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Trojan TrumpetFebruary 2015 Volume LXXXIX Issue 5 Troy High School Troy, KS 66087

Sophomore Brody Winder goes up for a lay-up when the Trojans played Frankfurt in the TVL Tournament. They went on to win the game 75-43. This win propelled them into the fifth-place game, which they won. Photo by Trae Shelton.

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FBLA members compete at District II Conference The Troy High & Middle School FBLA recently competed in the District 2 Conference at Jefferson County North High School. Several students won awards. Trae Shelton got 7th in Business Cal-culations, 10th in Ac-counting 2, 10th in Business Law, 3rd in Cyber Security, 10th for Personal Finance, and 3rd in Mr. FBLA. Lauren Wigger got 2nd in Hospitality Man-agement, 2nd in sports Management, and 8th in Cyber Security. Valerie Mott got 3rd in Banking & Finan-cial Systems and 6th in Business Process.

by Jennifer Keller

The Drowsy Chaperone in the worksare Luke Smith, Chey-enne Wigger, Mady Guffy, Lexi Norris, Connor McNorton, Madison Marriott, Jen-nifer Keller, Tristin Horton, Isabella Miner, Blair Weishaar, and Mc-kyla Barnthson. Cailyn Anderson is student di-rector, assisting Director Martha-Jean Rockey. The Drowsy Chaper-one is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre In-ternational (MTI). The book is by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Mor-rison.

For the spring musi-cal the drama club is performing The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical and a comedy, March 19 at 1 p.m., March 20 at 7:30 p.m., and March 21. The Saturday night show March 21 will be a dinner theater, with the dinner beginning at 6 p.m.; the musical will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner and show are $14, and for the show only for any performance $4 for adults and $3 for stu-dents. Reservations may be made through cast members or by calling the school at 785-985-3533.

by Lexi Norris

Megan Schmille got 6th in Accounting 1 and 9th in Mrs. FBLA. Cheyenne Wig-ger got 9th for Pub-lic Speaking 1. Sierra Christopher got 1st in Keyboarding and 4th in Business math. Owen Root got 1st in Computer Slide Show and 1st in Intro to Busi-ness Communications. Alanda Jamvold got 2nd in Computer slide show and 1st in Intro-duction to Business. Bailey Gronniger, & Cheyenne Wig-ger achieved 6th for Marketing, andBailey Gronniger & Trae Shelton got 3rd in Desktop Publishing. The FBLA will be

going to state March 24th-25th. Lauren Wig-ger is running for Dis-trict II Vice President. FBLA week is this week. The FBLA mem-bers will be handing little things out during some

The Drowsy Chaper-one opened on Broad-way in 2006, winning five Tony Awards. It is a different concept from the traditional Broad-way musical, for it is a story within a story. It begins with the Man in the Chair (Trae Shel-ton) who lives in a New York apartment. He is enjoying the recording of his favorite Broad-way musical of all time, The Drowsy Chaperone. The problem is he never actually saw the show; he knows it only from the soundtrack record-ing of the 1928 musi-cal his mother left him. (Of course, in reality The Drowsy Chaperone exists only within this

play; it was not a 1928 musical.) In the inner story of The Drowsy Chaperone, Janet (Lauren Wigger) is planning to marry the man of her dreams (Aus-tin O’Connor) and give up her Broadway career, much to the dismay of her producer (Jay Whet-stine) and to the delight of Kitty (Ashley Stock), who wants her job. Helping with wedding plans is Robert’s friend (Holly Whetstine) who, because of superstition, urges the Drowsy Chap-erone (Allyson Budine) to keep the couple apart until the wedding, but the producer is trying to break things up, abetted by Aldolpho (Nathan

King). Complicating things are some pastry chefs (Collin Jasper, Derek Franken, Nathan Gaard-er, and Alex Schmille) who are more than they seem. The comedy of the play comes not only from the complications involving the wedding in the inner story (a story which the Man in the Chair admits is pretty flimsy), but also from the continual com-mentary provided by the Man, who starts and stops the story at will. The comedy is varied: witty lines, slapstick, confused identity, silly song lyrics, and even a scene on roller skates. Other cast members

of the days this week. The FBLA also will be going to Worlds of Fun sometime in the spring. Currently, they are selling Earth Candles. They will be selling them until March 10.

“FBLA is a great way to get involved, and it challenges you to be a leader and shoot for the stars,” said Gronniger.

Above: Members of FBLA that attended the District II Conference. Front Row: Cheyenne Wigger, Bailey Gronniger Row 2: Megan Schmille, Valerie Mott, Trae Shelton. Not pictured: Lauren Wigger. Photo by Lexi Norris

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Scholar’s bowl season ends at regionals This year’s scholar’s bowl team was coached by math teacher Sarah Booth. The members of the team were senior Trae Shelton; juniors Nathan King, Lauren Wigger, Tyler Christo-pher, Megan Etherton, and Ben Wardlow; soph-omores Madyson Guffy and Kourtney Davies; and freshman Ike Mor-ris. Other high school students helped in some of the meets. The scholar’s bowl team competed in their first tournament at Hor-ton High school. The JV team, led by Ike Morris, won two out of the five rounds, and the varsity team, led by Trae Shel-ton, won one out of the

by Madyson Guffy

Club Spotlights

NHS is currently help-ing with the Doniphan County Public Library restoration. They are helping to clean out the library and to sort through books and mag-azines. They have also started a program called Break-fast Buddies. They go to the grade school and eat breakfast with the grade-school students. This program is sup-posed to help the grade-school students by giv-ing them someone they can look up to. Some of the kids need a role model in their life.

NHSby Trey Jenkins

five rounds. The next meet was at McLouth High School, and sophomores Kor-tin Blevins and Con-nor McNorton led each team with 11 questions answered correctly. Blevins led the JV team and the varsity was led by McNorton. The JV team then trav-eled to Hiawatha for a tournament where Tyler Christopher led the team with a total of 11 correct answers. The team went on to Centralia and sopho-more Andrea Stock led the JV team with five correct answers. Everyone then traveled to Holton High school to compete in a tourna-

ment where the varsity team was led by Shelton with a total of 12 correct answers, winning two out of the five rounds, and the JV was led by Ben Wardlow and Tyler

Christopher, both having a total of five correct an-swers and winning one out of the five rounds. The team then went to Clifton Clyde for the TVL tournament where

the team won three out of five rounds. Finally the team competed in regionals at Kansas City Christian High School, where they did not ad-vance to state.

Stucoby Jennifer Keller

The Troy High School Student Council mem-bers have been very busy because of Queen of Courts and Valentine’s Day. They first came up with the dress-up days for spirit week. Monday everyone dressed up like a kindergarteners. Some girls had pigtails and tu-tus. Yesterday was color war day. The seniors had black, the juniors had blue, the sophomores had red, and the fresh-man had green. Today is Disney character day, Tomorrow is camo day, and Friday is blue and white day. These days

are meant to pep every-body up for the big game on Friday night against Linn. Stuco has also been selling suckers for Val-entine’s Day. They are selling one for a dollar or five for six dollars. So don’t forget to buy a sucker for anyone and everyone. After the game Friday there will be the annual Queen of Courts dance that the student coun-cil puts together for the students. Janel Anderson will be the DJ for the dance.

FFAby Alexis Horner

FFA recently went to Meat Judging at Pleas-ant Ridge. Andrea Stock, Koltan Constant, Braden Hansen, Alexis Horner, Madeline Smith, and Brant Hamilton were the FFA members who at-tended. At this event they had to go into meat lock-ers and look at pieces of meat and judge them based on their marbling and fat content. The team achieved 7th place in this event. FFA has many more competitions in store, such as horse judging, Western Farm show/

Tractor pull, Ag me-chanics, and livestock judging. They are still selling Trojan Heads for $20 and will be doing other fundraisers throughout the rest of the year.

Above: Senior Trae Shelton and juniors Megan Etherton, Tyler Christopher, Nathan King, and Lau-ren Wigger listen to a question at the TVL meet at Clifton-Clyde.

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Speech team brings home two plaquesby Trey Jenkins

The speech team had a good start to the season January 31, at their first meet in Sabetha. The team placed third out of 14 schools. Many stu-dents earned medals that day. Lauren Wigger placed fourth in prose and sec-ond in oration, qualify-ing for state in both. Ashley Stock placed third in poetry, qualify-ing for state. Trae Shelton placed sixth in serious and sixth in humorous solo. Nathan King placed-fourth in humorous, qualifying for state. Cheyenne Wigger placed fifth in extemp.

“More power-ful than a speeding locamotive.”-Charles-ton Tribune These words describe none other than the world-renowned Boston Brass. The Boston Brass ar-rived February 4 to practice and then per-form with the Troy concert band. The members of the quintet are trumpet player Jeff Conner, trumpet player Jose Sibaja, french horn player Chris Castella-nos, trombone player Domingo Pagliuca, and tuba player and the newest member of the group, Sam Pilifian. The Boston Brass practiced with the con-

Boston Brass performs with Troy High School BandBy: Nathan King

Nathan King and Ash-ley Stock placed second in IDA, also qualifying for state. The team had another meet last Saturday, Feb-ruary 7, at JCN and they placed second out of 13 schools. Lane Etherton placed sixth in prose, qualify-ing for state. Ashley Stock placed second in poetry, quali-fying for state. Lauren Wigger placed second in oration, quali-fying for state. Trae Shelton placed fourth in serious solo and third in humor-ous solo. Nathan King placed first in humor-

ous solo, qualifying for state. Nathan King and Ben Wardlow placed first in IDA, and Ben Wardlow and Ashley Stock placed second in duet acting, also qualifying for state. The team’s next meet is this Saturday at Hi-awatha. At a speech meet ev-eryone usually competes in two different catego-ries. These categories include prose, which is a reading of a story, poetry, duet acting, im-provised duet acting, ex-temp, which is also im-provised, oration, which is a persuasive speech,

cert band from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Although school was let out early due to snow, the band members stayed late to practice with the Boston Brass. During the practice time, the quintet taught the band many new tech-niques to use to improve both sound and quality of the entire band. One of the techniques was a musical “stretch.” The stretch included breath-ing in heavy and exhal-ing and also actually stretching the body to loosen up the muscles. The concert was in the C.W Oliver Gym-nasium and despite the snow there was a great turn out. The Boston Brass played some of

their most known pieces including “Blues for Ben” and “Caravan.” “The Troy band is the smallest band we have ever played with,” said Pilifian. “They are also one of the most well behaved bands we have played with. Their abil-ity to really focus in on what they need to do is unbelieveable. This re-ally is a great band.” The Troy band played their solo piece “Dark Fortress” and played “An Epic Expedition” with the Boston Brass. “It was such a great night! The band as well as the Boston Brass did great. It will certainly be a night I remember,” said Director Matt Allison.

Above: Boston Brass member Sam Pilifian talks with the band about techniques they can use to improve their air support in their solo piece, “Dark Fortress.” Photo by Jeff Conner

informative, humorous solo acting, and serious solo acting. They must perform in their particular category three times that day. Then their points are tal-

lied and the top six go to a final round where they perform one last time for three more judges. Then the three judges deter-mine who the winner is.

Above: Seniors Ashley Stock and Trae Shel-ton hold up the second-place plaque that the speech team earned at the JCN speech meet.Photo by Madyson Guffy

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Candidates chosen for Queen of Courtsby Kori Bennett

Rachel’s Challenge challenges manyby Kori Bennett

April 20, 1999 the worst high school shoot-ing in U.S history took place at Columbine High school in Colora-do. That day 12 students and a teacher were mur-dered and over 27 were injured, not counting the two shooters that took their own lives in the li-brary. The first to die that tragic day was 17-year- old Rachel Joy Scott. She had a theory about a chain reaction that if ev-eryone would just take little steps in doing acts of kindness, it would start a chain reaction and eventually every-

The 2014 – 2015 Queen of Courts will be Friday night at the basketball game against Linn. Spirit week days include kindergarten day, color war day, Dis-ney character day, camo day, and blue-and-white day. It is highly suggested that everyone partici-pate in spirit week so the school can pump up the basketball teams and hopefully get four wins Friday. The first queen candi-date is Allyson Budine. A couple of her many talents are singing and playing the guitar. The second queen can-didate is Mikaela Camp-bell who enjoys hanging out with her friends and

family in her spare time and practicing volley-ball. The third queen is Ashley Stock who likes playing the violin and riding horses and is a member of the speech team. The fourth and final queen candidate is Alex-andria Winder who likes to play basketball, spend time with her boyfriend in Chillicothe, and play fetch with her dog Brax-ton. “It feels good to know that my peers think that good of me and I really appreciate that,” said Campbell. The first king candi-date is Nathan Gaarder. He enjoys playing bas-ketball in his free time, watching Netflix, and

hanging out with his friends and family. The second king candi-date is Collin Jasper who likes working out, play-ing with his dog Curry, and relaxing when who gets the time. The third king candi-

date is Alex Schmille who likes working out, hanging out with friends, and reading his favorite book Game of Thrones. The last king candidate is Jay Whetstine. He enjoys training for foot-

ball, as well as playing it, fishing with his dad and grandfather, and re-laxing. “I didn’t expect to be nominated as a can-didate, but I’m glad I was,” said Schmille.

The 2014-15 Queen of Courts candidates. Front Row: Allyson Budine, Ashley Stock, Mikaela Campbell, and Alex Winder. Row 2: Nathan Gaarder, Alexander Schmille, Collin Jasper, and Jay Whetstine. Photo by Brittany Klaus

one would join in and see how one little act of kindness can go so far and change a person’s life, and that is exactly what Rachel did when she lived. More than 21 mil-lion people have been touched by Rachel’s message and continue to spread her legacy, and each year two million more people are added to that number. Rachel’s father Dar-rel Scott started a foun-dation called Rachel’s Challenge asking every-one to take the five chal-lenges themselves and to encourage friends and

family to take it too. There are five steps to taking Rachel’s chal-lenge. The first step is to look for the best in others; maybe they were caught on a bad day or when they just weren’t themselves so it’s al-ways a wise idea to give people at least three chances to show who they really are. The second step is to always dream big; be-lieve anyone can do any-thing a person sets his or her mind to and wants badly enough and goes after it and doesn’t stop until he or she has made that dream come true.

The third step is to choose positive influ-ence; input determines output. Choose kind people to hang out with, people who make good deci-sions and people who make others want to be kinder. This may keep certain people from go-ing down the wrong path. The fourth step is to speak with kindness. Someone should not say something to someone else that they will regret if that person weren’t there the next day. One thing Rachel al-ways said was, “I have

this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show com-passion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go.” The last step is to start a new chain reaction, if people believe in things that strongly make it known to people, spread it around to as many people as possible. No one never knows; maybe someday this new chain reaction could be just as strong as Rachel’s was.

Editorial Trojan Trumpet February 2015Senior year: not what it was expected to be

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Students dream about becoming seniors for many years because they think it will come with easier classes, less homework, and fresh-men who are afraid of them - I even thought that was how senior year would go - but our ex-pectations about being a senior were way off track. Many responsibili-ties come with being a senior. Getting good grades should be a top priority. Ultimately, your grade-point average and ACT score could deter-mine what college you attend after high school. Grades, accomplish-ments, and extra-curric-ular activities will fill scholarship applications with much-needed sup-port. These applications

Make it; don’t buy itby Nathan King

Love is in the air and couples around the world are preparing for the day of love, Valentine’s Day. The day is spent giving Valentine cards bought at stores and teddy bears bought in stores and chocolate and balloons and diamonds, all of the ordinary things that are connected with St. Valentine’s Day. It’s the same thing every year. It’s the constant bom-bardment of cheaply made gifts that have no meaning, yet nobody thinks to make anything for their special some-one.

are the first step on the stairway to your fu-ture. Just because you are accepted into a col-lege doesn’t mean that you are done filling out future-changing docu-ments. Many parents of seniors have trouble paying tuition for their child’s college career, especially if they have two children going to college at the same time, as in my case. These scholarships with the help of financial aid will help pay for the college that you attend. College could be very expensive, but being a senior also comes with certain expenses. As a senior, you have to pur-chase a cap and gown, a tassel, and graduation announcements. These things could cost up to

over $200. Then it’s time to take some senior pictures. Unless you have a family member taking them, they could get a little pricey. Get-ting professional pic-tures taken are worth it, but they may cost from $80-$400. Senior year is very stressful, but there are three things that you can look forward to at the end of the year: prom, senior trip, and gradu-ation. Senior prom is a big deal for most girls. Finding the perfect prom dress is a top priority for many. Guys go over the much-anticipated ques-tion in their head over and over again. It is just one silly question: “Will you go to prom with me?” It isn’t that hard to say. After months of

stressing and nervous-ness it all will be worth it when you’re dancing the night away with all your friends. Senior trip and gradua-tion are both bittersweet because it may be the last time your whole class will be together. Senior trip is a reward for making it through four long years of high school. On the trip, you have the opportunity to bond with your class-mates in a way that you might not have done be-fore. After senior trip is one of the best days of your high school career: graduation! Graduation seems like forever to get to, but as I have experienced, se-nior year goes by super-fast. It feels as though I just started my senior

year yesterday. Around graduation time, a cel-ebration will be held and your accomplishment will be recognized by all your family and friends. Underclassmen need to get started on some of these things as soon as they can. It is never too early to start thinking about what college you want to attend or what job you would like to have. Waiting for money to fall into your lap or for colleges to contact you is not the way to ap-proach your senior year. I advise you to use the free days that you get and go on some college visit days. Before you know it, senior year is going to come and go, and I promise you it will be worthwhile if you are prepared when it hap-pens.

Most places around the world take part in these basic traditions of Valentine’s Day, but in Slovenia the greatest gift you can give your sweetheart are the flow-ers that you have planted and the honey your bees have made, according to an article written by Slo-venian native Barbara Hunt Vodopivec. This she says symbolizes the entering of spring and the rejoicing that winter is over. The Slovenian people gave what they have worked to make or produce that season. If you want to give the best gift to your sweet-heart go to your printer,

Take a piece of paper and fold it in half, draw a heart on the front, open it up, say Happy Valen-tine’s Day and a sweet note and sign it and you may get kissed. A famous advocate and supporter of people making their own gifts is actor and comedic genius, Nick Offerman. “Prosperity is a good thing, right? Having too many gloves is a state of affairs preferable to working one’s hands raw, yes? Absolutely. But for me, ‘too many gloves’ is symptomatic of a larger deficit that I don’t feel good about. This is why I try harder

at gifts.” Nick Offer-man is a carpenter, boat maker, and artist as well as the man who portrays Ron Swanson in the television sitcom Parks and Recreation. As Of-ferman says, we are a nation obsessed with excess more that origi-nality. To give a home-made gift you dont have to be a Michaelangelo or a Beethoven, you just have to care enough about your sweetheart to make him or her a sim-ple gift. If we can share the values of the Slove-nian people and of Nick Offerman we can

then be able to give the best thing you can give to someone, which is something you have worked to make. If we could do this, if we could resist the urge to go to Walgreen’s and buy all the cliche’ gifts of Valentine’s Day, then maybe we can truly un-derstand what the true meaning of Valentine’s Day is. The meaning is that you don’t have to buy someone something for them to show them that you love them. You just have to show them you care. And there is no bet-ter way to show that you care than a gift made by you.

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The Trojan TrumpetPO Box 160 66087 Volume LXXXIX

Issue 5 February 2015Editor in Chief: Trae SheltonNews Page: Trumpet StaffEditorial Page: Trae SheltonNathan King Calendar: Trae Shelton

Feature Page: Trumpet StaffSports Page: Alexis Horner and Lexi Norris and Brittany KlausPhotography: StaffAdviser: Martha-Jean Rockey

Be careful what you wish for...by Nathan King

original musical al-most to a tee. Some of the very few differences be-tween the movie and the Broadway production were that the movie cut out the songs and insead played the

Have you ever wondered if all of the fairy tales you’ve heard throughout your childhood and your life all coex-isted in one world? In Stephen Sond-heim’s Into The Woods, Sondheim mixes the stories of a generic fairy tale witch who is ob-sessed with being beautiful; a baker and his infertile wife who are hoping to start a family; Jack, who is given a mag-ic bean for his cow and when the bean is planted....well, you know what happens. Little Red, The Big Bad Wolf, Rapun-zel, Cinderella, and two princes are also intertwined in the story. The beginning of the movie ends with everyone get-ting their wish and everyone living happily ever after. This happiness is short lived. All of the characters real-ize that what they wished for might not be exactly what they want. I thought that the film was made well and I also thought that it resembled the

music in the back-round of the scene when the song had originally appeared. I thought that al-though it would have been nice to hear all the songs, having the music still a part of the movie in some way was a good effort to try to encompass all of the magical feel of the original pro-duction. Another difference was the cutting of the baker’s father. The story line between the baker and his father is a very dynamic one. The relationship is strained becuase the baker’s father left

him and his mother and the baker never understood why. In the Broadway pro-duction, the baker and his father share a song to resolve their conflict. In the movie this is cut to a short mystical scene

in which the bak-er’s father speaks to his son in some way that resembles that of a ghost. Another change made in the movie was the changing of the voice of the character. Origi-nally the narrator is a separate char-acter who is killed by the characters in the story because he isn’t telling the story right. In the movie this is cut out and the voice is changed to the voice of the baker. I thought that all of the changes made were small and didn’t affect my feelings toward the film.

The movie over-all was amazing. Both the acting and the singing in the movie were execut-ed well, and the ac-tors seemed to take on the role of their characters well. In some portrayals of Into The Woods the witch is the main character. Although Bernedette Peters starred in the origi-nal production as the witch, the Tony Award for best ac-tress in a musical went to the actress who played the bak-er’s wife instead. As most students of Troy High School know, the high school drama department per-formed this produc-tion in the spring of 2013. Junior Lauren Wigger, who was in

the production in 2013, went to see the movie and told The Trumpet some of her thoughts: “I really enjoyed the musical. I also loved Meryl Streeps’s role as the witch and I loved the song ‘Agony.’ It’s just a funny musical that gets stuck in your mind and sits there forever!” Into The Woods is still being shown at the St. Joseph Regal Theater and is com-ing out on DVD this March. Take my word for it; this production is one of the best films that has been in the-aters for quite some time. I recommend it for its spectacular cast and its amazing message to be care-ful what you wish for.

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History book to be sold by publications staff

Roving Reporter

What do you like to do on Valentine’s Day?

“Planning on stay-ing at home,eating chocolate,and crying. Maybe I’ll watch a movie,” said sophomore Andrea Stock.

“I’m getting a stuffed bear and something else that’s sweet for my awesome girlfriend,” said freshman Lane Etherton.

“Probably working somewhere, unless some lucky woman takes me out.” said janitor Brian Clary.

“ I just plan on sitting at home by myself,” said junior Taylor Scherer

“Hanging out with my boyfriend, Troy,in Troy,” said senior and Queen of Courts candi-date Alex Winder.

by Nathan King

by Madyson Guffy

This year’s publica-tions class has been working on a history book for anyone who would be interested in looking back at Troy and the high school to see where it all began. The book will be sold for $50 and it includes pictures of the clubs in the high school, as well as sports, activities, and fine arts. There will also be pictures of the banks and churches in town. It also tells of things in the world that have hap-pened in each decade since the 1920s. This book is 148 pages long and will include stories of each of the sections. The publications class, overseen by Mrs. Mar-

tha-Jean Rockey, has been working on this book since school start-ed, and it is definitely a long time in the making. It was started by two pri-or classes and the publi-cations staff is excited to finally see the outcome. The book was edited first by Courtney Klaus, who graduated last year, and then by this year’s senior Trae Shelton. Through hard work and through a lot of patience, it has finally come together and the publications staff hopes it will bring back the great memories that the graduates of Troy High school have made. There will be an ar-ticle in the Kansas Chief about the sale of the

book and it will also be on the Troy High School Website. (www.troyusd.org) As of now the publi-cations staff is not quite ready to be taking sub-scriptions, but the staff would like everybody to think about buying a book. If not for this mo-ment, then for a grand-child or for future gen-erations to come.

Right: This is the cover of the history book that will capture the history of Troy and Troy High School and will be published by the publications staff. The cover was designed by Courtney Klaus.

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You’ve Been Spottedby Trae Shelton

Top Row: The scholars’ bowl team poses in front of a watchtower that was used during WW2 in Concordia, Kansas, where they stopped after the league meet in Clifton-Clyde. Junior Holly Whetstine shoots a free-throw during the game against Doniphan West. The Trojan dance team performs to “Turn Down for What” during the halftime of the game against Imac. Row 2: Senior Nathan Gaarder goes up for a lay-up as two Imac defenders try to block him. Sophomore Kortin Blevins pins an opponent at the meet at Doniphan West. Row 3: These are the students who participated in yesterday’s spirit week day which was color war. Others participated, but were not in the picture. Photos by Trae Shelton, Sarah Booth, Brittany Klaus, and Jared Pickerell

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Who Knows Who Best?

Wil Mrs. Smith Mikaela Hershey’s Bar Reese’s Reese’s

People biting their fork Messed up hair None

American Sniper American Sniper American Sniper

Mountain Dew Sonic Cherry Limeade Mountain Dew

My Brother Any Baseball Player Any Baseball Player

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 Trae Shelton Wil Smith, his mother Juli Smith, and his girlfriend Mikaela Campbell were curious to see who really “knew” Wil the best.

Wrestling team pins their way through the seasonby Alexis Horner

Last year, Tristan Speer, senior at Troy High School, went un-defeated 37-0 and won a 195-pound Class 3-2-1A Kansas State Wrestling Title. Speer became the first-ever state champion for the Troy wrestling program. He currently is ranked first in the state in the 195-pound weight class. This season he has gone undefeated with a 10-0 record, and he is also number one in the state. Wrestler, Kortin Blevins’ season was cut short due to a labrum repair in his shoulder. He is expected to be

well and healed by sum-mer. During his season Blevins had 10 wins and 7 losses. Starting February 20 will be regionals held at St. Mary’s. “I wish I could have finished the season. I felt I had a pretty good chance to go to state,”

Above: Senior Tristan Speer pins an opponent at thhe Doniphan West wrestling meet.

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Lady Trojans continue with ups and downs The ladies continue going back and forth from losing and winning with a record of 9-6. The Lady Trojans came back after Christ-mas break with a win against the Blue Val-ley Rams 53-38. Senior Breanna Smith led the team with 21 points, followed by junior Makayla Ross with 11, senior Alex Winder with 9, junior Holly Whets-tine with 3, junior Madi Marriott with 3, sopho-more Blair Weishaar with 3, sophomore Kassi Meng with 2, and senior Ashley Stock with 1. They won their first home game after the break against the Im-maculata Raiders 51-27. Smith again led the team in scoring with 13 points; Weishaar, 10;

by Lexi Norris

Trojans continue their winning seasonby Brittany Klaus The Trojan basketball team continues to suc-ceed as they have a re-cord of 13-3. They de-feated the Immaculata Raiders in the first home game after the break, 70-32. Collin Jasper led the stats with 13 points, followed by Cuttar Huss and Nathan Gaarder, both with 11. Gaarder led the stats that night with seven rebounds. The Trojans then played Washington County, losing 41-59. Jasper again led the stats with 11 points and Gaarder had 9. Gaarder also had a total of eight rebounds. Following him were Jake Ross, Wil

Smith, and Alex Sch-mille with four each. The Trojans came back with a victory, beating Onaga 43-40. Gaarder led the team with 10 points, followed by Huss with 8. Gaarder had 11 rebounds, followed by Jay Whetstine with 9. The Trojans then took on an undefeated team, Maur Hill Mount Acad-emy. After a long, back-and-forth battle, the team took the win, 56-51. Jasper led the team with a total of 24 points and Gaarder led with 11 rebounds. The Trojans then en-tered the TVL tourna-ment at Onaga as a fifth seed. The Trojans took

on Blue Valley as their first game of the tour-nament, defeating them 86-36. Huss led the stats that game with a total of 14 points, followed by Smith with 13. Smith also led the stats with a total of 11 rebounds. They then had a tough loss against Doniphan West in the second round, 55-60. Jasper had 15 points and Gaarder had 11. Gaarder also had eight rebounds and Sch-mille had five. This was also a back-and-forth game. “The season has gone well so far, but our loss-es have been very disap-pointing,” said Gaarder. They then played

Frankfort, defeating them 75-43. Jasper led the stats with 17 points, followed by Smith with 16. Gaarder led with eight rebounds and Jas-per had six. They then played the second seed, Centralia, as their last game in the tournament and won 51-44. Jasper had 10 points, followed by Ross with 8. Whetstine had seven rebounds and Smith had six. They got 5th place overall in the tourna-ment. The Trojans recov-ered from their last ri-valry game by defeat-ing Doniphan West 77-55. Gaarder led the stats with 20 points fol-

lowed by Jasper with 13. Gaarder also had a total of ten rebounds and Ross had five. They then took on the Clifton-Clyde Eagles, defeating them, 70-35. Gaarder had 16 points, followed by Jasper with 13. Gaarder also had ten rebounds that night. Next, they played Frankfort, defeating them 79-46. Huss led the stats with 18 points, followed by Jasper with 17 and Gaarder with 14. Gaarder also had eight rebounds followed by Whetstine with six.

Marriott, 9; Ross, 7; Whetstine, 5; Winder, 3; Meng, 2; and Norris, 2. The ladies then had a rough loss to the Wash-ington County Tigers 18-66. Weishaar led with 8 points; Marri-ott, 3; Ross, 3; Smith, 2; and Whetstine, 2. With a win against the Onaga Buffaloes, the Lady Trojans won their third game after the break 51-39. Marri-ott led the team in scor-ing with 15; Winder, 11; Smith, 10; Whet-stine, 6; Weishaar, 5; Meng, 2; and Ross, 2. They scored 27 points in the second half. “Some nights we are on and some nights we aren’t. But we are do-ing better than people thought we would be doing,” said Marriott.

The ladies then had a close match with the Maur Hill Mount Acad-emy Ravens winning 37-34. Smith led with 13 points; Marriott, 10; Whetstin, 8; Winder, 2; Ross, 2; and Weishaar, 2. They then entered the TVL Tournament as the fifth seed. With a win against the Frankfort Wildcats 57-33, they had won three games in a row. Smith led with 16 points; Whets-tine, 13; Weishaar, 12; Marriott, 7; Meng, 4; Winder, 3; and fresh-man Cheyenne Wigger, 2. This win advanced them to the second round of the tournament. With a loss against the Axtell Eagles 34-43, their winning streak was broken. Smith led with 10 points; Mar-

riott, 8; Weishaar, 6; Whetstine, 3; Winder, 2; Meng, 2; and Nor-ris, 1. They scored 20 points in the second half. They lost to the Wet-more Cardinals 38-42. Weishaar led with 14 points; Smith, 7; Win-der, 6; Marriott, 5; Whet-stine, 2; Ross, 2; and Norris, 2. They scored 21 points in the second half. Their last game in the TVL Tournament was a win against the Doniphan West Mus-tangs 44-24. Weishaar led with 18 points; Winder, 12; Smith, 4; Whetstine, 4; Marriott, 4; and Ross, 4. The la-dies received seventh place in the tournament. The ladies then had a rough loss to the Don-iphan West Mustangs 28-38. Weishaar led in

scoring with 8; Smith, 7; Meng, 4; Winder, 3; Whetstine, 3; and Mar-riott, 3. They scored 21 points in the second half. “We have had our ups and downs but I really love this team! When we are playing well we can compete with anyone, but when we are playing bad it is hard to watch,” said Coach Derek Jasper. They then won against the Clifton-Clyde Ea-gles 43-37. Smith led with 18 points; Marriott, 8; Weishaar, 7; Whets-tine, 6; and Winder, 4. They scored 29 points in the second half. The ladies then won a close game against the Frankfort Wildcats 39-38. Smith led in scoring with 14 points. Marriott, 8; Weishaar, 8; Winder, 5; and Whetstine, 4.

FebruarySun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2MS Girls & Boys OTL BB Tourney @ Frankfort

34 p.m. HS BB @ Troy vs. Frankfort

4Boston Brass Performance - 7 p.m.

5Regional Schoalar BowlMS Girls & Boys OTL BB Tourney

64:45 p.m. HS BB @ Valley Heights

7Speech @ JCNACT Test

8 96 p.m. Board of Education Meeting

104:45 p.m. HS BB @ Centralia

116:30 p.m. TGS Site Council Meeting

12 13Queen of Courts4 p.m. HS BB @ Troy vs. Linn

14Speech @ Hiawatha

15 16NO SCHOOL!!

17 18 19 204:45 p.m. HS BB @ Axtell

21 Speech @ Royal Valley

National FBLA Week

Wrestling Regionals22 23

4 p.m. MS Scholars Bowl @ Troy

26Regional Journalism @ K-State5 p.m. HS BB @ Riverside

25TVL Music Festival @ HCC 6:30 p.m. Kansas Honors Program

244:30 p.m. HH BB @ DWest

27 28Speech @ Perry-Lecompten

Wrestling State

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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