TVolume 96 Issue No. 7

March 6, 2014

News ........ 5-7 New Faculty, DECA Results, Winning Art Students, Cheerleader Try-outs, Band

Sports ... 12-15Softball, Baseball, Tennis, Track, Powerlifiting, Golf

Gallery ........16Coronation

TTiger’s Tale

Features ...8-11Big BendUpcoming UIL Contests

Opinion .... 2-4

By Alina HernandezIt all started at 4:30 on

Sunday morning, Feb. 9, when we were getting ready to head out. We were a little off-schedule, something that would become a normal occurrence later on, so we didn’t actually leave until almost five in the morning. I felt like I hadn’t slept a wink the entire night, but strangely, I was energized and ready to go. The week of Feb. 9-13, 14 AP biology seniors, including myself, and two teachers piled into a bus and Ford Expedition to travel to a whole different world: Big Bend, Tx. The group included Kaprice Block, Roselia Jaimes, Noah McGuire, Brooke Hamilton, Kristin Krueger, Riley Arnold, Aaron Webb, R.J. Silva, Jeremy Garza, Rebecca Murillo, Felicity Alarcon, Hillorie Earnest and Tessa Holladay. Science teacher Shauna Pinkerton and industrial arts teacher Darrin Duzan were chaperones.

First things first, we established the bus would be called the “Werm Wagon” and the Expedition would be home to the “Storm Troopers.” I shared a seat with Felicity on the Wagon, and we were very limited on space. We were the only two to share a seat to and from Big Bend. We ate our 6:30 breakfast at IHOP in Midland and after that is when the trip really started.

On the way to Bal-morhea, we saw four of the original 35 cotton gins that are in Pecos. We also stopped to see the long water trough that had been used for the cotton, and we were also introduced to some plants.

Seniors head to mountainson f ive-day AP biology tr ip

O n c e we got to B a l m o r -hea, we went to the Balmorhea State Park. T h e r e most of the s t u d e n t s swam in the San S o l o m o n S p r i n g s . The pool at the springs stays about 70 degrees year-round. I chose to just dip my feet in the pool, because the little fish were a little scary. The San Solomon Springs are home to the Comanche Springs Pupfish. They are not found anywhere else in the world. After swimming, we ate lunch at the picnic tables and headed to the McDonald Observatory.

The road to the observatory was crazy. There were so many twists and turns, and the elevation kept getting higher and higher. The scenery was beautiful on the way there. Before getting to the observatory we went bouldering, which resulted in one of my favorite pictures of the trip. There were hardly any

plants and we climbed on only large rocks. I went for a short distance, since I felt that I didn’t have proper shoes on, and then waited on the others. We were only there for a short time until we continued toward the observatory. When we got to the McDonald Observatory, we got a seminar from a very enthusiastic employee about the sun. It goes without saying that we were very tired after a long day, so paying attention was hard. After his seminar, we went to see the two enormous telescopes that were there. He showed us how the telescopes moved and how they were able to see through them. Outside, where the telescopes were housed, we

Roselia Jaimes leads Kaprice Block, Brooke Ham-ilton, Riley Arnold, Kristin Krueger and Noah Mc-Guire on theWindow Trail. (Photo by Darrin Duzan)

see BIG BEND on page 8

Brooke Hamilton, Roselia Jaimes and Riley Arnold throw rocks into the Santa Elena Canyon while Kaprice Block, Kristin Kruger, Jer-emy Garza and Aaron Webb explore. (Photo by Darrin Duzan)

Editor Taylor BrumleyStaff Writers Alina Hernandez, Taylor Kiker,

Gabrielle Munoz, Gabe Williamson, Reporters Abby Campbell, Kalen Cowley, Brianna Garcia, Alanna Hurt, Anna Charlotte Lavers, Elijah Lay,

Alex Luecke, Kirsti Pierce, Michelle Rios, David Rios Landeros, Virginia VelazquezPhotographers Flo Marquez, Lucero De Paz, Luz Valadez Adviser Diane ArnoldPrincipal Robert WebbAssistant Principals Ray Conner, Britteni Polk

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editorial 2March 6, 2014M o d e r n c u l t u r e i s r u i n i n g c h i l d h o o d

Do you believe modern culture is ruining childhood?

“To some extent, yes. I believe it is how a kid is raised, and who they are allowed to be around that mainly affects a child. However, music, social media and peer pressure can majorly affect someone’s childhood, but in the end it truly goes back to how the parents raised the child.”

Kelby Greene, 11th“I do believe it is ruining childhood. Children catch so many things, such as profanity from TV and music. We can avoid this by monitoring what children listen to and watch.”

Flo Marquez, 11th

Teah Dollins, 12th

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“Yes, it’s ruining our children’s minds. Children now know words I didn’t even know at their age. It is so sad how innocent children’s minds aren’t so innocent. ”

Roar of the Crowd

“Yes. Children and teens are exposed to sights, situations and language that is more appropriate for adults to handle than children. Television and technology brings images of violence, horror and explicit sex to eyes and minds that should be protected from witnessing these things instead of exposed to them. The innocence of childhood should be protected so that children are free to grow socially and emotionally without the burden of ideas that they are not yet equipped to handle.”

Deborah Doak, spanish teacher

“Yes. Children are so obsessed with technology, such as iPhones, Kindle Fires, Macs and all these other things. It is dangerous to the child’s developing mind when they need this time the most to learn.”

Abby Cambell, 9th Hunter Hammit, 10th“Well, in some ways modern culture is ruining childhood, but in other ways it’s helping. Modern culture is making children lazy, etc, but in other ways it can help with their social life.”

TTTiger’s Tale

We’ve heard it all of our lives from our parents that there has been some sort of fault in our generation, and that the world isn’t the same as it was when they were a kid. Large portions of situations that have occurred within the younger generations have been wrapped around ideas that have been brought about via pop culture, or modern culture in general.

Modern culture is ruining childhood. Culture is such a large spectrum in today’s society, and so many things fall under it. Music, clothes, movies, television, radio, etc. all have been consumed by things that haven’t been advantageous to childhoods. The words

that were once looked at as the most vulgar are no longer taken as seriously as an offense, which is believed to be based around the large usage of them in our society culture. Most popular music now lacks the morals that it used to, provoking children into the wrong.

Which it may seem like a far shot, but with all the advances in the medical field, people are finding ways to “cure” what they call problems in our children. Medicine is being given to children who may or may not need it, and labeling them as that disorder instead of allowing them to be a kid.

We feel the problem is birthed in home life, and

parenting. Although our generation isn’t that great, we’ve had parents who didn’t look to technology in order to babysit us. During church children are now being given iPads. They don’t learn how to act in a place like that, and they’re going directly to technological devices instead of learning how to communicate to people face to face. In such a fast-paced world, parents may not have the same time, or ability to be a large part of a child’s life, but whether we want to face it or not, children aren’t being given a sturdy structure for success, which can be directly linked to the culture we are presenting to them.

opinion 3March 6, 2014TAYLOR, IN GENERAL

Wi l l i am s on ’ s Wi t

S e n i o r r e f l e c t s o n S o c h i O l y m p i c r e c o r d s

W r i t e r s e e s b e n e f i t s o f ‘ p a y i n g i t f o r w a r d ’

By Taylor BrumleyTwo weeks ago, the 2014 Winter

Olympics came to an end in Sochi, Russia. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose the location of the Olympics.

The IOC, founded in 1894 by Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, meets once a year in Lausanne, Switzerland. During the meeting, the IOC decides on a city to host the Olympics. This year, Sochi, Russia beat out Pyeongchang, South Korea and Salzburg, Austria to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Sochi’s climate is fairly calm, with warm summers and mild winters.

Beginning Friday, Feb. 7, the Olympics gathered athletes from around the world to compete in various sporting events dealing with ice or snow.

Throughout the 15-day sporting competition, weather played a large role in the success of the athletes.

With temperatures reaching into the high 50s, snow quickly melted, causing highly-ranked athletes to fail in events like snowboarding and skiing.

U.S. Olympian Shaun White, who was expected to win his third consecutive gold medal in the men’s halfpipe, placed fourth in the event, likely due to unpredictable snow conditions.

The United State’s Olympic team overall, however, did fairly well in Sochi, bringing home 9 gold medals, 7 silver medals and 12 bronze medals.

Russia placed first, with 33 total medals, leaving the United States to take second and Norway to capture third.

Despite their second place title, the US team dominated the snowboarding competition, winning three gold medals and two bronze medals.

US Olympians have nothing to be upset about, since they made history in a number of events.

For the first time in Olympic history, US Olympic ice dance duo Charlie White and Meryl Davis captured third place with a score of 79.89.

Another US Olympian, 18-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin made history by becoming the youngest skier in

women’s slalom history to win a gold medal.

The 2014 Sochi Olympic Games made history themselves by being the most expensive Olympic games to date. Initially, the games were budgeted $12 billion, but exceeded $51 billion. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver cost only $8 billion, while the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing cost $44 billion.

When I think about any type of professional sport, I become somewhat envious of the athletes who are my age and are accomplishing so much.

Even at the Sochi Olympics, kids younger than me were winning gold medals, or at least bronze medals. Even for the young athletes who don’t win a medal of any type, they’re still at the Olympics. Those athletes will forever be known as an Olympian, whether they win or lose.

It seems shallow for me to envy these individuals who obviously have worked for the majority of their young life to accomplish what they have. If I work that hard, and show that much

dedication, I know I could accomplish that much as well.

Another thought I have while watching the Olympics is that of patriotism. I have no personal connection to US athletes competing in the Olympics, but I still want them to do well. Out of pride for my country, I couldn’t imagine rooting for athletes who are from other countries.

Perhaps the most prominent emotion I feel when watching the Olympics, however, is inspiration. Athletes from my country, or from any country for that matter, have worked so hard to be where they are. When I see Olympians with tears forming in their eyes after skiing down a 300-meter hillside, I know how hard they’ve worked to get where they are.

I hope more than anything to have the opportunity, during some point in my life, to have that type of “moment,” and be that thankful for all the things God has given me the chance to participate in.

By Gabe WilliamsonWhen I was about ten, I saw the

movie, “Pay it Forward” for the first time. Although I thought it was a very good movie, I never really took into consideration the idea. I didn’t look deep enough into what the author was trying to portray.

Then two weeks ago my friend, Tyler Hilliard, was a couple dollars short of being able to buy fries at What-A-Burger, so one of women who works there decided to buy the fries for Tyler. My friends and I didn’t know that Tyler didn’t have enough money for fries, until the worker came out with some fries for him. We tried to tip her, but she refused and simply told us to pay it forward.

If you haven’t ever heard of the idea of paying it forward, it’s simply that you help three people, and those three people help another three people, etc.

And if you haven’t seen the movie, I highly recommend it.

In our everyday life I would be willing to bet that at least 1,000 opportunities to do something kind occurs to every single person every day. The world we live in has pounded into our minds that we do what we need to in order to most please ourselves, when, in all reality, the most good you can do for yourself is to do good for someone else.

By no means am I trying to say I’m any better than anyone, or am the most Godly person, but by being a Christian I’m called every day to love Christ with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and to love my neighbor. Multiple times in the Holy Bible we are called to love our neighbors, and treat them as we would ourselves, and to put them above ourselves.

You’re not a Christian, you say?

Well, the Quran says Allah loves those who do good deeds (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:195). Also the idea of Karma is brought about through the Hindu faith. One of Buddha’s ten leading disciples, Punna, says, “The performance of good actions gives rise to merit.”

I could go on for days with different beliefs and their set morals, but however you conceive the idea of being kind, doing good deeds should not just be an idea, but instead a path you take.

These deeds don’t have to be huge; they don’t have to change someone’s life. It has to simply be a good deed. Imagine if this idea was to take off, and for once in the majority of our lifetimes, it was a popular thing to look for things to do in order to help someone else. Like I said before, we have been convinced that everything we do, should most positively affect yourself, but as a “we generation” have lacked

the ability to put our situations on hold to brightens someone’s day. For any of you who care to read this, I challenge you to go out, and do something good for someone, and tell him or her to pay it forward.

Imagine a world where its people cared. The world can be transformed by all the little things we do. One life convinced to help others to three, into nine, into 27. Little decisions you make today could change someone’s life in the future.

In the movie, I believe him to be a fifth grade boy, is given a school assignment to change the world. He probably never believed it would create a revolution, but it did. I’ll say it again: a choice you make today could change someone’s life.

Remember, I didn’t feel this passionate about this until a lady bought my friend some fries.

opinion 4Feb. 14, 2014G a bby ’s G a bb s

TK’s WaysJunior tells of her first prom ‘predicaments’By Taylor Kiker

This month, everyone seems to be freaking out over prom. Prom is at the beginning of April, and everybody’s in a scramble trying to find dates, dresses and making appointments to get their hair and nails done.

The sad thing is that I still haven’t done anything to get ready for prom. I know for sure that I will go prom dress shopping during Spring Break. I don’t know what style I am going to get or what color, but I know that it will definitely not be a mermaid dress. Those dresses make girls look like they can hardly walk, and dancing would probably be even harder to do.

Hair and nails are two of the most important things about prom, besides the dress. For hair, you have to decide what kind of style you want, and there are many different ways to style hair. Girls have a lot more options and a lot more choices to make when it comes to hair. We can wear it up, down, halfway up, in a bun, straight, or curly. So you can see our predicament. Boys have it easy when it comes to hair because they either don’t have enough to do anything with or they could just slick it back with hair gel.

Getting a date is one of the many struggles we have to

deal with about prom. Girls definitely want the guys to ask, but if we have to, we’ll ask a guy. If a guy asked me, I would feel bad for saying no, and I know that if I had to ask somebody, I would be scared they would say no. So getting a date isn’t as easy as some people might think.

There is also a big deal about where to eat. The group I am going with has already made their reservation at the Butcher’s Block, and it’s going to be a pretty big group. We are going to have at least 20 people, if we all have dates, and we left room for three more couples if we decide we want to invite more

people. People also talk about

how they are going to get to prom. Limousines and fancy cars are pretty popular ways to get there, but to me it seems like no one really cares. Honestly I would be fine driving to prom in a pick-up or even in my own car because it seems like a waste of money to rent a car. Why rent a car when you have a perfectly good one sitting in your driveway?

I really can’t wait for prom. The theme is something new, the people I will be with are fun, and just the experience of going to my first prom will be a memory I won’t forget.

By Gabrielle MunozOn Friday the the power-

lifting girls, which includes myself, traveled to Ft. Stockton for regionals and I wanted to tell you about our experience. It was a pretty fun trip, except the bus we were on had no air conditioner and we had to travel the whole way with our windows down. (Friday was a hot, windy day.) I was

a little scared I was going to be under weight!

I decided to do power-lifting this year, and it was honestly one of the best decisions ever. I wish I had done it sooner, because the family and friendships I formed with these amazing ladies were honestly a once in a lifetime experience.

Alyssa Flores was the only one who made state,

but honestly that’s all that matters. We lift and support each other as one, so the fact that she made it made all of us so very happy. She was tied with another girl, which means they had the same exact totals, so the other girl went right before her and made her deadlift of 265 lbs. When Alyssa was lifting, all of us were so quiet. She got the bar up and set it

down and I swear it was the longest weight, waiting for the white lights to come up. She got the win, because she weighed four ounces lighter!

Now, we get to travel to Corpus Christi for spring break.

So if you read this, be sure to congratulate Alyssa on her magnificent win.

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By Gabrielle MunozDECA’s (Distributive

Education Clubs of America) community service project team qualified as alternate for the International Career Development Conference (ICDC) to be held in Alanta, Ga., May 2-6.

The team consists of Lisa Maldonado, Kyle Stricklett and Oscar Villasana. They competed at the state level

By Alina HernandezAmanda Maxfield has recently

joined the faculty as a science teacher.

“Even though I didn’t go to school here, most of my family is from here. I love the friendly atmosphere and the Tiger Pride at SHS,” Maxfield said.

Maxfield graduated from Roby ISD in 1999. She graduated from

Texas Tech in 2004.“I have a bachelor’s degree in animal science,”

Maxfield said. Maxfield and her husband have been married for 10

years. She has two children, Ashlee Maxfield, senior, and Kodi Maxfield, junior.

“One of my hobbies is chasing my children’s sports,” Maxfield said.

Her love of animals has also carried into her hobbies.

“We raise and train horses and I run barrels,” Maxfield said.

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DECA team named alternate to nationalsin community service project state contest

Feb. 21-22 in Dallas.“The Community Service

Project is eligible to compete if the team that placed ahead of them is unable to attend ICDC. We will know by March 15 if they will be able to attend. If they become eligible, we will participate in fundraising activities to cover the cost of the conference,” Lisa Butler, DECA sponsor, said.

The team will continue to prepare for the contest, just in case they get to go to national.

“We will make changes to the presentation as suggested by the judges and continue to practice the presentation. We also have more fundraising events to promote Shaundra’s Heroes. We have until September to raise funds for Great Strides and even though we surpassed our goal of raising $1,000 for Shaundra’s Heroes, we want to do everything we can to support a cure for Cystic Fibrosis,” Butler said.

Also, competing at state were the public relations project consisting of Sierra Luera and the travel and tourism team decision making event consisting of Jose Cabrera and April Guerrero.

“I am very proud of all my students. We had a great group of DECA members who represented Snyder High School very well inside and outside of the competition. Each team competed to the best of their abilities and that is all I can ask for. I am truly blessed to have an outstanding group of leaders in my DECA chapter,” Butler said.

Oscar Villasana, Lisa Maldonado and Kyle Striklett pose with med-als after qualifying as alternate for the national ICDC. They com-peted at state in February. (contributed photo)

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news 6March 6, 2014

By David Rios Five students re-ceived

awards for their submissions at an art show on Feb. 15 in Abilene.

Sabastan Gomez re-ceived an award for “Sabastan;” Sloan Boren with “The Tower of Sloans;” Cristen Pyburn with “The Gloomy Room” and “Mysterious Night;” Samiha Khaled with “Flight of Freedom” and “Black Pearl;” and Tessa Holladay with “Captured.”

By Abigail CampbellCheerleader try-outs

are scheduled April 16. Traditionally there are six freshmen, six JV, eight varsity and one mascot, according to sponsor Christy Smith. The mascot is usually an junior or senior, she said.

“I hope the candidates take the tryouts seriously and give 110 percent at the clinics and try-outs. Attitudes are a must! Cheerleading is a huge commitment,” Smith said.

Incoming freshman try-outs will be at the SJHS gym at 1:30, JV at 2 in Worsham Auditorium, and varsity at 2 in Tiger gym. Then the

Cheerleader try-out date set for April 16 for SHS

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Art students receive awards in Abilene show

Cristen Pyburn poses with "The Gloomy Room" and "Mysterious Night."

Tessa Holladay poses with "Cap-tured."

Sabastan Gomez poses with "Sabas-tan."

Samiha Khaled poses with "Flight of Freedom" and "Black Pearl."

Sloan Boren poses with "The Tower of Sloans."

candidates will try out in front of college judges on the same day.

All candidates will perform a dance, a cheer and a chant. Each candidate will also perform an individual entrance.

The chant and the dance will be performed in groups of four to six. They must also perform certain jumps during the try-outs, Smith said.

The mascot candidates must perform a creative routine to show their spirit and ability to get the crowd involved. They will also perform the entrance and cheer by themselves.

“The student body votes will count 30 percent of the final score. Candidates must also have a high teacher evaluation before he/she can try out for any of the squads or mascot position,” Smith said.

“I hope the students will learn to work as a team/squad. One person does not make the squad look good. It takes all of them working together as a unit to perform stunts and routines,” Smith said.

Varsity will perform the alma mater and the fight song as well the cheer, chant and dance.

The students competed within divisions one through four, depending on their years in art.

“Most of the kids competed in Division two,” art teacher Coby Hamlin said. “But we had two Division Threes.”

Another art show will be coming up, from April 14 to June 3. It will be held at the Scurry County Museum. Many students whose pieces have been saved will be entered in the show, he said.

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news 7March 6, 2014

By Kirsti PierceTwenty-five band students

will advance to the UIL state solo/ensemble contest in Austin, May 23-25 after qualifying at the Region 16 UIL solo/ensemble contest.

The students performed in four ensembles and there was one solo. Each of the groups and the soloist were awarded first division ratings on class 1 music, earning a total of 31 medals.

Advancing to state as a soloist is Austin Elliott on the trombone performing “Concerto for Trombone,”

by Rimsky-Korsakov (by memory).

Advancing to state in the woodwind ensemble Lora Shults, Skylar Thompson, Taylor Brumley, Johnathan Louis, Kristen Krueger, Devin Gonzalez, Kirsti Pierce, Jasmin Martinez, Elise Torres, Natalie Rodri-guez, Keely Bartels, Antonio Robles, and Sierra Luera performing “Military Sym-phony,” by Haydn/Jones

Advancing to state in the percussion ensemble Roselia Jaimes, Evan McGrew, Virginia Velazquez, Antonio

By Virginia VelazquezThe band is competing

in UIL concert/sight reading today at Sundown High School.

According to Donnie Reston, band director, prior to the contest “the band is preparing for contest every school day by rehearsing, recording and evaluating our music. We also practice sight reading by playing the contest music from previous years. This gives the students a ‘heads-up’ to the difficulty of music they will perform for the judges on contest day. The students also attend a one-hour sectional each week after school hours to work in smaller groups,” he said.

The band will perform the music pieces of March Bonnie Annie Laurie, Moscow 1941 and Steel.

“We have made significant progress the last two weeks. The music is challenging and requires much concentration throughout the performance,” Reston said.

Academic ineligibility

has always been a problem/weakness for the band.

“This year again, we have several students who will not perform with the band due to poor performance in the classroom. Student apathy in turning in classroom assignments is difficult to overcome if the parents aren’t monitoring their child’s grades and holding them accountable,” he said.

The contest day begins “in the warm-up room with a 30-minute schedule, then we move to the concert stage and perform our contest music for three judges. The band will then move to the sight reading room where I will have eight minutes to explain a piece of music that the students or I have never seen/played,” Reston said.

The students will perform the selection for three judges. Each concert and sight reading judge gives each band a rating of 1 through 5: 1, superior; 2, excellent; 3, average; 4, below average; and 5, poor.

25 students advance to state levelRobles, and Emily Parmer performing “Tat Dugga Da Kaa,” by Queen.

Advancing to state in the brass sextet Zachcory Nobles, Austin Elliott, Gabe Benitez, Janiece Baker, Santanya Molina, and Lakeisha Brown performing “March and Fanfare,” by Parcell/Barnes

Advancing to state in the brass sextet Zachcory Nobles, Zack Lewis, Gabe Benitez, Santanya Molina, David Rios, and Lakeisha Brown performing “The Earle of Oxford’s Marche,” by Byrd/Walters

Band to compete todayat contest in Sundown

Band students Sierra Luera, Elise Torres, Taide Baeza, Julie Havner and Alexis Mireles practice for the concert/sight reading contest that is today at Sundown High School.

feature 8March 6, 2014Big Bend trip provides ‘once

Felicity Alarcon, Hillorie Earnest, Aaron Webb, Riley Arnold, Tessa Holladay and Kristin Krueger step on rocks to avoid falling into the water near the Rio Grande. (Photo by Darrin Duzan)

Noah McGuire, Jeremy Garza, Tessa Holladay, Kristen Krueger, Rebecca Murillo, Roselia Jaimes, Riley Arnold, Kaprice Block and Brooke Hamilton pin themselves against a rock to avoid falling. (Photo by Darrin Duzan)

could really see how high we were, and if we looked hard enough, we could see the road we traveled on to get to the observatory. For the most part the McDonald Observatory was interesting.

After that, we headed to the Indian Lodge Hotel, thankfully, and we unloaded the vehicles, got assigned rooms, and gathered for dinner at the Black Bear Inn. Our dinner was a hamburger and baked potato buffet.That night, to me, was one of my favorites of the trip.

After dinner, most of us gathered at eight o’clock to go on our first hike to go star-gazing. It was absolutely amazing. On my part, there was a fear factor, excitement and the fact that we really didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. Looking back now, the trail was easy compared to the others. We worked together to get to the top as safely as possible. Although it wasn’t always easy, and it was scary at times, but we got to the top and it was amazing. There was a rock pile there that some of us sat on, and we just looked up. There

were no lights besides the moon and stars. The Indian Lodge wasn’t visible at all. In my opinion, there aren’t really words to describe how big of an achievement it was to know where we started and where we ended up. As sad as it was, we did have to go back down. We came very close to a deer on the way down. He was walking right in front of us. There were a lot of fun moments as we headed back. I then realize what the rest of the trip would be like, and I knew it would be special.

The second day we started our morning off at around seven or eight. I wasn’t physically tired, but I think I had sensory overload. After reloading the trailer, we took off to Davis Mountains. The first place we stopped at was amazing. You could see the pollution in the air above the mountains. Then we headed to “The Window,” which is like a rock building with a big window. It was about 40 degrees that morning. After that we headed to breakfast at the Fort Davis Drugstore, which was a combo café, ice cream parlor and drugstore.

It was also a six-room inn with an art gallery upstairs. That’s where I learned that almost the entire town of Fort Davis was almost burned in a fire in 2011. It has been recovering ever since.

Then we headed to the much-anticipated Terlingua. We stopped on the way to see some more plants and then we noticed how hot it had gotten since we had left Fort Davis. It was about 80 degrees in Presidio, where we stopped to get groceries, and about 20 degrees back in Snyder. At the grocery store, I had a somewhat scary experience when a Mexican taxi man thought I was part of his group, and was telling me that I needed to hurry. It was sort of funny, but it could have taken a wrong turn.

After the grocery store, we loaded up and went to eat at El Patio. Then, we continued to Terlingua to the Chisos Mining Company, where we were staying for the duration of the trip. I was a little skeptical because it was very dark, and I felt that we were in the middle of nowhere, but it turned out okay. Pinkerton, Felicity, Hillorie, Rebecca and I roomed together. We unloaded the groceries, and the girls from the other room came in to cook our spaghetti dinner, and all of the guys came to our room. At dinner, we had our first meeting and we saw a video of all of the pictures of the day. We talked some about the next

day, which was going to be the hardest. We were warned about the mountain lions and bears, and were told to prepare ourselves. That was good advice.

I woke us all up at 4:10, so that someone would get breakfast going. Pinkerton made burritos for breakfast, and everyone came in around 4:45. It was very dark outside, and very cold. It felt like it was in the 20s. We left a little after five for the Lost Mine Trail in Big Bend. Getting off the bus was hard. We could definitely feel how cold it was. However, we got out our flashlights and headed up the trail. It wasn’t as hard as it was long. We were supposed to get to a good area to watch the sunrise, but we got to a stopping point when the sun was already up. When we got to a resting spot, Duzan called us to a higher spot that he said we needed to see. It was very much worth it. We could see the fog like a water fall through the mountains below us. It was breathtaking. The sun shone

so pretty on top of it as well. We could see it moving through the mountains. When we headed back down, it looked like a whole different trail. The fog had frosted everything over, and all the plants around us were white. I would describe it as a winter wonderland. Apparently, it is a very rare thing to see the fog moving like that.

The way back down was easy since it was all downhill, and we were excited to get out of the cold.

Next, was the Window Trail, which I didn’t go on. I took a very much-needed nap on the Werm Wagon until lunch. We ate some sandwiches, and then headed to the Boquillas Canyon, or the sand dunes. We were instructed to not buy anything from the Mexicans who would try to sell us things. We didn’t see anyone though. It was a pretty easy trail to walk, no climbing at all, but it was still cold. There was sand everywhere, sort of like at the beach, and it was pretty, but it was only

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Aaron Webb, Rebecca Murillo, Riley Arnold, Kristin Krueger, Kaprice Block, R.J. Silva, Noah McGuire, Tessa Holladay and Jeremy Garza swim in the San Solomon Springs in Balmorhea while Brooke Hamilton, Felicity Alarcon and Alina Hernandez watch. (Photo by Darrin Duzan)

sand. I attempted to climb up one of the sand hills, but I took one step forward, and slid two steps down.

We weren’t really there for a long time when we headed to the Hot Springs. It seemed like a long drive until we came to a stop and got in with the Storm Troopers to be able to drive to the Hot Springs.

The Hot Springs were a little crowded with some hippy-looking Canadians,

so I just put my feet in. The water was actually hot. It was weird that our feet were hot, but the rest of our bodies were still cold.

We then headed back into Terlingua and stopped at the gift shop. I was a little skeptical of Terlingua. It was a rough looking town, but I liked it. We ate at the Chile Pepper Café, and then headed to the hotel. We held another meeting and watched the video of the day.

From Sunday to the end of Tuesday, there was an obvious difference in the bonds we all had. We all shared jokes and laughed

at things that had happened throughout the day, and we got prepared for our last full day away from home.

We slept in until about seven in the morning, later than usual, to make breakfast. Pinkerton made pancakes for us. We had our group breakfast again and headed to Sam Nail Ranch in the Werm Wagon. When we got there, we walked along the little path to see what Sam Nail had done in

the early 1900s to change the scenery to convince his wife to live with him in that area. It was a very kind gesture, but it didn’t change the fact that she would be living in the desert.

After that, we headed to the Cattail Falls, which was another favorite of mine. The trail was uphill and made up of rocks. Loose, ankle-twisting rocks, so I took my time. It was also very hot on the way up, but the closer we got to the falls, the cooler it got. To actually see the falls, we had to get over some large boulders and it was kind of tough, but it was worth it.

We were in the bottom of a mountain, and the water was streaming in from the top. It felt really good down there. It kind of felt the same as when you stand in front of a refrigerator on a hot day. It was very peaceful. I didn’t really want to leave, but we left to go to the Tuff Canyon. Some kids went down into the canyon, but I just looked at them on the overlook above them.

Then we headed to lunch at a little rest area and left to go to the Santa Elena Canyon. It was about eight stories up and there was a lot of stairs. It was the perfect temperature there. Getting to the bottom was amazing. It was very pretty.

We soon discov-ered, thanks to Tessa, that one of the rocks made an excellent slide, and we entertained ourselves with that.

Then we heard a voice that seemed to be coming from the heavens, the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard. It was an old man, who coincidentally had been a science teacher, was singing through the canyon. He sang some songs to us, and in return we sang the alma mater to him. That was a really neat experience.

Soon though, we had to get back, and we went down all those stairs again. It was hard going back knowing,

that by the same time tomorrow, we’d be back home, away from Big Bend.

We went to another area to watch the sunset. It was beautiful. Before it got completely dark, Tessa had us spell out “Big Bend 2014” with our flashlights to take a picture of us using the “shutter photography” technique. I was the letter “G”. It was really cool. Our day ended with dinner at a restaurant and our final meeting back at the hotel. For those who went, it was unforgettable, and for me, it was another favorite moment. We also watched the last video of the day, and said our good-nights.

The last day on the trip was kind of stressful. We woke up 20 minutes from the time we were supposed to leave to watch the sunrise on our last day there. We were in Easter Egg Valley and we saw Indian pictographs, and the large “Easter egg” b o u l d e r s . It was neat seeing the old drawings and eve ry th ing , but I was too tired to really enjoy it. After the sunrise, we headed back to the hotel, loaded e v e r y t h i n g back in, and headed out to eat breakfast.

Actually leaving there was sad. No time there seemed like enough. We sadly made our way home.

I slept for a while, but after we left the bookstore in Alpine, it was a very fun trip back. There was a lot of singing, dancing and laughing. We had to use our energy up somehow since there weren’t anymore hikes. We stopped one more time to eat at Olive Garden in Midland, and we did the same thing all over again.

Once we got here, I was excited to see my family again, but there was still a part of me that wanted to go back. This trip was a once in a lifetime opportunity that everyone who has the opportunity should go on. Although a large part of the trip is in this article, ultimately, what happens on the Big Bend trip, stays on the Big Bend trip.

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The UIL district competition is March 19 at Big Spring High School.

The accounting team consists of Justin Clifton, Nathan von Roeder, Mark Stelutti, Shiv Bhakta and alternate Madison Shaw. They are “learning and apply accounting theory and procedures to a wide variety of questions and problems,” sponsor Phyllis Smith said. The accounting team has made it to the state competition the last 18 years in a row.

The science team consists of R.J. Silva, Kelsi McCullar, Emily Parmer, Josh Molter, Gabi Quiros and Aaron Irwin. The students take a test over biology, chemistry and physics, Shauna Pinkerton, sponsor said.

Debra Graham is the coach of the social studies team, which is made up of Tessa Holladay, Devin Gonzalez, Silva and Teah Dollins. “The students have been reading ‘A Common Wealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Au-

stralia’ by Thomas Reneally. They will be asked to complete a multiple choice test covering the novel and geographical questions of the Australian Continent and surrounding oceans, islands, etc. The contestants will also write an essay of the development of Australia,” Graham said.

The computer science team is Kyle Stricklett, Chris Sands, Bridger Cowley, Zach Deere and alternate Josh Alvarado, sponsor Wynola Early said. There is a 45-minute multiple choice test, and then a two-hour programming contest. The top three individual programming scores scores will be taken as the test score, and the individuals’ placement is determined by the score on the test.

The current events team must “keep abreast of current events,” Mrs. Janie Romine, sponsor, said.

Members are LaQuisha Roden, Priya Bhakta, Alex Sanchez and Lora Shultz. They will take a test of 40 questions about events from September 2013-February

2014, and then write an essay about a current events topic that they are given.

The headline writing team is made up of Luz Valadez, Flor Marquez, Elijah Lay and alternate Brianna Garcia. In the competition, “students are given six ‘mini’ stories with instructions to write different styles and counts for each headline for those stories in a 45-minute period,” Diane Arnold, sponsor, said.

Alina Hernandez, Anna Charlotte Lavers, Michelle Rios and alternates Brianna Garcia and David Rios will compete in feature writing. Students are given a prompt about a feature situation where they have an hour to write a feature, Arnold said.

David Rios, Alex Luecke and Virginia Velazquez are in the news writing event. The students are given prompts about a news situation, and are given 45 minutes to write a story with the information they’re given, Arnold said.

Another journalism event, editorial writing, is made up of Alex Luecke, Alina Hernandez and McKenna

Keele. “The students are given a situation with the pro and con sides also given, and they have 45 minutes to write an editorial, which is the staff opinion,” Arnold said.

Spelling and vocabulary competitors are Taylor Brumley, Teah Dollins and Sierra Luera. The students practice spelling 1,500 words, and are responsible for knowing definitions for approximately third of them. “The test consists of a section that involves proofreading, a section over vocabulary and a section of straight spelling. The first two sections are multiple choice, and the last section, the spelling, involves having the words called out while the contestants write them down,” Malinda McClung, sponsor, said.

The ready writing competitor is Katelynn Hart, and literary criticism competitor is Bethany Rey-nolds, according to Charlotte Clifton, sponsor.

The poetry competitors are Emily Parmer, Roselia Jaimes and Kiara Martinez. In the event, students choose a piece

of poetry, practice reading the piece, then they attempt to read the piece as emotionally as possible in front of a judge.

The prose team is made up of Melissa McCowan, Gabi Quiros, Maddy Moreno, and alternate Luz Valadez. In this event students choose a short story, and attempt to read the piece as emotionally as possible.

Competing in calculator applications are Lex Aguirre, Taide Baeza, Taylor Head, Samiha Khaled and alternates Kaiden Johnson and Sterling Lee. Laura Northern is the sponsor.

Competing in informative speaking are Colton Barnett, Anthony Jaimes, Melissa McCowen and alternate Roselia Jaimes. Shelby Randolph is the sponsor.

Lincoln Douglas debate is another speech event sponsored by Randolph. The students competing are Shiv Bhakta, Alanna Hurt, Anthony Jaimes and alternate Colton Barnett.

Persuasive speaking competitors are Alanna Hurt, Kiara Martinez, Jake Villanueva and alternate Maddy Moreno. Randolph is the sponsor.

Competing in mathematics are Priyesh Desai, Kelsi McCullar, Madison Shaw and Nathan von Roeder. Sponsor is Penny Perry.

Members of the number sense team are Priyesh Desai, Kaiden Johnson, Daniel Miller and Nathan von Roeder. Bud Birks is the sponsor.

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By Gabe WilliamsonThe UIL one-act-play

(OAP) district competition is being hosted in Worsham Auditorium on March 28-29.

Snyder’s one act play will be “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.” It takes two very minor characters of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet,” and then makes them the main characters of this play. It shows everything that Ros-encrantz and Guildenstern have to go through while

being caught in the middle of Hamlet’s crazy family, while trying to figure out what they’re actually trying to do.

Mason Tabor plays Rosencrantz; Kaiden Johnson, Guildenstern; and Gabi Quiros, the player.

The tragedians are Roselia Jaimes, Kelsi McCullar, Emma Beaver, Mattie Forester, Maddy Moreno, Andrew Porter and Gabe Williamson.

The royals of the play are made up of Noah McGuire,

Claudius; Aly Antczak, Gertrude; Daniel Drake, Polonius; Riley Arnold, Hamlet; and Talee Jones, Ophelia.

Sydney Hamlett is the stage director; Emily Parmer, assistant stage manager; Luz Valadez, sound; Max Westlund, Chris Dickenson and Hannah Downing, lights/auxiliary.

Alternates are Tessa Holladay, Sarah McWilliams and Shi Dowds.

“The League’s one-act play contest, founded in

1927, is the largest high school play production contest or play festival in the world. More than 14,000 Texas high school students in more than 1,000 plays participate in 300 plus contests, which take place from the beginning of March through the three-day, 40-production state meet one-act play contest. More than 200 college and university faculty members serving as critic judges support the one-act play contest. The league’s theater program is considered by historians to be the foundation of educational and community theater in Texas. It continues to be a major factor motivating increasing numbers of schools to offer theater arts as an academic subject.

“The UIL one-act play contest is a competition where similarly sized Texas schools present an 18-40 minute play and

may be adjudicated by a panel of three judges or a single judge. The contest is held on a single day and open to the public. There are five possible levels of competition: zone, district, area, region and state (SHS does not have zone competition). At each level of competition a judge (or panel of three judges) awards individual acting awards as well as selecting two productions to advance to the next level of competition. After the awards are announced a judge gives an oral critique to each of the schools. Because of the wide participation and diversity of plays produced certain rules and guidelines have been adopted by the state one-act play office. These rules are in place to ensure safety, allow for equity, satisfy legal standards, and make the running of the contest practical,” according to the UIL website.

March 28-29Snyder to host one-act-play district competition

Gabi Quiros and Mason Tabor rehearse a scene from the one-act play, “Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead,” as Roselia Jaimes, Mattie Forrester and Kelsi McCullar look on. SHS will host the district one-act contest March 28-29 in Worsham Auditorium.

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sports 12March 6, 2014Varsity softball set to host tournament today

JV softball to play this morning

Shadye Millican runs during a recent varsity softball game. The team opened the Snyder tournament this morning against Colorado City. Then the team will play Baird at 11 and Haskell at 3:30. (Photo by Lucero De Paz)

By Kirsti PierceThe JV softball team

plays Big Spring at 11 a.m. at Cates Field at the east field today.

“The JV team has always been good, and they have always done well playing against varsity-level teams. I plan on making it far as the varsity in the tournament,” Coach Lindsey Knight said.

The team played Lubbock Cooper Tuesday night, but results were not available.

“We have been hitting the ball well, so I expect to score a lot,” Coach Knight said.

Against Colorado City, Feb. 25, the team won 15-0.

“Chloee James pitched her first game since last season, and she struck out several of the opposing players. Most of the girls from C. City couldn’t get a hit off of her,” Coach Knight said.

“Claudia Gutierrez pitch-ed and had a total of nine strikeouts,” against Hawley, and the team won 6-1. “We

made few errors and had a total of eight hits,” Knight said.

In the Big Spring tournament, the team was the gold bracket runner-up to Midland Lee JV.

In pool play they beat Colorado City, 11-4 and Forsan 13-1. In mini-bracket play, the team beat Andrews, 5-3 and lost to Midland Lee, 0-15. The team won two games in the gold bracket beating Forsan, 17-1 and Odessa High, 10-9. They lost the championship game to Midland Lee, 1-15.

By Alanna HurtThe varsity softball

team opened pool play in its tournament at eight this morning against Colorado City at Cates Field at the west field. They are scheduled to play Baird at 11 a.m. and Haskell at 3:30 p.m. today.

The tournament goes through Saturday.

“We will have good competition so we will prepare in the best way possible, defensively not giving up runs,” Coach Kristin Williams said.

They opened their season against Coahoma Jan. 28 where the scrimmage was “good,” according to Williams.

They played scrimmages against Eula and Odessa High. “The girls played better against Eula than Odessa High; however we

just made too many errors,” Williams said.

The team scrimmages Midland Lee Feb. 4. “We played very well against Midland Lee,” she said.

Fort Stockton “challenged the girls on bases” and was a “great growing experience to see where we are as of now.

On Feb. 18, the Lady Tigers faced Hawley. “Hawley is a good team and we struggled hitting, but our defense was solid.”

The Waco tournament was “awesome” and girls claimed third at the tournament. Coach Williams said, “We played some pretty good competition.”

“Against Colorado City we struggled defensively at first, but came around and hit the ball well!” Williams said about the Feb. 25th game.

Dee Carrizales bats at a JV softball game. The JV team plays in the Snyder tournament this morning at 11. Photo by Lucero De Paz

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baseball team will play Lake Worth in the Bowie Tournament. Tomorrow the team will play Burkburnett and Bowie, then Iowa Park on Saturday.

“We are working on the things that we did not do very well in our tournament this weekend. We need to have better at-bats with runners in scoring position and pitchers need to improve our control of the plate,” Coach Shane Stewart said.

Last weekend at the Snyder tournament the team won three games and lost one.

The team lost to Perryton 1-4 on Thursday night.

On Friday night Jacob Chappell scored the tying run in the seventh inning and Taylor Munkres hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning claiming a victory against Graham 6-5.

On Saturday they defeat-ed Pecos, 7-3. Skillet Rinehart and Hunter Ward had three hits each.

They also defeated Big Spring, 4-1. Kutter Derryberry had two hits and two RBI’s in the win.

On Feb. 25 the team beat Colorado City, 22-0.

Baseball to play Lake Worth todayOffensively they had 15 hits and allowed one hit on the mound.

On Feb. 22, the boys played Graham in a double header and won both games, 8-6 and 17-5.

“We pitched well and ht the ball consistently. Colby Diggs led the offense with three hits in each game,” Stewart said.

On Feb. 17, they lost to Estacado, 5-4 although they held the lead 4-2 until the top of the seventh, Stewart said.

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Track teams to competeat Big Spring Relays today

Paige Pollard placed first at the Hamlin meet with a 10’ 6”, matching the school record set in 2008 by Cayelea Rhodes. (Photo by Gabby Munoz)

Adrian Aguilar jumps hurdles at the Hamlin meet. He placed fourth at the meet in the 110m hurdles with at time of 17.94. (Photo by Gabby Munoz)

By Alina Hernandez, Anna Charlotte Lavers

According to the track website, the teams will com-pete today at the Big Spring Relays.

The results from the last meet in Sweetwater were MicCah Wesley first and Shanice Cobb second in the girls’ 100m.

For the girls 200m Mic-Cah Wesley, first and Shan-ice Cobb, third.

Keely Bartels placed first and Chelsea Lambaran placed sixth for the girls’ 100 hurdles.

In the girls’ 300 hurdles, Keely Bartels was second and Chelsea Lambaran was fifth.

Yulissa Rios placed sixth in the 1600 and fifth for the 3200m

Chelsea Lambaran placed sixth in the long jump.

Daniella Miranda placed third in the triple jump.

Alex Braziel placed sixth in the shot put.

The boys’ results were

D’Vincent Allison, third in the 100m.

Zach Deere placed fourth in the 200m.

Francisco Alonso placed fourth in the 400m.

In the 110 hurdles, Adri-an Aguilar placed sixth.

Jon Garcia placed fourth in the 300 hurdles.

Alonso placed first in the 800m.

In the 1600m, Antonio Robles placed fourth. R.J. Silva also placed but results were not given.

In the 3200m, Robles placed third and Silva placed sixth.

In the 4x100 Relay, Bren-dan Garza, Allison, Miguel Juarez and Deere placed fifth.

In the 4x200 Relay Garza, Allison, Juarez and Deere placed third.

Alonso, Garcia, Silva and Robles placed fourth in the 4x400 Relay.

Andrew Porter placed sixth in the shot put and fifth in the discus.

By Gabe Williamson,Briana Garcia

Tomorrow the varsity tennis team will travel to Seminole for a tournament, and JV doesn’t have another tournament until March 20.

“Snyder beat a very good Wall team, 10-9.” Coach Crystal Balzek said.

At the Lakeview tournament Evan McGrew and Virginia Velasquez placed second.

At the Levelland dual the teams went 18-4 overall, Both JV and varsity lost two matches each.

The varsity team will need “to get a lot of match play in before district in April,” and JV needs to “improve in all aspects of the game of tennis,” Blazek said.

Coach Blazek said she thinks that the varsity team will perform great, and she expects to bring home some medals from the Seminole tournament.

The teams at the Snyder tournament are still to be determined.

Mason Tabor practices after school. The varsity team will compete in a tournament at Seminole tomorrow. (Photo by Lucero De Paz)

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sports 15March 6, 2014March 15Flores advancesto state in Corpus ChristiBy Kalen Cowley

Alyssa Flores qualified for state powerlifting after finishing in second place with a total of 585 lbs. at the regional powerlifting meet Saturday in Fort Stockton. Flores advances for her second year to the state meet, which will be in Corpus Christi on March 15.

The boys’ team competes tomorrow at the regional meet in Sundown. Qualifiers are Damond Humiston for 114 lb. weight class; Jordan Davis for 148 lb. weight class; Jose Juarez for 165 lb. weight class; D’Vincent

Allison for 181 lb. weight class; Nick Perez for 275 lb. weight class; Jeremy Garza and Aaron Steelman for the SHW (super heavy weight) class.

Other results from the girls’ meet last Saturday were Veda Poe, ninth in the 132 lb. weight class with a total of 520 lbs.; Gabby Munoz, seventh in the 148 lb weight class with a total of 585 lbs.; Azucena Gonzales competed as an alternate in the 165 lb. weight class and finished with a total of 565 lbs.

Hunter hopes for district golf championship

Aaron Steelman spots Jeremy Garza. They will both compete at the regional meet tomorrow at Sundown. (Photo by Kallie Her-nandez)

Malory Hunter lines up her putt at the Snyder tournament. (Photo by Flo Marquez)

By Elijah Lay “Our goal is always a

district championship,” Coach Ricky Hunter said about his golf teams. “The top two teams from district advance to the regional tournaments so we for sure want to be first or second.”

Three weeks ago, the boys’ varsity team competed in Lubbock. The team captured third place with Logan Hopper, 80-77; Nathan von Roeder, 81-83;

Josh Molter, 84-85; Logan Presley, 89-75; and Clayton Galyean, 84-84.

Both boys’ teams also competed this past weekend in Abilene with Hopper, 88-75; von Roeder, 85-73; Molter, 100-82; Presley, 97-76; and Austin Elliot, 112-92.

JV scores were Galyean, 88-79; Ethan Hernandez, 103-96; Alex Luecke, 130-94; Elijah Lay, 107-NS; and Kyle Shrum, 110-NS.

The varsity girls’ team also competed this past weekend in Lubbock. The girls claimed fourth place with Cassidy Rawls, 88-79; Malory Hunter, 89-78; Regan Lindsey, 86-84; Alanna Hurt, 99-100; Taylor Kiker, 101-88; and Courtney Velasquez, 103-98.

“We will keep doing what we have been all semester: focus on the short game,” Hunter said.

Alyssa Flores squats at the Colo-rado City meet. She will advance to state in Corpus Christi March 15. (Photo by Alexis Munoz)

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Michelle Martinez and Nathan von Roeder dance after Mr. and Miss SHS were named. Photo by Flor Marquez

D’Vincent Allison and Rebecca Murillo were named Mr. and Miss SHS. Photo by Luz Valadez

Hannah Smith, Maddy Moreno, Aly Antczack and Noah McGuire performed at Coronation. Photo by Lucero De Paz

Mason Tabor and Tessa Holla-day were selected to represent Student Council. Photo by Lu-cero De Paz

Josh Molter escorts FCA sweet-heart Bethany Reynolds. Photo by Flor Marquez

Mr. SHS nominees were Nathan von Roeder, Skillet Rinehart, Eddie Torres, D’Vincent Allison and Hunt-er Ward. Miss SHS nominees were Katelee Brock , Adrianna Hernandez, Michelle Martinez, Rebecca Murillo and Kayla Rodriguez. Photo by Flor Marquez

Drama sweethearts Riley Ar-nold and Maddy Moreno are presented to the audience. Photo by Flor Marquez

Gabe Williamson and Taylor Brumley are presented to the audience as Tiger’s Tale Sweet-hearts. Photo by Lucero De Paz

Tiger’s Lair sweetheart Jasmin Martinez is escorted by Ruben Munoz. Photo by Lucero de Paz