Sports
Lack of effort in team sports classes
Bump, set . . . There is something missing in this sequence. Through the multiple team sports classes I have taken, I have grown increasingly frustrated by the amount of students who lack what it takes to be, in what I think should be a competitive class. Now that is not to say [...]
Theft reported in gym locker room
Now you see it, now you don’t. “There has been a number of things taken from the locker rooms,” says Physical Education Teacher Joe Alfano. “This has not just become an issue recently. This type of thing happens every year and it seems to come and go in waves. We will go a length [...]
Moneyball
For the second year in a row, the Boys Baseball Teams are trying to hit the ball out of the park. “We raised about $2000 last year and we’re going to try to make a bit more this year,” says Varsity Coach Mike Boyd. “Our fundraising goal every year is to make around $5000, [...]
Quirks of baseball
Baseball was forced on me. Well, not playing it, but for fifteen years watching an older brother who played baseball year-round, I could have been a Mini-Tim Leland. And when I wasn’t dragged to a game, I was watching it on TV because my brother, being bigger and stronger, had a vice-like grip on [...]
Law to sit on MHSAA student advisory council
In the words of Athletic Coordinator R.J. Guizzetti, there is none better to discuss high school athletics with than the experts on the field. “We really pushedAndoverstudent athletes to apply to the [Michigan High School Athletics Association (MHSAA)] student advisory council this year,” says Guizzetti. “The students picked get a leadership role and get [...]
Baron leaves diamond to recover from surgery
It all began from a wild throw. “I felt awful, especially because he’s one of my best friends on the team,” explains Junior Harry Singer who threw the ball that sent Third Basemen Preston Smith to the hospital. “The ball was already out of my hand when I saw him cross in its [...]
Winning ways cause change
This team is different. This feeling is different. This is different. But what makes this team so different? The fact we know we can win. Feeling the pressures of everyone around us expecting us to win is the biggest difference. The media, the school, and opposing teams all expect us to be the baseball team [...]
Tackling a new challenge
This ex-Lion is looking to make the Barons roar. “I think it’s amazing that Lomas is one of our assistant coaches. I [feel] really fortunate to have such an experienced coach on our staff,” says three-year varsity member Junior Captain Nick Rabah. “He knows how the game works. That was his job, that [...]
Hardcore parkour
Bouncing off the walls and springing into action,Andoverstudents are jumping into a new sport. Parkour to me is a way of life,” explains Junior Joseph Cunningham, who has been participating in parkour for four years. “It teaches [me] to overcome anything in my path of movement or [even] life. I express my feelings through [...]
Changing it up before moving on
Life was boring. Same old, same old. Being the second semester senior that I am, I saw little motivation to work hard in school, everything was the same as it had been for the last three and a half years. Spring just around the corner, my school year is coming to a close. [...]
