people highlighted in the picture or status. Even if you were just kidding, an image is worth a thousand words, and you do not get to decide what others say about it. Images of family and friends, sporting events, or vacations are perfectly acceptable for others to see and, when appropriate, do not leave others judging you by their content.

Another factor that you should take into consideration is who will be viewing the material put on the website. Family, friends and many others will be capable of seeing what you put online. Think about family and friends will feel having to explain that they know the per-son in that picture that everyone is talking about. Another person that may sneak a peek at your profile is an employer. They may at times take a look at social media websites to see what a applicant is like. You do not want to lose an opportunity over a picture from high school.

Social media has made a huge impact on the way we com-municate and interact with the people around us. So let’s use it for what it was made for and not the diaries we are making it into.

Keep some privacySocial media is not a diary

Don’t get caught up in high school relationshipsSHEiLA AuTrYreporter

Break ups, we all have to go through them. There is no need to dwell on the fact that your “sweetie” has

moved on. If this is the case, it is time to move on as well. As high school students, we should worry about things other than whether or not Billy Bob thinks we smell good. We have our whole lives ahead of us to find that perfect soulmate to settle down with. While we are still young, it is best to live in

the moment. Although that tingly sensa-tion from that special somebody when they stroke your cheek feels delightful and calling them your own gives you the feeling of empowerment, the feeling is only temporary. So why not go on a jog to get your mind off Billy Bob. Obesity

rates are on the rise in America. Or how about read a book and get that Lexile up. Colleges are looking for Albert Einsteins. Better yet how about work on all those missing assignments, so you’re not the only one sit-ting in seminar while everyone else is at Friday fun day. The point is that there is

plenty to do other than worry about whether a high school relationship will make it to next week. While reading that break up text on the phone, wipe those tears away and remember not many high school relationships end in tying the knot.

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HENriETTE NorDLiguest writer

My name is Henriette and I am from Norway. America and Norway have many differences. One of these exam-ples is the difference in food. The food we have in Norway is much healthier. I do not think I have eaten so much fried food as I have since I came to America in my entire life. I mean, there are fast-food stores everywhere and Ameri-cans fry everything; everything from seafood to chicken to cookie dough.

That surprised me. In Norway, we only have McDonalds and Burger King, and there are not near as many of these re-sturants as there are here. At the same time, it is so much cheaper. I love going shopping here. In Norway, especially clothes and shoes, are at least twice or three times more expensive. Everything is so much cheaper in America. We do not have the same form of prom and graduation as Americans do either. This is probably what I have been look-ing forward to the most since I came here. Our graduation is a lot different. It starts May 1st , when is when we party for three weeks, while we are going to school, of course. We get together a group of six to seven people and we buy a big van. We are allowed to do pranks to the teachers, the school and the other students, just because we are graduating. It’s very fun.

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Prom is meant to be for upperclassmen

CODY MICKcolumnist

Days went by and I had very few leads. Triggs was of little assistance, the PE teachers could only give me an endless list of suspects, and Mr. Erick-

son and Mr. Becker were only good for cautioning me when I mentioned people to possibly contact.

I knew less and less about the Railer Woman every day, and the conflicting evidence from Triggs and the PE teach-ers frustrated me into thinking there was no chance I could ever discover what truly happened to the forgotten icon.

I finally decided it was time to get to the bottom of the notorious scandal. I e-mailed an alumni of NHS who I had been told by more than one source would be a great person to contact. They all thought he may have been the mas-termind behind the entire ordeal. We’ll call him Anonymous 1.

A week went by and I never received a response. At first I thought this was a misunderstanding. Maybe he hadn’t received my email, Maybe he had Carpal

tunnel and couldn’t find the strength necessary to respond. Perhaps he lost his hands in an unfortunate hunting ac-cident. Perhaps he was busy kidnapping other mascots.

I asked PE teacher Richard Mick if he knew of any other way to contact Anony-mous 1. He told me I could call him and he gave me his phone number. The num-ber had a configuration I had never seen. I asked Mick why the number looked so different. He told me Anonymous 1 lived in Utah.

This news was all the evidence I need-ed to decide Anonymous 1 was behind the kidnapping of the Railer Woman. At one point, he must have lived in Newton and was asked if he knew anything about the disappearance of the Woman. Once asked, he went as far as to move to a new state entirely, hoping to evade justice.

Then I realized why Anonymous 1 had not responded to my email. He read the email and panicked. He read my questions, knew I was on to him, packed his bags, kissed Mrs. Anonymous 1 and their kids goodbye and fled the country, knowing if he stayed behind I would find him and get the information out of him. I will come back to him eventually.

My newspaper advisor Erica Rickard

later informed me that she had a student with an aunt who possessed pictures of the Railer Woman and who might also have some juicy information. Names perhaps?

Before I was able to talk to the student, the snow storms came with a vengeance. I spent my six snow days in my room pacing back and forth, frus-trated that I didn’t have time at school to talk to this student and get her aunt’s information so that I could contact her. I had nothing.

Then a couple nights ago my mother pulled up her facebook page and showed me how one of her friends, who hap-pened to graduate in 1987, had posted “The Quest for the Railer Woman: Part 1” on her page. The following is an excerpt from that post: “20 some years later and they are still talking about our crazy class!! Anyone interested in talking to the kid or is mum’s the word?”

I am convinced that there are people in that graduating class who know the truth. I also know that I’m about to have a talk with several of them. But I’m most sure that I’ve never been closer to find-ing the Railer Woman. She’s so close I can smell her, and she smells disgusting.

TO BE CONCLUDED.

Quest for Railer woman: Part 2

This is meant to be the perfect night for seniors, not for freshmen

Twitter Talk:{Railers Tweet about their suspicions of the Railer Woman whereabouts}

@MacDaddyFunkShe was taken hostage by gorillas and sold on the black market and bought by a small Russian circus to tour the world as the ugliest woman.

sr. Colton Funk

@joshsharp15so you know that #ladyrailer? Probably not. She got hit by a train...

so. Josh Sharp

@jacobwright35Maybe the Railer man did a better job. Men typically do a better job than women at most things...

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laRRah bIllsco editor-in-chief

Every high school girl has her own idea

of the perfect prom fantasy. It probably starts with getting asked in the most creative way possible, having the cutest date and finding the most beautiful dress. Usually with the option of several trips to prom, the girl

is able to make her dream come true.

As it has been for decades, maybe even centuries, the junior class chooses the prom theme and spends countless hours at prom building. This is sort of a last hoorah for the senior class before graduation. The key words in the past two sentences have been junior and senior. Prom is meant to be for upperclassmen, mainly focused on upperclass girls. It is perfectly fine for younger girls

with older boyfriends to go, and it is even acceptable when up-perclass boys have to lower their standards for dates and ask a freshman girl.

This year it seems to me that an even larger number of freshman girls have been asked to prom than in years before. The problem that comes with that is that the freshman girls begin to try and act out their prom fantasies. This is our last prom as a senior class, prob-ably one of the last times we will

all be together, it should be a fun-filled night. Prom begins to lose its attractive qualities when freshman girls find it acceptable to get shockingly similar dresses to those of senior girls. It is the senior’s prom.

Freshmen should know by now to show respect to up-perclassmen. The even more surprising fact is that several senior girls have already had their dresses purchased and are showing the pictures off when suddenly a freshman girl

(knowing exactly what the dress looks like) goes and purchases the long lost dress twin. Fresh-men should use common sense when picking a dress. If you have heard of a senior having a similar style, color, or fit, choose a different dress.

Freshman girls, you have three years left to go to prom. Find a different dress. One of the next three proms you go to can be your perfect night. This one is for the seniors.

@sophiarianneShe left the high school so she could be with her true love, the Lindley Hall ghost.

so. Sophia Miller

staff editorial The Newtonian March 1, 2013

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editors-in-chief Larrah Bills Alex Stucky

online editor Hana Robinson

news editor Conner Mitchell

opinions editor Hannah Carlgren

features editor Carlie Rodgers

entertainment editor Hana Robinson

sports editors Kylie Mick Taylor Stahly

business manager Dylan Moore

photo editor DeAnna Opland

graphic artist Corey Helsper

reporter Alyssa Gaede Sheila Autry Elyse Cash Avery Anderson Natalia Ramos-Thaw columnist Cody Mick

photographers Johanna Patton Austin Prouty adviser Erica Rickard

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Survey completed by 50 seniors that have had to finish the SEPWe asked you: How do you like the Senior Exit Portfolio

They’re a good thing to do SEP’s are pointless I don’t really care

8%12%

The stress of having to com-plete a Senior Exit Portfolio is perhaps the largest concern among seniors. So much time and effort is put into a project that, in the long run, really won’t be that beneficial to seniors in the future.

One of the most disliked aspects of these portfolios are the resumes.Teachers con-tinue to push the point that writing a resume will better our skill at writing another one later, but really all we did was copy from a prompt.

Kids who graduate from other schools who don’t require Exit Portfolios are probably at no disadvantage when it comes to getting a job. Students at Newton are being persuaded into believ-ing that by writing a resume as a senior, they will be better suited for the world in the future.

The essay is another un-necessary component of the largely unpopular project. Seniors are required to write

a reflection essay about three selected work samples. Should seniors really be writing about their past projects, or should they be more concerned with the future and projects they hope to complete as adults? Think about it.

The community service component is perhaps the only one which makes sense. Completing 20 hours of ser-vice is good for the morality of students and it’s a great way for them to get involved with the community and make a difference. When it comes to the Senior Exit Portfolio, they got it right with the commu-nity service aspect.

Needless to say, revisions need to take place within the dreaded Portfolio. If it absolutely must be kept as a necessity for graduation, at least make it a project to be completed by the end of the

students’ junior year, rather than the senior year. Seniors already have enough on their plates: sports, work, scholar-ship applications, homework, finals, graduation, and all the stress that comes with these and more.

Making it a project for the junior class would be a good idea in the sense that they would get it out of the way early. The Portfolio could be completed junior year, and the interview and community service hours could be com-pleted senior year.

Another option would be to replace the Senior Exit Portfolio with a Senior Project for those seeking an honors diploma. The project could be based on the extra curricular activities the student enjoys doing. A music student could write a piano piece, an art student could make a paint-ing, an engineer student could build something, an auto-motive savvy student could restore a car. The possibilities are endless, and the projects would actually be meaningful to the students.

When it comes to the Se-nior Exit Portfolio, revisions definitely need to be consid-ered. Whether that revision be in the form of a junior assignment, a senior project or elimination altogether, revising the Portfolio will greatly reduce the amount of stress among seniors.

Senior exit portfolio needs revisions

ABOUT THE SENIOR EXIT PORTFOLIO

Purpose: To compile student reflections on their high school experience

Required components:

Senior Essay• Resume• Transcript• Reference • Letters 20 Service • Learning Hours

Coordinators: Erica Rickard (1-113) and Robyn Jaso (2-194)

Needless to say, revisions need to take place within the dreaded Portfolio.

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I think it’s a waste of time. Nobody really looks at it after high school and some people aren’t going to college. -sr. Hunter Ketchum

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It’s whatever. You use it if you use it. If you don’t, you don’t. It’s not a big deal.-sr. Nikki Anderson

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”It’s good. You can reflect on what you did back in high school later in life.

-sr. Megan Bradley

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“ Colleges don’t care about what you did in high school. It’s pointless.

-sr. Tatiana Britton ”80%

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Twitter TalkNHS: Home to the best student

section and Harlem Shake video!!

- Sr. Austin Reser

@Resser22

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Our Harlem Shake? The best. #RailerPride

- So. Mikaleigh Wilson

@McWilson_97

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Our athletic director “that’s the best thing I’ve seen in 6 years at this school” ! #RailerPride

- Jr. Keith Attebery

@KeithAttebery

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‘Django Unchained’ should have won the golden globe for Best Drama Film.

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Spot the difference { }harlem shake

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Entertainment The Newtonian March 1, 2013

CODY MICKcolumnist

The new millennium has little to offer when it comes to

fresh, original horror movies. Countless remakes, unneces-sary sequels and loud gore fests have defined the genre since the 2000s. “Dark Skies” is a sci-fi/horror film from director Scott Stewart that, despite being any of these, feels pretty unoriginal.

The film follows Daniel and Lacy Barrett (Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell), a couple from Arizona who has been having a rough few years. The budget is tight, Daniel has lost his job, Lacy’s about to lose her job, the oldest of their two sons is hang-ing around a rough crowd, and as if that weren’t enough, they’re being visited by aliens.

The film feels like an ex-tended “Twilight Zone” episode that has borrowed ideas and plot twists from several films. Think “Signs” meets “Poltergeist” meets “Paranormal Activity.” Though suffering from un-original elements and a few key ultra-cheesy moments, the film does have some strong factors going for it.

Family and relation-ships play a huge role in this movie. The arguments between husband and wife and the rebel-lious attitude of their oldest son Jesse (Dakota Goyo) feel very real and relatable. I felt for the family and truly felt sorry for them.

Often times we find that in horror movies we are more concerned with the characters’ brutal death than we are with their concerns and development. Director Scott Stewart achieved at giving the characters rounded personalities, something of a rarity when it comes to the hor-ror genre.

Another aspect this film benefited from was the perfor-mances by Keri Russell and J.K. Simmons. Russell portrayed a mother that was completely believable. Her concern for her husband and her children were outstandingly lifelike, and it re-ally added to the few suspense-ful scenes, in the sense that her nervousness and anxiety felt so real.

Simmons might be best remembered for his character-ization of J. Jonah Jameson, the editor-in-chief of “The Daily Bugle” in Sam Raimi’s “Spider Man” trilogy. In “Dark Skies,” it is interesting to see how much

this actor is capable of. His wittiness and loud-mouth attitude is vacated here and replaced by a calm, blunt, somewhat eerie character who, though given only one scene, packs a punch in his warning to the Barrett family that the abduction of one of its members isn’t a question of “if” but a mat-ter of “when.”

If there was any aspect of this film that could save the film, it was Simmons’ performance. Unfortunately, I believe his tal-ent could be used for projects greater than this dull film.

There are a few scares unique to the film, and there is even an ending which left me satis-fied, but despite these positive aspects, the negative aspects drown them, and I left the theater feeling more frustrated than satisfied. Although the film is unique, it feels like I’ve seen it before, and I don’t exactly approve.

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Spring sports teams start new seasons strong As the spring sports

season begins, coaches round up the numbers they are anticipating for their teams this year. Spring sports officially began Feb. 25 and continue throughout the months of April and May.

Softball

GolfSwimming

Track & Field

TennisBaseball

Soccer

Senior Athletes: 15 Freshman Athletes: 15Total Athletes: 50 or moreReturning Lettermen: 15

Coach Jantz’s Goals :1. Have a winning record2. Win their region3. Make it to state4. Play in the final four

CoaCh: SCoTT JanTzi

Senior Athletes: 2Freshman Athletes: 12Total Athletes: 40

CoaCh: KirSTen horTonCoaCh: niCK SiSSon

Senior Athletes: 2Freshman Athletes: 6Total Athletes: 20Returning Lettermen: 5

Coach Horton’s Goal: “After last years season ending 2-18, I am setting our goal at 10-10. Anything greater than that is all up to the team.”

Coach Sisson’s Goal:“I think we have the

ability to compete with the top teams in both our league and the state.”


CoaCh: Phil SChmidT

Coach Schmidt’s Goal: “I’d like to get to know the girls better, continually push them to do better throughout the season, and to do well at league.”

Senior Athletes: 5Freshman Athletes: 15-20Total Athletes: About 30Returning Lettermen: 7

CoaCh: Joanie PaulS

Coach Paul’s Goal: “To repeat as regional

champs, win our league, and to peak at state.”


CoaCh: marK GeorGe

Coach George’s Goal: “[My goal for the team]

is to finish in the top half of league and go to state.

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to continue to get better and perform well at meets.”

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It took only 1 minute and 38 seconds for sophomore Jared Langley to advance to the 5A state wrestling championship finals. Although he pinned his Great Bend opponent in a short time, Langley knew his toughest challenge was yet to come.

“I knew he was a senior, he was undefeated and that he had won state last year,” he said. “I just wanted to try my hardest and leave everything out there.”

Langley did just that as he gave Topeka Seaman’s Bryant Guillen a run for the state title. Although Langley lost 2-1, he is using the experience as a posi-tive for seasons to come.

“It feels great [to place two years in a row],” Langley said. “I wish I could have done better, but everyone wishes that. I look forward to learning more and becoming better all around.”

Langley wasn’t the only one in this position, though. Seniors Dillon Archer and Quinton Harrison also only lost to their opponents by one point in the championship matches.

“As an athlete there are always things you would like to be able to go back and change or perfect after a tournament,” Archer said. “If I felt sorry for myself from losing a match, I would have given up on the sport a long time ago.”

Though Langley and others came up short, Langley looks forward to what future seasons hold for himself and the team.

“I’ve learned that you have to leave everything on the mat,” Langley said. “[Although] I’m going to miss the seniors next year, I’ve learned a lot from a lot of good men, and it’s my turn to help out now.”

above:Sophomore Jared Langley works on taking down his opponent from Bishop Carrol. Langley went on to win the match 5-1. lefT: Senior Quinton Harrison works to get to his feet against his opponent from St. Thomas Aqui-nas. Harrison won the match 9-0.

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GIRLS BASKETBALLThis group of girls has been

playing together for a long time.“Our basketball team is pretty

much a second family,” junior Jackie Anderson

Having team unity means knowing how to play together and knowing each others’ strengths and weaknesses.

“We all get along really well, and it helps us reach our goals,” senior Abby Lehman said.

Striving to work together and shows on the court.

“We’re all so close like a fam-ily. We always have each others’

backs,” senior Emily Hiebert said.Its clear that the team is a very

close knit group.“You can tell on the court that

our team is like no other team. We love each other,” Anderson said.

The girls are currently playing in the substate tournament.BOYS BASKETBALL

When playing time is scarce, a passion for the game of basket-ball is very important.

Seniors Abe Turner and Nick Hall don’t get much playing time, but they each love the game enough to have stayed through-

out the season.“[My] love of the game drove

me to go out for the team,” Turner said.

Hall has a similar view on joining the basketball team.

“I love basketball,” Hall said. “I wanted to be there with my friends.”

Though they have similar rea-sons for joining basketball, their views on what they enjoy the most about it are different.

“[I like] competing in prac-tice,” Turner said.

Turner also said contact is important to him.

“I like hitting on people in basketball,” Turner said.

Hall isn’t the contact type. He enjoys working hard and staying in shape throughout the season.

“[It] keeps us in shape,” Hall

said. “[I like] that all the guys work hard to win.

Both seniors’ love for the game drives them to continue playing.

“If I didn’t love the game, I would not stay in it,” Hall said.

Turner agrees with Hall.“I love the game and the com-

petition,” Turner said.The boys played Thursday in

substate. Results were not avail-able.BOYS SWIMMING

The boys swim team wrapped up its season at state in Topeka Feb 14-16.

“[Going in to the state meet] I thought it was going to be diffi-cult with the lowered state times, but nothing we couldn’t handle,” senior Aaron Clark said.

The team was eighth overall and and had eight medalists.

“I think that the meet went great,” head coach Phil Schmidt said via e-mail. “Everyone dropped time...and had great races.”

Schmidt said the rest of the season was also “great,” and Clark agreed.

“The season was excellent. I couldn’t ask for a better year,” Clark said.

While the seniors reflect on their last year, Schmidt has thoughts on next year’s team.

“I think that we will have a good base on which to build a strong team for next year,” Schmidt said.BOWLING

This Thursday junior Melina Schrader represented Newton High at state bowling after plac-ing third at regionals on Feb. 23. State was held at Northrock in Wichita, however results were not available at time of press.

“It feels really great to be going to state,” Schrader said. “I was happy I did better and was even more thrilled to place and qualify.”

The girls team placed fifth at regionals overall, and the boys took fourth, however nobody else qualified individually.

“It would have been cool if I had some teammates going with me but they all bowled their best, and I had a great time with them all this season,” Schrader said.

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Winter sports teams begin to wrap up season

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Winter Wonderland

1.Juniors Becca Schrag and Chloe Denno pose for a picture as they play in the snow with friend, junior Maddie Goerend.2.Sophomore Abby Anderson smiles as she sleds down the hill.3.Freshman Kyler Sweely, juniors Austin Gronau, Tucker Sweely, Ben Wright, Jaecy Friesen, and seniors Coleman Kinglsey, Nathan Wood, Colton Funk, Jacob Bartel, Keil Stauffer, Dalton Ayres, and Austin Resser all pose for a picture while playing in the snow at Centennial.4.Junior Austin Gronau spends one of his snow days at Centennial Park with friends.5.Jumping in the air, freshmen Jaden Ochoa, Sarah Turner and Aly Browning celebrate the snow day.

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