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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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Senior Sophie Vietor practices her dive at swim practice. As a sprinter, the beginning of a race is important. "My experiences on the swim team have been great," Vietor said. "the practices are really hard, but it helps me push myself."

Sophie Vietor breaks one minute in the 100 yard freestyle

Maria Newton, FEATURES EDITOR • January 19, 2018

Senior Sophie Vietor broke one minute in the 100 yard freestyle at the Kirkwood Invite on Jan. 12 and 13 for girls swimming in her second year of being on the team. Breaking a minute in the 100 yard freestyle...

Setting up to shoot the ball, sophomore Callie Hummel warms up for the Wednesday varsity practice. Hummel attended the Rolla tournament on Jan. 6-7 and played a total of five games at the Arby’s tournament. “It helped me to improve because I played a lot of harder opponents,” Hummel said. “I never really have much competition in the team’s regular league.”

Racquetball team heads to Arby’s tournament

Erin Slutzky, STAFF WRITER • January 10, 2018

On Jan. 5, the Parkway racquetball team packed up to drive to Rolla for the Arby’s tournament. The tournament, a traditional highlight competition for more than 12 years, allows the team to stays in...

Seniors Andrew Lofgren, Zane Yates, Cerow Aligab and Kyle Andersen lead the pack at the Parkway Quad on Aug. 6. During the quad the team won first place, beating Parkway North, South and Central. “I had been kind of worried that I wasn't as in shape as the other guys because I was injured for much of the summer. The competition wasn't overly competitive, so our top 4 worked on running as a pack,” Lofgren said. Photo

Boys cross country wraps up with eighth place at Nike Midwest Regionals

Noah Gwin, STAFF WRITER • December 15, 2017

As the cross country season came to a close on Nov. 12., the team competed for the first time in a regional race in Terra Haute, Ind. Seniors Blake Selm, Cerow Aligab, Matyas Csiki-Fejer, Andrew Lofgren...

Wrestling at a meet in DeSoto junior year, McCallister grapples with his opponent. “[When I’m on the mat] I’ve got a game plan and I’m just ready to go. My head’s filled with what I’m going to do,” McCallister said.

Six minutes on the mat: senior Josh McCallister looks towards state

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR • December 15, 2017

At a West High wrestling camp between his eighth grade and freshman year, senior Josh McCallister laid the foundations for his passion. He picked up the skills quickly, and his confidence drove him to...

Freshmen Danny Talbott glides along the ice at his game against Northwest on Nov. 3. “The biggest challenge for me this game was the big crowd,” Talbott said. “I had to drown them out and just play.”

Freshmen Ty Waddell and Danny Talbott score a spot on varsity hockey

Anna Pavlisin, STAFF WRITER • December 14, 2017

After a long haul of training, freshmen Ty Waddell and Danny Talbott made it onto the varsity ice hockey team. Playing hockey since he was four, Talbott worked out all summer at the gym to make the...

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...

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...

Boys cross country team reflect on third place finish at state

Chris Bass, STAFF WRITER • November 10, 2017

On Nov. 4, the top seven runners from the varsity cross country team competed in the Class 4 MSHSAA State Cross Country Championship meet, in Jefferson City. This meet marked the 30th time the team has...

Photo Gallery: Cross country girls’ last meet before championships

Gabby Leon, STAFF WRITER • November 2, 2017

Freshman Tyler Davis prepares to dive in warmups before conferences on Oct 26. “I really enjoyed the experience, the friendships developed with my teammates and to be part of this team and such a supportive community,” Davis said.

Boys swim and dive concludes successful season with state qualifiers

Bennett Davis, STAFF WRITER • October 30, 2017

The boys swim and dive team is wrapping with a record of 8-5-1 after winning the Parkway Quad tournament. “This has been my first season on the team and it has been better than what I could have...

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