New coaches, new team

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ROCKET SPORTS
December 16, 2015
New coaches, new team Wrestlers
Brandy Vaughn
Sports Editor
Junior
The 2015-2016 basketball season officially
kicked off on Friday,
December 4 with games
against the Labette
County Grizzlies. Garden Plain’s preseason
tournament also began
with the Rockets’ first
home game on Tuesday, December 8. Both
games left the Rockets
defeated for both the
boys and girls.
Lady Rockets trailed
the Lady Grizzles by
12 points at the end of
the first quarter. They
continued to trail the
Grizzles through the
second quarter as they
ended it with a score of
22-27. The second half
of the game the Grizzles
continued their lead, the
game ended with a Lady
Rocket loss of 49-53.
The boys started their
night off with a lead at
the end of the first quar-
ter against the Grizzles,
17-10. By the end of
the second quarter
they had fallen behind
by four points. In the
second half they scored
30 points, but fell short
in the fourth quarter
56-60.
During last weeks’
face off against the Lady
Owls, the Lady Rockets
took the lead through
the first half. At the end
of the third quarter, the
ladies were up by three
points, 32-29. In the
fourth quarter the ladies
gave up 21 points while
only scoring 10, they fell
short 42-50.
Top scorers for the
night included juniors
Mackenzie Herman,
Anna Van Driel, and
Kayna Simoneau. Herman and Van Driel both
had 11 points on the
night.
Junior point guard
Simoneau said, “We
came out really strong,
we just didn’t finish as
well as we all would
have liked. We are really pushing ourselves
at practice to play
with purpose and play
hard for our upcoming
games.”
The boys
however,
started their
night trailing the Owls,
14-32 at the
end of the
first half. They
were able to
get closer
to the Owls
throughout
the second
half but fell
short of a
victory. A
score of 3649, ended
the Rockets
second game
in defeat.
Top scorers
for the boys
were seniors Parker
Austin, Brett
Bonar, and
Corey Cotten. Austin
had nine points on the
night with Bonar trailing
with eight. Cotten was
able to contribute with
seven points.
Ashlee Lasch
Reporter
Senior
Senior Brogan Collins looks for an
open teammate to pass to while she
is guarded. Collins had two points
on the night. Photo taken by Rainey
Adler.
Swimmers finish second in Maize competition
Ashlee Lasch
Reporter
Senior
The swim team met
in Maize at the Northwestern YMCA on
December 5th. There
were a total of nine
schools at this meet.
Rose Hill placed fourth
with a score of 206, just
29 points shy of third
place. Their score was
based on each event
that the swimmers
were in and what
place they finished in.
Senior Gavin
Smith placed first
in both the 50 yd
Freestyle at 22.25
seconds and 100 yd
Freestyle at 49.45
seconds. “I was
pleased to be able to
win those. It was good
to get confidence at
the first meet”, said
compete in
El Dorado
Invitational
Smith. Also in the 50
yd Freestyle senior
Austin Farber placed
second with a time
of 24.15 seconds. “I
think we did pretty
good considering that
we are a 4A school
and everyone else
is 5A or 6A”, said
Smith about what he
thought of the meet.
In the 200 yd
Medley seniors
Farber, Smith and
David Steinhipert
placed second with a
time of 1:45.31. They also
placed second in the 200
yd Freestyle relay. “We
worked really well as a
team” said Farber.
Throughout the meet
each swimmer was able
to keep pace in their
own event with different
schools. The swimmers
next meet will be held
on December 11 in El
Dorado.
All-League Football Selections
Pictured to the left (far left) sophomore Chandler Flanagan was picked
for Second-team defense LB. Senior
Ross Nolan was chosen for both
first-team offense WR and special
teams. Senior Brody Hingst received
second-team offense L. (far right) senior Christian Polk was selected for
honorable-mention defense E. Photo
by senior Gabby Farris.
The varsity wrestling team went
to the El Dorado Invitational on
Saturday December 5th. What was
originally supposed to be a Duel
tournament led to be a round robin
this was due to a different school
not showing up and making one of
the Pools uneven. A round robin is
a tournament in which a wrestler
wrestles against every other in his/
her weight class. The wrestling team
brought nine wrestlers to the tournament and assistant coach Dylan
Penka.
During the tournament each wrestler faced off with another wrestler
from a different school, within their
weight class. Sophomore Chase
Thrush placed first in his weight
class of 182. Sophomore Ben Black
with a weight of 126 and freshman
Kyle Sackett with a weight of 106
placed second in their weight. Freshman Grant Scheer placed third in
his weight class of 145. “We overall
did pretty good, we got some things
to work on though”, said Thrush.
The team ended the day with a
record of 14 wins and 23 losses.
Champions were determined by an
overall match winning percentage.
Due to the team only having nine
wrestlers they were not eligible to
win the team competition.
“They just need to keep going to
practice everyday, and keep learning the moves. As the year goes on
I think they’re going to get quite a
bit better”, said Head coach Darian
Eshlelman. The wrestling teams’ next
tournament will be in Wellington on
December 12. Both JV and V will be
going to Wellington with all three
coaches and six managers.
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Baker and Baldridge voted Snoball King and Queen Student teacher leaves
Brandy Vaughn
Sports Editor
Junior
Around 175 RHHS students
gathered at the high school on Saturday, December 5 for this year’s
Snoball dance.
According to KAY club sponsor Teri Koester, the club has been
working hard to prepare for the
dance since the start of the year.
The Once Upon a Golden Night
theme went as planned with only a
few setbacks.
KAY members worked on setting
up decorations for the dance on
Friday night until about midnight.
Senior KAY club president Gabby
Farris said, “The night itself went
really well…we had a lot of good
things happen.”
As in past years, six students from
the senior class were nominated for
king and queen candidates. Seniors
Bri Anschutz, Chandler Lamm,
Kendra Baldridge, Sam Grant,
Ross Nolan, and Matt Baker.
Prince and princess nominees were
juniors Nate Scantlin, Max Adams, Parker Webb, Sierra Thomas,
Brooke Flowers, and Mackenzie
Herman.
Once the votes were counted up,
seniors Matt Baker and Kendra
Baldridge took king and queen.
Junior nominees Max Adams and
Sierra Thomas were crowned prince
and princess.
Baker is involved in band, cheer,
and baseball at the high school.
Baldridge has participated in volleyball, softball, basketball, and
StuCo in her four years of high
school.
Baker said, “[the dance] was
really fun, and I enjoyed spending
time with all my friends.”
From the proceeds, KAY club
will donate to multiple charities
and organizations. Similar to last
year, they have adopted a family
for Christmas. The club will decide
later on where else to donate the
money. Some of the ideas include
adopting an animal at the Sedgwick County Zoo, donating to the
Ronald McDonald house, or other
local organizations.
Annual Christmas concert performance takes the stage
Gabby Farris
Editor-in-Chief
Layout Editor
Senior
Band and choir students held
their annual Christmas concert on
Sunday, December 13. The band
played Christmas classics like
Baby It’s Cold Outside that featured four soloists. The Choir sang
Mary, Did You Know, The Colors
of Christmas, and several other
Christmas features.
Several choir groups including
La Belle Chanson, a small mixed
ensemble, the men’s ensemble,
Chamber singers, and the Rocketaires performed the day of the
concert.
The La Bele Chanson students
sang The colors of Christmas and
Beautiful December. The small
mixed ensemble singers performed
Enatus Est Emmanuel, Good People, Be Ye Glad, and Angles in the
Snow. The Men’s ensemble featured
Carol of the Star and A Festive
Fa La La. In Winter, Bethlehem
Lullaby, and Be a Candle of Hope
were sang by the Chamber singers.
Lastly, Rocketaires performed three
tunes including Carol of the Bells,
The World for Christmas, and
Mary Did you Know?
The World for Christmas included a slide show presentation
that was created by the members of
Rocketaires.
The choir will be performing
for the Kansas Music Educators
Association In-Service Workshop
coming this February. “This is quite
the honor and a first for RHHS!
For this 30 minute program the
Rocketaires will present a piece
that features a string quartet and
classical guitar. We are asking for
your donations to help defray the
cost of hiring a professional group
of musicians. The musicians are
members of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra or faculty at Wichita
State University. We need to raise
$1000.00! If you wish to donate,
please send a check to ‘RHHS
Vocal Music Boosters!’ ” from the
music association.
For further information on the
“Rent-A-String” Project, contact
choir teacher Brian Stranghoner.
The band’s portion of the concert consisted of the songs Angels
We Have Heard on High, The
Holst Winter Suite, Baby It’s Cold
Outside, and selections from Tim
Burton’s The Nightmare before
Christmas.
Baby It’s Cold Outside featured
four soloists. Seniors Cole Epley,
Ashley Clifton, Gabby Farris, and
Hannah Craddock. “The lighting
was really cool and it made it feel
more special this year just because
we had more special effects and I
had a solo which was pretty cool
too,” said Clifton.
This year the band featured
special lighting effects during the
show. The color guard team also
performed during Baby It’s Cold
Outside.
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with a degree
Student teacher Kyle Beauchamp
poses with science teacher Lee Ann
Youse. The sixth hour physics celebrates Beauchamp’s time here with
a class party. Photo by senior Ashlee
Lasch.
Katelyn Koch
Reporter
Sophomore
Kyle Beauchamp passes the
student teacher portion of his
degree at Rose Hill under the
mentorship of Physics teacher
Lee Ann Youse. His first day at
Rose Hill was august 12.
“I think my favorite experience
has been helping physics student
that come in for one on one
help,” said Beauchamp.
Beauchamp is currently attending Emporia State University to get a degree in secondary
education with an emphasis in
physics and earth science.
For part of his degree he must
complete a semester of student
teaching while also taking competency tests and having meetings with some of his supervisors.
For his final, he had to write a
teacher work sample.
Beauchamp graduates from
Emporia State with a Bachelors
of Science Education on December 12.
After graduation Beauchamp
plans on moving to Derby and
substitute teaching until he receives his teaching degree.
“...It’s been good, got to know
a lot of good staff and a lot of
good students,” said Beauchamp.
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ROCKET OPINION
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas” The Rock-It
News
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Gabby Farris
Editor-in-Chief
Layout Editor
Senior
As Christmas break
nears, students are thinking about the two weeks
of no school. They are
thinking about the time
they get to spend at
home with family, go out
to buy presents, and take
the chance to hang out
with some friends. Maybe even take the chance
to see some friends that
you have not really seen
since Halloween. Or
at least, that is what is
planned.
That is not what happens when the bell rings
on Friday. Students go
home and watch Netflix
late into the night. Occasionally getting up to get
some snacks or a drink.
This routine can last up
until Christmas day, or
even past.
This continues to happen year after year, and
the occasional Christmas
party is thrown into the
mix. Change it up this
year. Have yourself a
merry little Christmas.
Host a White Elephant
gift exchange or an ugly
Christmas sweater competition between your
friends. Get a group of
your buddies and go iceskating.
If all of your friends are
busy, make it your first
priority to spend extra
time with your family
that is usually working. It
December 16, 2015
is not hard to spend some
time wrapping presents,
baking cookies, or even
Christmas shopping with
someone who is normally
gone during the day.
Christmas shopping itself has become a dreaded
event that most people
prefer to do online.
Videos of the crazy mobs
at Wal-Mart only make
it harder to want to go
shopping. Most people
are skipping Black Friday
and shopping on Cyber
Monday.
But, are gifts really
that important during
Christmas time? This is
the time of giving. Lately
though, it has become
about the receiving.
Teenagers today are only
concerned about what
their parents are getting them for Christmas
rather than focusing on
what is really important.
Family members could
be coming over and the
parents could need some
help preparing for the big
day.
This Christmas cannot be about the sales or
how much Netflix can
be watched within a 24
hour period, or even the
food and gifts. Take the
chance to spend time
with family and friends
while you can. Seniors
might not get the same
chance next year. Having
a Christmas within your
family only matters if you
make it matter.
Is the Christmas tree
bland this year? Do you
feel like you could spice
it up with a little of your
own personal flair? With
these four DIY ornament
ideas, you could do just
that.
Scrabble tile ornaments are super easy to
make and will only take
fifteen minutes. Simply spell out your message, whether it is ‘Let it
snow’, ‘Merry Christmas’,
or ‘Baby it is cold outside’, and glue the tiles
together. For an added
2015-2016 Newspaper Staff
Gabby Farris
• Editor-in-Chief
• Layout Editor
• Senior
Brandy Vaughn
• Sports Editor
• Junior
•Assistant Layout Editor
Katelyn Koch
• Reporter
• Sophomore
Sammi Waddell
•Reporter
• Cartoonist
•Reporter
• Junior
Lizzie Lazar
•Reporter
•Senior
Lauren Diaz
•Reporter
•Advertisement Manager
•Junior
Ashlee Lasch
•Reporter
Cartoon by junior Sammi Waddell.
DIY Christmas Ornaments
Sammi Waddell
Reporter
Junior
The Rock-It News is the official publication of
Rose Hill High School, located at 710 N. Rose
Hill Rd, Rose Hill, KS. The paper is produced
by the Digital Media Design and Production
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effect, tear some cotton
balls and glue those on
top of the tiles to resemble snow.
Bottle cap snowmen
can be made within an
hour, disregarding the
time it takes for paint
to dry. Gather some old
bottle caps and glue them
by threes to look like the
basic shape of a snowman. Paint them white
with spray or acrylic
paint. Decorate the little
snowmen however you
please. Use ribbons as
scarves, and small buttons
as a cap.
If you live near an area
with a lot of pine trees,
this next ornament could
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be perfect. Simply go
outside and gather several
pinecones. Spray paint
them white and add a
little colorful glitter to
make it look frosted.
Light bulbs that
have burnt out do not
have to be thrown away.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle, right? So instead of
throwing away the bulb,
spray paint them in fun
and bright colors. It really
does not get much simpler than that!
Sources:
Craftsbyamanda.com
Oneartsymama.com
‘Let it snow’ scrabble tile arrangement. Materials used
include a paper plate, ribbon, felt, and craft glue. Cotton balls
or Snow Tex snow texture paint can be used as well. Photo
from craftsbyamanda.com.
December 16, 2015
ROCKET FEATURES
Scholars Bowl looking
to take state title again
Lizzie Lazar
Reporter
Senior
This year, the team has
several experienced members returning and multiple
promising members joining.
Head coach Vance
Appleby said, “We have
three guys who have gone
to state twice [captain
Alex Cantrell, senior Joe
Milsap, and captain Noah
Baden]…then we have also
a few other people that
are joining the team [and]
it looks like we could be
pretty good.” Several other
returning members of last
year’s team, who took first
in state, are seniors Scott
Tesser and Caleb Baker.
When asked about returning to state, Appleby
said, “[I] hope so. We’ve
done pretty well, we won
our first tournament that
we went to… in Augusta
and we got first in that
and beat two teams from
Wichita Collegiate and
they moved back to 4A
this year so their gonna
be tough and then we also
beat [the] Wichita East
team [twice]…and Wichita
East is always really good.”
The Scholars Bowl team
practices on Fridays after
school for about an hour
and a half. Appleby said,
“We basically just get out
the buzzers and we go
through past questions and
it’s really just to work on
confidence, being able to
buzz in so that they don’t
get nervous during the
matches.”
The biggest change in this
year’s team is that, “last…
there was…two people that
had a chance of answering
the question, and this year,
we still have one person
that can generally answer
any question.”
Scholars Bowl is similar
to a trivia game as there are
two teams of five people,
each with their own buzzer,
and a mediator who asks
questions. The first person
to answer the question
correctly gets ten points,
but if they answer incorrectly before the mediator
finishes saying it, they lose
five points. However, if the
mediator finishes the question and they get it wrong
there is no point deduction.
TSA begins preparations
for spring competition
Sammi Waddell
Reporter
Junior
The Technology Students
Association is currently
preparing for state and
national competitions that
will be held this spring.
TSA works on projects as
teams, building leadership
skills and helping students
learn newly developed and
old forms of technology.
The club assists these young
adults in nearly anything
that involves the usage and
advancement of technology.
“Anything from computers, CO2 cars, CAD
(computer-assisted design),
problem solving, and even
fashion design all utilize
some form of technology,”
said TSA sponsor Lee Ann
Youse. “We participate in
at least 46 different com-
petitions involving several
different areas like the ones
I mentioned.”
The state and national
competitions are held in
Salina and about 40 schools
within the state of Kansas
come together to join in
the contests. Youse said,
“TSA is national, and even
international. Germany
and Turkey have students
that come to the national
convention, though students mostly come from the
United States.”
“You don’t necessarily
have to be an engineer or
have to go into something
that most people would
categorize as technological,” said Youse. “Those
skills—getting up in front
of people and speaking,
and following instructions
and specifications—stress
professional attire so that
[students] know how to
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Student and teacher receive Masonic
Award for exemplary behavior
Lauren Diaz
Reporter
Junior
Senior Ali Justice and Industrial Technology teacher
Ryan Hill won the Masonic Award on Thursday,
November 5. This award is
given to one student who
displays exemplary leadership and academics and one
teacher who contributes to
the future of their students
and their community.
The Masonic award is a
new lodge-based program
that was launched by the
Kansas Masonic Foundation. The winners of this
award were decided on by
the administration and
were then announced by
Principal Shannon Haydock.
On that Wednesday
morning both Hill and
Justice were told that they
won an award and were
having their pictures taken
at noon. When they went
into the front office they
were given more details
about the award that they
had won. Justice even found
out that she had won a
scholarship.
“I was so caught off guard
and just so really surprised”,
said Justice when asked if
she was surprised about
getting the award. Justice
said that she plans on going to K-State to double
majoring in Political Science and Political communications, while at the
same time double minoring
in Leadership Studies and
Criminal Justice.
She wants to enlist in the
US Air Force after college
to be apart of their public
affairs sector. “My end goal
is to be a part of public
relations at the White
House”, said Justice.
Hill is the Drafting I,
Architectural Drafting,
Residential Carpentry, and
the Cabinetmaking and
Furniture Design. When
asked about the award Hill
said, “It was quite an honor,
I mean you never come
to work expecting to get
awarded; you come to work
just to work. You try to do
your job as well as you can.”
speak, how to dress, and
how to communicate.”
The TSA chapter representative, who handles
all TSA related information, Breana LaFever said,
“There’s SCIVIS (science
visualization) where you
create a presentation that’s
completely digital. We also
have an animatronic competition.”
“If a student is planning
on using any form of technology in their future daily
lives, TSA is useful for any
kind of thing they’d want to
do,” said Youse.
Currently, TSA meets
weekly, but will begin
meeting more at the start
of next semester. Anyone
interested in TSA can join.
However, those planning to
join the club must pay $14
Ryan Hill and senior Ali Justice, winners of the Masonic
in state and national dues.
awards
got their award on November 5. The award was
“Everyone should join. It
presented
to them by Principal Shannon Haydock. Photo by
is lots and lots of fun,” said
junior
Lauren
Diaz.
Youse.