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According to principal Jerry
500 students. ot only met high standards set by previous classes, but also set out to raise the achievement bar to an even higher lev l."
·1e student growth leveled off at 1,910, up slightl from last year's ,1888, the largest class was the juniors with 522 students.
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Strike a pose class of '07 ! The senior class gets out of class to have a class pictµre taken. Students were suppo.500 to stand by people their own height, but many chose to stand by their friends. Pho to by T ravis Cunningha m{[
Just keep running! Junior Brandon Brown runs the ball against Millard West in the first game of the year. uthwest rushed 333 yards and earned its fir t victory of the year. Photo by
Where next? Senior Lesley Perry and junior Arica Coleman look to see where to go next during locker checkout on Aug. 7. Locker checkout was split into two day The first day was for seniors through sophomores The second day was for freshmen. Pho to by Rache l Yankf[alon
Ken Bever, a NH representative, recognizes the sophomores at the Oct. 18 Honor O)Ilvocation. The honors awarded were Academic 3%, 4.0+ GPA, Academic Letter, Academic Pin, Honor Roll and Perfect Attendance. Photo by Kris Wil liamson /Pho to journalism A spooky treat. Seniors Mai Nguyen and Miles Hadley and junior Alyson Oevenger show off their pumpkin cake in Sherry McCranie's Culinary Baking class. McCranie' class had a variety of spooky cakes to decorate Oct. 20, including a mummy. Photo by Rachel Yankf[alon a1on Rachel Yankf[alonContinued from page 2
Brick by brick, of the ways students se shirts. One way stud whole body pushups wi students in academics. other L during the honors convocati ns in ooth the fall and spring.
sporting events amd wearing "nest" t-when senior Brandon Stromp would do e _varsity football team made.
• . New traditions wer al o seen by grades 10--12 Oct. 18, more than any cle many block one classes near empty
s the year continued it became apparent new traditions would be created and old traditions adapted to add more bricks and blocks to Southwest's walls of traditions.
Talk to me. Southwest's forensics team share laughs during the lockin on Sept. 15. Speech and debate students playec games and got to know each other h!fore the compeetitiv<: season h!gan. Photo by Katie Madvig/Talon
Muddy buddies! Sophomores Kelsey Graves and Sarah Strickland create nature art during Charley Bittle's biology class. Other class members used leaves and sticks to create their masterpieces in the outdoor classroom. Photo by Brittany V ontz/Talon
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First day, first lunch. Freshmen find themselves enjoying their first high school lunch during freshmen first day, Aug. 28. It became a tradition for LPS high schools to dedicate the first day to freshmen only. Ehou;,_.lry
d your homecoming king and queen a ••• Kelsey Bryant and Ryan Cownie accept • titles as homecoming royalty. The DJ's ed announcement left students confused a ut who he said the winner was. Once ev• g had settled down Bryant and Cowrue •----------wl!t,e crowned.
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Would you like a slushy? Juniors Austin Zimmerman and Alyssa McBride sell slushies at Spirit Fest Au g. 27 fo r golf. Spirit Fest provided time for students and parents to see wh at activities were offered and served as a Booster Club f undraiser.
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Summer came to a close Aug began to attempt to balance their s time to make the 8:15 bell and the Activities, sports, work and hangin
with school starting, students t students woke up just in the bell released them at 3:03.
Since i the rest of the LPS community.
As previous "nest" shirts have stated, "Warning: O:mtents
d ". ou , 1t was no clifferent this year. Many students showed up to all sorts of spq ting events ready to cheer and demonstrate their school spirit. So the "l..dud Proud Crowd" continuea their set traclitions.
Traditions created unity between students at school events as well as other activities. It was with these foundations that more traditions em rged.
Pumpin' up the spirit! Senior Brandon Stromp finds himself doing another set of pushups at the Omaha North game Spirit was a big part of student life in the fall with an average crowd attendance at home football games at 3,829. Photo by Travis Cunningham([alon"..'.hosted two Japanese students."
,Paul Yarabe, sophomore
"...ran a marathon and got second, and my dad returned from Iraq."
,Matt Petersen, freshman
"...went to Mexico on a missions trip, a show choir camp at UNL, drivers ed and hung out with friends."
,Arica Coleman, junior
" went on a missions trip and to camp for two months. I was home for only about a week combined."
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"...went to the Warped Tour in Denver, Colo. I saw and met a couple bands."
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1$mmer days drif tin' away to those summer nights summer dreams, ripped at the seams, "but those summer nights "
The movie "Grease" couldn't have said it better. Summer was full of dreams coming true.
One major event for some was the Southwest American Legion team Pinnacle Bank making it to the World Series.
"It didn't really sink in until we got home," said senior Elijah Aden, "but it was a great feeling."
Another example of teens working hard was the many groups of students who helped with the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Junior Erin Eisbach traveled with the Lutheran Disaster relief group.
"I was astonished by everything in New Orleans we saw an apartment building with 'help' written on the roof. I'll never forget that," Eisbach said.
While some volunteered, others slept the days
away. Hours spent sleeping ranged from seniors at 10 to sophomores at eight, according to an unscientific survey of students representing each class.
People also kept busy socially. Popular summer activities included driving around, hanging out at people's houses, going to the movies and shopping at the mall.
Many students also took quick road trips to nearby places. Popular destinations included Denver and Kansas City.
Sophomore Kerri Peters said her summer went "wonderfully fantastic, but I didn't want it to end." But once August came to an end, students knew free time was coming to a close.
"It turned colder, that's where it ends "--Grease As the weather cooled people knew it was time for school to start back up again, and time to leave the seemingly endless summer nights behind.
Proving their point. Senior debate members Nick Dalke, Matt Rosson , and Bryan Kelley and 2006 graduate Dustin Ryrnph competed in Dallas. They came home with a National School of Excellence Award. Courtesy Photo by Toni Heimes Helping the home-wrecked. Senior Jordan Muller finishes a fan in a New Orleans home. He worked there for one week as part of a church relief group. Courtesy Photo by Erin Eisbach
Hey everyone•••get out your alarm clocks, conducted using one class from each of the 9-12 backpacks, pencils and paper because school is back grades. Most people responded they liked meeting in session! new people and seeing their friends again.
With the start of the year, everyone bid fare, But not everything about returning to school well to the warm pool weather, midday wake up was favorable. Sophomore Lindsay Hanson said she times and sleepless nights out with friends. wasn't ready for school because she "didn't want to
The year began Aug. 28 with the welcoming have homework again." She wasn't alone. of freshmen. With the school all to themselves, the While some classes were just beginning their class of 2010 learned where their classes were and high school experience, others were coming to an prepared themselves for high school life without end. With three years under their belt, the class of the upperclassmen. 2007 began their senior year.
"It wasn't that bad [coming to high school]," Senior Claire Velander, who transferred in as said freshman Chad Hassebrook. "It's just a new a sophomore, remembers her first day as "pretty in, school."
• teresting. The school was over two times the size of Students had a chance to become acquainted my old school," said Velander. "Every wing looks with the school year by coming to the locker check the same, so I got lost quite a bit." out Aug. 8,9, open house Aug. 24 and Spirit Fest Now, V elander is ready to move on. "High Aug. 26. school has been fun, but I'm so ready to get outta
To find out what people liked most about here!" going back to school, an unscientific survey was
" Andy Kelsay calls you at 10 p.m and asks you what the teacher 's number is because he didn't finish his homework."
-Matt Robertson. , freshman weekend !"
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"...sleep becomes a privilege vs. a right!"
-Christina Mayer , sophomore
"... the Hail Mary Hunks unite!"
-Flijah Aden, senior
Food frenzy. Freshmen Preston Block , Brian Hand, Michael Nordell, Alec Rinke, Dillon Ffingsten, Oxly Phillips, Andrew Rentschler and Nate Pettigrew experience high school lunch for the first time. With more meal choices, lunch is a favorite for many students. Photo by Talon Staff Unit ed through u-locker. Freshman Connor Villanueva learns how to use u- locker on the first day. U-locker gave students a place to store their electronic files. Photo by Talon Staff
Go Hawks, Go!" That was the cry at the Spirit Fest as poodle skirts, tie-dyed T,shirts and leggings. A pep pep rally Aug. 26. Spirit Fest was a way for students to rally introduced candidates for homecoming king and get excited aoout the upcoming year. queen.
"It's a great opportunity for students to see the On Tuesday students looked as if they had walked school and some of the clubs they may not have been out of a Disney film dressing like their favorite character aware of," drama teacher Bob Henrichs said. on Disney Day.
The festivities began with a pep rally with the spirit Red bandannas could be spotted on students teams and band performing. After the pep rally students on Wednesday's Pirate Day. Many students sported and parents walked around the commons area, stopping gold jewelry and tom up clothes to give themselves an at various booths sponsored by clubs and athletics. authentic pirate look.
"Running a booth for Key Club was a lot of fun. Students' style went "up, up and away" on Thursday It was exciting to meet new people who wanted to for Superhero Day. Spandex pants were worn as well as participate in the club," senior Jessica Danson, president long capes. Superman was also a popular choice. of Key Club said.
Friday, Spirit Day, wrapped up the end of Spirit
Another way students showed their spirit was by Week. The halls were filled with green and sparkles of dressing up in costumes during Spirit Week, Oct. 2, 6, silver. Some students even painted their hair and faces. leading up to the homecoming football game
"It was fun to see who had the craziest outfit each Monday started the week with Decade Day. day," said sophomore Vera Konovalchuk. Students dressed in an array of different outfits, such
Sing! The show choir performed at Spirit Fest. They practiced over the summer for before school performances like this one. Photo by Talon Staff Mirror, mirror on the wall. Junior Jamie Jones dresses up as Snow White on Disney Day. Some students bought Disney costumes and others created their own. Photo by Onotney Oiambers/falonThe immense stream of brightness from the search light streaked across the sky, pointing the way to the big event. With high hopes and dance fever, students anticipated the big night. People filed in and walked the "green carpet."
It was homecoming "VIVA LAS VEGAS!" style.
Although there were no show girls or slot machines at the dance, the Vegas theme strived to fill the commons with the same amount of glitz and glam as if it were the real thing.
The cheerleaders and dance teams sponsored the event.
"We made cards and poker chip decorations, and had a 'Welcome to Las Vegas' sign in the en, trance," said varsity cheerleader Carli Sabin.
Since tickets were not sold at the actual dance, students purchased them the week before
at $7 apiece or $12 per couple. Ticket sales reached new heights with 1 ,409 sold.
Complete Music provided the sound. The announcement of homecoming royalty came around 9 p.m. Seniors Ryan (})wnie and Kelsey Bryant were crowned king and queen. The other nominees were Samantha Exstrom, Mike (})at, man, Chistina Fraser, Zach Mapes, Kaylea Sasek, Ollie Sloup and Paige Zoz.
"I had no idea I could win for one reason: Zach Mapes. He's the man," Cownie said.
Bryant said smiling, "I was honored [to be voted homecoming queen] but it took me by sur, prise. I'm really close with a lot of the girls that were up there with me and they're an amazing group of girls. It easily could have gone to anyone."
As the last song played throughout the com, mons, students danced one last time in Vegas.
Demonstrating the dip. Junior Jason Belden and senior Ashley James end a dance with a dip. With smiles and laughter, the two appeared to be having a great time.
Photo by Katie Madvigf[alon
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"Mr. [Tony] Kobza's class is the definition of fun! If you pronounce it right, Kobza actually spells out FUN."
Kyle Under , senior
"I get grounded too much to have fun. But before I went out to lunch, I got to penetrate the mold in the shower."
,Kati Stauffer, junior
"I like to go shopping and watch the latest sporting events. My best weekend was Homecoming. After I got my hair 'did' I ate three oowls of Panera soup."
shh don't tell ... there's a party in the When not busy working at a fast,food joint, a basement! When parents left, kids ruled the house. Teenagers loved to go to parties with their friends and rock out to good music.
However, not all students agreed with this stereotype. Some students claimed it's school, not a party, where they felt most energized.
"So many friends, so little time!" freshman Andrew Rentschler explained.
Jobs left a lot of people busy and without much time for friends on the weekends.
"I usually had to work on Fridays so I missed all the football games," said junior Crystal Brawner with a frown.
Luckily, student workers didn't go without reward. With their paychecks, nine out of ten surveyed said they spent a good portion of their money on food and shopping.
"I usually spend around $20 on just random stuff," said junior Lou Dilley.
common workplace for teens, a lot of students said they liked to just drive around. However, it came with a price tag. Because of the yo,yoing gas prices, they had to find other activities
"What I like most is going to people's houses, especially Tiffaney Tatro's," junior Cara Beaty said. "I'd recommend going to the Stars games, and Village Inn can be relaxing as well as exciting."
SouthPointe Mall and Westfield Shopping Center, along with the Chatterbox and Knickerbockers, were also among places students frequented.
"I think that coffee shops are fun to go to and hang out at, especially if there is live music," junior Kelsey Kennell said.
"It's cool when there's fun stuff going on at school, like Homecoming week when we had a game and a dance on the same weekend," junior Jessica Way said.
Red light, green light. Senior Trisha Knudson is on her way to a friend's house. She was going for ice cream and a movie. Photo by Katie Madvig/fakm T aking state . Junior Jared Marker spent his weekends playing soccer. "The best part was winning the State Cup," he said. Kis s. When senior Arman Negahban isn't studying for the SAT's, he took time to have fun. "I enjoy watching strange movies like 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ' and 'Ghost World' with my close friends," egahban said. Photo by Marina Bradaric{I'akmC.
I n tcx:lay's fast,paced world, students yearn to Instant messaging on a computer was becom, be entertained. Industries stepped up to the chal, ing a thing of the past. Who had time to boot up an lenge and brought students new and exciting gad, entire computer when one could simp ly flip open a gets to play with. cell phone and have the world at their fingertips?
Apple unleashed its new 80 gigabyte iPcx:l "I text at least 10 times a class period," said offering students even more space to store their freshman Brenton Knight. "It's so much easier than favo ri te tunes. They also introduced a twist on their passing a note, or calling them up." smallest iPod, the nano: color! Starting at $149, stu, Cell phones now offer a variety of features, dents were able to pick black, silver, blue, pink or including video, mp3 players, OPS systems, and green to decorate their pocket player. much more. New features came out regularly, in,
Not everyone was impressed with Apple and eluding an idea for a cell phone that emitted a scent its advances in the iPod nanos when a certain person called, or a high pitch ring
"By the time you get the new iPcx:l, it's already tone only certain people could hear, similar to a dog outdated," said senior Ben LaGrange. "It kinda whistle sucks the way that works."
The technology and entertainment industries
Senior Amber Miller questioned whether or teamed up to create a year full of "oohs" and "aahs" not she should even purchase an iPcx:l. for students. Whether the students decided to dish
"If it's going to be outdated in a month, why out the dough and buy the new toys was under their bother?" Miller said. own discretion.
she sent up to in a class period.
Percent out of 40 students surveyed who said MySpace was a site they frequented often.
Percent of 30 teachers surveyed who don ' t think cell phone usage is a problem in class.
Statistics were found through anonymous surveys conducted by the ye,arbook staff.
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Candid Camera . Junior Ashley Andersen checks out her photos on her digital camera. Digital cameras became smaller and smaller with each new model that came out.
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Senior Laura Green's 5 Songs
1. Chasing Cars,Snow Patrol
2. Wonderooy, Tenacious D
3. The General, Dispatch
4. Gotta Fight for the Right to Party, &astie fuys
5. Crazy Game of Poker, OAR.
Junior Austin Turner's To 5 Songs
1. Speakers Blown, Hit the Llghts
2. 99 Red Bal, loons, GJl,d, finger
3. Radioplayer, Allister
4. Approach the Bench, The Audition
5. I Saw It On Your Keyooard, Hel, 'a' logocxfbye
-1 Sophomore Vincent Flynn III 's J Top 5 Songs
Can you re ad/seeA-le ar me now? Acellphonewasnolonger just a simple tool to get in touch with someone outside of the home. It was a way to secretly send messages during classes and a way to capture candid moments. Senior Kate Stajner sends a silent text to a friend, senior Jared Forst captures a photo of his creation in Culinary Baking and junior Darko Alic keeps the original use of cell phones alive before his Beginning Drawing class. Photos by Katie Madvigf[alon
2. Don't Stop Believirlg, Journey
3. Twenty Twenty Surgery, Taking &ck Sunday
4. To The End, My Oiemical Romance
5. How To Save A Life, The Fray Freshman Stacey Segura's
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1. Angel, Llttle Bean
2. Snap Your Fingers, Lll' , John
3. Do It To It, Olerish
4. Say Goodbye, Otris Brown
5. Just a Little Bit, 50 Cent
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"Show me the money!" was the spirited cry of many working teenagers. Money was an essential need for students. Students worked to make money, to save money and to spend money.
Senior Tiffani Thomason worked at Long John Silver's off of Highway 2.
"Basically I chose to work there because my next door neighbor offered me the job and I took it," Thomason said.
Senior Jennifer Penner decided to work at Subway off of Highway 2.
"I like working at Subway because I can get free food every time I work," Penner said.
Some underclassman also had jobs to earn a little pocket change. Sophomore Alex Bischoff worked at Amigos.
"Working is a really good learning experience for me, plus it's fun," Bishchoff said.
Not everyone worked for money. Some
people decided to do volunteering as an act of service. Senior Alex Hogan cut down trees at 0}ttonwood Lake for a Scouting Eagle Project.
"It makes me feel good because you're helping the community," Hogan said.
Some students went out of the United States to help out in a community. Horizon's O)mmunity church youth group went to Juarez, Mexico for a • week to build a home for a deserving family.
"It was the experience of a lifetime," said junior Jordan Reinwald.
The youth group had the opportunity to interact with the people in Mexico, especially the children.
Whether students had a job to work at, or help around the community, students showed up for any excuse to lend a helping hand or make money.
f ter years of over exposure jokes and phrases instead of the uncomfortable stiletto heels. Big like "crack kills," skin was definitely not in.
The year's look took a completely different turn, one which senior Brandie Peters explained as "Modest is hottest. Show your beauty, not your booty." Revealing clothes were out of style when students returned to school, despite high tempera, tures and humidity.
"It's sexier to cover up than to let it all hang out," said senior Jenny Scatter. While magazines were still advertising scantily clad clothes, clothing companies took notice and changed merchandise.
The once revealing Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister sold longer shirts and leggings to go under the still popular micro,mini skirts. Layering fit into the modest look. If a shirt was too short it could be worn over a longer shirt or tank top.
The dressed up sophisticated look was made more comfortable by wearing a skirt and ballet flats
totes and bags took the place of little purses and clutches, thus eliminating the need of a backpack.
Looking clean, cut was definitely the look for the school year among boys.
"We just wear what the girls like," senior Matt Green said.
Polos, track jackets and popped collars were seen widely around the halls. Jeans fit tighter con, trasting to earlier trends of the baggy "gangster" look.
"Preppy is in this year," said junior Tim Du, gan. " You should coordinate and look good all the time. You never know who will see you."
Although looking good has always been a priority, being comfortable and concealing every, thing was high on the list of to-0os.
As junior Brandon Moore noted, "You should always look fresh and clean no matter what."
"Trends aren't as defined this year, so it's trendy to have your own style."
,Arman Neghaban, senior
"People are a lot more comfy look, ing. This year they don't care as much."
,Sarah Arten, senior
"Non,matching became cool, whose ever idea that was."
,Katie Hill, senior
Fashioh & Trehds
Keeping it simple. Juniors Melissa West, Adil Karie and Chelsea &au display the neutral colors. Bright colors were not as popular. Photo by Amber Trammell/Talon Cash Money. Junior Cash Ryba shows off his twist on the classic Chuck Taylor. The shoe design has been popular since 1918. Photo By Jami Finnell/Talon
ks the first day of school, 3rd block and time Quandt said, the change was good. to eat. Students rush to the lunchroom only to find To see if sneaking out was a problem, a survey their favorite mid day treats gone. was sent to three random classes of freshmen and A bigger lunch difference was the "Healthy sophomores. Only eight percent of the freshmen Food Change." The change consisted of banishing said they have snuck out versus 50 percent of the soda pop, other than diet, and treats such as llimic sophomores. Most students snuck out with friends Brownies, Little Debbies and Snickers. Treats such who were able to drive. The majority said they go as these were what most students looked forward to to places closer such as Subway, Amigos, Juice Stop, come lunch time. De Leon's, Popeye's, Zestos, or Wilderness Perk.
Some students disliked the change. Upperclassmen who could "legally" go out to
"It's bad because sometimes when Ifeel a little lunch said they liked the variety. sick I like to drink Sprite or Sierra Mist," sophomore "It is nice being able to take a break and get Lacey Diaz said. fresh air, plus not eat school food," junior Tisha Sophomore Spenser Morton said, "It's a bad Elstun said. thing because now they don't have anything to Somehow students found ways to work around drink or eat so it causes kids to sneak out." the food changes, whether it be "sneaking out," just Others didn't care. leaving because they were old enough, or even if it
"Well, it doesn't matter for me because I'm was bringing a goodie filled sack lunch to school. healthy but for those who need it," junior Taylor
Oh where, oh where, did our sugar go? ~me students brought their own pop because the school sold only diet. Sports drinks and diet pop could be found in machines in the D hallway. Photo by Jami Finnell/falon
Hundreds of hours of crew work, weeks re, also been the most rewarding." Kerns played Man, hearsing lines, and the night where it all mattered uelito and Crazy Horse. He played multiple roles was Nov. 9: opening night. Black Elk Speaks was along with all but two of his cast mates. the challenging play that showed the audience what The story starts out in a ceremonial ground Native Americans went through in history. on and near Harney Peak in South Dakota. The Black Elk Speaks is the Sioux history as re, actual play is set in 1931, but events are recalled corded by John Neihardt, a Nebraska writer and from 1492 to 1890. poet. Black Elk was a Sioux elder that survived the
"It was the most challenging show I've ever early 19 th century battles with the Americans who seen a school do, but they did it with grace," said wanted their land. new technical director, U>rrie Beth Allen. When He lived from a time where white people she came in early September she went right to work did not bother them, to where Native Americans on the set. Allen said she spent hundreds of hours gained independence at the Battle of Wounded working on it with various theatre crews, staying Knee. Neidhardt went to the Pine Ridge reserva, most days after school, up until the final night.
•. tion where Black Elk lived, in order to capture his
After the performances the theatre depart, this moving story. ment had less than a month cut it down to just 30
. Junior Bryson Kerns said, "This play was one minutes for the NSM District One,Act perfor, of the most difficult plays we have done, but it has mance. There they received third place.
Showing their anger. Black Elk and his tribemates show their anger towards the settlers. In order to make the play come together, over 120 students participated in technical, makeup, stage and other crews. Phot.o by Mollie Dittmer{[alon
Arguing his point. Sophomore Chase Small argues with senior Carli Sabin; freshman Sammy Al Thayedi and senior Charles Voigt, all Sioux elders, about their views on Native American society Small plays Hoksila , Black Elk's grandson, who left his culture behind. Phot.o by Mollie Dittmer{falon
Performing a hoop-dance. The hoopdance is a traditional part of Sioux culture recause the circle represents life. The dance is done by freshmen Justin Lyrm Gesrel and Sammy Al-Thaydei and junior Brandon Kc:x:h "Photo by Travis Cunningham{[alon
Switching sides. Junior Chris Oeveling shows his true colors, by aligning himself wtih the settlers. Creveling had seven roles ' in the play. Phor.o by Mollie Dittmer{[alon
Giving a speech. Michael Gilmore, junior, gives a speech as Andrew Jackson. President Jackson was a character that helped support the Native American treatment and movement across the West. Phot.o by Mollie Dittmer{[alon
Bla ck Elk Speaks
Athletes set out to prove the or in the pool, students drove to sue
This need to succeed is just o team has some kind of tradition tha Cheerleaders began selling" they brought the student lxxly toget traditions with cheers, dance routines and While the cheerleaders got the student section pumpe
the field, court, track, course
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ut spirit too. By doing this 1 assisted in the creation of in the way that they entered the field; tearing through streamers and a big Southwest sigi;i. Another tradition had the team raising their helmets at kickoffs.
As the teams' seasons progressed, more and more traditions were created. Some were made for fun and others were used because the teams believed they helped them perform better. Either way each team se out to achieve great things.
Spread by Rachel Yahk Cheering on their team! Varsity football players cheer for the special team during kick off of the Millard North game The game went into a fifth overtime, leading to Southwest's first and only loss of the season, 51-45. Photo by Max Olson/Hawk TalkIt was so awesome blocking the [Millard North] kick and it wa :, one of many memorable moments for our team this year --Micah Fisher, jur io
t is fourth down and two to go deep wit 1i Hawks territory. The ball is snapped and quar =e1 back Austin Cassidy drops back. He hands of to Ollie Sloup who then runs into the end zc n TOUCHDOWN! This was a favorite play dm in the Southeast game.
With each play came a memorable mom n For senior Chris Lewis his most memorable 1 J.C mentwas,
"Norfolk game because I played well i1 , : and it was a lot of fun," he said. Southwest -v u 35,14.
Not everything was fun though.
"The hardest part has been the tough p1:ic rices, especially the long Monday practices. T 1e remind me of how I felt during the two,a-Oay: , the beginning of the season," Cassidy said.
With a win over Lincoln East, South" e clinched a home game in the state playoffs , n went undefeated during the regular season.
During the Lincoln East game Sloup broke b Class A all,time scoring record. Sloup's recor is now 505 points with the final 39 points be n scored in the last game of season.
The Millard North game set a state recorc , the longest game in state playoff history with f v overtimes. The Silver Hawks lost to the MustaJ lf 45,51, finishing with a 10,1 season.
Run the ball! Senior Ollie Sloup runs the ball against Mil~ lard West. Slou_p was ·one of seven Southwest football players chosen for the All City team.
Phot.o by Rachel Y ankffalon
Block that ball! Junior Mi~ cah Fisher blocks a point after attempt in the qu a rterfinals against Millard North in over~ time. The 514 5 loss in five overtimes ended the Silver Hawks' season.
Photo by Travis Cunningham/ Talon
Pass! Senior Austin Cassidy triesto get away and still get the fir st down. Cassidy had three long runs to help Southwest set up second half scores during the Millard West game. Photo by Travis Cunningham([alon
"We work a lot harder. We continue to get better and take it one game at a time."
-Evon Benson , sopho rr,:>re
nother year of dedication and teamwork 1as given the Hawks the ability to soar into victc ry.
The freshman team stormed into the yt ar , shattering expectations. Highlights included \\ inning 48--0 against North Star and 38; 13 agai 1st Lincoln East in the first game of the year.
"We work harder here. The history of all the great seasons motivates you," freshman R , an Keys said.
With a record of 6;1, the reserve team 1 inished as city champions.
Reserve player sophomore Evan Benson E rid his coach, Kevin Schrad, "pushes me to do ny best and teach me new things."
Listening to their coaches give a spee :h , listening to music to get pumped before a g a ne and knowing they could be the best were t h ·ee ways team members motivated themselves.
"My best game so far was against Frem< int [35--0]. I played my best game and scored my f rst touchdown this season," sophomore Eric H : de said, smiling at the memory.
With a record of 6;2, JV also had a lo t of personal breakthroughs. "At the Fremont gar 1e , I had two pancake blocks," junior Dillon Sch ~ nhom said.
O)aches taught their teams to be the 1:: ~t competitors they could, which then crea1ed teamwork.
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"The competition and camaraderie that -,.;e have enables us to all accept and believe tha t if we push each other to be our best, we will b : a better program for it." coach Dan Carpenter Sc id "Football is a game of emotion, spirit, teamwc,rk and momentum."
All for one & one for all! Reserve players put their helmets t ogether after the Southeast game. This tradition began to show team dedication and unity. Photo by Marina Bradaric/Talon The blocker is ready. Junior V aristy player Chris O:,vey gets ready to block against Grand Island Covey was a part of the offensive line and the defensive line. Photo by Marina Bradaric/TalonWe can take him. Freshmen te a m members block Grand Island players. The freshmen had to learn to work as a team to get the •win. Photo by Rylee Hall/Hawk Talk
Go long! Reserve player sophomore HD Sader takes the chance and passes the ball when the Pius X players are blocked. Reserve lost by 8 points. Photo by Briana Steward/Hawk Talk
GO,Jake, GO! Freshman Jake Linder handles the ball. Linder was a quarterback and a double back. Courtesy Photo
Ready to kick. Freshman Ryan Keys prepares to lq.ck off to Grand Island. Most of the freshmen team agreed that Keys was a MVP. Photo by Mollie Dittmer{[alon Punter's got some kicks. Freshman Brandon Piening kicks one for the team. Pien~ ing's kick was almost blocked by East's #70. Courtesy Photo"Our record doesn't show it but we competed very well this year."
--Dani Bryant, iuniorhe season was filled with all time highs and all time lows for the varsity softball team, and witl it came many memories.
"Softball has been a big part of my life su ce I was 8," said senior Tiffany Forycki. "It gave ne something to work for, and gave me a chance to have fun with friends."
The team ended with a 23,18 record, c 1.d finished tenth in Class A They won three tour taments during the season, including the Hearth d O)nference tournament for the first time, after c 1 11,inning game against North Star Sept. 6.
In districts the team beat Southeast Oct 5, then lost to Papillion. A second meeting with So heast Oct. 6.
Many challenges were presented to the te e n, both on and off of the field.
"Being a senior [was a challenge]," said ser or Megan Holbrook. "Because of everything you w; nt to make sure [you get] accomplished, and know rrg it's your last year playing."
Senior Amanda Magnuson, junior Madi ~Jn Drake and sophomore Ashley Janssen made the ill City team.
After a season of many accomplishments . 'aristy softball will have memories of the 2006 s ~ason and the girls that became their friends as well as teammates.
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"Don't be afraid to get dirty and to risk your
body for the ball."
--Amanda Hoy~ juniorinning is a word that defines the JV c nd reserve softball teams.
&th proved themselves with a 21-6 reo )rd for JV and 12~5 record for reserves. Each had d allenging seasons, playing rivals such as Southe~st , Fremont and Grand Island.
The reserve team wanted to improve :::m last year and the veteran sophomores helped •he freshmen get used to the hectic life of softt tll.
"The secret to our success," said sophom )re Kaleigh Hohensee, "was relaxing and having f m When we played uptight and thought too mu :h , we didn't do as well."
The best moment by far, Hohensee said, ,as when "Kylie Garrett hit a home run during •he East game."
JV started off with high hopes for the s ~ason.
According to junior Kari Parke, the te. tID members lived up to their reputation by "prac1icing hard and trusting our teammates."
Cbach Liz Brenden hopes for the team ranf ed from being city champions to competing everyc ay and to being a good teammate.
"We kept the game simple," Brenden saic
During the season, both teams had bonch 1.g activities off the field.
"The night before each game," said sopl lO· more Lindsay Hanson, "we went over to someor e's house and hung out, ate and watched movies It was just fun hanging out with the team and getti 1.g to know each other."
No hitter. Freshman Becca Changstrom pitches during the Kearney game, but says her best game was the Hastings game. "Everyone who got out got struck out by me." Photo 1ry Mollie Dittmer{falan
Stealing second. Junior Steph, anie Phillip slides into second, barely beating the ball. Phillip helped clinch the victory in the first game. Photo 1ry Mollie Dittmer{[alon
Cheering on their teammates. The JV team yells encouragingly to their team at the Kearney game. "The Kearney game," said sophomore Monica Knabe,"was my best game because I hit the game winning run." Photo by Rylee Hall/Hawk Talk
You're out! Sophomore Lau, ren Brunken catches the ball at first base. Brunken was a usual starter who played for the reserves. Photo 1ry Mollie Dittmerffalon
Fair ball. Sophomore Lindsey Hanson hits the ball at the · Southeast game. Hanson was a starter who usually played infield for JV. Photo 1ry Mollie Dittmer([alan"We have become more as one.
We play for each other because after the accident we kno A/ we have destiny."
-Samantha Exstrom, senior
tart Strong, Finish Stronger" was the mottc for the varsity volleyball team. After half of its merr :,er graduated, the varsity volleyball team returned stJ Jn with five new members. Throughout the season the team bonded and learned to work together.
"We went to Jessica Way's cabin and experie1,c some events that none of us will ever forget," jL 1i Meghan Henderson said. The team went through any challenges
Sophomore Stacie Hansen said her biggest c al, lenge was "being the youngest on the team.'~ She and Kaleigh Anderson were the only sophomores.
The team was brought even closer mid,se .son when they were all involved in a seven~ar pile,up one afternoon on the way to a team barbeque. A few o~ the girls were hurt, leaving the others to adjust to a ne~ lin up. But the team stuck through it and won their fi game after the incident 2,1 against Papillion LaVis a.
The team also won its first ever district cham1 io ship by defeating Omaha North and Southeast.
During the state quater ,final match against \1' lard North, Southwest won the first game and ther 1 the next three. In the fourth game, both teams •et state record of the longest match in Class A ph yoB history with the Silver Hawks fighting off eight m 1tcl game points and making three of their own. The 3 5,3, result ended the Silver Hawks' season.
Work hard, play hard.
You got served. Junior Kaila Lewallen goes up for a serve in state against Millard North. Millard North won the fourth game 35-33. Photo by Travis Cunningham/Talon
Bump, set, spike! Senior Samantha Exstrom prepares to spike the ball. Exstrom was one of five seniors on varsity. Photo by Travis Cunningham/Talon
Switch. Juniors Jessica Way, Whitney Weyhrich, Meghan Henderson and senior Chelsea Capps switch places during the district game against Omaha ' North. The team swept the Vikings and then beat Lincoln Southeast to win districts. Photo by Travis Cunningham/Talon
Not all fun and games. Volleyball players wait for ambulances to pick them up after getting in a seven car pile up at the intersection of South Oxldington A venue and West • Pleasant Hill Road. The site drew a
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"We learned no matter what happens to still play as a team and have fun."
--Bethany Wood, sophom cire
B ump took a new meaning for volleyball.
Around 50 players from the four volleybc ll teams were headed to a barbecue outside of to\\ :1 Oct. 2. They looked forward to the gathering th t had become a tradition. They never made it.
Instead seven of nine cars in the carpoolir g caravan were involved in a pile up on the grav :1 road. All girls were wearing seatbelts. Though 12 girls were transported to the hospital, no serious • , juries resulted.
But the year was memorable for more than a car accident.
Junior varsity finished undefeated with a 24 J record which put them as the best in the city.
"One of our favorite moments was when v e beat varsity in one of two matches," said junior M :, gan Foree.
The only loss the reserves experienced was ; J Omaha Marian. They finished 22,1.
"Marian was the hardest game of the seasc 1 because it was just after the crash. It was an em ,, tional game," sophomore Neleigh Frandsen said.
The reserve players learned from the season.
"You need to work as a team. Everybcx: y knows each other's strengths and weaknesses J you learn from each other," said sophomore Josb 1 Stonacek.
Before every game the freshman team cl :l a dance to pump them up which they called tl- e "ninja." This dance turned into a tradition.
The team finished 19,1 losing only to Pius ) ~ -
Smack down! Sophomore Amy Kellough spikes the ball in a game against Southeast. Players on reserve said South~ east was their main rival. Phot.o lry Marina Bradaricffalon
Settin' it up! Sophomore Mackenzie Laird sets the ball to a back row player. Reserve won the game against Southeast. Phot.o lry Jami Finnell[falon
Ahh TEAM! The freshman team does a team cheer after a time out. Coaches take time outs to talk to their players and give them constructive criti~ cism. Photo by Talon Staff
Servin' it up. Freshman Amanda Brown serves in a game against Lincoln High. Freshman ended _up winning both matches quickly. Phot.o lry Jami Finnell[falon
Block that ball! Junior Kaci Bartholomew serves in a game a g ainst Norfolk. Bartholomew also played a few games with varsity. Photo lry Katie Madvig/ Talon"Watching a slideshow at the end of the year with both teams, was a lot of fun!"
--Carole Kerrey, senio -
ocusl Concentrate on hitting great shots ra t 1er than worrying alxmt bad ones or what others th nk if you miss." That was part of coach Jim Dan ,on tried to keep his players positive and work ex :ellence into their golf games.
Many moments that occurred this season • vill always be memorable.
"All of them have been very memorable ~or me because something funny always happenec at each one," junior Lauren Barry said.
With the unforgettable moments came he bad.
"I think that the hardest team that we pl a ,ed would have to be Fremont. They had some r e Jly good girls when we played them at Eagle Hi] s, " freshman Kelsey Aude said.
"The tournament in Grand Island becaus we had to wait more than five hours in the van beca 1se of heavy rain before we could begin play for he day," senior Carole Kerrey said.
Every season Danson has had a quote tha t he applies to the team. This year's quote was "L, ck is when preparation meets opportunity."
Junior Alyssa McBride agreed with that qu .re. She was the only player this season to qualify ·or state. She ended the season with a tie for ifteenth.
Coach Danson kept the girls focused on mproving their game all season and in the end he girls showed great improvement.
Playing in the sand. Senior Carole Kerrey pitches her ball on to the putting green while on the first hole at Pioneers Kerrey was one of two seniors involved in golf. Phnt.o by Travis Cunningham([alon
Sink that ball. Junior Alyssa McBride putts for par on the fifth hole at Pioneers. McBride was the only person to qualify for state and finished 16th.
Getting ready. Junior Elly Jurgensen gets ready at the first hole. They finished with a score of 205 at the Heartland O:>nference meet Sept. 28. Photo by Travis Cunningham/falon
Nice and easy. Junior Elli Neuwirth takes aim at the hole at Pioneers. The team scored a 405 placing fourth among eight teams. Photo by Katie Madvig/falon
Focus. Senior Maria Cammack lines up her ball with the first hole. Cammack played golf for Southwest for two years. Photo by Travis Cunningham/falon
Friend or foe? Senior Carole Kerrey (far left) and the others players make their way to where their balls landed during the Heartland O:>nference. The • other players go to Pius X, Fremont and East. East won with 348. Photo by Travis Cunningham/falon
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"It was great to hold the state runner up trophy at the end of the seasc n 11
-Andrew Dowd, seniorith hopes of seeking the team's gre2 t es potential, ooys tennis continued creating tradi ti )TIS With many of its key players returning, they he pe: to do even better than previous years.
Varsity finished second at state. They 1ac four first, two second and one third place fi n is} and a 7, 1 record in duals.
Senior Taylor funey called the team I th best" in school history. He ended with a 35,~ re cord, placing first overall in #1 singles in clas: A after beating last year's winner John Devose. funey and senior Andrew Dowd led tht team. But their main focus was just to play t 1en best and have fun.
"With this year I don't want the 'what L f s1 said coach Dennis Hershberger explaining tht team philosophy. "I never want to see my kids n reach their full potential."
Junior varsity tennis began with losses to tht team's greatest city rivals Southeast and East , bu! they improved greatly. They came back to l ieal Southeast the second time around, finishing · 'ir at their city meet.
OJach Nancy Brockley stated, "This gr )U { of guys that I have on my team are a great gr <1up They worked hard and got along well. We h. d 1 fun season."
Reserve tennis team also made a name f themselves, finishing first in city.
"This season was fun," said sophomore L 1kt Yarbee. "We played a lot more teams than lasi year. "
Follow your shadow! JV player Mike Korsakas awaits the serve. His opponent was a Southeast JV player. Photo by Marina Bradarick/Talon
Eye on the ball. Sophomore Alex Hartmann smashes the ball across the net at the dual meet against Grand Island. He won the match. Photo by Brittany V ontz/Talon
Time for a refill. Sophomores Jakob Marvin and Alec Lowrey rehydrate between matches. Players stayed to watch their teammates' matches. Photo by Marina Bradarick/Talon
Support team. Varsity seniors Andrew Dowd and Taylor Boney support teammate Spencer Elliot. They both won their games. Photo by Brittany V ontz/Talon
High as the sky! Senior Andrew Dowd serves the ball to his Southeast opponent. Dowd and Elliot shared a 34-6 dual record. Photo by Brittany V ontz/TalonAnticipation.
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"Running in more than just talent , It takes a lot of hard work and dedication."--DJ Pearson , senior
with a large turnout of 21, tbe cro.,s-countr • team made it apparent they were going to have · promising season.
"Many boys on the team made improvement ; for the season," said senior captain Mike Schuste1 "and now at meets our team's dedication to th : sport, and determination to do better than befor : shows." As the season progressed and the tear . improved, the competition to make varsity als <1 grew.
"At meets it was a battle to see if you coulc make one of the top seven times on the team t , 1 make varsity for the next meet," said sophomor : Zach Sims.
The team placed third at the Nebraska We · leyan meet, the first meet of the season. They cor · tinued to show their strength placing the JV tear t as second at the Harold Scott meet and earning t perfect score winning the triangular with Soutl· · east and East. The varsity went on to place third a : the Grand Island meet and third at city.
"The team made a dramatic improverrien : from last year. They have made remarkable strides 1 said head coach Ted Larson.
After a year of much improvement, the tear t finished third at districts and qualified for the stat meet, ending another memorable season.
Building Evan Kurth, Cole Frederick, Evan Brown and John Hoffman run back to the starting line after running a stride out before the LSE, LE triangular race. Stride outs were short distance sprints used to keep the runners' muscles loose before a race. Photo by Courtney Ouzmbers ffal.on • Making it count. Senior Aaron Murphy finishes the race strong at the Pius X Invite Murphy ran a time of 18:27.Running a personal record. Senior DJ Pearson, finishes second at the LSE, LE triangular meet. The JV team placed first. Photo by Courtney Chambers / Talon
Ready to run! Brandon Olson, Parker Schoen,Jason Heindryckx, Mike Schuster, Matt Blankenau and Jay Anderson warm up before running at the Pius X Invite. The runners warm up for 15 to 20 minutes before the race. Photo by Courtney Oiambers/ Talon
Making plans. O:>ach Ryan Salem prepares the JV squad before the race starts at the LSE, LE triangular. The team made a perfect score at this meet. Photo by Courtney Oiambers/Talon
Exhausted. Junior Craig Easley is worn out after running at the Pius X Invite. Easley placed fourth in the JV race with a time of 18 :58. Photo by Jami Finnell/Talon Working together. Junior · Johannes W acks and senior Martin Bland push each other along during the race at the city meet. The team placed third. Photo by Breanna Vance/Talon
"Cross Country is about the mental aspect , pushing yourself to achieve your goals ."
--Chelsea Pfieffer , iu r or
ananas of the world unite! Peel bananas .. " Yelling the banana cheer became a tradi t n before each meet.
"Last year someone started the cheer an we all had fun doing it, and it stuck with us," rid junior Jessica Burrow.
Girls cross country went "bananas" for o mpetition. Moving up in ranking to fourth in he state, the girls continued to push to be the r ~t. Incoming freshmen helped last year's promi~ ng group emerge into a top,notch team.
"The team this year was more competi t ve, they worked harder. They were goofy as alwa s ," said coach Ryan Mahoney.
Senior Dani Virts placed first at dis tr c: ts and worked hard to win the races she'd v n "I've been doing cross country for four yea: ) I love running," Virts said.
One of the team's greatest accomplishm<1ts was winning the Grand Island meet. It was lso the wettest meet this season.
"The Grand Island invite was one of ny favorite meets because the girls got first p: Lee overall," said freshman Kristal Schuster.
The girls pushed themselves through · !istricts placing runner up, and then all the , ray to state where they finished sixth despite V iJ :s's back injury. Schuster medaled 11th overall.
The banana cheer kept the team gc ng strong throughout the season.
Running to the end. Junior Ashtyn Bax pushes hard to finish the race.1bis was Bax's third year running. Photo by Courtney Oiambersf[alonCatching a breath Senior - Kirsti Sims takes a moment to recuperate after a race. Sims has been on the team all four year Photo lry Jami Finnell{[alan
Good start. The girls begin the Heartland Ouference race Oct. 8. Senior Dani Virts placed 6th and freshman Kristal Schuster placed 8th. Photo lry Courtney Ouimbers{[alon
Getting in the mood. The girls prepare themselves to run before the race. The team dis, cussed strategies and mentally prepared themselves to win.
Times go by. Sophomore Christine Scalora sprints to finish the race. The JV team placed second at the Southwest, Southeast,East triangular. Pho to lry Courtney Ouimbers ff alan
Keep on running . Sophomore Carly Belz picks u_p the pace to finish the race. 1bis was Belz ' s second year on the team. f'hoto lry O:iurtney Ouimbersffalan Photo by Breanna V ance{[alanI
·There was a whole lot of marching band spirit this year.·
--Emily Walkenhors( sophomore Spread by ErinCan you do the Fandango? The marching band's theme had a Latin twist this year and band and color guard really embraced it. Both the color guard and the marching band s{X)rted shirts that had a Latin theme.
The band's first competition took place at Lincoln High' s Links contest. Assistant band director Stacy Marshall was confident the band would do well.
"Overall, it's a strong group," she said.
The band met at 7 :15 on Tuesday and Thursday mornings t practice. Although the time was early, the practice paid off. The band received an excellent rating at every competition except state, where they received a good score.
Freshman marching band took on a blues theme with their show called Blues Brothers. They perfonned at the Homecoming football game. They were an exhibition band and performed to receive
a critique rather than earn a rating.
Members of both groups joined together to be part of pep band which performed at pep rallies, volleyball and basketball games.
Besides the competitions, varsity marching band also performed at half time during the home football games and volleyball games.
Color guard also worked hard. 1-ike the band, they put a lot of time and effort into their choreography and practice.
"They were the pizzazz of the band," head band director Lori Falcone said.
Alyssa Johnson who was the coordinator of the color guard said, "The leaders really stepped up this year and got organized."
Silvester, the mascot, was also seen at the varsity football games. Spencer Wolfe as Silvester provided entertainment for the crowd, and little kids lovc...xl to see him at the football games.
Matt Q'1-m, Mandi Conway, l\1ick Dahlquist, Cnristine Daiton, Travis Davidson. Erin Davicfaon, Debra Davis, Kelsey Denton, Lacie Dougherty, Matthew Dus.sau.lt, Travis tarhKelsey Eide, A--hley Eppens, Alex Epperson, Sarah Ess: y, Kierst Finsand, David Freese, Kim Fuoco, Ar.gel Geller, Alana Gie,emann, Jordan GomelI, R't'an Grieps , Austin Griffith, Sean Gro.c;shan Paige Guilliams, Matt Hahne, Hannah Hamilton, Katey Harrison, Emily Hartman, Eriri Healey, Hannah Heiser, Abby Heiser, Meghan Henderson, Katie Hill, Kristin Houchin, Nicole Hudson, A Jagadich, Aaron John-;ton, Bryan Jooes, Nathan Jones, Amanda Kline, Kelsey Klute, Nick Lato.mer. Meghan Leonard, Karissa U vingston, She : Luke, Taylor Mack, Ali Malik, Alyssa Malone, Nie .Martin, Jonathan 1v1attson, Brittany McCoy, Lmrabeth Miller, Nick .tv!iller, Dani ll.1iller, Kathryn Moore, Jean-Marie ~1orrissey, Michaela Mullins, Thoma.5 M 1dt, Andrew Nguyen, Am.mda Nis: Aaron 1'.Tcmn:m, Ben N0rton, Julia Ott, Micah Pfeiffer, Brittany Piper, Alyssa Potter, Nick Powers, Lindy Rauscher, 01elsi Reichwaldt, Tori Rcnkm, Katie Richard, Corey Ritter, Taylor Rohe, JD .· Royer, Michael Ryan, Sinan Savood, Oxo Scott, Margaret S'nerwa:xl, Jeremiah Sievers, Darren Smith, Nick, Spencer, Oms Stepanek, Grant Stepanek, Jacob Steward, Jamie Strudl, Amber Swenseth Kendra Szucllo, Chihiro Takimoto, Tiffm1cy Tatro, Anna Thomas, Tiffani Thomason, Brian Thompsm, 0.)le Thompson, Alys.5a Troester, Jared Tupper, Johanne, Wacks, Brittany Wagner, Emily \v'alkenhorst, Chris Walker. Jennifer Wel:er, James West, Heath White, :rethanr Wooo,Luye Yang and Seth Y,mt
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Follow the leader! A"sistant Band Director Stacy Marshall leads the band to perfonn at the Lincoln High contest. The band received an excellent score in the competition. Drum majors were John Calahan, Sarah Anen and Sarah Es5ay. Photo by Amber Trammell/Talon
FRESHMEN BAND- G,urtney Allen, Smuny Althayedi, Jeannette Arnold, Jrnathan &uter, Alexis Bartek,~ Berger, Brittany &tz, Quy Brand', Oitherine Burgess, Ellen C'llkins, Katelyn ,tens, Ashlee Carstens, &cca Cbangstnm, Akoor Omghtai, Kelsey O:mfon, Kaley Ox>k, l\iakenzi.e Crew, Makinst.y Douglas-Hill.Erin Dresser, Karol)n Elsberry, Anna Fangmeier, Maren Finsand, Hayden Horom, Miki Freese, Rachel Gerner, Brandoo Guem, Ou-istopher Hil±erd, Katie Higgins, Ryan Hill, Paul Hrnnen~, Kelsea Hughes, Kate Hunsaker, Kevin Jeffery, Jake Jirovec. Justin Jones, Andy Kelsay, Emily Kerl, Amanda Ke;sler, Kayla Krause, ~:pencer Labedz, Shel~· lang, Stacy Luedtke, Aleem Malik, Jani Martinez, Lauren Meeske, Katie Miler, Tyler Mills, Abbie Moser, Suhaus Nararaj, Jordan Neuki.rch, Josh Nitzel, Harrison Nonnan, Allison O'Connor, Brittany Paul, Ivor Peci, Kyle Pedersen, Juha Peterson, Rachel Pieloch, Ryan .Plager, Kyla Richard.sen, Matt Rorertson, Paul Schiefelbein, Parker &:hoen, Matt Shallenberger, Devon Stanczyk, Jordy Strudl, Brady Vance, Cmnor Villanueva, Wyki Walstrom, Kiefer Wat'iOl.1, Meredith Weber, Wyn Wiley, Katie Yokel
Ready, Set, March! Senior Seth Yant and junior Michael Ryan march during a half time performance. Eoth were members of the tuba section. Photo by Brittany V ontz/Talon
Twirling towards success. Senior Jean-Marie Morrissey perfonns with the band at a competition. Morrissey was a member of the Cdor Guard
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·cheerleading isn't only about raising school spirit and fun. Ifs hard work and takes a lot of dedication, and 1 . do feel we accomplished these goals as a squad.
-Caitlin Kiely~ seniorAnother year has ended for the Var- ceivedfirstplaceinCampcham ,dance sity cheerleaders, Envy and Emeralds, but and second place in Campchamps cheer it was a f un,filled year full of laughter, and home pom. The varsity cheerleaders' friendships and memories that will last main goals were to raise school spirit, a lifetime. win competitions, and get involved in
Showing school spirit was not hard community service. for these energetic groups. Each group Their hard work and dedication was proudly raised school spirit and got proven every morning at 7 a.m., when crowds pumped up at pep rallies and they created new cheers and planned sporting events. their choreography. The Emeralds and TI1roughout the year the varsity Envy also practiced in the morning. cheerleaders, Envy and Emeralds have Envy's goal was to improve enough accomplished m.a.ny goals. The Emeralds to create a new image for the ream and attended NDA camp at Okoboji; there they felt confident that they succeeded in they rccei vecl awards for showmanship, accomplishing this goal. Envy's memories and technical excellence. include selling lollipops and cmkies at "Our main goal to accomplish this football games. Advice for the future year was to lxmd as a team, and I definite, dancers, chcerle-dders, and steppers next ly feel we did that," said captain Katie year was to "Be prepared for hard work HeclaUc'U1, a senior. One of their favorite and school spirit," ''Keep a positive at-memories was the Svvitch Rally. titude, no matter· what happens" and "The switch rally is always fun. It's "Don't quit" a chance for us to see the boys become From pep,rallies to the football, part of the rerun and show us their school basketball and volleyball games the spirit as well as their dance moves," said Emeralds, varsity cheerleaders and Envy
senior Mallory Sherrill.Varsity cheerlead, worked to spread school spirit and create
ers also attended camp where they re, new traditions of their own.
FIGHT! Varsity chcerieader Katie Lester hokls up , ie t-ign at the fall pep rally. Varc;ity cheerleaders perton a every pep rdlly this year. Pliow by Trat-is Cunmgl1am!Ta , Dance, dance. Emeralds clan~ away to the song Mortal Combat. Freshman Emily Pike perfonned a solo. Plwto by TTavis Gmningham{falon Line up! Envy, the step team lines up as they p..,"Iform at the fall pep rally. Step team always knew hmv to liven up rhe crowd at all pep ritllies. Plwto by Tmvis Omningham(fa1on All dressed up. Varsity cheerleader sport foottiall jerseys, showing their school spirit at the homecoming gam ·; against Northeast. Courtesy plwto
·we work hard but make it fun while doing it·
--Allison Roy, junior il
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JV, reserve, and freshman cheerlead-ers were determined to promote school spirit throughout Southwest, and that's just what tney did.
The three squads spent at least eight hours per week devoted to cheer ing at volleyball, football, basketball and wrestling through the school year.
But cheering was so much more than just showing up for the games. Each girl would arrive at 7 a.m for practice in the gym. In the mornings during the summer and school year, they spent time perfecting their routines and cheers.
During summer practices they prepared for camp. All three squads mmpeted at camp.
The freshman cheerleaders received first for their cheer and first in their camp dance. TI1e reserve squad received first for an "extreme routine." TI1e JV squad earned many awards as well, such as the "top banana," first place home pom and the leadership award.
Each squad had girls who were awarded an all,star honor. TI1e cheer-leaders don't only spend time on prepar--
ing cheers, they get ready for pep rallies, make signs for people involved in sporting events, and support spirit overall.
"I like cheerleading because I like purpping up the crowd at spqrtin?, events and I like cheering at p~ rallies, ' said jv cheerleader Becca Gerschefske.
During the cheer season the squad had to split up so they could cheer, and give suQPOrt to all the sports teams," stated Jordan Faulder.
Fifteen made up the JV squad, 18 made up reserve, and 13 made up the freshman squad. The freshman's favorite event was Spirit Fest. This event was their first pep rally and also first time to perform together.
"Being a cheerleader really gets you involved in school. You also get to know a lot of different people because we at-tend so many sporting events," said Taylor Mayer, sophmnore.
All squads said they enjoyed bonding with each other and creating memories from early morning practices to cheering at sporting events and performing at pep rallies.
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Give me an LSW! The JV squad cheered at the homecoming p<.,,:, rally while wearing fo.xooll jerseys. Junior Shaylene Michaels pumps up the crowd with signs. Plwto by Katie Madvig/Talon
Reserve Cheer! l11e sophomores cheer for the crowd at the February pep rally. TI1e reserves cheered with the freshman and junior varsity like they had during the Decemrer pep rally. Plwto by Travis Cunningham(falon
JV Cheer. Rese~ve Creer ahd Freshn1 an Cheer
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"Wrestling has taught me self discipline and how to work as a as a team."
--junior Blair Bro\As every wrest er approac t e mat, t ~y hoped for the same goal. They all wanted t ) pin their opponent down and win the match. lhile wrestling took a lot of physical dedication, rr ~nt~ dedication was another hurdle to overcome.
The team's motto was "Whatever it T : kes. n The team used the new motto to set many gc tls at the beginning of the season. They then used their motto and strived to achieve those goals.
"The team this year is very young, and t tere1 not a lot of varsity experience," head coach f aron Finley said.
The team made up for not having a Jt of experience by working hard. Goals were t o ave nine state qualifiers and to finish in the top en.
"The triumphs over personal challeng{ ; has been a major success this season," assistant ( Jacn James Ferguson said. "When it comes to expe1 ence our team has learned a lot."
One of the team's most successful mee t ; was Jan. 6 at the Beatrice Invitational meet. The :earn placed second with 206.5 points.
With the struggles the wrestlers faced ther were able to make certain weight classes with ;ome lenience.
"My favorite part of the season was th · twe pound weight allowance," junior Justin Fer1 · uson said.
The team sent five wrestlers to state c= th Qwest Center in Omaha Feb. 15,17. The wrc -tlen who continued on were sophomores Jordan B1 JOks Rudy Fiedler, juniors Blair Brown, Justin Feri usai and senior Spencer Wolfe.
Pain is not a game! Junior Drew Jagadich gives his all at the Northeast match. The team finished 33-40. Photo by Breanna Vance/Talon
Let go! Junior Justin Ferguson tries to break free and pin his Southeast opponent. Ferguson wore a mask throughout the season due to a concussion last year. Photo by Max Olson/Hawk Talk
Going for the win! Junior Zach Fitzsimmons fights hard during the meet. The team beat Southeast, 63~15 in the season opening meet. Photo by Max Olson/Hawk Talk
Grim Determination! Senior • Spencer Wolfe puts on his game face as he holds his opponent down. This was Wolfe's fourth year wrestling for Southwest. Photo by Max Olson/Hawk Talk
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We got together as a team and talked about things we needed to do in order to win.
--Brianna Exstrom , sophor 1ore
oach Lis Brenden described her varsity t e: m as coachable, hardworking and fun. Team gc us were were to play as a team, improve throui , out the season, to have a winning season an t o have fun.
"Most memorable moment this season \ as winning our first game because it was the f , st time we'd all played together on varsity anc it was the first time we'd won together," said se or and captain Kaitlin Nissan.
Something the team talked about bef, re every game was that they had nothing to lose to go out there and give 110 percent and to le e ve everything on the court. The captains led th m in a huddle before each game stating their gc Js for the team and leading the team chant wh :h was "OUR TIME."
The varsity girls had a bit of a roller coaE er season, but they really picked their game up le d, ing up to districts. In the final home game tl =-Y defeated North Platte, 56,52. Winning a d se game against Norfolk on Jan. 26, the girls w re playing at their peak. Other accomplishme ts were beating Kearney 4 7 -4 3 on Feb. 9 in do u le over time.
In order to move on to state they neec .~d to win their district. Their district consisted :Jf top ranked Northeast, sixth ranked Southe _st and Omaha North. Southwest was placed th d seed in the district out of four and faced the 1 -6 . Knights in the first round. They lost 45,54.
Offense! Senior Amanda Magnusen waits for somebcx:ly to get open. Magnusen has played basketball for the Hawks since her freshman year. Photo · 1:ry Travis Cunningham[I'alonSenior Night! Senior Claire Velander smiles with enjoy while receiving a present on Senior Night. All the underclassmen gave the seniors a present. Phot.o 1:ry Travis Cunninghamffalon
Jumping High! Juniors Jordan Novecek and Maggie Packard fight for the ball in the game against Omaha Burke. N:wecek and Packard toth played center for the Hawks. Phot.o 1:ry Travis Cunninghamffalon
Hustle! Christine McKinney dives for the ball during a game against Southeast. Southwest lost 66-30. Phot.o l:ry Travis Cunninghamffalon
Tip Off! Senior Kaitlin Nissan jumps for tip off against Southeast. Nissan was one of three captains this year. Phot.o 1:ry Travis Cunninghamffalon
"This year we had a team where everyone wanted to win and was willing to work hard f. )r it .' -Chelsea Campbell , j 1ior
he air is tense as the game is ready to st; rt. Everyone's ready, their adrenaline is rushini a million miles a minute. The whistle blows and ' 1e intense 32 minutes of playing time begins.
But memories did not just stay on t 1e court. Lauren Barry, junior, said, "Karaoke m the way home from the Kearney game with 1e varsity team was definitely the best momen t f the season."
JV started off strong, almost matching :1e record setting season from last year. They enc d up with a record of 14~5. They played the m )St games in the school's history for JV and c a e out with one of the better records.
The reserve team also started out stro tg. They had one of the best reserve seasons in 1e school's history with 12 and 1 record. Their 1 ,ss came in the City Championship, which they 1)St to East for the second year in a row.
"It was a really good season up until 1e end, where we lost city," sophomore Alli Cat ~tt said.
The freshman team struggled to get g 1g this year. The team was introduced to a r :w coach, Khari Wallace. Wallace helped the rls become more adjusted to the fast paced work f high school basketball.
"The best memory from the season," s id Maren Finsand, freshman, "was beating Sou h~ east. It just felt so good to be able to do tha t ''
The game was over and the last buzzer g ,es off. A final shake of the other team's hands _d them back to the locker room. All of the te e ns had their ups and downs throughout the seas, ,n, but they grew closer with every passing game .
Beating the screen. JV player junior Lauren Barry tries to get past the screen. Barry was a guard for the team. Photo lry Travis Cunningham{[alonSetting the screen. Freshman Paige T raynowicz blocks a Northeast pass. Trayn~wicz said that "playing basketball here was an amazing experience." Photo by Travis Cunningham([alon
Go team! The JV team meets during the quarter break. The team had a lot of returning talent, but there were also new faces on the team. Photo by Brittany V ontz/Talon
Denied! Reserve girls attempt to block a shot for Southeast. The attempt helped lead to a win against Southeast. Photo by Kelsey Eide([alon
Linin2 up the shot. Freshman Meredith Weber shoots a free throw at the Beatrice game. Weber was a starter for the freshman team. Photo by Amber Trammell([alon
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The most memorable moment of the season was getting a win in overtime on senior night!
--Drew Wergin, senior
wasn't looking gcxxl for the team. The last ho e game of the season and the Hawks were down I y seven points in the third quarter. They weren't go- 1g to give it away that easily though, coming back t o ie it up with 53 points a piece by the final buzzer. l ut they prevailed in overtime, outscoring North Ph: te to win 67,58.
Finishing second in their district, the varsity b >ys had a five win comeback at the end of the seas m.
In regard to the winning streak, senior ttt Niazi credited the team saying, "Everybody was Jn the same page and we played together as a tem 1."
"The five game winning streak was one of :1e most memorable moments for me," added senior H tt Sundberg. 'We wanted to leave our mark on the scho ,l."
Starting off a little slowly, with almost e, ..:n wins and losses the team kicked it in gear to beat Kearney, Bellevue West, North Platte c 1d Omaha North before going up against #2 r~ ed Northeast in the first round of districts. 0) :1g back from a 10 point deficit Southwest won 60 - >7.
The Hawks moved on to the next round ag a ist state def ending champion Omaha Central. 1 us was the first time in school history the boys var ity team made it to the district championship ga 1e
Omaha Central was ahead for most of the game when the Hawks started makin , • a comeback. They fell short, losing 63, 1 6.
"It is something I will always be proud of," f tid senior Ben Eoeselager about playing for the district t le.
According to head coach Duane Baack, he team made great progress during the season, butt ne just ran out.
INTENSITY! Senior Gabe W egulo prepares to block an off ensive pass against Burke. How the team played on defense was of ten just as important in the final score as the offensive play. Photo by Travis Cunningham(Talon
Swish! Senior Matt Niazi shoots a free throw during the Kearney vs LSW game on Feb 9. The Hawks won the game 73--65, the first of four upsets at the end of the season. Photo by Brittany V ontz/Talon
Jump Shot! Senior Mike Coatman jump shot the ball. Southwest won 82-56 for the first game of the year. Photo by Travis Cunningham([alon
Team Unity! The team gathers over the Hawk in the center of the basketball court before the game. It was a team tradition and was done before each home game. Photo by Travis Cunningham([alon
Smack Down! Senior Andrew Dowd jump shot the ball during the championship district game against Omaha Central. This was the first year the boys made it to the district championship game in the school's history.
Photo by Talon Staff
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very one has a certain love for a sp c ,r t w et er it's football or soccer, however t h se guys have love for another sport, basketball.
The teams worked hard all season frc m practices everyday to the early morning g ar: es some had on weekends.
Junior varsity ended up with a 14,3 rec< rd and second place in the city championship g m 1e. Reserve ended 1Q,3 and also placed second in :1e city championship game. Freshman team w, t undefeated with a 15--0 record and became c ty champions, beating Southeast in the champi( n , ship game.
Everyone had their favorite part of 1e season.
"The whole season was fun, but the g ai Les were the best!" junior varsity player Jake M ar in said.
Sophomore Ethan Tompkin's favorite p. rt, was "when I hit the game winning three poir :er against North Star."
Though the games were fun, another sop lo, more had a different opinion about his fav Lte part of the season.
"The team dinners were my favorite p a c," HD Sader said.
Basketball wasn't all fun and games thm ~h. They had to play their hearts out every sir 5le game and practice.
"Beating Southeast on the game winn :1.g steal by freshman Drew Edmond" was junior , 3T, sity player Blake Wewel's highlight of the y ar. "We played really hard that game and to h ve the steal and win the game was awesome!"
Southwest basketball took their game to the next level, playing their hearts out and c )n-tinued to strive for excellence.
Box out! R ese r ve play er s box o ut Eas t pl ayers for the r ebo und R eser ve h ad a 1 5 point lead for m ost of the game. Photo by Aly Ferguson{TalonGuard him! Reserve players Nate Jones and Vincent Flynn guard Grand Island players. The reserve team took a victory at Grand Island.
Photo by Aly Ferguson(I'alan
Jump Ball! Freshmen players work together to get the ball from Beatrice. They had to learn how to build trust with teammates and how to play with one another. Photo by Amber Trammell(I'alon
Make that shot! Sophomore HD Sader makes the free throw during the Lincoln East game. The final score was Southwest 55 and East 39 Photo by Aly Fergu.son(I'alan
Jump high! Freshman Brandon Piening goes up for the rebound. The freshmen played a rival, Southeast Photo by Courtney Chambers(I'alan
Swish! Junior varsity player Collin Holmquist takes the shot against Millard North. Millard North was the first game of the season Photo by Kelsey Eide(I'alan
"Swim team has so many traditions, it's just a blast to be a part of them "
--Channiyel Spataro, sophom <ire
reathe, swim, breathe, the everyday rou • e of a swimmer. It's not about getting your r ~xt breath it's all about taking it to the limit and oing that extra mile.
Tanner Penrod coached swim team fo r :he second season and led 10 girls to state, jw i or Jordie furnhoft, sophomores Sam Hole d ~k, Megan Kaltenberger, and Olivia LeBlanc, nd freshmen Ellen Calkins, Miki Freese, S t tcy Luedtke and Lauren Meeske. Overall the irls finished 12th. 1bis was the highest place , :he team has ever earned.
Freese set three school records, 11th p ice in the 200,medley relay, 2nd place in the 50 f ee, and 9th place in the 100 Freestyle. Along , ith Freese, Holechek, Kaltenberger, and LeBl an all placed 11th in the 200,medley relay.
Girls going to state for diving were ju ior Andrea Troxel and sophomore Amy Herr an. Troxel placed 14th and Herman placed 7th
"Girls don't shave their legs until cor er, ence, and boys dye their hair blonde before 1 1ey shave it for state. Swim team has so many tr .di, tions, it's just a blast to be a part of them! " aid sophomore Channiyel Spataro. This was jus t me of the many traditions swim team particip . ced in this year.
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Another tradition they had was the , irls cooking breakfast for the boys before they v wt to the Millard South Invite. Boys did this fo r che girls before they went to the Westside Invit t
Backstroke! Fres hman Ellen Calkins d oes the bac ks tro k e a t the Southwest v. K earney meet. The t eam got 1-2 at thi s m ee t.A Perfect D iv e! Junior Andrea Troxel dives at the Southwest v. Kearney meet. Troxel was one of the two girls to go to state for diving. Phot.o by Rachel Yank{[alon
Sw imming Fa st! Freshman
Lauren Meeske races at the Southwest v. Kearney meet. Meeske was one of the four freshmen to go to state. Phot.o by Rachel Yank{[alon
Group Huddle! (})ach Tanner Penrod talks with the girls at the Southwest v. Northeast meet. Southwest placed 2-2 at this meet. Phot.o by Amber Trammell{[alon
Gasping for air! Junior Morgan Lausten tries to cat~h a breath during the Southwest v. East meet. Girls swimming and diving placed 0-1 at this meet. Phot.o by Max Olson{[alon
The main goal is to , have overall improvern ~n by all athletes, at all levels!
--Coach Tanner Penro cl
wimmers, take your mark. BANG, gcx s the starter's gun. SPLASH is all that is heat :l for the next few seconds as the swimmers di , into the water.
The boys swimming and diving team co , petecl in 17 different meets all around the stat ~ -
Through out the season there are memori• s that will last a lifetime and others that will rn t make it past the end of the year.
"What I liked best this season were tl e local swim meets because I know other swir ' mers and it s a lot of fun to beat them," seni<r Taylor Howerter.
The team had some happy memori , s and not so happy memories throughout tl season.
Senior Tyler Troxel placed fifth at stat , the same spot he held last year, and the best :1 team history.
"Our team did really well this year an I hope that we will be just as good, but hopeful y we will be better," said coach Tanner Penrod
Junior Logan Sutton placed fifth in tl 50 yard freestyle with a time of 24.22 seconi .s and ninth in the 100 yard freestyle at 49 ., ) seconds. Sutton advancecl to sectionals. Overc the team finished ninth in the 200 yard fr •:, style, and eleventh in the 400 yard freesty -
As a whole the team finished tenth out , f 26 different teams at state, and had 13 retumir letter winners.
Splash! Senior Josh Brown talks with a coa ch about how he did during the meet. Brown has been on the team since his freshman year. Photo by Mollie Dittmer{[alan
Rally up! Junior Sean Murphy dives into water at the East In~ vite. Murphy has been on the team for three years. Photo by Max Olson/Hawk Talk
Block that ball! Junior Logan Sutton talks with team members about their game plan for the meet. Sutton placed fifth and ninth for his personal records.
Photo by Rachel Y ank!Talon
Stroke! Junior Jordan Taylor does the backstroke in the meet aganist Kearney. Taylor has been swimming for Southwest since his freshman year. Photo by Rachel Y ank!Talon
Splash! Sophomore Sam Meister perpares to enter the water at the Norfolk meet.
"Everyone had a key role , on the team , I was just one piece of the puzzle"
--Eric Vrbatudents had lots of opportunities to purs 1e sports interests besides NSAA activities ooth in and out of school.
Playing basketball with friends and havi 1g fun were some reasons why students joined ' !1tramurals. As far as coming up with their tee m names, the only girl team named themseh es Super Super Bestest Friends.
"We copied the guys' name~~they were 1't very happy," stated senior Samantha Exstron Super Best Friends split into two teams , jv and varsity, because they had too many play( s. On average, each team played around eif :-it games in the season.
Even though the cost of Trap Team v as $300~$500, the high cost didn't scare peOJ ,le away. The club had approximately 36 memb :rs and the team's officers were the upper classm n. One of Trap T earn' s main goals was to instig. te teamwork and learn the techniques of T 1 1p shooting.
The Trap T earn participated in the St .te Trap meet in May. During the spring the te: m practiced out at lzack Walton, a shooting rar ge just outside Lincoln.
Special Olympics not only gave athl~ :es the chance to compete in sporting events 1ut also taught valuable life lessons such as goal ~ · ~tting, determination, how to work with oth<rs, and how to win and lose while demonstrat n.g sportsmanship. They participated in basked all and track events.
Shooting sharp.
Senior Alex Bristol attends one of the trap meetings. Bristol placed 3rd in the state competition in May 2006. Photo by Rachel Yank
There were three bowling teams this year which consisted of JV, Girls Varsity and Boys Varsity. JV ooys won 1st at state, which was located in Hastings.
Keep control! Junior Austin Yuen takes the ball away from the other team in an intramural basketball game. Photo by Rachel Yank/Talon
Special Olympics : Matt Baecier, Jordon Bellefeuille, Heather Herron, Deanna Kinnison, Kelsey Lange, Annie Logan, Brandon Peters, Alexis Pulver, Beth Ann Reeci, and Amar Tumeh Sponsors: Crystal Steidley, Kristi Groth, and Trish Ostermeier Coaches: Lis Brenden and Alicia Stopp Defend the ball. Junior Curtis Ruwe and Chris Helget struggle to get the ball from senior Ollie Sloup. Down, town Bombers and Super Best Friends varsity made it to the championship game. Photo by LJndsay Hanson{[alon Block that ball! T earn, mates try and get the re, bound. Before each intra, mural game, the te ams practiced shooting to get warmed up. Photo by LJndsay Hanson{[alon Shot! Junior Brandon Peters shoots around during/ractice. Southwest has offere Special Olympics team for the past four years. They had 12 members and practiced during 4th block. Photo Erinn W alkenborstLTalon
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~i1RWts; 1 TEHKIS n:UIS Boys Varsity Tennis: FRONT ROW : Taylor Boney, Reid Marple, Alex Hartmann. MIDDLE ROW : Andrew Dowd, Jake Marvin, Alec Lowrey, Miles Hadley. BACK ROW : Spencer Elliott, Coach Dennis Hershberger. Boys JV Tennis: FRONT ROW : Rylee Hall, Ryan Town, Mike Korsakas. MIDDLE ROW : Tyler Thompson, Bryan Baxter, Kyle King, Spencer Kerl. BACK ROW : Coach Nancy Brackley, Keith Blackbum, Jake Marvin , Collin Hohnquist, Trevor Hermann. ~-ulPWts, 1 W'I . ~1RWtsVarsity Football : FRONT ROW : Ethan Schulenberg, Matt Sharkey, Trey Goa, Travis Earhart , Jake Vestecka, Austin Cas.sidy, Jon Hinrichs, Paul Belz, Graham Stoddard. ROW 2: Trevor Taylor, Orris Lewis, Matt Green, Justin Stonacek, Adam Lavelle , Lynn King, Brett Bolles, Micah Fisher, Dillon Schellhorn, Rico Oliveros. ROW 3 : Robert fitzgerald, Trevor Donahoo, Grant Seiboldt, Nick Sawyer, Brandon Brown, Travis Loveles.5, Eric Hyde, Max
Tresnak, Trey Novotny ROW 4 : Jack Hoage, Reed Lawson, Orris Covey, Glad Oltman, Michael Fletcher, Marques Brown, Matt Roach, Jason Schrad, Tyler Bell, David Lavelle. ROW 5 : Austin Gore, Cole Ingram, Dan Ston~, Joe Morrison, Jos h Hohensee, Baker Steinkuhler, Orris Helget, Sam Siegel, David Freese. ROW 6 : Coach Fred Thome, Coach Derrick Joel, Ollie Sloup, Andrew Essman, Seth Home, Austin Fritz, Cale Stolle, Garrett Sund, Orris Brabec, Coach Kevin Schrad. BACK ROW : Coach Mark King, Coach Jim Rosenberger, Coach Tyson Schroeder, Coach Scott Vampola, Coach Eric Hand, Coach Justin Hayes, Coach Jeff Jochum.
Football: FRONT ROW : Justin Stonacek, Trey Goa, Jake Vestecka, Paul Belz, Trey ovotny, Rico Oliveros ROW 2 : Trevor aylor , Jack Hoage, Adam Lavelle, Lynn King, Brett Boll es, Dillon Schellhorn, Chris Brabec. ROW 3: Austin Gore, A ustin Fritz, Robert Fitzgerald, Cole Ingram, Grant Seildt, Eric Hyde, Max Tresnak, Chris Covey OW 4 : Garrett Sund, Seth Home, Michael Hetcher, Marques Brown, Matt Roach, Jason , ,-;:::-,, •-- 1...,. Schrad, Tyler Bell BACK ROW: Coach ustin H ayes, Coach Dan Carpenter, Coach Eric Hand.
Reserve Football : FRONT ROW : Jeremy Fricke, Trevin Nelson, Bryce Werts, Caleb Brown, Evan Benson, Nate Timmins, Sam Me ister, Zach Elson, Rudy Fiedler. ROW 2: Emilio Cruz, Brady Gaines, Nate Jones, Tyler Stewart, Michael Crelin, AJ Matthies, Chase Sund, Brett Amen, Keith Ozanne, Jackson Duba. ROW
3 : Eli Cecava, Derek Saltzman, John Mul grue, Griffin Rocke, Colb,.n Curtis, Jacob Steward, HD. Sader, Brad Sedor, Geoff Bristol. ROW 4: Mike Wehling, Robert Athey, Connor Cosgrove, Dylan Ohlsen, Dustin Bloch, Ben Samani, Andy Day, Jake Hedgecock, Christian Berg, Zach Watson ROW 5 : Joe Delaney, Ros.s Kremer, Grant Peterson, Tyler Euse, Jordan Bell, Adam Peters, Drew Jagadich, Brandon Stokes, Ethan Tompkins. BACK ROW : Coach Jeff Jochum, Coach Derrick Joel, Sam Heidelk, Dayton Graf, Akin Tran, Coach Kevin Schrad
Freshman Footoo.ll: FRONf ROW : Josh Weils, Davin Wilson, Grant Edwards, Orris Stone, Vinny Osburn, Michael Nordell, Scott Fraser, Campbell Wentz, Ryan Keys, Vinny Delaney. ROW 2: Trent Johnson, Seth Shreve, Vino Brown, Alex Jurgena, Treyton Buresh, Benjamin Shield, Andy Heckman, 1J Mizell, Tony Delaney, Dillon Jones, Paul Nispel. ROW 3 : athan Pettigrew, Brennan Johnson, Jeff Seybold, Dre Benally, Jake Jirovec, Zac Ross, Matt Marissette, Beau Muehling, Brandon Guem, Dylan Payne. ROW 4: Alex Beasley, Matt Richmond, Dillon Home, Colby Dahlke, Elliott Engle, Tey lor Wolfe, Jameson Rupert, Jesre Overton, Mark Korsakas, Josh Nitzel, Dillon Pfingsten. ROW 5 : Andy Kelsay, Aleem Malik, Jordan Garratt, Ethan Spence, Elliott Schrage, Matt Campbell, Max Dilley, Jake Linder, Trenten Meyer, Nick Degarmo. ROW 6 : Ryan Plager, Morgan Bergen, Spencer Mullins, Kramer T raynowicz, Kevin Jeffery, Rylan Cotton, Brandon Piening, Jordan Brown, Brian Hand, Matt Petersen, Cody Philipps. BACK ROW : Coach Jim Rosenberger , Coach Tyson Schroeder, Matt Robertson, Alex Schneider, Coach Fred
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Boys Cross (})untry: FRONT ROW : Aaron Pattee, Zachary Sims, Matt Bax, DJ Pea rn, Parker Schoen. ROW 2: Evan Brown, Ben Currin, Nick Jes ter, Martin Bland, Mike uster, Manager T ara So ucie. ROW 3 : Ben Doland, Jason Heindryckx, Brandon O lson, J ty Anderson, Matt Blankenau BACK ROW : O:,ach Ted Larson, Coach Phil Voigt, Q ,ch R an Mahon Coach R an Salem.
Girls Cross Country: FRONT ROW : Eliza Hammond, Emily Creglm: , Bailey Koziol, Kristei· Dinneen, Andrea May. ROW 2 : Joslyn Soucie, Chelsea P£eiffer, Annalisa Baade, Jes.5ica Bun v, Courtney Chambers, Christine Scalora. ROW 3 : Sarah Essay, Dani Virts, Ashtyn Bax, Carly dz, Kristal Schuster. ROW 4 : Courtney Haydu, Alie Kloefkorn, Wyki Walstrom, Jeannett Arn , Kirsti Sims, Manager Tara Soucie. BACK ROW : Coach Ted Larson, Coach Ryan Salem, 0 ch Phil Voi t Coach R an Mahon ...
Varsity Softball: FRONf ROW : Megan Ho lbrook, Alli Catlett, Ashley Janssen, Jackie Norde ll , Marci Ilrrig. MIDDLE ROW: Madison Drake, Ashl ey Dunn, Tiffany Forycki, Dani Bryant, Amanda Magnuson, Audrey Johns. BACK ROW : (})ach Jen Deets, Mockenhau t, (})ach Mar k Watt. JV Softball: FRONf ROW : Stephanie Phillip, Jamie Dejonge, Lindsay Hanson, Auburn Boeche, Maggie Boeselager, Amanda Hoy, Nicole Shellhart. BACK ROW : Kristina Wilson, Abbie Moser, Becca Ch.angstrom, Monica Knabe, Anna H orst, Kari Parke, (})ach Lis Brenden. Reserve Softball: FRONf ROW : Lacey Fulton, Amanda Sedor, Laurabeth Miller, Kaleigh H ohensee, Kylie Garrett. MIDDLE ROW : Lauren Brunken, Shannon Cleal, Megan Whar t on, Jamie Korth, Tiffany Ricketts, Sam Newton. BACK ROW : Emily H artman, Caitlan Bunn, (})ach Dwight Bender, Michaela Patt, Marilyn Buresh.4 ~ ... lil:.l'i ,nDt, Girls Varsity Basketball: FRONI ROW : Amanda Magnuson, Kaila Lewallen, Jackie Nordell, Christine McKinney MIDDLE ROW: Coach Nicole Kubik, Coac h Amanda Wil tgen, Destiny Brown, Betsy Philippi, Tracy Sieck, Coach Lis Brenden. BACK ROW : -Coach Jeff Rump, Madison Drake, Oaire Velander, Kaitlin Nissen, Jordyn Novsek, Maggie Packard, Coach Khari Wallace
JV Girls Basketball: FRONI ROW : Ali Bohlke, Lauren Barry, Caitlin Golden, Bri Exstrom. MIDDLE ROW : Coach Nicole Kubik, Coach Amanda Wiltgen, Kaleigh Anderson, Amber Swenseth, Jackie Nordell, Coach Lis Brenden. BACK ROW : Coach Jeff Rump, Madison Drake, McRae Bell, Jordan Bell, Chelsea Campbell, Anna Rea, Coach
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Reserve Girls Basketball: FRONI ROW : Alli Catlett, Steph Daffer, Bri Badje, Kim Burt. MIDDLE ROW : Shayla Heimann, Jami Finnell, Neleigh Frandsen, Sarah Delgado. BACK ROW : Ashley Dunn, Alexis Bartek, Maddie Graham, Hannah Hamilton, Coach Jeff Rump
Freshman Girls Basketball: FRONI ROW : Jennifer Marks, Lisa Bradbury, Bri anne Brestel, Taylor Rung. MIDDLE ROW : Nayawarga Yiel, Paige Traynowicz, Natalie Riggs, Maren Finsand, Meredith Weber. BACK ROW : Kate Hunsaker, Rebecca Swenseth, Morgan elson, Laurel Holmquist, Kayla Frazier, Coach Khari Wallace.
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Track: FRONT ROW : JD Royer, John Thompson, Jeff Walker, Dillon Jones, Devin Johnson, Zach Elson, Cnad Hassebrook,Jamell Michaels, Tyler Reeder, Hieu Cao ROW 2 : Jack Hoage, Paul Belz, Rico Oliveros, Craig Easley, Zachery Sims, Aaron Pattee, Eric Hyde, Brett Amen, Dylan Payne, Brennan Johnson. ROW 3 : Brady Gaines, Caleb Brown, Jeremiah Sievers, Sinan Sayood, Dillon Schellhorn, Marques Brown, Matt Green, Trevino Brown, Jeff Seybold, Branden Brown, Benjamin Shield, Matt Bovee. ROW 4: Teylor Wolfe, Matt Petersen, Trenten Meyer, Zach Watsoo, Nick Sawyer, Logan Luke, Dyl Ohlsen, Evan Brown, CJ. Yank, LeJay Daniels, Kyle Daniels. ROW 5 : John Hoffman, Austin Cassidy, Travis Earhart, Peter Sitzmann, Jay Anderson, Josh Hohensee, Parker Schoen, Matt Blankenau, Mike Schuster. ROW 6 : Garrett Sund, Andrew Essman, Jordan Bell, Dustin Garrett, Brandon Olson, Nick Jester, Aaron Johnston, Devin Douglass-Wiley, Dayton Graf, Austin Fritz, Tyler Loos. BACK ROW : Cmch Deep Amin, Cmch Phil Voigt, Cmch Matt Mezger, Cmch Andrew Sherman, Cooch Ryan Mahoney, Cmch Nicole Kubik, Cmch Ashley Wimes. NOT PI • Omch Nathan Renter. 78 -• .....,.r---,, ports
Varsity Soccer: FRONT ROW : Samantha Mueting, Caitlin Golden, Laura Hake Kelly Baer, Paige Brolhorst, Kelsey Bryant. MIDDLE ROW : Kourtney Frank, Mallory Vogt :.lizabeth Wakeman, Lauren Barry, Bri Badje, Willow Nyman-Jones, Erin Danahay. BACK R )W: Oare Espinosa, Jami Rnnell, Anna Rea, Samantha Exstrom, Shayla Heimann, Bri Exstro1 1
Steph [ ffer , Anna Horst, Emily Kerl. NOT PICTURED : Alex Bechtle, Sarah Delgado, Natali Riggs.
Student T rainers:
Girls Track: FRONf ROW : Nora Wilsoo, Taylor Mayer, Brooke Bowers, Shannon Qeal, Michaela Patt, Kamala Moore, Kristen Dinneen, Rachel Pieloch.
ROW 2: Ahna Donlic, Ja;lyn Soucie, Bri Brestel, Wyki Walstrom, Kimberly Bun, Juha Ott, Eliza Hammond, Carly Belz, Arianna Dye, Alysha G.tlver, Alie Kloefkorn, Mara Wilson. ROW 3 : Kristal Schuster, Courmey Cllambers, Beth Embree, Kaleigh Anderson, Neleigh Frandsen, Alyssa McBride, Dani Virts, Kari Meyer, Jamie Dejonge, Olivia Leblanc, Tara Soucie, Sammy Hansen. ROW 4 : Jeannette Arnold, Amanda Brown, Courmey Haydu, Hope Bowers, Brittany Oeal, Danielle Urban, Oielsea ?feiffer, Marianne Wegulo, l..exi Smalley, Becca Nispel, Alissa Schellhorn, Melissa West ROW 5 : Kayla Frazier, Jessica Kaltenberger, Danielle Cas.5idy, Laura Brammeier, Stacie Hansen, Maggie Packard, McKenzie TtSdale, Kylie Garrett, Amber Swenseth, Becca Swenseth, Caitlan Bunn. BACK
ROW: Coach Deep Amin, Coach Phil Voigt, Coach Matt Mezger, Coach Andrew Sherman, Coach Ryan Mahoney, Coach Nicole Kubik , Coach Ashley Wimes. NOT PlcnJRED : Coach Nathan Renter.
Varsity: JV: Reserve: Freshman: 23-11 25-0 1 9- 1 22- 1
The volleyball teams were all n amed city champions , and the Varsity team was also declared the district champions. FOOT8ALL
Varsity: JV: Reserve: Freshman:
10- 1 5-2 6-1 3-5
The varsity football team was declared the district champions SOYS 8ASKIT8ALL
Varsity: JV: Reserve: Freshman: 12- 13 14-3 10-3 15-0
The varsity ooys basketball team was the district runner ,up, and the freshman team was named city champions.
fuys: Girls: 5 state qualifiers, team 9-2 8-3 finished tied for 22nd.
Varsity: JV: Reserve: 23-18 19-6 13-6
The varsity softball team was the conference champion.
Varsity: JV: Reserve: 6-1 9-3 10-2
Taylor Boney Class A Singles Champion , JV ooys city champions GIRLS 8ASK£T8ALL
Varsity: JV: Reserve: Freshman: 8-14 14-5 12-1 9-8
The JV and Reserve girls basketball teams were named cRoSS CCOUNTRY
Boys: Girls: 12th place at State 6th place at State
Both teams qualified for state
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FRONT ROW : Kaleigh Hohensee, Samantha Mueting, Aly Fergum BACK ROW : Anna Horst, Sarah Delagado, Kaitlyn Waller, Crystal Kjar. Not I Pictured Zach Mapes, Jordyn Novsek, Elliott Engle.
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Be the kind that gives. Senior Jon Pike gives blocx:l at the blocx:l drive in the wrestling room on Oct 23. Student5 who were 17 could choose to donate blocx:l.
How do you stand out in crow mastered the art of standing out. many opportunities to be noticed.
Five new juniors were welco Wacks and Julia Ott all from Germ Japan and Fernanda Artiero fro and left tne SC ool with The National Merit semi--finalists w
task, but some students mies, or clubs there were orld. Elena Boshe, Johannes Chihiro T akimoto from eant to be a Hver Hawk itzmann, Sarah Arkebauer and Aaron Murphy. These seniors had to then compete against 16,000 others to earn a part of the $33 million scholarship. Other senior athletes signed letters of intent for their college of choice.
The building was taken over by the juniors because they were the largest class with a population of 523. This class growth along with the others made the hallways more congested. Every class began to make its mark on Southwest, hoping that mark would last forever among the traditions of previous classes.
Sp r ead By Rache l Yahk Crowded quarters. Students meet in the hallway before second block It became more diffic ult to navigate thro ugh the packed hallways because there were students standing everywhere. Photo by Rachel Y ankf[alon
It's inevitable, it's sneaky, and it's contagious. Irs senioritis: the dreaded disease that takes upperclassmen by storm. Students find themselves battling aches and pains of all kinds; mi aching to be anywhere but in their classes, an aching to be out on their • own, an aching to be rid of parental control. Symptoms include • not focusing! skipping school and sleeping in.
Many seniors found themselves stuck in the battle between effort and sleep. If your p~ent was willing to tall you in, then what was there to hold you back from catching a few extra z's?
If a senior wasn't skipping out on their class~, chances were they still found themselves battling with a lack of motivation.
"It's apathy more than anytliirlg/' said Sucharitha Rajendran. ''You know this chapter of your.life is almost over, and you just want to move on to the next one.'' , "I can't wait until summer," said Jessica Grieser. "After f ur
Students had trouble focusing on their clas.ses when the years of working hard, I'm ready for a break.'' free,as,a,bird college life was only a tantalizing few months away. So it seemed for the rest of the senior class, who found t te Maggie Schur claimed that she had senioritis since her early years dreaded senioritis taking them over more and more each day. , .s as a freshman. colleges were expJored, the freedom of dorm life, fewer das
"Four years? It has been going~ way too long," said Schur. and living with friends began tb entice and ensnare them. Hi
The four years a student spends in high school are said to school life was no longer suitable: senioritis had prevailed. prepare them for life in college, and to give them the necessary ls there any hope to save future seniors from this epide t? education they need to succeed in life. However, near the end of The prognosis looks grim, and all one can hope fo:r;,, is a quick : 1d those four long years students become drained. ;I!-I~5 ._""1,J:t,r~...; breezy senior year. ~•-•..:•ccc • ...-.,..,.
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\ V\ -\;" e, While most students expected to ditch the backpack their senior year and ,,. ,'-. I \ \ \ live life as a bookbag free man or woman, there were some diligent students 0 \ J among the class of 2007 who piled the books high and kept that backpack near.
I'm sure we've all heard the phrase "seniority rules,v but being an upperclassman isn't always all ifs built up to be. Along with the perks of bemg the oldest come the responsibilities.
As the high school years drag on more responsibilities are tacked on with getting ofder. .Freshmen mter high school and find that it can be a very fast paced andco,:npetitive environment, and that's only with academics.
Sophomores, after celebrating not being th~ objec;:t of ridicule, find themselves learning the fint art o(driving, the worry of gas and the money to get it. With gas prices risin~ students wondered where the money for this new necessity would come from. That's right, jobs.
Whether i is working at a clothing store at the with that, battling that little thing people li :e to mall or washing dishes at Popeye's) sruaent:s were call senioritis. required to find time to balan~~ all these things "I dropped classes for the first time dt '-at once.
Junior year is said to be the most imP,ortant year of high school This is the year where transcripts neecl to at least start looking nice for colleges. Students' begin taking the ACT and • SAT tests just to get a feel-for how much effort is needed to improve scores.
After that came the most dreaded,
to senioritis, and I love school so much Tm . graduating early,", Tiffany Yanagida said. e come o the realization that taking the firs t 3tep _into adulthcx:xi ·can be scary.
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So when the feeling of being "too yrn 1g" creeps up, think about the luxuries now spc Jn~ fed, beaiuse that chance most likely won't
"Getting. older has made me more responsible, with work, basketball and gettiJ '=' j,nto college. It makes me tµink a1:x:)Ut my g, :us more, and how to achieve them," Brandon and most anticipated year of all, senior year. Although claimed to be the most fun and -exdting, this can be one of the most stressful years. Between working, grades, and (})llege ~d exams,it's easy to get stressed, and al~ng
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"I wanted to be a pediatrician when I was younger because I loved playing with kids. Now I want to be a sculptor because I love art. I enjoy building things out of nothing."
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"When I was little I wanted to be an architect because I thought that all they had t o do was draw pictures. Now I'm conside • becoming a teacher or doing something related to politics."
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Senior year was a wake,up call for most students. They realized that graduation, college, and a life of their own would begin in a mere few months. They then realized that before all of that would come the dreaded college applicationsr
"My advice is to start early. Then you have it out of the way." Austin Griffith said.
Most applications needed to be turned in by January 1 giving seniors a timeline to go by on choosing schools. Some senio~s planned on staying in Nebraska for college while others wanted to go elsewhere.
"I want to stay here for college because I Seniors also began to realize that colleg love Lincoln and I want to stay close to my friends used to be something they had their entire lifc to and family," Tiffany Forycki said. look forward too. Reality was soon to slap thEp:
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can a r challenge. Take it from two tudents who nfreedom" and most handle it very well. ·enced it firsthand. KiraHubbell lived in Gennany her junior year, w • Eric:
c Sutton chose to spend his senior year in Switzerland.
What were some big differences between living in Switzerland and Kira: living in the US?
What were some big differences between living in Germany and
E: There is no block scheduling there and I lived at my school. It was strange living in the US? walk a few floors up from my classroom to my dorm.
K: School goes from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and you get a big break for lunch. Why did you choose to go to Switzerland?
An0ther thing that is different is that you stay in the same clas.5room all day
E: I chose Switze land because the snowooarding there is fantastic. and the teachers move from class to class.
Why did you choose to go to Germany?
What are your favorite Switzerland foods?
E: Fondue definitely, cheese and chocolate
K: I chose Germany becaus it's full of history, it's beautiful and it was one of What do you miss the most about Switzerland? the places I had always wanted to visit.
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E: The snowboarding, my friends and the "culture"
Although studying abroad may be hard both Kira and Eric recommend it.
K: Sauerkraut, Alp Cheese, and Bratwur t "Go for it," Sutton said.
Has your experience in Germany changed the way you view some "The first week is a little rough, but after that its worth it," Hubbell said things about America? ready for a culture hock and don't be intimidated. Most of all don't be afraic to
K: I look at the government and school system differently now. My views on try new things!" teenagers' responsibilities have also changed. Teenagers over there have more
What do you think of the students at I.SW?
"That you have an amazing football team that everyone aims to beat. Also that you have an amazing theatre department. The produc, tions blow me away."
,Kelsey fuker, sophomore Lincoln Northeast '~
l people who like to hang out and ha¥ eston Hams, senior Uncoln High
that LSW is full of rich preppy snobs who tbink th thing"
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What are some rumors you've heard about our school?
"That Southwest is new monev., but that's not even bad. I mean at East ' we're considered old
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--Courtney Woodhead, senior Iincoln
What's the first thing you think of when someone says I.SW?
"Prepppyyyy"
,Stephanie Lee, junior Parkview Oiristian
From school dismissing at 3:08 to 3:03 to the major improvement of all the athletic teams and activities, to all the teachers corning and going, many things have changed since freshman year for the senior class. One very apparent change ;:was the growing amount of students in the hallways each ear.
"Sophomore year I could go to the bathroom, my locker and get a drink and make it to class on time; this year I could hardly get through the crowds of people to make it to class on time," Keerthi Yerra said.
The lunch also changed dramatically from the snack shop offering candy, soft drinks and "high" calorie foods to only offering health foods and foods that were low in fat and calories~
The announcements freshman year were read over the intercom during second block, a1;1d near the end of the year Student O:iuncil held a fun day called "That Day in May."' Junior year the announcements were no longer read and were instead posted on the scrolling 1V screens in the hallways. "That Day in May" was also replaced with a carnival held on the last day of school by the theater department. The attendance policy also changed from having to sign in at the ttendance office for any type of tardy, to only signing in for an excused tardy.
Dances also changed. The sweat dance was introduced sophomore year, and junior year the Winter formal was changed
to a spring fling, only to be replaced again by a winter formal the senior year.
The class of 2007 also established new traditions. Dressing up in different outfits for each football game as well as having a senior boy do the same amount of push,ups as the football had points after every touchdown scored.
Many things have changed in Southwest since the class of 2007 were freshmen and it became obvious that more changes would occur as Southwest continued to grow.
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Lydia Albrecht
Darko Alic
Khiela Allen
Tempest Amerson
Eric Amthor
Tyler Andelt
Ashley Andersen
Bryce Anderson
Jay Anderson
Michael Anderson
Kayla Andretti
Laura Anthony
Zachary Arena
Katie Armstrong
Jared Ashton
N arges Attaie
Mollie Ayers
Annalisa Baade
Matt Baeder
Elliot Baer
Andy Bailey
Jackie Baker
Elizabeth Bamberry
Josh Barber
Tyler Barnett
Lauren Barry
Michaela Barta
Kaci Bartholomew
Katlin Bauer
Ashtyn Bax
Bryan Baxter
Patrick Beasley
Cara Beaty
Craig Beck
Joe Beer
Kyle Behrens
Jason Belden
Jordan Bell
"Back when I was a freshman, I would get picked on and called 'fresh meat'. Now that I'm older, I can do it back to them. It's pretty tight," said junior Ashlea Warren with a mischievous smirk.
Upperclassmen attitude grew stronger and stronger. Even sophomores claimed some authority over freshmen.
Students usually said they didn't see any bullying going on in the halls. So it was not surprising to find friends of all grades hanging out together. Freshmen hung out ~th sophomores and the seniors didn't mind the juniors so much.
Around the other comer, you'd also see junior girls gossiping with freshmen girls and senior football players kicking it with their sophomore teammates.
"Not all of us necessarily think we're retter; it's just that we've~ here longer and we know the teachers and how the school works. We're more school,spirited, you could say," said junior Abby Christian, sen.
Though upperclassmen did tend to have more power, most students in clifferent grades got along well. Upperclassmen seemed to re in agreement that underclassmen were sort of like siblings to them.
"We set the standard for sophomores and freshmen. Our attitudes will reflect on how they treat the next generation when they are juniors and seniors," junior Traci Mason pointed out.
Most thought it was silly to re discriminated just recause of age.
"I remember one time when I was a freshman, I was waiting in line and someone said 'stupid, little freshman"' said Jay Anderson. "All I thought aoout was how this 'stupid' freshman had straight A's and was nearly twice as tall as her."
Just goes to show that underclassmen do get underestimated sometimes.
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Tyler Bell
Paul Belz
Kayla Bennett
Ransom Bennett
Brittney Benson
John Benton
Jeremy Berg
Rocky Billie
Matt Bishop
Keith Blackbum
Matthew Blankenau
Nolan Bloom
Auburn Boeche
Joe Boehm
Maggie Boeselager
Jennifer Bohlen
Ali Bohlke
Brett Bolles
Elliot Baer and Jack Hoage show off their attitude. Some juniors bulked up, working out to add to their size, which added to their intimidation factor.
Briana Bomberger
Drew Bomberger
Jordann Bornhoft
Elena Bosche
Allison Botsford
Hope Bowers
Corey Bowling
Erin Boyle
Christian Brabec
Marina Bradaric
Kaylee Braden
Amelia Bradshaw
Crystal Brawner
Mitchell Bromwich
Blair Brown
Brandon Brown
Kenny Brown
Te Marques Brown
Dani Bryant
Joshua Buchmann
Bradly Burden
Paige Buresh
Trent Burgess
Samantha Burns
Jessica Burow
Tyler Bush
Brielle Buske
John Calahan
Jacob Cambridge
Chelsea Campbell
Rieu Cao
Cameron Cash
Dani Cassidy
Na than Casteel
Cliff Castoral
Sierra Cepel
Matthew Champoux
David Changstrom
Chelsey Charlton
Abigail Christiansen
Ricardo Cisneros
Krysta Clausen
"I asked in the middle of Spanish class what d ecaf was, and people m ade fun of me forever."
D an Pfingsten
"I tried to jump over a glass coffee table, and I didn't make it I ended up with stitches in my foot, and paying for the coffee table." ,Ben Doland
"I was coming down the main staircase and I missed a step and fell down about eight, and knocked about 10 to 15 people with me."
Kristin Reeder
"During Fitness for Life, fresh, man year, after we changed
(name withheld) decided to lift up my skirt showing my lovely polka dotted underwear to all of the up, perclassmen." , Jenna Lothrop
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Brittany Cleal
Alyson Clevenger
Jami Cline
Dustin Clover
Dylan Clover
Lauren Cochran
Kyle Cockson
Matt Cohn
Zach Colburn
Arica Coleman
Kaylee Colton
Zach Connell
Mandi Conway
Diego Cornejo
Christopher Covey
Tanner Craig
Christopher Creveling
Travis Cunningham
Jos hu a Cutsor
Krystal Dakan
Cody D amian
Chris D amian-Reddish
Alyssa Damke
Trinh Dang
Micah Davis
Jill Dawson
Jessica Day
Cate Debban
Jamie Dejonge
Kelsey Denton
Maggie D eschaine
Nicole Deters
Benjamen D iaz
Bryce Dickey
Andrew Dike
Lou Dilley
Mollie Dittmer
Ben Doland
Taylor Donahoo
Kristin Drake
Madison Drake
Timothy Dugan
Derald Dunbar
Meagan Dunning-Ward
Bryttie Duren
Matthew Dussault
Peter Dutkiewicz
Craig Easley
Addison Eby
Dylan Egger
Erin Eisbach
Bryant Eklund
Kyle Eley
Spencer Elliott
Emily Elseg
Tisha Elstun
Kyle Emesti
Chelsea Esau
Nathaniel Esau
Grant Essink
Alanna Everman
Heidi Fatemi
Benjamin Faubel
Jordan Faulder
To add to the diversity of schools nationwide, Youth For Understanding, an international exchange organization, sent five students from other countries to Southwest for one year in a foreign exchange program.
The students lived with a host family that was their guide to America.
"It was really interesting just getting a sense of the American culture," Johannes Wacks said. "I got to go to San Francisco, Chicago and Washington. It was a nice variety since Germany is 27 times smaller than the US."
Wacks had a successful transition to America He joined marching band, track and soccer only a few months in and met many friends.
"Americans are so outgoing, spontaneous and open, minded; I love it," Wacks said.
Chihiro T akimoto was the only exchange student
from Japan. She was from the city of Tokyo. Here and at her old school she ran track and cross country. Johannes Wacks, Chihiro Takimoto, Julia
While T akimoto said she likes Americans be, Ott, Elena
cause of their kindness and friendliness to others, she doesn't like fattening American food.
Julia Ott was another student from Germany.
"Everything here in America is so big, I got lost in Shopko! Southwest is a much bigger school than the one I went to in Germany but my host sister helps me around," Ott said.
She's was involved in jazz band, playing the saxo, phone) marching band and swimming.
Which country was her favorite?
"There's no comparison because they are two totally different cultures and are ooth equally great," Ott said.
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Justin Ferguson
Justin Fern
Emily Fetters
Jordan Feyerherm
Kierst Finsand
Kinsley Fisher
Micah Fisher
Robert Fitzgerald
Zachary Fitzsimmons
Michael Fletcher
Aaron Flores
Olivia Fogerty
Lindsey Font
Megan Foree
Allison Fortkamp
Kyle Foster
Zach Francis
Richard Fritsch-Gerdes
Austin Fritz
Drew Gaines
Cindy Gallagher
Steven Garcia
Dustin Garrett
Angel Geller
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Zachary Genzrner
Becca Gerschefske
Alana Giesernann
Mekyla Gill
Michael Gilmore
Anjli Gingery
Dillon Gladding
Trey Goa
Caitlin Golden
Austin Gore
Ashley Graham
Max Grout
Sando Hamilton
Marie Hansen
Ashley Harris
Kimberly Hassebrook
Ashley Heath
Patrick Hecker
Jason Heindryckx
Hannah Heiser
Meghan Henderson
Trevor Hermann
Taylor Herrington
Hayley Hershberger
Mackaine Heston
Kathryn Hibbard
Jennifer Higgins
Christian Hill
Katherine Hill
Monique Hill
Lauren Hiller
Ashley Hinrichs
Jonathan Hinz
Nick Hinze
Jack Hoage
Jacob Hoelting
Blake Hoffmeyer
Josh Hohensee
Jeremy Holen
Alan Holly
JD Holm
"I TA for Mr Finley. It's fun and an easy way to earn credits."
,Tyler P.arnett
"I TA for the Office. I choose to TA for them because I like to do things during the day instead of sitting in a classroom all day."
,Ashley Harris
"I TA for the library. I like T Aing for them be, cause they are very nice." Bhan Parham
Collin Holmquist
Seth Home
Anna Horst
Amanda Hoy
Nicole Hudson
Lucas Ihrie
Sally Ingham
Cole Ingram
Matt Jacobsen
Michael Jacobson
Chelsea Jarecke
Malinda Jenks
Devin Johnson
Laura Johnson
Aaron Johnston
Jamie Jones
Taylor Jones
Timothy Jones
Elly Jurgensen
Jessica Kaltenberger
Brandon Kapke
Adil Karie
Michele Kattes
Kelsey Kennell
"I am a TA for the At , tendance Office for Mrs. Hays. I have also TAed for them twice."
,Morgan Lausten
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Meredith Kenyon
Spencer Kerl
Bryson Kerns
Kyle King
Deanna Kinnison
Erin Kirby
Amanda Kline
Kelsey Klute
Brandon Koch
Philip Kocher
Marc Koenig
Jeri Kohn
Michael Korsakas
Bailey Koziol
Alex Kreifels
Mitchell Krieger
Aaron Krueger
Ali Kuhel
Melissa Kumke
Evan Kurth
Aubri Lambert
Talicia Landeros
Kelsey Lange
Rosie Lann
Kaylie Lantz
Teela Larson
William Larson
Nicholas Lattimer
Morgan Lausten
David Lavelle
Thai Le
Rebecca Leiter
Sophie Lemka
Meghan Leonard
Kaila Lewallen
Breanne Lewis
Tesha Lewis
Gabrielle Lieb
Justin Lilly
Karma Livingston
Richard Lorenz
Jenna Lothrop
A fortune cookie once said, "Friendships are like chocolate chips. It is good to keep them close b ,, ¥·
This held true for the junior class. Friendships were what lxmnd them, and for most, kept them sane. Many students found cornfort in having a friend to confide in, especially when high school drama occurred.
Many juniors had met what they considered their "best friend" after high school had already started, often early on. Krysta Clausen was one of these students. She said met her best friends, Tori Renken and Nicole Hudson, freshman year.
"We all went to London last year for band. We all really oonded and had a good time," Clausen
said. "We hang out a lot, and we're all really close."
However, many students were expanding and meeting tons of new people once they became upperclassmen. Some friend circles merged, having different people become friends.
David Changstrom has been friends with Jason Heindryckx since aoout fourth grade. "I used to go over to his house all the time and play football and basketball," he said.
Through the year, friendships have had their ups and downs, but many relationships grew closer. Friendships last forever, but unfortunately chocolate chips don't. As the saying goes be sure to keep them close by, because you never know when you're going to need them.
In a subway while in London, Tori Renken, Krysta Clausen and Nicole Hudson pose for a quick picture. They were all in London for a band competition over Christmas break last year.
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Briana Lueckenhoff
Logan Luke
Curtis Mackie
Ali Malik
Alyssa Malone
TJ Mandl
Garrett Mardock
Jared Marker
Reid Marple
Alex Martin
Nicky Martin
Traci Mason
Kiersten Mavis
Andrea May
Alyssa McBride
Megan McCollister
Michaela McElroy
Lindsey McIntyre
Bridgette McKay
Tim McKitterick
Brittany McNear
Alyssa Mescher
Alicia Meyer
Kevin Meyer
Shay lene Michaels
Sarah Michalecki
Jacob Miller
Jaque Miller
Josh Moline
Will Monroe
Brandon Moore
Breanna Moore
Devin Mueller
Samantha Mueting
Thomas Mundt
Sean Murphy
David Nance
Tyler Nannen
Seth Neben
Sarah Neelly
Jeffrey Nelson
Samantha Neppl
Nick Nesbitt
Elli Neuwirth
Andrew Nguyen
Becca Nispel
Reba Nitzel
Jackie Nordell
Aaron Norman
Trey Novotny
Jordyn Novsek
Travis Nun
Willow Nyman-Jones
Aleysha O ' Neill Guzman
Christopher Ogden
Morgan Oliver
Rico Oliveros
Max Olson
Mollie Orman
Hannah Orr
Katelyn Ostwald
Julia Ott
Maggie Packard
Ethan Parham
Kari Parke
"My hardest class was Psychology because I am not good at remembering names and vocab." ,Hilary Watkins
"For me the hardest class would have to be lunch."
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"The class that I think was the hardest is Physics." ,Lindsey McIntyre
"My
hardest class was American Literature and Composition.
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Aaron Pattee
Stephanie Pelan
Brandon Peters
Taylor Peters
Doug Petersen
Nate Petro
Chelsea Pfeiffer
Daniel Pfingsten
Stephanie Phillip
Jacldyn Pickerill
Desiree Pierce
Da v id Pierson
Heather Pillard
Stephanie Pitcher
Alyssa Potter
Shannon Potter
Jacob Potts
Brandon Prellwitz
WenyuQu
Taylor Quandt
Meredith Ramsay
Bradley Rangel
Lindy Rauscher
Anna Rea
Daniel Ready
Portia Reams
Ellen Reber
Kristin Reeder
Tyler Reeder
Phil Reinhardt
Jordan Reinwald
Tori Renken
Caleb Rennings-Lanik
Katie Richard
Ashley Rinke
Matthew Roach
Ashton Robinson
Daniel Rogers
Roxie Rohlfs
Greg Rohnke
Cody Ronne
Michael Rood
Allison Roy
JD Royer
Alex Ruder
Curtis Ruwe
Michael Ryan
Cash Ryba
Ryaz Sadat
Blair Sanburg
Andrew Santo
Nick Sawyer
Dillon Schellhorn
Christopher Schmidt
Jayme Schmidt
Rachael Schreiner
Michael Schultz
Lucas Scofield
Zeph Scott
Grant Seiboldt
Mohammad Shakir
Ben Shallenberger
Kaitlin Shanahan
Matthew Sharkey
Chad Shearer
Samantha Shelley
While being a senior means that you get to rule the school, there was a downside.
According to Matt Champoux, "re, sponsibilities are the least thing to look for, ward to." Paying for gas, food and clothes, looking for good colleges and getting ready to finish high school were just a few.
"Although the responsibilities may be tiresome, I hke the fact that I'm college, bound," Champoux added.
Along with the freedom of college, there's a lot of hard work that goes into it too, if you want to attend a good college.
"I'm definitely not looking forward to taking the standardized tests (ACT and
SA1)," Amanda Vuu said, "but what I am looking forward to is the enjoyment of my senior year."
MU5t juniors looked forward to college but haven't started seriously looking at oppor, tunities. Many said it was because they were unsure of where to get scholarships.
"Yes, I am looking for scholarships but I am mostly looking forward to the military," said Josh Cutsor.
While some were completely lost, some certain and others unsure, most said that they were looking forward to the exciting new adventure known as senior year.
Nicole Shellhart
Taylor Shippen
Andrew Sitzmann
Trevor Skala
Andrea Smith
Jessica Sorensen
Nathan Spain
Jordan Sprague
Jacob Stauber
Kati Stauffer
Robby Stauffer
Lloyd Steel
Baker Steinkuhler
Carrie Sterns
Graham Stoddard
Justin Stonacek
Ashley Stoner
Danielle Stopp
David Stowe
Jamie Strudl
Courtney Suelter
Garrett Sund
Logan Sutton
Shannon Potter studied hard for college. Potter, along with many other juniors, had a lot on their plates, balancing school, jobs and a social life. Photo by Marina Bradaric/Ialon Story by Travis CunninghamDillon Svec
Michael Swanson
Tyler Swartz
Amber Swenseth
Kendra Szudlo
Chihiro Takimoto
Tiffaney Tatro
Jordan Taylor
Trevor Taylor
Emily Temple
Trevor Thayer
John Thompson
Tyler Thompson
Megan Thornburg
Andrew Tinsley
Ashley Toombs
Ryan Town
Tram Tran
Max Tresnak
Alyssa Troester
Andrea Troxel
Kate Truka
Austin Turner
Angel Valladares
Jason Vanderslice
Jacob Vestecka
Dao Thi Vo
Mallory Vogt
Tyler Vrba
Amanda Vuu
Johannes Wacks
Brittany Wagner
Paige Wald
Kayla Waldman
Erinn Walkenhorst
Christopher Walker
Celeste Wanner
Ashlea Warren
Hilary Watkins
Corinne Watson
Jessica Way
"Every track meet since my freshman year, I always pig out. I hide my fo:xl so the guys don't steal it."
,Melissa West
"The weird thing that I do is that I brush my teeth while I am in the shower." ,Mike Swanson
"When I wake up, I have to hit my snooze button seven times and then go pee. Every morning; no matter what."
,Brittany Oeal
Kyle Way
Jennifer Weber
Kayla Webert
Maurice Wegulo
Paige Wentz
James West
"I own 2 7 hats and not a single one of them is a baseball cap." ,Tyler Bush
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Whitney Weyhrich
Ryan Whelan
Hillary Whitney
David Wiese
Brett Wiley
Matthew Wilmarth
Aaron Wittrock
Cynthia Wolfard
Kelcy Workman
Gatdet Yiel
Megan Young
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Taylor Alley
Brett Amen
Jon a than Anania
Kaleigh Anderson
Kyle Anderson
Michael Apa
Ahmad Arraseef
Lindsey Ash
Robert Athey
Russ Aust
Brianna Badje
Kelly Baer
Chad Bailey
Philip Baker
Lauren Barbee
Dalton Barnard
Duncan Barnell
Amanda Bartels
Melissa Beard
Jarrod Beardslee
Jordan Bell
Mc Rae Bell
Jordon Bellefeuille
Ashley Belt
Carly Belz
Schuyler Bennett
Evan Benson
Heather Berck
Christian Berg
Matt Bindel
Alex Bischoff
Dustin Bloch
Annie Bohling
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Carey Brant
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Geoffrey Bristol
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Sophomore year: How exciting! What was there to look forward to? For most it was just another year of school. For some, the sophomore year turned out to be an electrifying experience.
During sophomore year most of the sophomores turned 16 and were given their hcenses. Some drove to and from school.
Nate Jones explained he felt "fantastic and free!"
However some wondered why they could drive alone, yet weren't considered mature enough to leave school to go out to lunch.
Lindsey Leach said, "It's disappointing when you have proved you can handle responsibility but you can't use it."
Still some sophomores decided they were ready to go out to lunch.
"It's easy," as one sophomore, who would hke to remain nameless,
explained "All you have to do is show the security guards your I. D. as you walk by. If you don't have it (your I. D.) write in as an older student you know."
Jake Marvin said he thought "that they (the administration) should change it (open campus) to the age, not to the grade. So when you tum 16 you could go out to lunch."
The problem with that idea was those sophomores who do not tum 16 would be left behind.
AJ Matthies had the solution to this predicament: "People who go out to lunch should be able to bring two guests."
Sophomores had to choose; be confined to the cafeteria or rebel and enjoy lunch off campus, and then face the consequences if caught.
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Frankie Bruyette
Sabrina Buckwald
Caitlan Bunn
Jamie Burbach
Ch else Burcham
Marilyn Buresh
Kimberly Burt
Alex Calidonna
Lindsey Carden
Amanda Carnazzo
Alex Cass
Liliana Castillo
Allison Catlett
Jade Cattoor
Tyler Caulkins
Elijah Cecava
Ashlee Celesky
Jamie Champoux
Reece Charlebois
Stephanie Charron
Alma Cisneros Rodriguez
Benjamin Clevinger
Nathaniel Coatney
Kelly Coleman
Kevin Coleman
Michael Conner
Jose Cortez
Connor Cosgrove
Michael Crelin
Stormy Crisman
Emilio Cruz
Luz Solano Cuevas
Alysha Culver
Ben Currin
Collyn Curtis
Stephanie Daffer
Shruti Daggumati
Nicholas Dahlquist
Christine Dalton
John Davenport
Erin Davidson
Travis Davidson
Hillary Davis
Andy Day
Chalsey Debaere
Krista Decker
J amicyn Deiro
Joseph Delaney
Sarah Delgado
Aaron Demoret
Anna Denell
Jarett Denning
Andre' Devorss
Lacey Diaz
Julia Didier
Kyle Digilio
Christopher Donahoo
Zachary Donahoo
"If I am on a date and at a restau-rant I think about what my burger is going to look like."
--Kaleigh Anderson
When are we going back to my place?"
--EricHyde
"I think about what we have in common and how we are click-ing. lt's always good to go out with someone who shares the same
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Jake Hedgecock
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Ashley Hemann
Amy Herman
Katy Herrell
Eric Hinz
John Hoffman
Kaleigh Hohensee
Samantha Holechek
Joel Holmgren
Luke Honnen
Katie Hottovy
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Ally Hudkins
Eric Hyde
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Jacob Jochim
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Brandon Johnson
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Lexie Johnson
Bryan Jones
Na than Jones
Steven Jones
Megan Kaltenberger
Amy Kellough
Katie Kieffer
Lynn King
"Really, I wouldn't change anything, except I don't like chest hair much."
,Emily Walkenhorst
"[Girls] don't wear enough makeup."
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"Guys wouldn't be so egotistical."
,Kelly &er
"Nothing, women are superior to men."
,Nathaniel Coatney
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Lindsey Leach
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"HAPPY BIRTI-IDAY!" friends yelled to Hayli Lofgreen as she entered her locker area with complete surprise. •
Most birthdays were just another year gone by but the 16th • birthday was special. This was the SWEET 16 as many students called it. Finally students were able to drive legally alone. That event helped cut the sometimes thick rope that tied teens to parents.
Friends like Lofgreen's wanted to make her SWEET 16 a great moment to remember by putting up signs throughout the locker area and giving her birthday presents.
The perfect gift, according to Lofgreen, was gas money 1:ecause that was what many driving students, needed.
While gas money was a fine gift, even finer was a new car.
"I didn't actually get my own car but my parents gave me the privilege to drive one of theirs," Ross Kremer said.
Meanwhile Lofgreen collected signs and presents from students through the day.
Throught the year birthday signs were
up on lockers. Not only signs for birthdays were put up but also for sports or just a random have a good day sign.
Sam Newton
Justin Nissen
Garrett Nitz
Justin Noakes
Benjamin Norton
Samarttha Ogden
Dylan Ohlsen
Kara Olson
Myles Olson
Melissa Ostiguin
Anastasia Oulianova
Keith Ozanne
Alexander Pace
Stephanie Pankoke
Dy Ian Parker
Michaela
Patt
Chelsea Patterson
Ryan Pavel
Talissa Payne
Cordero Pearson
Gabrielle Perez
Griffin Perry
Adam Peters
Amanda Peters
Kerri Peters
Grant Peterson
Kim Pettinger
Micah Pfeiffer
Nick Pfeiffer
Rachael Pflug
Tarrah Phares
Stuart Piper
Jared Plautz
Aaron Plymesser-Hansen
Joshua Poppe
Jed Potter
Courtney Powers
Taylor Prai
Jordan Prellwitz
Porche Prewitt
Alexis Pulver
Hayley Raatz
Bekab Reddish
Maddie Reddish
Amber Reece
Logan Reeves
Chelsi Reichwaldt
James Reynolds
Tyler Rheault
Erinn Richert
Tiffany Ricketts
Alexandra Riggs
Cory Ritter
Shafae' Rivera
Maggie Robertson
Griffin Rocke
Todd Roeber
Chris Rogers
Justin Rogge
One of the ten Orris' that is a sophomore. Ouis Jacorron is also friends with Orris Zilly.
The ratio of males to females is 241 to 250
The most common first letter of the first name is Jat 64 people followed by A at 60
The first names with the letters I,Q,U,W ,X, and Y are not even present
The most common female name is Lindsey or Lindsay
Taylor Rohe
Ju s tin Rosenbohm
Nicolas Russell
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Cassandra Sadowski
Derek Saltzman
Ben Samani
Jordan Saner
Jordan Sa sek
Sinan Sayood
Christine Scalora
Nolan Schaefer
Brandon Schafer
Tyler Schenk
Alexis Schields
Aaron Schilling
Jordan Schliesser
Anna Schmidt
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Jess Tornmeraasen
Ethan Tompkins
Akim Tran
Anna True
McKenzie True
AmarTumeh
Jared Tupper
Anthony Turner
James Tussing
Clay Upton
Danielle Urban
Nathan Van Loon
Tyler Vannice
Nicholas Varga
Cory Vermaas
Adam Wagner
Ethan Wagner
Emily Walkenhorst
Kaitlyn Waller
Chelsea Walz
Nicolette Ware
Dylan Warren
Sarah Wasserstein
Jacob Waters
Lauren Watmore
Alexis Watson
Zach Watson
Nicholas Webster
Brittany Weedman
Mike Wehling
Julia Wehrli
Taylor Weiand
Bryce Werts
Blake Wewel
Maggie Whiteley
Valerie Whitney
Jenna Wiese
Cohagen Wilkinson
Alaina Williams
Jacob Wilson
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Nora Wilson
It was 8:30 in the morning. The teacher was up at the board, teaching. Meanwhile over half of the class was just beginning to wake up.
For sophomores nine to nine hours and 15 minutes would have been the perfect amount of time to sleep. Yet most sophomores weren't able to get that much sleep.
Sam Newton said she usually went to bed at "2 (a.m.)." Many other sopho, mores shared Newton's sleeping habits, going to sleep late, getting up early, and then crashing on the weekends.
Why were those sophomores staying up so late? One reason was "home work," Lauren Barbee explained. The other reason sophomores kept such late nights was because they just did not get tired until later. This phenomenon oc, cured on account of their Circadian Rhythm, or a daily cycle of activity, moving their need for sleep back.
Everything combined led to sophomores becoming sleep deprived.
To be able to function some sophomores looked to caffeine. There were many ways students consumed caffeine; coffee, pop, energy drinks and even caf, feine pills.
Mara Wilson said she drank "a lot of pop everyday" to stay alert. One common drink for some was Rockstar, an energy drink. Caffeine only had so much affect. Sometimes sophomores had to choose between gcxxl grades or a gcxxl night's sleep.
Bethany Wood
Jessica Wright
Ryan Yanagida
Luye Yang
C.J. Yank
Luke Yarabe
Daniel Zhou
Tyler Ziegelbein
Chris Zilly
Nicole Zimmer
Taylor Adams
Haydar Al- R ubaiai
Jamie Alder
Allyssa Allaire
Courtney Allen
Sammy Althayedi
Alejandra Amaro
Rosemary Anderson
Gabriel Arenas
Kelsey Arends
Rachel Arkebauer
Jeannette Arnold
Omar Arraseef
Rochelle Athan
Kelsey Aude
Jessica Backman
Caleigh Bacon
Jonathan Barber
Kelsie Bard
Drew Barker
Alexis Bartek
Nathan Bass
Matthew Bax
Alex Beasley
Alex Bechtle
Hayden Bell
Sadie Bennie
Morgan Bergen
Casey Berger
Carina Berkowitz
Kerry Blackbum
Preston Block
Trenton Blundell
Ben Boardman
Jalisa Bonilla
Brandon Boosalis
Tate Bornhoft
Ashley Bott
Brittany Botz
Brooke Bowers
Morgan Boyle
Lisa Bradbury
Cary Brand
Kally Brennan
Brianne Brestel
Anne Brewster
Amanda Brown
Bryce Brown
Jordan Brown
Matthew Brown
Shantaye Brown
Trevino Brown
Zach Bryant
Trey ton Buresh
Catherine Burgess
Tobias Bums
Ellen Calkins
Logan Campbell
Mat Campbell
Tierra Campbell
Ashlee Carstens
Katelyn Carstens
Gera Carstenson
Andrew Cecava
Becca Changstrom
Shelby Chopp
Austin Christensen
Although the school is fairly new, Southwest has developed many traditions. Freshmen had their own opinions on which traditions they liked and which should be thrown out. School spirit was what those interviewed noted needed the most change.
"Spirit Week is fun," said freshman Alex Duff. "But we should be rewarded for dressing up that week and also at pep rallies." This opinion was commonly shared throughout the freshman class. Freshmen also had opinions on the academic day.
"We should start later so that we can concentrate better in clas.ses and shorten classes," freshman Jordan Seiko suggested.
However, freshman Miki Freese said, "I like the long classes and I wouldn't want them to be shorter."
Some of the newer traditions freshmen also thought should be subject to change. For example, putting 1Vs in the school last year shortened the school day because announcements that interrupted class time were no longer needed. However, the 1Vs may not be working out so well.
"They should announce more things over the intercom," freshman Didi Kobler said. ''Not everyone has time to look at the 1Vs."
From daily announcements to showing more school spirit, freshmen had plenty of suggestions for changes in mind.
Students chat in the halls, paying little to no attentirn to the 1V monitors. Students were rardyseenr~dingthedailyannounrements in the halls. This was mainly due to time constraints, inccnvenienre, and lack of interest. Photo by Kelsey Eide/Ta1on Story by Kelsey EideNate C hristensen
Shannon Cleal
G reg Cohn
Kelsey Comfort
Morgan Condello
Bianca Conway
Alexa Cook
Kaley Cook
Ry lan Cotton
Cole Cramer
Jon Creglow
MaKenzie Crew
Jeanne Cumbry
Megan Curry
Colby Dahlke
Lora Dakan
Melis s a Dakan
Casey Dallman
Nick Degarmo
Tony Delaney
Vinny Delaney
T.J. Denni s
Austin Dewitt
Max Dilley
Jacob Dittmer
Joshua Doehling
Alma Donlic
Brenda Dougherty
MaKinsey
Douglas-Hill
Samantha Douglass
Devin Douglass-Wiley
Christina Dowd
Erin Dresser
Alex Duff
Je ss e Dunn
Colbi Duren
Arianna Dye
Nathan Eastwood-Hansen
Drew Edmond
Grant Edwards
Ashley Ekeler
Brian Eley
Ca ey Eley
Keaton Eley
Karolyn Elsberry
Samuel El wood
Elliott Engle
Trekuic Engnell
Garrett Esau
Anna Fangmeier
Riley Feiling
Bryce Ficken
Nathaniel Fink-Humes
Maren Finsand
Marshal Fisher
Kyle Flanagin
Hayden Florom
Scott Fraser
Kayla Frazier
Cole Frederick
Miki Freese
Lacey Fulton
Jordan Garratt
Kylie Garrett
Cami Geardino
Lauren Geisert
Taylor Genrich
R achel Gerner
Justin Gessel
Brittany Goodrich
Hayden Gorgen
Maddie Graham
Effie Greene
Collin Grobe
B.J. Gropp
Brandon Guern
Inga Guli yeva
Brandon Guyer
Kody Hamelin
Tyler Hamersma
Hailey Hamilton
Hilary Hamilton
Zedaya Hamilton
Matthew Hammond
Brian Hand
Chris Hansen
Alex Hargrave
Amani Harris
Rebecca Hartz
Chad Hassebrook
Andy Heckman
Kalie Hejl
Julie Hernandez
Vincent Herrell
Marisa Herrington
Karissa Hevelone
Christopher Hibberd
Alexander Hickmon
Katie Higgins
Ryan Hill
Noah Hines
Sarah Hoffman
Shaunte' Hoffman
Amber Hoffmeyer
Laurel Holmquist
Paul Honnens
Haley Hoppes
Dillon Home
Joseph Howerter
Jason Hudgens
Kelsea Hughes
Kate Hunsaker
Becky Hutchins
Ashley Jaber
Justin Jacobson
Tori Jarecke
Kevin Jeffery
Kourtney Jensen
Jacob Jirovec
Macey Johnson
Trent Johnson
Dillon Jones
Justin Jones
Molly Jones
Alex Jurgena
Alli Kafka
Ethan Kattes
Andrew Kelsay
Emily Kerl
Amanda Kessler
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They can't drive, can't stay out past curfew and can't even go to see an "R" rated movie. So what could the freshmen do with their free time? While girls were likely to go to the mall on a weekend, boys mostly said they enjoyed hanging out at their friends' houses.
"My favorite thing to do on the weekend is hang out with friends at SouthPointe," said freshman Paige Traynowicz. She was definitely not the only freshman who thought this way. Freshmen could be seen roaming through the stores almost every weekend, making South.Pointe seem like the perfect place to hang out Stores like Hollister, Abercrombie and Fitch, American Eagle, the movie theatre and numerous eating estabhshments made the mall a big drawing card.
Sometimes though, it was better to stay home.
R rated movies were among the many activities freshmen could not do. In order to for freshmen see R rated movies a parent must be attending with them. Ths discourages most students from seeing such movies.
"I hke hanging out at friends' houses and playing soccer," said freshman Brandon Guyer. "But playing video games is my favorite thing to do on the weekend."
Hanging out with friends on the weekend was a cheap way to have fun. Playing video games, watching movies and eating in were all great perks that come with this. With great friends, movies and malls to hang out at, being a freshman might not have seemed so bad after all. Who needed driving anyway?
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Morgan Mardock
Matthew Marisette
Jami Marker
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Dillon McLain
Lauren Meeske
Trenten Meyer
Danny Middleton
Alissa Miller
Katie Miller
Timothy Miller
Tyler Mills
The crowd sang along as their favorite song filled the room with its !tt)(mnig intensity and raging tempo. With flaming lighters and the glow cell phones around the auditorium, the band played the tunes that all wanted to hear.
Even though the school's bands had not yet made the big time stages, dreamed of one day making it to the top. Ha • g been together since y of 2006, Burnout became a popular freshman band among Southwest ts. With lead singer Harry Nonnan, er J e Jirovic, guitaris mny Delaney and Josh Nitzel on the bass, Bum ut wrote man of neir songs and incorporated a little comedy into eir o s 1 of rock •c. These guys had been close friends for awhile and e day decid start their band because they thought it would be fun.
'The group usually practices about twice a wee ," Delaney said, " d used to practice at my house but now we p ctice at Jake's." Burnout done a few gigs, mostly for school acti •ties, and wanted to o more if the opportunity arose. They ce rmed for a middle ool tlance, then one ~~~·!~.~ fiT their lish class.
While some bands had been around for a while, others were just getting started. One of these newer bands was Lost and Found, made up of lead singer Jake ~inder, guitarists Tyler Mills and Ted Kocher, drummer Nick cer, d Zacl\ Rosson, who attends Scott Middle School. Lost and un h bee t g th r since August of last summer. The group kl-alt musi und l&e Bowling for Soup or Green Day," Linder group had written three songs, all of which are orm some gigs in the future. They cam up d Found one day while just messing around with mbers said Lost, and then they all agreed to add
strum of the guitar and a clap of the drum, the lights and eft the stage. The crowd roared. It had been a hit!
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Marci Mizelle
Shannon Moon
Zachary Morrissey
Abbie Moser
Beau Muehling
Aubrey Mueller
Nicholas Mueting
Spencer Mullins
Rachel Naber
Suhaus Nataraj
Casey Neemann
Ian Neemann
Nina Neisius
Morgan Nelson
Travis Nelson
Kaylie Neuhaus
Jordan Neukirch
Jim Newton
Cindy Nguyen
Paul Nispel
Josh Nitzel
Forrest Noftke
MichaeJ Nordell
Harry Norman
Jordan Nunn
Helen Nurbabayeva
Trever O'Brien
AUison O'Connor
Meghan O'Melia
Sam Olson
Ricky Ortiz-Zavala
Vinny Osburn
Cynthia Ostiguin
Jesse Overton
Emily Owen
Shelby Parks
Jonathan Patience
Brittany Paul
Sarah Pawling
Dylan Payne
Ivor Peci
Kyle Pedersen
Macy Perry
Matthew Petersen
Julia Peterson
Nathan Pettigrew
Dillon Pfingsten
Cody Philipps
Rachel Pieloch
Brandon Piening
Emily Pike
Ryan Plager
Cpenta Porter Loving
Angelique Prewitt
Morgan Price
Joseph Prokasky
Peter Ralston
Elicia Rardon
Madeline Reeves
Katey Rehm
Alicia Reichwaldt
Shelby Remmers
Andrew Rentschler
What is the biggest difference between high school and middle school?
"Sports are more competitive and also more fun. In middle school, we could only play flag football."
--Ryan Plager
"There's a lot more homework and it's easier to get 105t in the school."
--Jonathon Patience
Compiled L-y Kelsey fa 1e
David Revenkov
Ant.p.ony Reyes
Kyla Richardson
Seth Richert
Matthew Richmond
Natalie Riggs
Alec Rinke
Morgan Roark
Matt Robertson
Shelby Rood
Zachary Ross
Natasha Rozmiarek
Taylor Rung
Jameson Rupert
Ebad Sadat
Mandi Schellhorn
Paul Schiefelbein
Landon Schmidt
Kate Schneckloth
Alex Schneider
Benjamin Schneider
Parker Schoen
Melissa Schorr
Elliott Schrage
Kristal Schuster
Mikala Schwery
Shoni Sears
Jordan Seiko
Jeffrey Seybold
Aras Shakir
Matthew Shallenberger
Breanna Shellhart
Benjamin Shield
Seth Shreve
Aaron-Dakotah Sicking
Austin Siedel
Katie Sieps
Joslyn Soucie
Matthew Speckmann
Ethan Spence
Jamie Speth
Devon Stanczyk
Connor Stange
Kaitlyn Steinacher
Alex Steinmeyer
Whitney Stems
Krys Stevens
Taylor Stimbert
Christopher Stone
Jordy Strudl
Haley Summers
Rebecca Swenseth
Taylor Taege
Taylor Teska
Aubrey Thompson
Kyle Tietz
Senad Topalovic
Holly Torell
Kramer Traynowicz
Paige Traynowicz
Juee Trivedi
Jordan Trube
Rebekah Turner
Katlyn Tyler
Jesus Valladares Morales
Brady Vance
Alicia Villagomez-Watson
Over the course of freshmen year some students -
"I love singing all types of music, except for I I tried to fit in while others made an effort to stand out. country," Harris said. "Singing has been in my family I One might say that this was a hard task to achieve, but - for a long time and it has always come naturally to I in reality it was just as simple as showing off a hidden me." I talent.
Then, there is freshman Rachel Gerner. Gerner
Hidden talents showed the uniqueness in people. has been drawing comics every day for the last five I They were all around us and came in many different years. I forms. Take freshman Drew Barker, for instance. For •
"I draw Japanese style cartoons," Gerner said. I I the past five years, Barker has been spending his free "Drawing helps me express my feelings. When I'm sad time doing BMX racing. Starting when he was 8 years I draw sad characters and when I'm happy I draw happy I I old, Barker learned the fun of racing through his characters." I friends. Gerner explained that she learned her technique
Another example would be freshman Amani _ __._____ .............i while watching cartoons as a child. I Harris. When Harris was only 3 years old, she ew Barker spins his bike handlebar With skills ranging from BMX racing to artistic I developed a stuttering problem. With hopes of reducing around while pcrforming a BMX stunt. abilities such as drawing and singing, others' talents still I her speech defects her mother would make her sing e exhibits safety by wearing a helmet remain hidden. I everyday. Eventually her stuttering suhsided and to this c. ce BMXhcan be a dangerous sport.
• ourtesy p oto. day Harris continues to sing each and every day.
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Connor Villanueva
Lauren Wachter
Ashley Walker
Jeffrey Walker
Wyki Walstrom
Breanna W amer
Kiefer Watson
Chris Way
Christopher Webb
Meredith Weber
Randy Weedman
Marianne Wegulo
Joshua Weils
Campbell Wentz
Kaitlin Weskamp
Megan Wharton
Taylor Whelan
Michaela Whitesell
Wyn Wiley
Kris Williamson
David Wilmarth
Davin Wilson
Kristina Wilson
Teylor Wolfe
Kayla Wright
Danny Yang
Dillon Yawn
Nyawargar Yiel
Katie Yokel
Emily Young
Kendra Zabka
Tyler Zachek
Alec Zeilinger
Scott Zeilinger
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Nintey minutes .four blocks .. .six hours and 48 minutes. The school day was measured in many ways; students used whatever way
Though some students didn't want to admit it, academic li
New classes caught students' Rights Movement taught by Jalain The class still required seniors to ge
A new requirement for the moving on to take Biology. This new requ in scie ce before going right into Biology.
class was History of the Civil Government and Politics. hysical Science before dents were more experienced
Other changes came in staffing. Fi e new counselors, two new associate principal and a new media ialist were among the ch311ges. Principal Jerry Wilks ann'-J\AL•,----~ in ,._, __"_r...._•.""".,',...--"-',,..r that he would be retiring at the end of the 2006--2007 sc ool year.
One hundred seventy--nine school days in a school year about 1,160 hours spent at school. one school year full of academics.
We're on Honor Roll. Juniors wait as the seniors receive their academic awards Oct 18. Spread By Rache I Yank 'This Honors Cmvocation was to honor the students with academic achievements from terms 3 and 4 of 2006. Photo by Rachel Yankffalon
"The administration and staff are really cool because they will stay late and help me with anything."
"Shhhhhh!l You are in the Media Center and people are trying to finish homework and they are trying to read their books. So be quiet." New media specialist Laurie Logsdon admitted that those words had to be said everyday and that it "gets annoying after awhile."
According to media technician Lori Mescher, about 100 students sign in each day. In other words the names usually fill up about three pages.
The Media Center was just one area where students could find extra help.
While the students can be new to the school, there were staff members who were also new including five new counselors.
"This year, for me, the staff and everyone in the student bcx:ly has been really nice to me," said new counselor Kelley Winter. "Also this year went by really fast!"
The counselors deal with a lot of things that go on during school and things that hap, pen outside of school.
"I really like having my counselor, Noelle Baker, because she is always there to help me with my college applications," junior Jeri Kohn said.
For new campus supervisor Tami Lang also said she plans to go back to school to become a counselor.
"I want to be in the high school atmosphere because I have been around students in high school for three and a half years. If I can, I would like to be here at Southwest," she said. Lang was the school's police resource at Southwest before returning to head up security.
Cleaning the school and setting up for events was the custodian's job.
"I really do like working here, and even though it is a pain to clean up after everyone here at Southwest, all of the students are very nice," Robin Phares said.
Around 11 :30 and one could smell the aroma corning from the snack shop and the cafeteria. A favorite smell was the turkey dinner.
"We usually sell about 600 to 800 lunches on the days that we have the turkey din, ners ," said Michelle Haakenson. Haakenson has been working here at Southwest since the school has opened. Counselor help. Junior Jeri Kohn meets with her counselor Noelle Baker aoout looking for colleges. "I went on a mis.5ion trip to Israel and want to go back there for college in a few years," Kohn said. Phor.o by Travis Cunningham{[alon
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A sad tale... Senior Natalie Kdlough listera to a speaker in her Holocaust Ut a~. The speaker,.who was a Holocaust survivor, spoke about his eluding the Nazi army and concenttatim camps-. Photo by Amber Tt'lbnmell/Talon Trevin NelsenMrs. Helmes! It was ao tun I deeided to Join the deba e team!,,
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be, or not to be." Hamlet's age old question was still a topic ci discus.5ion in the of today. Shakespeare i considered to be one of the mo;t famous Fngli h He cootributed many concept to the Fnglish language, including roughly 400 can also be thanked for the many long hours students spent reading and trying to bis writing style.
more I.aura Franz knew first hand. ''At first it w-as really difficult, but as you read it became easier," Franz said.
y F.nglish classes studied his works. Freshmen dallied in romance with Romeo and enice, sophomores watched the effects of betrayal with Julius G¾esar in Rome, and 'ed to llllderstand death witn Hamlet in Denmark. Shakespeare was a must in several clas.5eS.
er way students were able to appreciate and learn about English was through dents saw the path of life with Robert Fra;t, reality with Maya Angelou, and the with Edgar Allen Poe.
er Marla Payant liked ar Allen Poe "because he's scary and creepy.'' ts were then able, or forced in some case,, to write their own poetry. Some poems tic and other were silly. Many were questioning, but all were meanh-,gf ui. the students who were talented with their writing were selected by their classmates re in a poetry slam, an vent where tudents were able to read their poeµy to their ed by the media center, priz were awarded the poe who had the most popular ust literature focused on contemporary social is.5ues of intolerance. lbrough Literature, both fiction and non-fiction. Students were able to see the world a new
ve me a different out look on life," senior Audrey Johns said. stUdents were taught more than just how to read a play, or construct a haiku in They were taught aoout humanity. Court is now in session... Juniors Rico Oli~ and Paul Belz help each <Xher out in Terry Ab:ahams' American Literature while reading School and Office Many students helpai each other with ~ts all term loog. Photo h, Amber Tmmmellffalon
Mindy Wright's British Literature clas.5 partakes in a tea party to get in the Victorian age groove.
Top: Senior Joseph Morrison pours himself more tea as senior Travis Loveless await.s his tum.
Middle: Seniors Jessica Svoloda, Whitney Petersen, and Hannah Herman wait to enjoy their Boston creme pie.
Bottom: A group of students share their time capsule to the clas.5.
Hmm Sophomore Alys.sa Hudkins laughs as sophomore Jayk Wilson ponders if the l-eaker is the correct shade of green. "It was a pretty gnarly experiment," Wilson stated. Photo by Marina Bradaricf[alon
Huh? Junior Meredith Kenyon points to her paper. Kenyon exclaims how they had to do many calculations for Cbemistry. Photo by Marina Bradaric/Talon
Baby Beluga, Baby Beluga ...Tim Golden and his Marine Biology class go inside a life-size replica of an adolescent Blue Whale. The whale was 75 feet long, 12 feet high and 37 feet around. Photo by Marina Bradaricf[alon
Teacher Dan Carpenter returned from Washington, D.C., where he worked as an advisor to the National Science Foundation, a funding extension of the US CDngress. CDnsidered an expert in assessment systems because of his role in Washington as well as his PhD work at UNL, Orrpenter holds the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship award he received last year. (})ming back, he brought his experience into his future lessons. He also left students feeling the Christmas spirit.
"Just before the holiday break, I let the students make holiday fudge and we discussed the chemistry of it, including concepts central to limiting reagents and percent yield," Carpenter said. "Although I think the students enjoyed the food part of it more than the chemistry and light mathematical nature."
Charles Bittle decided to convey real science by taking his Biology class out into nature. They explored the deep jungle, also known as the Outdoor Classroom. Scoping out unique finds, the students collected leaves, figs, grass, flowers and whatever else caught their eye to create their own works of art.
"Nobody else I know of has done this before and I think it's a great opportunity to use the Outdoor Classroom," Bittle said. "If we've got the outside to use, we might as well use it." Bittle has also continued a scrapbook for Biology with recordings from students on animals and insects that they come across. He plans to start one for futany next year.
During Michael Geist's Chemistry lab, students were asked to neutralize acids with bases to create an emerald green concoction. "Mr. Geist can be a difficult teacher but he helps you learn. We took a ton of notes but it pays off because it helps you understand it all," junior Meredith Kenyon said.
"Chemistry is a lot easier and a lot more fun than Biology because the experiments are fantastic," sophomore Jayk Wilson said.
Among the 15 teachers in the science department, Eugene Kirianov said how "pleasant [it was] to interact with the intelligent students" he encountered in Chemistry and Physics, making it his "best year" of teaching.
"Honestly, the more I teach, the more fun it becomes," Kirianov said.
and sophomore Justin Ellison enjoyed making a bird outside in the sunshine during Bittle's Biology class. "Mr. Bittle is the best teacher I've had," Fink,Humes said. Photos by Brittany Vontz/Talon
"I try to make things fun . and prepare students to learn real science by doing real science."
-Dan Carpenter, teacherOutdoor experiments. Thanks to a grant from the Natural Resources and Omservation Service for Wetlands Restorations and hard work provided by Sampson Construction, the school received a pond in the outdoor classroom. Sophomores Rudy Fiedler, Alex Calidonna and Matt Bindel dig through the pond in order to create their nature art. Photo by Brittany Vont'l/ Talon
Stewns• cJms. Thecias., was revi~ ftt their final by taking notes. fflOtO by .8nianlla VmkdT-.
Show the work- }tmior Mede Deters hows h€r wcxk 1,,. &living an advanced algebra problem during David Hartman• Advanced Algdxa class. The cbis was prep smge for more advanced math c Photo bJ Breanna Vmace/Talon
Paying Attention... Senior Betsy
Philippi listens attmti.vely during her AP Stats class with Cullen Stevens. Many math classes spent time reviewing over homewcxk and answering questions. F'1oto l,,y Breanna V ancefl'alon
Flying high... Senior Stephanie lh-gia and sophomore Alex Threats laugh as they fly pa.per airplanes in Angela &tes' geornetty class. The class made paper air, planes to demoostrate the trial and error process. ffioto l,,y Rachel Yank(falon
Staying awake.! Sq, re Ryan Brundege relax dbring Kyle Schumann's secmd block algelra class. students took advantage of~ time to learn as mu they could. Jll()tO by Breanna Vancdralon •
• many clas.5eS required term papers) es.says and oral re{X)rts, math classes were th activity. With 17 clas.5eS offered in the area, students had a wide range of op to explore the world of math. From algebra to calculus, students had a chance to • knowledge and learn in many different ways.
Mrs. Bates as a teacher and the way she teaches because it's a one on one learning t," senior Spencer Stark said. ough only 20 hour were needed to fulfill the graduation requirement, Jll05t stu'ded to continue on with math. For ome, the reason was college. For others it was iheir own benefit.
continued math clas.5es because I want to be an architect and I need more math college." senior Sarah Essay said. classes helped prepare students for life in an increasing techn logical society.
!January, the AP Stats class made T- hirts as a fun way to compete with the Calculus ~s was the first year AP Stats was offered. Calculus T-shirts were also made to th creatively.
ught the Stats shirts were a goo:l idea h.."Cause I liked feeling like I was part of a • r Tunothy Dugan said.
March, the math department recognized March 14 as Pi Day. In April the math t noted Math week Md ;ational Math Awarenes.5 week. The department planned classes to go to Worlds of Fun in May as a way to connect math to the real department chair Tom Ahlschwede said, "While some students see math as a also a neces.5ity and preparation for lxx:orning more successful in the future.'' humor, Ahlschwede advised students to, "Get smartet. lt doubles your chances from college."
Solving the prob, lem. Senior Kristen Dinneen, Junior Timothy Dugan, and senior Alys.sa Wesemann take a look at 500:¥! statistic problems. They also displayed their new AP ts hirts.Pltotol,,y 8"anna Vancdfalon
Math cla&5eS weren't just for learning, they were al:xmt preparing for the future.
Top: Teachers from various cla&5eS toilet papered the inside of Shayla Bushhousen's room for her birthday.
Middle: Senior Brandon Mills works hard during • fourth block Advanced Algebra with Shayla Bushhousen, even though it was her birthday.
Bottom: This was one of the many signs pa;ted in the math hallways to celebrate Bushhousen's birthday.
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While students were out making history, they also spent a great deal of time in the clas.sroom learning alxmt history. This year there were many new classes to choose from.
Jalaina Handa taught History of the Civil Rights Movement. The class took an in-depth look at the struggle for equal rights of not only African~Americans, but Native Americans and Latinos as well.
''You learn everything on a more personal level. It's not like other history classes where you feel like it doesn't affect you. Everything gets related to something present," said junior Beth Bambery.
A fairly new class, with only one year of existence, was U.S. Military History taught by Russ Raatz Students learned aoout the success or failure of strategies in World War One and Two, and the Korean and Vietnam wars.
"The class helps students to learn about wars of the past and how they shaped the world today," Raatz said. They also analyzed national and global policies, political and economic contexts and general tactics. Students also played military inspired games like Battleship and Axis and Allies to build up strategies of their own.
Although there were additions to the curriculum, there were many classes that were renamed or replaced. Citizenship Issues, a senior required class also known as CI, was renamed Government and Politics. The course covered ideas drawn from government and political science, and also current events. AP Human Geography was another class added for students to select. At the end of this course students were given the choice to take a test to determine college credit. The course introduced students to the study of patterns and processes that shaped human understanding, use and changes of the Earth's surface. Students examined human social organization and how the environment was being affected.
Sociology and Pyschology also fell under the social studies category. Pyschology looked individually into the human mind while Sociology looked into how people related to one another in the world today.
Overall, Southwest offered a wide variety of classes in this department with new ideas and ways to learn.
The Call of Duty .. Seniors Richard Luzum, Sam Siegel, Michael Norris and Nolan Miska present a project on the 25th Amendment. 1bis says that if the president should be taken out of office, the vice-president shall become president.
"Student get a better understanding of how we relate to one another, and why the world is the way it is."
-Ted Larson, Social Studies ChairPhoto by Amber TrammeU{I'alon
Fiesta anyone? ~e Kyle Stein,acher, F.ric Hyde and Joe Delaney eat na.ditiooal Spanish food in Marilvne Spanish 1 It was net uncotnmm to have fooo days in language classes. Photo b:, Brittany V onieff;
Signiflcanc:e in symbols...Japanese student Michael Schutz writes in oo the white ooard while playing a game. Ja-any Smith was the loog term sub for Tammy Cunningham who was on mater, nity leave. Smith has a degree in Japanese. lfur.o l,y Amber Tmmmell{falon
work.- Junior Brittany Wagner colors pictures in French 3. Students often used their as a reference and dictionary in language clasres. lfur.o by Brittany V ont.tlTalon
Vocabularv visuals ..5enior Cassidy Spence sits oo the floor to draw pictures representing the vocabulary words for the week. Spfuce was in Matt Hill's first year ~anish class. llwto by~ Vont,t/Talon
, foreigo languages were not liard . Just g • into pcq,le from different couhttieS • ectil
e was not required for gradua do the same language for enrollment. New departinmt chair Aaroo. y reasons to enroll in language classes. help students learn F.nglisli by broadehing their vocabulaty ," ps in test taking with questioning~ and offers the opportunity for er countries~" Rnley taught German. were five different language classes offered at Southwest, Spanish was e to study. able to travd o Spain, and become a 1:ilingual doctor;' saidjtnuor
cho;e to use the school's language classes to get a head start for life whether that be for a job or to eam school requirements. M~ two vean ci the same language but some took even more.
a wide ranged language opportunities, Southwest offered ~h, German, -and even Latin. Having 11 teachers in the departm.ent, around 20 were ttfeml to students.
ritiog in the kbook- Juniors Vuu,Matt .Ryan Town, ili,a~use~ <i>tfl~vity mt~
Although they may have learned different languages in their clas.5rooms, each clas.5 was required to do projects that related to the culture of their country.
Top: Senior Amanda Rocke and juniors Mollie Ayers and Lauren Hiller make gingerbread houses in Aaron Finley's German 3 clas.5.
Middle: Juniors JD Royer and Erin Eisbach
• make crafts in Angela Knop's French 3 clas.5.
Bottom: Seniors Grant Stepanek and Tiffani Thomason write notes for their presentation in Lori Hemmett's Spanish class.
Fun and games ••. Sophomore Jake Marvin shoots the ball over his head on a free day. Free days were a weight training favorite because students are free to exercise how they choose. Photo by Jami Finnell(falon
Pumpin' iorn. Junior Josh Hohensee lifts free weights to strengthen his anns. Free weights are used by all of the weight training classes throughout the day. Photo by Jami Finnell/falon
Kickin' it Sophomore CJ. Yank kicks the ball while playing hand ball in Lis Brenden's team sports class. Students in team sports played all sorts of games from everyday sports like football, soccer, and basketball to games like speed-a-way, fat bat, and pickle ball during the year. Photo by Jami Finnell/falon
Patience is a virtue. Junior Bryce Dickey holds the ball while waiting for a teammate to get open. Korf ball was only played for four days unlike other games that were played for two weeks in team sports. Photo by Jami Finnellffalon 17 Acaciet-t, ic Life
Workin' on the pack Junior Te Marques Brown : sit ups in his advanced weight training class. Sit ups \ ere a part of the weight training workout. Photo by Jami Fi, l/ Talon
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"I take weight training toget bigger,
With nine teachers in physical education and five teaching health, the department managed t o teach students not only how to exercise but also how to follow healthy ways for their lxxli es to adapt to these types of exercises, like lifting weights.
In h ealth the three main topics taught were about nutrition, drugs and sex. There are a lot of different views about health from a student's perspective. Senior Steven Garcia said he had a lot offun in the class because he could be open and funny, which he said were two of his best qualities. One of his favorite activities in the class was role playing.
While physical education was among athletes' favorite class, the class was not only for athletes Weight training classes were offered every period of every day. Students took this class seriously, especially when doing max outs, because they could take pride in their names being on the record board for being strongest at one of four lifts (incline, cleans, l:mch and squats).
Lifeguard Training was a class that could be of use outside of school. By passing this class, the R ed Cross rewarded a certified license to be a lifeguard. Even with the certifica~ tion fee of $40, students still liked to take this class for the experience and because it also opened u p job opportunities.
Fitness for Life combined classroom work with physical activity and put emphasis on developing a personal fitness program. This class was not a required class but was highly recommended during the ninth or tenth grade year.
All of t he teachers agreed that these types of classes were great to take, not only to stay in shape and stay fit, but also to build character and self esteem.
Heal t h classes rarely had speakers but when they did it was a speaker who informed and entertained. Doug Kaltenberger had two former Southwest alumni from Hastings (})llege speak about an or ganization called C. A. R. E. which stands for Campus Acquaintance Rape Education. They demonstrated different ways to avoid and deal with certain unpleasant situations. They spoke in other health classes as well.
Whe ther or not students were working in a class room or working out in the weight room they fo und ways to make it informative and entertaining.
Maxin' out Senior Bryce Petersen maxes out in Scott Vampola's class. Students in this class said that Vampola made the class intense when lifting.
stronger and faster. "
-Garrett Sund, juniorPhoto by Jami Finnellf[alon
Go 1fri-,b Gd..~ in lhe Pep&ndP(l'fa:m the Slvc,r Rght &xlg at a msketball game. The bmd dten helixrl to r,aise spidts at the YalSity games with their fm and enth~ tunes. 1'loto by Under!Hmul Talk
To be or not to be..Jxc Hamchs gives freshmen Inga Guliyeva and Radtel Gerner advice en their duet acting sane. Hamchs is the ooly te-acher who teaches acting classes at S:>uthwest. Photo by KelseJEide/Talon
Playing away junior AI~ Troester sight reads a piece for cmcert: l:md. Troester had~ in oond and marching band since her freshman year. fflOto by
One Vision...Varsity show choir, Resonance, rehearses during their third bloclc class. Show char directa: ja:}athan Dyrland often said, "Practice does not make perfect, perfecr practice makes perfect."
Amber Trammell/Talon Photo by Keite, &le/Talonperfonning arts ~ing of the school, commonly referred to as "E,wing," included e.stra, choir and also theatre. Out of the five teachers in the music wing, Lori was the department chair. Classes in E,wing counted towards the five fine arts credit to graduate. A new cl available that helped students fulfill their technology ts was Music Technology. Other mu...ic classes available were band, jazz band, choir, show choir, orchestra and instrumental arts. is a great place to improve musicianship, make friends, be involved in school orm high quality music," said tacy Marshall, music teacher.
ry students were in both band and choir, but ome went beyond. Junior John Cala, band, jazz band, choir and al o how choir. was just in band at first, but then they askeJ me to join jazz band, so I did and then me to join show choir, so I did £,wing 1s my Hfe," Calahan s •d. orrning arts classes were unique in that mo t of them required work beyond the Band and choral s dents were required to attend performances and occasional outside of school. For some gn. up , uch a Prep Jazz Band and Oncert &ind, • rehearsals were mandatory, l it thi :va n t required of all groups. Students choir had to put in an exceptional amount of, ork. Resonance, the varsity show dance rehearsals during the summer and often had after ~chool practices. Theatre ed outside the realm of the ch<d Jay. In Bob Henrichs' tech theatre class, helped to build the set ft r extracurricular tl ..eatre productions.
• Sarah Arten said, "Tech theatre i gcxxl for learn.ii g the backstage life." classe; taught by Henrichs ere Theatre, Advanced Theatre, Theatre Proouctioos Theatre Productions a well ( Oral Communications. In theatre students logues, stage combat, and al o di<l a duet acting scene. Students also were les of theatre through videos and reading •cript •. ts showed talent and skill every da , , but fe • shrn 'l-<l as much dedication to did as those tudents in E,wing. Tough practices anJ out of school rehearsals been str~ul at the time, but the standing ovations at concerts made it worth it onning arts tudents.
Practice makes perfect Varsity Jazz &nd memrers rune up to practice for their winter <Xt1Cert. Students in Jazz &nd had to play through tough smgs like "Tuxedo Junctim" multiple times ~fore a perfoonance. ffioto l1J Kelsey F.:ideffalon
performances, you become friends with eveeyone in E-wing"-CaHn Large, senior
Every year students in theatre, choir, band and orchestra come together to work on the school musical. They also share the auditorium.
Top: Wind Ensemble perfomis at the winter instrumental concert.
Middle: Chas Voigt, John Calahan, Ali Mahle and (})hagen Wilkinson, the A Ca-fellas sing a cappella as part of the winter choral concert.
Bottom: Freshmen Rochelle Athan and Hillary Kuhns read through their duet acting scene in their theatre class.
From sewing and stuffing, to painting and drawing and even developing film, fine art and photography classes kept students busy thinking outside the oox. Students looking to take classes in this area had 4 3 classes to choose from ranging from creative clothing design to beginning pottery or beginning jewelry to cultural focx:ls.
Students were required to have at least five credits infine arts and at least five cred, its in applied arts, like family and consumer science classes. Many of these classes offered hands on experience. They also gave students the opportunity to show off their creative abilities. The art department of only four teachers offered 28 classes. The department also had four shows displaying student's artwork at a local b-ank throughout the year including the traditional senior show held in April. Some students even decided to enter their artwork in national competitions.
Art classes also brought in many speakers from prestigious colleges such as the Chicago School of Art and the Cdorado Art Institute. Art department chair Mark Reeder said, "These classes make for a well rounded person." Many students also took art classes to gain experience for possible careers in their future.
Junior Justin Stonacek said he took an art class "to get fine art credits and to learn more aoout art."
FCS classes taught students life skills and gave them experience for many careers. Students in these classes took field trips visiting places like, Wilderness Ridge, banks, car dealerships, furniture stores and design shops. With only four teachers the FCS department offered 15 classes. Although some students took an FCS class to fulfill graduation require, ments. Some students like senior Dani Miller took a class for fun.
"O)oking class prepares people for life after high school and it's an awesome experi, ence," Miller said.
FCS teacher Mary Haertel said that students should take FCS classes because, "they help students succeed in all areas of their life and endeavours that students' choose."
Whether it was to escape those stressful core classes or to just be allowed to express themselves, art and FCS classes were popular among students. Tirrough sewing or sculpting, or cooking and drawing students had no problem showing off their creativity.
Knitting Away. Freshman Rebekah T umer knits a scarf during her Creative Oothing and Design clas.5. In this clas.5 stu~ dents used computer~ ized sewing machines as well as other tools to create accessories and clothing that were all their own. Photo b-y Amber Trammell{[alon
"Art classes allow you to tap into your creativity''
nxlay' world, people advance to become more technology savvy. Many c~ dents to fulfill these needs, including the area of industrial teclmology and took industrial technology classes because ''it's a change of pace," chair Jeff Jochum said. Seven classes were offered in this area, along with •cally related olubi. east Community (})ilege speakers spoke to students aoout the world of technology and students also took field trips to Computer Aided Drafting sites.
classes were not all aoout creating pieces of work. Many memories were also intheproees.5.
r Zach Francis said his best memory of Manufacturing and W lding was when, went into Jon Anania's shoe and the cotton caught on fire, but he wasn't hurt." classes also emerged as a :(X)pular class to take. Many students began to take in cl~ that helped students deal with money and other aspects of business.
r Jennifer Bohlen agreed after taking the World of sophomore year. to learn different ways to invest and spend your money," she said.
• year Owmel 8 Eyewitness News put out a challenge to students to design a cell ercial. The Sports Marketing class presented their projects to the ooard of All three groups' designs were accepted, and students filmed all of them.
t:Daimit!llt chair Marge Kneifl said, "These classes teach skills you'll need through your life. Mo;t people go into a business of some sort, so you might as well get ti.on in high school." And many students proved to be interested with many of reing full.
neither of these types of classes were required to graduate, they taught life added to technology, or the applied arts credit. But whether it was making a p.illding a house, creating a report or designing a web site, these das.5es were the future.
Questions? Teacher
Marge Kneifl helps seniors Martin Etand and Elijah Aden with a ~tin Internet Mul~ tinma. Many &tlldents took c~ to be able to get ready to go out into th~ working world. HJOCO by Rachd Yanltlfalon
fulo work paid off in these classes. Many activities were self-oriented and depended on personal choices.
Top: Seniors Krista Kansier and Marci Ihrig, learn the basics in Internet Multimedia.
Middle: Senior Aaron Murphy works on a piece of furniture during Furniture C.Onstruc~ ti.on and Design.
Bottom: Freshman Scott Zeilinger works on the micro type program in computer applica~ ti.ans.
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Strategic cards. Senior Spencer Wolfe teaches the Strategy Gaming club members a new card game, as senior Chad Oltman watches. Strategy Gaming played games from Halo to Wizard cards. Photo by Rachel Yank/Talon oviding a few laughs. Junior aylor Jones gets into the character of evil sister during his speech perforance. Jones was one of the speech d debate members who displayed his ents during the optional assembliesw hat days besides weekends, late days, of course. Students members w many signed up for with their friends.
This year the sign up for clubs having it in to the office by a specifie was still a deadline, the new sign up ptt{X'~.l;Jr.e·~
New clubs al f und a ay t Dance club. This club had such a high sign
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5 minutes to attend a club a piece of paper and the website. While there one was Ballroom and Folk plit up with seniors and juniors one club day and sophomores and freshmen the next.
Other clubs with a large numbers were Japanese and Card Clu . Card Club has al ays attracted larger nu~rs because it allows students to get together with friends an pl ar am f choice.
Not all clubs met on club day. Clubs like NHS and Spanish club met outside of school, and required more time commitment than some students were willing to give.
S pr ead by Rachel Yank Holiday learning. Freshmen Key Club members Kaitlin Weskarnp and Tonya Maksimenko work with kids at Key Club's Holiday Hawks. At Holiday Hawks Key Club members taught kids about different holidays and they made arts and crafts. Photo by Katie Hottovy/Hawk Talka ch and everyday people make an effor t to make a difference in the world. But oftentimes t eens feel their input in certain issues is not taken into account or taken seriously. They sometimes feel there is little they can do to change things they dislike or even help with projects they would like to see get done .
Student Council (StuCo) and National Honor Society (NHS) had a direct effect on what happens to students at school.
In order to become a part of StuCo , students had to apply with an essay, an interview, and lastly, be selected in the student vote. Once selected the members came together to better the school according to the interests of the students. They were open to any ideas from students and provided their own hot pink locker for input.
"I joined Stueb to help improve the school and make more opportunities for students to get involved in within the school," said junior Kierst Finsand. Finsand said planning prom was her favorite activity of the year.
Stueb hosted many school events including the food and toy drives within second block classes during second term. They held the sweat dance, winter formal and prom for the school, along with Flight Night, the Powderpuff Football game and recycling pledge week.
Ethan Schulenberg, Tracy Sieck, Peter Sitzmann, Cale Stolle, Megan tuart , Brett Sundberg, Tyler Troxel, Oaire Velander, Dani Virts, Erinn Wakeman, Alyssa Wesemann, Heath White, Abby Wilson, Spencer Wolfe, Rachel Yank and Keerthi Yerra. Sponsor : Ann Swinton.
They also helped with school pep rallies, the making o "Nes t " t,shirts and h alf tim e shows at varsity basketball gam
There was an application process to become a member NHS too. Thete were only two times when students had th chance to apply, eith er in the spring of their junior year o r in fall of their senior year. Each applicant had to follow the fo pillars of scholarship, character, leadership and service, buts this did not ensure acceptance. An essay was required along i a letter of recommendation.
NHS members started their volunteering projects by raii money for various organizations both in and out of the Unit States On the night before Christmas they helped ring bells the Salvation Army They also did a dollars for Darfur proj and worked for Invisible Children in Africa. In addition, the collected box tops for education for Clinton Elementary Sch which was one of the poorer schools in the district, accordin~ senior Tiffany Foryki.
"My favorite project was raising money for the Malone Center and helping increase the capital by helping people par Husker football games," said senior Ken Bevers.
They were in charge of the bake sales at music concerts throughout the year and set up Super Sweet Senior Night.
NHS : Devon Allen, (Co-President) Sarah Arkehiuer, (Treasurer) Kendall ~vers, Ben &eselager, Tay- lor Boney, Stacie Branting, Joshua Brown, Leah Brown, Kelsey Bryant, Courmey G-lamws, James Cottrell, Nicholas Dalke, Jessica Danson, Kristen Dinneen, Kelsey Eide, Sarah Essay, Sarah Fischbein, (Secre- tary) Tiffany Forycki, Christina Fraser, David Freese, Whimey Fuller, Laura Green, Austin Griffith, Abby Heiser, Alex Hogan, Hannah Herman, Kristin Houchin, Rachel Janssen, Dustin Johnson, Anne Jonas, Bryan Kelley, Natalie Kellough, Carole Kerrey, Ben LaGrange, Ashleigh Lang, Stephanie Lee, Katie Lester, Zachary Lovell, Courmey Luhich, (Vice-President) Shelby Luke, (Service Coordinator) Zach Mapes, Laura Marti, Elyse Marvin, Jonathan Mattson, Kari Meyer, Amber Miller, (Service Coordinator) Jordan Muller, Mikhaela Mullins, (Co-President) Mai Nguyen, Matt Niazi, Daniel Owen, Bryce Petersen, Emily Pflug, Jon Pike, Nick Powers, Keenan Price, Sucharitha Rajendran, Matthew Ros.son, Kaylea Sasek, Katherine Schueths,
Student Council: Front Row: (Vice President) Jessica Danson, (Secretary) Mai Nguyen, Katit Hottovy, Stephanie Pelan, Jani Martinez, Kaitlin Westcamp and (President) Zach Mapes. Mid< Row: Elly Jurgensen, Dalton Barnard, Alyssa Mescher, Kierst Finsand, Nate Jones, Megan Stu a Kelsey Arends and Kaitlyn Steinacher. Back Row: Kelcy Workman, Kristen Dinneen , Vince F James Cottrell, Kaitlyn Waller , Austin Griffith, Sammy Hansen and Aleem Malik. Not Picture Folsom, Ouis Gice, (Treasurer) Ali Malik, Garrett Mardock, Aubrey Mueller and Cohagen Wi Sponsors : Alyssa Watson and Shelby Shannahan.
Meals on w heels ! Junior Steph Pelan, Vince Rynn and Elly Jurgensen tote food from classrooms at the end of the food drive. All of the food that was collected went to the Lincoln Food Pantry. Pho to by Katie Hottovy/Hawk Talk
Inductiontime !SeniorZach Mapes speaks at the NHS induction Nov 8. Twenty-five new students were selected for a total of 76 members. Photo by Travis Cunningha
Selling Snacks! Juniors
Elly Jurgensen, ate Jones, . Kelcy Workman and Kelsey Arends work in the snack shop during the varsity coys basketball game against Kearney. Jurgensen was elected next year's President at the ebraska State Student O:;uncil Convention. Photo by Paige Brolhorst/Talon
Donating Dinner! Senior StuCo President Zach Mapes, juniors Elly Jurgensen, Kelsey Workman, Ali Malik and Garrett Mardock collect and count items from the food drive. Lori Hemmett 's Spanish class won the drive with over 500 items. As a prize the class won a pizza party and Hemmert received a free half day off school. Photo by Katie Hottovy/Hawk Talk
Making a match ! StuCo members sell matchmaker papers in the concession stand after school. Each matchmaker result was sold for $2. Photo by Max Olson/Hawk Talk
everal clubs did community service activities, learned leadership skills and attended conferences.
The clubs mainly met during club days, but days had to be arranged outside of the scheduled meeting times.
DECA focused on business activities, developing leadership skills and marketing . They also helped promote fund raisers and were involved with community service projects, including the Friendship Home.
•DECA also went to Minnesota for the Central Regional Leadership O)nference and a fall leadership conference. If students were in a marketing class sometime during the year they could compete. If anyone placed top three at state, they'd be invited to go to nationals.
Junior Karma Livingston, vice,president, said the best part of DECA was "doing good things for others, becoming more responsible and having fun at the same time."
FBLA also focused on the ideas of business and careers, just in a different fashion. They did activities for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the March of Dimes.
Mary Schropfer, co,sponsor, said a goal was to go to the State Leadership O)nference (SLC) in March. "It's a very dressed up event. Everyone gets really into it and all the activities." There
were over 50 events to choose from for competition.
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Qunior VicePresident) Karma Llving ton, Tyler Loos, Jenna Lothrop, Alec Lowrey, Briana Lueckenhoff, Qunior Vice-President) Alex Martin, Kiersten Mavis, Adam Mayhew, Emily Mazur-Mickells, Alyssa McBride, Megan McCollister, Shay lene Michaels, (Co-Vice President) Jenni Miller, Amrer Mickle, Tyler Nannen, Nina Neisius, Aaron Norman, Benjamin Norton, Kara Olson, Meli= Ostiguin, Anastasia Oulianova, Keith Ozanne, Brandie Peters, Whimey Petersen, Jon Pike, Courmey Powers, Portia Reams, Alexandra Riggs, Dillon Schellhorn, Anna Schmidt, Samuel Schmidt, Amrer Schueth, Jeffrey Seyoold, Ben Shallenrerger, Matt Shallenrerger, Kaitlin Shanahan, Kristin Shields, Katie Sieps, 01ase Small, Brittany Spence, Robby Stauffer, Alex Steinmeyer, Megan Stuart, Dillon Svec, Alexandra Thomas, 01aris Thomas, Amrer Trammell, Mallory Voge, Breanna Warner, Randy Weedman, Mike Wehling, Julia Wehrli, Alyssa Wesemann, Jenna Wiese, Jessica Wright and Paige Zoz. Sponsor: Tony Kobza.
FCCLA promoted careers and family relationships in America. They w~nt to St. Louis for the national cluster meetir Nov. 17, 19. The state meeting was in Lincoln, and districts wen in Waverly. They also planned a bake sale for the spring musica . Melissa West, vice,president, said her favorite part of the club was "going to the clusters. They're so much fun. I was a complete dork, and made everyone laugh."
Math Oub was an academic club filled with a lot of promising mathematicians who joined it.
There were 30 people involved with this club on a regular basis. The club was sponsored by Dr. Bill Rogge and the student president was Carole Kerrey
The main ideas of the club were to promote interest in math, to provide competitions for students and to create a soci c: venue for club members interested in math.
Math Club focused on sponsoring many types of math competitions both in and out of school. They also had many social events with other schools, such as a pizza party congratulating the winners of the competitions. 1broughout the years they have established a tradition of doing well at competitions and events.
eadership, a positive impact, and community service Champions that happens every year where different schools frc was what Key Club, UNICEF, Campus Life, FCA and Trash all across Nebraska come together to play fun games and have 1 Cbalition were all about. Bible studies.
Key Oub and UNICEF were just that. They were Key Oub ~as a student,led organization. It taught leade leadership oriented designed to impact the community in a skills through community service. Key Club met every other positive way. Just like all seniors who needed community service Wednesday after school and on club days . Some of the main ev to graduate, Key Club members also gave back to the community. Key Club participated in were Walks for Breast Cancer, Holida All members tried to reach their goal of 50 hours. Hawks, Habitat for Humanity and food drives. This year Red (
·Campus Life and FCA dealt with leadership as well as Club combined with Key Club so there were more officers and helped tie in everyday issues through Bible studies and God. clifferent leaders, said sponsor Todd Pernicek. Campus Life had over 350 members . Members met outside of UNICEF was dedicated to raising money for intematiom school at the Campus Life House located on 60 th & Pine Lake. causes directly linked to the well,being of children abroad. Wi t The club's purpose was to help teens deal with issues from a about 60 members in UNICEF the club met during club day. Christian point of view. They went on an annual ski trip and also One tradition the club had established was Trick-0r,Treating fc did fun skits and interactive events. UNICEF. They also presented a "UNICEF Forum" in the sprinf (})aches and a thletes helped show how the world was The Trash Coalition was put together by senior Laura 1 impacted through religion with the Fellowship of Christian with help from sponsor and science teacher Tim Golden. The c Athletes organization. FCA met outside of school, but its goal was to better the enviomment not only around Southwest leadership team met on club days. Senior and leadership team in the surrounding community as well. member Katie Heckman said her favorite part about FCA was Students found many ways to better their community thrc being a leader and an authority figure for anyone who had club involvement while leading and leaving a positive impact 0 1 questions. The club of 30--40 members met on Sundays from 5,7 individuals and groups they came in contact with. p.m. at members' houses. Favorite activities were Weekend of
Kelsey Aude, Beth Bambery, Rocky Billie, Meg Bl ue, Briana &mberger, Marina Bradaric, Stacie Branting, Krysta Oausen, Shannon Oeal, Kay lee Colton, Bianca Conway, Jessica Danson, Joseph Delaney, Mak:insey Douglas-Hill , Kara Eide, Erin Eisbach , Beth Embree, Alanna Everman, Nathaniel Fink-Humes, Olivia Fogerty, Lindsey Font, Zach Francis, Austin Griffith, Kimberly H assebrook, Eric Hinz, Jonathan Hinz, Abbie Hobelman, Bryan Johnson, Hannah Johnson , Alli Kafka, Natalie Kello ugh, Caitlin Kiely, Alyssa Kloefkorn , Marc Koenig, Jeri Kohn, Colin Large, Stephanie Lee, Kirstie Lewis, Karissa Livingston, Traci Mason, Bri tteny McBride, Jordan Muller , Suhaus Nataraj, Willow Nyman-Jones, Kara Olson, Hannah Orr, Vinny Osburn, Stephanie Pelan, Kerri Peters, Emily Pflug, Brittany Prieb, Oi.elsi Reichwaldt, Taylor Roche, HD Sader, Laura Safarik, Jordan Schliesser , Katie ieps, Scott Smith, Ju ee Trivedi, Dani Virts, Abby Wilson and Jessica Wright. Officers: Sarah Arkebauer, helby Luke, Colin Creveling, Ebad udat, Jordan Mu ller and H annah Davis. Sponsor: Matt Heirnes.
Key Oub: Sarah Arkehmer, Rochelle Athan, Narges Attaie, Kelsey Aude, Caleigh Bacon, B : Bambery, Cara Beaty, Heather Berck , Kerry Blackburn, Gera Carsten.son, Arica Coleman, Biai Conway, James Cottrell, Makenzie Crew, Jamicyn Deiro, Sarah Delgado, Kelsey Eide, Beth Em c Tiffany Forycki, Victoria Fry, Taylor Genrich , Austin Griffi th, Rylee Hall, Karissa Hevelone, I Hoppes, Katie Hottovy, Ashley Janssen, Jamie Jones, Natalie Kellough, Kelsey Kennell, Spence : Carole Kerrey1 Didi Kobler, Lindsey Leach, Stephanie Lee, Melissa Lewis, Karissa Livingston, ( Lorenz, Jamie Lyons, T onya Maksimenko, Morgan Mardock, Jacob Marvin, Tess Mayer, Shay] r Alissa Miller, Jordan Muller, Mi khaela Mullins, Suhaus Mataraj, Christopher Ogden, Dylan C 11 Max Olson, Shelby Parks, Stephanie Pelan, Rachael Pflug, Emily Pike, Courtney Powers, Britt 1 Prieb, Oi.elsi Reichwaldt , Kyla Richardson, Alex Riggs, Allison Roy, Rachael Scheiner , Zach ~r Kaitlyn Steinacher, Krys Stevens, McKenzie Tisdale, Ryan Town , Juee Trivedi, Anna True, H n Ullman, Dani Virts, Nicolette Ware, Julia Wehrli, Kaitlin Wes kamp and Abby Wilson. Offic r Jessica Danson, Zach Mapes, Marie H ansen, Mai Nguyen, Suchi Rajendran and Stacie Brantin : Sponsor: Todd Pernicek.
· 0 ix different duh; let students get focused on different cul- Japanese Oub was widely attended on club days, arnass ir g tural backgrounds. 65 members from all grades. Japanese Club promoted the study I if
Kris Ross sponsored the American Indian Oub with the language and raised awareness of Japanese culture. The clul Joe Rousseau. Around 80 members joined. The club hoped to designed T,shirts, made Japanese food, planned a trip to Wasab , educate, enhance and uphold cultural awareness throughout the a local Japanese restaurant, and made a comic book. They also community. planned to hold their annual Dance Dance Revolution contest.
"I wanted to be in the club because I wanted to learn more Parlez,vous le Fran9ris? French Oub with about 15 about my culture," stated freshman Alicia Lovato. members met after school to "build its framework and see what '
To convince somebody to join this new club for next year, ahead," sponsor Angie Knop said. The club planned activities li ~e senior Joe Morrison said, "It is fun and you learn a lot about a chocolate mousse eating contest, a trivia contest on the schoc 's the cultures. You could go on a lot of field trips and possibly to monitors and various other activities for National French Wee1 , Denver."
Nov. 5, 11. French Club also planned to visit museums, attend Multicultural Oub, sponsored by Alyssa Watson, offered plays and h ave French dinners. Since Mardi Gras was a French the members the chance to discuss the importance of multicul, holiday, French Club celebrated the colorful festival and sold turalism and ways to promote diversity awareness, honor, respect, beads for 50 cents as a fund raiser. and acceptance of all cultures a t Southwest. They helped with Spanish Oub saw "Man of La Mancha" March 2,3 at t r~ Multicultural week March 26,30. Lied Center. The Spanish Club had about 25 people who atten [,
"Multicultural week brought a few music/ dance perfor, ed regularly with their sponsor Lori Hernmett. They also focus e mances throughout the week, four speakers for teacher-Option on the Spanish culture. Besides the fun filled night at "Man of A assemblies and a food day," Watson said. Mancha," Spanish club also provided language classes for parer s Asian Caucus was made up of 15 members. This was the and participated in the UNL Language Fair. club's first year. They went on field trips to experience the food of Whether it be by joining American Indian club or Japan a different culture at ethnic Asian restaurants . They also eel, club, Southwest students embraced diversity and learned more ebrated and advertised the Asian Heritage month in May. different cultures.
Justin Dugas, Craig Easley, Beth Embree, Jordan Faulder , Rudy Fiedler , Oli via Fogerty, Kayla Frazier, Josh Gustafson ,Angel Geller, Maddie Graham, Sean Grosshans, Bran- don Guyer, Andy Heckman, Levi Irons, Justin Jacol:ron, Brennan Johnson, Dustin Johnson , H annah Johnson , Alli Kafka, Breanne Lewis, Ki rstie Lewis , Ouis Lewis, Alicia Lovato, McKenzie Malone, Jami Marker , Bri ttany McCoy, Bridgette McKay, Rudee Mercado, Jaq ue Miller , Jos h Moline, Joseph Morrison , Zachary Morris.sey, Nicholas Mueting, Aaron Murphy, Trey Novotny, Dylan Ohlsen, Vinny Osburn , Jes.5e Overton, Alexander Pace, Dylan Payne, Andy Pederson, Grant Peterson, Brandon Prellwi tz, Maddie Reddish , Natalie Riggs, HD Sader , Jayme Schmidt, Alex Schneider, Jake Schubert, Ethan Schulenberg, Maggie Schur, Mohammad Shakir, Katie Sieps, Scott Smith, Carrie Stems, Whitney Sterns, Adam Sughroue, Adam Topi! , Holly Torell, Eric Vrba, Erinn Walkenhors t , Nicolette Ware, • a West and Kris tina Wilson Sponsor: Kris Ross.
Multicultural aub: Sammy Althayedi, Narges Attaie, Beth Bambery, Raven Billie, Maggil Boeselager, Bri ana Bomberger, Cassie Braymen, Kimberly Burt, Ricardo Ci neros, Alma Osner -Ro- driguez, James Cottrell, Lacie Dougherty, Bryttie Duren , Zachary Elson, Kayla Frazier, Angel ( dler , Anjli Gingery, Emma Grasmick, Laura Guthrie, Heather Herron , Kathryn Hibbard, Jonathan unz , Abbie Hobelman , Laura Hochstein, Megan Holbrook, Dianna Izaguirre, Breanne Lewis, Tesh Lewis, Dustin Johnson , Sarni Kingsley, Phuc Le, Elizabeth Marsh, Bri ttany McCoy, Jean-Marie Morri ey, Laura Munier, Arron Murphy, Suhaus Nataraj, Mai Nguyen, Benjamin Norton, Ouistopher < gden , Alexandra Pack, Brandon Peters, Stuart Piper, Maddie Reddish , Ryaz Sadat, Michael Schutz , .l5iah Scollard, Sara Sidlo, Aras Shakir, Mohammad Shakir, Andrea mith, Kati tauffer , Jessica rwalt , Alexandria Threats, Amber Trammell, Tram Tran, Ju ee Trivedi, Alicia Villagomez -Watson , Nicolette Ware, Corinne Watson and Brandon Wooster. Sponsor: Alyssa Watson
American Indian Oub: Rochelle Athan, Kelsey Aude, Rocky Billie, Ben Boeselager, Cary Brand , Jared Bruce, Gera Carstensen, Ty ler Ouistianson, Alyson Oevenger , Dylan Oover, Rylan Cotton, Hannah Craig, Tanner Craig, Ouistopher Creveling, Joseph Delaney, Bryce Dickey, Kyle Digilio, Ben Doland, Trevor Donahoo,
Mardi Gras! Senior Amber Trammell and junior David Changstrom sell beads to junior Taylor Jones to earn money for French club. French club also sold candy during the month of December. Phot.o lry Erin Boyle{falon
Speakin' Spanish Spanish club members spend time after school talking to Spanish club sponsor Lori Hemmett. Spanish club started to meet after school because of the student interest. Phot.o by Brittany V ontz/Talon
Asian Caucus: Amanda Vuu , Suchari tha Rajendran , Arman egahban, Wenyu Qu , tephanie Lee, Michael Schutz, Jonathan Hinz , Hieu Cao and Mike Ryan Sponsor: Cliarley Bittle
Sharing a culture. Sophomore Ben Norton presents his work to the Multicultural club. Multicultural club helped with Multicultural week at the end of March.
Phot.o by Travis Cunningham.
Japanese club officers: 0:>Urtney Swain , Amanda Vuu and Sarah Trevizo
lthough the school may not be considered as di verse as some other schools in town, students still had differing viewpoints and ideas for change within the school. Clubs like Close,up, GLBTSA, Ambassadors, Future Educators, Character Club and Principal's Advisory Omncil provided that opportunity.
The Young Democrats and Young Republicans clubs merged to create the Oose-up Oub . Sponsor Travis Brady said, "Each side [Young Democrats and Young Republicans] met on their own time outside of school, but both groups came together for debate on club days."
This club was open to all grade levels and to anyone interested in learning more about politics. Brady wanted to get a group together to go to Washington, D.C. but had to cancel plans for the trip due to a surprising lack of interest. Those who were interested in going had to go with another school.
GLBTSA was a club that students could join to openly speak about sexual orientation. Many students joined as a support group for themselves and others. Each year the group and anyone else that cared to participate united in a day of silence to stand up for their freedom of choice.
Sophomore Caitlin Lukin said, "I joined the club because I think that tolerance and acceptance are important, especially in the school."
Amb ass ador's Oub focused on helping new students within the school. Cbunselor and sponsor Dolores Simpson,
Kirkland said it was important to make new students feel welcome.
Meghan Leonard, Tesha Lewis, Karissa living ton, Nathaniel Luginbill , Shelby Luke, Elizabeth Marsh , Alex Martin , Adam Mayhew, Tun McKitterick, Alicia Meyer , Will Monroe, Brandon Olson, Hannah Orr, Ian Osborn, Daniel Owen, Austin Parris, Stephanie Pelan, Kerri Peters, Rachael Pflug, Heather Pillard, Keenan Price, Bradley Rangel , Taylor Rohe, Matthew R05SOO, Carli Sabin , Sinan Sayood, Ouistine Scalora, Jordan Schliesser, Michael Schuster, Danielle Simpson, Peter Sitzmann, Andrea Smith, Cale Stolle, Max Tresnak, Dani Virts, Wyki Walstrom, Mike W , Brett Wiley , Mara Wilson and Nora Wilson Sponsor: Travis Brady
"The Ambassadors are people new students could view as friends or someone to ask questions if they had any," she said
To be a part of this organization, one had to fill out an application stating why they would be a good candidate. They needed to be a sophomore or older, and 14 students were selectt for the group.
Principal Advisory Council was another application process group open to all students. The group concentrated on resolving problems within the school and was a way for student to form a better relationship with principal Jerry Wilks. Accor to secretary Joye Fehringer, the 18 members learned valuable leadership skills and developed a friendship with the principal.
Future Educators, sponsored by Lori Hemmett, was focused on discussing and experiencing the educational field. They learned about the National Education Association. Ano goal they had was to begin a tutoring program for younger students. Field trips included touring lJNL and interviewing an shadowing current educators.
Characte r Oub was new this year. It consisted of o seven members at the beginning, however the club grew as m 01 '. people were selected. The purpose was to demonstrate good chc • acter traits, and students had to be nominated by staff to join.
Debating issues. The Close-up Club had many open forum discus.5ions. Club days were the only time Ymmg Democrats and Young Republicans came together to debate political issues. Photo By Kyle Linder/
Hawk Talk Standing for beliefs. GLBSTA members do an activity to promote awareness Many of the members also attended rallies to raise tolerance in the community. Photo By Rachel Yank([alon Student Amba ssadors: Sarah Fischbein, Kimberly Hassebrook, Adam Kriz, Stephanie Lee, Britteny McBride, Ben Norton, Stephanie Pelan, Maggie Robertson , Taylor Rohe, Laura Safarik, Blair Sanburg, Tiffaney Tatro, Amanda Vuu and Kelcy Workman. Sponsor: Dr. Dolores Simpson-Kirkland. Character Oub: Rochelle Athan, Kelsey Aude, Ben fueselager, Alma Cisneros Rodriguez, Shannon Cleal, Tanner Craig, Joseph Delaney, Ben Doland, Makinsey Douglas-Hill, Craig Easley, Kayla Fraizer, Brennan Johnson, Nathan Jones, Briana Luckenhoff, Bridgette McKay, Zachary Morrissey, ina Neisius, Jesse Overton, Natalie Riggs, Justin Rosenbohm, Margaret Sherwood, Kristi Thornburg, Jordan Trube, Mallory Vogt and Kris Williamson. Sponsor: Judy Notelxiom. Future Educators : Narges Attaie, Kerry Blackburn, Ben Boeselager, Jared Bruce, Matt Cohn, Hannah Davis, Levi Irons, Brennan Johnson, Rebecca Leiter, Melanie Lorenz, 1J Mandl, Zach Mapes, Zachary Morrissey, Garrett Nitz, Dylan Ohlsen, Jesse Overton, Alexander Pace, Brandon Piening, Alexandra Riggs, Justin Rogge, Kate Stajner, Michaela Whitesell and Kelcy Workman. Sponsor: Lori Hemmett.tudents with certain interests found themselves joining clubs that helped them go more in depth, whether it was an environ, mental, a technological or an automobile related club.
With 12 members, Botany Oub hoped to get more for next year. Their main goal was to work with the botany class to build an outdoor herb garden.
"In our technological world we often over look the most wonderful artist that there is ," stated Jodell Merrit, sponsor "Without nature, technology is barren."
Art Oub was a club that let students spend time doing art projects. Sponsored by Derek Buckley, they met Wednesdays after school. Students worked on a wide variety of projects. Students could also earn membership in National Art Honor Society.
Drafting Design was a club not just anyone could join. In order to be in this club, students had to be enrolled in CDmputer Aided Drafting and Designs classes. This club acted as a forum for students to enhance their design skills. Drafting Design met after school on club days along with Skills USA
Skills USA taught skills needed to succeed in today's work, force But in order to be in this club students had to have been enrolled in or have already taken an ITE class. This club of ten met with Drafting Design club because they had the same sponsor CDry Free.
Automotive Engineering and I.SW Motor Sports w • clubs that encouraged interest in energy related and automotiv careers. Both clubs would often have different speakers come ar talk to them. The two clubs would meet on club days together one big group since they were both sponsored by Jeff Jochum.
Automotive Engineering focused on looking at the theory and science behind different types of cars. Members wo discuss drag racing, road course racing, land speed and engine, building competitions.
LSW Motor Sports made students think about their fu , tures while showcasing their talents. Each member used advan technical skills to design and construct a safe , lightweight ener , efficient electric vehicle to be shown at spring rallies.
The Outdoor Encounter club was sponsored by Tim Golden. Senior Laura Marti headed this club of 20 members. Their main purpose for the school year was to provide outdoor opportunities and to promote stewardship of the land.
Science Olympiad had about 10 members that attend weekly meetings. Mike Geist sponsored this club and hoped to promote and spark interest in Science. Science Olympiad met Wednesdays after school and participated in some competitioru
eamwor k, skills , grace , and rhythm were just a few of the characteristics needed for clubs dealing with games and dancing.
"Expanding your mind while having fun" is how Spencer Wolfe, vice president, sums up Strategy Gaming Oub .
Activities that occurred on a regular club day included play, ing games and setting up tournaments. One main purpose was to learn rules and play games. However games that were involved in this club were not simple
"It's fun for everybody," sponsor Travis Brady said.
Traditions that Chess Oub est ablished were students tried new strategies to play. The variety of people made it as serious or crazy as they wanted. A new twist added was tha t more female players joined. Chess had about 40 members and was sponsored by Cullen Stevens.
"I never lose, I never win , just stale mate" said vice president of Chess Oub Ellie Marvin
A new club this year w as H ac ky Sack. Hacky Sack club had about 35 members. "The purpose of this club is to introduce hacky sack to new people, and improve hacky sack skills," spon, sor Sco tt Skultety said.
"Let' s dance, " said Andy Nealon, a member of Ballroom and Fo lk Dance Oub before club met on Feb.16. New this year, the purpose was to "foster a healthy and respectful interac, tion between young men and woman on the dance floor, " said sponsor Jeremy Smith. This club had alxmt 120 members. Since
the n umber was so large, the club split up in two groups. Fresh, men and sophomores attended one month, and juniors and se • the next.
"Gird Games Oub is a lot of fun. I like going to it beca I get to challenge myself by learning new games, and I get to be with my friends" said senior Sean Yost. Card Club was popular club among the students. Sponsored by Marge Kneifl, approxi, mately 200 students joined. This club also met in two groups b splitting up grades .
"Since students were able to register online, a lot more people signed up than in the past," Kneifl said.
Seth Yant, president of Beat Box Oub described the clt in two simple words, "we're noisy." Beat box club wa s a new cl added with approximately 20 members.
Members in Kite Oub , sponsored by Charles Bittle, lean the art of kite making.
"Our head officer is Kristin Houchin. She's the only one who really does anything," Bittle said. Their activities included making kites of various sizes.
All great friendships start when you have a common ground, and that was just what Friendship Oub was for. C I) tal Steidley sponsored the club; they had about 7 5 members T club facilitated friendships between students with disabilities ar their peers as well as supported t h e LSW Special O lympics tear
Beat Box O ub: Gabe A enas, John Calahan, Colin Creveling, Nick Dahlquist, Craig Easley, Bryant Eklund, Sean Gra;.shans, Scott Hakel, Drew Jagaclich , Nick Jester , Nick Lattimer, Ah Malik, Thomas Mundt, Micah Pfeiffer , Nick Powers, Shane Spivey, Chas Voigt and Seth Yant. Sponsor: Jonathan Dyrland
Org a niz at ion s & Cl ubs
Hacky Sack Oub: Colt Baker , Duncan Barnell, Beau Deffenbaugh, T revor Donahoo, Will Brandon Garratt, Max Grout, Kody Hamelin, Jacob Hile , Jason Hodgens, Cody Johnson, ]cob Chris Lewis, Dylan Manthe, Eric Meter, Joe Morrison, Nicholas Nesbit, Michael Norris, Tay! Bryce Peterson,Tyler Rupert, Cody Sharp, Scott Shiffenniller, Chase Siefken, Andrew Spalla, Tran , Caleb Tran, Ja;h Troutman and Ryan Zichek Sponsor: Scott Skultety.
Grab y our partner dosey -doe ! Showing enthusiasm and energy while dancing with others during club day, senior Megan Stuart and junior Ali Malik dance away. Photo by Briana Steward/Hawk
Checkmate ! Robby Stauffer sits and enjoys a game of chess when Chess Oub met Feb. 16 Oub membei;s sat down monthly to engage in chess matches.
cting skills, memorizing lines, strategy and having fun were some of the few things needed for Drama Oub and Forensics. Drama Oub was for students who wanted to get involved in any aspect of theatre. Speech and debate was for any student who wanted to improve organization, persuasion and oral com, munication skills through competition.
Sponsored by Bob Henrichs, Drama Oub had approxi, mately 200 members. Students began the year with a swim party. They also played laser quest and a ttended productions of "Rent" and "The Producers" at the Lied Center.
To prepare for the fall play, "Black Elk Speaks," members went to a Pow Wow in Omaha. They also watched "The Lion King" and went to the State Theatre Festival. In June 2007 students involved with "Black Elk Speaks" will perform the play at the International Festival in Lincoln at UNL.
From the Educa tional Theatre Association on June 24, 2006 Drama received the Outstanding School award. The award was given to only two schools in the nation last year. Southwest was the first school in Nebraska to ever win this award.
Matt Heimes, the head speech coach, coached forensics with his wife, Toni Heimes, the head coach for debate. Angela Kramer , Anne Golden, Katie Dowling, Jan Bretz and Mikaela
Schleicher for speech and Mary Kate McCamey for debate as, sisted them as did random speech alumni. The competition wm based on three different categories which included debate, oral interpretation and rhetorical.
According to Matt Heimes, "The Apple Valley contest • Minesota was the most competitive and is a multi,state, natiorn ) recognized competition." Kiara Letcher and Alicia Meyer were 1 t only two to final.
Although the members spent a lot of time rehearsing and preparing for competitions, they also had fun at Christmas part or going out to eat after Friday night competitions.
In June Southwest was named a National School of Excellence in Debate at nationals in Dallas. Seniors Matthew Rossor and Nick Dalke placed 10th in the Public Forum.
"In order to prepare for the competition we had to do enc less hours of extensive research, case writing, testing ideas and re,case writing," Dalke said.
They qualified 14 people in state speech which is the bes t they've ever done, and came runner,up at Districts.
Students faced stressful times preparing for plays and toui 1 competitions, but they found a way to speak out and say what' t on their mind.
Seniors Zach Mapes and Bryan Kelley are in the middle of a debate round. 1bis took place on forensics day, where students could come with their class and see what the members of speech and debate do every weekend They were both national qualifiers in debate as was Nick Dalk~ and Arman egahban
Photo by Mollie Dittmer{[alon
Making her up. Senior Stasa Denkovich applies makeup to senior Kiara Letcher with senior Ashley James. Letcher \Vas also in speech and the play "Black Elk Speaks ," which was going to be performed at the International Thespian convention in June. Photo by Lisa Harris([alon
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Leading. Senior Bryan Johnson , president of Drama Oub, tells members so me information aoout upcoming events. Drama Club m et 12 times during the year in the a udito riu m Photo lry Lindsay Hanson{[alon Another Award: Seniors Sarah Rsc hbein and Laura Hochstein show off another award the speech t eam received with coach Matt Heimes. Both students were national qu alifiers and chief officers of t h e speech t eam. Photo by Katie Madvig/[alon Debate members: FRONf ROW : Bryan Kelley, Zach Mapes MIDDLE ROW: Jes.5ica Danson, Mai guyen, Jani Martinez, Jeri Kohn BACK ROW: Kaitlyn Steinac her, Josh Genrich, Garrett Mardock, Colin Large, Sarah Arkebauer and Jordy Schliesser Not pictured: Nick Dalke , Jared Forst , Arman Negahhm, Matthew Rosson, Jared Ashton, G.rrtis ue Mackie, Stephanie Pelan, Wenyu Qu , Caleb Rennings, Michael Crelin, Joe Delaney, Jack Zh~g, Garrett Esau, Matthew Hammond, Haley Hoppes , Didi Kobler , Ka te Schneckl oth and Taylor Stirnbert. Coach: Toni Heirnes. Crazy emotions. Senio r K a ti e M advig perfo rms her Humo rous Interpretation piece at the Forensics Showcase. Madvi g placed fir st a t the o rtheas t and Lincoln East speech competitions and also do uble-qualifi ed for na ti onals Photo by Travis Cunningham(falonjournalism department found ways to keep the student body updated and entertained.
YearlxXlk plowed through the stress deadline after dead, line. The staff attended an all day Walsworth workshop Sept. 12 at The O)mhusker where they learned about different yearbook trends, how to design, how to come up with a theme and saw "The Big Show," which showed different yearbooks from the previous year.
"During 'The Big Show,' Jami Finnell drank a whole pitcher of water. We saw 'The Big Show' but also spent lots of time laughing at Jami," senior Brittany Yontz said.
Even though the publication staffs always seemed to be rushing to get a deadline finished, all staffs still found ways to entertain everyone. The staffs even mixed together, with seniors Kyle Linder and Briana Steward being part of newspaper and literary magazine, junior Marina Bradaric helping out on yearbook and literary magazine and senior Rachel Yank being on yearbook and newspaper staffs. No matter what group students were in they could always be seen laughing while writing a story, wandering the halls looking for quotes or creating inside jokes.
"We all joke around and are able to make each other laugh, except for Max," Linder said laughing.
Newspaper worked to put together a 12,16 page papers
The staff usually ranged from seven to eight members so each person had their work cut out for them. Newspaper put one is out per month, which kept everyone busy getting quotes, tak, ing pictures and writing stories. The staff also came up with f stories to write such as the "PSI: Pizza Scene Investigation" sto • in which they got to rate different pizza places.
The Literary Magazine was put together by Lori Naka wa's Advanced Creative Writing class. The class worked to get students' work published in a magazine called Uncaged. Studer submitted anything from short poems to different artwork. Th Uncaged staff read through the submitted work, chose the sel tions and worked with layout and design.
The publications were also critiqued at state and/or nati01 levels. Seven students qualified for state competition in newsp , and yearbook categories and the journalism department tied fo1 third in Class A sweepstakes points, the highest ever.
While publication students aimed to inform and entertan students took their jobs to a whole new level by coming up wi tl new ways to catch students' attention, whether it was adding rr color or writing stories that interested everyone.
Though laughter and some teary eyed moments, the staf : stuck together to get deadlines done and the product out.
Seniors Kyle Linder, Abby Wilson, Briana Steward, Rachel Yank and junior Max Olson were on staff for at least three terms. "I liked to do the pizza tasting because I got to sample different pizzas fror:n places I'd never been to before," Wilson said. Photo by Hawk Talk staff
We've got proof! Members of the Talon staff view the first cover proof at the end of term two. The staff decided to add a texture to the cover and hoped it would show less finger prints. Photo by Talon
outhwest's music program had made a name for itself in the past years. This year was no different. Students took their perfor, mances to the next level with their "one of a kind dancing" and heavenly singing. With all the different groups to choose from, students really had to decide if they wanted singing and dancing, just singing, selected groups, or select groups that compete.
This year choir had eight All,State members. Arica O:>le, man, Ashley Andersen, Ashley James, Aaron Norman, Kelsey Denton, John Calahan, Bryant Eklund and O:>hagen Wilkinson.
Show Choir, known as Resonance, performed in many different competitions. They placed fifth at the Midwest Cup at the Lied Center in Lincoln and tied for first at Omaha for the O:>mpetitions of Excellence.
"My favorite thing alxmt show choir was when we tied for first at Omaha for the O:>mpetition of Excellence," said Chase Sund with a smile on his face.
"My favorite thing about show choir was that the people were fun to hang out with in class or on trips, and everyone there was to have fun!" Alex Bischoff said.
Though some concentrated on singing and dancing, othe:rs just concentrated on singing. "Concert Choir was a time for me just to relax, hang out with my friends and sing," sophomore
Resonance: Left Group (fop - Bot-
Chas Voigt, Bri Lueckenhoff,
Director: Jonathan Dyrland
Stephanie Charron said.
Those who wanted to compete and travel tried out for v a· • sity show choir. Show choir had many practices outside of sch )1 to get ready for competitions.
Ambi ance was also a show choir group, however they didn't perform at varsity level. They had competitions and co certs but didn't have as many competitions as Resonance.
Those who didn't want to compete joined Chamber Che ir. They had concerts. They just didn't compete like the show chc rs.
Chamber Ensemble was a mixed group of guys and girl and only had about 25 people. Chamber Ensemble also had co , certs outside of school. They traveled around Lincoln to plac like Bryan LOH East and the Embassy Suites to perform.
"My favorite part about Chamber Ensemble was the diffent types of music we sang and the people who were in my cl as ," sophomore Nick Jester said.
For those freshmen that weren't sure if they wanted to be n a higher ,level singing group, there was a freshman choir tha t didn't require an audition. They had four concerts, with only < ue concert a term.
With one of a kind dancing and heavenly singing, the v :al music department really has made a name for itself.
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Megan Stuart, Taylor Jones, Micah Pfeiffer, Ellen Reber, Ashley Eppens, Craig Easley, Nick Powers, Alex Bischoff, Philicia Mizell , Meghan Leonard, Allison Roy, Aaron Norman, Jackie Baker, Robby Stauffer and Elyse Marvin. Center Group (fop-Bottom): Cohagen Wilkinson , Lesley Perry, Sarah Essay, Logan Luke, Ashley Anderson, Kathryn Hibbard, Kelsey Denton, James West, Rehl Nitzel, John Calahan, Sarah Arten, Scott Hake l, Colin Large, Arica Coleman and Tiffany Forycki.
Right Group (fop-Bottom): Jenny Miller, Bryant Eklund, Kay lea Sasek, Kyle Way, Carli Sabin, Kathryn Moore, Jordan Sasek, Charis Thomas, Kate Truka, James Cottrell, Chase Sund, Mike Ryan, Shane Spivey, Jade Cattoor , Celeste Wanner, Corinne Watson and Laura Mc Kinley
Sing like never befo re ! The girls in women's choir sing during their December concert.
Photo by Abby Wilson/Hawk Talk
Sing ! These girls in Concert Choir sing their hearts out at their Winter concert. "I had a lot of fun in choir this year. It was one of my favorite classes." Kaleigh Hohnesee said. Photo by Abby Wilson/ Hawk Talk
Prep Show Choir Ambience Left Group(left to right): Alexis Pulver, Brandon Leeds, Sabrina Buckwald, Taylor Rohe Middle Group:(left to right): Juha Didier, Oielsea Walz, Shannon Potter, Gro.5Shans, Anna True, Erin Eisbach, Aaron Demoret, Jamie Burbach, Tyler Schenk, Kim Fuoco, Carey Brant Right Group:(left to right): Lexi Johnson, Haley Meyer, Kaitlyn Waller and Phillip &ker. Directo r: Jonathan Oyrland.
Sing, guys, sing! Ali Malik and John Cala~ han sing at rheir holiday • concert. They also sang the national anthem at one of the football games. Photo by Abby Wilson / Hawk Talk
Dance, dance! Ambiance dances and sings at their winter concert. Some songs and dances they performed were "In My Dreams" and "Proud Mary," along with others. Photo by Abby Wilson/ Hawk Talk
or two years now students and parents alike have flocked to Southwest's Swing Night, a Las Vegas themed jazz dance. The dance is held in the commons area and features performances from the three Jazz bands: Varsity, Prep and freshman. The Swing Night is the Jazz bands biggest activity of the year.
Entering its third year, Southwest Swing Night has been a big hit. Last year alone the attendance doubled and jazz and or, chestra teachers Lori Falcone and Stacy Marshall hoped the trend continued this year. Something new to Swing Night last year was the addition of the Varsity Orchestra. "We hope to get them involved this year as well," Orchestra director Stacy Marshall said.
Besides the Swing Night, the Jazz groups and Orchestra participated in annual competitions and each performed in three concerts held at Southwest. For competitions , the Orchestra competed at Lincoln High on April 3 and the Jazz bands per, formed at Norris on April 20. In the past, ooth groups have received high ratings.
Orchestra participation grew. The freshman and varsity orchestras had more members than ever before. "The orchestra program is really growing at Southwest," Marshall commented Marshall directed the Varsity Orchestra while Jonathan Dyr, land and Bill Roehrs directed the Freshman Orchestra. "We
have come along way as a unit," Roehrs said regarding the Fres man orchestra.
The varsity orchestra had a total of seven members make All,State, a select orchestra that required students to audition f a part in the orchestra. The freshman orchestra had six of the members receive superior ratings at the All-City freshman com petition at North Star, more than they have ever had before. F varsity orchestra the amount was about the same as in the pas t and Stacy Marshall hoped that the numbers would continue t o grow throughout the next few years.
Big news for the Varsity Jazz band this year was that t h group got invited by the Bobby Layne orchestra to perform at the Pla Mor ballroom hall. This was a great opportunity for t Varsity jazz band, and a first in the history of the school that a jazz group has been invited to play by a major band. They oper : for the Bobby Layne Orchestra and got to play a few songs in between the sets.
Like the orchestra, the Freshman and Prep Jazz group ~ both grew in size this year. They ooth had around 20 students and performed a t the same concerts as the varsity jazz band. T l had more people than the varsity jazz band, which will prove t( a good development for years to come.
n Moore, Craig Easley, Ja.h Brown, Logan Luke, Robby Stauffer, Jordan Sasek, C.Ohagen Wilkinson, Nick Powers, Laura McKinley, Meghan Leonard, Liz Vo, Ashley Anderson, Kate TM
3 : Philicia Mizell, Celeste Wanner, Jade Catoor, Ellen Rew, Kathryn Hiblmd, Scott Hakel, Micah Ffeiffer, Matt Blankenau, Taylor Jones, James C.Ottrell, Kyle Way, Bri Luecken- hoff, Kerri Peters, Sara Sidle, C.Orinne Watson, Kelsey Denton. BACK ROW : Cbaris Thomas, Arica C.Oleman, Ashley Eppens, Katie Richard, Sarah Essay, Charles Voigt, Bryant Eld u_, J , Nick Jester, C.Ollin Hohnquist, James West, Marc Koenig, Kaisie Tofte, Kaylea Sasek, Aml::er Miller, Ouistina Mayer, Sarah Arten, Megan Stuart, Jennie Miller
choir: FRONT ROW :Julia Didier, Jamie Lyons, Ashley Hemann, Erin Davidson, Aaron Demoret, Jaque Miller, Anna True, Alexis Schields, Haley Mey, Kimberly Burt. Row 2: Erin Healey, Narges Attaie, Alyssa Mescher, Kelsey Graves, Sean Grosshans, Taylor Mack, Lexie Johnson, Amanda Carnazzo, Chelsea W al - Jordy Schliesser, Shannon Potter. Row 3: Alexis Watson,
Wind Ensemble: Erica Ahlschwede, Jay Anderson, Sarah Arten, Kaci Bartholomew, Cara Beaty, Orris Bell, Alex Bischoff, Matt Blankenau, John Calahan, Matt Otampoux, Arica Coleman, Mandi Conway, Debra Davis, Kelsey Denton, Matt Ous.5ault, Travis Earhart, Ashley Eppens, Alex Epperson, Sarah Essay, Kierst Finsand, Tiffany Forycki, David Freese, Austin Griffith, Marie Hansen, Meghan Henderson, Katie Hill, Kristin Houchin, AJ Jagadich, ick Jester, Nate Jones, Spencer Kerl, Amanda Kline, Meghan Leonard, Shelby Luke, Ali Malik, Jonathan Mattson, Danelle Miller, Kathryn Moore, Thomas Mundt, Amanda Nissen, Andrew guyen, Julia Ott, Alyssa Potter, ick Powers, Llndy Rauscher, Tori Renken, Katie Richard, JD Royer , Jeremiah Sievers, Grant Stepanek, Amber Swenseth, Chihiro Takimoto, Johannes Wacks, Brittany Wagner, Cluis Walker, Jessica Way, James West, Heath White and Luye Yang.
Symphonic Band: Orristian Berg, Carey Brant, Lauren Brunken, Jamie Burbach, Marilyn Buresh, Jamie Ola.mix>ux, athan Coatney, Matt Cohn, Cluisty Dalton, Nick Dahlquist, Erin Davidson, Travis Davidson, Jarett Denning, Miki Freese, Kim Fuoco, Alana Giesemann, Jordan Gomell, Ryan Griepsma, Sean Grai.shans, Matt Hahne, Hannah Hamilton, Kyle Hampton, Emily H artman, Alex Hartmann, Erin Healey, Nicole Hudson, Aaron Johnston, Bryan Jones, Kelsey Klute, Kelsey Lange, Nick Lattimer, Karis.5a Llvingston, Taylor Mack, Alys.sa Malone, Laurabeth Miller, Nick Miller, Julia Peterson, Nate Petro, Corey Ritter, Sinan Sayood, Aaron Schilling, Margaret Sherwood, Nick Spencer, Ouis Stepanek, Jamie Strudl, Brooke Sullivan, Kendra Szudlo, Anna Thomas, Brian Thompson, Cole Thompson, Alyssa Troester, Jared Tupper, Adam Vollenweider and Emily Walkenhorst.
Building a n ew life. As part of the "Extreme Makeover" show, a member of Heartland homes helps to put up the siding of the Fullerton~Machacek family's new home. Though none of the famil members att~ded Southwest, m e mbers fr o m all over the community came t ogether in an effort to unite the family under one roof. Pho t.o by Travis Cunninghqjmiiii'aloniiiil-------• ter is a new workout facility. Bryan H wasn't the only workout center at found its way in to south Lincoln, adonna also added a health center. .. llllo t.o by Rachel Yan kf[alon
Becoming SUPER! Super T ar g begins to take shape in south Linc n off of 40th and Grainger Parkwa • 1 super shopping center was set to c 1' July 2007. Plans were also announ :d to build a new upscale shopping Ct ti south of Pine Lake, similar to Vi ll e
University update. The Univer ty of Nebr aska Lincoln(UNL) upda t \ , it stadium. lJNL renovated the sprn s 11 complex and added a new big sen. n that would the biggest in college f .o tl until Texas revealed it plans to m e bigger screen. Phot.o by Rachel Ya nk Tai
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football until Texas revealed their plans to make a bigger one. (Everything MUST be bigger in Texas.)
The expansion of Lincoln resulted in more working opportunities for many students. Students could seen all over Lincoln at their clifferent jobs of choice. •Businesses continued opening on the south side of Lincoln creating more building blocks for Southwest's community.
• Proud to support Lincoln Southwest students and staff!
27th & Pine Lake
Al I of us here at WIiderness Perk Vvaht to cohgratulate you oh your graduatioh frorr, Lihcolh Southwest! Good luck ih the future!
Youth Fellowship
St. Mark's United Methodist Church - 8550 Pioneers Blvd. - Lincoln, NE 68520 - 489-8885
Schedule
Worship
Saturday - 5:00pm
Sunday - 8:00 , 9:00, 10 :15, 11 :15 am
Sunday Church School
Confirmation . .. . ...... .. 9:00am
7th-12 th grade 9:00, 10 :15am
United Methodist Fellowship (UMYF)
Middle School (6 th -8 th ).... Sun ., evenings
Sr. High (9th_ 12th) Sun., evenings
House of God Worship Service (6th- 12th) .. . ...... .. 4th Sun 7:00pm
Christian Outreach Program .. .. 1st Wed. 7:00pm
Youth Servant Team . ..... .... Mon. , 6:30pm
Youth Connections Choir & Band Wed. 7:00pm
Youth Bible Study ... ..... . ... ...... .Wed., 8:00pm
Youth Leadership Team .. .. .. ........ ... . .Wed. , 6:00pm
Sr. High Bible Study .. .... .. ... .. .. Tues., 7:00-7 :30am
5th Quarter-Fridays, September-October (football) and January-March (basketball) .. .. . .9:30pm-midnight
St. Mark's.... Athletics-Mon ., Tues., Thurs.
Softball, Fall Volleyball, Summer and Winter Basketball, Sand Volleyball , Flag Football (depending on the season)
St. Mark's Youth group's Goals:
* growing closer to God
* growing closer to others
* growing closer to our group
Work .Camps 2007: Mt. Vernon, WA. , Minneapolis, MN. , Denver, CO .. , Lincoln , NE
Phone numbers
Church office 489-8885; Youth hot line .... .489-253 2
Youth Minister Don Stewart 489-2738
Student identification photos were taken during locker checkout days in August and the pictl e retake days in September, October and November. Due to the clifferent retake days and deadli 1es we were unable to use most of the retakes. The lists of "not pictured students" were compil 1 from two student lists, one in September and one in March. We apologize for any omissioru
Steven Back
Nik Baecler
Christopher Fleming
Steven Garcia
Seth Girdner
Michael Hill
Nick Jones
Ryan Kolb
Brian Messman
Jeff Paradise
Shayne Ritchey
Katy Steffen
Mitchell Zimmennan
Ashley Abbot
Levi Arnold
Fernanda Arteiro
Sarah Ashcraft
Ashley Chism
Dylan Bacon
Adrian Bivens
Jordan Omtu
Lejay Daniels
Raechel Doehling
Jessica Harris
Russell Haynes
John Hekl
Daniel Howard
Jacob Kroll
Andrea Logan
Amanda Monk
Shawn Petracek
Reilly Placek
Brittany Prieb
Peter Welsch
Jamie Williams
The Talon staff would like to apologize for not being able to place all the new retakes. Since there were three retake days this year instead of only one, it was too difficult to change all the retakes and meet our dead-lines. So unless a change was completely necessary the student pictures are most likely from the original or first retake picture days. If a senior picture was not submitted, the student identification photo, if available, was used.
oshua Bain
Kyle Daniels
Bilal Kamal
Adam Kriz
Jessa Manthei
Adela Rikalo
Benjamin Rikalo
Shannon Roberts
EthanRymph
Breanna Scheier
Alissa Schellhorn
Kayce Sears
Scott Smith
Bret Stephens
Tiya Sumovich
Akim Tran
Jack Zhang
Alyson Ahrens
Nicholas Allen
De'Ondre Benally
Eun--Gul Chung
Cameron Hill
Brendan Horner
Brennan Johnson
Emily Mazur,Mickells
Leo Navarro
Stacey Segura
Erika Shafer
Alex Stroman
Chastity Wall
e\'Uf.. 4~~·,·,,,n we create it!" When attempting to we did a word association exercise that resulted in, " (Don't worry we nev r actually considered it as a theme, gh.). Then gi •ous and considered "Walk a Mile ly wanted to put Chuck Taylor's on the cover.) "Shades of Green" (which then made us think of vomit) and then "A Hawk is " (It was one of our more "serious" themes.) There was also the occasional joke about making the theme," kind of a big deal, part two." Oust kidding, but what if we had.)
Creating traditions became the base of our theme because even though we are now five years old, we are still creating traditions.
One thousand four hundred and twenty,five books were ordered from Walsworth Publishing C})mpany in Marceline, Missouri. The yearbook was finished in six deadlines, with the first pages being sent in November.
"We don't follow tradition we create it!" was created using InDesign CS2 for layouts and Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for picture editing. Fonts that were used throughout the book were Jasper, Little Squirt, Palatino, Jimmy, Maximo, Gunner, Knock Out, Iron Maiden and Clarence.
The 2007 Talon would like to thank Dianne Kuppig for all the time she has spent helping edit our pages, making us work and most of all making us laugh. We would also like to thank out Walsworth representative Mike Diffenderfer for always making us laugh and helping us when we had questions, Lori Nakagawa for her extra assistance and Brad Seeman for helping us whenever our computers and servers needed fixing. In addition, thanks to Rob Wilkens for most of the music group photos and Champ Shots for the sports group photos.
Finally, we would like to thank the administration, staff and student body for your help in compiling everything that we put into this book. Without the entire school's help we would not have spent many hours working hard to get every deadline in.
We would love for our yearbook to be perfect, but we know there will be some errors we didn't catch. (Nobody is perfect not even us.) We are very sorry for any misspellings or other mistakes you may find.
Eclitor -ih-Chief: Rachel Yank (Terms 1,2,3,4)
Studeht Life Eclitor: Mollie Dittmer (Terms 1,2,3,4)
Sports Eclitor : Travis Cunningham (Terms 1,2,3,4)
People Eclitor: Breanna Vance (Terms 1,2,3,4)
l\caderriic Eclitor: Omrtney Chambers (Terms 1,2,4)
Club Editor: Marina Bradaric (Terms 1,2)
Busihess Mah.ager: Katie Madvig (Terms 1,2,3,4)
Photo Editor: Brittany Yontz (Terms 1,2,3,4)
lhclex Editor: Katie Madvig (Terms 1,2,3,4)
l\clviser: Dianne Kuppi g
• Staff: Paige Brolhorst (3,4), Erinn Walkenhorst (3,4), Aly Ferguson (3), Gabrielle Lazaro (3,4),
Maggie Schur (3), Erin Boyle (3,4), Lindsay Hanson (3,4), Jami Finnell (1,2), Amber Trammell(l ,2) Kelsey Eide
Alyssa Mescher (4) and 1 Lisa Harris (2 ,4).
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Southwest it has taken the sch deliberately or by accident stu other schools couldn't match
"I am very proud of th an honor to be the principal o of the school year.
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On hallway walls pictures of students and staff recogrµ ed the accomplishm ts. Picture by picture , achievements were set on the walls of traditions.
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• school history and the Forensics team
o describe the traditions of Southwest. It dub meetings to dances to recognition banquets. It its on a wall made of ·cks, symbolizing the building of traditions.
As So hwest's fifth year e , it is obvious the school has come together to create some great
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