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Issue No. 1 300 Eagle Lane, Pella, IA 50219 October 7, 2014a student publication of Pella Christian High School
by Danielle [email protected]
Graduating high school is a scary time, filled with uncertainty and challenges. Recent graduate Josh Fredrickson faced his own unique set of challenges after graduating high school last May.
On June 13, Fredrickson was involved in a dirt bike accident and severely injured his spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He was originally hospitalized in Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, but after two weeks he moved into Craig Hospital in Denver for recovery.
“We felt that Craig was the most competent rehab hospital within reasonable distance of home,” Fredrickson said.
Fredrickson’s recovery is going well. He is able to stand, and he can walk with electrical stimulation in his left leg and a walker. He is able to feel below his injury, though it is a numb sensation. Everyday he goes to the gym at the rehab center and works on walking and leg exercises.
“Things are going well. Recovery can take a long time,” said Fredrickson. “The staff here say that generally the most recovery is made in the first six months post injury. After that, recovery doesn’t stop, but comes slower.”
Fredrickson and his family plan on returning to Pella for a visit in October. They are not sure when they will be able to come home for good. They will stay at Craig as long as he is making progress.
Fredrickson has remained positive through these challenges. He and his
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PC faculty and students started the year off with a new security system in place. This system includes a number of new cameras in specific locations throughout the school and a new door security. The new security system makes it possible for all the exterior doors, including the front doors, to be locked during the school day. The teachers and faculty now use a card access instead of keys, and all visitors or students that come during the day must push a button to alert the office before entering.
After buzzing in, a camera operates to show who is waiting, and one of the ladies in the office remotely unlocks the front door. After the door closes, it is locked again. The intention of the security system is to acquire a more safe environment.
“The reason for the new system is safety for our students and staff in hopes that it will serve as a deterrent for those who may want to enter the building or
school grounds with ill intentions,” said administrative assistant Penne Fox.
While the idea of the system is to make staff, students, and the facility safer, there are a few drawbacks. For one, the cost required for the security system was disappointing to principal Darryl De Ruiter. He says it is a need because of this day and age. “The primary purpose for the new system is the desire for to keep our staff and students as safe as possible,” said De Ruiter.
It also is more inconvenient for the majority of people entering with good intentions.
“There is an inconvenience for guests coming, more work for our office ladies, another responsibility,” said De Ruiter.
The primary goal of the school is to create a safe environment for students. After taking time to look into recommendations made and which system would be best, the ultimate decision was up to the school board.
However, it is not their intention to be watching every move of the school.
“It is not our desire to ‘play big brother’ and constantly monitor and watch student movement and activities,” said De Ruiter. “It is our desire to keep our staff and students and all property safe and secure,
and I believe this system will do just that. While no system is perfect, we believe this system will greatly improve the safety and security of our staff, students, and facility.”
As of now, there are no future security plans, however, this is a system that can be added to if it is needed.
family hope that he will walk again, though it may be slow in coming.
“My biggest encouragement has been God,” said Fredrickson. “The healing is occurring in my spine, and only God can fix that... I have to trust God to heal me, because only He can determine how much progress I make.”
The PC student body has also been a huge comfort and encouragement to Josh. “I owe a huge thank you to all of my supporters,” he said. “The CaringBridge and Facebook messages, mail, email, visits, shirts and prayers have been so encouraging.”
Fredrickson will be moving to an apartment soon, so watch the Daily Eagle for his updated address. You can also follow his progress at www.caringbridge.org by entering “Joshua Fredrickson” in the “Visit Someone” option.
by Lauren [email protected]
Sophomores Sam Dahm and Andrea Carballo were two PC students who took part in the Many Hands for Haiti (MH4H) Color Blast 5k on September 27 in Pella.
Last July MH4H lost the truck they
used to transport people and equipment when a river swept it away and totaled it. All the proceeds from the Color Blast will go towards a new truck for their ministry.
The race had 373 participants that ran and walked the 5k route which began at the Pella Rec Center and ended at The Mango Tree in downtown Pella.
New security system creates safe environment
Fredrickson attends rehab after dirt bike accident
5K Color Blast raises money for Haiti
Because all outside doors are locked, visitors to PC must push a button to alert office staff before they are able to enter the building.
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The upcoming fall concert will be held on October 14 at 7:00pm in the PC auditorium. Cantabile, the underclass-men mixed choir, as well as Concert Choir and the band will be performing. Choir director Tim Van Voorst recently combined the girls’ Solstice choir and boys’ Cantus choir into one mixed choir.
“Enrollment for Solstice and Cantus was at a point where it just made more sense for the two to be combined,” com-mented Van Voorst. “This is the way choir was structured four years ago and earlier.”
The word Cantabile is an Italian word that means singable or songlike. It is a term frequently found in music where the performer should play his/her in-strument in a way that imitates the hu-man voice.
At the fall concert, it is typical for the choirs to sing traditional choral con-cert literature. Van Voorst commented, “Cantabile will be performing an ar-rangement of the love song “Aura Lee.” This tune was popularized by barber-shop quartets and was wildly success-ful for Elvis Presley in the 1956 film, “Love Me Tender.”
The choirs will combine to perform the traditional reformation hymn “A Mighty Fortress.” The band will be playing their marching band songs, as well drum ca-dences and possibly a Pep Band song or two. “Our Fall Curriculum is marching band so, we are performing our music for the half time show and the flags will be doing their routines as well as drum-line,” stated Dykstra. “It’s also the 200th anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner, so we will play that as well.”
by Jessi [email protected]
A new calendar has been implement-ed this semester at PC that benefits stu-dents as well as teachers. The change from a day requirement to an hour re-quirement will eliminate the need to make up snow days at the end of the year just for the sake of “filling a quota.”
“The main reason we are shifting to [this plan] is to protect instructional hours,” said principal Darryl De Ruiter.
The previous state requirement con-sisted of 180 days of school, with at least 6 hours of instructional time counting as a “day.” The new requirement is a to-
by Jaxon [email protected]
PC’s musical this fall will be The Scar-let Pimpernel, an action adventure set dur-ing the 18th century of French and British history. It is also a love story.
“French actress Marguerite falls in love with an Englishman, Percival Blakeney while the scene flips back and forth be-tween France and England,” said director Marlo Van Peursem.
With The Scarlet Pimpernel being a musical while having conflict between two countries, the play will have a mix of both comedy and drama. The more seri-ous tones will come from the Revolution and the fighting of inhumanities of the world, but the comedy will come from the antics of the Pimpernel League.
“Those guys are doing a great job on stage and will provide lots of laughter for the audience,” said Van Peursem.
Seniors Matthew Rossler, Jessi Vos, and junior Joel Larson play the lead roles of Percy, Marguerite, and Chauvelin. Assist-ing Van Peursem backstage are choir di-rector Tim Van Voorst, keyboardist Marcy Stravers, choreographer Brenna Vogel, and tech director Darryl Van Zee.
As it is a musical, there are many charac-ters to be played, but many roles are filled with experienced theater students. Some
tal of 1,080 hours of instructional time. This total was acquired by multiplying 180 by 6.
“We have 1103.73 hours in our school calendar this year. In essence, now we have four “snow days” built into our cal-endar,” said De Ruiter.
Another thing that will be occurring for the first time this school year is an early dismissal on alternate Wednes-days.
“This has nothing to do with instruc-tional hours, although everything is cal-culated in,” remarked De Ruiter.
After students leave early on Wednesdays, teachers (and eventually
New calendar replaces days with hours
Scarlet Pimpernel takes the stage as fall musical on October 30
Band, choirs prepare for fall concert
students, however, are new to the stage.“Lots of new faces on stage and in the
tech crews,” Van Peursem said. “It is ex-citing to see new faces and each of them are bringing new talents to PC.”
The Scarlet Pimpernel will be a very spe-cially made performance. The actors and technicians have a wide range of artistic styles and eras to deal with, which means
more challenges to face and push through. It will be filled with fun music, a great sto-ryline, and many surprises for the audience.
The Scarlet Pimpernel will be per-formed on October 30-November 1 at 7:00 in the PC Vermeer Auditorium. Tickets go on sale on October 20, priced at $6 for adults and $4 for children. Students of PCHS each receive one free admission.
students) will be participating in a Pro-fessional Learning Community (PLC) model.
“Two major aspects to a PLC are cre-ating collaborative time for teachers and intervention/enrichment time for students,” commented De Ruiter.
There are no apparent drawbacks to either of these issues (PLC or hours in-stead of days). Since this is the first year for both of these things, details are still being worked out.
“Parents need to realize that in the hours system, we are actually gaining instructional time, which we see as a benefit,” said De Ruiter.
Senior Jonathan Beltman, junior Joshua Fopma, seniors Jordan Vande Kamp and Mat-thew Rossler, sophomore Jimmy Beyer, and juniors Maverick Risley and Derrick Jansen work on choreography for The Scarlet Pimpernel set for October 30-November 1.
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This past May, Pella Dollars for Scholars(DFS) awarded $78,900 in scholarships to seniors graduat-ing from Pella Community and Pella Christian high schools, Since its inception in 2003, $828,700 has been granted to local high school seniors.
Pella DFS is completely run and staffed by local vol-unteers so that 100% of the money contributed to Pel-la DFS for scholarships is passed on to local graduating high school seniors for post-secondary education.
Money contributed to the Pella DFS general fund is used to ensure that a minimum $250 scholarship has been available to every senior graduation from PC or PHS. General funds are also used for things like post-age, office supplies, and compliance related activities.
Thanks to individual and business support, Pella
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The PC student body has been blessed with eleven new international students and five transfer students, to bring its enrollment to 259 this semester. The new faces at PC come from Italy, Brazil, South Korea, the Ukraine and China, along with a few places closer to home, such as Carlisle, Newton, and Pella High.
Junior Evan Armstrong, who transferred from Pella High, is enjoying his time at PC, even though he is dis-appointed about having to sit out from football for 90 days. His favorite part of PC is being able to have break and lunch IM’s.
“I just showed up and hoped for the best,” he said.Another junior, Sohee Kwon, is one of the new ex-
change students and is from South Korea. She loves PC because of its nice students and good education, though she can be pretty busy with homework at times. PCHS differs from her home school because of its Christian education.
“The biggest challenge is putting God in the middle of my classes and studies,” she said.
In addition to the new students, PCHS has added two new faculty members. Joel Rietema, from Denver, Colorado, is the new Bible teacher.
“There are many things I enjoy about Pella Christian High, including the Christian community’s commit-ment to high quality Christian education, the dedica-tion of our faculty/staff, the supportive families, and the rich tradition of our school,” said Rietema. “Howev-er, my favorite thing so far has been getting to know the
marvelous students - the lifeblood of Pella Christian.” Kim Bandstra joined the PCHS staff as the Study
Skills Associate Teacher. Though she admits that she struggles with technology, she has been thoroughly enjoying her new position.
DFS has been able to cover both business expenses and scholarships commitments. It is expected the general fund need for the operating year 2014-15 will be ap-proximately $16,000. September marks the beginning of efforts to raise money for DFS general fund support.
Pella DFS President Fred Koogler said, “Pella Dol-lars for Scholars is a great example of a community at work to help high school graduates of both Pella High and Pella Christian get a leg up on paying for educa-tion after high school.”
Pella DFS scholarships are made available to se-niors planning to attend any accredited post-second-ary school, regardless of the field of study. In order to receive a scholarship, seniors need only complete an online application and acceptance process on our
user friendly website. “We’re serious about our mission to provide every
graduating senior from Pella Christian and Pella High financial help for continuing their education. Any con-tribution, large or small is greatly appreciated,” said Koogler.
Pella Dollars for Scholars is a fully qualified, tax de-ductible charitable organization, organized under sec-tion 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.
For more information please visit the Pella DFS website at pella.dollarsforscholars.org, or contact Fred Koogler at 641.628.8003or 641.780.3006, or email him at [email protected].
Tax deductible contributions may be mailed directly to Pella Dollars for Scholars, P.O. Box 131, Pella, IA 50219.
Pella Dollars for Scholars provides bonus for seniors
PC sees 16 new international, local students enroll
“It has really been a true pleasure to work under the dedicated, nurturing expertise of (resource teacher Helen) Luhrs. My position involves the most fulfilling aspect of teaching, that of working directly with stu-dents in a personalized setting,” said Bandstra.
The 14-15 school year brings 16 new students to the PC body, 11 of those being new international students. Bible teacher Joel Rietema and Resource Associate Kim Bandstra joined the PC staff.
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StaffEditors: Danielle Nardini and Jessi Vos
Journalists:
Seniors: Michaela Chapman, Julia Dykstra, Lauren Peters, Jacson Schelhaas, Zach Shen
Junior: Anna Burg
Web editor: Michael Vander Wal
Advisor: Noreen Vander Wal
The Eagle’s Cry is a publication of the PCHS Ad-vanced Journalism class and is intended to provide an educational experience for those in the class as well as information and entertainment for the com-munity. The news and opinions stated in this publica-tion do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Pella Christian High School Society or its ad-ministration.
Letters to the editor may be addressed to Eagle’s Cry, 300 Eagle Lane, Pella, IA, 50219. The editors re-serve the right to edit letters for content and length.
Anyone wishing to subscribe to the Eagle’s Cry should send a name and address along with $5.00 to PCHS, 300 Eagle Lane, Pella, IA 50219.
Eagle’s Cry content can also be viewed on the Pella Christian high homepage (pceagles.org) under the programs/publications tab or at pceaglescry.org.
by Danielle Nardini, Jessi [email protected]@pceagles.org
Jessi: Can we rant about the amount of sexism at our school?
Danielle: Or the amount of sexism in the world in gen-eral? I think we girls need to stand up for our rights.
Jessi: Definitely. The worst part is that some girls just blindly go along with this prejudice, not even realizing that certain things are blatant acts of sexism.
Danielle: Agreed. I think it’s because they don’t want to stand up for themselves and get labeled a “feminist,” because they think that’s bad.
Jessi: Being a feminist isn’t a bad thing though! All it means is that you want equal rights for both men and women, not that women are better than men.
Danielle: You’re preachin’ to the choir here, Jessi. I think we need to teach everyone what feminism really is, and what kind of things are sexist.
Jessi: For example, saying that only women need to learn modesty and that it doesn’t apply to men is sexist.
Danielle: Or how about having double standards for men and women? And calling a girl a demeaning name just because she’s dated like 3 guys.
Jessi: It’s so sad that girls do that to each other. We need to stick together on issues like this. Don’t be a Phyl-lis Schlafly.
Danielle: In case you’re wondering, Wikipedia says that Phyllis Schlafly is a strong conservative who is com-pletely against men and women being treated as equals. I feel like Christians are reluctant to talk about promot-ing women’s rights because of that verse in Ephesians: “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife...” (Ephesians 5:22-23a). BUT everyone forgets the rest of that passage: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...” (Ephesians 5:25).
Jessi: You sound like Mr. Rietema...Danielle: I’m quoting Mr. Rietema. We’re not saying
that we want to be like the Amazon warriors we learned about in British and World Lit. We like men. But we also like ourselves. All we’re asking for is just a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Jessi: Thanks Aretha… Speaking of Christianity, it is correct to say that women were heavily oppressed in Bible times. But Jesus spoke to them and treated them like equals.
Danielle: Exactly. Rant over. See ya later.
by Jessi [email protected]
country: Ukrainepopulation: 44,291,413capital: Kievstate language: Ukrainian (although Russian is wide-ly spoken)common religion: Orthodox Christianitypopular sport: football (soccer)food: chicken, pork, beef, fish, mushroomsfun fact: Ukrainians wear their weddings rings on their right hands.information from cia.gov and ukraine-insight.com.uastudent: Alexandra Krizsan
Alexandra is a senior living with the Doug and Car-rie Veenstra family. She is Hungarian even though she has lived in Ukraine her entire life. She comes from
the same high school as David Kish and Krisztina Sharkezi, previous international students at PC.
“I always wanted to come to the United States... In Ukraine, I have already graduated; the reason why I am here is to learn the English language, to know more about this culture, and to make new friends,” said Alexandra.
If there is a dance coach, Alexandra plans to join the drill team. She will also participate in tennis in the spring. Alexandra’s favorite part about being at this school is chapel.
“If I am having a bad day, it always helps me,” she said. ISP coordinator Cindy Nikkel also commented on
Alexandra’s love of God and desire for learning. “Alexandra has a passion for the Lord and a great
story that I think she is going to share about His work in her life,” she said.
by Michael Vander [email protected]
It’s time to review one of the most hyped up movies of the year: Guardians of the Galaxy. But before we get into the review, I’d like to set some ground rules for how this review stuff works. First of all, I am extreme-ly hard to please when it comes to movies. Therefore, I will probably have different thoughts on a movie than the rest of you. So if you do happen to have a differ-ent opinion, congratulations, you’re a normal person. Now, let’s get started.
Guardians of the Galaxy was a very big shock to me, considering the trailers made me not even want to go and see the movie. However James Gunn, writer and director, really surprised me. He made a movie that seemed not to look good, and turned it into a pretty decent film, but not perfect. Along side James Gunn was Chris Pratt, who took on his first lead role with his character Star-Lord.
Now Star-Lord is your average Marvel comics char-acter. He has no real powers, but has a suit that makes him practically impossible to beat in one-on-one com-bat. He is after an artifact called the Infinity Stone, which funny enough, in the wrong hands, can destroy the whole galaxy. Seems pretty generic. So Ronan,
played by Lee Pace, the villain in the movie, needs the orb so he can do just that. So he sends an assassin, Gamora, played by Zoe Saldana, to get it for him.
Because I have to keep this article short, basically Star-Lord teams up with four other odd people, in-cluding Rocket Raccoon, voiced by Bradley Cooper; his sidekick Groot, voiced by the Vin Diesel; Drax, played by Dave Bautista; and (of course) one of the people that was originally against him, Gamora. And these five people with very few skills and abilities somehow end up saving the world… Wooh.
So overall the plot was pretty generic. But I mean it’s a super hero movie; what else are they supposed to do besides save the freakin’ world? So I suppose I can’t rip on Marvel too much. The saving grace for me was Rocket for adding in some Iron Man humor into the movie, and the overall soundtrack, which was so perfect. I’ll give this movie a solid 8.0/10. Not the best, but a solid Marvel movie.
Oh yeah, and box office grossed almost $500 million at this point. So obviously people like it. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, chances are you probably won’t at all. That’s honestly ok. It’s just another super hero movie. If you do want to pick it up, the movie comes out on DVD some time in December.
Foreign Affairs
From the Editors
Unimpressed Reviews
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by Lauren [email protected]
Ah, fall. The wonderful season of sweatshirts, boots, and cozy scarves is upon us. Wearing a scarf is an easy way to change up your look, while simultaneous-ly staying toasty in the chilly fall weather. Pairing a scarf with any plain tee will au-tomatically add more color and spice to your life, or you can throw a scarf on with your favorite flannel or jean shirt. Since scarves come in many colors and patterns, there are many more ways to wear them: drape, tie, twist, hang, and wrap scarves into the perfect style that fits you.
Junior Abbie Vander Molen wore an infinity scarf from Target paired with a plaid flannel. She simply wrapped the scarf around her neck twice to complete her comfy casual look.
“I love scarves because they add a comfy element to any outfit,” said Vander Molen.
Seniors Calise Gritters and Andrea De Bruin both wore ensembles that show-cased their square style scarves perfectly. De Bruin embraced a preppy look pairing her scarf with booties and bow earrings, while Gritters wore a more casual look with brown boots and a jean shirt. Both girls folded their scarves diagonally cre-ating a triangle shape, then wrapped the scarf loosely around their necks to form their trendy fall looks.
“Scarves are great because they always add a pop of color or pattern to any outfit,” said Gritters.
Senior Courtney Nikkel made a statement with her fur collar find from Windmill An-tiques in Pella. She coupled the collar with a jean shirt and black skirt combination. Fi-nally, to finish off her polished and put to-gether look she wore tan wedge booties.
“I love fur for fall! I also love play-ing with fun fall textures like denim and
by Anna [email protected]
Family and Consumer Science teacher Jan Blunck graduated from Oostburg High School in Oostburg, Wisconsin. Their high school mascot was the Flying Dutchmen. She taught at PC in 1978 for four years be-fore leaving to take care of her newborn daughter. She returned teaching in 1995.
Blunck’s favorite class when she was in high school is rather predictable.
“Home Economics classes. Surprise, surprise,” said Blunck.
She was very involved in extracurriculars in high school like American Foreign Students club, play crew, yearbook staff, library assistant, band, pep band, and a Bible Study group before school. She was also in Girls Athletic Association, since in high school there
were no sports for girls. “I had a lot of good, fun memories from high school
and hanging out with friends,” Blunck said. She also had some least favorites, like riding the
bus. “It’s was a long ride. Even though I only lived about
7 miles from Oostburg, it would take about 40 plus minutes riding the bus,” said Blunck.
Many things have changed since she was in high school.
“Of course, we didn’t have any computers and cell phones. We actually talked with one another,” said Blunck.
Her advice for students: “Never miss an opportu-nity to tell someone that you appreciate them.”
Abby Pleima @apleima “Jonathan Belt Man can stop liking old photos on Facebook any time now @jonnybee”
Nicole Kelderman @nrkeldo “I swear there is nothing I hate more in this world than an alarm clock”
Mitch Fopma @MFTrey “Funny how now all the ‘Iowa State Fans’ are coming out and saying they are Iowa State fans. Where was that 2 weeks ago? #HawkeyeState”
Jeremy Van Beek @jeremyvanbeek “To all the ISU fans: we still have a better record #nutsandbolts”
Jason Holwerda @JasonHolwerda “How did the universe originate? Where does it all come from? Like, you can’t ask me these questions. I’m only a senior. #ethics”
Ashley Ambroson @AshleyAmbroson “Football season was definitely missed...”
Annie Matherly @anniematherly “Just accidently locked myself out of the house, and I’m pretty sure it’s gonna start pouring soon…”
James Beyer @JamesOfBeyer “Q: How do you say death in Spanish? A: esquela.”
Holly Milby @holly_holls “I’m wearing a sweater and boots tomorrow. I don’t care how hot it is outside, cause it is like -100 degrees in school.”
by Julia [email protected]
leather, said Nikkel.So this fall while hanging around the
bonfire with friends or sipping a your fa-
vorite spice chai in the crisp autumn air, remember to wear a scarf to add warmth and style to your fall attire.
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The volleyball team is far into their sea-son and have had some ups and downs. They started off the season 0-1, losing to a tough Marshalltown team. Since then they have been in a few challenging tour-naments in both Ames and Iowa City. Conference wins against Newton, Osky and Pella, and a tough loss to Eddyville, as well as a tournament championship against Norwalk put the Eagles at 17-9.
“We usually face Eddyville in post-sea-son play, and that has always been a chal-lenge for us. We prepare all season to play them,” said senior Abby Pleima.
The Eagles entered this season with 17 members: ten seniors and seven juniors. Most of these seniors have been playing together since coach Cindy Nikkel started them in an AAU program in 6th grade.
by Zack [email protected]
As a 2A baseball team, the PC Eagles faced the wrath of many larger teams such as Albia, Pella, and Norwalk, this past summer.
“Being a small team in a big confer-ence, we had a lot of big opponents,” said senior Jason Holwerda.
The team record last season was 11-22. One of the drawbacks for the team was that they didn’t have as many players as other schools.
“One of our biggest challenges was being so young and inexperienced at the varsity level. We had 5 upperclassmen out for the team, which means that we needed young guys to fill in. We did struggle quite a bit,” said Holwerda.
Even though the lack of players did cause some problems for the team, the players showed great morale throughout the whole season. Coach Nathan Johnson was insis-tent on building a strong team attitude. His insistence influenced the team a lot.
“The team fought all year. Although we did not have the record we wanted,
Baseball team faced challenging season the team continued to get better and had a strong second half of the season.” said Johnson.
The two senior players, Andrew Vander Hart and Colton Collins, showed great leadership to the team. Both of them are now graduated.
“I feel like the two seniors, Andrew Vander Hart and Coltin Collins, both played the leadership role,” said freshman Kade Vander Molen.
While the two senior players were enjoy-ing their last year of high school baseball, three new players were beginning their high school baseball career.
Vander Molen, Jaden Rolffs, and Bren-den Six were the new eighth-grade players. Rolffs and Vander Molen did such a great job that both of them participated on the varsity team.
“I love baseball!” said Vander Mo-len. “The baseball team is like a family. Throughout the summer you get to know the guys on your team. It leads to new re-lationships and friendships. It shapes you to be a better person.”
The PC baseball team receives advice from head coach Nathan Johnson. The team ended their season 11-22, playing many larger teams over the past summer.
“It’s great having ten seniors on the team! We’ve been dedicated to volleyball since 6th grade AAU which has made for some awe-some team chemistry and ton of fun on and off the court,” said senior Alyssa Starkey.
The team’s theme this year is “Dive,” with the goal of these girls being to dive deeper on the court, with each other, and with underclassmen and students in the school. They are challenging each other to dig deeper after knowing and playing with each other for so many years.
“The theme this year is “Dive” for sev-eral reasons,” said Pleima. “One is to dive on the court and go to the floor and never let the ball drop. Another is to dive in and go deeper into relationships with coaches, teammates, and classmates.”
The Eagles next game is Thursday, Octo-ber 9. You can find them at home against a Little Hawkeye Conference foe, Knoxville.
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The PC softball team opened their season on May 27 against Montezuma. They start-ed their season off strong with four straight wins. Their first loss was against Dallas-Center Grimes. “The toughest team to play both mentally and physically was Dallas-Center Grimes,” said senior Taylor Hartson.
DCG was ranked first in 4A this season while PC’s team is in 2A.
“We really stuck with them (DCG) and were the only team to score on them, which was really exciting,” senior Natalie Huisman said.
The Norwalk game was one of the most memorable of the season for several players.
“The season highlight was probably beating Norwalk,” junior Nicole Kelder-man said.
The last couple times the team had played Norwalk, they had been defeat-ed. This year, the team was able to pull through with a win.
“It was a great confidence builder knowing that we beat a tough school that was bigger than us,” said Hartson.
The team was disappointed to lose in the first round of tournaments, though it was a close game for them. The team played Washington, the number one team
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The football team kicked off their sea-son with a total of 47 players on the team. Coming off of a 4-6 record last year, the team was optimistic this year to do better.
“I think that this year’s team has the potential to go really far, considering that we all work together well and realize each individual’s importance to the team’s functionality,” said senior Jacob Brouwer. “We are optimistic and hungry, hungry for a winning record.”
The season started with an away game at PCM. They defeated the rival Mustangs 44-30. They continued their journey with a win at home against Lynville-Sully, pum-meling the Hawks 38-0. They followed up with losses at Albia (20-48) and Sigour-ney-Keota (27-29). Their record currently stands at 2-2. “We’ve played with heart and a good attitude,” said senior Jake De Ruiter. “We’ve made some key mistakes that have cost us occasionally, but overall we are playing good football.”
The team is working to improve by elimi-nating penalties, mistakes, and errors on de-fense. “We have played well and are focusing on playing our best,” said coach Rich Kac-marynski. “However we have some assign-ment errors to fix. We have a tough schedule, so every Friday will be a challenge.”
On Friday the team plays Columbus Junction at home, hoping to improve their record to 4-2.
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Although they may be few in number, the cross country team has begun their season with great confidence, which paid off at the Lynnville-Sully meet with six PC runners winning medals.
Besides the returning ten varsity run-ners, five new members have joined the team. They are getting used to how it feels to be in a meet, what their techniques are, and how they are able to cross the finish line after a long three miles.
“Some of the runners came in with run-ning experience already,” explained coach Jocelyn Meinders. “The team unity has been great, and made the transition easier for everyone.”
Throughout this season, the team has had many goals, such as improving every-one’s time and being a good example is as a cross country team. They represent the
school in many ways, such as never leav-ing one another, encouraging both girls’ and boys’ teams, and praying before each meet to get the strength and endurance for the upcoming race.
“The team has great attitudes, and really show Christ’s love to each other and those around them, and are great at encouraging each other,” Meinders said.
One strength that this year’s cross coun-try team has is a great role of leadership, from freshmen to seniors. The team as a whole is always encouraging each other and pushing one another to run a little fur-ther or work a little harder for improve-ment. With so many strengths, however, there are always challenges that must be faced. Such challenges include new meets, like the one in Johnston, and han-dling those new meets with an optimis-tic attitude and with confidence. Another challenge is facing the meets whatever the condition are.
in 2A, for first round in tournaments.“We gave up lots of runs in the first
two innings and struggled to come back throughout the game,” said senior Abby Pleima. “In the last inning, we had two outs and the winning run on base. We lost on a tag out at home, which was probably
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The final score of the game was 11-10, ending a 16-19 season for the Eagles.
“It was a heartbreaker, but I was so proud of the girls and how they played this post-season,” said head coach Karen Harrill.
Freshman Sophie Howerzyl attempts to tag the DCG runner at third base. Dallas-Center Grimes was PC’s first loss of the season, which started out 4-0.
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Senior Dillon Branderhorst runs the ball in for a touchdown. PC beat the Lynville-Sully Hawks at home 38-0.
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The PC marching band performed at home football games on September 5 and 26 and is scheduled again for October 10. Theme songs from movies like E.T., Jaws, Superman, Jurassic Park, and The Lost World were played after weeks of hard work putting together drill, drum-line, and flags to make the perfor-mances possible.
Senior drum majors Alicia Munoz and Morgan Anderson led the band on the field, while band director Shannon Dykstra and flag coordinator Rochelle McClellan put together the music and choreography. Dykstra commented, “The students have had great attitudes and have learned 8 pictures and are just great to work with everyday! I love my job and it’s a privilege to work with the students God has placed in my classes.”
junior Kara Zondervan:“It’s away.... No thanks!
junior Paige Beyer“I never go. Noth-ing would deter-mine if I went or not.”
junior Mitchell Eekhoff “I drive a truck (YEEYEE). Gas mileage is the key factor.”
senior Malia Beatty “If there is a football game, I don’t go unless I haven’t seen my friends outside of school for a while.”
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