The Red Hawk Review
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It's More Than A "Yearbook"- It's "Your-Book"
Owning a yearbook is essential because a yearbook is a bundle of memories presented on paper. It is a way to remember the good times and hold your high-school experience in your hands.
If you are interested in playing a part in Stewarts Creek, then you should consider purchasing a yearbook or even joining the Yearbook staff for 2016-2017.
The yearbook staff is now accepting applications for new members! Applications are available in Mrs. Meadows room (107). Please make sure that you have a personal reference from your English teacher.
Jason Martinez, a two year yearbook member, says that joining yearbook was one of his greatest experiences in high-school. "It felt really good for me to help create something for everyone to enjoy, and it is a great way to express creativity in a fun way."
Also, it is not too late to purchase a yearbook for this year; however, time and supply is running out! There are only 70 yearbooks remaining. Yearbooks are on sale NOW for $90. Yearbooks will be sold while supplies last the day of the handout for $100.
If you want to be a part of this memory capturing process by buying your own yearbook or joining the yearbook staff, then now is the time!
-Kali Clem
What's all that Racket?
Spring time has come and that means it is tennis season! The tennis team has started scrimmaging against other schools.
Alyssa Watson, a senior tennis player here at SCHS, feels that "we have great teamwork."
"We sell Sonic cards for our fundraiser," Alyssa stated.
Be ready this season to purchase these cards for discounts on your favorite Sonic foods and to help support your Red Hawks.
Their next game is on Tuesday, March 24th . Come support your Red Hawk Tennis team when they face their biggest rival, Blackman High School.
-Brandon Ruiz
Put to the Test
On March 8th and 9th the Stewarts Creek High School Concert and Symphonic bands when to the Wright Music Hall at MTSU to participate in the evaluation concert.
At the evaluation concert, each band had to have two pieces prepared to perform in front of three judges. They then had to sight read a piece in front of a different judge.
The bands had prepared for this performance since their Christmas concert when they found out that they would be doing the evaluation concert.
Zoe Henry says, "The amount of time I put into preparing these pieces is uncountable. I went to the band room every day during ICU to practice. I think I still have the metronome playing in my head at night from all of the times I used it."
The Concert band went first. They performed "Dancing at Stonehenge" by Anthony Suter and "Songs of Old Kentucky" by Brant Karrick. They got superior scores on both their concert performance and their sight reading performance. The Symphonic band performed "The Suit of Old American Dances, Movement 2: Schottische" and "Movement 3: Western One Step" by Robert Russel Bennett and "Variation on a Korean Folk Song" by John Barnes Chance. They also received superior scores on both their concert and sight reading performance.
-Kelsey Hendrix
Flickin' Frisbee
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is a frisbee! Stewarts Creek High School's Ultimate Frisbee season has finally commenced.
Ultimate Frisbee is a team sport in which players pass a frisbee to a teammate in order to try and score a point by crossing the opposing team's goal line. The sport contains actions similar to football, basketball, and soccer.
Stewarts Creek's Ultimate team is 1-1 in regular season games and were 1-3 in their past county tournament.
Senior Jackson Meguiar is a first-year Ultimate player who found a passion in the sport.
"Ultimate Frisbee is really fun, and I enjoy the workout I get from just one single game," Meguiar stated, "It's a sport everyone should try."
Come out and support the Ultimate Frisbee team as they take on Blackman High School March 15. Go Redhawks!
-Gabby Chesak
Hawks Getting Goals
Get ready, red zone! The men's soccer team prepares to start their season off against Blackman March 15th, 7pm at Red Hawks Stadium.
Stewarts Creek's record against Blackman is 1-2. Last year we beat the Blackman Blaze and show signs of an improving soccer team since our first year. Cameron Reed is a student who has played soccer all three years at Stewarts Creek and also played one year at Blackman his freshman year.
Ever since he was five years old when he watched the world cup in 2002, he has loved soccer. Being around friends and having fun is what he loves so much about the sport. Every summer the soccer team practices in the mornings and trains to get ready for the upcoming season.
Cameron Reed evaluates on his training by saying, "It is very difficult, but the team pushes each other to get better."
Over the course of three years, the men's soccer team has made it to regional finals, but Cameron Reed believes they can go even farther this year.
He stated, "This season we hope to get farther than regionals and make it to state." He and the team are very excited for this season and believe they will win many games this year.
-Jacob Gawthorp
The Time is Near
With Senior Week, prom, and graduation right around the corner, it’s time for our seniors to take some time to reminisce on the last four years of their lives.
They’ve laughed together, cried together, and shared many, many memories together. They have all worked so hard to get to one day in their lives, Graduation Day.
Have we ever thought about asking our own seniors what kind of advice they would give to next year’s upcoming seniors?
Nikita Morgan attended Smyrna High School her freshman year of high school. “One piece of advice I wish I had been told upon entering my freshman year is to choose your friends wisely and don’t tell everybody your business,” she responded.
She also wished she would have dressed nicer and cared a little bit more.
She concluded, “A piece of advice I would offer to upcoming freshman is always try to be the first ones to lunch!”
-Briana Travis
Hope we got to "SEYA" in the 'boro
The "SEYA" book festival for young adults took place at MTSU on March 11-13, and was attended by middle and high schools from surrounding areas.
The SEYA book festival boasted a wide selection of authors; they are all well loved in the reading community. Among these authors were the renowned Maggie Stiefvater and Courtney C. Stevens.
Ms.Hicks and Ms. Collie did a fantastic job of organizing the festival and making sure our favorite authors were well taken care of.
Jerica Parks, a sophomore, was one of the 25 lucky students chosen by our librarians to represent our high school at the festival. While there she participated in three seminars.
Jerica exclaimed, "I didn’t get to get Adam Silvara's autograph which I was disappointed about." She hopes to attend next year to gather the autographs of those that she missed.
The festival is already expected to have more authors than this year. This is hardly unexpected as there will always be new stories to write.
"You could come up here and tell us something and it would be the greatest story I've ever heard. This is all because of the human capacity to spill out life." -Courtney C. Stevens
Work Hard, Play Hard
Sophomore Lady Red Hawks, Lexi Capron and Jamya Rogers, reveal their perspectives toward the Semi-Regional game, which they played against Bradley County on March 5th.
The basketball game transpired in Cleveland and was a major accomplishment for the team because it was their first time playing in a Sub-State game. Winning this game would have meant that the Lady Red Hawks would move on to the State Tournament. Despite their loss, it was a substantial achievement to make it as far as they did.
Capron revealed that the key to successful games is to "work hard from the beginning. "
Although they did not triumph over Bradley County, the team can still reflect on the close relationships that were established during practice time over the course of the season as well as the many other successful games they played.
-Kylie Stephens
Atomic Adventure
Historical Society and the IT club went on a two day field trip to Oak Ridge. Mr. Denton also announced the field trip to his students to fill the extra spot. One of his students, Viviana Cruz, took advantage of this chance and signed up immediately.
When asked which tour she enjoyed the most, Viviana reiterated her experience learning about Titan. She expressed, "The guy seemed really animated about what he was doing."
Throughout the field trip, the students were able to explore many historically and scientifically significant sights. They began their trip with a tour of the Y-12 plant, where much of the uranium used in Little Boy and Fat Man, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was produced. The mixture of historic and scientific tours allowed both groups to remain interested.
Mr. Denton's students were thrilled to be learning firsthand while their classmates studied the same thing from a text book. The trip came to a close with a tour of the graphite reactor that started it all.
-Elizabeth Lancaster
HOSA
HOSA members are hitting the books hard as the State competition on March 22 in Nashville is rapidly approaching.
Students from all over the state will be gathered together in Nashville to compete in the state competition. Competitors are doing all they can in order to move on to Nationals. There are multiple categories such as Dental Terminology, Certain Skills, Public Service Announcements, Clinical Specialty, and more. Some students are competing individually while others are competing in groups.
There are several things needed in order to go to HOSA state competition. In order to even go to state you must place in the top three of the regional competition. You must also have all paperwork filled out by its due date, and it costs $170.00.
Miss Kayla Newton has been in HOSA for three years and is planning on being in the club again next year.
"I went to State last year and I placed first in Clinical Specialty, so I ended up going to Nationals; I did not place. Despite last year at Nationals, I'm also going to state again this year," stated Miss Newton.
When going to State, students may go to the Wild Horse Salon, walk around the mall, or just explore different environments which usually ends up being the competitors' favorite part.
"My overall favorite experience is definitely a toss up between going to California and seeing all the amazing things. Just the feeling of knowing I made it to Nationals was indescribable because I felt like I just bombed the whole competition," explained Miss Newton.
-Ciara Smith
Journalism Club
Supervising Teacher: Mrs. Banniza
Editors: Cami Farr & Brandon RuizJournalists: Gabby Chesak, Kali Clem, Jacob Gawthorp, Kelsey Hendrix, Taylor Huston, Elizabeth Lancaster, Ciara Smith, Jaylon Smith, Kylie Stephens, Briana Travis