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Student Interns Go to WorkKATE EDSON

Editor-in-Chief

“I was excited after the first day because I realized this is something I could be happy doing for the rest of my life,” senior Caroline Keller said, referring to her internship. AHS’ junior/senior in-ternships aim to help stu-dents answer the big ques-tions about their futures. By giving upperclassmen the opportunity to work with a local professional in their field of interest, the intern-ship program allows stu-dents to gain firsthand expe-rience in the working world and explore whether a job is the right fit for them. An internship takes the place of a regular school class; every other morning or afternoon students leave the building to go to their off campus workplace. Internship coordinator Ruth Sisman has been work-ing to market the program to a larger audience, trying to raise student awareness of the opportunities available and get the program “more out there.” In the past, students have interned in a variety of fields, including medicine, dentist-ry, website design, creative

writing, music management, agriculture, and education. Senior Michael Chisholm decided to intern with physi-cal therapist David Strickler so he could consider wheth-er he wanted to practice therapy for a living. “[Physical therapy] is something I’ve been inter-ested in for about a year, and I kind of wanted to use this as a chance to test the wa-ter,” Chisholm said. Typically, Chisholm helps to “warm up [patients], gen-erally in the gym, and then we lead them through some stretches, just to work what-ever [is injured],” he said. “Then the therapist sends the patient on to a PT [physi-cal therapist] extender, who takes them through more rigorous exercises to help re-habilitate them.” Keller also interns in the medical field, working in pediatrics. “Ever since I was little, I’d always known that I wanted to do something with kids, and this year I decided that I wanted to try doing something new and excit-ing,” she said. “I want to be a doctor, and [did] an intern-ship to make sure that that was the right field for me to choose.” Keller interns with Dr. Rob Michel. Working closely with a

professional introduces stu-dents to the daily routine that comes with a career. “I first go in and make rounds with the nurses, which is fun because usually the kids are really nervous about going to the doctor, and the nurs-es calm them down,” Keller said. “We take their blood pressure, temperature, height and weight. Then I

go in with Dr. Michel...and we go around and we check on kids and try to help them with their problems.” Senior Samantha Muhler’s internship also in-volves working closely with children, as she trains with Agnor Hurt Elementary kin-dergarten teacher Patricia Murray. Muhler works in the classroom’s literacy center,

which teaches the kids “skills that they need later on in life, such as cutting, identifying shapes, [and] learning how to write letters.” This hands-on practice exposes interns to the reali-ties of working in a particu-lar field. “I witnessed my first tantrum...but [then] I saw that little girl come up and give [the teacher] a hug,” Muhler said. “It shows that kids are kids, and you just need somebody really good to be there for them, and I hope to be that person some-day.” Murray has found her stu-dent interns to be “invalu-able” in the classroom, as they “help the children learn so much more because they are getting so much more in-dividualized attention.” She added that she is “amazed [by] their work eth-ic, their commitment…[and] their joy that they come with and bring into the class-room.” Student interns share in the excitement of working on something that they are truly passionate about. “I’ve loved it, it’s been the best two days of my life,” Keller said, refer-ring to her first two days at Dr. Michel’s office.

Senior Samantha Muhler works with kinder-garteners during her internship at Agnor Hurt Elementary School. Muhler helps children in the classroom’s literacy center, teaching them skills such as identifying shapes and writing letters.

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Op-Ed October 10, 20142 The Revolution

Open-Faced Sandwiches

JULIA HARRISONEditorials Editor

Julia Writes Something

Open-faced sandwiches are impractical and weird-looking and kind of an ob-noxious thing, really, like J-Woww’s boob job or studded heels or that wart on your thumb. But more disturbing than the sandwich itself, are the kind of people that get open-faced sandwiches! Here you are, unwillingly sitting next to one of them in line at an over-hyped coffee shop, and she can only talk to you about her “wine-colored gelac mani” and “the core benefits of an exercise ball.” These kind of people, in-cluding this woman, now stirring Sugar in the Raw into her chai tea, are always wearing ponytails that never have any pieces coming out, all their hair swept back per-fectly. And you know they don’t use hairspray because “aerosol cans are bad for the environment.” These are the kind of peo-ple who fail to realize that you don’t care that they’ve saved themselves 300 calo-ries by leaving off the bra of their sandwich. You’re too busy thinking about what reason you have

to get out of bed tomorrow and wait--did you have a rea-son today? That Ebola out-break is haunting you while this birdbrain has started to chatter on incessantly about Ashtanga yoga. Significant parts of the world are starv-ing and barefoot and this woman is ordering her sec-ond chai tea latte with her platinum American Express. Then you’re thinking about money and power and mortality and your “inevita-bly dismal future.” Oh no, the words have slipped out of your mouth in a whis-per just as The Woman With the Open-Faced Sandwich, having followed you over to your little spot by the win-dow, is talking to you about her new juicer. And people like these, people who get open-faced sandwiches, they’re always staring blankly at you as soon as you say anything that’s not about IKEA or the chakra you’ve felt most in sync with lately. So you say something like “Oh sorry, I was just trying to remember this thing I heard on Oprah this morn-ing, but please, tell me more about your Vitamix.” You say it a little too cold-ly, so that it makes you real-ize you’re being pretty hor-rible about this whole thing. And maybe it is not this person at all that is making your right eye twitch. It’s not this naturally blonde woman

and the infinity tattoo on her wrist that is driving you farther from the table and lower into your seat, it is just that sandwich. It’s glaring at you, with all of its organic and FDA-ap-proved ingredients spilling off of the t o a s t e d rye. Ev-e r y t h i n g t h a t ’ s piled onto the sand-wich is so t e r r i b l y e x p o s e d and that c o r n e d beef is such an unattractive thing to have to look at while you’re trying to slurp down your cup of black coffee. Maybe it’s the dreadful vulnerability of the sand-wich that so irks you, the idea that you can see all of it, it’s keeping no secrets and it’s hiding nothing. Maybe it’s that you’ve realized that at any moment all those in-gredients could start to slide on the spicy brown mustard and slip onto the aging hard-wood of this antique-store-made-coffee-shop, and that maybe you could too. The woman sitting across from you in cropped yoga pants and a Sierra Club t-shirt is a little bit like her sandwich, too, really, and it terrifies you. She’s ostenta-tious and a little obnoxious but she is open. She isn’t

hiding behind a layer of multigrain the way that you are and always have. Being able to see that sauerkraut that looks like hundreds of inside-out fish is very un-nerving and grosses you out a little bit, but it’s also fasci-

nating to see and it’s inter-esting. A n d just as you fin-ish this thought, you see a piece of hair fall

from her ponytail into her face while she’s raising her open-faced sandwich to her lips, and you watch the free-range corned beef start to slide, taking the swiss cheese with it, and it lands with a terrible kplsplat! into her lap. The Woman With the Open-Faced Sandwich wipes up the spicy mustard and sauerkraut with a recycled napkin as she sits down again. She smiles at you like she knows exactly what you’re thinking. You are afraid of the look she just gave you and also amazed by it. So amazed that you take off the top piece of toasted whole wheat that’s covering your sandwich, you lay it down next to your plate and you take your first bite of your vegan mediterranean.

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Arts & EntertainmentDolphin Tale 2:This underwater adventure takes you on a wild and wavy ride through the big blue! The star of the first Dolphin Tale, Winter, now must cope with her surrogate mother’s death and a team of quirky mariners must find her a new friend! The film stars Morgan Freeman, who plays God, and a couple of (what I suspect are) computer-generated dolphins.

Guardians of the Galaxy: The movie begins with one of the most emotionally scarring moments that Hol-lywood has ever cranked out (yes! Including Marley & Me if you can believe it), so be aware of this when you decide to see this movie on your first date with that person you’ve been flirting with since August, because you will cry loudly and in a really unattractive way. To be completely honest, you will not remember most of the movie anyway because you will be distracted by the soundtrack and Zoe Saldana’s butt most of the time.

The Best of Me: This will probably be a bad movie.

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“Men--Gender Equality Is Your Issue Too” AHS Students On How Gender Stereotypes Affect Men

JULIA HARRISONEditorials Editor

“We don’t want to talk about men being impris-oned by gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are. When they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. If men don’t have to be ag-gressive, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t need to con-trol, women won’t have to be controlled,” Emma Watson, the Women’s Goodwill Am-bassador for the United Na-tions said on her address to the UN on Sept. 19. Watson is the spokes-person for a program the UN has just begun called “He For She.” The program wants to bring the other half of the population into the picture, to promote men to speak up for gender equal-ity and to conquer gender stereotypes that affect them, too. “How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feels welcome to participate in the conversation?” “There won’t be any change if half of the popu-lation doesn’t work hard to make it happen,” junior Kai Millner said. Millner believes that men suffer from gender stereotyping as women do, if not as severely. Where Millner believes that gender stereotypes af-fect women most in a physi-cal sense, it is the pressure to be masculine that inhib-its men from being totally themselves. “If you’re not super buff or super athletic then you kind of feel like you’ve been grouped into the nerd stereotype.” The key to eliminating these gender-based expecta-tions is through “awareness, empathy, and perspective,” senior Kirby Farineau said. “Abandon the archaic ideas of gender normality.” While many self-pro-claimed feminists argue that their sex is explicitly sexu-

alized in the entertainment business, “the media does a lot to enforce male stereo-types, too” Farineau said. The Cure’s 1980 hit, “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Be A Man” from the Mulan soundtrack, Cap-tain America, Fight Club and thousands of other songs, movies and TV shows dem-onstrate themes of a tradi-

tional manliness and what characteristics lie within that theme. Disney’s “Prince Charm-ing” instills dreamy expecta-tions of men in the minds of young girls who could then potentially spend a great portion of their life wait-ing for a “knight in shining armor” (puffy sleeves and

tights), to gallop into their lives on a white stallion and save them from a cruel and cubicular reality! “Some people may think of all men as pigs or maybe they just want to score with a woman,” senior D.G. Archer said, “but that might just be because we watch too many movies.” Similarly because of the traditional male values por-trayed in entertainment, Farineau believes “men are often told they have to be fit, tough, masculine,” and the gender-specific roles that the media places on its products and characters eventually results in feelings of alienation that affect both males and females. “We as a community and society have to join together in destroy-ing the idea of ‘girl stuff’ and ‘boy stuff.’” “We need to stop limiting how people use their bod-ies, or how people dress and act,” Farineau said. “Giving products or interests or ac-tions a certain gender con-notation is entirely useless to the well-being of every-one.” “Men--gender equality is your issue, too,” Watson said.

Emma Watson addresses the United Nations on Sept. 19 to kick off the new HeForShe campaign. Students had mixed reactions following the media blitz that Watson’s speech created.

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October 10, 2014Schools4 The Revolution

NEWS BRIEFSOn Sept. 16, the field hockey team hosted Play-4theCure and raised $7,400 for Lymphoma re-search through the National Foundation for Cancer Research. Coach E.A. Jackson and her husband shaved their heads at the game because the team surpassed their original goal of $5000.

On Oct. 3, the Piedmont Council of the Arts rec-ognized seniors Joey Wharton, Colette Rog-ers, Allison Moore and junior Kira Nolan with Rising Star Awards for their outstanding artistic ability. The Rising Star Exhibition will be on display at CitySpace until Oct. 31.

AHS ranked 262 out of 14,000 schools on News-week’s 2014 list of “Top High Schools” in Ameri-ca. Only two other VA schools ranked higher.

On Oct. 4, the girls’ and boys’ cross country teams took second place at the Great American Meet.

Senior Joli Milner is a semi-finalist in the Nation-al Achievement Scholarship Program. Only about 1600 students in the entire nation receive this des-ignation based on SAT scores and grades.

Welcome to America!Exchange Students Come to AHS from Far and WideMELANIE ARTHUR

Editor-in-Chief

It was out of the blue when senior Lucy Northup received a message from “this random girl from the Netherlands, asking if she can live with me.” Junior exchange stu-dent Jill Norte was born in South Carolina, but then moved a few years later to Groningen, Netherlands. Her father and Northup’s father attended the same medical school while here in the States, which years later turned into an oppor-tunity for Norte to study abroad. “At first I was like, ‘There’s no way I’m going to just adopt someone, but then we started talking and she was really cool, so I was open minded about it,’” Northup said. Norte explained that she just wanted to do something new for the school year. “I’m born in the States, I’m proud of it, and I wanted to learn more about it.” So far, Norte has recog-nized big cultural differenc-es between the Netherlands and American life. “[In the Netherlands, I go to] a real-ly creative high school with choir and dance. We’re really nice to each other, [there are] no popular or not popular kids.” Sophomore exchange student, Haaru Suzuki, also finds great differences be-tween Albemarle and her all-girls private school in Tokyo. She says her school is very strict, and unlike AHS, they “can’t use cell phones or eat snacks.” “In Japan we don’t talk to strangers, but here, you can talk to everyone. People are friendly,” Suzuki said. Norte agrees that the way people act with one another is quite different than in her home country.

“Here, people say ‘sorry’ or ‘excuse me’ when you pass them in the store or bump into them,” Norte said. But the resemblance between the two countries extends even further. Norte said in the Netherlands, people have pride for their soccer team and their king, Willem Alexander. Simi-larly, one of the first things she noticed at Albemarle was the national and school pride with the Pledge of Al-legiance and spirit week. Other American ways are not as relatable to multiple cultures. “She [Norte] was asking me ‘Why is everyone going to the gas station after the game?’” Northup respond-ed, “Well, to get slurpees, obviously.” While Northup agrees that Norte has adjusted quite well to American life and schooling, it may take more time for other ex-change students. “The teachers have told

me to ask if I have diffi-culty, but everything is dif-ficult,” Suzuki said. Suzuki loves typical teenage activities, such as dancing, drawing pictures, and watching Glee, but she isn’t connecting the way she hopes to with other stu-dents. She is working on her English skills, but Suzuki said she typically sees stu-dents on the bus, in class, and in the breezeway al-ready in groups, making it harder to approach others. So far, however, she’s en-joyed her Japanese class the most because of her teacher and peers. While no one from Su-zuki’s host family is in high school, Norte and Northup have bonded because of their similar age and inter-ests. “We’ve just kind of add-ed her into the family. She’s not really a guest anymore, she’s just like a sister,” Nor-thup said. Despite her ini-

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tial hesitation, Northup is glad Norte is here this year. “Just to think that if we had never messaged each other,

we would have never met, and never known that a person across the world can be so similar to you.”

Left: Senior Lucy Northup and her exchange student junior Jill Norte enjoy the homecoming tailgate together. Above: Sophomore exchange student Haaru Suzuki works on an assignment.

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INTERNS cont. from pg. 1 Internships not only pro-vide students with poten-tially life-changing experi-ences, but also with school credit. “I have to have a blog,” Keller said. “...and Dr. Michel actually assigns me homework. He wants me to look up vaccines and stuff like that, and different dis-eases, and then when I go in he’ll have a question of the day for me.” To reflect on their expe-riences, students blog and create portfolios, showcas-

ing what they’ve learned. The interns conclude the year with a reflective essay. Throughout the years, students have said that their internships are “the best part of their day,” according to Sisman. “They learned how to be be professional,” she said. Additionally, in-ternships can potentially help students earn scholar-ships or find jobs related to their career of choice. For more information about potentially adding an internship to your schedule next year, contact Ms. Sis-man with questions.

“Learning for the Sake of Learning” at Gov SchoolMALCOLM MEISTRELL

Staff Reporter

What would make a stu-dent choose to take in-depth classes for three hours a day all while giving up three weeks of their precious sum-mer vacation? Virginia Summer Resi-dential Governor’s School is an opportunity for rising juniors and seniors in excel-lent academic standing to learn more about a subject than what high school offers. Students can apply to go to Governor’s School in vi-sual and performing arts, mathematics, science and technology, or humanities. Within every school there are more specific subject fields for which the student applies. Each school is held at the campus of a Virginia college. The schools all last for three to four weeks in June and July. During these weeks the students live to-gether in the dorms on cam-pus at their respective col-lege. They have at least one classroom activity per day and at least one teambuild-ing activity too. In order to attend Gover-nor’s School, students must be selected as outstanding candidates by both their home school and Albemarle County before their applica-tion is even considered by the state. Of the 14 students AHS selected last year, the state invited 11 to attend Gover-nor’s School. “We had two calls from the state saying how much our kids rocked,” gifted resources teacher Alexis Mason said. One of these students was senior Divya Sriram, who went to the Governor’s School for humanities. “I liked the fact that we would have discussion seminars. No notes in class, just talk. Sometimes we would go off on tangents, but that was ok. It wasn’t learning for a test, it was learning for the sake of learning,” she said. Sriram chose a seminar

focussing on the history of monsters in society. The class discussed how mon-sters were stand-ins for common fears of the day.

Above: Junior Pingyi Zhu attended the Gover-nor’s School for Visual Performing Arts (VPA) this summer, which required her to submit a piece of art (such as the one pictured) to be judged on both the county and state levels. Right: Senior Olivia Wicheloe (center in top right, right in bottom right) performs in the showcase of the Governor’s School for Perform-ing Arts, which she attended this year.

“Frankenstein is the African-American—it perpetrates so many stereotypes of slav-ery,” Sriram said. Junior Pingyi Zhu is an-

other student from AHS who attended Governor’s School last year. Zhu went to the Governor’s School for Visual Performing Arts or VPA. In order to get into the VPA school applicants must sub-mit a tryout, or in Zhu’s case an art piece, at the county and state level. Governor’s school is a great place to meet other

students interested in what you love. Zhu and Sriram are both still in contact with friends that they made at Governor’s School. If you are interested in ap-plying to Governor’s School you must meet with Ms. Ma-son as soon as possible, as the informational meetings have already happened.

SCHOOL CALENDAROct. 11: SATOct. 15: PSATOct. 18: Marching Band States at MonticelloOct. 24: Teacher Work DayOct. 23: End of First QuarterOct. 25: ACTOct. 27: Choir ConcertOct. 31: HalloweenNov. 3-4: No SchoolNov. 4: Election Day

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“When [I] go to the start-ing line, everyone’s so tall.” Freshman Gabbi Bock may only be 5’1”, but she stands tall as one of the cross coun-try team’s top runners. Bock is one of four fresh-men in the varsity team’s top five, along with Kenzie Lloyd, Jenn Wendelken, and Ryann Helmers. Racing in the top five as a freshmen “feels crazy,” Lloyd said. “I never thought that I would get this far in my first year on the team.” Lloyd placed third in the 5,000 meter race at the Charlottes-ville/Albemarle City/County Meet on Sept. 10. Starting at the top is “ex-

out.” The girls have evidently learned how to train suc-cessfully, as “every race we’ve done so far the girls have gotten faster, which is really exciting,” Coffman said. “That’s all you can hope for. It’s been a slow improve-ment, so that means the training is working.” She explained that “you don’t want them to make huge improvements and get injured, you want to keep the improvement at a nice rea-sonable pace so that they’re going to stay healthy for the next four years. That’s al-ways the biggest challenge with cross country: how [to] keep the legs strong, fit, and healthy.” As a result of training with

The opportunity to race with the varsity team in ninth grade gives freshmen the chance to grow over the course of their high school careers. “For this season, I am looking forward to the many more races to come and running with my team-mates,” Lloyd said. “For the long term, I hope to continue to improve and that AHS be-

Small Stature, Big Potential

comes the top local team.” Lloyd additionally hopes to “achieve a sub-20 minute 5k. I also want to improve my time on each race,” she said. The girls “had a great meet at Oatlands in Lees-burg [on Sept. 20],” Coffman said. “The varsity girls were 10th out of 56...so that was our best.”

For most girls, racing is one of the most difficult parts of the sport. “It is hard both physically and mentally, but at the end of a good race, I feel so accomplished,” Lloyd said. Bock agreed that “try-ing to beat your time [is] definitely hard: you’ve re-ally gotta push it.” She was pleased to improve her 5k time this season, running about two minutes faster than she had last year. Making it to States again is the team’s goal for the sea-son. “We’ve got great com-petition in the area with the local teams [like] Monticello [and] Western,” Coffman said. “So the goal is always to be number one in the district and make it to the 5A state championship race.” The freshmen starters look forward to continu-ously improving throughout this season and the upcom-ing years. The strength of the young runners “really bodes very well for the fu-ture,” Coffman said. “With their lack of experience they have come in very talented...it’s exciting for the next few years.”

Freshman Jenn Wendelken runs alongside a runner from William Monroe in the Ragged Mountain Cup on Sept. 2.

Freshman Kenzie Lloyd races to the finish line at Panorama Farms in the annual Ragged Mountain Cup on Sept. 2.

citing for the future,” ac-cording to Wendelken, who placed sixth at the City/County meet. Wendelken began running in middle school. “In seventh grade, I ran for the first couple weeks and then I injured my Achil-les, so I couldn’t run for the rest of the year,” she said. “Then I ran [on JV] all of eighth grade.” She added that “my broth-er did it, and he had a lot of fun. I always need to get in good shape for basketball and lacrosse, so it seemed like a great way to do that.” Bock also started running for AHS in middle school. “My dad brought it up that eighth graders were allowed to run on the cross country team, so I thought I’d give it a shot,” she said. For Bock, running in the top five so early is “definitely an honor. It’s so cool how we have such a young team.” Introducing these run-ners to the varsity squad has been “a challenge of train-ing,” according to coach Cathy Coffman. “The biggest thing is teaching [them] how to pace themselves, whether it be in a race or in a work-

the varsity squad, the girls have befriended their upper-classmen teammates despite the age difference. “The best part of running cross coun-try is being on the team. All of the girls are so sweet and encouraging,” Lloyd said. Wendelken agreed that the cross country team is “the best group of kids...that you can ever be a part of.”

Girls’ Cross Country Freshmen Dominate

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Football Welcomes New CoachASHLEY BOND

Staff Reporter

P-A-T-S PATS PATS PATS! Albemarle football players have been pumped for the Friday night games with the new head Coach Brandon Isaiah’s chant. “[It’s] something that I can say that I brought to the school,” Isaiah said. The chant is “how you add your own little swagger, your own little taste to it.” Isaiah comes to AHS after four years of playing fullback at UVA and several years playing professional arena football in the spring while assistant coaching at CHS and MHS in the fall. “The biggest thing for me that makes me authentic would be my energy,” Isaiah said. Junior wide receiver Ethan Blundin agreed, say-ing that Isaiah brought an overall change in coaching philosophy with a lot more energy. Isaiah’s relationship with the players extends past the field. He wants to do “every-thing in my power to put the right people around them,” saying that his mentality is “just a product of the way I was raised.” “I like how personable he is,” Blundin said. “He’s ap-proachable off the field.”

Despite new team energy, the Pats struggled in their first games of the season, going 0-3. Isaiah, however, remained optimistic, “even with us losing, I feel like we got better every week.” “It all depends on the boys and what they want to do, I’ve been talking to them about having high expecta-tions, about just making sure that we take advantage of ev-ery opportunity we have to make plays. To do things the

right way; to be disciplined.” Isaiah focuses on that discipline through practice. “You have to take pride in ac-tually going through the pro-cess of practice. Whatever time I want you at practice, make sure you’re on time. If I say run to a drill, run to a drill.” These small details are what he wants the team to focus on so that they can be an effective. “He tries to in-still a work ethic that will last

for more than just the sea-son,” senior linebacker Brett Eubank said. The discipline paid off in the 42-21 victory over Flu-vanna at the Sept. 26 Home-coming game. “We were happy for coach for his first win at Albe-marle,” Blundin said of the Homecoming win. The team was excited to realize what they could do and hoped to translate it to the rest of the season.

Using the momentum from that win, the Pats kept WAHS to only a single touch-down lead in their game on Oct. 3. Senior Cameron Green had an amazing night, scoring the first touchdown against the Warriors and making a one-handed grab for 32 yards. Be sure to watch these boys and Coach Isaiah in ac-tion this Friday, Oct. 10, in their battle against Powhat-an on home turf at 7:00.

Left: Coach Brandon Isaiah brings his trademark energy to the April 18 press conference where Athletic Director Deb Tyson announced him as the new head coach. Right: Junior running back Arun Turay tears down 94 yards to give the Patriots the early lead in the Sept. 26 Homecoming game against Fluvanna. AHS won the game, 42-21, which was Isaiah’s first win as head coach here.

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Lugus Leads Patriots to SuccessALEX LESLIE

Online Editor

She stands at an intimi-dating six feet tall. She can spike the ball at 40 miles per hour. She began play-ing competitive volleyball in sixth grade and continued on to play for Albemarle’s varsity volleyball team this year. She is junior Stephanie Lugus. Lugus is passionate about the game of volleyball and is a key player on the team as she is one of the tallest play-ers. Lugus’ success as middle hitter may be the X-factor that Albemarle’s volleyball team needs for a state cham-pionship this year. “Stephanie has really worked hard to improve her skill level in all areas. Her net play has been a strong force for us this season,” coach Mark Ragland said. “She is one of the stronger net players that is on the team right now.” Lugus has to work just as hard off the court as she does on it, balancing athlet-ics with academics which results in a lack of sleep. Lu-gus admitted to getting only five to seven hours of sleep per night due to balancing an honors and college-level schedule. “It can be pretty hard sometimes, but it’s all about managing your time,” Lugus

explained. “After practice I’ll do my homework until it gets done, I’ll [also] try and do it for the next day on game days because I get home late and don’t have a lot of time to do it.” During these game days, Lugus plays middle hitter. The setter passes her the ball close to the net and she at-tacks it, spiking it at close to the speed of a car on Route 29. Lugus also leads the team with 16.5 stuff blocks and a .337 attack percentage on the year so far. “Stephanie has brought a lot of stability on offense and strong defense at the net,” Ragland said. “She leads the team in hitting percentage and blocks.” Lugus is looking beyond stats and a potential state championship. “I love the intensity of the game, especially play-ing harder teams, [also] the support and relationships you build through the game. I have met some of the best people through volleyball,” Lugus said. “It all truly makes me happy to be with my team and building myself into not only a better player but sur-rounding myself with good people and coaches, forming myself into a better person off the court as well.” Lugus is focused on her team, teamwork and suc-

cess. Most of all, Lugus is thankful for her team’s sup-port. “My favorite thing about my team is how encourag-ing everyone is of each oth-er,” Lugus said. “It’s super important to have that in a team so we can all play to-gether as one and motivate each other to play the best we can.” Lugus and the rest of the volleyball team keep their chemistry at a high level by keeping each other up even after making a mental mis-take.

Whenever I mess up or do something stupid she’s the one to say, ‘Hey, you got it the next time,’” junior Cindy Yu said. In volleyball you don’t simply surround yourself with players, you form bonds and connections with them. Lugus has personal hand-shakes with Yu and junior Ellie Benning and along with the team’s handshakes be-fore each set and after aces. “It always puts a smile on my face,” Yu said. “It pumps me up before the game.” Lugus tried putting the

hand gestures into words. “Cindy’s is really fancy and dancy and Ellie’s is pret-ty ‘hood,’” Lugus explained. Volleyball hopes to im-prove their three-loss season by keeping their chemistry strong and winning tough games. At the time of print-ing the patriots held a record of 11-2 with losses only to Broad Run and interconfer-ence rivals Fluvanna. See Lugus in action along with the rest of the Lady Pa-triots as they host Western Albemarle on Oct. 14 at 7:00 PM.

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Above: Juniors Stephanie Lugus, Ellie Benning, Alexis Duday, and Cindy Yu pose for a picture of the volleyball spirit day “Dress-Like-A-Dude Day.” Bottom Left: Lugus spikes the ball in their annual Alumni Game earlier this year. Bottom Right: Lugus blocks an attack at the net.

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MALCOLM MEISTRELL Staff Reporter

“It’s degrading being bad at something you once ex-celled at,” senior Gus Trus-low said. In the world of sports, in-juries are a common occur-rence; however, what most people don’t realize is that many injuries are just as mental as they are physical. Truslow sustained shin splints while training for cross country the summer before his sophomore year. These shin splints eventually led to stress fractures, which meant he couldn’t run at all. “Even though they had no physical effect on my perfor-mance at school, it was defi-nitely harder to get through the day knowing I wouldn’t have cross country after school,” he said. Not having a team to be on or a sport to play took its mental toll on Truslow. However, for Truslow, there was a loophole of sorts. He simply switched sports and started rowing for AHS his junior year. When row-ing, the shin splints did not affect him and he could fi-nally participate once again. Like Truslow, some ath-letes choose to play while injured, even though they won’t heal while doing so.

One such athlete was senior lacrosse goalie Kyle Seago. When Seago was 13 he in-jured his arm playing base-ball, but it never fully recov-ered. The injury flared up again at the beginning of last season and Seago discov-ered that his old injury was a partially torn UCL ligament in his right arm. As start-ing goalie for what would

become the state champion lacrosse team, Seago was de-termined to play his junior year. His doctor gave Seago a brace to prevent the injury from getting any worse, but with the amount of usage during the season it also wouldn’t heal. “It was pain-ful to play with, but it was better than not playing at

Athletes Come Back from Long-term Injuries

Senior lacrosse goalie Kyle Seago plays while wearing an arm brace. Seago played through the lacrosse season last year despite his partially torn UCL ligament in his right arm, thanks to the consistent use of a brace.

all,” he said. “At the beginning, it was tough to play with during the season, but in the end the struggle was worth the reward,” Seago said. For senior soccer player Carmen Thomas, like Sea-go, much of her injury was mental rather than physical. Thomas tore her ACL while playing for SOCA her junior

year. Too swollen for an MRI initially, doctors were un-sure of the severity of the knee injury. “I mentally pre-pared myself for the fact that I had torn it,” Thomas said. “I didn’t really understand what it meant, though, un-til I actually got the results back. Then it was a lot hard-er to wrap my head around that I wouldn’t be able to play.” A few weeks after the di-agnosis, Thomas underwent surgery and has worked to rehabilitate her knee for the past seven months. Even though she was not able to play during the soccer season, Thomas re-mained an active member of the team. Thomas became a “super manager,” help-ing manage practices and mentoring younger players. Thomas was present at all of the games and practices. “It was hard to watch all my teammates play and not be able to help them physi-cally,” she said. “I think it made me a better teammate, because I got to be more en-couraging from the sideline.” Every athlete deals with injuries in different ways.Some find another sport to play, some play through it, and some simply wait for next season.

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AHS SUPER FAN Senior Garrett Smith (top right with the American flag robe on) is one of the “super fans” of AHS. “I’ve always been ride or die for Albemarle so I never planned on being one, it just happened. It was dope being a super fan junior year as well as senior year,” Smith said. Smith first decided he wanted to be a “super fan” when he saw a group of seniors his freshman year. “I saw a couple of seniors who were super fans going crazy and having a hell of a time, and I was like man I want to do that when I get older,” Smith said.

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“I was raised with tre-mendous athletes. Both my parents are high level athletes and my sister and I as well. It’s really cool to achieve what they have achieved as players and coaches. I hope to do the same when I’m older,” ju-nior Jake Gelnovatch said. The Gelnovatch family’s typical day is filled with soccer practices, workouts, and a focus on developing skill and talent. With the UVA head soc-cer coach for 19 seasons as a father, and a mother who was a field hockey national champion in 1986 and pre-vious head coach for UVA field hockey, this family has an abundance of athletic abilities. Juniors Jake and Sunny Gelnovatch have been play-ing soccer since they were in kindergarten and are now top in their division. Midfielder Sunny is ranked eighth in the nation in the 17s division by the U.S. Soccer Club. “It’s an accomplishment, but I’ve figured there’s always room for improvement; there’s stuff I can still work on,” she said. “I had my prac-tices for four days a week for an hour and a half, but I do stuff on my own on my

off days. I would train for about six or seven days a week.” Jake has also achieved a national ranking as the number four goal keeper in the 18 year old division, according to U.S. Soccer Club. “I hope one day to be number one eventually, but I’m really happy right now,” Jake said. “I’m proud of the amount of work I’ve put in and I deserve it because I’ve put so much work into it.” With their level of skill, the Gelnovatch siblings have accomplished quite a bit in their soccer careers. Jake represented the U.S. in the Under-17 nation-als competition in 2013. Sunny was called into the U.S. Training Center and was invited to the Nike IDQ Camp in Phoenix, both elite opportunities. Their parents, George Gelnovatch and Missy Sanders, also have an abundance of accomplish-ments to be proud of as well. George has been play-ing soccer since kindergar-ten and has been UVA head coach for 19 seasons. “We [Wall High School, Wall Township, NJ] won four state championships and as a player that was pretty cool and I was part of three of them,” George said. “When I played in col-

lege [UVA] we won a couple of ACC championships. I had a lot of really exciting games against teams like Duke, Maryland, and UNC. Some of those games were really memorable for me.” After his success on the field, he began coaching at UVA in 1989. “In season, I leave my

house at about 6:30 a.m. and sometimes I get home at about 6:30 p.m. In the afternoon we do a lot of things like scouting reports and video on opponents,” George said. “We prepare practice for the next morn-ing so were organized. We do that like six or seven times a week.” His wife, Missy, has been playing field hockey since she was in elementary school and was the previ-ous head coach of women’s field hockey at UVA. “In the summer, when I was in college, I would do camps to make money. So I traveled all around the country to do weeks of camps and earn money during college,” Missy said. “Then I graduated from college, became a graduate assistant coach, and got my masters degree. Then I be-came an assistant at Mary-land and the head coach at UVA.” She led UVA to two

NCAA final fours and the finals in the ACC champi-onship. Before her coaching days, Missy dominated on the field when she played for Iowa. “My favorite ac-complishment as a player was national championship in 1986,” she said. Missy quit coaching to focus on her family, but continues to train athletes: her children. She instilled a love for sports in both of her kids. “It’s [sports] not like something we have to do, it’s something we want to do. A lot of times as a fam-ily I’ll go work out with my brother, my mom will put me through a workout,” Sunny said. Sunny and Jake hope to go pro in the future. “I’d like to play in college. I would want to go pro in the future; that’s my biggest goal. If not I’d like to be a coach like my parents,” she said.

The Gelnovatch family poses for a picture at the beach. Raised by two ath-letic parents, juniors Sunny and Jake Gelnovatch grew up around sports and have both received national soccer rankings by the U.S. Soccer Club.

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Rev ReactionDo you feel at risk of similar

situations?Tara Singh

Scott Reid

Sydney Rickabaugh

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As long as I’m with friends and I have my phone on me, unless I’m in an actual situation where

I should need to be careful, I don’t really worry about it. “

“It’s scary to think that some-one could just pick me up and

take me. I have a sister, & I wouldn’t want her walking

around the downtown mall un-less it was before nine.”

“Girls should never walk alone in any situation, ever. It’s not safe. Even if somebody says it

is, you should always walk with someone or call someone to

pick you up.”

“I really don’t think it’s as nec-essary for a guy to be as careful,

typically it’s easier for a girl to get abducted. But it’s still possible even for a guy to get

abducted. You don’t have to be as fearful as long as you’re safe

or you’re paying attention.”

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With the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington cas-es having a connection and hitting so close to home, it is important to stay informed about how to protect your-self and your friends if this type of situation arises. This issue doesn’t pertain just to women; young men are also at risk. Everyone should know how to protect themselves. Anyone could be assault-ed or kidnapped, and just because you’ve lived in a cer-tain area for a long time and know it well doesn’t mean that you aren’t at risk. Thefirst step inprevent-ing an attack is to never walk alone. The buddy system is your buddy. No matter the circumstances, it is always a good idea to have one or two friends around to pre-vent each other from getting into any bad situations and to make sure no one gets lost on the way home. If you ever find yourselfin a situation where you are alone, “everybody has a cell phone these days,” Albemar-le County School Resource Officer Angela Jamersonsaid. “Call your friends and let them know where you’re at and have somebody stay on the phone with you, so that somebody else knows where you’re going and what’s going on.” In the event that you are alone and are suspicious of someone following you, the best thing to do is draw a lot of attention to yourself if you can’t get to a very public space. “Start screaming, holler-ing, make a scene, make a fool of yourself, because the person that you think may be trying to do something to you, that will deter them be-cause they don’t want to be easily recognized,” Jamer-son said. There are certain circum-stances that these tactics won’t drive away a poten-

tial attacker; maybe there is no one around to hear, maybe your cell phone died, or maybe you didn’t realize you were being targeted, and that’s where being prepared with knowledge of self de-fense would help. “You never know what you’re going to encounter. It’s always better to be pre-pared than to wish you has done something after the fact,”Jamersonsaid. “By the letter of the law, selfdefenseisdefinedasus-ing the amount of force to get yourself out of a situation where someone has put their hands on you and is trying to force you to do something or go somewhere, so whatever you deem necessary, but nothing more once you have gotten out and run away.” Senior Anne Schmidt has trained in self defense since she was eleven and has been teaching classes at the Rivanna Rifle and Pis-tol Club for three years. She agrees that the best way to stay out of this situation is to use the buddy system, but “it’s important to know how

to defend yourself because you don’t want to be a victim, that’s the biggest reason. It’s painful for the family and for you. If you don’t have to be in that situation then don’t be.” Up until the attacker lays their hands on you or points a gun or knife at you, then your life hasn’t been in im-mediate danger. If they start to come toward you then there are a few more pre-cautions you can take before you start to injure them with your own body. Carrying your keys be-tween your fingers is thesimplest tactic, and with enough force you could stab the person with your keys and run away. Having pep-per spray ready to use will also prevent the attacker from coming closer. If and when the attacker puts their hands on you is when knowledge of self-de-fense would come in. According to Schmidt, “you have to find pressurepoints on the body: neck, elbow, shins, nose, and feet. There are really no rules

when you’re trying to get away, and you can panic all you want.” A few moves will help to distance you from an attack-er of any size. But if they are taller than you, starting low is better if you can’t reach their neck or face easily. “Shins, kick them as hard as you can with your heels. In-stepping on the boni-est part of their feet, if you step hard enough you can break the bone, which would cripple them so you can run away,” Schmidt said. If you can’t work up enough force for kicking and stepping, then scratching at their face and neck is the next best move. “Also, if you take the palm of your hand and force it up it breaks the nose and pushes it into the skull,” Schmidt explained. No matter how it’s done, the most important thing in these situations is your life. If someone is taking you somewhere or doing some-thing against your will, then the well-being of that person should be the last thing on your mind.

Staying SafeHannah Graham Case Prompts Public Concern

Senior Anne Schmidt throws a fake palm hit at junior Online Editor Alex Leslie to demonstrate a defense stategy in a face-to-face attack. To see video of Schmidt’s technique, visit www.ahsrevolution.org.

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“You get to bring a char-acter to life that you never thought could be alive be-fore,” sophomore Haley Prillaman said. Albemarle students are looking for-ward to Cosplaying in the Nekocon convention this November. What is Cosplay? Cosplay (short for costume play) is the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game, espe-cially one from the Japa-nese genres of manga and anime. It’s “a great community of people that are all doing the same thing,” Prillaman said. She and her friends are looking forward to “co-splay contests. They’re like cosplay meet ups. Some-times they have LARPing going on, [and] they have video game rooms, anime rooms, [and] a lot of places where you can buy anime merch and stuff.” LARPing stands for Live Action Role Playing, which is where these students physically act out their characters' actions. The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represent-ed by the real world while

interacting with each other in character. The conven-tion in November is from a

Friday-Sunday night, and will be in Hampton, Va. As a generally shy per-son, sophomore Leroy Mc-Guire can express his cre-ativity through his original costumes. McGuire said that “my persona...is from a sci fi dimension.” McGuire mostly goes LARPing. He got into it when he “was really young...the name LARPing kind of came as I got older.” McGuire continues to LARP because it “helps me to get out of my shell.” Cosplaying can also be expensive. Prillaman said that for her costume for the upcoming convention “I spent [about] $15 on a wig, but the costume itself, the jacket, pants, everything, is going to be $120, including shipping.” She also said that her costume “is all from China,

so shipping is always like $30 because it’s ridiculous.” McGuire said she “usual-ly LARP[s] as my characters instead of other characters, because I don’t have money to buy costumes.” In addition to the cost of cosplaying, age also plays a factor. Prillaman said that “the best years to do it are 17-20, because that’s when you can pull it off.” “When the make up stops making you look young enough, then it becomes a problem, plus if you're not physically fit enough to be walking around a con for six hours straight, then it’s probably going to be diffi-cult,” junior Charlie Hoeing said. Hoeing also talked about how families get involved, saying “sometimes whole families go. The parents co-splay as parents, and then the kids cosplay as young versions of characters.” Prillaman is excited to see the famous “voice ac-tors coming for anime like

Todd Haberkorn.” She has also “been requesting a co-splayer called Twinfools...because he’s a pretty fa-mous cosplayer that’s really good.” Prillaman said that Twinfools is from Canada, and that “[he] hand makes all the costumes and they’re gorgeous.” Sophomore Sami Thom-as is new to cosplay this year, and she started be-cause, “a friend of mine decided that it would be good if I cosplayed, and I just got into the whole thing because it seems really cool.” Thomas said that “I definitely want to do it for a while...for at least a few years.” For the Nekocon con-vention in November, she is “cosplaying with a group of people, and then I’m also doing another character by myself.” With the convention ap-proaching in November, all players, both new and returning, are excited to at-tend.

Sophomore Haley Prillaman poses as Naruto Uzumaki from “Naruto” in preparation for the Nekocon Convention in November.

Junior Charlie Hoeing and Carter Wilken live ac-tion role play as “Supernatural” characters Dean Winchester and Castiel.

Cosplayers Prep for Upcoming Conventions ASHLEY BOND

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