Turkey Time

This week was the competition squads first comp of the year called “Turkey Time”. It took place in Cleveland at the Bayford Convention Center. The girls took first place in their division and “Outstanding Jumps” out of all the teams. This competition is their first of the year. The girls have a very high record in wins. Averaging nothing less than second in the past five years. The team consists of thirteen girls and one boy this year.
This is Cameron Schneider’s first year of cheerleading ever. He gave an outstanding tryout to earn his spot on both the competition and football cheerleading squads. The competition cheer teams captains are Alexis Randall, and Caelyn Pritschau. There are five seniors on the squad. Hannah White, Caelyn Pritschau, Tiffany Hammond, and Abbey Schultz. They have all been cheering on the competition squad since their freshman year.
Senior, Alexis Randall, stated to me “It’s a bittersweet moment. Our last football season has come to an end which means its time for competition season. There is a lot on a few of our girls plates. We do cheer basketball cheer during the competition season as well. We have a very clean record. We mainly take first and rarely second, which means our fight is focused on grand champs. Grand champs is not only first in our division, but first out of all teams in every single division. We tend to win grand champs but we are still working out the kinks of our new routine”

By: Abbey Schultz

Wrestling: Brad Mckeon

Brad McKeon is a junior this year and has been making a name for himself on the field and on the mat. Brad played his second year of Varsity football and is starting out his third year of Varsity wrestling. Brad hopes to have a strong season and make it to at least Districts, where he was an alternate last year. Brad has won multiple awards including the WRC Honorable Mention for football this year and the All WRC Academic Award for football and last year’s wrestling season. For the rest of his high school career, he hopes to keep up with his good grades and work hard in football and wrestling. Of all his memories of high school so far, one of the biggest highlights was his touchdown in the North game, where the Blue Streaks blew out the Rangers 50-20. As for after high school, Brad wants to go to college, possibly John Carroll, to be a business major. Brad’s favorite movie is The House, his favorite class is history, his favorite sports team is the Browns, his favorite TV show is The Ranch, and his favorite thing to do in his spare time is play video games. He looks forward to wrestling in the winter this season hoping to win some good matches and do his best. And is excited to wrestle with some of his good friends!

By: Cailin Keller

Girl's Basketball: Abbie Wilson

 Abbie Wilson #32  is on the girl’s basketball team for MHS. She plays both on jv, and varsity. She is a point guard, and guard on the team. Abbie is a hard worker on, and off of the court. She is very passionate about the sport she loves. Abbie has been playing basketball for most of her life. She is dedicated to basketball by always going the extra mile to improve herself. She stands out due to her ability to get the ball up the court under a great deal of pressure. She has great determination despite the outcome of one bad game or two.

 Not only is she committed to basketball, but also to her education. Abbie’s goals during high school is to keep up her grade average as a 4.0. She hopes to score a 4 on her Ap exam. She hopes that she will able to make captain for basketball her senior year. After high school, Abbie hopes to get a scholarship to a good college to play basketball.

    Abbie’s favorite movie without a doubt is Grown ups. When asked the question what was her  most memorable moment during high school, she said that it was freshman year when she hit a three pointer, and brought madison up by one point. The team kept up the hard work, and showed tremendous effort and was able to keep the score up by one point, and ended up winning the game. Thank you Abbie for all of your tremendous hard work, and effort ! Good luck this season!

By: Lexi Aiello

Adding it all together: Mr. Brainard

Math is not the only thing that it is on Mr. Brainard’s mind, believe it or not. This first semester he is teaching algebra 1B and algebra 2CP. Although the semester seems to be moving at a very fast pace, his students are able to keep up with his strive to make sure that every student understands each chapter and each lesson to the best of their ability. In his younger algebra 1B class they are already on chapter 10, learning all about quadratics while the other algebra class learns about geometric and arithmetic sequences. As was said earlier math can not be the only thing that happens inside Mr. Brainards mind so I had to find out some more about him. He has been teaching for 19 years at the same high school he attended. His college career began at Case Western and then he transferred to Baldwin Wallace because he changed majors. Mr. Brainard has one boy named John and I can bet you he gets good math grades with a math teacher like that in his house. He enjoys to watch the Cleveland Indians play, along with some shows like “Boy Meets World” as his all time favorite. Mr. Brainard likes to watch football and basketball and maybe on his free time shoot some hoops himself. Mr. Brainard also coaches the tennis team at the high school and the middle school boys basketball team. His favorite color is blue and when i asked his all time favorite famous person was, and I quote him, “whenever Lexi Fleischer becomes famous.” In the end the proof is in the article once everything adds up Mr. Brainard is an excellent math teacher.

By: Lexi Fleischer

A Fresh Start

Over the weekend the lady blue streaks girls basketball team started their season in a four team tournament held at Lakeside. In the first round, the Madison girls faced Lakeside where they played hard and never let up. With tremendous performances by Riley Montagner, Chloe Bancroft, and Payton Lewanski. Lewanski had an astonishing 5 blocks in the game along with 9 points and 2 steals. Unfortunately the team had kink in the game when team member Abbie Wilson got an injury on her knee with just minutes left in the game. Wilson will most likely be out the rest of the season. The blue streaks however still came through with a crushing 63-17 win over Lakeside. With the win against the Dragons they then went on to play in the championship against Fitch on Saturday. Through the first half of the game the score was back and forth with great effort on both offense and defense. Going into halftime the teams were at a dead heat with a  27-27 tie. However the blue streaks couldn’t hang on even with a great effort, Fitch came out hot and the bluestreaks lost 38-55. Although the lady’s didn’t win they still got 2nd place in the tournament winning a trophy. Team members Riley Montagner and Payton Lewanski won alternate team members which is an amazing accomplishment. The girls are back in action Tuesday against the Geneva Eagles where they hope to come out with a win for their first home game of the season.

By: Alyssa Molnar

The Final Chapter

Chris Blauman is a senior this year and a 3-year Varsity starter. He has become one of the team’s most valuable players throughout his high school years, he even tied the school’s record for number of 3-point baskets in a game. Some of his biggest high school accomplishments are that he is a member of National Honors Society, he has a 4.34 grade point average, won All Conference First Team for 2 years, and won All Lake County for 2 years as well. Some things that make Chris stand out are his height, his bright red hair, and his “obnoxious need to be right”. Some goals he has for his senior year are to come up with a good senior prank and make it to his 1000th point mark, which he is around 200 points away from. He has had many good memories throughout high school but some of his favorite have been spending quality time with his friends and Friday night basketball games with all the fans and the band playing. In the future, Chris wants to go to college (he is thinking about attending Florida Gulf Coast) and hopefully play basketball. He hopes to become a psychologist and one day start a family. Some fun facts about Chris are that his favorite movie is Guardians of the Galaxy 2, his favorite subject is science, specifically Biology, his favorite sports team is the Green Bay Packers, and his favorite TV show is The Office. When asked for a quote that would sum up his feelings about senior year, he said, “part of the journey is the end”.

By: Jillian Jeschenig