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Student News Here are just a few highlights of what our students are doing in their extracurricular pursuits.
Liam Nolan ’20 wrote a feature on NFL running back Alfred Morris last spring and sent it to the Richmond Times-Dispatch for consideration. The sports editor replied that he couldn’t run it because it wasn’t a local story, but encouraged Liam to submit others. Since then, the paper has published the student correspondent’s stories on Virginia Union football, the Spikeball national championship and two high school football games. Zack Harrison ’20, Will McDermott ’20 and Oliver Sabo ’20 have started a tutoring program with Upper School Chaplain Whitney Edwards at Fairfield Elementary School. The group visits several times a month to help with after-school homework and activities.
Baird Weisleder ’21 has been a proactive leader of the Houlagan Saints, the school support group for Houlagans’ Rest dog rescue. He coordinates meetings, schedules student volunteer activities at adoption events and leads fundraising efforts. Raif Winn ’24 starred in Virginia Repertory Theater’s November production of “13,” the first Broadway musical to have a cast made up entirely of teenagers. Chas Steinbrugge ’20 was featured in a Business Insider article about his Instagram account, “trigoMEMEtry,” where he asks permission before reposting funny tweets. His interactions with everyone from Lil Nas X to Elon Musk are part of what propelled his page to more than 140,000 followers. The article reads, “If Steinbrugge sees a tweet from an account he doesn’t have permission from, he slides into their DMs, or in Musk’s case, tweets at him.” About 60% of the time, they respond, and only deny him permission about 2% of the time, he said. Chas posts about three or four times a day, with the tweet itself in the first slide and the DM conversation in the second. He also created a meme citations generator, which uses the MLA format to help other meme pages credit the people whose memes they repost. Nathan Aschheim ’22, Topher Durette ’22 and Mac Suskind ’21 attended the Student Diversity Leadership Conference in Seattle in December. Jazz Band Director John Winn’s third period rock rhythm section band played at Orbital Music Park in December. Musicians included Henry Edmunds ’21, Mike Hawkins ’21, Will Hodges ‘22, Peter Huff ‘23, Barner Konvicka ‘23 and Henry Leister ‘22. Middle School boys who made District Chorus include Ben Butterfield ’25, Winston Morris ’25, Christian Rogers ’25, George Dewey White ’24 and Tate Wilson ’25; Upper School boys are Alex Hatfield ’23, Max Kobal ’23, Scott Neely ’22, Teddy Price ’23, and Luke Thomas ’21. District Chorus comprises top singers in the Richmond area who performed a concert in February following two days of rehearsal. Five StC students applied for and received scholarships to attend last year’s James River Writers Conference in October — Miles Mullins ’21, Colin Royal ’21, Reynolds Short ’19, Nash Steed ’21 and Mac Suskind ’21. The boys were joined by three St. Catherine’s students, along with Saints faculty Durk Steed and John Morgan. The students attended readings, panels, lectures and Q&A sessions with established writers in nonfiction, fiction and poetry and also participated in hands-on writing exercises.
Jude Reiferson ‘20 works with students at Fairfield Elementary School.
Joseph Long ‘22 has been selected to participate in the 10th grade Virginia Space Coast Scholars program sponsored by the NASA Wallops Flight Facility and the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. Killian Winn ’22 won this year’s Poetry Out Loud school-wide competition, followed by Jack Omohundro ’21, who placed second, and Spencer Villaneuva ’21, who placed third. 34 | StC Magazine
The 2019 United Soccer Coaches Fall High School Boys All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team tapped Gerard Broussard ’20. The team comprises 32 players from five states and Washington, D.C. Gerard is the seventh Saint to make the team, joining Charles Valentine ‘93, Rob Cann ‘01, Doug Hare ‘01, Max Hare ‘06, Austin Wates ’07 and Alexander Levengood ’19 (a three-time honoree). Bo Angus ‘24, qualified for the under-15 U.S. Sailing Team, competing in Italy in March.