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VOlUME XXVIII - ISSUE II OCTOBER

#kEEProLLIN BY Nick Jacobs

SOCCER COLONELS TAKE THE 9TH rEGION AND ROLL ON

After a long stretch of games, the Varsity Soccer Colonels’ regular season was coming to a close. The Colonels had their final home soccer match of the regular season against the Colonels of Dixie Heights. The Colonels’ Senior Night started with a bang when veteran goal scorer Jacob Litzler put the first goal in the back of the net to make it 1-0 Covington Catholic. The flood gates opened, and the Colonels put two more goals in on the Little Colonels before half time. A few minutes into the 2nd half, senior defender Ryan Massie skied for a corner kick and buried it in the back of the net. One of the best goals of the season came mid-way through the second half when leading scorer Jacob Litzler found the back of the net again, this time with a bicycle kick. The most exciting moment of the game came when senior Mitch MacKnight came off the bench to score his second goal of the season. Mitch received the ball at the top of the Little Colonels 18-yard box, dribbled through 3 defenders, and blasted the ball into the top right corner of the goal. The Colonels dominated the Little Colonels, rarely allowing them past half field thanks to great possession up top by the offense and solid defense by the 4 varsity defenders. The 6-0 victory was a great ending for the senior Soccer Colonels’ last home game of their careers.

For the last Ohio game of the year, the Colonels traveled across the river to Summit Country Day. The game was a matchup of two of the best teams in the greater Cincinnati area. The Colonels were on the board first with a goal by Michael Wessels. Summit immediately

answered with a goal, tying it 1-1. The game went back and forth with the Colonels scoring again only to have Summit respond with another goal. By half time the score was 3-3 with both teams looking evenly matched.

A few minutes into the second half Summit’s skill and endurance began to push them ahead of the Colonels, and Summit put in another goal. Summit scored another goal to seal the game and held onto the lead and won

5-3.

For the last regular season game of the year, the Colonels played the Connor Cougars at Connor. Junior Mike Vogt put Cov Cath on the board first, only to have Connor put in a goal just before half time to make it 1-1. The Colonels started

the 2nd half with intensity and put in a goal in the first minute. Cov Cath scored an own goal but eventually scored 3 more on Connor to seal the game. The Colonels shut down Connor on offense to finish the game 5-2.

The Colonels’ post season started with a win against the Holmes Bulldogs, automatically qualifying them for the regional tournament. The Soccer Colonels have not won a regional title since 2009. The Colonels rolled on, defeating Holy Cross, Highlands, and Cooper. On October 24th, Cov Cath defeated the Ryle Raiders to take home the Regional Championship. Once the final whistle blew, the team ran to celebrate with the Crazies. As great as the win was, the Colonels stays determined and are ready to take their talents to the next level: STATE.

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#E-V-E-N-T-S

HALLOWEEN

#FRESHMAN BASH

REVERENT MONK(Mr. Ron Durham)

#PUMPKIN CONTEST

CHamber choir Releases Christmas album

I’ll Be Home

Music Director Mr. Jim Wolfe, along with the CCH Chamber Choir and ex-perienced choir alumni, gathered to produce another award-deserving Christmas album. Purchase your own copy for $15 in CCH’s office to enhance the holiday experience.

Blue Print

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+New Mascot Revealed

+National Merit FInalists

+Ski Club Update

+HALLOWEEN aCTIVITIES

Selena Gomezby Robert Witt

Nick Porras

Music Reviews

Arts/ Entertainment

Jake Haught

Malcolm McCormick better known as Mac Miller is a young 23-year-old from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Miller burst on to the music world at the age of 18 with one of his most successful mixtapes, K.I.D.S. This mixtape fea-tured hit songs, “Knock Knock,” “Se-nior Skip Day,” “Traffic in the Sky,” and “The Spins.” This mixtape took off and has been viewed over 2,200,000 times, downloaded over 800,000 times, and streamed over 550,000 times. Miller gained popularity and dropped two more albums to follow up K.I.D.S. which were Blue Slide Park and Best Day Ever. These albums were smash hits that propelled Miller to the top of the rapping world.

His latest album GO: OD AM is one of his best works. This was Mac’s first album since Watching Movies with the Sound Off which was released in late 2013. This album features hit songs “100 Grandkids,” “Weekend,” “Jump,” and “Break the Law.” This album was released on September 18, 2015, and has instantly reached the top of ITunes. Many of the songs from this album are scheduled for music videos due to their success. Miller is known for his rap-ping, but in some of his hit songs on this album he is featured singing in-stead of rapping. These songs include “ROS” and “Doors.”

This album is one of his best. Best Day Ever and K.I.D.S. are still better, but this is a close third. This album has me listening to Mac Miller almost every day and singing along to his hit songs. Mac Miller is one of my fa-vorite artists, and I hope to hear many more albums from him in the future.

Mac Miller Selena Gomez is a 23-year-old, singer, actress, and fashion de-signer from Grand Prairie, Texas. Listening to her, I can compare Selena Gomez to other powerful women’s voices, including Lorde and Adele. Her new single “Same Old Love,” shows a break up anthem that depicts a woman who is tired of the same thing happening over and over again. The song begins with “I’ve heard it all before at least a million times.” This shows that this woman has been used by shallow men before, and she wants no more of love like this. The song talks about the culture today and a woman’s perspective of men who want to love her and then leave her. Selena shows that our culture is insensitive to a woman’s feelings and that men only want mean-ingless passion. It all shows this woman wants to rebel against this culture, even saying at one point in the song, “I’m not spending any time, wasting tonight on you.” The rebelling of this woman shows that she does not have any more patience for a culture or a man that devalues a woman. The song “Same Old Love” can be found on Selena’s new album Revival which is already out and available for down-load now.

Drake-Future Album Have Halloween Embedded Memories

by Connor Hodge

Anticipation for a Drake-Fu-ture album tensed once rumors were leaked and people started compar-ing it to Jay Z- Kanye West: Watch the Throne. Drake and/or Future fans may have raised their expectations to high. After the fact, it is not reasonable to compare a ‘six day, quickie” with a hard spent, historical album. Two leading artists, like Drake and Future, collaborating is always exciting and al-ways has a good outcome. Despite the questionable chemistry between the two, What A Time To Be Alive satis-fies more than it disappoints. As thrown together and chop-py as the album sounds, overall, the product is artistic and enjoyable. Drake and Future’s styles and content vary, but their success and ambition parallel, which is something to appreciate and experience when listening to Drake’s upbeat, positive, and catchy flows and Future’s dense and personal rhymes. Future seems to be the lead of the al-bum while Drake comes across as a by-stander in most songs. Future’s persona represents a different background and format of music than Drake. Out of his element, Drake’s mild and bland lyrics sound out of place next to Future’s. It seems as if Drake accepted a challenge that fans and others have been pushing for him to do: stray away from the pop sensation and dig a little deeper into rap and trap music. Songs such as ‘Jumpman’ and ‘Big Rings’ are undoubtedly great works and bangers that can be heard playing all over on the mixtape. Drake appeals to a large group of people and even non rap fans, and Future has a more selective but, for the most part, widespread fanbase. Not only do Drake and Future collaborate, but also their segregated audiences combine. What A Time To Be Alive is innovative and strategic in the two artists’ careers, and, for Drake, a question to his talents and possibly an answer to his perceived flexibility within the various genres of rap. Even though Drake does not mix well with Future, they both managed to still make songs that have Halloween memories embedded within in them. For an album made in six days, Drake and Future further exemplify their tal-ent and persistence as leaders of the rap game, creating an above average work of art.

Despite rain, car accidents, and countless delays, the day’s outlook brightened for the Drama class upon arrival at NKU’s campus. Not only did the rain stop, but also did the early morning attitudes of thirteen teenage boys after meeting the animated personalities of NKU’s drama students. After pon-dering over the exoctic art displayed in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center, a tour guide brought us behind the scenes and showed off the flexible black box theatre. Remnants of set structures from the latest show, The Snow Queen, gave an idea of what a performance was like in the fascinating theater. Moving on, our guide introduced the class to the narrow makeup room, walled with mirrors and lined with lamps. The guys were warned that one of the thirteen would have to volunteer to have a professional makeup artist work his magic on their appearance. Zach Buscher was selected as the makeup dummy. Chris, the professional artist, humbled the class with his speed, detail, and creativity in which they were able to appreciate since they had been learning makeup for weeks prior in the classroom. Zach went from a normal teenage boy to an angry, beaten middle aged man with a wig once Chris finished his magic. Passing time, everyone admired a hallway dedicated to a timeline of photos that showed all the plays performed each year, tracing back to the very first performance at NKU. Ending the visual tour, the class was brought to the main theater, The Corbett Theater. Entering from back stage, the boys walked towards stands that towered diagonally from the wide and deep stage. The well anticipated interactive part of the trip began with NKU’s of-ficial Improv Team. The team members started a warm up activity that sparked energy and fun. Next, the class moved into a classroom, split into teams, and performed their own improvised skits such as acting out a toilet making machine, creating a three sentence conversation based on a random topic like band aide, and developing a story comprised of one word from each team member. Needless to say, it was more than entertaining and nothing short of comedy. About an hour before lunch, Associate Performance Professor, Mike King, took control and boasted his arsenal of accents before teaching the class a British accent. Calling on each student to either count to ten or say a three word sentence in the learned dialect, he judged and critiqued the mis-takes and strong points. Even though the boys’ mouths were worked, they were ready to work on chicken fingers, French fries, and subs from the cafeteria.The trip ended with pure entertainment from the musical and dance teams that had no problem singing, dancing, and aggressively smiling as they performed their colorful and talented skits in front of a group of males. On the bus ride home, the conversations covered memories and high-lights of the trip. No one left disappointed and only sad for the few that couldn’t make it. It was well worth the time, and, for NKU, a successful adver-tisement and tribute to their school and, specifically, their performing arts program.BY Connor Hodge

Drama Field Trip

to NKU

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21 Jumpstreet is a classic comedy featuring star-studded actors. The movie is based on the television series created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play two young cops who are new to the police force. Jonah Hill, Schmidt, has the brains but not the athleticism, while Channing Tatum, Jenko, has the athleticism but not the brains. They are both working park patrol when they have their first encounter with crime in a drug deal. Although they are successful in stopping the deal in an unorthodox way, they make one key mistake. When arresting the criminals, they forget to read them their Miranda Rights, making their arrest illegal. The two are then demoted to a revived program of the 80’s called 21 Jumpstreet, which involves infiltrating high schools and the crime that occurs within them. One of the big things taken away from this comedy is the value of friendship and loyalty. No matter what happens to Jenko and Schmidt, in the end, they will always be best friends and have each other’s backs. Schmidt and Jenko then meet their boss for their assignment Captain Dickson (Ice Cube). They are supposed to go undercover and stop the drug HFS from spreading. HFS is a drug with multiple phases that has already killed one student and is on the move. Two popular students Eric (Dave Franco) and Molly (Brie Larson) become some of Jonah Hill’s closest acquaintances, but there are some twists and turns and decisions that Jonah Hill will have to make. The PE teacher Mr. Walters (Rob Riggle) plays an important part in this all-time classic. There was a cameo role for one of the originals from the TV show 21 Jumpstreet. Johnny Depp plays the role of undercover cop Tom Hanson.

21 Jumpstreet was received so well by the fans that it led to the release of a sequel 22 Jumpstreet in the summer of 2014. With a North American gross-ing of $138,447,667 and a worldwide grossing of $201,585,328, 21 Jumpstreet was the highest grossing comedy of the high school genre ever. I can personally say that this is one of my favorite comedies ever and if you like Jonah Hill type of comedy, then this is right up your alley.22 Jumpstreet was also popular and has led to the rumored release of 23 Jumpstreet at a time currently unknown. The plot is still unknown.

Robert Witt

Nick Porras

Junior Fieldtrip:

Death of a Salesmanby Nick Jacobs

Performing art

Noah Lenhof

With the Halloween season coming around, there is nothing better than sitting down and watching a zombie movie. Zombieland is a perfect combination of both comedy and action where four people navigate their way through the zombie-infested world to find a safe haven. Zombieland was the top grossing zombie film in the United States until World War Z came out in 2013. What is better than a funny, zombie movie…nothing.

The film primarily follows Columbus (Jessie Eisen-berg), a geeky college kid who finds himself in sev-eral zombie-related scenarios which have comedic side to them. He has his own little list of rules that he says if you follow you will survive the zombie-infested world, which he calls Zombieland. Colum-bus later meets Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a man who takes zombie killing to a whole new level.

He also has a soft side to him due to the loss of a special person in his life from the zombies. Columbus and Tallahassee later meet the sister duo of Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). The sisters are known as scam artists back in the town they live in, and they show this trade a few times throughout the movie. The rest of the movie is simply these four individuals traveling across the county trying to find a safe place with zombie fighting mixed with off and on humor.

It is a must-see Halloween movie if you are in the mood to laugh but also in the spirit of the holiday.

Zombieland Gets You in the Halloween Spirit

Thomas Ziegler

Students from Covington Catholic and Notre Dame collabo-rated to perform Shakespeare’s The Tempest October 23rd-25th. The play was a huge success, and the entire cast did a great job. They performed Friday, Sat-urday, and Sunday. All three shows had a packed house, impressing every-one, with over 100 tick-ets sold for the weekend.

The play is about the main character Pros-pero who creates a great storm that sends Alonsa the Queen of Naples to an island. The ship-wrecked survivors awake stuck on an abandoned island. From this point on the people are trying to get back to Naples all while being tormented by Prospero, Ariel, and Caliban.

On October 20th, the junior class ven-tured to Cincinnati Shakespeare Company to watch the play Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller and directed by Brian Isaac Phil-lips.

The play focuses on the Loman Family, a troubled, discordant family located in New York. The main character Willy is a depressed man who is the father of 34-year-old Biff and 32-year-old Happy and is a husband to Linda Loman. Willy is a troubled man who constantly finds himself having flashbacks to past situa-tions, one of which is an affair he had over 15 years ago. Willy struggles to escape his past and tries to cope by creating a false image of himself for himself and his family. Willy’s family soon learn that he has been lying to them about who he really is, which launches Willy into a deeper state of depression. Willy finds himself contemplating suicide and seeks the council of his Uncle Ben in a fantasy. Willy’s son Biff con-fronts him and says he will not forgive him if he commits suicide. After some conversation, Biff and Willy reconcile and come to terms with the situation. Willy later commits suicide.

The main character, Willy Loman, is played by Daniel Britt; Happy is played by Jim Hopkins; Biff is played by Justin McCombs; and Linda Loman is played by Annie Fitzpatrick. When asked who their favorite character was, junior Ben Boydston said, “My favorite char-acter was Biff Loman. I enjoyed watching Biff develop as a character.” English teacher Ms. McDonald said, “The actor did a good job of making the audience sympathetic with Willy. We really did not sympathize with Willy while reading the book.” Both Ben and Ms. McDonald enjoyed watching the play and greatly enjoyed the acting as well.

Rave Reviews foR The TempesT

Senior Michael Pikar played the lead role of Prospero. “Michael did a fantastic job with the role, he did not miss a line, he killed it,” Ben Schilpf stated after watching the play.

Max Schaefer and Laura Dinn also did a great job as Trinculo and

Stephano. It was impres-sive that the whole cast did such a good job consider-ing the amount of lines they had to remember for the play. They did a great job taking on Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, which is Shakespeare’s language used in all his plays. Other

outstanding performances go to Mason Kinsella as Ferdinand and Ellie O’Hara as Miranda. But super amazing perfor-mance goes to Caliban played by Erin Miller. The play was very well put to-gether, and the drama program is looking to have similar success with their next performance.

21, 22, and Maybe 23 Jumpstreet

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Highly Anticipated Across The Galaxy

Editorials

HalloweenFeature

Johnny SchaffsteinHighlig

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Halloween is a time for spooking and scaring, dressing up, cheering on fellow classmen, and most important, having a good time. Halloween is one of the most popular holidays nationwide and is celebrated everywhere. It gives people an excuse to dress up crazy and act like a fool without people thinking they are weird. This upcoming Hallow-een has much for the Covington Catholic Community to offer. The most common one could spend their Halloween is Trick-Or-Treating. I know what you are thinking,” I am way too old to Trick-Or-Treat with all those little kids,” but you are wrong! There is no age limit on receiving mass amount of candy. All Covington Catholic freshman students are invited to attend the annual CCH/NDA Halloween Bash on Fri-day the 30th in our gym from 8-11 p.m. Tickets are only $5.00 and must be purchased in advance of the event. Attendees are encouraged to attend and wear a costume great prizes throughout the night will be awarded to the best one. There are tons of dancing, music, food, and drinks. It is bound to be a blast! If you are looking for something more on the scary side the USS Nightmare is the place to be. With the low cost of 20 dollars you will get every pennies worth. This 30-minute tour takes you through the whole boat and gives you chills down your spine. The hours this Halloween are from 7:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M Friday and Saturday. If dressing up and the whole Halloween atmosphere is not your thing, then go support the Varsity Soccer Colo-nels down in Lexington. The Colonels have won Region for the first time since 2009. They are led by seniors Sam Romes, Bryce Day, and Jacob Litzler. They play for the State Quarter Final on Halloween at 6:00 P.M. at Henry Clay High School. They are looking to attain Cov Cath’s first State Championship in soccer. This upcoming Halloween has so much to offer that I have no clue what I will do. Everyone have a safe and fun Halloween!

Coleman Sweeney Arguably the most an-ticipated video game release of the year, Star Wars Battlefront, has already seen huge success a month before its release date of November 17. The beta was released for a five-day period in the beginning of October, eventually being extended a day because of its wide popu-larity. According to statistics released by the video game giant, Electronic Arts, players of the Star Wars Battlefront beta logged the equivalent of 38 lifetimes’ worth of playing time, totaling over 1.6 billion minutes. With over 9.5 million participants this is one EA’s largest betas to date. On the Hoth map, one

of three released maps, play-ers enjoyed playing as one of two heroes, Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker. Leading the Rebel Alliance’s attack on the Empire’s AT-ATs, Luke Skywalker totaled 5,904,806 spawns in the six days of the beta, Darth Vader barely hav-ing beaten him with 5,938,148 spawns which fans achieved 1,379,000 force choke kills. Other impressive stats re-leased include over 780,000 destroyed walkers and over 293 million E-11 blaster kills. Even with all thses impressive statistics, the true test of this game is its release. If the beta is any reflection of how this game will do, then millions of copies should be sold.

Schools have always been viewed as sort of a safe haven for children and teach-ers and know serious threats lie within. But since Colum-bine happened, school shoot-ings have become a more fre-quent event, and over the past

year the shootings have picked up at an even more frequent pace. These shootings have touched the hearts of many Americans but many people from the close-knit commu-nities of Northern Kentucky think the possibility of one of these shootings affecting a lo-cal high school or grade school

is a little far-fetched. I had pre-viously agreed with this state-ment until this year and really this past month. At the start of the second quarter Cov Cath in-serted a new policy, making all students wear their student ID’s around their neck instead of just having it in the wal-lets or backpacks of students. This step along with educating teachers and educating some students about these shoot-ings and what to do during a shooting have been two steps CCH has had to take in order to ensure the safety of every student. The question still re-mains whether this will be enough to provide the correct environment to learn in and feel safe. Just recently Notre Dame Academy had to take serious precautions after writ-

ing was found on two of the stalls in the bathroom threat-ening harm to people. NDA had an optional day of school the day of the date written in the stall and also had police checking bags and wandering halls throughout the school day.

Personally, CCH is moving in the right direction to avoid this, but it will be very hard to completely eliminate the threat of a shooting without an everyday police presence to scare a shooter completely.

Robert Young

Cov cath aDdressing safety

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Academic AwardsStudent Life

Culture club

Club Updates

Jake Haught On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Covington Catholic hosted its 40th annual Academic Awards in the gym. Coach Krumps has at-tended each and every assembly in his time at Covington Catholic. The ceremony was highlighted by Key-note Speaker, Michael Schlotman, a 1975 graduate of CovCath. Mr. Schlotman is currently the CFO of Kroger and provided great insight on how to be successful when we students graduate high school. The sophomores led the school in the amount of recipients with an outstanding number of 65 students. The seniors followed up with 49 recipients, and the juniors brought up the rear with 38 recipi-ents. That brings the total to 152 students out of the 604 students that attend Covington Catholic. This was the most amount of students that have received this award in the school’s history. In addition to the Academic Awards, some students were hon-ored for their test scores in the Na-tional Science League. Sophomore Jack Scharstein won the Biology award. Junior Hunter Ziegelmeyer won the Chemistry award, and Se-nior Chris Fagin won the Physics award.

More student recogni-tions occurred when the following students were honored for their participation in the Governor’s School Programs of the Arts, En-trepreneurship, and the overall program. Senior Josh Hildreth at-tended Governor’s School for the Arts. Senior George Ghazala and Junior Joe Niehaus attended Gov-ernor’s School for Entrepreneurs. There were 11 seniors that attended Governor’s Scholars Program these students were Coire Ayres, Logan Boyle, Ben Darpel, Adam Flynn, Austin Flynn, Sam Hacker, Danny Kleier, Mitch MacKnight, Sam Romes, Matt Rose, and Lucas Tim-merman. This was the most amount of seniors to make the Governor’s Scholar Program in CovCath his-tory. It is safe to say this has been a great academic year already for the Colonels.

National Merit

- Logan Boyle - Mitch MacKnight- Ben Darpel - Peter Schaefer- Chris Fagin - Lucas Timmerman- Adam Flynn

Semi-finalists

Robert Young National Merit is a very prestigious award to a high school stu-dent. The National Merit Scholarship program began in 1955 and is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships. In order to en-roll in the program high school students must take the PSAT/NMSQT, be enrolled in a high school, and be citizen of the United States. There are 16,000 semi-finalists selected from the 50,000 that apply. Then, 1,000 stu-dents are cut and 15,000 finalists are selected. From this 15,000, winners are selected for the Merit Scholarship awards. Cov Cath has always been successful at having students selected for this prestigious award. This year was record-setting for CCH, 7 Na-tional Merit Semifinalists were selected from CCH, which was record number for CCH. These semi-finalists are an extreme honor for CCH and show the hard work and academic success of CCH.

Art Club

Coleman Sweeney Culture Club is moderated by English De-partment Head, Mrs. Ruth. The Culture Club meets monthly and takes various trips to areas of cultural diversity and significance in the Greater Cincinnati area. The goal of the club is for members to get the chance to experience as many cultures as pos-sible through movies, food, community events, and guest speakers. The Culture Club has already held one of its most popular outings, Taste of Belgium, where members had the opportunity to experience tradi-tional Belgian breakfast food. Recently, they went on the Newport is Haunted tour; they were guided around Newport to the locations of hangings, mafia connections, and reportedly haunted areas. The Culture Club is always accepting new members. If interested, Mrs. Ruth can generally be found in Room 214 and is always happy to answer questions you might have about the Culture Club.

James Wilson Art club is for people who like a challenge and want to excel in their art capabilities. It's not only a club that helps you progress in your art skills, but is also a group of Colonels who have common interests and like to hang out. They meet up most Wednesdays and do fun activities that are made up by art teacher Mr. Haders. He is in charge of Art Club and if you have any questions is a very easy man to talk to; however, you should beware he will make you laugh. They have done multiple things as a club. For instance, they went to a marionette muse-um in the beginning of the school year and then bowled on Halloween. The greatest thing about this club is that you meet fellow Colonels who are looking for a friend like you to share their interests. Another great thing about the art club is that you don't have to take art to be in the art club, so if you have an interest in art go in and see if you like it.

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- Adam Flynn- Chris Fagin- Ben Darpel-Logan Boyle Bottom Row

L-R-Lucas Timmerman-Peter Schaefer-Mitch MacKingiht

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Left: Culture Club members end their tour at the Courthouse where ghosts are said to haunt after a double hanging occurred there years ago.

Youth 2000NEHS

tEACHER APPRECIATION NIGHT Ben Thieman

The Youth 2000 program is run by our very own faculty member Mr. Andolina. The youth 2000 program takes place on a Friday to a Sunday in October. The youth 2000 is a retreat that is designed to help young men to come to better understand the Eu-charist. During the entire time of coming to better understand the Eucharist, the Eucharist is always present. While on the retreat the students would spend a lot of their time in prayer to have a better understanding and experience in their own way. The whole purpose of the retreat was to help people better understand the faith and have the ability to better follow in the foot-steps of Jesus. Also a major part of the retreat was to show how to embrace the sacraments to the fullest and fully accept the presence of God.

Austin Sweeney On Thursday, October 15th the National English Honor So-ciety Teacher Appreciation Night was held in the decorated multi-purpose room. Around 30 to 40 NEHS members and CovCath fac-ulty members gathered to celebrate the night. There was plenty of food, games, and prizes, which made for a fun-filled night! After dinner was served the first activity of the night began. A large bucket was filled with candy corn, and everyone gave their best guess as to how many pieces were in the bucket. There were quite a

few close guesses, but Mrs. Garrett-Welte took home the prize by guessing the closest number! The next activity featured a little more creativity and a lit-tle less luck: pumpkin decorating! Groups were created, and each group tried to decorate their pumpkin in a unique way. When they were finished, the pumpkins had many different spooky designs: spider webs, ghosts, bats, and more! However, the winning pump-kin design had a different approach than the others. Ms. Baulch and her group won the contest by focusing their design around a theme: pumpkin pie. Their pumpkin featured a piece of pie, the Pi symbol, a Pi-lot, and a scene from The Life of Pi! Senior and NEHS president, Logan Boyle, was responsi-ble for the next activity of the night. He created a scavenger hunt throughout the school, and it was a huge hit! Boyle wrote the clues using literary devices and tried to make it tricky on the partici-pants. Mr. Durham and Mr. Lind were not fooled, however, as they quickly completed the scavenger hunt and tied for first place! The night was coming to a close, and there was no better way for it to end than with ghost stories around a fire. The large group gathered outside in a circle and took turns telling their scari-

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Nick Porras Cov Cath has decided to upgrade its mascot for all sports. Cov Cath had its mascot custom made by the company Maydwell who specializes in custom made mascots. Maydwell is a top of the line Canadian company that has developed collegiate mascots for schools such as Umass. Cov Cath sent a copy of what they wanted the mascot to look like and the mascot was produced off of that. The inexpensive cost of the mascot was funded by a donor. When Cov Cath decided to upgrade its logo, they decided it was time to do the same with the mascot. There are 6 young men that switch off wearing

the mascots during sporting events, open house, or other big events in the Cov Cath com-munity. It was decided that they should acquire some techniques for wearing the mascots. Some of the young men traveled to Xavier one night to learn from the Musketeer mascot. For ex-ample, some of the things that were worked on were running in the costume and adjusting to the big feet of the colonel. They were also taught how to run with a flag and talk. When wearing the mascot, you talk out of the mouth so you need to adjustby not looking down too far at the person when talking to them. Inside the hat and top of the head there is a fan that draws hot air out of the

head to try and make things cooler for the person wearing it. There is also a cooling vest the mascots can wear when it gets too hot in the body. Mr. Rowe recently wore the costume to the surprise of everyone during the pep rally the day before the Soc-cer State Championship game. The mascot is an integral part of the Cov Cath community and cheering section.

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Varsity Football

2-2 on the month raises expectations

Freshman Football

Youth 2000

Austin Sweeney The Colonels Varsity Football team put together a strong showing in the month of October, going 2-2. After starting the season slowly, it seems as if the Colonels are really starting to find their identity right before playoff time. During the month of October the team had a bye week, followed by a huge win against Grant County, a close loss against Highlands, another big win at Dixie, and a tough loss at Scott County. Coach Eviston and the Colonels spent their first week of October on a bye, and it gave them plenty of extra time to prepare for their next game at home against the Grant County Braves. The team took advantage of their prep-aration and came out firing against the Braves. Senior linebacker Cameron Pitzer made his offensive debut in this game at wide receiver, and he caught a 32-yard touchdown pass from AJ May-er toward the end of the first quarter. Pitzer was not done as he scored again in the third quarter. Runningback Grant Dyer also ran for 109 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the game. Dyer’s suc-cess won him the Offensive Player of the Week Award. The Colonels defeated the Braves, 47-9. The next week featured a tough-er opponent for the Colonels: the Blue-birds of Highlands. CovCath started out hot and found themselves up 10-0 mid-way through the second quarter after a field goal by Matt Kloska and a 4-yard touchdown run by Anthony Best. The cheering section was going crazy as the Colonels held a two possession lead over the Bluebirds. The Colonel Crazies then lost it completely as Krispy Kreme delivered over a hundred free donuts to the student section! Meanwhile on the field, Highlands was battling back and made it 10-7 at halftime. In the second half Highlands scored again and went up 14-10. CovCath continued to fight back, but they could not find their way back into the end zone. The final score of the game: Highlands 14, CovCath 10.

Johnny Schaffstein In respect to the freshman football team’s success, Cov Cath football has a pleasing future. The Colonels fought through true adversity. Head coach Ted Edgington, has done an outstanding job building such a successful season. Week four the Colonels battled the Simon Kenton Pioneers and won 29-8. The next week they traveled to Highlands. This was a true grudge match, but with a key goal line stand from the Colonel defense and some big time plays by the offense, Cov Cath won 39-21. The Freshman Football Team has been successful against the Bluebird with winning 3 of the past 4 meetings. The Colonels then faced the Beechwood Tigers with them dealing the first loss of the season. After the tough loss Cov Cath went on a two game win streak beating Connor and Boone County handily. For the final game of the year they traveled to union to face the Raiders. It was a close game in the first half but the Colonels pulled away with a 42-28 victory. They ended the season with an 8-1 record. The freshman team has put out an outstanding season. The accomplishments they have made been truly exceptional. The Colonel community cannot wait to watch this group grow to their full potential for years to come. Congrats on a great season. Go Colonels!

Despite the loss against the rival Blue-birds, the Colonels finished the month of October on a high note beating the Red Colonels of Dixie in blowout fash-ion, 42-14. Quarterback AJ Mayer threw three touchdown passes in the game to receivers Ian Summe, Ryan McGinness, and Brent Angel. This game was never in doubt as the Blue Colonels led 21-0 at half and 42-0 at the end of the third quarter. The final regular season game for the Colonels was played against the number one offensive team in the state: Scott County. CovCath matched their of-fensive fire power early, as quarterback A.J. Mayer connected with Cameron Pitzer for three touchdowns. Halfway through the third quarter the Colonels found themselves in a close one, 28-21. Unfortunately, Scott County’s offense was too overwhelming, and they were able to pull away from the Colonels. Ryan McGinness scored two late touch-downs to keep the final score respect-able, 56-35.

(R-L: New Colonel Mascot, Sam Romes, Ryan Massie get ready to bake Highlands)

(Cov Cath corner, Adam Picarillo on the tackle)

(CCH WR #9, Ian Summe celebrates win against Dixie)

Above: (Adam Picarillo and his family cel-ebrate Adam's Highschool tnure)

Below: (Offensive/Defensive Lineman, Lee Ludovicy is recognized with his mom)

(CCH Athlete, Anthony Best reaches for extra yards at Dixie)

Cross Country Academic Team

Thomas Ziegler

The Cross Country team went into their last two races of the year with a lot of questions. The team was predicted to finish 3rd at regionals way behind Cooper and Ryle, and predicted to finish 19th at the state meet. Nobody expected anything from the Cross Country Colonels and the team used that as motivation. On October 31st the team ran in their regional championship and finished runner-up. The Colonels were led by Owen Piatt in 3rd, Matt rose in 6th, Zach Hemsath in 11th, Mike Ward in 20th and Thomas Ziegler in 22nd. Cooper won the meet easily, but CCH upset Ryle the team predicted to win the region. “The coaches were very pleased with everyone’s effort in this race. Cooper’s pack was just a little tighter than ours today and they deserved to win.” Coach Arnold said. The Colonels went into the state championship looking to get the better of Cooper. The State Championship was on November 7th. The Colonels went into the meet of 34 teams, with over 200 runners. The Colonels fin-ished 11th and all 7 runners finished in the top 150. The team was led by Owen in 48th, Zack Hemsath in 57th, Matt Rose in 66th, Mike Ward ijn 110th, and Will Akin in 119th. The Colonels finished just outside the top 10 against the best competition in the state. It was a good way to send the seniors out. The team has a very bright future with 7 of the top 10 runners returning for another year.

SatisfiedJames Wilson The varsity Academic team is having a great year so far their re-cord is 6 and 0. They have a great chance to remain undefeated, for they are holding the first position in division 2 for state. The team consists of Logan Boyle, Mitch MacKnight, Aidan Donaghy, Jack Scharstein, and Matthew Franxman. Their fearless captain who will lead them to victory is Logan Boyle. If you are wondering how these young men got so smart the answer is Covington Catholic, but these men take it the extra mile they memorize lists from Quizlet. If you are wanting to join these men and be part of the academic team you will have to take a written test and score at least a 36 out of 41. The Academic Team accepts only those looking to challenge their cognitive abilities, putting their knowledge to the test against some of the brightest around.

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Basketball

Nick Porras Back to Back Regional Championship, 2 straight runs to the state tournament, and a state championship. Under the tutelage of Scott Ruthsatz, the colonels have formed a powerhouse in the 9th region and a mainstay in the bluegrass state. The colonels return their leading scorer, a 9th region player of the year front runner, a junior, Cole Von Handorf. Cole averaged 18 points a game while shooting 47% from the field. The defending 9th region champions also return one of their top 4 scorers in senior wing Andy Flood. Flood averaged 8 points while being one of the best 3 point shooters on the roster. This year he will be asked to play a bigger role in complementing Von Handorf in the backcourt. Flood should be considered as one of the most underrated guards in the entire region

The Colonels do have several questions to answer as well. Although they have 5 seniors on the roster, only 2 played significant minutes posing the question who will help replace the leadership of guys like Cooper Theobald, Bo Schuh, Grant Romes, and Matthew Shumate. Will Heppler was one of the players from last season who played big minutes especially down at state. He will be asked to do the dirty work down low this season. Another senior, Ryan Massie who will be called upon for his defense and hustle play will see a bump in minutes. Austin Sweeney is another senior who will be called upon to play the 4 and run the floor. Then there is the biggest question of the roster. Who will be the point guard day 1? Will it be sophomore Aiden Ruthsatz or senior Noah Lenhof. Ruthsatz has seemingly got better and put on more weight in the offseason and will definitely see significant minutes whether it’s off the bench or in the starting role. Then there is the senior Noah Lenhof. Lenhof isn’t the biggest kid on the floor but what he doesn’t have in size he makes up for in heart. Lenhof, who seems to be notorious for getting dunked on and being in the wrong place at the wrong time looks to put that behind him this season. Lenhof shot 36% from 3 last season which was the best

on the team for a minimum of 10 attempts. There seems to be underrated players on this roster every year and yet someone always plays big minutes. Watch out for sophomore CJ Frederick, sophomore Jake Walters, and junior Hunter Zigelmeyer. The Colonels open the season Wednesday, December 2nd at Cooper. Some notable out of region teams the colonels will play include: Taylor County, Wilmington, Louisville Trinity, and Moeller. The expectations in Park Hills are sky high this year and why wouldn’t they be? With one of the best coaching staffs in the state and coming off back to back regional titles and state tournament trips who wouldn’t be excited?

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