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CF places 37 musicians at All State festival

Isley captures first four-time percussion spot in CF history All school year, CFHS music students have been tirelessly preparing for All-State, the annual music festival run by the Iowa High School Music Association. This past Saturday, Oct. 26, these musicians auditioned for the IHSMA All-State Festival.

This year, 37 students were accepted, and 10 alternates, who are also of All-State caliber and may be invited to participate if quotas were not filled in another district.

In choir, 15 participants and four alternates were selected.

The soprano participants are Lauren Harter, 1st year; Gigi Norby, 1st year and Libby Swartley, 1st year. Kelli Dekutoski is the soprano alternate.

The alto participants are Lexi Banwart, 1st year; Sammone Jones, 2nd year and Kathryn

Wolff, 2nd year. Martha Hall is the Alto alternate. The Tenor participants are Joel Brich, 2nd year; Paul Bunker, 2nd year; Brian Keiser, 2nd year; Richie Korneisel, 1st year; Merlin MacGillivray, 1st year and Seth VanRoosendaal, 1st year. Anton Oelmann is the tenor alternate.

The bass participants are Spencer Betts, 2nd year; Mitch Dekutoski, 1st year and Nathan Hall, 1st year. Tommy Truelsen is the bass alternate.

In orchestra, 11 participants and one alternate were selected. Violin selections are Kelly Olsen (2nd year); Claire Chenoweth (2nd year) and Sarah Gao (2nd year). Violin Abigail Rowland is the 1st alternate.

Viola participants are Yutao Su (2nd year); Anjah Droe (2nd year); Kailey Stiers (1st year) and

Alex Dou (1st year). Cello participants include Adrian Amjadi (2nd year), Alex Mong (1st year) and Olivia Fabos Martin (1st year). Bass participant is Ben Baker (1st year).

Orchestra Scott Hall said that auditions went very well, and that all the students trying out did wonderful. “The students worked very hard for this audition,” he said. Beginning in August, Hall said, the students practiced individually and then met in groups weekly to prepare for the audition.

In band, 11 participants and five alternates were selected.

Baritone sax alternate is Brett Niemann. Flute participant is Jenna Veenstra, and the 2nd alternate is Rachel Ki. Trombone participant is Timothy Sevcik,

and the 1st Alternate is Michael Stow. French horn participant is Mary Anton. Trumpet participants are Isaac Smith, Anya Gedlinske, Srinu Dhanwada and 1st Alternate is Adam Tassett. Bassoon participant is Erik Cheng. Clarinet participants are Rachel Rose, Lexi Hahn and Lizzie Swanson. Percussion participant is Catherine Isley, the first four-year percussion participant in CFHS history, and 2nd alternate is Kyler Boss.

Band Instructor Kyle Engelhardt said, “I was pleased with the amount of growth in musicality in all of the students, whether they were accepted or not. He noted that the students with have the opportunity to work with some outstanding conductors. “The students will

be among the ‘best of the best,’ and it’s fun to dig into the music on such a deep level,” Engelhardt said. Engelhardt was also impressed with Isley on becoming the first CFHS percussionist to make All-State all four years.

He also noted the four ninth graders selected from Peet and Holmes Junior Highs.

The 67th annual All-State Music Festival will be held in Ames Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 21-23. The concert at the end of the festival is on Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum at Iowa State University. Iowa Public Television will record the concert for re-broadcast.

By Editor-in-Chief Ellen

Wallingford

First Storyteller event, Fears VS Dreams begins this week This week marks the first The Storyteller for the camevent of the CFHS Storytellers paign, senior Abigail Van PatCampaign, Fears VS Dreams. ten, agreed. “Fears VS Dreams This event is a way to show started yeseveryone that terday and we as individuals is still going and as a group all on today. have big dreams Held during and fears and that lunch shifts, we aren’t alone in students can that. It’s a way to write their show others that biggest fear someone they and their don’t know has greatest struggles of their dream on a own too.” sign and then She added photograph that “we’re all a themselves community, and Lucia McNeal Photo this is a good way holding that sign. Junior Lucia McNeal is tak- of showing that.” ing the photos, which will be disIt’s not too late to take a tributed sometime next week.

Fears VS Dreams picture; today Fears VS Dreams is just one is the last day, so TWLOHA orof the projects of the organiza- ganizers urge students to go tion To Write Love On Her Arms. down to the cafeteria and get Alyce Youngblood writes on their pictures taken. It costs $1 the official TWLOHA blog that per picture, and all donations Fears vs. Dreams was started to go straight to TWLOHA to raise “remind people that they are liv- money for mental health awareing a story, and that they should ness, and for help against denot give up on it.” Fears vs. pression, addiction, eating disDreams asks people to reflect orders and other mental health on their stories and to remem- disorders.

By Editor-in-Chief Ellen ber that their answers matter, and that they are entirely unique.

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Gift of Song

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At the choir concert last week on Tuesday, Oct. 22, choir president Spencer Betts and vice president John Nicol joke around while speaking about student teacher Connor Koppin before handing him a present from the choir.

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Fall plays offer two emotional stories This weekend around 38 cast members and around 18 techies will take the stage and assist the stage, lights, costumes and makeup with not one but two plays. Both plays will run roughly 30 minutes each and can be seen on Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2. Doors will open at 7 p.m. with tickets being sold at this time, the productions will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $4 for student and $5 for adults.

This fall productions are The Boys Next Door and I Don’t Want to Talk. I Don’t Want to Talk is a one-scene play that uses one general set up. The Boys Next Door will follow I Don’t Want to Talk with a full house set up, complete with chairs and a table in one curtain after The Boys Next Door.

I Don’t Want to Talk has about 21 cast members, with The Boys Next Door having at least that many.

I Don’t Want to Talk is about being teenagers — their hopes, desires, dreams and feelings.

This play is done through the eyes of individuals bringing many hot topics in the world of teenagers: depression, trag-

edy, acceptance, growing up and many more. Each actor seeks to make individuals in the audience personally relate to what’s going on.

The story’s “main character” is Kylie, played by sophomore Grace Gubbrud, a girl that just wants to fit in, but she is an outcast by many of her fellow classmates, “friends” and even her own sister.

Besides Kylie, the storyline follows around 17 more characters and their own hidden problems and emotions. Every character and story brings up a different hot topic that will hit the majority of the audience personally.

The Boys Next Door follows a group of “young” disabled gentlemen who are living in a group home supervised by Jackie (senior Katherine Mayhew). The group of gentlemen are played by senior Carrsan Morrissey (Arnold), senior Jacob Kline (Lucian), junior John Nicol (Norman), and senior Erik Mueterthies (Barry). “[Norman’s] quite the character, he does a lot of silly things that you wouldn’t normally do,” said John Nicol about his character in The Boys

Junior John Nicol sneaks a donut in The Boys Next Door, one of the two plays set for the stage on Friday and Saturday this week. The Boys Next Door is a play with multiple acts, and the other performance is a one act entitled I Don’t Want to Talk.

The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $4 for students and $5 for adults.

Next Door. Nicol also said that playing Norman is “interesting.

I wouldn’t say difficult. I like to work aspects of myself into the characters I play.”

Play director Michelle Rathe

said that these productions definitely have some important lessons and themes. “Regardless of our looks or how we appear, we are all human. In a world of bullying or prejudice,

people don’t feel accepted.

[And being accepted] is the most valuable [thing] and lesson.”

Staff Writer Mackenzie

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Students debate merits of Samsung Galaxy vs. Apple’s iPhone With the holidays right around the corner, the hot present of choice for many are phones. Smart phones are increasingly the main choice for people worldwide. With their Internet access, the apps, their speed and the customizability, the true question regarding the hot present is whether to get the iPhone or get an Android.

Apple’s IPhone 5s and IPhone 5c recently hit the markets, already programmed with the new IOS 7, and Androids are always changing, company to company, with the Samsung Galaxies being fairly popular in the teenage population.

This year it will be these two fighting each other to become the best of the best during the holiday season. With the IPhone’s glass and aluminum casing, it is stepping up its game compared to the Galaxy’s shiney plastic cover (polycarbonate).

However, the Galaxy’s screen covers four and a half inches where the IPhone’s only covers almost four inches. Though the Galaxy is bigger than the IPhone, but both

weigh roughly the same; the Galaxy’s weight is just more

spread out.

Comparing the two based

on their abilities, it’s safe to say they are pretty evenly matched to an extent except for a couple major differences, one being the battery life of the two.

According to phonearena.com, the Galaxy has a greater battery life, up to 17 hours of talktime on 3G, where the IPhone 5 has talktime up to eight hours. The IPhone also has less megapixels, resting at eight versus the Galaxy’s 13 megapixels.

The IPhone has iOS, which releases a new version every year. The Androids systems are always updating, constantly as well.

The phone with the best customizability goes to the Android. There are so many different kinds, companies and types of Androids to choose from. Junior Brooke Clark said the reason she chose her Galaxy over the IPhone was “The Galaxy has more features.”

On the opposite hand, the reason sophomore Sarah Canady said she chose her IPhone was “because it holds my music and it connects to iTunes,” where sophomore Mckenzie Adams says her reason for get-

ting the same phone was because she is “used to Apple products.”

Rating their phones and if they would ever swap, all three girls gave different replies, but the same answer when it came to swapping their phones.

Clark gave her Galaxy a 10 and said, “No, I’d stick with the Galaxy.”

Where Adams and Canady both agreed that they would keep their IPhones over switching to the Galaxy, the two girls rated their phones differently.

Adams gave her IPhone an eight, where Canady gave hers a 7 saying that “it breaks” or crashes.

The choice is still a fairly even and close one between the two phones. The deciding factor could be the features and customizability, the access to iTunes or what your family and you are used to.

Whatever the choice, both phones show equal desire among people and both will be definitely hot items this season.

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On the Stage Two plays ready for weekend

The Boys Next Door

Starting at top left, senior Carrsan Morrissey mops the floor in “The Boys Next Door.” Middle left: senior Jacob Kline and junior John Nichol. Top right: senior Ellen Wallingford, sophomore Sarah Stortz and Nichol. Middle right: senior Katherine Mayhew.

Bottom row, left to right: seniors Noah Miller and Mallory Vallentine in “I Don’t Want to Talk.” Junior Emma Redington and senior Abby Van Patten. Miller and sophomore Grace Gubbrud.

The cast.

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I Don’t Want to Talk

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MUSIC •LADY GAGA

Artpop on Nov. 11

•DAUGHTRY

Baptized on Nov. 19

•ONE DIRECTION

Midnight Memories on Nov. 25

•BLACK FLAG

What the... on Nov. 5

•EMINEM

The Marshalll Mathers LP 2 on Nov. 5

•KELLIE PICKLER

Woman I Am on Nov. 11 •HELLOGOODBYE Everything is debatable on Nov. 5

MOVIES •LAST VEGAS on Nov. 1

• THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN on Nov. 1

•THOR: THE DARK WORLD on Nov. 8

•HOW I LIVE NOW on Nov. 8

•THE BOOK THIEF on Nov. 15

GAMES •MARIO PARTY: ISLAND TOUR on 3DS on Nov. 22

•CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS

on PC/Wii U on Nov. 5

•WII FIT U

on Wii U on Dec. 13

•INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US ULTIMATE EDITION on PS3 on Nov. 12

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Zelda, Watch Dogs promising game releases Next month is November, and there are some pretty cool games coming out. This month I’m going to talk about the new Legend of Zelda game called “A Link Between Worlds” and the new game “Watch Dogs.”

Both are games that I am looking forward to.

“Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds” will be coming out on 3DS on Nov. 22.

The game is a sequel to another Zelda game, “A Link to the Past.” Since it’s on 3DS, it’s bringing new depth into the game. It will have a new storyline and new dungeons.

It allows you to experience heights and know the floor levels easily when you explore dungeons. The 3D also helps you to see the floors you’re not even standing on whenever you want to.

The new game is full of puzzles, and Link can do something new. If there is a Link painted on a wall, the real Link can move across that wall.

Link can, with the new ability, fit through cracks in walls that could take you from the Light World to the Dark World.

Enemies from “A Link to the Past” will appear in the new game as well, like Buzz Blobs, Crows, Stalfos and Terrorpins. If you want to see what the game is like before you buy it, you can download the free demo and play through a dungeon.

The game’s timeline is set a few hundred years after “A Link to the Past,” but it still happens before the game “The Legend of Zelda.” It is set to take place in the Hyrule from “A Link to the Past” and also another kingdom that exists in the “Other World.” Apparently this parallel world has a dark counterpart to the Triforce of

Kaitlyn Brocka Photo

Zelda has a long line of successful editions in the adventures of Link. the Light World. You can see in the picture that one Triforce is gold and the other black, these are the parallel Triforces.

In another eagerly anticipated release, “Watch Dogs” was originally to be released on November 2013 on PlayStation 3 and 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC and Wii U, but it has switched its release date to some time early 2014.

In the game, you have command of an entire city’s electronics in your hand. “Watch Dogs” casts players as Aiden Pierce, a computer hacker who is trying to bring down Chicago’s CTOS, an overly eager city-wide security system that gets into every part of the lives of its citizens and keeps a permanent record of their behavior. There is a warrant out

for your arrest, and sometimes you’re going to have to get out of sticky situations.

Your profiler device lets you hack into any electronic device you encounter. A police chase could turn into nothing if you’re quick enough to use a jammer to stop the oncoming fleet’s communications.

You can control things like bridges, making them go up whenever you want to, or even switch signals on traffic lights. If you like making chaos, you can even make a city-wide blackout. “Watch Dogs” gives you many ways to get into trouble, and just as many ways to get out of it. When you’re trying to break into the CTOS single mast, it’s easy to find the guard with the security code when you control all of the security

cameras. If the guards need distraction, you can just start up a truck or swing open a security gate, and they’ll go investigate while you get to go on with your business.

I think both of these games will be excellent once they come out. Legend of Zelda games are some of my favorites, so I can’t wait to see for myself what they’ve done with the 3D. “Watch Dogs” seems very cool since you’re able to control anything electronic at any time, plus it’s a free world game. I can’t wait.

Look for my next Game Time article in November to tell you about some new games coming out just in time for Christmas.

worldwide. Although the Wii was loved for its standard-definition games, it also had many critically acclaimed games as well.

Wii Sports was what started the Wii in its popularity. Wii had an easy-to-play sports package that actually led to a global stock shortage of Wii consoles for months after launch. By targeting non-gamers as well as gamers, they sold the Wii easily.

Even though the Wii console was so popular, Nintendo

has decided to focus more on the Wii U console, which is struggling at the moment, while, at the same time maintaining the success of its popular 3DS handheld. Without the company making them in other places, the sales will go down fast.

Many people have already switched from the Wii to a different console like the PS3 or Xbox 360 because there aren’t any new games on the Wii; however, some people are keeping their Wii because of

things like Wii Kinect games.

If you are fan of the Wii, maybe you should try the Wii U console instead. There are new games for the Wii U, and its a bit more advanced than the Wii. I hope the Wii will continue to be made in the United States for a while before it falls out of people’s interests, but it’s sad to say we could all be saying goodbye to the Wii soon.

Staff Writer Kaitlyn

BROCKA

Days of the Wii console may be numbered At the start of October there was a message on the Wii product page that said “manufacturing is scheduled to end soon.”

Now instead of “end soon” it says “has ended.”

However Wii manufacturing has only ended in Japan; they will still be making the Wii in the United States but might not be making it for long.

The last official sales for the Wii were announced in June stating that they had sold 100.04 million Wii consoles

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Questionable pick for World Food Prize: GMOs

Monsanto, the single biggest food company supplying the public with genetically modified food, won the World Food Prize this year for its creation of GMO’s. All seems dandy, until a mass of people started to speak out against Monsanto as the awards were presented last week in Des Moines. There has even been a petition to take away the food prize from Monsanto, but, of course, that won’t happen.

The majority of people who are against Monsanto winning the World Food Prize are against it for good reason. In the comment section of http:// blogs.vancouversun.com, a man broke down his reason for why he is opposed to GMO foods: “Mankind has been genetically manipulating our food since the beginning of agriculture. Carrots are really purple, corn is really dark, not yellow, wheat really has few seeds, every banana on our grocery shelves is a clone. Scary stuff.”

The path to modifications in our food supply can be a quirky trail.

“Purple carrots aren’t simply a novelty. Their unique color reflects their healthy phytochemical constituents. Not only does ‘Purple Haze’ have the vitamin A and beta-carotene of ordinary carrots — evident in its orange center — it’s also rich in anthocyanins, the antioxidant compounds that give blueberries their distinctive color and superfood health benefits,” an anonymous writer for organicgardening.com wrote.

The carrot turned orange after the Netherlands used primitive genetic modifying to turn the carrot from a purple

to orange, the color of their the same reasons. A majority nation once liberated from the of the crops shared very simiUK. They did it so that if any- lar genetic makeups, which one ever ate an orange carrot, made it an easy victim to the they would know where it came disease that killed off many of from. Well, the Netherlands the potatoes. Approximately 1 succeeded so well that that is million people died from this now the main color of carrots. famine, and a million more Bananas are also clones and, in fact, have mostly lost their ability to reproduce by nature’s standards.

The most commonly sold banana, the Cavendish, are all genetically exactly the same.

Because they are all clones Martha Hall photo descending from a single banana, if there was to ever be emigrated. Not all potatoes a super-virus to attack the Cav- were affected because there endish, most would be void of were types that did not have bananas for a good while. almost identical genetic Up to the 1950s, the most makeups, and were still able common banana was not the to grow. Today, that severe of Cavendish, but the Gros Mi- a problem would not happen, chel. However, the Gros Michel though almost all of a kind was wiped out by a fungus of plant would die because which caused Panama disease. all GMO crops are essentially The fungus attacked the roots clones of one another. of banana plants and was also This brings into point the resistant to fungicide. To com- “Round-Up Ready” crops pound the problem, all Gros and all of the like. “Round-Up Michel were identical clones; Ready” crops were invented therefore, they were all easily by Monsanto to create affected, causing the fungus “peace of mind for hard jobs.” to spread across plantations The main ingredient in Roundincredibly quickly.

Up is glyphosate, which “has Another example of this is favorable environmental charin 1845 to 1852 when Ireland acteristics such as low volatility experienced a famine, dubbed and binds tightly to soil,” “The Great Potato Famine,” according to Monsanto. and it happened for closely Carey Gillam of Reuters

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wrote an article that opposes that stand. He wrote in the article, “Heavy use of the world’s most popular herbicide, Roundup, could be linked to a range of health problems and diseases, including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancers, according to a new s t u d y.

T h e p e e rreviewed report, p u b lished last week in the scientific journal Entropy, said evidence indicates that residues of glyphosate, the chief ingredient in Roundup weed killer, which is sprayed over millions of acres of crops, has been found in food.”

This, essentially, is why most of Europe has outlawed genetically modified foods.

A total of 14 European countries have successfully banned GMO foods from their land in some way, with Japan, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Luxembourg and Germany completely outlawing them.

In the United States, the resistance to herbicides and pesticides in GMO crops gives farmers and cultivators the liberty to pour on the chemicals to ensure that no weeds or bugs get ahold of their growing money. But where does all that excess chemical ap-

plication go? It goes into the soil to be absorbed by the next generation of plants that may eventually be immune to it. It’s contained in the cells of these plants, so consumers are eating the same chemicals that are used to kill bugs and weeds second-hand.

A Darwinian theory is also at hand in the fight against GMO. The more we use these pesticides and herbicides, the more an organism that is being affected by it will mutate to also be immune to it. That leads to an increasing need to develop new herbicides and pesticides so seed companies can continue fighting off these mutant bugs and plants.

So why do we continue to support the utter opaqueness of the Monsanto company?

Obama, the leader of “the most transparent administration in history,” signed a law dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” that lets Monsanto not put labels on their GMO foods on March 26, but I believe that GMO foods need a lot more investigation, independent investigations at that, so that there are no researchers’ biases. The known risks are too dangerous, and the only reason that the company is still standing is due to government protections and the excessive amount of money that Monsanto brings in. It is just not right that Monsanto can win a food prize for their so called advances in genetic engineering. It is possible to manipulate plants to produce more yield or withstand cruel environments through natural processes.

By Kaleb

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Our View Cyberbullying has no place at CF

A text, a Facebook wall post, a Tweet — a line or two is all it takes to wound someone’s self-esteem, to bring tears, to ruin a friendship. With the explosion of modern technology, old-school bullying is out and a new type of bullying is taking the stage. But while stuffing someone in a locker is a pretty obvious sign of harassment, cyber-bullying often doesn’t raise alarms until it’s too late. How many suicides and self-destructing teens does it take for our society to realize that cyberbullying is a real thing that needs to be stopped? The sad answer is, not enough.

It’s sickening to see how some people can sit in front of a computer screen and say all these negative things to others in order to bring them down.

The thing is, the ones who cyberbully others don’t really think that what they’re saying is actually going to hurt the person. They don’t really think that the victim is going to harm or kill themselves.

But when they do? “Yes IK I bullied her nd she killed herself but IDGAF,” as said by one of the girls who helped bully Rebecca Sadwick (12 y/o, FL) after her posts led Sadwick to commit suicide.

But why is cyber bullying, or bullying in general a thing? Do we hurt others because they aren’t like us? Or because they don’t look or act like everyone else?

Because they’re intelligent or not? Because they’re overweight? Skinny? Tall?

Short?

Even here at CFHS, “crushes” accounts were made very recently and any-

one could direct message in something about someone they like or, in that case, dislike, and it would be posted anonymously. The page started out appropriate and didn’t have any signs of cyberbullying in it until things got out of hand and people started sending in hate towards others. Thankfully, the accounts that were set up got suspended and are no longer in use. Now, an account called “CF Compliments” was created for others to send in nothing but good, uplifting things for others.

If you put yourself in the shoes of a student who has been bullied, how would you feel? Disappointed? Or very miserable? Then why make others feel that way? Everyone has potential to create their own futures. Don’t mess it up.

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Cheerleaders ready for State

After getting first place at the Tritan Challenge in Fort Dodge the CFHS cheer team is very confident and excited for the state cheer competition which is right around the corner. The competition is held in Des Moines on Nov. 2. The girls preperation is a little different this year. Normally the CFHS cheer team competes in the medium division with 16 girls on the team; however, this

year the girls will be competing in the large division with 22 girls on their team.

The comp cheer team is not just like the cheer team you see at a basketball or football game. This team is made up of 22 freshman through seniors who try out. These girls have to be able to do advanced stunting, tumbling, cheers and a dance. At the state performance they have two minutes

The CFHS football team finished its regular season in thrilling and dramatic fashion.

Facing Dubuque Hempstead, the Tigers were facing the very real possibility of falling to an unimpressive record of five wins and four losses.

The stout Tiger defense backed up the Hempstead Mustangs deep in to their own territory with the clock winding down in the fourth quarter.

The Mustangs couldn’t muster anything and were forced to rely on their defense after a shanked 20 yard punt.

After a few first downs, 24 seconds remained on the clock, and it was fourth down from the 19 yard line, Tigers down three. Junior Caleb Iehl came on for the pressure packed 36 yarder to send it to overtime.

“I wasn’t thinking about anything. There was a split second where I said to myself that I will remember this kick for a long time. Then I just kicked it.

I didn’t feel nervous until I got to the sideline,” Iehl said.

The kick sailed perfectly

through the uprights.

Knotted up at 13, Hempstead got the ball first at the 10 yard line, and the Tiger red zone defense allowed the Mustangs to only produce a field goal. Cedar Falls’ leading rusher Eli Berregaard collected 184 yards on 28 carries until he took his last handoff and 29th carry that would be the decisive run as he collected the final eight yards of the game and sent the Tigers storming into the playoffs.

“It was big to get that win and that momentum heading into the playoffs” Berregaard said.

Senior Alex Gary said he believes they have a shot to make a deep run. “We know our last week’s game was not up to our standards, and we are heavily motivated to play a lot better heading into the playoffs. I believe we haven’t even come close to realizing our full potential.”

Starting with Cedar Rapids Washington (6-3), a team that Cedar Falls (6-3) beat earlier in the year, the Tigers have a

The CFHS soccer season may still be half a year away, but some of the players are starting to get prepared now.

Many of the players on all three of the CFHS teams, freshmansophomore, junior varsity and varsity, play club or recreational soccer, which is sponsored by the Cedar Valley Youth Soccer Association (CVYSA). The recreational league had six games per season, and there are currently four teams in the Under-19 league: two Independence teams and two Cedar Falls teams.

The club team, on the other hand, which is also known as CV (Cedar Valley) Select, has around eight league games

and participates in one to two tournaments per season. They play against teams from all over Iowa and the midwest.

The league games are sponsored by the Iowa Premier Soccer League (IPSL).

Sophomore Chris Keys, who played a mix of fresh-soph and varsity soccer for CFHS last year, also plays for the CV Select club team as a forward.

“Playing soccer in the fall helps to keep me in shape for the high school season. I can get touches on the ball in a real game scenario, and it really helps to prepare for CF soccer,” Keys said. “It’s fun because I get to play on the same team as people from different

and 30 seconds to show all of that.

The girls’ goal at State is to hit their stunt routine as cleanly as possible. The team just moved up a division (from medium to large), so the competition is a little heavier. “As long as we hit our routine we’ll be great,” junior Haley Alexander said.

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The week right before State, the girls dress up in themed outfits. The girls also each have a state sister, where they each get a person that they secretly give little gifts to.

The team is hoping to come home with a trophy and the title of state champions on Nov. 2.

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Football team advances to playoffs in OT

Eli Berregaard Football

Senior Eli Berregaard ran for 192 yards on 29 carries and two touchdowns including the game winner in overtime for the Tigers against Hempstead.

Jackie Norman Photo Senior Eli Berregaard’s run sets the Tigers up for a field goal to send the game with the Mustangs into overtime. tough road ahead of them.

Five wins secures a state title but each of those five wins may be the most difficult of

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schools in club, but for CFHS, I would have to play against them.”

Junior Mariam Bartlett plays for the CF women’s team as a forward and also plays for FC Midwest, which is another club team in the Cedar Valley.

“With fall soccer, you can play in a lot of tournaments, and that helps us to develop into better players,” Bartlett said. “During practice, we get extra touches in to help us in games and tournaments for club and high school.”

Fall soccer is a less competitive environment with less games, but there are still tournaments and trophies to be won. It can be used to fine tune

skills or to try new things to be as prepared as you can be for the high school season.

Fall soccer is not the only time to prepare for soccer, as there are a variety of opportunities to play indoors during the winter as well. Iowa Soccer sponsors one league, UNI has another league called “Just for Kicks” and Cedar Falls High School has an open gym a couple of nights a week in the winter. Anyone can participate in the open gym.

Taking all of these opportunities into consideration, there are plenty of ways to prepare for the CFHS soccer season.

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How did it feel to score the game winning touchdown in overtime? It was good for our team to get the win and get the momentum heading into the playoffs.

What do you want to accomplish in the playoffs?

Obviously a state title would be the ultimate goal, but we’re going to take it one game at a time.

How did you battle back from early injuries to be so successfull this year?

I just kind of gradually got healthier as the year went on, and I feel a lot better now. I’m still trying to get quicker and more explosive.

What are your college plans? I’m not sure yet. I might play football somewhere, but I don’t know what I want to do yet.

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Rising Up

As of last May, the CFHS class of 2013 began their lives as adults in the real world after graduation. Whether they launched straight into a career or decided to continue their schooling in college, the graduates gladly and fondly left their high school experience behind in order to experience whatever was ahead of them.

Now, in the beginning of their adult lives, these high school graduates are making the most of their time and piling on success.

CFHS class of 2013 graduate Amanda Harwood can be best recognized for her time at Cedar Falls High School for a multitude of plays and musicals, as well as participation in band, choir and two jazz groups. This love of the arts she possessed in high school has transferred to her life today. She is currently attending the University of Iowa, majoring in theater and planning to pursue a certificate in arts entrepreneurship. Harwood is also involved in a new studentled group at Iowa called the Old Gold Show Choir, which just had its first concert on Oct. 20. She loves being part of the Old Gold Show Choir because “[it feels] great to perform with such a supportive group of people.” On top of everything else, she also volunteered with the theater department in a show written by a grad student playwright called Medusa Undone. Although she did not get cast in the show, she loved the show and really wanted to be a part of it, so she worked backstage, helping with makeup and quick costume changes.

High school life is completely different from college life for Harwood, and she’s experienced a lot of change, mostly for the better. Since she arrived at Iowa, she’s begun to get rid of old habits in order to function in her everyday college lifestyle. Harwood, since being in college, has become tidier, as she doesn’t “want her roommate and the rest of the world to see a huge mess on her side of the room.” Cleaning has also become a way for her to deal with stress. In addition, she also studies a lot more and drinks more coffee.

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The major difference for Harwood between high school and college life is her routine.

In high school, she had a very structured, unchanging dayto-day life. She was at the high school from 7 am to 6 pm pretty much every day doing the same activities and taking the same classes. In college, she doesn’t have the same classes every day, and her time isn’t as structured. “I have a lot more options for how I spend my time which, in my opinion, makes it easier for me to be productive because I often have more of my day free and not just my evenings,” Harwood said.

Harwood believes she has been most successful in college in her classes and in meeting her professors. She works hard and being involved in theater shows and show choir in addition to taking several classes is no easy feat. Her parents provide a large amount of support to her, which she said is a big reason for her success.

Both of her parents work at the University of Northern Iowa with years of perspective on college life, so when she runs into a problem, she can easily call them and ask for advice. In addition to her parents, high school also prepared her for life in college. Harwood said, “I’m really thankful for my high school experience at Cedar Falls High School because the classes I took in high school and the teachers I had prepared me for the workload, so it wasn’t a shock.”

Harwood doesn’t quite know what she’d like to do as a career yet, but she believes Iowa is the right place to figure it out. Her favorite part of college at Iowa is her musical theater history class. Harwood said that it is the most interesting class she has taken so far, and she learns a lot in every class. “Taking that class not only assures me that I’m meant to be doing something with theater, but it’s also just plain fun. I even get to do a research project on Les Miserables, so that’s awesome,” Harwood said. She also claims to be a bit of a nerd, and she loves the “school-ey” aspects of college. Because of this, she hopes to go to graduate

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Left: CFHS alum Amanda Harwood poses with members of the Old Gold Show Choir at their first performance at the University of Iowa.

Right: CFHS alum Josh Carlo sings while rolling a motorcycle on the CFHS auditorium stage during the 2013 spring musical, All Shook Up. school somewhere on the east coast after she graduates from Iowa in four years.

Now a freshman at the University of Northern Iowa, Josh Carlo also graduated from Cedar Falls High School in May of 2013. He is best known for his time in high school in the drama department, performing in almost every play and musical possible and landing several lead roles throughout the years, in addition his participation in the music department, where he excelled in concert band and symphony orchestra with his bassoon, played the tenor saxophone in Jazz One and sang tenor in both Concert Choir and Vocal Jazz.

His love for music continues to live on as he studies as a music major at UNI, where he is also involved in five different music ensembles. Carlo is a member of the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Northern Iowa Wind Symphony, Northern Iowa Symphonic Band, The Inglorious Jazzers (UNI Jazz III) and the Panther Marching Band. In addition to being a part of ensembles on campus, he is also in an off-campus music ensemble called Bel Canto Cedar Valley.

For Carlo, the most difficult part of the transition from high school to college is time management. Since starting college at UNI, he has become more aware of time and how it needs to be utilized in order to achieve success. Carlo said that the lack of free time is difficult and that he constantly finds himself trying to find some free time in his schedule, even if it’s just to sleep or practice music more. “As a music major, you have to be on your toes at all times and get as much done with the time you are given. It’s very easy to fall behind,” Carlo said.

Even if time management is difficult, Carlo still loves college life at UNI. He believes that UNI is “absolutely a perfect fit” for him, and he feels right at home on campus.

Compared to high school, he believes college gives you much more independence, which can’t be wasted. However, out of everything, he particularly enjoys the passion and intensity that comes from everyone in the School of Music at UNI. “Everyone [in the School of Music] wants to be there, and the high level of music making that comes from

that is incredible,” Carlo said.

Carlo believes that he has been relatively successful in his life after high school. However, he believes there are definitely things he could improve upon, which he thinks will always be true of everyone. Carlo has worked hard to be as successful as he is, and he feels that he has been most successful by making the large number of ensembles he is a part of as a freshman, many of which college students don’t get into in their first year of school. He attributes most of his success to his friends and family that support him. Carlo said, “A supportive friend group is crucial to success in my opinion.”

After graduating from UNI, Carlo knows exactly what he would like to do as a career.

He plans to teach band at the high school level in either Iowa or Wisconsin. He also plans to work on getting his masters degree at the same time. From there, he plans to either get his doctorate and teach collegiate level band or continue to teach at the high school level.

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