THE CHARGERWabaunsee High School

Issue 28 April 16, 2015

Derek Kiliansenior

Wabaunsee High has a golf team this spring for the first time, letting one of its own cooperate with Ona-ga high school.

Freshman Tyler Fleming has been practicing and competing with Onaga since the beginning of the season and has been steadily improving, taking 4th in his first meet out of 36 competitors.

“It’s fun, it is a long drive but definitely worth it. I wanted to play somewhere so colleges could get a look at me,” Fleming said. “My coach says I have a chance to make it to state, and have a good shot to place at every meet.

The addition of Fleming to the Onaga golf team had to be approved by both school’s athletic director and school board. WHS and Onaga had to count combined enrollment, placing the team in class 3A. Flem-ing will compete on his own at re-gionals and the state tournament should he qualify.

Fleming placed second at the Onaga meet on Monday.

Fleming competes

at golf, places 2nd

Emory Hotchkisssophomore

Mid-East League Art Day was held in the Swogger Gallery at the Columbian Theater in Wamego on April 7. Art teacher Caroline Smith attended with junior Lauren Bro-vont and sophomore Emory Hotch-kiss.

The gallery featured winning art created by Mid-East League stu-dents, as judged by Carol Emert, a retired curator of the Mulvane art museum. The students voted for the “Student Choice Award” and participated in workshops with lo-cal artists. Before the day ended, the medals were awarded to winning artists, including junior Alli Terra-pin for 2nd place in printmaking.

In three sessions, students par-ticipated in six different workshops. In the Pastel Drawing Competition, students re-created a known piece of art. All present schools developed a team of 4-5 students except for WHS and Silver Lake. Smith said the workshops gives the students a chance to see different things.

Students could also participat-ed in Watercolor with Charlotte Pemberton, Wreath-making with Judy Hamilton, Embellishing Real-ity with Garrett Larson, Antiqued Signs with Mary LaMar and Recy-cled Jewelry with Tiffany Wiles.

“The workshops let you explore other techniques that you may have known before and overall expand your creativity,” Brovont said. “It was nice to meet people from our area who have the exact same inter-est.”

Students attend MEL

Art Day

FFA educates students on Earth Day

Students interact with exhibits at the Earth Day presentation. Students learned about several ways to conserve water and other resources. Photo by Erica Falk.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What would be the theme of the best prom ever?“Food friendly, because everyone loves food.”senior Ann Flach

“Morp, because everything would be backward. Guys would wear dresses and girls would wear suits.”junior Zach Williams

“Rock ‘n’ Roll, because it would be fun to go back in time.”sophomore Kameron Wurtz

“Toga, because toga, toga, toga.”junior Fletcher Feyh

“The Great Gatsby, because I want to wear a flapper dress.”junior Erica Falk

“The Jungle, because I like the jun-gle in Africa and Asia.”senior Shane Zeller

“Nature, because it’s new and no one has ever done that before.”senior Ridge Hurla

“‘80s, because it’s different.”senior Cara Flach“Parking lot party, it would be fun, laid back, you wouldn’t have to get dress up and it would cost less.”freshman Alayna Supernaw

Auction celebrates backwards Pi Day

Left: Senior Alex Simmons and junior Nick Carroll get down and dirty as they participate in the backwards Pi Day pie eating contest. Right: Freshman Kolby Droegemeier pies Coach Henry in the face after winning the pie eating contest. StuCo raised $253. Photos by Heather Boiteau.

ON TRACK

Katie Mayerjunior

Two more broken school records and a 2nd place team finish highlight-ed the home track meet.

Freshman Karsen Schultz once again broke a school records: her pre-vious record in the 1600 with a time of 5:44.0 and the 800 with 2:29.3.

Overall the girls track team finished 2nd and the boys team finished 6th out of 8 teams. Together the team achieved 44 personal records and 35 medals.

"Our girls had another strong team showing as we scored points in 15 of the 18 events. Our boys team is a little smaller this year, but we are staying competitive and put up several really good marks. While we have seen some good competition in these first two meets, they are our smallest of the sea-son," coach Roger Alderman said.

"We had nice weather and the ath-letes took advantage of that with over 40 improved time and distances. We're looking forward to better competi-tion in the next few weeks," Alderman added.

The Chargers will be competing this Friday at Rock Creek.

Girls track continues success at home meet

Senior Alissa Barber leaps into the pit in the long jump. Barber placed 2nd in long jump as well as the 4X100.Top Right: Senior Taylor Benteman medaled with 3rd in the high jump.Bottom Right: Sophomore Liz Hund throws javelin at the home track meet. "I plan to get better with every track meet and to keep improv-ing," Hund said. Photos by Katie Mayer.

Nick Carrolljunior

Fifth and sixth graders from Wabaunsee County at-tended Environmental Edu-cation Day to learn about teamwork, water preserva-tion and healthy habits.

With the help of the Wabaunsee High School FFA Chapter, Monday's event was a huge success.

For nine years, Envi-ronmental Education Day has been run by Tom Wat-kins and with the help of Wabaunsee’s FFA Chapter. While at the 4-H fairground, students learned about water quality, soil health, healthy eating, the birds of the Flint

Hills and a lot more. “I like teaching the

kids something that they wouldn’t usually be taught in school,” senior Ann Flach said.

Wabaunsee FFA Chap-ter members helped put on Environmental Education Day this year. FFA members were in charge of the Wa-tershed Management work-shop where students learned how to conserve water. “I like watching high school students take on responsi-bility.” FFA sponsor Danny Davis said. FFA members participate in running En-vironmental Education Day for community service hours.