It’s a hot summer day and 8th grader Madisen Blackford is squatting behind home plate caching softballs at practice as her older sister Taylor Blackford pitches the ball to her. Together they are working hard to make the team better, despite the age difference. Some say that 8th graders shouldn’t be allowed to play high [...]
Running in the Drake Relays is not only a privilege but for some runners it’s an expectation. This year none of the track runners made it to the relays. Senior Reanna Lewis has been running track since she was five. She has been running varsity since freshman year. Lewis ran in the relays her freshman, sophomore [...]
Austin Casillo-Leovan junior is a second year player of the fast paced game of rugby along side his teammates Jerray Scott, Nick Cunningham, Tommy Clark, Logan Pifer, Jaden Wilson, Malik Harris and Seth Erickson. Aren’t there many injuries? ”It is full contact without pads. The injury risk are high.” Players do a good job at preventing [...]
Every morning at 5:15 senior Chris Dejoode wakes up, gets dressed, and gets in his car. He goes and picks up a few teammates. They then arrive at Hoover far before many other students have even woken up, and take part in a ritual only known to swimmers, they practice before school. Dejoode has been swimming [...]
Hoover is known as the coaches graveyard. Head Coach Will Siffin came here two years ago knowing what he was getting himself into. Before Siffin came to the football program the team didn’t really have a full-time coach. Senior Nik Nicholson, has been playing football for four years now and has had three different coaches. Freshmen year [...]
Basketball isn’t just a sport to some people. At our school it’s a brotherhood, a family. Some say our boys’ basketball team is too young this year, but the guys don’t see this as a weakness; they see it more as a situation where they’re going to learn and grow from each other. “Having a [...]
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