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APRIL 2015

Trinity TimesThe Monthly Newspaper of Holy Trinity Catholic High SchoolVolume 15, Issue 7

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LIFE AND ARTS Page 6

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SPORTS Page 8

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by Catherine LowryLife and Arts Editor

Holy Trinity recently won the TAPPS State Aca-demic 2A Championship for the fourth time in a row and ninth time overall.

“I’m very excited with how we did,” Head Coach Chris Mosmeyer said. “I think it seems like ’yeah, we do [win] all the time’ but ev-ery year it’s hard. We start-ed working on this last April and we are already working on next year. So, really, it’s a year round effort,” Mr. Mosmeyer said.

Nineteen students com-peted in seven speech

events, eleven academic testing events and year-book. Fifteen out of the nineteen students placed in the top eight and Holy Trin-ity placed first in seven out of the nineteen events.

Placing for the Celtics include Jillian Lauver with three golds and one silver, Thomas Mosmeyer with three golds, Neyda Camer-ena with one gold, Danielle Hallissey with one silver and one bronze, Zayne Clay-ton with one silver and one bronze, Travis Blackburn with one silver, and Alberto Dueñes with one bronze.

See “State” pg. 2

Holy Trinity’s State Forensics Team poses for a photo with their newly acquired awards after returning from the Waco Convention Center, where the tournament was held. Teachers Jennifer Laxton (left) and Chris Mosmeyer (right) are the coaches for the team. (Photo courtesy of Pam Oman)

FACT wins ninth state title

HT raises $770 in Penny Warsby Jack DowlingStaff writer

Each year, Holy Trinity does several fundraisers, and one of the most com-petitive inter-family fund-raisers is the penny wars.

This fundraiser used to support the Leukemia So-ciety, but Ms. Jennifer Lax-ton chose to find another organization to support, the Families in Crisis located

in Killeen, as the Leukemia Society supported Stem Cell research.

Ms. Laxton enjoys host-ing the penny wars every year.

“I really like the idea of penny wars, especially the fundraiser. It helps a lot of people, and I’m glad we have the chance to do it ev-ery year,” Ms. Laxton said.

Basically, each fam-ily contributes different

coinage to their respective jars, with each coin being worth a different amount of points. A nickel is worth five points, a dime 10, and a quarter is worth 25. This may seem simple, but there is a twist. Pennies subtract a point from whatever jar it’s currently in.

Because of this, pennies are used as a way to take

See “Penny” pg. 3

Seniors perform live Stations of the Cross

The class of 2015 has performed the live Stations of the Cross at the school for the past four years. This year, they added more movement to create a more moving experience because it is their last year of performance. The class of 2016 will most likely take over Stations next year and attempt to fill the shoes of the former senior class. (Photo by Kimberly Gil)

Students scramble for Easter eggsby Julia JonesNews Editor

Why did the Easter egg hide? Because it was a little chicken!

Every year, the Interact Club puts on an Easter egg hunt for students. This year, it was held on Wed. Apr. 8 during lunch. Proceeds go towards supporting Marie Conteh, a girl from Sierra Leone that the club spon-sors.

Interact President Rebec-ca Lindberg shares her rea-sons for putting on the hunt

every year.“The egg hunt is a ton of

fun for the students but also a great way for the club to raise money for Marie,” Re-becca said.

Many students from

freshmen to seniors love to participate in this event. Since the price is only two dollars and the eggs are filled with candy,

See “Eggs” pg. 3

Freshmen show off their prizes after the Easter egg hunt. (Photo by Veronica Alonzo)

by Colette Glorioso Staff writer

Holy Trinity students went to Christ the King Church on Tues. Mar. 24 for the Mi-chael James Mette concert. Some students drove there in the morning, while some rode the bus.

After students returned to the school, there was an al-ternate schedule due to the time of the prayer service. The guest presentation went from 8:00, the start of the school day, to 9:30.

The concert consisted of Michael James Mette sing-ing some songs and his wife sharing their story.

“The concert was a lot of fun. I really liked how his wife shared about their life

while he played music.“It was really cool,” said

Laura Williams, a sopho-more at Holy Trinity.

“It was a great way to wake up. He has big things ahead in his life. It made me feel blessed that he would do this for us,” said Davis Kur-tin, a junior.

Principal Veronica Alonzo said Mrs. Rockwood, a Holy Trinity parent, saw him per-

form in Dallas. “She saw him at a Dallas Ministry Fair and she brought him to us,” she said.

Michael and his family will continue to tour around the country putting on shows for students and churches while preaching the gospel.

On behalf of the student body, we thank Mr. Mette and Mrs. Rockwood for mak-ing this concert possible.

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Easter breakEach year, Holy Trinity takes the Thursday,

Friday, and Monday surrounding Easter off in order to honor some of the most impor-tant events in history: the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus. These days are meant to be spent in prayer, reflection, and rejoicing. Students returned to school on Tues. Apr. 7.

--Julia Jones, News Editor

PromStudent Council organized the Holy Trinity

Prom this year on April 25. The dance took place at Wildflower Country Club from 8 until midnight. The students voted for the Prom theme this year and chose James Bond. Prom King was Michael Mercado and the Prom Queen was Andrea Reano.

--Sarah Baker, Copy Editor

NHS Induction The National Honor Society is supported by

four pillars: character, scholarship, leadership, and service. On Fri. Apr. 11, five Holy Trinity sophomores were inducted into the society.

The newly inducted students are Catherine Lowry, Brittany Parks, Myra Mudassar, Ivan Cruz, and AraBelle West. These students join 21 juniors and seniors as members of NHS.

“I feel more responsible for my actions now that I’m in NHS. Now I’m not just represent-ing my school, but also the [National Honor Society],” AraBelle said.

--Julia Jones, News Editor

Celtic Shorts

Trinity TimesThe official student newspaper of Holy Trinity Catholic High School

“Building the Christian Leaders of Tomorrow”Trinity Times is published in the middle of the month in October, December, March, and

May, with an online issue every other month.It serves the community of Holy Trinity Catholic High School.

Your comments, suggestions, and donations are welcome!

To contact Trinity Times, write to:Trinity Times

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Faculty Adviser: Chris Mosmeyer Editor in Chief: Rebecca Lindberg

News Editor: Julia Jones Life and Arts Editor: Catherine Lowry

In-Depth Editor: Collin GloriosoCopy Editor: Sarah Baker

co-Sports Editor: Brittany Parksco-Sports Editor: Jack Pliska

Staff writers: Colette Glorioso, Kamarqui Cedeno, Jack Dowling,

Elizabeth Nash

Statefrom pg. 1

Neyda Camarena: 1st SpanishThomas Mosmeyer: 1st Persua-sive speaking, 1st Lincoln Doug-las Debate, 1st Orginal Oratory Jillian Lauver: 1st Prose Inter-pretation, 1st Solo Acting, 1st Poetry Interpretation, 2nd Duet Acting Zayne Clayton: 2nd Duet Act-ing, 3rd Prose InterpretationTravis Blackburn: 2nd Social StudiesDanielle Hallissey, 2nd Persua-sive Speaking, 3rd Original Ora-tory, 5th Lincoln Douglas DebateAlberto Duenes: 3rd SpanishJulia Jones: 4th Spelling, 4th Solo ActingNatalie Lauver, 4th Duet ActingSarah Baker: 5th Literary Criti-cism, 6th Social StudiesJohn Escobedo: 7th Advanced MathDuyen Nguyen, 7th CalculatorBlaise Mosmeyer: 8th Poetry

State Award Winners“I feel so proud of Holy

Trinity. It feels awesome to know that all of the hard work and hours spent prac-ticing have paid off,” com-petitor Colin Rockwood said.

Holy Trinity won with a total of 143 points, 101.5 from speech events alone. Ten points are awarded for every first place, eight for every second place, six for every third place, and so on. Holy Trinity won by 55.5 points, and beat thir-ty-two other schools.

Since 2004, Holy Trin-ity has never been below second place. Last year, they won by 32 points and this year they won by 55, making this their second highest margin of victory ever. This year, Holy Trin-

ity earned its highest num-ber of points yet, even with fewer entries.

Although this brings the close of forensic tourna-ments for this school year, those students who quali-fied for the NSDA National Tournament will travel to Dallas and compete there. Those who qualified are Julia Jones and Collin in Duo Interpretation, Thom-as Mosmeyer and Danielle Hallissey in Public Forum Debate, and Jillian Lauver in Humorous Interpreta-tion.

The forensics team also plans to hold a practice week over the summer to help incoming speakers and to refresh returning members of the team.

Holy Trinity treated to concert

College AcceptancesRebecca Albers: Texas A&M Univ.*Sarah Baker: Univ. of Dallas*Travis Blackburn: Univ. of Texas-SA*Neyda Camarena: UMHB, Houston Baptist Univ., St. Edwards Univ.Kamarqui Cedeno: American Music Dance Academy, UMHBAndrea Cyr: UMHB, Barry Univ.Alberto Duenes: St. Marys Univ.John Escobedo: Texas A&M Univ.*Karson Kasberg: Texas Tech Univ.*Rebecca Lindberg: Texas State Univ.*Michael Mercado: Texas Tech Univ*Zachary Moore: Texas A&M-West*Pavia Ann Muringathuparambil: Univ. of Texas-Austin*Elizabeth Nash: Blinn College*Simon Pinkston: Univ. of North Texas, Tar-leton State Univ. Nathanael Powers: Michigan State Univ.*Zeyad Rabie: Texas Tech Univ.*Andrea Reano: Texas Tech Univ*Mariah Rios: UMHB, Stephen F. Austin State Univ., Tarleton State Univ.Tristan Vasquez: St. Edward’s Univ.*Sophia Weisbruch: St. Gregory Univ.*Carolyn Wiedenfeld: Aveda Institute of Aus-tin*

* - denotes chosen school

Michael James Mette performs for students at Christ the King Catholic Church in Belton. (Photo by Kim Gil)

GODSTOCK

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Pennyfrom pg. 1senior Nathanael Powers.

“Yeah, I get very com-petitive when it comes to interfamily competitions,” Nathan said.And he’s not the only one. Both staff and students alike hope to win the com-petitions (all in the pursuit of charity, of course).

Winning the first week for most weight was Killian.The second week was given to the family with the least

amount of pennies, Co-lumba, and Finnian took the win on the third week for most bills.

Finally, the overall win-ner for the Penny Wars, using the point system and winning a free Olive Garden lunch, was Finnian. This is the fourth year in a row that Finnian has won the Penny Wars. All the families to-gether raised $770.80 for charity.

Eggfrom pg. 1

filled with candy, students are drawn to the festive competition. One such stu-dent is junior Jillian Lau-ver.

“I like having a small break from the everyday routine,” Jillian said. “It’s just a nice break from the normal, a chance to have fun and to let loose a bit. It’s always fun, plus the friendly competition is a

nice stress reliever.”This is one of the major

Interact fundraisers of the year along with the Hallow-een Candygram sale, which raised over $150 this year.

The club will also host the senior water balloon throw in May as a fund-raiser.

Members of the Interact Club brought in the items to be used in the hunt, such as

the bags, eggs, and candy, and set up the eggs around the school.

The hunt was campus-wide, and the large area adds to the fun.

The Easter egg hunt was once again a success in kicking off the Easter sea-son. The hunt only raised about $30, but it also raised the spirits of the students who participated.

Freshman John Castro helps out at the Good Friday walk on Apr. 3. The walk goes from Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Mary and then to St. Luke from noon to 3pm. Many stu-dents attended the walk and Castro along with Max Woytex assisted. (Photo by Rebecca Lindberg)

Many Holy Trinity Students attended Godstock, a retreat and music festi-val, on Apr. 11-12. Students attended with a group from St. Luke Catholic Church in Temple. The group camped out and attended mass on both dates. Matt Maher and other musicians per-formed throughout the weekend. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Baker)

Football, fun, and gamesColumba hosts annual Powder Puff game for Holy Trinity studentsby Rebecca LindbergEditor in Chief

Powder Puff was held on May 1 starting 9th period.

Powder Puff is a form of flag football where the girls play and the guys are coaches. This year, Killian came out victorious while Aidan came in second, Columba in third, and Finnian in fourth.

Each family fielded a team and the families played in a tourna-ment style. Each family played two games. Killian and Aidan, after winning their first games, advanced

to play for first or second. The teams were given practice

time during atheltics on Apr. 28 and 30. Columba Family Head Neyda Camarena feels that Powder Puff is a great social event for the school.

“I am excited about Powder Puff this year. It was a great experience for myself as a senior and a great way for all the families to come to-gether. I hope the tradition contin-ues on,” Neyda said.

Powder Puff has been hosted for many years by the Columba fam-ily.

The Killian family poses for a picture at the Pow-der Puff football game. (Photo courtesy of Veronica Alonzo)

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IN-DEPTH APRIL 2015

Success: who, how, when?by Collin GloriosoIn-Depth Editor

Standing in the lime-light, soaking up the ad-oration of countless fans, watching the money roll in… This is how many people envi-sion success. What many don’t real-ize is that success is actually so much more.

“I think success is being happy and confident in what you’ve achieved,” Senior Libby Nash said.

While success is often defined as having fame or mountains of cash, people such as Libby would argue that it is re-ally just being content with where you are in life, or working to get

there.Some people would

not consider themselves successful until they had a certain amount of mon-ey, or a certain number of followers on Twitter.

Other people can say they are successful when they have enough to feed their family that week.

“Getting to work on time, being able to sit down and have dinner as a family, being able to spend time each day in

prayer or reading Scrip-ture--these are all suc-cesses,” said the school’s Director of Advance-ment and Admissions, Lindsay Fredenburg.

For many people, suc-cess is simply graduating high school or col-lege.

“[After gradu-ation], I am going to feel better pre-pared for what-ever is thrown at me in life,” said Karson Kasberg, who will be grad-uating in May.

Success, like so many things in life, is relative. This month’s in-depth takes a look into success, and how it has shaped the lives of those around us.

What is success?

‘Getting to work on time, being able to sit down and have din-ner as a family, being able to spend time each day in prayer or reading Scripture--these are all successes.’

-Lindsay Fredenburg,Director of Advancement and

Admissions

The Holy Trinity Class of 2014 celebrates their success after their graduation last summer. All but one of the students have gone on to college. David Weisbruch is currently serving a year of missionary work with NET Ministries. He will go on to col-lege next year. (Photo by Collin Glorioso)

Laying the foundation for success

The Holy Trinity FACT team celebrates their success at the El Campo tournament in January. (File Photo)

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that

whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

-Vince Lombardi

Success is not final, fail-ure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that

counts.-Winston Churchill

Desire is the key to mo-tivation, but it’s determi-nation and commitment

to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commit-ment to excellence - that will enable you to attain

the success you seek.-Mario Andretti

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

-Henry Ford

Always be your-self, express your-self, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and

duplicate it.

-Bruce Lee

Success: who, how, when?




Success: who, how, when?




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Success: who, how, when?HT Speaks:“What is your definition of success?”

Hannah LieberFreshman

“It’s basically whenever you fail, you can get back up again. It’s not actually recieving the award, it’s the effort

you put into reaching it.”

AraBelle WestSophomore

“Doing exactly what you planned on doing, and being happy that you did it.”

Jonathan YostenCoach/Athletic Director

“Success is not necessarily winning, but setting realistic goals and working hard to reach them.”

Andi CyrSenior

“Success is the culmination of all your talents... to crush those who oppose you.”

Davis KurtinJunior

“Success: the favorable or prosperous termination of at-tempts or eneavors. -Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language: New Deluxe Edition”


Laying the foundation for successby Kamarqui CedenoStaff Writer

According to Webster’s Dictionary, success is “the act of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame”.

Students studying at Holy Trinity gain wealth by the knowledge that the teachers provide to them.

“The teachers at Holy Trinity have assisted me in building my confidence and have prepared me in my next endeavor, going to college,”

said Senior Tristan Vasquez.The staff members’ abili-

ties, qualities, and achieve-ments are what students can embody for themselves to be successful.

At Holy Trinity, with the amount of clubs or extra curricular activities, one can expand his horizons and gain recognition.

Many faculty members believe that the way to achieve success is by hard work and dedication.

“In order to achieve suc-cess, students should work

hard and take rigorous class-es during high school,” said Counselor Cheryl Sanders. “Even after high school, they should also work hard to continue their education.”

Holy Trinity gives stu-dents the resources neces-sary to prepare them for future learning, which they can implement towards their college and employment en-vironment.

There are few students who have achieved success by staying up long hours to study and maintain good

grades.“With good work ethics

and the willingness to chal-lenge yourself to take AP classes will help you in the future to become success-ful,” said Alumni Gleiser Cedeno.

The foundation for suc-cess is laid in high school, and many would agree that an education at Holy Trinity gives students a particular advantage for gaining suc-cess throughout their lives.


Life and ArtsTrinity Times

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Holy Trinity art students do well at the state competition by Jack DowlingPhoto editor

On March 23rd and 24th, the school’s art team com-peted at the TAPPS State Art Competition, in Waco at the convention center.

Holy Trinity has had a long standing tradition of academic and fine arts excellence, seeing much improvement as the years went by.

Placing for the Celtics was Hannah Lieber,earning

4th for Seek and Sketch, color. Collette Glorioso placed 5th in pottery. Re-becca Lindberg placed 7th for Fashion; and Natalie Lauver placed 8th in paint-ing.

Alex Mares earned an honorable mention in pot-tery and Natalie Lauver earned an honorable men-tion for on site drawing, re-spectively.

The Celtics tied for 22nd overall at TAPPS State, and earned a total of 12 points.

“Elvis People” gets rockin’

TAPPS band and choir compete at stateby Jack DowlingPhoto editor

Bella Sona competed in the Division II TAPPS state choir meet on March the 27th. Choir has held a two concerts this year, one be-fore Christmas and one in the fall, as a warmup for the state meet. It also plans to hold a concert sometime in May.

Choir did well overall, and its students are very en-thusiastic about going back to state next year.

Zayne Clayton competed in the state meet as well, however failed to place. She is still enthusiastic about choir though.

“I didn’t do as well as I hoped, but as a choir we did really good. I’m going to practice a lot until next year and do a lot better. Who knows, I may even win! But humour aside, I really like singing and Bella Sona is a great way to focus that love for singing into a help-ful, and even competitive, way,” said Zayne Clayton,

junior.Division I solos were

Andi Cyr, Faith Weisbruch, Francesca Weisbruch, Kimi Cyr, Nguyen Duyen, Kiara Glandon, Eugenie Fontaine, and Elisa Brown.

Division I Small Ensem-ble was Danielle Hallissey, Andrea Reano, Francesca Weisbruch, Rebecca Albers, Andi Cyr, Carolyn Weiden-feld.

Bella Sona, placed 6th out of 17 schools, earning a total of 50 points.

On Saturday, the day af-ter Choir, on the 28th, Band headed to UMHB to com-pete in the state meet for TAPPS, the Texas Associa-tion of Private and Parochi-al Schools.

The band has been work-ing on their solos all year, and has been practicing since at least the start of the school year, and some stu-dents could be seen practic-ing in the halls.

Ms. Jennie Miller com-mented on the state meet:

“We could’ve done bet-ter, but I’m looking more

towards the future. I’m looking forward to seeing the band improve,” Ms. Miller said.

In TAPPS, students play their solo for a judge, who then gives them a I, II, III, IV, or a V based on their performance with a I be-ing the best and V being the worst. Bands earn points based on the number of I’s they receive.

Earning a I was Jack Dowling on the guitar, Na-than Bryant and Ivan Cruz on percussion, and Kacey Dach with a flute.

Earning a II was Jahan-dar Farrokhnejad on the alto saxaphone, Franch-esca Weisbruch, Danielle Hallissey, and Rebecca Albers on the clarinet, Ju-lia Jones on the trumpet, Carlos Colon-Cortez on french horn, and Zach Gar-cia with percussion. Mariah Rios and Sophia Weisbruch played the clarinet, earning a III and a IV, respectively.

The Holy Trinity band placed 8th overall at the competition.

Juniors Collin Glorioso and Jillian Lauver rehearse their scene for Elvis People. In the scene, they discover an unseemly photo of Elvis and ques-tion what to do with their new evidence. (Photo by Sarah Baker)

by Sarah BakerStaff writer

The Drama department has decided to take a blast to the past and take a trip back to the 1950s.

This year, the spring production is “Elvis Peo-ple”. The play is a series of vignettes about people whose lives have been in-fluenced by Elvis.

Different scenes include people selling Elvis para-phernalia, an imperson-ator’s rise and fall from fame, and even an Elvis sighting!

Mrs. Laxton, the direc-tor of the play and the dra-ma teacher, is enthusiastic about the play.

“I’m very excited about

the theme that we have this year and the rockabilly music we will be perform-ing,” Mrs. Laxton said.

The performance was on April 17th and 18th at 7 P.M.

The actors have been hard at work on the play since December.

One of the students, se-nior Travis Blackburn, re-calls the practices.

“Practices are usually pretty chaotic because we are working out the kinks of the various scenes but because of this, I have high hopes that the play will be a mix of quality humor and drama,” he said.

With all their practice, the play will definitely be worthy of the “king.”

WINNERS4th Hannah Leiber- Seek and Sketch - Color 5th Colette Glorioso- Pot-tery/Ceramics/Plastic Arts7th Rebecca Lindberg- Fashion/ Jewelry/ Textile Arts/ Applied Design8th Natalie Lauver- Paint-ingHM Alex Mares- Pottery/Ceramics/Plastic ArtsHM Natalie Lauver- On-site Drawing

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•Hannah Leiber’s artwork from TAPPS State that was award-ed 4th place in the Seek and Sketch- Color division. (photo by Hannah Leiber).

Hannah Leiber, Mariah Rios, Carlos Colon-Cortes, Simon Pinkston, and Julia Jones practice for their TAPPS state band competition, in which they placed in the top ten. (Photo by Zach Garcia).

APRIL 2015 SPORTS

Zachary MooreHeight: 5’10Sports: Golf

Alexandra MaresHeight: 5’5

Sports: Track

Celtic Athletes of the Month

Celtic Track

Mar. 26Apr. 11Apr. 17Apr. 30May 8-9

CameronFlorenceDistrict RegionalsState

Celtic Golf

Mar. 30Apr. 13Apr. 20Apr. 27 - 28

KilleenDistrict Tournament at PlanoRegional Tournament at AllenState Tournament at Waco

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Baseballfrom pg. 8

“We practice our throws and we learn how to bat bet-ter.”

The boys lost against Austin Veritas on Mar. 31 with a score of 16-4.

On Apr. 2, they lost against Waco Texas Chris-tian 36-7.

The boys lost against Austin Hill Country 15-0 on Apr. 6.

This year’s baseball team’s goal is not to win all of their games. Their goal is to try to establish and learn the fundamentals of the

game.“[The goal is to] keep

learning the fundamentals and make improvements, which I’m seeing so far from every ballgame we’ve had,” Coach Esqueda said. “I’m not looking at the final score. I’m looking at each and every player and how we play as a team.”

To accomplish the team’s goal, Coach Esqueda has them practice many tech-niques over and over again until they can perfect it. This is not established until

the whole team can perfect their techniques.

“[To accomplish our goal] we need repetition, repeating fundamentals with good form activating muscle memory,” Coach Esqueda said. “For exam-ple, hitting baseballs off the Tee starts at a small age in T-Ball. Practicing good form to hit a baseball off the Tee doesn’t stop, even ma-jor league baseball players still practice hitting off the Tee.”

Golffrom pg. 8is so short since we only play as a spring sport, and golf is not a sport that you can be good at playing a couple of months a year. We cannot depend on our short spring season to prepare our teams.”

The team had a tour-nament on March 30 in Killeen. Alberto Duenes shot 116 strokes, and John Escobedo shot 102 strokes.

“The young men played

very well,” Coach Escobe-do said. “I was very pleased with the attitude and the fo-cus these guys had and was very proud of what they were able to accomplish out there on the golf course.”

At the Disctrict tourna-ment on April 13, the golf team was successful. Se-nior Zachary Moore shot 44 strokes and earned 11th place. Sophmore Jacob Freehill shot 46 strokes

and earned 15th place. Se-nior John Escobedo shot 51 strokes, and senior Alberto Duenes shot 65 strokes.

“We tried our best,” Al-berto said. “The competi-tion was hard this year, so it was a great challenge for us.”

The golf team has quali-fied for the Regional Tour-nament, which will be held on April 20 in Allen, Texas.

Cheer showcase has a full house

Trackfrom pg. 8

Sophia Weisbruch won fourth place at the 1600 me-ter race and also won sec-ond place in the 800 meter dash in the girl’s division.

The third track and field meet was on April 11. The event was held at Florence High School.

There John Escobedo placed fourth at the 800 meter race. He also earned fourth place at the 1600m dash.

Jack Butler won fourth place at the 3200 meter run. A team consisting of

athletes John Escobedo, John Castro, John Laxton, and Max Woytek won sixth place at the one mile race.

Many people currently seeing track meet results are anxious to see how the school win perform in fu-ture meets.

“I believe that the last couple meets have gone very well” said Coach Warnes. “The district meet is coming up soon and I believe that at least six stu-dents here will go to state.”

by Jack PliskaCo-Sports Editor

The Cheer Team hosted the Little Celtics Cheer camp on April 11. The camp is the team’s main fundrais-er for the year where they teach young girls cheer-leading stunts, dances, and cheers.

This year was unique for the camp because it was the first year where any girls can join opposed to previ-ous years where the camp was exclusive

St. Mary’s girl students from grade 1-8 were invited to participate.

Although the camp is

intended for middle school girls, anyone who was inter-ested in becoming a cheer-leader was encouraged to come.

“We encourage any ris-ing freshmen through se-niors who think they may be interested in cheering next year to come and check out our showcase, and to talk to the cheerleaders and my-self” said Cheer Coach Ja-nine Firment. “We’d love to answer any questions they may have. We’ve grown from a squad of 5 last year to a squad of 12 this year, and I’m hoping to see even more next year.”

For the camp to start, it is required at least twelve girls have to join. However, it was expected that around twenty or more children will join.

“Here we teach the girls how to do cheers, dances and stunts. We have our number one focus on safety, many of the girls are not that experienced so we will have to watch them” said Cheer-leader AraBelle West.” We will have a lot of fun but we also very safe.”

Many of the cheerleaders brought in younger siblings and friends to participate in

the camp, however several of the girls were unrelated to any of the current cheer-leaders.

The camp is not solely for profit. “We really do en-joy teaching the kids,” said West. “It is very to exiting see what they have learned at the very end”.

Many of the cheerlead-ers, as well as the children, believe that the camp was a success.

“The Cheer Showcase went very well, the kids were very energetic and at-tentive. We had a lot of fun” said Senior Cheerleader Andi Cyr. “Around twelve kids showed up and there was a large variety of ages. Many of the children told us that they had fun, learned a lot and would like to become a Celtic Cheerleader.”

If anyone who wanted to go to the showcase was not able to, there is always next year. Since Coach Janine Firment expects more girls to join the cheer squad next year, there will be more ex-perienced cheerleaders as well as new cheerleaders. Anyone who is the least bit interested should come next year to see what cheer is all about.

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Sports APRIL 2015PAGE 8

Baseball shows improvementby Brittany ParksCo- Sports editor

The baseball season is of-ficially in full swing! The boys have played 5 games, but have lost all of them.

“We have lost all the games, but I feel like we are getting better,” freshman Jack Butler said. “We will get there.”

The boys played their first game against Waco Live Oak on March 7. They lost 25-2.

They then lost against Summit Christian on March 25 with a score of 23-2.

There are different types

of techniques that the boys are practicing. Each one of them helps them practice the different basics of base-ball.

“... pretty much funda-mental baseball, which our new players are starting to grasp,” Coach Richard Esqueda said. “I would like to thank Bulldog Baseball Academy for allowing our players to utilization there batting cages for some of our practices.”

“We do all sorts of stuff, not just one thing,” Jack said.

See “Baseball” pg. 7

Junior Mat-thew Bielss swings the bat at the home game against Waco Texas Christian Academy in April. (Photo by Jahanshah Farrokhne-jad)

Golf comes in swingin’by Brittany ParksCo- Sports editor

The golf team has started practicing at the Sammons golf course. They are cur-rently working on funda-mentals in an effort to qual-ify for state.

“We have been working on creating a basic effective golf swing” Coach John Escobedo said.

“The short game around the green is very important and should be the focus but because of the time con-straint, we are trying to get to the point where we can hit the ball and have a bit of confidence in doing so,” he

also said.In the past, Holy Trinity

has won important golf ti-tles. The 2A Girls golf team from 2009 -2012 won 4 dis-trict titles, 4 regional titles and 4 state championships.

During this time, the boys team also qualified for the state championship.

Because the team lost some of their best players the last few years, the main goal for this year is to re-build the team.

“I am hoping that we get more golfers at the school that have tournament expe-rience,” Coach Escobedo said. “It would be wonder-ful if we can get a player out

of the district tournament this year to qualify for the regional tournament.”

To get back to having a solid team, Coach Escobedo needs his players to practice all year round. This way, they keep their skill and are ready for the golf season in the spring.

“In order to get back to having a solid team, we would need players that play all year round and that com-pete in outside golf tourna-ments,” Coach Escobedo said. “Our golf season

See “Golf” pg. 7

Track team competes for the winJunior An-drew Doak competes at the District track meet on Fri. Apr. 17. (Courtesy Photo)

by Jack PliskaCo- Sports editor

Track and Field season has continued to run on and Holy Trinity athletes have continued to place in events and win awards.

The first track meet of the year was on March 7 at Bryan Allan Academy High School. John Escobe-do placed third at the 800m race.

On March 13 there was an unofficial meet at Temple High School; no Holy Trin-ity students placed at any of the events.

The second official track

and field meet occurred on March 26. The event was held at Cameron High School.

Senior Andi Cyr won first place at shot put and fourth place at discus.

John Escobedo won sec-ond place in the 800 meter race and also won fourth place at the 1600 meter race.

Faith Weisbruch won fifth place at the 3200 me-ter run while Lianne Quek placed sixth in the race.

See “Track” pg. 7

Cheer hosts showcase

Cheerleaders ( from top left to bottom right ) Elon Simmons, Carolyn Wiedenfeld, Andi Cyr, Madisn Charles-Walters, Colette Glorioso, Lauren Caranza, AraBellle West, Eugeniie Fontaine, Micaela Cruz, and Marisol Sanchez-Bidot pose with the children they taught in the Little Celtics Cheer Camp.

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