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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Center fielder Jack Swiney hauls in a fly ball for the out. In addition to a 1.000 fielding percentage, Swiney led Parkway West with a team-high mark in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base plus slugging, runs batted in and extra-base hits his junior year. “It’s a lot of hard work to get where you want to be if you want to play at the next level,” Swiney said. “You’ve got to sacrifice a lot of your time and commit to the process.”

Senior Jack Swiney signs to play Division I baseball

Tyler Kinzy, Managing Editor-in-Chief • December 12, 2017

In the realm of high school sports, few days on the calendar are considered as significant as signing day. On Nov. 8, four NCAA-bound Longhorns formally put pen to paper as their athletic careers leapt...

Playing Blink-182, Green Day and The Killers covers, sophomore Ryan Egan and junior Dani Fischer play guitar and bass, respectively. Although Fischer is not part of The Brink, she filled in for the benefit concert. “We pulled some songs that we regularly do from most of our gigs. I definitely went for songs that everyone would know, but at the same time, I wanted to choose songs that were fun to play, so we could have a good rock-out,” Egan said.

Puerto Rico benefit concert surpasses fundraising goal

Sabrina Bohn and Carly Anderson • December 8, 2017

After holding a benefit concert to support the millions of people in Puerto Rico without clean water or electricity on Dec. 7, science teacher Amy Van Matre-Woodward´s honors environmental sustainability...

Junior Charles Walsh laughs off his mistake in his voice acting script to recollect his composure. Walsh has been voice acting since August and uploads his auditions on his YouTube channel. “What I try to do if I get a role, I will try to internalize a character,” Walsh said. “Sometimes I fail so that’s why an hour before a session, I would talk in whatever voice I would use.”

Junior Charles Walsh speaks his way to success

Andrew Li, STAFF WRITER • December 8, 2017

Requiring a smooth voice, junior Charles Walsh tries his best to speak into the microphone with poise and charm. If the recording is not good enough, he records over and over again. Finally, he saves the...

Senior Adrian Scott, responds to the Northwest student section. The final score was a 4-4 tie. “They were saying stuff but they weren’t loud enough to where we could hear them. They got mad at us when we would chant, ‘we can’t hear you’,” Scott said. “I really wanted us to beat them.”

African American students face racism at a high school hockey game

B Antonenko, STAFF WRITER • December 6, 2017

At the varsity hockey game against Northwest on Nov 3., an elderly man on the opposing side targeted senior Adrian Scott with a racist gesture, resulting in a backlash from the student section. “I...

Senior Sophie Vietor performs a butterfly stroke during practice on Nov. 27. “[Doing a variety of strokes] helps give me a chance to improve all of my strokes and makes the sets more interesting instead of doing freestyle or one stroke the whole practice,” Vietor said.

Girls swim and dive kicks off season

Irene Yannakakis, STAFF WRITER • December 6, 2017

Putting in six days of practice per week, the swim season began for 23 swimmers and five divers on Nov. 7 when tryouts commenced.  After last years season record of 5-4, (5 wins, 4 losses), the girls...

Juniors Harper Stewart and Dani Fischer lead the class in planning the Puerto Rico benefit concert. The concert will be held on Dec 7 and has been planned entirely by Amy Van Matre-Woodward’s Honors Environmental Sustainability class. “Dani and I spearheaded the project, but now our classmates are super involved as well,” Stewart said. “We have people designing logos, doing research and slideshows and figuring out set up.”

Students put on Puerto Rico Benefit Concert

Maria Newton, FEATURES EDITOR • December 6, 2017

 After the devastation of Hurricane Maria, students in science teacher Amy Van Matre-Woodward’s honors environmental sustainability class began planning a benefit concert to help the Puerto Rico victims. The...

Helping sophomore Kelsey Long with an assignment, social studies teacher Kristen Collins reads Long’s response on a review packet. Long enrolled in World History because it was a very engaging class. “Collins was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had, because she helped organize us and she worked overtime to be sure we were successful,” Long said.

Social studies teacher Kristen Collins wins ‘Teacher of the Year’

Katie Spillman, PHOTO EDITOR • December 3, 2017

On Friday, Dec. 1, social studies teacher Kristen Collins won teacher of the year, an award that is annually voted on by the entire staff. “It is a huge honor to be recognized by your colleagues....

Wrapping gifts and organizing supplies, sophomore Rachel Deadwyler, junior Johnathan Stephens and senior Brandi Beaubien set up for Marketing II's holiday wrapping event. Community members have the opportunity to bring the gifts for marketing and DECA students to wrap in exchange for a donation to the Day of Service programming. "For parents who are really busy this time of year, it's really helpful for them to just be able to drop off gifts. It relieves a lot of stress and it's for a really good cause," Beaubien said.

Marketing students DECA the halls with holiday gift wrapping event

Sabrina Bohn, Managing Editor-in-Chief • December 1, 2017

To get into the holiday spirit and help out the community, DECA, along with Marketing II students, are doing a holiday gift wrapping event Dec. 5-7. “Community members will bring unwrapped gifts to...

Global Goodies employees stand outside the LeConte Center at Pigeon Forge to get some fresh air before the oral presentation. The team placed first. "I think we won the business plan because of our extensive knowledge of the real world subscription box industry, and we were able to respond to any challenges the judges presented with concrete evidence," senior Jack Gieseking.

Virtual Enterprise students launch Global Goodies corporation

Blakely Gibeaut, Convergent Media Writer • November 30, 2017

It all began with a hungry belly and a need for food. What started as an idea became a business plan, a web page, and an international subscription box business. Sixteen high school student employees are...

Rose poses with her sister, alumna Maddie Rose in front of the Mizzou columns. Both of the Rose sisters attended Mizzou. "I spent my first year teaching in Columbia, Missouri because I was participating in a Master’s Degree program through the University of Missouri," Rose Said.

English teacher Taylor Rose returns to West

Gabby Leon, STAFF WRITER • November 29, 2017

Pathfinder: What got you interested in teaching? Rose: “I have always wanted to be a teacher, as so many empowering women in my family have served as teachers. From playing school with my cousins...

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