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Homecoming was a big success not only for our student body, but also the student council, who planned all the events, activities, the assembly, and the dance. Student council advisor Paul Rush helped organize the events with the student leadership group who implemented all the actual activities. “From the dance to hallway decorations to the carnival to lunch activities and Homecoming t-shirts the student leadership group does

it all! It is definitely a busy time preparing for this week and they do a great job with it!” Rush said. Many things about H o m e c o m i n g changed from last year like the price of the dance and where it was held. “I believe we charged $10 per person at the dance last year, though I am not positive with that. But we also held it here at Capital High School. This year, [we’re] holding it at the Rose Room and we raised the price to $15 per person,” said Rush. The Rose Room was definitely a new addition to this

year’s dance, which many students were excited for. “The space was large enough to accommodate all the students that went but it still had an elegant feel. There were a few students who commented on having some difficulty finding the Rose Room which hopefully didn’t keep anyone from coming,” said Rush. Every year, there is a Homecoming tradition for the student body to vote on Homecoming King and Queen, who are nominated by the seniors. Based on the student votes, the

results for this year’s 2011 Homecoming King and Queen were seniors Denis Popudnik and Lena Zugnoni, and the prince and princess were seniors Taylor Cash and Landon Browning. Along with the weekly plans, like dress up days, door decorating, and the carnival, the Homecoming game took place on Oct. 21. The Eagle’s opponent was Boise High School, and we won with a total score of 49-13. “There was good energy at the game and a lot of students and parents came out to support the Eagles,” said Rush. The Powder Puff football game is also a Homecoming tradition during

H o m e c o m i n g week. In the end, the sophomores beat the juniors in the first game, and came out on top beating the seniors in the finals. Every year DECA also chooses a Make-A-Wish child to sponsor and feature at the Homecoming Assembly to help raise money to make his wishes come true. “The assembly went extremely well! It was fun seeing all the students participate in all the games and be laughing at all the videos. What DECA does every year for Make A Wish is really touching and makes you realize how special of a school Capital is! It is wonderful to see so much money donated by

everyone to help out Andy!” Rush added. Junior and student council member Alex Lowe participated in organizing the H o m e c o m i n g plans with his fellow classmates. Lowe helped get things ready for Homecoming by setting up carnival games, like the bounce houses and rock wall. “Everybody pitched in, even though it took days, but we did it,” said Lowe. Lowe also went to the dance and said everyone seemed like they were having fun. He was proud with the end result of the week and dance, and said he was most proud of, “being able to pull everything off and push through any issues.”

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The gym erupted in applause and whistles as everyone stood on their feet once Make-a-Wish Child, Andrew, made his grand entrance at the Homecoming Assembly on Friday, October 21. Andrew’s wish is to go to Disneyland and throughout Homecoming Week

DECA raised over $2400 by selling stars, and collecting change at the assembly and the football game. The fundraising and excitement all culminated at the assembly as Andrew participated in a life sized Monopoly game, where he was dressed as Finn McMissle from Cars 2. During the game, Andrew answered questions about his favorite movies and with every correct

answer he was given toys and other memorabilia that was donated to him by students in the marketing classes. “He was so excited,” said senior Katelyn Foote. Senior Eleanor Collins echoed Foot’s impression. “Andrew told me that it was the best day of his life and was better than Christmas,” said Collins. During the assembly, football players went around to the audience and collected change for Andrew. The senior class donated $558, sophomores $501.42, and juniors $394.50. Andrew’s experience of becoming a Capital Eagle for a day continued at the Homecoming football game against Boise that evening where he

accompanied the football Captainsonto the field for the coin toss and then stood on the sidelines for part of the game. He was invited to cheer with the Rowdies for the remainder of the game. DECA members collected $462.85 from the crowd. “His parents said they hadn’t seen him that happy in a while,” said Collins. Throughout the whole day, Andrew told people that he wanted to come to Capital and be an Eagle. DECA members said having the Make-a-Wish challenge was a wonderful opportunity for everyone involved. “It was a great e x p e r i e n c e , ” said sophomore Saylor Fisher.

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Top Left: Make-A-Wish child Andrew dresses in a student made Finn McMissle outfit while he plays with faculty on a giant monopoly board. Bottom Left: Seniors Kyle Ward, Derek Valdez, Kellen Buhr, Wes Gibson, and Gavin Beck all dress as superheroes to show off their school spirit on one of the dress up days. Right: Junior Jonah Egbert tackles a Boise High player during the Homecoming game Oct. 21.

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Make-A-Wish child Andrew enjoys even more quality time in all Capital gear with at the Homecoming game against Boise High on Oct. 21.

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Recently a move-ment called “Occupy Wall Street” has begun all over the world. The issue being, whether or not the rich should be taxed more or less than the middle or lower class people. Though the message of Oc-cupy Wall Street can be interpreted in many different ways but I interpret this as a anti-upper class protest. I believe that the rich are treated unjustly due to envy, assumptions, and false premises. On the other hand sophomore Ethan Page said he thought the treatment of the rich was just. “The message of the

protests is good, but the methods aren’t. Wall Street isn’t a nega-tive institution,” said Page. He also said the rich are receiving what they deserve due to the fact they don’t pay their fair share. All throughout the world rich people are criticized for ap-parently “not pay-ing their fair share” to the government. The idea of a “fair

share” is immature because that’s measur-ing how much the rich lose not how much the government gains. I don’t know where the idea that rich people don’t pay taxes comes from but I know its not true, and according to the National Taxpay-ers Union there is proof that the top one percent pay the more than any other group. In fact they pay 11 times more than the bottom 50% of the American people. In the end unfortu-nately, the rich people get still get mocked for their social positions. Americans tend to look at how hard a person works and not how smart a person works. For instance a janitor works hard every day but Steve Jobs had two great cre-ations Pixar and Apple. Granted, Steve Jobs probably had a better

situation to begin with. Going back to the beginning I wonder, where did this hate for Wall Street come from? For one, most com-panies have a con-sumer-based income. The Apple Industry didn’t make its money by “stealing from the poor.” The company made it by designing good computers and developing the ipod and other products and people eventually bought those products. Also the thought that it’s wrong for a com-pany to want money is naive isn’t that what a company is? Isn’t it a vassal to make money? I think people need to stop looking at the rich as a scapegoat for why they aren’t wealthy because it’s based on false accu-sations and a stereo-typical point of view.

Why are the rich treated unfairly?Ryan NaramoreStaff Writer

FCCLA’s endeavors help out whole community with their projects

FCCLA, Family Community and Career Leaders of America, is giving back to the school and the com-munity by helping with multiple projects. FCCLA competes in several competitions and, they go from Dis-tricts to State to Region-als and then the grand stage of Nationals. The main goal of the club is to help our school, our community, and the state as a whole. Family Consumer Science teacher, Tera Chase, is FCCLA’s leader and organizer and says the club cur-rently consists of 30 members, who all volunteer to work on their own specific projects after school, and they meet ev-ery Monday during lunch in room 115. Some of their proj-ects include: “Kids Camp,” which takes place here at Capital, and “Winter Lights A-Glow,” which is held at the Botanical Gardens during the holidays.

There the students help serve hot choco-late and cookies, help with Santa’s reindeer and elves, and stock the fire pits. They are also involved in “Pay it Forward Projects.” Their newest project, as of Nov. 2, is “Kids Camp.” From 5 to 8 p.m FCCLA students watched over mul-tiple young children during the Parent-Teacher conferences held on Nov. 2 – 3. The club also has its own social commit-tee sponsors. They try to make things such as birthdays or meet-ings fun, and among everything else, they try to boost the mo-rale of the school fac-ulty, staff, and students. The club has not gone to any competitions as of yet, but they have gone to Middleton for their Division 3 con-ference. Even with the lack of competitions, the club members were still excited about it. Junior Nerea Sarria said, “FCCLA is re-ally fun. My favorite project is the Domes-tic Violence [Project].”

Devin RameyNews Editor

Egyptian team wins big

Two Capital teams brought home ma-jor awards from the Economic Sum-mit held at the Boise State Frank Church Conference in Boise, Idaho on October 27. The Capital team representing Egypt took the “Grand Sum-mit Award.” The team representing Saudi Arabia took First Place in the High-est Income Section. There were over 60 different countries be-ing represented by different schools. “It’s for eco-nomics. Basically a simulation of global economy,” said se-nior Andrew Hoth. Students on the Egyp-tian team included se-niors Hoth, Alexander Baca, Abby Mocet-tini, Landon Brown-ing, and Kaci Pickett. The Saudia Arabian team was composed

of seniors Andrew Ly-man, Nathan Rupp, Cody Sprague and ju-nior Taylor Tosaya. “We used a strategy before we went out and played the game, so we had an actual chance, because we had stu-dents who had actu-ally been in the sum-mit,” Browning said. “I learned a lot about not only National trade but National Poli-tics,” Mocettini said.

Economic teacher Steve Faulkner assisted the students in prepar-ing for the Summit. Faulkner said, “The teams represented Capital exception-ally well. An Egyptian ambassador was there and he started firing questions at them and they handled it really calmly and thoroughly answered them. He questioned them in front of 300 people.

They didn’t flinch.” “The Economic Sum-mit was fun. The stu-dents that patricipated in this event learned a lot,” Browning said. The Egypitans’ team was awarded a prize of $500 and the Saudia Arabia group will also receive a prize of $100. According to Faulkner, it currently has not been decided yet on how the money will be used.

Luis SarriaSports Editor

With the school year in full swing, the debate team is get-ting its wheels rolling. So far the team has had two Varsity tournaments, which involved second and third year debaters, and they also participated in two Novice tourna-ments, with only first year debaters compet-

ing. One of which was Whitman, in Walla Walla, Washington. “My partner, Zach Bramwell, and I debat-ed in the novice pub-lic forum division [at Whitman]. We went 7-1. We lost in the final round to a team we had already beaten,” said sophomore Mackenzie Moss. She and Bram-well placed 2nd overall. The goal of debate is to get the judge to vote for your team.

“Debate is a com-petition involving per-suasion and strategy. We gather thousands of pages of evidence from experts on a cer-tain topic, and then use that in tourna-ments against teams of two people from other schools,” said ju-nior Christina Wilmot. Capital competes in two different types of debate; policy and pub-lic forum. In policy de-bates, the team gets one

topic for a whole year. The topic for this year is space exploration, whereas in public fo-rum, the topic changes. This is Wilmot’s second year doing debate and she re-ally enjoys it so far. “Winning is al-right, but I really like competing against extremely intelligent teams, where it boils down to a battle of wits,” said Wilmot.

Two debaters place at Walla Walla competitionKatie AckermanStaff Writer

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PHOTO BY DEVIN RAMEYFrom left to right: Seniors Kaci Pickett, Landon Browning, Alexander Baca, Andrew Hoth and Abby Mocettini. The five of them made up the Egyptian team who won the “Grand Summit Award” at the Economic Summit held on October 27.

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Chalk art work was displayed in be-tween the two hun-dred and three hun-dred wing all thanks to the AP Economics. AP Economics teach-er, Steve Faulkner, came up with the idea of creating graphs made out of chalk. He de-cided that staying in a classroom and drawing them with just a pen or pencil would be boring, so he decided why not have some fun with it? “These graphs allow students to stretch their skills other than pen or pencil. One of the beauties of the exer-cise is students can be creative and show off their skills for others to see,” said Faulkner. Each graph is based

on supply and demand numbers, which is an economic model of price determination in a market. Together, they determine the quantity and price of goods sold in competitive markets. Supply is the amount of goods available at a given price at any time, where as the demand factor is determined by how many consum-ers desire the goods that are in supply. “There’s noth-ing better than sup-ply and demand, it’s a powerful tool to understand and pre-dict how prices move and how they come to be,” said Faulkner. The graphs contain prices, quantity, sup-ply increases, etc. and the graphs are meant to teach how mar-kets work in the real

world. They repre-sent how we get to that price and why we pay the amount we have to pay for a prod-uct. Faulkner would gather information out of newspapers, maga-zines, and really any other publication types, and assigned each stu-dent a topic in which they would create a graph showing their supply and demand. After getting assigned their topic, the students of AP Economics went out for a couple of days and made graphs out of chalk. When they were done with their proj-ect, they would gather around and present what they came up with. “My students who are able to do this are incredible at mas-tering these skills,” said Faulkner.

The main office in-cluding the counsel-ors suites, nurses of-fice, and inner hallway have been complete-ly remodeled with brand-new heating, venting, and air-con-ditioning systems. “It wasn’t energy-efficient so that’ll be nice,” said Assistant Principal Janet Cherry. The floors in the main office have been replaced with carpet, while the hallways near the main office have polished con-crete. Lights, ceilings, and the walls have also been remodeled, and every office has been painted and equipped with fire sprinklers. The offices themselves have stayed where they are but the entrances have been moved. “It’ll be easier for the new students to find us,” said Cherry.When the new year started all the offices

were either located in the gym lobby or the four portables on the front field. The eagle on the floor in front of the counselors’ office has been removed. The stu-dent council is debating whether the new eagle should be a decal or be painted over the floor. Since the main alarms are located in the main office, construction workers had some dif-ficulties with trying to renovate without set-ting off the alarms. “It was kind of hectic and all with the alarms, but now the office looks a lot more clean and new,” said junior Adelisa Mehmedovic. “It’s totally awe-some,” said ju-nior Kaitlin Carter. The nurse’s of-fice has been remod-eled to abide by the American Disabilities Act (A.D.A.). The nurse’s office now has bars to hold on, more room and extra beds. The main office itself

has been deemed amaz-ing by many of the staff that works there. “I love it. It sort of feels like home a little bit,” said assistant principal Greg Orem. “It’s nice to be back in the school,” said principal John Ruzicka. “Floors next,” Ruz-icka added as the next step for school reno-vations is now replac-ing the 250,000 square feet of tile with car-pet in the classrooms. In 2006, the Boise School District board passed a bond to start renovations, adding buildings and rebuild-ing schools in the district. The entire bond was estimated at $94,000,000. This bond also included renovations for Capital High School. The total Capital project was es-timated at $7,000,000. Ruzicka said renovation will continue for the next two and a half years.

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PHOTO BY VICKI FRANCISAP Economics fourth period seniors, Petar Kolarov and Dylan Thomas draw their graph based on supply and demand which is a model of price determination.

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Sean Butler’s Accelerated Chemistry students show off all their hard work on their homemade moles while celebrating “Mole Day”, Friday, October 21.

Brenna PatrickEditor in Chief

The smell of burnt rubber and sugar en-tered the hallways when Accelerated Chemistry students celebrated “Mole Day” with their own hand sewn moles with punny names to add to the fun. “This year’s Mole Day falls on a Sun-day, so chemistry stu-dents at Capital High will celebrate the day by holding science activities on Friday Cctober 21,” said boise School District Admin-istrator Dan Hollar. “Mole Day is an unof-ficial holiday celebrat-ed among chemists on October 23, between 6:02 a.m. and 6:02 p.m. to commemorate Avog-ardo’s Number (6.02 x !0^23), which is a ba-sic measuring unit in chemistry,” said Hollar. “A mole represents a count of something, much like a dozen does. But where as a dozen represents 12 of something, usually eggs or donuts (yum-

my!), a mole represents 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of some-thing, usually atoms or molecules,” said Accelerated Chemistry teacher Aaron Butler. that day the classes all participated in many activites and cre-ated their own “moles” with any theme they choose. there were winners in each class and they each re-ceived a small reward. “On Mole Day, my chemistry students were required to bring in a stuffed “mole” to class that they sewed at home. They also needed to give it a fun-ny name. The students came up with some very creative moles and names like Mole-hummad Ali, mole-sa-ma, Bin Laden, Darth Mole, and Mole-polean Dynamite,” said Butler. In first period the Mole Day first place winner was sophomore Daniel Zmuda with “The three Mole-ske-teers.” Second periods winners were junior Jackson Turner’s “Poke Mole,” and sophomore

Maddie Funk with “Moles of Oz,” in-cluding the ‘Cowardly Mole, Mole-thy, Mole Crow, and Mole Man.” Third period win-ner was Alexander Al-lea with “Mole-baca,” and finally in fourth period the winner was sophomore Kendall Jones who created “Count Dracumole.” Throughout the class on Mole Day, “My students had an activ-ity where they had to calculate how many moles of water mol-ecules a paper towel could absorb and how many moles of sugar molecules there are in a sugar cube,” said Butler. “I think the student’s favorite ac-tivity was calculating how many moles of chalk molecules it took to sign their name.” “Mole Day provides an opportunity for science teachers to promote the value and importance of chemistry to their students,” said Butler. Overall Butler felt that, “This year’s Mole Day went mole-velously!”

Arts Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Margaret Steven’s ceramic classes have been working hard already at the begin-ning of this school year on projects in class. Some of the latest projects in-clude making a tea bowl, animal, stamp, coil pot, and mug, which have just been either fired, glazed, or will be glazed An

exhibit at the Tech Center lobby, which will be held on Oct 26 to Nov 1 in the lobby, to show how well Ce-ramics 1, 2, 3 and the AP classes are doing. Stevens has a num-ber of high-level ce-ramic students with great amount of skill. Including seniors Alexander Baca and Marissa Weyn. They will most certainly have their ceramic art displayed this year.

Weyn said, “I like ceramics cause I like hands-on art and it’s a class that let’s you experience three di-mensional art and it’s fun to work with.” She said she would have three ceramic pieces on display at the Tech Center. She likes to work on hand-building ceram-ics and sculptures. According to Weyn Ceramics 1 and 2 are fun, but if students

Luis SarriaSports Editor

Twenty seven dif-ferent teachers this year created indi-vidual door posters and decorations for Homecoming Week. The First Place was given to Biology and Anatomy and Physiology teacher John Doherty. His door was created and completed by se-nior Tiffany Larsen. In second place, Algebra teacher Heidi Trunnell was the winner. Third place winner was Business teacher Dr. Debbie Brumley. The judges for the contest included principal John Ruz-icka and vice prin-cipals Janet Cherry and Greg Oram.

Larsen, who has been Doherty’s teacher assistant for two years, deco-rated his door with plenty of glitter and colored paper. Larsen said Doherty is her fa-vorite teacher so she decided to design a festive door for him. When Larsen heard Doherty won, she said, “I was very surprised that it won First Place.” Working on the door required a lot of effort. Larsen said “The door took me third period ev-ery day of the week until Thursday.” Family Consumer Science teacher Tera Chase’s door was created by “Top Se-cret” artists, and, ac-cording to Chase, all

of her “Awesome” leadership stu-dents. It was award-ed Best of Show. Chase said, “We’re happy that we won Best of Show and that was our goal. The entire point of the door was to show school spirit and make people laugh, because laughter is the best medicine.” She said the door has received a lot of very positive feedback. “Numerous people have been stopping by, thousands of people,” said Chase. Her door included Cherry, Oram, and Ruzicka. The door featured the adminis-trators in a humorous way “smashing Boise High pumpkins” (the rival for the Home-coming Game.)

Ryan NaramoreOpinion Editor

Ceramics Artist Spotlight: Marisa Weynwant to get into in-tense ceramics they should take ceram-ics 3 and any other classes that are avail-able for hands on art. If they would like to take a class where students use their hands and are not afraid to get some hands dirty, sign up for ceramics. They won’t regret it, be-cause Marissa Weyn certainly doesn’t.

Capital High School decks the hallways for Homecoming Week

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Left: Family Consumer Science teacher Tera Chase’s door won Best of Show. Her door was created by “Top Secret” artists. Right: First Place was given to Anatomy and Physiology teacher John Doherty. His door was created and completed by senior Tiffany Larsen.

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Photo By BReNNA PAtRiCkSenior Marisa Weyn works on her latest AP Ceramics project. In a couple weeks she will have created multiple lanterns (which can have lights) that hang upside down.

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Eagles finish season with 3rd place at State

Above: Sophomore Jacob Foley catches the ball from a kick off at the Borah game at BSU Stadium on Oct. 28.Left: Sophomore Garret Pearson trys to stop a Lion from catching the ball at Bronco Stadium on Oct. 28. Bottom Left: Senior Spencer Lipkin runs toward the goal line at the Meridian game on Oct. 14 at Meridian High. Bottom Right: Wide Receivers’ Coach Tinker talks to seniors Mar-cus Tovar, Brett Loertscher, Asa Sheperd and junior Jonah Egbert between plays at the homecoming game against Boise on Oct 21.

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Great performances close out XC seasonKatie AckermanAD MANAGER

On October 29 at Eagle Island State park, juniors Savana Schilling and David Steele participated in the State Cross Country meet. They raced against the best of the best in the 5A divi-sion and ran a hard race. Schilling ran a 5 kilo-meter race with a time of 20:53, and placed 37. It was “hard, really hard,” said Schilling. Last year she placed 14. “Every girl has gotten so much faster,” said Schilling. “She got out great [from the starting line],” said Coach John Doherty.

Steele placed 19 with a time of 17:01. David “went for the big race,” ac-cording to Doherty. Steele also described his race as “hard.” On October 21, the entire team participated at the District III cham-pionship race. There were “a lot of great performances,” said ju-nior Malcolm Tencate. “For a very young team we made very good progress. It is showing a lot of potential for the future,” said Doherty. “I’m definitely excited for next year,” said Tencate.

Above: Junior Savana Schilling runs at the state championship meet on Oct. 29 at Eagle Island State Park. “Nervewracking,“ said Schilling about competing at State.Left: Junior David Steele runs at the state meet on Oct.29. “It was a little hard running since there was no team around,” said Steele.

Carlos Soria Senior

Sport: Football

Years Playing: 3 years

Hours dedicated to the sport each week: 12 hours

Loves the sport because: it brings everyone together and it takes the defi-nition of teamwork to another level

Favorite opponent: Borah

Benefits from play-ing the sport: Learn that with a hard ethic anything is possible

College Plan: Attend a good university and study either medicine or law

Difficulty Level: 10

Activities outside of school that involve the sport: Work-ing out, film, mental preparation

One word to de-scribe the sport: Family

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The Eagles ended their season with a loss of 37-7 at the semi-finals against Coeur d’Alene. Overall the season record was 8-3. “We came into it strong and confident,” said junior offensive line-backer Steven Matlock. Since it was basi-cally a rematch from last year “it was ex-citing,” said Matlock. “Dealing with the

weather, we weren’t used to playing in those types of con-ditions,” Matlock said about the loss. The weather at Coeur d’Alene was freez-ing. It was raining and the Capital team did not have rain jackets. The Eagles finished out the regular season with a record of 7-2 and proceeded into the playoffs as the number 2 rank in the South-ern Idaho Conference of the 5A division. The football team

crushed the Boise Braves with a score of 49-13. The team also won the last nail-biting game of the regular season against the Borah Lions with the score 38-34. “It’s crazy. It’s hard to believe,” said se-nior Rover (defensive linebacker and safety mix) Denis Popudnik. Popudnik had two sea-son interceptions, one resulting in a touch-down, and 17 rushing touchdowns as of Nov. 4. The quarterfinals match against Skyline High School was a slaughter

in both halves that came out to 58-26 and put the Eagles at an 8-2 record. With this season being the last for the se-niors, they sure had a lot to say about the way the team has changed over the last three years. “We’re so much clos-er as a team. They’re not all about them-selves. They’re about the team,” Popudnik said. “Without a doubt, they’ve grown up. They’ve matured. They’ve got-ten stronger,” Head Coach Todd Simis said. The most important

aspect of the team is that there’s “not a lot of selfishness and it’s about the team, not the individual,” Simis said. Junior starting quarter-back Makena Simis had 1,583 total passing yards for the season as of Nov. 4 and was featured in the Idaho Statesman Athlete of the Week sec-tion from Oct. 31-Nov.4. “It’s a pretty big honor. A lot of great players have gotten that. I feel re-ally special about that,” Makena Simis said.

Athleteof theMonth

Jacob WaltersSenior

Sport: Football

Years Playing: 2

Hours: 10

Why do you enjoy the sport? It’s fun, keeps me out of trouble and you get to hit people for free.

Favorite Opponent: Meridian

Benefits: Being around a great football family and learning new stuff

College plan: I plan on going to College to play football and get into a successful career.Difficulty Level: 10

The Girls Basketball team is entering into a new season with their first game on Nov. 11 against the Caldwell Cougars. Last year, the team ended with a record of 20-7 and went to State. However, they lost to the even-tual State Champi-ons but went on to bring home a win against Boise for a Consolation Cham-pionship trophy. According to Var-sity coach Blas Jr.

Telleria, when it comes down to oppo-nents for this year he said, “Centennial is always a challenge. Boise is the most fun to beat. Borah is such a natural rival.” Telleria is looking forward to seeing the success of their commitments since the girls have put a lot of work in for the off season in both skill sets and physi-cal development. The girls generally practice four days a week for approxi-mately two hours, with two games and

one day off. Seeing the tryouts so far, Telleria thinks all three teams will have a definite chance at the Championships. “We expect all three of our teams to be very competi-tive, thus establish-ing our program as the top program in Boise and in the Conference. I expect the Varsity to be one of the top teams in the state. We made a lot of big strides last year, but saw this summer that we still have another step to take,” said Telleria.

Nathalia OrozcoARTS EDITOR

Girls’ Basketball Coaches Prepare athletes for the season

The Varsity vol-leyball team placed sixth in districts, los-ing to Eagle in the playing game to the State Tournament. They had a good season overall with a record of 18-14. Varsity coach Dave Hulett explained that the team had a cou-ple of key players get hurt before the district tournament, which left the team not at full strength for the district games. “I think we needed to be more enthu-siastic about play-ing volleyball. Our potential was great this year, but we needed to be more excited,” said Hulett. “The way the girls played against Rocky Mountain the first time gave myself and the other coaches a glimpse of what we were capable of. However, I was proudest of the girls when we lost a key player against Borah during the District Tournament, and ev-erybody stepped into unfamiliar roles and played hard enough to win,” said Hulett. The team had many determined, consistent play-ers, some of which, were given awards. “Kimberly Carr did an amazing job setting for us [and]

was voted Honorable Mention All-District by the District coach-es. Jessi Brady was also voted Honorable Mention All-District for being such a con-sistent player. Kylie Porter was voted 2nd Team All-District by the coaches, while Sierra Bell was voted 1st Team All-Dis-trict,” said Hulett. Senior Varsity start-er and outside hitter Sierra Bell was a new player this year to the Capital volleyball program and said, “we all got along real-ly well. We improved as a team, which made us play better.” Bell also said she wished that they would have played their best all the time, instead of hav-ing an up and down season, but she said she’ll miss, “the girls and playing together in tourna-ments and games.” Sophomore starter and middle hitter Montana Love has been in the Capital volleyball program now for two years and said her team has most improved on passing and hit-ting this season. Al-though, she added her team should have improved on, “staying low when we passed the ball.” After having a great season with her team-mates Love said, “I’ll

miss all my team-mates and how much fun we had playing jokes on each other.”

Sports

Emily LundquistNEWS EDITOR

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Senior Sierra Bell spikes the ball for an amazing hit at the game against one of our main opponents Eagle High School.

Volleyball athletes

JV pulls through despite injuries

PHOTO BY KEARNEY THOMPSON

Sophomore Jacob Otteson throws the football while offensive defenders junior Bryan Gollaher and Trey Thomas blocks incoming defensive player for Boise.

Ryan NaramoreOPINION EDITOR

The JV Football team finished its year with a 4-5 re-

cord with wins over Vallivue, Timber-line, Meridian, and Boise High School.

Their games against Timber-line and Meridian High School were considered some of their best games. “We all came to-gether [at the Me-ridian game],” said sophomore quarter-back Jake Otteson. Sophomore line-backer Blake Collins’s favorite part of the season was “the excite-ment at games.” Despite beginning

the season with three losses sophomore Keaton Grimes still believed that his team would finish well. This season the Eagle’s JV team lost eight players due to physical injuries. The players were sopho-mores Dan Zmuda (Shoulder), Sam Beig (Knee), Josh Calhoun (Back), Ai-rin Eddins (Concus-sion), Hunter Wil-liams (Foot/Knee), Keaton Grimes

(Concussion), and juniors Bryan Golla-her (Shoulder), and Hunter Manwar-ing (Concussion). Williams was the starting linebacker for the JV team and said, “I had broke my foot before the season. Then I hy-per extended my knee against Timber-line in week eight.” Williams also said, “I can’t be mad, we played the way we played.”

PHOTO BY SPENCER GOFFIN

Editor: Luis Sarria GarciaPAGE 4

Katie AckermanAd Manager

Activities out-side of school that involve the sport: Weight lifting, running.

One word to describe the sport: Family

Through hardships finish an “up and down” season