St. Charles High School 725 North Kingshighway St. Charles, MO 63301

September 28, 2018 volume 24, issue 1 @schspublication

The Ship’s LogCalendar

9/26 - Volleyball @ John Burroughs

9/27 - Volleyball @ Winfield

9/28- Varsity football @ home

9/29- Softball @ Nerinx Hall, cross country @ Maryville Six Flags

10/01- Varsity softball @ Christian, cross country @ Washington, fresh/soph football @ Winfield, soccer @ home, Volleyball @ home

10/02- Soccer @ home, Volleyball @ home

10/04- Soccer @ home, Volleyball @ FZE

10/05- Varsity football @ Orchard Farm

10/08- Varsity softball @ Lindenwood, fresh/soph football @ home

10/09- Soccer @ Warrenton, Volleyball @ Warrenton

10/11- Cross country @ Orchard Farm, soccer @ Liberty, Volleyball @ home

10/10-10/12- Softball Districts

10/12- Varsity football @ St. Charles West

10/15- Fresh/soph football @ home

10/16- Soccer @ St. Charles West, Volleyball @ home

10/18- Cross country GAC, soccer @ Orchard Farm, Volleyball @ FHN

10/19- Soccer @ Ft. Zumwalt North

10/20- Varsity football @ University City

10/22- Fresh/soph football @ home, soccer @ Hazelwood West

This year’s softball team is taking their district by storm with a 17-2

season thus far. The captains are senior Rachel Payne, senior Olivia Pilsing, junior Ryley Schaub and sophomore Brean-na Hollowell.

This year’s record breakers are Payne and Kylie Swinney.

Payne has broken the all-time pitcher wins and all-time pitcher strikeout records with 27 wins and 326 strikeouts. While Swinney has broken the records for most home runs scored in a season and most hits in a season with 93 hits and 19 home runs so far this season.

Many members of the team, including Payne and Schaub, feel that they are closer to each other than in years past and that it is having a positive effect on the team’s performance this season.

“I really think that over the years we’ve grown as a family,” Payne said. “I feel like

Swinging to StateBy Addison Long

back when I was a sopho-more I’m like ‘these people are weird’ but now I could go to them if I need something that’s not about softball. I feel like we’re definitely closer than we have been before.”Teammates agree.

“We’re friends on and off the field which really helps

in the end,” Schaub said.Head Coach David

Jones encourages this family atmosphere, telling the team, “Play hard, be honest with yourself and always look to your team to support you.”

Jones said that the team’s goals for the season are winning in their district

and moving on to the state tournament. He believes that the varsity team “has what it takes to make state.”

Payne’s hopes exceed those of her coach, saying “We’re gonna win all of state!”

Softball is winning games and breaking records along the way

Junior Rhyen Mills crushes the ball at the team’s first game of the season against Clayton. Photo by Allie White

Homecoming Court 2018

Freshmen: Brendan Barteau and Graci Summerfield

JJ Summerfield and David ThorneSophomores:

Joe Moss and Breanna Hollowell Ethan Bayliss and Erin Booker

Juniors: Drew Hartig and Lexi Pyszka

Ethan Ermeling and Emily BlackJordan Scarborough and Meghan Veith

Seniors:Dahvonte Henry and Sammy Mousa Ben Bohr and Maddie Oellermann

King and Queen: Gehazi Whitehurst and Allie White

Freshmen Sophomores

Juniors

Seniors

King & Queen

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New Year, New Rulesby Adelaide Hill

At the beginning of this school year Principal Jeff Walker told everyone

about this new procedure being put in place. ¨This is a district-wide

policy and in fact most St. Charles County school districts have this policy,¨ Walker said. Talks of this procedure

actually started three to four years ago, according to Walker. ¨We started this conversa-

tion with Central Office personnel, about our struggles with middle schoolers being at football games without adults or administration,¨ he said. Superintendent Jason Sefrit

wants students at SCHS and Hardin

to know that they are not trying to keep kids out, they just want students to be protected. ¨The reason why is because

we love middle schoolers coming to our game, but we also want our students to be safe. We just feel like there should be a adult there, because of the age,¨ Sefrit said. There has already been an

improvement at the few games we have had as well. ¨It’s no secret that we had a

problem at our first home game, and I think having that procedure in place really helped with that situation,¨ Sefrit said. Many students have

wondered how this procedure will be carried out and, according to Walker, an administrator from both Hardin and Jefferson will be there to help identify students. Also students do not need a legal guardian, but instead just an adult in general. Senior Taquilla Cross

doesn’t think it is the best policy, but understands it. ¨To be honest I don’t think

it’s going to help at all because stu-dents are going to do what they want at the end of the day. We can’t just monitor them the whole time at the games,¨ she said. Freshman Angel Hender-

son on the other hand thinks the new procedure is a great idea and will help a lot. “ It would stop people who

aren’t actually [high school] students from coming in and getting hurt. I think it will just make it easier for staff as well because it will limit the amount of middle schoolers coming in,” Henderson said. Sefrit wanted one thing to

be clear though. ¨We love middle schoolers

coming in and do not want them to stop. We are not trying to keep them out,¨ he said.

Anyone in eighth grade or below no longer allowed to attend football games without adult

After a 2-9 record last year, The Pirates kicked off their

2018 football season with an improved 3-2 record as they accomplish new goals and anticipate a road to success.

“I think that the play-ers are practicing hard and are buying into our new offensive and defensive systems,” var-sity head football coach Bob Leonard said.

However, one of the season’s greatest victories so far occurred at the opening of the season. Despite the cold, wind and pouring rain, the Pirates competed in their Homecoming game for a vic-tory of 43-0 over Duchesne High School.

“It felt good to win our Homecoming football game because it is something that we haven’t done in two or three years,” senior captain Cody Thorne said.

“Our coach put in a lot of new plays that we haven’t had before and since it was our Homecoming game, our team’s tempo was up,” varsity player Cameron Teson added.

In addition to the change in the playbook, one of the biggest developments to the team was the new varsi-

ty head coach Bob Leonard. With 30 years of coach-

ing experience, and a passion for the game, Leonard has overseen the development of his team not only through the Friday night scoreboards, but on the practice field as well.

“Practices are a lot tougher now. There is a lot more contact, which is one thing our team really likes that was different,” varsity running back Dahvonte Henry said. “Practices have led to our teams success.”

Though the football season has just begun, the Pirates had been training well before the school year started.

“Weight lifting and practices started in June… I’m glad that we started as early as we did, because due to the complexity of our playbook, if we had not, I doubt we would be where we are now,” varsity linebacker Jakob Bredell said.

The hard work from daily practices is not going unnoticed this season, as the Pirates proved when playing their conference rivals, the Warrenton Warriors.

On Sept 14, not only did the Pirates compete in their highest scoring game of the season, but defeated

the Warriors for the first time since anyone could remember.

“We haven’t beaten Warrenton in nine years,” offensive lineman Logan Mesle said.

Much like the victory over Warrenton, the Pirates have already accomplished many goals within their new season and anticipate many more.

“I think that we can win the conference and get far into districts.” Mesle said.

Though the Pirates have many successes to look forward to this season, what will count the most is the experiences that they will have along the way.

“We just want to play hard and fast every Friday night and everything else will take care of itself,” Leonard said.

When regarding the team’s success, Coach Leonard often refers to one of his fa-vorite quotes by Alabama head coach Nick Saban.

“We don’t worry about results. We worry about the process.”

The Road To SuccessThe Pirates begin their football season with a winning record

By Virginia Werth

Senior captain Cody Thorne carries the football against Duchesne in the Homecoming football game. Photo by Trotter

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A Whole New WorldForeign exchange students immerse themselves in American culture

Traveling from their home in Germany to America, for-eign exchange students Mette

Schacht and Nicole Wadephul-Emden are expected to be staying in town for the entire school year. However, the girls come from two different parts of their country, and each used different programs to come to America for the school year. The two didn’t know each other until they came to the states.

“We just met here, but it’s so funny. My best friend, she knows Nicole because she was [at a] birthday party in Hamburg, and they met be-fore,” Schacht said.

While it was Schacht’s child-hood dream to do an exchange pro-gram, Wadephul-Emden had several reasons as to why she desired to come to the United States.

“I want to improve my English. I want to get to know the culture here in America...I was never in America before, so this is my first time here. I wanted to spend a whole year here,” Wadephul-Emden said.

Wadephul-Emden was espe-cially excited to ride the school bus to school, since she takes public trans-portation to commute to her school in Germany, but Schacht discovered

something about American culture once she arrived.

“I’m used to [walking] every-where or riding a bike. But here you go from one side to the other side of something, and you’re always driving a car,” Schacht said.

The two have involved them-selves in after school activities as well. Wadephul-Emden joined Student Council and tennis, and Schacht joined the varsity Cross Country team. These extracurriculars aren’t offered in Ger-many as they are in America.

“You can tell that [Mette] is just happy. She’s never run before, but she said that she wanted to give it a try and she said that she absolutely loves it,” Cross Country runner Brianna Wright said.

Although almost everything about their American experiences have gone well so far, Wadephul-Emden has one, small complaint.

“The people here are very nice and great. I’m very comfortable here. I like the weather; It’s maybe a little bit hot. What I don’t like is the air conditioner. On the first day, I was too cold,” Wadephul-Emden said.

by Gehazi Whitehurst

Top: Mette Schacht runs for cross country team photo by Allie WhiteBottom: Nicole Wadephul-Emden (left) and Schacht (right) photo by Gehazi Whitehurst

The process of preparing Home-coming was a difficult one, and

with the foreboding inclement weather in the wake of Hurricane Florence, there needed to be some major adjustments, with the most notable being the environment. Instead of the traditional parade, the festivities took place indoors, utilizing shopping carts donated from Midtowne Market, which were then decorated by the students.

“I think the last minute changes were wise and necessary,” Assistant STUCO Sponsor Jacob Holtgraewe explained. “The heads up and creative thinking by the administration to still have an indoor parade with the shop-ping carts allowed for the festivities to still take place.”

Despite the parade’s success, the students who participated in the construction have their own appraisals and opinions.

“Yes, I thought they were nec-essary and I think the changes went well.” Senior and STUCO Member Andrew Schappe said “It was much easier to manage and much cheaper.”

“It was all-around pretty lame.” Sophomore Pieper Aldag said.

Though fusing the assem-bly with the parade made sense on paper, the logistics of it needed to be changed to make everything function as smoothly as possible. For example, instead of permitting students to leave campus at the end, they reported to their AIP, and instead of the conven-tional route, the carts circled the gym, throwing candy up into the bleachers.

“I thought that due to the last minute circumstances, the students did a great job of coming up with very unique and creative ideas to design their shopping cart floats.” Holtgraewe said, “It was a little hectic dealing with the changes that the weather brought our way. However, we were able to prepare and make some necessary changes because of the weather.”

Don’t Rain on My Parade

By Patrick Benedict

The major changes to the Homecoming parade

by Kate Atterberry

Girls tennis head coach Jona-than Flaxbart is super excited, proud, and pumped up to see

how much the program has grown in its four years of existence.

“Compared to last season with 1-10 as our record, this season has been phenomenal with the team record 4-6,” Flaxbart said. “Changing the schedule around, along with chang-ing the teams we play has made a huge change on how the season is going.”

Two of varsity’s top ranked players are junior Olivia Pool who ranks number 5, and senior Dan-ielle Hoerman who ranks number 2. Hoerman was a sophomore when she started out on the team, and this is Pool’s second year.

“I’ve improved a lot on my serves and angles,” Hoerman said. Pool also feels that she’s gotten better over the years.

“I think I have improved on my strength, being able to get hard serves, and also being able to hit the ball fast-er, lastly my mind game has improved a lot,” Pool said.

Hoerman has won seven matches so far this season, and Pool has won four. During this season Pool got hurt and is currently out due to a broken wrist.

“My goal was to have mind set, and to encourage my teammates, and to have better serves,” Pool said. Hoerman had a simple achievement in mind.

“My goal is to win more of my singles matches,” said Hoerman.

Pool and Hoerman both agree on the team’s improvement this year and are super proud of how it’s going.

“Tennis is doing very well this year we have definitely improved since last year,” Hoerman said. Pool’s injury has given her a different viewpoint.

“Since I’ve been out from playing at practices and games I get to watch them improve everyday and get better at something they are struggling with,” Pool said. “It’s amazing in my opinion that we as a team are doing really well.”

Making A ComebackGirls Tennis Is Making This Season One Of The Best

Junior Olivia Pool serves to her opponent.

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At SCHS a lot of changes have been made to the build-

ing, one of them happens to be the new STEM lab. The STEM lab is filled with lots of new technology.

“Computers, 3D print-ers, a laser engraver/ cutter, and a lot of other various tools for our Project Lead The Way class,” Dill said.

This new lab has many different and cool tools that Dill and his students love messing with.

“We have different

things that will test the strength of bridges, trusses, a bunch of power supplies, and robotics,” Dill said.

The next three months will be filled with the robotics class getting ready for their competition in February. They will get to start building their robots and continue to build, make changes, to then make sure the robot is all ready for the competition to score as many points as possible.

“The kids love building and playing with the robots,” Dill said.

STEM LabRobots Get A New Home

by Kate Atterberry

Juniors Ethan Ingram and Charles Meyer use the new computers in AIP.

Go With The Flow

Even before the start of school, the “hard hats

required” sign across from the gym has been blocking the entryway to the newly-con-structed bathrooms as a part of the major renovations to the school building. However, according to Head Principal Jeff Walker, in just a few short weeks, the bathrooms will be open to students.

“I have to do a punch list, which is basically the architects having me walk back to make sure everything’s up to standard.” Walker said.

“Once that’s clear, we should be good to go on the bath-rooms.”

And next to the bathroom is the exciting, new bottle filler attached to the water fountain.

“Slowly, over time, we’ll start replacing the water fountains with bottle fillers in appropriate places like in the main commons.” Walker said. “Eventually, the idea is, we’d like to put things in place so when we have big events, like dances, basketball, and volleyball games, we can keep everybody in a specific spot so they don’t roam the building.”

By Patrick BenedictConstruction on new bathrooms soon to end

Cafeteria Construction Cafeteria gets remodeled over the summer

Frank also men-tioned that the new cafeteria looks a lot more organized and cleaner than before. Senior Keila Ruiz likes the new cafeteria, but doesn’t think it was neces-sary. ¨I think we would have been fine with the old cafeteria, but this one does look a lot nicer,¨ she said. Ruiz also men-tioned that this cafeteria has

a lot more room for lines so everyone isn’t ¨squished¨ together. Cafeteria Lead Bonnie Lisalda loves the new cafeteria. ¨It’s so much faster. Kids can get in and out so they have more time to eat their food,¨ she said. ¨I think it just works better this way,¨ she said.

Students were finally able to see all of the changes made to SCHS

over the summer, including the new cafeteria. Senior Elaina

Frank thinks the new cafete-ria looks very nice and has a good flow. ¨Even though I don´t go in the lines much, when I do it moves a lot fast-er than last year,¨ she said.

by Adelaide Hill

As the school year comes to a start, the construction within

the school finally comes to an end. One of the major developments within St. Charles High School this school year, is an addition which is now used by a majority of the student body every day.

“I like the new entrance, it looks a lot more professional so to say. They have something nice to see when first coming into our school,” junior Rhyen Mills said.

One of the many state of the art features the extended entree way holds is new windows, accompanied by new flooring and light fixtures.

my new office is out there because when people come into the building, the first thing that they see is me and my office right there,“ Shipley said.

Though there are many features to Shipley’s new office location, one of his favorites is the company that he shares there.

“I have a roommate. Mrs. Bizelli and I call each oth-er roommates!” Shipley said

Marilyn Bizelli is the attendance secretary at St. Charles High School, who also has an office in the new entrance.“I really do like it here,” Bizelli said. “I like the new security system. It makes me feel like the building is more secure.”

“The windows let in a lot of natural lighting which is nice to see in the school,” freshman Sally Werth said.

In addition to the new entrance, a few of the staff members at St. Charles High underwent some new changes as well, including new office locations and for St. Charles High’s Student Resource Of-ficer, Michael Shipley, his very own office. Shipley said that he loves his new office but does miss one aspect.

“The only thing that I don’t like is that I liked being between the principal and guidance because anytime that the kids were having issues, I would know right away when something was going on, But, I definitely understand why

Making An EntranceStudents and Office Staff walk through new doors to and from school

By Virginia Werth