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Trojan TrumpetMarch 2015 Volume LXXXIX Issue 6 Troy High School Troy, KS 66087

The Drowsy Chaperone cast and crew. Front Row: Allyson Budine, Luke Smith Row 2: Isabella Miner, Madison Marriott, Holly Whetstine, Trae Shelton, Lauren Wigger, Austin O’Conner, Lexi Norris, Ashley Stock Row 3: Haley Horner, Cheyenne Wigger, Nathan King, Collin Jasper, Nathan Gaarder, Derek Franken, Alex Schmille, Jay Whetstine Row 4: Trey Jenkins, Connor McNorton Row 5: Reid Greaser, Brittany Klaus Row 6: Cailyn Anderson, Taylor Scherer. The Troy High School Drama Department performed The Drowsy Chaperone Thursday, March 19, for THS students and Friday and Saturday, March 20 and 21, for the community, with a dinner included on Saturday. Photo by Gentry Duncan

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FBLA members compete at stateby Kori Bennett

FBLA stands for Fu-ture Business Lead-ers of America. Tues-day morning March 24 nine members of FBLA and two sponsors went to Topeka for the FBLA state convention. The students who went were Valerie Mott, Me-gan Schmille, Trae Shel-ton, and Bailey Gron-niger, seniors; Lauren Wigger, junior; Chey-enne Wigger, freshman; and Alanda Jamvold, Sierra Christopher, and Owen Root; eighth graders. The spon-sors on the trip were Mrs. Jene’t Brown and Miss Tori Olberding.

by Jennifer KellerJournalism competitors headed to state

This year, the regional journalism team did the best that they have ever done. Thirty-one entries qualified for state out of 38. In the past, the take-ins were submitted on paper, but this year was different because stu-dents had to submit part of the entries online and part of them were done there. Regionals was at K-State, February 26, and everyone that went placed in at least one event. Receiving first place were Ben Wardlow in Editorial Cartoon, Na-than King in Yearbook Copy Writing, Trey Jen-kins for Headline, Brit-tany Klaus for News-paper Design, and Lexi Norris and Nathan King

as a team for Theme De-velopment. Receiving second place were Braden Grossman for Editorial Cartoon, Jay Whetstine in Year-book Sports Writing, and Jennifer Keller for Layout/Double-page Spread. Receiving third place were Norris in News-paper Sports Writing, Ashley Stock for Edit-ing, Kori Bennett for Editorial Writing, Bailey Schofield for Advertis-ing, Mady Guffy for In-fographics and Student Life Photography, King in Layout/Double-Page Spread, Trae Shelton in Newspaper Design, and Jenkins for Academics Photography. The students receiv-ing Honorable Men-

tion were Ally Budine for Editing; Shelton for Feature Writing, News Writing, Advertising, and Sports Photogra-phy; Guffy for Cutline Writing and Academics Photography; Jenkins in Cutline Writing; Klaus in Yearbook Sports Writing; King in Edito-rial Writing; Schofield for Infographics and Photo Illustration; and Alexis Horner for Photo Illustration. “I was really pleased with the results and es-pecially pleased that everyone who entered qualified in at least one thing” said publications staff sponsor and jour-nalism coach Martha-Jean Rockey. State is at Kansas University May 2.

Above: Regional Journalism Competitors. Front Row: Trae Shelton Row 2: Bailey Schofield, Trey Jenkins, Madyson Guffy Row 3: Nathan King, Ben Wardlow, Ashley Stock Row 4: Brit-tany Klaus, Lexi Norris, Allyson Budine Row 5: Jennifer Keller, Alexis Horner, Kori Bennett Not Pictured: Jay Whetstine, Braden Grossman Photo by Martha-Jean Rockey

The FBLA state con-vention added a chap-ter just for middle-schoolers and they now have their own tests. Tuesday morning was the first of the many ac-tivities. They arrived and attended an open-ing session that included the announcement of the current officers as well as speeches from the candidates running for next year’s office positions. Each speech included different short topics, such as flying pigs and a country scene. The team went to the convention to take objective tests which are just regular tests,

and some took perfor-mance tests, which are similar to speeches. Cheyenne Wigger per-formed a speech, but did not make it to finals. During the business meeting, they installed the new officers, and the local chapter presi-dent, Bailey Gronni-ger, walked across the stage to announce the Troy High FBLA team. Lauren Wigger was in-terviewed to see if she would hold the positon of District 2 Vice Presi-dent, which she won. This means that the Dis-trict 2 Conference will be hosted by Troy next year. District 2 includes

Valley Falls, McLouth, JCN, Horton, Hiawatha, and Pleasant Ridge. An awards ceremony was held later in the evening. The FBLA team went

to the convention not only to compete, but also to represent Troy. The team will find out the results next week.

Right: Junior Lau-ren Wigger is in-stalled as the new District 2 Vice President during the award ceremony at the Kansas Expo-centre in Topeka, Kansas.Photo by Trae Shelton

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The Drowsy Chaperone hits Troy High School stage The Troy High School drama club March 19-21 put on a production of the musical/comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. The Drowsy Chaper-one’s music and lyrics are by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, with book by Bob Martin and Don McKeller. The story behind the produc-tion is that it is a musical comedy about a musical. It all takes place in a New York apartment when the man in the chair (Trae Shelton) puts on his favorite hit record, “The Drowsy Chap-erone.” The audience gets to listen and watch as the record comes to life. As the performance continues, so do the characters’ appearances.

by Madyson Guffy

Jacklynn Clary is headed to Nationalsby Lexi Norris

Junior Jacklynn Clary received many awards at the state conferences. BPA (Business Profes-sionals of America) sponsored the com-petition in Wichita.She represented the Highland Technical Center. She placed first at state in banking and fi-nance, prepared speech, and administrative procedures. She also received awards in the top 10 in business meeting concepts, ad-ministrative concepts, and financial math. She competed in pre-pared speech and wrote a speech over time man-agement that had to be

5 to 7 minutes. She re-ceived a trophy for it. Banking and finance was a test that she took over things about bank-ing and finance, such as how to fill out a bank statement or ap-ply for a loan and ques-tions dealing with cd’s. There was the admin-istrative support team where she competed with other students from the Atchison cen-ter. They also received a trophy for all they did as a team together. Clary brought home three trophies, three top 10 awards, and placed first in all of her events. Clary gets to go to Anaheim, California

May 5-10 to compete at nationals. She plans on having a career that involves business. Clary wishes more people would take the program she’s in because they would get to have great op-portunities like she has been able to have. “Vo-tech is a great op-portunity that everyone should take advantage of. Business Profes-sionals of America is a blast!” said Clary.

There is the bride, Ja-net Van Da Graff (Lau-ren Wigger); the groom, Robert Martin (Austin O’ Connor); Janet’s pro-ducer, Mr. Feldzieg (Jay Whestine); Feldzieg’s future wife, Kitty (Ash-ley Stock); the Drowsy Chaperone (Allyson Bu-dine); best friend of the groom, Georgie (Holly Whestine); and the King Of Romance, Al-dolpho ( Nathan King). Other characters in-clude the gangster pastry chefs (Nathan Gaarder, Derek Fran-ken, Collin Jasper, and Alex Schmille), Totten-dale (Cheyenne Wigger)and Underling (Luke Smith), and Trix the Aviatrix (Lexi Norris). The musical also had extra characters (Madi

Marriott, Connor Mc-Norton, Isabella Miner, and Haley Horner) as show-girls and reporters. The cast and crew served a dinner before

Above: Junior Award Winner Jacklynn Clary.Photo by Lexi Norris

the performance Satur-day with the help of the Trojan Booster Club.

Above: Seniors Alex Schmille, Derek Franken, Jay Whetstine, Nathan Gaarder, and Collin Jasper are about to perform the “Toledo Surprise” scene in The Drowsy Chaperone. Photo by Madyson Guffy

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Speech members bring home medals

by Trey Jenkins

Students receive Kansas Honorsby Alexis Horner

Top: Allyson Budine (middle) signs to play at Kansas City Kan-sas Community College. Seated beside her are her parents, Daryl and Tonya Budine.Above: Budine’s fellow softball players congratulate her after her college softball signing. Photos by Juli Smith

The Kansas Honors Program recognizes and rewards high school seniors for their aca-demic achievements. Each year KU alumni gather for an awards ceremony and honorary dinner. All high-school seniors who rank aca-demically in the top 10 percent of their class are asked to attend as guests of the associa-tion with their parents, principals, counselors and superintendents.

Each Kansas Honor Scholar receives a cer-tificate and a special edition of Webster’s New College Diction-ary, and has a chance to qualify for a $4,000 scholarship to KU. Two THS students were recognized: Trae Shel-ton and Jay Whetstine. “I was excited I got recognized because of all the hard work I’ve put in to getting it,” said Jay Whetstine.

February 14, the team had a meet at Hiawatha and placed fourth out of 16 schools. Lauren Wigger placed fifth in oration; Trae Shelton placed sixth in humor-ous; Nathan King placed second in humorous, qualifying for state; Nathan King and Ben Wardlow placed third in IDA, qualifying for state; Ashley Stock and Ben Wardlow placed second in duet acting, also qualifying for state. February 28, the team went to Perry-LeComp-ton and placed fifth out of 13 schools. Trae Shel-ton placed fifth in seri-ous solo acting; Nathan King placed second in humorous, qualifying for state; and Nathan King and Ben Wardlow placed sixth in IDA. March 14, the team went to Riverside and

Allyson Budine signs with KCKCC

by Brittany Klausplaced fourth out of eight schools. Lane Etherton placed second in prose, qualifying for state; Trae Shelton placed first in serious, qualifying for state, and placed fourth in humorous; Nathan King placed second in humorous, qualifying for state; Nathan King and Ben Wardlow placed second in IDA, qualify-ing for state; and Ashley Stock and Ben Wardlow placed second in DA, also qualifying for state. The team’s next meet will be the TVL meet, April 1, which they will be hosting . The speech team will also be hosting an-other meet, April 11. They will need judges for this meet. If you would like to judge, please call the school at 985-3533 and talk to Martha-Jean Rockey.

March 23 senior Al-lyson Budine signed to play with Kansas City Kansas Commu-nity College. She will be playing softball for the 2015-2016 season and also for the sea-son of 2016-2017. She plans to pitch there. She chose to play for KCK because they offered her a full tuition and books. Budine is planning to go to school for com-munication and then wants to earn her mas-ters in speech pathology, but she’s just going to KCKCC to get her ba-sic, and transfer later. “I’m really excited about this opportu-nity! I can’t wait to begin this next part of my life,” said Budine.

Left: Seniors Trae Shelton and Jay Whetswtine hold the dic-tionaries that they were award-ed at the Kansas Honors Pro-gram dinner in Atchison, Ks.Photo by Laralee Shelton

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American history class goes back in timeby Bailey Schofield, Trey Jenkins, Nathan King

Saint Patrick’s Day the American history class and teacher Mr. Jeremy Prudden and the other social science teacher Jonathan Rodvelt man-aged to go to the Nation-al WWI Museum at the Liberty Memorial with-out coming into contact with a festive parade. The class took the trip when they were study-ingt WW1 in class.

Clubs continue to striveFFA

By Alexis Horner

National FFA week was February 16-20. In all 50 states, FFA planned a week full of activi-ties to promote the FFA. This week shows people what FFA does and also recruits others to join. The week-long tradition started in 1948 because of George Washing-ton’s legacy as an ag-riculturist and farmer. During FFA week, there were trivia questions ev-ery day, breakfast on Fri-day and dress-up days the entire week. Some of the dress-up days included John Deere vs International Day, Western Wednesday, and Blue-and-Gold Day. “I think FFA week went really well even though it was tiring. I really like the different things we did such as the ag trivia questions. Making them hard and to where they couldn’t “google” them or look them up was successful. The breakfast was also

really really good,” said Advisor David Pottroff. Along with National FFA week, some FFA members competed in contests such as ag me-chanics, which placed tenth, and poultry, which placed eighth. Horticulture also re-ceived 1,400 seeds to plant in the greenhouse. All of the plants will be grown in the greenhouse until FFA has the an-nual plant sale in May. Plants such as mari-golds, peppers, cucum-bers, zucchini, wan-dering jews, and many more varieties of flow-ers, hanging baskets, and vegetables will be sold. Coming up in FFA are Livestock judging at Seneca April 1, FFA rewards trip to Worlds of Fun, and the annual FFA banquet April 27.

Band/ChoirBy Lexi Norris

February 25, the band and choir headed to the TVL Music Festival at HCC. The band received a 2 rating. The mixed

T-ClubBy Jennifer Keller

The T-Club hosted the men’s alumni tourna-ment March 13-14. They also hosted it the past year. The tournament is just for men who get together teams and play

SADDBy Kori Bennett

How many students took the pledge to wear their seatbelt every time they get into a vehicle? For the next few months Troy High School is having a drawing at the end of the month. They will draw three names and whoever’s name is drawn will win a 25- dollar Visa gift card. Every month the stu-dents will get the chance to put their name in the box again and the more times their name is in the box the better chance they have at winning. The winners for last

month were Kori Ben-nett, Derek Franken, and Madyson Guffy. If someone is pulled over and caught with-out a seat belt on, their name will be taken out of the drawing. “It was nice and all, but I sold it for $20 dollars,” said win-ner Derek Franken.

choir sang “Angus Dei” and received a 1 rating. The women’s en-semble sang “Circle around the Moon” and received a 2 rating. The men’s ensemble sang “American Folk Rhapsody” and received a 3 rating. Both band and choir are now preparing for their spring concert and regionals, March 28. “We were looking for-ward to the TVL music contest to give us a gen-eral idea of where we are and what we need to do before regional competition. We have that information now and we are working on correcting issues and expanding on the good items that we were giv-en,” said band and choir teacher Matt Allison.

each other in basketball. The T-Club members worked the scoreboard and the score book and helped clean the gym after the tournament was over. The tournament helps get the money for the hall plaques, the letters, and the pins that people achieve. The winning team of the tournament was Brady Jasper’s team. Drama Club

By Trey Jenkins

The THS drama club members recently sold tickets for the dinner the-ater. The dinner theater for The Drowsy Chap-erone was Saturday, March 21. The drama club will also be working the TVL speech meet. “I really enjoy being the president of drama club. The play went ex-tremely well and I am looking forward to host-ing the TVL speech meet on April Fools’ Day,” said senior Trae Shelton.

They went to the muse-um for hands-on learning and more visual aspects of WWI. The students were met at the entrance by an interesting poppy display. The display was a glass bridge that over looks a field that is modeled after a battle field in northen Belgium called Flanders Field. The poppies after WWI were a symbol of veter-

ans. The poppy field that the bridge over looks has exactly 9,000 poppies. Each poppy represents 1,000 men of the 9 mil-lion that died in the war. Students were able to see recreated trenches that were used in WWI, a German submarine mod-el, weapons and other technology designed during The Great War. The museum’s most

special attraction is their Renault FT-17 tank type used by the American army. It dis-plays a gaping hole in its flank, the result from being knocked out by a German shell. Another interesting aspect of the trip was the video that was com-piled of different first -hand accounts of the war. These fincluded

some poetry of the time written by the soldiers. Twenty-one students from the American history class wen-tto the museum. “The students enjoyed the 217-ft. tower at the museum,” said Prudden. “I really enjoyed the poppy bridge” said ju-nior Makayla Ross. “Going on top of the tower was really cool” said junior Chris Winkel.

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Roving Reporter

What is your favorite spring activity?

“ I always like to spend time with my cousins and watch Netflix all day,” said freshman Kassidy Ashworth

“Playing basketball outside every day,” said sophomore Cuttar Huss

“I really like to fish out-side when the weather is good. I also play a lot of sports outside,” said Miss Tori Olberding

“ I really like playing softball because the weather is always nice. Plus I really like soft-ball,” said junior Cailyn Anderson

“I love to listen to my music and take some walks outside when the weather is nice,” said senior Tanner Shelton

by Nathan KingThe secret to a better life: Music

“Music makes you interesting and happy, and smart will come later. It enriches your appetite for things that bring you pleasure and for the friends you meet.”- Dr. Kyle Pruett. Did you know that a musician, whether that be a singer in the choir or a member in a band, has higher neural activ-ity than non-musicians? In fact, a study led by Ellen Winner, professor of psychology at Bos-ton College, and Gott-fried Schlaug, professor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medi-cal Center and Harvard Medical School, found changes in the brain of children who took part in 15 months of weekly music practice. The students in the study, who received music instruction, had

improved sound dis-crimination and fine motor tasks, and their brains showed changes to the networks in the brain tied with those abilities, according to the Dana Foundation. Being musically in-volved, doesn’t only help your motor skills,

but it also improves test scores and social skills in school. A study published in 2007 by Christopher Johnson, professor of music edu-cation and music thera-py at the University of Kansas, revealed that

students in elementary school with higher mu-sic education programs scored around 22 per-cent higher in English and 20 percent higher in math scores on tests, compared to schools with lower quality mu-sic programs. Johnson compares the concen-

tration that music train-ing requires to the focus needed to perform well on a standardized test. It doesn’t end there. Along with doing better on concentration tasks, music training can im-prove one’s memory.

* 99.2% of kids become involved in a music program, the parent/child relationship improves. Parents also find behavior, communicative and social skills become more

positive. *Children involved in music score 7.2 points higher on I.Q. Tests.

*Students who participate in school band have the lowest levels of lifelong use of alcohol.

*Over 2 Million children (and growing) each year are not exposed to a music pro-gram in school.

(Source: Board of Studies, New South Wales, Australia, 2004)

Music can improve abilities in learning and other nonmusical tasks. Other than test score results, there are many positive effects that a good music edu-cation can have on a young child’s success. Music can improve abilities in learning and

other non-music jobs. It is important to under-stand that music does not make one smarter. The many benefits to music education include being disciplined, learn-ing a skill, being part of the music world, be-

ing part of something you can be proud of. “It’s important not to oversell how smart music can make you,” Pruett says. “Music makes your kid inter-esting and happy, and smart will come later. It enriches his or her appe-tite for things that bring you pleasurewand for the friends you meet.” Being musically in-volved helps one to be-come not only a smarter person, but also a bet-ter person who is more understanding of dif-ferent people, as well as having better com-munications skills. Many people haven’t thought about being musically involved; maybe they should give it a try. Maybe it will benefit them not only in school life but in life outside of school.

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Editors in Chief: Trae SheltonStaff:Brittany KlausJennifer KellerBailey SchofieldMadyson GuffyLexi NorrisAlexis HornerKori BennettNathan KingTrey JenkinsNews:

Editorial:Nathan KingBailey SchofieldPhotography:Trumpet StaffAdvisor:Mrs. Rockey

Looking back at Patch AdamsbyNathan King The based on-a-true story movie, Patch Ad-ams is an oldie, but a goodie. Patch Adams stars the late Robin Wil-liams in his quest to revolutionize the way patients are treated in the world of medicine. The movie was directed by Tom Shadyac, who also directed such films as, Liar Liar, Bruce Al-mighty, and many of the Ace Ventura movies. In the film, the main character Hunter “Patch” Adams is try-ing to become a new kind of doctor. The film takes place in the 1970s when Adams is in medical school. While in school, he is introduced to the dean of the college. The dean has a completely different view about patient care. “We’re going to make doctors out of you.” Adams views a doctor as being someone who has a personal connec-tion with the patients

and who wants to make the patients laugh, in-stead of cry and be sad. Eventually, Adams meets several friends at his university and together they establish Gesundheit Institute, a nonprofit organization, to help those who don’t have healthcare and for those who need a place to stay, while working through tough times. The council of doctors get word of this and they aren’t too happy about an unlicensed doctor “treating” people. At the end of the movie, Patch Adams leaves the au-dience on a high note. Patch Adams is an amazing movie that ex-plores the wonders that doctors perform for us, their patients. Thanks to the magnificent efforts of Patch Adams thou-sands of people’s lives have been saved. Many doctors around the world recommend his hospital as one of the best places

to receive good quality, and hilarious healthcare. The real Patch Ad-ams praised the movie for its accuracy of his story. The real Patch Adams commented on Robin Williams’ death, Patch Adams was, how-ever, disheartened to find that none of the cast donated to his hospital. Robin Williams was however a main donor and spokesperson for St. Luke’s Cancer Center. While I watched it for the first time, it was even more saddening knowing that Robin Williams has passed on. This movie pro-vides a good look into how absolutely funny he was. As well as be-ing funny, Williams also shows that he can also be serious and dramatic. This movie tells a spectacular story about a man who is just try-ing make a difference. This movie shows that the best way to receive

the best healthcare is to have a good relationship with your doctor. The movie also shows that humor is usually the best form of medicine a per-son can give to another. This movie may be a slightly older, but it has something that the new movies somewhat lack and that is heart. This movie will make you laugh and cry all at the same time. You will cry for the children whose lives seem lost to cancer and you will laugh when Robin Williams makes a joke. You will feel the emotions immediately. Many movies today are about violence and have hot girls drap-

ing their starved bodies over men with power. In this movie there is none of that. There are only the things that tru-ly matter in the world. These things are truth and compassion and honesty. These are the traits that we are lacking in the world we live in. Although the world has lost a great come-dian, he lives on in his movies that transcend generations. The way he created such a hu-morous atmosphere has truly changed the world.

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Who Knows Brody Winder Best?

Brody Alex Reid Reeces Twix Snickers

When my room isn’t Me being in his room. Luke wearing his clean. clothes. American Sniper 8 Seconds 8 seconds Root Beer Sweet Tea Root Beer Papa Chad Lane Frost Lane Frost Blue Blue Blue

KU KU KU

Favorite candy bar?

Biggest pet peeve?

Favorite movie?

Favorite drink?

Role model?

Favorite color?

Favorite college basketball team?

by Brittany Klaus

Brody Winder, his sis-ter Alex, and his best friend Reid Greaser were eager to see who re-ally “knew” Brody best.

My editorial; my opinionby Bailey Schoefield

Well, this is supposed to be an editorial. What-ever that means. I sup-posedly can’t use “you” or “your” in such a thing. Why? Because it’s too “preachy.” I for one have never written an editorial, therefor I have no idea how to. Also an editorial is supposed to be my opinion. I don’t really have an opinion about anything really, but I know one thing that bugs me: How people treat other people or how we use social media as a way out or a weapon. We might as well be like Animal Farm here.

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“All animals are equal, some more than others.” Everyday life is like this; popular kids over the “loser” kids and jocks over the “geeks.” It’s like this every-where we go. One per-son over another. Even adults do this, not just teenagers. Adults can be rude and just down-right selfish. The only differ-ence is that teenagers are worse than adults. Everyone says high school is where to ex-press yourself. For some students this doesn’t happen because other students will judge them, make rude com-

ments, or post about it on Facebook or what-ever social media they please. Little does any-one know as a human on this earth we can not own other people or tell him or her what to do. Sure we can post about it all we want, but that will not change anything. We’re not in the slave era anymore. We don’t own people or boss them around. Who are we to judge another person by what they like, or what they wear, or what they look like? We are only human. We will judge and be judged. There is not anything I can

do, except maybe post about it on Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram. How about all three? Actually, no! Posting about it won’t stop it. Sure, maybe I’ll get a few likes, shares, and comments, but in real-ity I did nothing in the real world to stop it. I don’t see why peo-ple can’t accept one an-other for who they are and their own being. We’re only human, but we can do something about it. Stand up for ourselves, tell some-one about it, seek help. So this is supposed to be my opinion. Not much,

just a 17-year-old girl rambling about random stuff. What’s it supposed to be about everyone is probably wondering? Well, think about it. Think about how our so-ciety works now. Think about how people treat other people. Think about how people rank themselves compared to other people. Just sim-ply think about it, and then maybe someone will understand my “ed-itorial,” my “opinion.”

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You’ve Been Spotted

Top Row: Cheerleaderts junior Lauren Wigger and freshman Isabella Miner pump up the crowd at the Kansas City Christian Sub-State basketball game. Wigger lounges by the pool, as Janet Van De Graaf , as she shows the other characters how she isn’t going to show off anymore in the Drowsy Chaperone, Senior Jay Whetstine shoots the ball over a JCN defender during the second round Sub-State basketball game. Middle Row: Junior Nathan King and sophomore Madyson Guffy are painting the airplane that Trix (Lexi Norris) used to fly onto the stage. Bottom Row: Senior Collin Jasper receives a special basketball from Coach Dallas Keller after scor-ing over 1000 points in his high school career. Senior Tristan Speer receives a plaque from his coach and father Frank Speer for being the state champion in wrestling. Junior Holly Whetstine jumps for the basketball during the Sub-State game against KCC. Photos by Trae Shelton

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Basketball season has come to a close and now it’s time for baseball, soft-ball, and track. The Trojan baseball team is fresh off a state appearance. Last year, they placed fourth in the state tournament with a 19-5 overall record. This season the baseball team consists of 22 players. They are seniors Jake Ross, Nathan Gaarder, Alex Schmille, and Tristan Speer; juniors, Chris Winkel, Luke Smith, Tucker Mor-ris, and Taylor Scherer; sophomores, Will Smith,

Spring sports in full swingby Trae Shelton

Tristan Speer is two-time state championby Madyson Guffy

Tristan Speer, senior, at THS recently won Troy’s second wrestling champion February 28 in Hays, KS. This is Speer’s second consecutive first -place title and is also his second undefeated season in a row with a record of seventeen pins. He ended his high school wrestling career with a record of 111-14 with a count of 72 pins. Speer, who has not lost a single match since his sopho-more year, had a 61 con-secutive match win streak. At State, Speer won his first match with a 4-2 decision over Coo-per Griffith of Scott City, and a second-round 1-0 decision over Chance Boor of Hoisington, and in semi-finals, Speer pinned Jordan Dole of Norton in the 2nd period. In the championship

Reid Greaser, Brody Winder, Tyler Franken, Alex Martinez, Jarren Frump, Connor McNor-ton, Wyatt Huss, Brant Hamilton, and Cuttar Huss; and freshmen, Lane Etherton, Kolbe King, Brandon Boone, and Austin O’Connor. The team is coached by Head Coach Roger Purdy with Assistant Coach David Pottroff. The Trojans’ first game will be 4:30 p.m. March 30, at Riverside. “I expect that we win state, and I hope we win every single game on the way there,” said Ross.

The softball team is coached by Head Coach Matthew Allison with Assistant Coach Tori Ol-berding. The Lady Tro-jans consist of 17 play-ers. They are seniors Allyson Budine, Ashley Stock, and Alex Winder; junior Cailyn Ander-son; sophomores Andrea Stock, Kassi Meng, Blair Weishaar, Lauren Hill, Kori Bennett, Alexis Horner, Tristan Horton, Jennifer Keller, Brittany Klaus, Madyson Guffy; and freshmen Kassidy Ashworth, Haley Horner, and Madeline Smith.

The Lady Trojans’ first game will be 4:30 p.m. March 30, also at Riverside.“I think by the end of the season, the team should be pretty good at pop and pulls,” said Budine. The Trojan Track team consists of three young men and seven young women. They are ju-niors Holly Whetstine, Cadence King, Preston Robinson, and Lauren Wigger; sophomores Lexi Norris, Kourtney Davies, and Brandon Schofield; and freshmen Brylee Weidmer, Chey-

enne Wigger, and Haley Wells.The track team is coached by Head Coach Emily Purdy and As-sistant Coach Jared Wig-ger. Their first meet is 3 p.m. April 2, at Frankfort. “I’m excited for this year! I expect this track season to go a lot better than it did last year,” said junior and two-time state competitor Whetstine.

round, Speer beat Rex Diederich from Ober-lin with a 3-1 decision. Speer is a three-time state placer and four-time state qualifier. Wrestling for D-West at regionals and Troy at state, Speer was coached by his father Frank Speer. Speer was awarded two plaques at the first round Sub-State basketball game against Kansas City Christian High School.

Top Right: Speer is wrestling against an opponent during the state tournament. Right: Speer stands on the winners’ podium holding the bracket after receiving the first- place medal.

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All good things must come to an end by Brittany Klaus

Lady Trojans are Sub-state Runner-up The ladies had a sea-son of ups and downs, but still accomplished being sub-state runner up. They had a winning record of 13-11. They achieved a lot this season, with having only 11 girls. “I am so proud of our 2014-15 season. A win-ning record and sub-state runner up were great ac-complishments! We were frustrating at times be-cause when we played our best we could beat anyone, but on the flip side when we were bad it was hard to watch. We will miss our seniors a whole bunch, but we have a chance to be really good next year if our un-derclassmen show some dedication to basketball,” said Coach Derek Jasper. With a win against

The Trojans 2014-15 basketball season came to an end with a 19-5 record. They also were the sub-state runner up. Head Coach Dallas Keller said “Success is measured by what you leave behind, and for this group, they have turned this program around. They have made Troy relevant in state once again. Going from four wins to 19 in a four-year window is something I’m very proud for these guys!” The Trojans took on Valley Heights Janu-ary 6, coming out with the win, 58-50. Nathan Gaarder led the stats

by Lexi Norris the KC Christian Pan-thers, 58-37, the ladies won their first round of sub-state. Smith led with 15 points; Marriott, 12; Meng, 7; Winder, 6; Ross, 5; Norris, 5; Weishaar, 5; and Whet-stine, 3. They scored 39 points in the second half. In the second round March 6, the ladies beat the Jackson Heights Co-bras 43-34. Smith led the team in scoring with her season-high of 22 points. Marriott, 9; Whet-stine, 4; Norris, 4; Meng, 2; Winder, 1; and Ross, 1. The ladies scored 22 points in the second half. They had a sad loss to the Valley Falls Dragons 24-41, in the sub-state championship. Winder and Smith led in scor-ing with 7; Marriott, 6; Whetstine, 2; and Ross, 2.

Smith was chosen for second team all Twin-Val-ley League. Winder and Smith were also picked to play in the Kansas All-Star game at High-land Community College. “It didn’t end as we planned, but we accom-plished more than what people had expected! I love my basketball girls!” said Winder. The ladies had a re-cord of 11-10 in the regular season, and junior varsity 9-7-1. They had a tough loss to the Valley Heights Mustangs 39-53, Febru-ary 6. Senior Breanna Smith led the team in scoring with 16 points. Senior Alex Winder had 8; junior Holly Whets-tine, 5; junior Makayla Ross, 3; sophomore Blair Weishaar, 3; junior

Madi Marriott, 2; and senior Ashley Stock, 2. They then lost at home to the Centralia Panthers 46-59. Smith led the team in scoring with 16; Weishaar, 12; Winder, 7; Whetstine, 6; Marriott, 2; sopho-more Kassi Meng, 2; and sophomore Lexi Norris, 1. The ladies scored 25 points in the second half. They won their next game at home against the Linn Bulldogs 52-42. It was also Queen of Courts. They scored 31 points in the first half. Smith and Weishaar led with 13 points; Marriott, 10; Winder, 5; Whet-stine, 5; and Ross, 3. February 20 they played against the Axtell Eagles; they lost 34-48. Smith led in scoring with 18 points. Weishaar had 5;

Whetstine, 4; Winder, 3; Marriott, 2; and Ross, 2. The ladies had a tough loss to the Doniphan West Mustangs, 27-33. Smith led again in scor-ing with 11; Marriott, 7; Weishaar, 5; and Meng, 2. They then had a win against the Riverside Cyclones, 48-20. Wind-er led in scoring with 15 points. Smith, 14; Weishaar, 12; Marriott, 4; Norris, 2; and Ross, 1. The ladies scored 30 points in the second half. “{We}can’t be upset with a winning season. The girls had a tough position where they had to come out strong from the beginning only playing two short quar-ters most games...” said Coach Emily Purdy about the junior varsity, whose record was 9-7-1.

with 20 points, fol-lowed by Collin Jas-per with 14. Gaarder also had 15 rebounds. They then took on Cen-tralia, defeating them 54-38. Reid Greaser led the stats with 15 points and Jasper had 14. Gaard-er once again had the most rebounds with 11. The Trojans then took on the Linn bulldogs de-feating them, 75-38. Jas-per had a high scoring game with a total of 24. Gaarder had 12 points and 9 rebounds, and Wil Smith had five rebounds. The Trojans then took on Axtell with the fi-nal score being 66-56. Jasper once again had the most points with

18, and Gaarder fol-lowed with 12. Gaarder also had 13 rebounds, and Smith had six. The Trojans had nine wins in a row going into the game against county rivals, the Doniphan West Mustangs. The Trojans suffered a hard loss in a close, back-and-forth game. The Trojans lost, 58-59 in overtime. Gaarder led the stats with 12 points, followed by Jasper and Smith both with 11. Gaarder also had nine rebounds, and Smith had six. They then took on the other rival team, the Riverside Cyclones. The Trojans won in overtime, 58-55. Reid

Greaser led the stats with 12 points, followed by Cuttar Huss with nine. Gaarder led the stats with 13 rebounds. The Trojans then took on Kansas City Chris-tian as their first round in sub-state, beating them, 83-64. Jasper led the stats with 16 points, followed by Gaarder with 15. Gaarder also led the stats with 10 re-bounds. Jasper was rec-ognized that night for scoring 1,000 points in his high school career. They then played Jef-ferson County North in the second round of sub-state, beating them, 59-45. Gaarder led the stats with 18 points,

followed by Jake Ross with 12. Gaarder also had eight rebounds. The Trojans’ sea-son ended with a tough loss to Jackson Heights in the cham-pionship game, 61-76. Jasper was elected 1st-Team All-TVL, HM All-State (To-peka Capital Jouranal and Witchita Eagle), and NE Kansaas All-Star Game Participant. Gaarder was elected 1st Team All-TVL, HM All-State (Topeka Capital Journal and Wichita Ea-gle), and NE Kansas All-Star Game Participant. Ross was elected KBCA Academic All-State.

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April 2015Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1April Fools’ Day

FFA Livestock @ SenecaTVL Speech Meet @ Troy

23 p.m. THS Track @ Frankfort4:30 p.m. THS Baseball @ Nemaha Central (Seneca)4:30 p.m. THS Softball @ Nemaha Central (Seneca)

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5 6 7J.V. BB @ Nemaha Central

8 93:30 p.m. THS Track @ Atchison4 p.m. TMS Track @ Oskaloosa4:30 p.m. THS Softball @ Troy vs. Doniphan West6:30 p.m. Kindergarten Parent Meeting.

10Kindergarten Round Up4:30 p.m. THS Baseball @ Troy vs. Doniphan West

11 Speech Meet @ Troy

12 134:30 p.m. THS Baseball @ Troy vs. McLouth6 p.m. Board of Education Meeting

143 p.m. TMS Track @ JCN4 p.m. THS Track @ Seneca4:30 p.m. THS Softball @ Troy vs. MclouthJ.V. BB @ Atchison High

15 16 17J.V. Softball @ Nemaha Central

18Regional SpeechACT TestProm

19 207 p.m. K-6 Music Program

214 p.m. THS Track @ Doniphan West4:30 p.m. THS Baseball/Softball @ Oskaloosa

22FFA Livestock @ Seneca6:30 p.m. TGS Site Council Meeting

236 p.m. TMS/THS Site Council Meeting (HS Office)

244:30 p.m. THS Softball @ Troy vs. Pleasant Ridge

25State Music (Solos & Sm. Ensembles)

26 273 p.m. TMS Track @ Seneca TBA THS Baseball Benedictine vs. Maur Hill6:30 p.m. FFA District Banquet

284:30 p.m. THS Softball @ Troy vs. Maur HillTBA J.V BB @ Maur Hill

29 304 p.m. THS Track @ Hiawatha4:30 p.m. THS Base-ball/Softball @ Imac (Leavenworth)

State Music -- Large groups

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