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CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 51, Issue 1 Thursday, December 17, 2015 EDITOR IN CHIEF: ANDREW SARGENT CHS ASSISTANT EDITOR:BRANDON RAMIREZ FLIGHT chstoday.org EDITOR: ELLIE VAN DE GRAAFF Swim Team breaks 10 records Hunter Keslar STAFF WRITER Capital’s swim team took second place at district. Overall the boys placed 2nd out of 29 teams in the District championship. The swim team has broken 10 records this year alone. The Capital boy’s swim team has a meet record of 9-1. Koen Anderson broke records on 4 individual events and 2 relay teams events. Some of those records were 25 year old records. Anderson broke the 50m freestyle record with a time of 22.89, 100m freestyle record with a time of 49.64, 200m freestyle record with a time of 1:45.77, 200m medley relay record with a time of 1:44.40, 200m free re- lay record with a time of 1:31.65 along with German and French Club Lock-in Becca Harvey and Brayden Taylor On Friday Oct 30th, The German Club and the French Club teamed up for their annual French and German lock-in. “There was a giant bouncy obstacle course, a dance off with Just Dance games, scary movies, Halloween makeup, capture the flag with Nerf guns, and a whole lot of fun going on throughout the night,” said French Club member, junior Ashley Standerfer. “We also put on a Valentine’s dinner and almost every month we have a movie night where we watch French films and eat popcorn,” said French Club Vice President, senior John (Gabe) Cazier. Besides the Lock In, French Club have other activities planned throughout the year. “French Club is a community for French lovers to connect and deepen their appre- ciation for francophone culture,” said French Club Advisor Kyle Schlagel. This year in Ger- man Club the German Honor Society will be going to Valley View Elementary and teach German to younger students. The president of the German club is senior Mercedes Blackburn. German Club meets at lunch on the last Wednesday of every month in Frau Nielsens’ room 212. Ski Club News, Page 3 As soon as Bogus Ba- sin opens, the ski and snowboard club will begin their practices and races. There will be Saturday races in- cluding the Dotty Clark race, their last and larg- est event. The club participates... News, Page 2 Student Council Student Council mem- bers learn valuable skills that can be used later in life. “You learn extreme leadership skills and time management. I’ve become more of a part of this school and more... News, Page 2 Varsity Football breaks records The Varsity football team had a winning season with play- ers beating records, winning against rival schools, and forming new friendships with coaches and fellow players. The team had a regu- lar season record of 5-4 but overall, the record was 6-5. After six years of be- Sports, Page 4 Yearbook info on the back: Page 6 Record breaker junior Patrick Shutt competes at the West YMCA. PHOTO BY PATTI ROONEY German and French club get together to do their annual lock-in with many activities to keep them busy. The German Club waits for their lunch at the Schnitzel Garten on Sept. 30. Festival of Trees Awards the help of Sam Schul- tz, Patrick Shutt, & Mac Beers, 400m free relay record with a time of 3:21.13 along with the help of Sam Schultz, Patrick Shutt, & Mac Beers. Patrick Shutt broke the 100m butterfly record with a time of 57.07. Culley Shannon broke the 100m breaststroke record with a time of 1:04:67. Anderson had also won a gold medal in last year’s state final. The Capital girls’ team has not faired as well overall in the sea- son, but they have con- tinued to work hard and have earned their spots in the State champion- ship. The girls placed 11th out of 29 teams at dis- trict. The final meet was on Friday, Novem- ber 6 and Saturday, No- vember 7, 2015. Some of these records are 25 years old Check us out on: chstoday.org

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CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL Volume 51, Issue 1Thursday, December 17, 2015

EDITOR IN CHIEF: ANDREW SARGENT

CHS ASSISTANT EDITOR:BRANDON RAMIREZ

FLIGHTchstoday.org EDITOR: ELLIE VAN DE GRAAFF

Swim Team breaks 10 records

Hunter KeslarSTAFF WRITER

Capital’s swim team took second place at district. Overall the boys placed 2nd out of 29 teams in the District championship. The swim team has broken 10 records this year alone. The Capital boy’s swim team has a meet record of 9-1. Koen Anderson broke records on 4 individual events and 2 relay teams events. Some of those records were 25 year old records. Anderson broke the 50m freestyle record with a time of 22.89, 100m freestyle record with a time of 49.64, 200m freestyle record with a time of 1:45.77, 200m medley relay record with a time of 1:44.40, 200m free re-lay record with a time of 1:31.65 along with

German and French Club Lock-in

Becca HarveyandBrayden Taylor

On Friday Oct 30th, The German Club and the French Club teamed up for their annual French and German lock-in. “There was a giant bouncy obstacle course, a dance off with Just Dance games, scary movies, Halloween makeup, capture the flag with Nerf guns, and a whole lot of fun going on throughout the night,” said French Club member, junior Ashley Standerfer. “We also put on a Valentine’s dinner and almost every month we have a movie night where we watch French films and eat popcorn,” said French Club Vice

President, senior John (Gabe) Cazier. Besides the Lock In, French Club have other activities planned throughout the year. “French Club is a community for French lovers to connect and deepen their appre-ciation for francophone culture,” said French Club Advisor Kyle Schlagel. This year in Ger-man Club the German Honor Society will be going to Valley View Elementary and teach German to younger students. The president of the German club is senior Mercedes Blackburn. German Club meets at lunch on the last Wednesday of every month in Frau Nielsens’ room 212.

Ski Club

News, Page 3

As soon as Bogus Ba-sin opens, the ski and snowboard club will begin their practices and races. There will be Saturday races in-cluding the Dotty Clark race, their last and larg-est event. The club participates...

News, Page 2

Student Council

Student Council mem-bers learn valuable skills that can be used later in life. “You learn extreme leadership skills and time management. I’ve become more of a part of this school and more...

News, Page 2

Varsity Football breaks records

The Varsity football team had a winning season with play-ers beating records, winning against rival schools, and forming new friendships with coaches and fellow players. The team had a regu-lar season record of 5-4 but overall, the record was 6-5. After six years of be-Sports, Page 4

Yearbook info on the back: Page 6

Record breaker junior Patrick Shutt competes at the West YMCA.

PHOTO BY PATTI ROONEY

German and French club get together to do their annual lock-in with many activities to keep them busy.

The German Club waits for their lunch at the Schnitzel Garten on Sept. 30.

Festival of Trees Awards

the help of Sam Schul-tz, Patrick Shutt, & Mac Beers, 400m free relay record with a time of 3:21.13 along with the help of Sam Schultz, Patrick Shutt, & Mac Beers. Patrick Shutt broke the 100m butterfly record with a time of 57.07.

Culley Shannon broke the 100m breaststroke record with a time of 1:04:67. Anderson had also won a gold medal in last year’s state final. The Capital girls’ team has not faired as well overall in the sea-son, but they have con-

tinued to work hard and have earned their spots in the State champion-ship. The girls placed 11th out of 29 teams at dis-trict. The final meet was on Friday, Novem-ber 6 and Saturday, No-vember 7, 2015.

Some of these records are 25 years old

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Flight’s duty is to inform and entertain students and faculty in an accurate and timely fashion. It reflects the ideas of the student body and also creates new perspectives. The paper is oriented toward events and all information that affects the student body. Flight is published monthly by Capital High school, 8055 Goddard Road Boise, Idaho 83704. Phone: 658-2346. Circulation 1650. Adobe InDesign is used to design the graphics and typeset. Printing is done by Idaho Press Tribune, Nampa, ID. The opinions and views in this publication are not necessarily the views of the administration, or the entire Flight staff, or the entire student body. All signed commentar-ies that appear in Flight are strictly the opinion of that individual and do not nec-essarily reflect the general opinion of the Flight staff. Anyone wishing to sub-mit a letter to the editor is encouraged to do so. Place letters in Ms. Francis’ mail-box in the office, or room 202. Letters may also be sent to the editor of Flight via e-mail. All letters must be signed and verified in per-son in order to be printed. The Flight staff reserves the right to edit all submissions.

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Mock Trial Debate Ski Club

David ColtinSTAFF WRITER Brandon Ramirez

ASSISTANT EDITORAlex DonahueSTAFF WRITER

The Mock Trial team has returned for another year of court cases. “You get to learn about how the court system works. It’s really chill and it’s just for fun,” senior team member Cassie Marvin said. The Mock Trial team

The Debate team has had five tournaments so far this year. Their tournaments were on Oct 17 at Capital, Oct 23 and 24 at Centennial High, Oct 31 at Borah High, Nov 7 at Rocky Mountain, and Nov 14 at Meridian High. The tournaments start

As soon as Bogus Basin opens, the ski and snowboard club will begin their practices and races. There will be Saturday races includ-ing the Dotty Clark race, their last and larg-est event. The club participates in a trip to Jackson Hole or a chosen resort at the end of the year which will be the biggest trip. The members are look-

is looking forward to receiving and read-ing through their first assigned court case. “They do take real court cases,” senior team member Abigail Orlovich said. The team will later be in a multi school court trial competition in April. Advisor and coach of Mock Trial Caleb Mattravers said, “The Legal Eagles are hoping to make it to the state finals this year.” The team will be meet-ing every Tuesday and Thursday after school until 5:00 p.m. in Mock Trial coach and advisor Teegan Carter’s room 140.

around 8 a.m. and usu-ally last until 4:30 p.m. Debate is categorized into two different teams, novice and varsity. Advisor Rich said, “So far, both Novice and Varsity are doing equally well this year.” They will be focusing on Domestic Surveil-lance all year long for the policy team. Junior Christian Rupp said, “I really enjoy social studies and doing research on different topics, which is why I got into the Debate team last year.” “Five hours a week is the amount of time I usually devote myself to Debate outside of class,” junior Daniel Liu said.

ing forward to the ski and snowboard season being a good one. Sam Shultz, junior, Hailey Brookins, junior and Trystan South, junior, say that they’re look-ing forward to all of the races, especially Dotty Clark, and being in the club.There are no specific set practices for the mem-bers as they practice on their own time or show up early to prac-tice before an event. There are multiple skill levels for the members, depending on their skill at skiing or snowboard-ing. The club advisors are AP U.S. History and Practical Law teacher Caleb Mattravers and chemistry teacher Sarah Speck. Members meet in Speck’s room 223

Student Council

Tosha WinterSTAFF WRITER

Writer’s Guild

Nikayla HurlbertSTAFF WRITER

Student Council mem-bers learn valuable skills that can be used later in life. “You learn extreme leadership skills and

Writer’s Guild focuses on the writing pro-cess and the creativ-ity of individuals. The club offers scholarship opportunities and the chance for individuals to share their writing with others.

time management. I’ve become more of a part of this school and more involved with the stu-dent body and faculty,” said senior Ashley Pel-koski. In November, Student Council has their Pump-kin Festival. “It’s a fall-themed festival that has differ-ent kinds of pumpkin flavored foods. There is pumpkin bowling and pumpkin smashing. It’s a time for the whole school to come together and celebrate,” said Pel-koski.

In December, Student Council is hosting their Winter Carnival. Senior Kara Mease, juniors Mackenzie Newman and Harley Ghoul are in charge. “It is a Holiday Car-nival that is free admis-sion but we are accept-ing donations (money, toys) for the Boise Res-cue Mission. There will be fun activities, music and Santa at this event. It is for the entire com-munity. We are targeting younger kids (the future eagles) to attend,” said Mease.

Advisor and English teacher Paula Uriarte opened the club at the beginning of the year, and frequently adver-tised it on the morning announcements. She assigned seniors Daliah Layman and Clarissa Rice and junior Nikayla Hurlbert to be student advisors of the club. Layman said, “Writ-er’s Guild let’s people express themselves through writing. I joined Writer’s Guild to advance my writing, and to take advantage of the scholarship opportu-nities.” “Writer’s Guild is a

place where people can gain courage to share their writing and is an opportunity for writ-ing skills to improve. I joined because I enjoy writing, and I like being able to get ideas and to share ideas with oth-ers,” Rice said. Writer’s Guild meets every Wednesday at lunch in Room 204. They are currently working on the Nation-al November Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). This is a program that encourages young writ-ers to write every day and to get into the habit of writing every day.

Key Club Science Olympiad

Chais Six-BorchardtSTAFF WRITER

Albert JenkinsSTAFF WRITER

Throughout the month of November, the mem-bers of Key Club are painting rocks for Kind-ness Rocks. These rocks are painted with inspira-tional or kind quotes,

Science Olympiad is a club that participates in competitions where they do events pertaining to earth science, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. It’s a club also about teamwork

and then placed in vari-ous places around Boise to help spread kindness. The volunteers meet in English teacher Brittney Breske’s room Wednesdays at lunch. Meetings are run by Key Club president, junior Harley Ghoul, vice president, junior MacKenzie Newman, Treasurer junior Kara Mease, and secretary, junior Drake DenHar-tog. “This club is a way to get to hang out with my friends, and to get to do good for my communi-ty,” Ghoul said.

and working as a team. This club participates in a series of compe-titions against other schools consisting of two divisions (Divi-sions B and C) junior high is a part of Divi-sion B and high schools are in Division C. Some events they are planning on doing this year is the Science Olympiad State Compe-tition on April 2, 2016. The officers of this club are Jessica Liu, and Grace Liu. They meet in biology teacher James Gordon’s room 123 atl 3:30 p.m. on Fri-days.

Fashion Club GSA

Christine NguyenSTAFF WRITER

Fashion Club encour-ages individuals to express themselves and to be creative through clothing. Adviser Cin-dy Wilson and a senior started the club and is dedicated to support-ing students with their individuality by helping the community through clothing services. President Senior

Hannah Prigge and Co President Senior Sanela Tucakovio have been involved in Fashion Club for two years, tak-ing over from seniors last year. Wilson said, “It’s not too late to get involved with Fashion Club and help with our service project, the annual fash-ion show which raises money and collects clothing for women and children in the Boise area.” The theme for this year’s fashion show is the different decades and will be held in January. Fashion Club meetings are held every Tuesday or every other Tuesday in Room 251 with about 35 or more participants but anyone is encouraged to join.

Kacie FromhartSTAFF WRITER

Community. Safety. Acceptance. This is what Gay Straight Alli-ance Club (GSA) is all about. LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) students from all over the nation are gather-ing in their high schools to form safe communi-ties. GSA meets every Wednesday in room 201 to discuss issues in the school or community. GSA participates

in many YAD (Youth Alliance for Diversity) sponsored events such as the movie night on November 20th for all LGBT youth and their straight alliances. The GSA Club also took part in community events like the “Trans-gender Day of Remem-brance” on November 20th at the BSU Stu-dent Union building at 7:00p.m. GSA members also attend the Diversity Dance, an exclusive Prom-like event for LGBT students, which occurs every April at College of Idaho. “I hope that our group grows and teach-es Capital students to be more accepting of all students and we become more active in the com-munity,” said English teacher Diane Ruxton.

YearbookEditor-In-ChiefSabrina Winter

Assistant EditorsBecca HarveyHenry Price

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Festival of Trees-More Awards!

Flight/Talon

Nathan LayneSTAFF WRITER

Yearbook is an impor-tant part of Capital High School. They have accomplished many things and hopefully will accomplish many more things for many years to come.

Yearbook has a num-ber of events coming up, here are a few of them; proof parties, where staff looks at the yearbook pages they have all finalized and make sure they all look fit for your eyes. Also, they have Christmas Tag coming up, Secret Santa and hey! We already sent out over 40 pages to Josten’s Print-ing Company! The final page num-ber in the yearbook this year will be 208 pages, and this year’s edition will be our 51st!If you are interested in buying a yearbook,

then go to “Jostens-yearbooks.com: the yearbooks are $55. If you want the best deal on your yearbook, then purchase one by December 17th!Also, parents of seniors can purchase senior ads at “Theyearbookcom-pany.com.” Senior Sabrina Win-ter is editor-in-chief for both 6th and 7th periods and she said, “It’s really stressful, but it prepares me for the real world with what a lot of jobs are like. It also gives me a huge sense of what the world of design is like.”

Honor Society

National Honor Soci-ety participated in Rake-Up Boise this month. This event helps the elderly and disabled by

cleaning up the leaves they are unable to rake and bag themselves. Rake Up Boise has been in operation for over 29 years with over 7,000 thousand people help-ing every year. 2,000 tons of waste has been kept of the land that is now being used for mulch. The National Honor Society (NHS) is the nation’s premier orga-nization established to recognize outstanding high school students. More than just an honor

roll, NHS serves to rec-ognize those students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of scholarship, leader-ship, service, and char-acter. National Honor Soci-ety meets in the band room during lunch on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. The club offi-cers and presidents of the club are Rachel Orenstein, Shelby Shei-ger, Ty Miller, and Ope-oluwa Abimbola.

Albert JenkinsSTAFF WRITER

DECA

Hailey RethwischSTAFF WRITER

During second semes-ter DECA students will prepare for the upcom-ing competitions. Junior Sidney Ang-stman said she enjoys “Competing in compe-tition at state as well as the trip to Nationals.” This year nationals will be held in Nashville. “My favorite activ-ity that DECA sets

up would for sure be Make-A-Wish,” said junior Madison Link. Angstman said, “DECA plans the Make-A-Wish assembly which is a lot of fun being able to help a child’s dream come true.” Link said, “It’s a lot of fun and it looks good on your resume.” The Co-presidents of DECA are seniors Kristopher Dunstan and Paige Tilley, and the DECA advisor is Sandy Murin. According to DECA’s website, the student leadership group pre-pares High School stu-dents and entrepreneurs for careers in business management, hospital-ity and tourism, adver-tising, and finance.

Brenda SolteroSTAFF WRITER

Drama

On Nov. 21 Drama competed to go to state. The state competition was on Dec 3 and Dec 4.

Drama students from all over the valley are getting together for dis-trict competition. For the rest of the school year, they have two more plays to per-form after Christmas break. This class is everyday during 7th period. In order to be in this class, you must audition. For more information see Mrs. Fuller in room 237.

Lacrosse

Hunter KeslarSTAFF WRITER

The actual season for boys’ lacrosse team ended last spring. This upcoming season Capi-tal’s Lacrosse team is moving from Division

2 to Division 1 in High School lacrosse. Boys’ lacrosse went to the State Meet last spring and they finished in 1st in division 2. The team meeting is on Nov 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Eagle’s Nest. They will speak of the future of the team, their future plans, and the coaches for the upcom-ing season. The Lacrosse team winter workouts start Nov. 30 on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays at off the field in merid-ian.

National Honor Soceity help clean up Boise of it’s leaves

Back: Seniors Jade Brink, Isabelle Knudson, Amber McLenna, Jose Terres, Front: art teacher Cathy Younger, senior Angelica Lee, junior Rehl Harrison, and senior Isabel McGuigan pose in front of their trees at the Festival of Trees on Sunday Nov 22.

PHOTO BY SABRINA WINTER

PHOTO BY SABRINA WINTER PHOTO BY SABRINA WINTERBeauty Bouquet placed third in the school non-traditional category.Masquerade Madness received an Honorable Mention and was donated to the Discovery Center

2015 Festival of Trees Winter Art Contest winners

Senior High:

1st Place~Chat Chai, Capital High; teacher--Cathy Younger

2nd Place~Roxanna Albig, Boise High;teacher--Jared Hopkins

3rd Place~Autumn Herrington, Capital HS teacher--Cathy Younger

Honorable Mentions:Luan Teed, Boise High; teacher--Jared Hopkins

Jessica Chase, Boise High; teacher--Jared Hopkins

Sarah Smith, Capital High; teacher--Cathy Younger

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Editor: Brandon Ramirez

Nikayla HurlbertSTAFF WRITER

Varsity Football breaks records

PHOTO BY COLTON ROTHWELL

Michael RodriguezSTAFF WRITER

The Varsity football team had a winning sea-son with players beat-ing records, winning against rival schools, and forming new friend-ships with coaches and fellow players. The team had a regular season record of 5-4 but overall, the record was 6-5. After six years of being defeated, Capital was finally able to score a win against rival Eagle on Sept. 5 at Dona Lar-son Park, with a score of 21-14. The game started well with senior Patrick Korom causing a fum-ble in the opening kick off. “We finally beat Eagle this year. It was sweet,” said senior linebacker and defensive lineman Jackson Bindner. Senior Brandon

Thorell remembered beating Timberline. “It was Senior Night and it got us into the play-offs,” he said. Head Coach Todd Simis said the highlight of the season was the “big win in the state playoffs over Skyline on the last play of the game.” The Skyline game was won when, with the ball inches from the goal line, junior quarterback Drew Korf handed off to junior Micah Hagler who climbed a pile of bodies to score a touch-down in the last 4 sec-onds of the game for a final score of 27-24. Senior defensive and offensive lineman Braydon Ball felt Capi-tal proved themselves this season. “No one thought we could make it this season, but we did which is great,” he said.

Senior Sam Brixey was featured on the Nov. 4th edition of the Idaho Statesman for set-ting an impressive foot-ball record of running the ball 1,126 yards. In the article, Brixey said, “My coaches, my family, my friends all persuaded me to play football, and I’m glad they did.” Capital impressively beat Boise with a score of 60-0 on Saturday, Sept. 19. Another win was against Mountain View 42-14 where sophomore Jordan Godeny-Scott caused a fumble in his first Varsity play of the season while playing on a broken ankle. Bindner said, “The season had up and downs. We were able to get to the quarterfinals, and as a team, we real-ly formed a bond and really came together as

PHOTO BY RIVA DAVIS

The team’s win/loss record was 5-6 in district. The Volley-ball team lost to Boise High in districts. If they would have won they could have gone to state and competed. In Volleyball, they play hard but like to have fun. Senior Rachel Ten-Doeschate said her team could have done better. “We could have been more focused at times, we could get pretty cra-zy and off topic and off task at practice.” There were lots of new memories and

rekindled friendships made in the team. Sophomore Taimane Peko said, “I enjoy being able to play the sport I love with people I’ll never forget.” She also said “I have made so many memories but my favorite memory was definitely the danc-ing on the court.” There are many rea-sons to be in a sport, and specific ones for Volley-ball. Johnson said,“I joined Volleyball because I love the sport and I love being a part of a team because I love getting to play and compete alongside some of my best friends” Junior Ellie Van De

David ColtrinSTAFF WRITER

The Cross Country team took the ambitions and passions of young runners and turned them into true athletes. “It’s a really tough sport, but it teaches you to work hard” said junior Kari Taylor. Training began in the second week of June. The actual season was mid-August to Novem-ber. Training during the season spanned up to two hours after school and a few hours on Sat-urday, as they trained 6

out of 7 days a week. Although the commit-ment was extensive, anyone in healthy phys-ical condition could do it. To get on the team required signup and training, a watch, some water, and good run-ning shoes. The team was like a second family. “You meet so many people ,” said junior, Shelby Stieger. The team had dinners together, went for bagels after Satur-day practices and even went camping together in Coeur d’Alene on Sept. 12, as part of the Coeur d’Alene invite

put on by a group of schools. “We’re really like a family” said sopho-more, Rachel Young. As the team faced defeats like losing a race, they stayed posi-tive so to keep their eye on the prize. Even though they had indi-vidual times, “You score as a team” said sopho-more, Rachel Young. Co-Head Coach Rob-ert Hays said the high-light of the season was, “The entire season.” The boys cross country team and two athletes from the girls team, junior Kari Taylor and

Sophomore Braden Dayton runs at the District Tournament.

Young team has tough season, Coach looks forward to next yearAlex DonahueSTAFF WRITER

This soccer season was a successful one. The boys varsity soccer team had Monday and Wednesday games every week, including the districts, the team’s biggest game. Unfortunately, they didn’t make it all the way through districts, but they worked tremendously hard to get there. The team beat a tough Meridian soccer

team and meeting new people.” Defender, Junior Onesime Tshibwabwa said” I really enjoyed playing on the team and going to districts.” The team had practices every day after school, including a soccer camp at the end of August. The team had a banquet at the end of the season to celebrate a good season on November 4th with food provided by one of the members parents, who is a chef.

team 2-1 to make it into Districts. Zo Omercevic, head varsity coach said,” We had a really young team this year. We look forward to seeing most of them come back next year.” Sophomore William Weaver, said, “I enjoyed playing on the team and playing with the older kids. I feel like I got more experience.” Goal Keeper, Senior Rudy Lopez said, “I enjoyed being on the

PHOTO BY CARLOS LEON

Sophomore Kennedi Paul gets ready to kick the ball on October 6 at game against Rocky Moun-tain High.

Cross Country team trained hard for Districts

Varsity Volleyball improves on their skillsGraaff said her high-light of the season, “I loved all of the girls on my team, we became super close over the season. I was practi-cally Diamonds mother. I brought her snacks in a sack when she forgot food and drove her to her games.” Head Coach, Gina Wat-son speaks on some of her talented players, “Seniors , Rachel Ten-Doeschate and Maddy Johnson, will be going to college to play, Junior Ellie Van De Graaff was a great captain and play-er will return next year.”

PHOTO BY BRYNN DITTMAN

Varsity wide reciever junior Jessie Healy tackles a Nampa player at Nampa High on September 24.

Junior Grace Doughty serves a volleyball at a home game on October 13 against Vallivue High.

a family.” Regarding the future, Varsity Head Coach

Todd Simis said he, “can’t wait to get all our juniors and sophomores

back after another off-season of working out and maturing.”

senior Olivia Konecni, went to the state finals race in Farragut State

Park, where Taylor and Konecni scored in the top 40 while the boys’

team scored 6th in state.

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Abigail RoweSTAFF WRITER

JV Football Team takessecond place in League Championship

The JV football team faced many thrill-ing games and had a remarkable playoff. The Eagles had highs and lows throughout the season but they ended the season taking sec-ond place in the league championship. Head Coach Nick Calaycay said, “Our most consistent game was against Mountain View High School. The Mavericks ended up winning the JV con-ference and we played extremely well in all phases of the game ulti-mately winning 39-23 on Sept. 10.”

Calaycay said, “The win was a huge con-fidence booster after starting the season out 0-2. After the Moun-tain View win we ended up winning six straight games in a row which placed us 2 in the con-ference.” Their records for the season were 6-3. This season’s scores were wins to Mountain View, Boise, Nampa, Borah, Centennial, Timberline, loses to Madison, Eagle OT, and Rocky Moun-tain. Head Coach Calaycay said, “Regarding the future, I am looking for-ward to seeing the play-ers develop into their junior and senior years

The Junior Varsity Vol-leyball team was very successful this year. It was a great season filled with new memories and friendships. They finished the sea-son with a conference record of 4-4. and a 5-5 overall record and came in third at district tour-naments. Sophomore front mid-dle Nicole Powers said her favorite memory was “ We were ranked eighth which is that last spot and were set to

Christine NguyenSTAFF WRITER

PHOTOS BY ELLIE VAN DE GRAAFF

next season. We have many talented players I feel that will make a major contribution to next year’s Varsity squad.” From the first play to the last on the field, the coaches and football players were amazed how the season went by. The coaches and officials were watching every game with curi-osity and pride. This is an eye opener for us that next year’s season would be intriguing. Assistant Coach Matt Homsher said he is looking forward to, “continuing to see these young men continue to grow in life and as a football player.”

PHOTO BY BRYNN DITTMAN

Sophomore Peyton Hamilton sprints for yardage with the football on August 28 at an away game against Mountain View High.

Girl Varsity Soccer team pushed themselves this season

Damian WelcomeSTAFF WRITER

Fast, agile, accurate, and aggressive. This is how we could describe the Capital Girls’ Var-sity Soccer team. Sophomore Kennedi Paul, who acquired the midfield position said, “We really brought our game and pushed our-selves to improve.” The game against Borah was almost a win, but the final score came down to Capital at 2 and Borah with 3. “My favorite game had to have been the Borah game because we really stepped up and pushed ourselves to our

limits,” said sophomore goalkeeper Ciera John-son. The Varsity Girls’ Soccer team’s last game was against Eagle High, yet still losing 1-0. Paul joined the sport early, “I first started playing soccer in 2004 and I just caught a pas-sion for it,” said Paul. Johnson said, “I played soccer for the first time in 2007. I started at a young age, but I loved it since the first day.” As far as improving this season, Paul said, “I learned how to finish accurately and I even picked up dribbling skills on the way.”

Johnson said her favorite part of the season was, “Play-

Sophomore Sierra Talcott runs to the soccerball August 21 Rocky Mounatin

Progress of Girls JV Soccer team improves

Kacie FromhartSTAFF WRITER

The Girls Junior Varsi-ty Soccer team has been in a serious drought. They have been defeat-ed for the past 6 years... until now. The JV team has made enormous progress this season, overcoming two concussions and one ACL tear to come out with an astonishing 2 wins, 9 losses, and 3 ties record. They missed the district tournament by just one point. “Going from the first game to the last, the progress we made was unbelievable,” said

junior team captain Janae Smith. Head coach Rachel Stewart said that the team built “important relationships with each other on and off the field.” According to her, these relationships were critical in building a “strong team unit.” The team did have sig-nificant setbacks. The team was left without a captain and a forward when Smith and sopho-more Kelsey Haskell were both taken out of play for concussions. Also, when junior goalkeeper Mattae Eden tore her ACL in a life changing game against Colombia (a

tie) halfway through the season. “It’s hard,” she remarked, “My team

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JV Midfielder freshman Gabi Bennion dashes to the soccerball to score a point against Meridian High on September 22.

JV Volleyball team comes in third at District

play number one which was Timberline. The tournament was single elimination. It was early in the morning and we were all getting mental-ly prepared for the big game. We won the first match and they won the second. We were real-ly excited and a little scared. It was time for the final match to show them what we were made of, it was a super close score the entire game but in the end we won. It felt really great to beat the number one team and kick them out of tournament”.

According to Syd-ney Patrick her favorite game was against Tim-berline because of how close it was the whole time. They worked hard at practices every day of the school week and even harder in their games. On the court the girls played as a team and fought for every point. The head coach was Kaylee Green and the assistant coach was Destinee Johnson.

PHOTOS BY AUSTYN HADLEY

Sophomore Cloe Muir prepares to serve the ball on September 8 against Centennial High.

ing a new position as a goalkeeper was a great experience.”

Paul felt that it was, “Getting closer to the team and learning how

really needed me and I really wanted to help my team but I couldn’t.”

Despite the odds, the Girls’ JV Soccer team this year improved

greatly and are looking forward to next season.

to work together was the best part about this year.”

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