Saint Luke Swim Team

By  JJ Mackowski

                

                

           As a swimmer myself, I think our team had a pretty strong showing this year. We won the Diocesan championship last year, by just six points! It was a close meet, and I definitely thought we could do it again.  Although we lost a lot of good swimmers to  graduation, we still have a strong team.  The only problem about the Diocesan meet this year is that four schools combined into one team. Yeah. Saint Boniface, OLC, OLMC, and Saint George have combined together to create “one super team”.

           After last year, most of us swimmers didn’t think we could pull it off again. It was a rough, long, and fast meet. Eighth grader, Zach Miller, said “It’s gonna be a close fight.” And that it was. The meet lasted almost all day, but in the end, we took home the second place trophy. We had some crazy times at that meet, and memories we will never forget. I know I won’t.

By Cassie Zimmer, Madison Konkol, and Kaylee Williams

 

This year the Varsity Girls Soccer Team started practicing in the beginning of March. The team has 22 players, 7 eighth graders, and 15 seventh graders. The season was kicked off with an indoor tournament at Mercyhurst Prep on March 28^th.  The girls were split up into two even teams. Both teams did very well in the tournament, SLS yellow got 4^th place, and SLS green did not place.

The outdoor part of the season begins on April 15^th. SLS plays many teams, including St. George, St. James, Our Lady’s Christian, Our Lady of Peace, Blessed Sacrament, St. Peter’s Cathedral Center, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The Coaches and the players are really excited for the upcoming soccer season.  Let’s wish our girls good luck for the season ahead of them!  

Cassie Zimmer, Madison Konkol, & Kaylee Williams

By Cassie Zimmer

 

 

 

 

         Every four years athletes from all over the world gather to compete in over 15 events. This year Vancouver, British Columbia hosted the Winter Olympics. The games lasted 17 days, from February 12^th through the 28^th.    The sports that were included in the Olympics this year were snowboarding, luge, figure skating, biathlon, alpine skiing, speed skating, cross country skiing, bobsledding, curling, freestyle skiing, hockey, Nordic combined, short track,  skeleton, and ski jumping.

 This year the United States won the most Olympic medals, and broke the record for the most medals won in any Olympic games with 37 medals. The U.S. had 9 gold medals this year, but Canada earned the most golds with 14 medals.

You may have heard some of these names, Shaun White, Apolo Anton Ohno, Lindsey Vonn, Shani Davis, Bode Miller, these are just some of hundreds of Team USA member who competed this year. These athletes train for years to make it into the Olympics, and their training has paid off. All of these athletes earned at least one medal in the games, and some even more.

Although the Winter Olympics won’t come around for another four years, the Summer Olympics are going to be held in London, England in 2012, so keep supporting Team USA and tune in summer 2012!