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DECEMBER 2013

Trinity TimesThe Official Newspaper of Holy Trinity Catholic High School

Celtic Shorts 2

College Acceptances 2

Life and Arts 6

Sports Schedules 7

Volume 14, Issue 2

Holy Trinity is called to service

IN-DEPTH Page 4-5

Lady Celtics make playoff run

SPORTS Page 8

Holy Trinity counselor Cheryl Sanders announces the names of stu-dents who have received an award. (Photo by Kelly Hallissey)

by Joanna Fethermanco-Editor in Chief

The Temple Christmas parade kicked off with the annual lighting of the offi-cial City of Temple Christ-mas tree.

This year Holy Trinity Catholic High School and St. Mary’s Catholic School placed second in the pa-

rade. This year was the sec-ond year that Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s placed in the parade. The prize was $500 and a plaque.

“I was excited to hear that we won again,” Holy Trinity Principal Veronica Alonzo said.

Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s came together and

See “Float” Pg 3

Float places second

Eric Genuis performs at Holy Trinity honor roll assembly

by Andrew Doakin-Depth Editor

On Dec. 5, Holy Trin-ity hosted its annual Advent Retreat, organized and led by the senior class.

The retreat began at 8 a.m. and lasted the whole school day. It included talks by Anthony Doak, Hannah Gokingco, Molly Daheim, and David Weisbruch.

“It was nice to be able to do something that helped the other classes,” Senior Anthony Doak said, “se-niors are sometimes seen as apathetic, but this shows that they really do care about other people in the school.”

The day included confes-sions and Mass celebrated by Father James Misko

See “Retreat” Pg 3

by Thomas Mosmeyerco-Editor in Chief

Many people came to Holy Trinity Catholic High school and were dazzled and amazed. The air was filled with melodious sounds and harmonies.

Holy Trinity hosted a joint concert and honor roll assembly on Oct. 21.

“By having it [the Honor Roll assembly] in the eve-

ning it allowed for work-ing families to attend. The date was set back in April because it was heard that Eric Genuis had an opening in his concert schedule and we organized the event with him,” Holy Trinity Principal Veronica Alonzo said.

“He was very flexible with his time,” Dr. Alonzo said.

Many enjoyed the concert and were amazed.

“It was very inspiration-al,” sophomore Zayne Clay-ton said.

“At first I didn’t think I would enjoy it, but when I started to hear the music he won me over,” Clayton said.

Before the concert Eric put on a spiritual assembly for the students of Holy Trinity, teaching them about the effects of music on soci-ety, especially the youth.

Holy Trinity gather for Advent retreat

by Daney OandasanSports Editor

With the closing of the football season, the Celtics look towards big changes next year.

Holy Trinity’s Celtic football team has decided to go back to six-man from 11-man. The team will go back to six-man after playing two years of 11-man.

“I think it’s a good thing for the number of guys we will have next year,” Coach Cory Schwartz said. “Other teams playing eleven-man have numbers on us.

“Without subs to replace our guys, these large num-bers wear them out quick-

ly.”The football team had

plenty of players for eleven-man last year, but the team had fewer players for this past season. The change is not necessarily what is fa-

vorable, but is the better de-cision, players and coaches said.

“It’s the best thing to do.” Karson Kasberg said.

See “Returns” Pg 3

Six-man returnsHT goes back to its six-man roots

Holy Trinity se-niors put on a skit to represent prejudice. The skit included Greg Noonan as Batman, Anthony Doak as Spider-man, Mark Mata as the Hulk, and David Weisbruch as Su-perman.(Photo by Na-than Powers)

Holy Tinity lines up against Corpus Christi Anapolis Christian in 2011. After two years of 11-man football, Holy Trinity will return to the “small field” game. (File photo)

Jim Fetherman works on the float to prepare for the Temple Christ-mas Parade. (Photo by Sue Fetherman)

Ryan BooneTexas A&M Galveston

Angele CouvillonTexas A&M University

UMHB*University of Louisiana MonroeUniversity of Mississippi State University of Incarnate Word*

Molly DaheimFranciscan University*

UMHBCreighton University*

Anthony DoakTexas A&M University

Hannah GokingcoBarry University*

University of Texas at ArlingtonOur Lady of the Lake

University*Texas Lutheran University

Garret Hankins UMHB

St. Edward’s University*Texas State University

Chris HodgesLeTourneau University*

Greg NoonanUniversity Of Houston

John OgunmuyiwaHouston Baptist University

Jose VeglioSavannah College of Art and

Design

David WeisbruchUMHB

University of Dallas

PAGE 2 NEWS DECEMBER 2013

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Faculty Adviser: Chris Mosmeyer co-Editor in Chief: Joanna Fethermanco-Editor in Chief: Thomas Mosmeyer

News Editor: Alex Jacobs Life and Arts Editor: Natalie Lauver

In-Depth Editor: Andrew DoakSports Editor: Daney Oandasan

Staff writers: Kimi Cyr, Kacey Dach, Francesca Weisbruch

Aidan family hosts potluckStudents win writing contest

Sophomores Jillian Lauver and Zayne Clayton were winners in the National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO) contest. The novel of more than 59,000 words was a joint effort of both girls starting their freshman year. As one of multiple national winners, they received certificates and several prizes, including two professionally bound copies of the story, which they get to design them-selves.

—Alex Jacobs, News Editor

FACT success continues

Holy Trinity’s forensics team contin-ues to do well, winning three sweep-stakes awards, meaning top competing school, in a row. The Celtics placed first in invitational tournaments at Godley, Groesbeck, and Cameron C.H. Yoe high schools.

The team attended a tournament at Bay City High School on Dec. 6-7. Many large public schools, including several from the Houston area, were in the competition, yet Holy Trinity still came in second overall and was the top small school. Senior and Forensics Captain Anthony Doak was named top overall competitor at the tournament.

The FACTeam is currently in the process of selecting the competitors for the TAPPS and NFL (National Forensics League) District teams. Students sign up for events they hope to be chosen for, but selection is ulti-matly based on performance during the season. Students who qualify at the TAPPS District meet advance to TAPPS State, and NFL District qualifiers advance to the NFL National Tournament which will be held in Overland Park, Kansas (near Kansas City) in June. Last year, Holy Trinity qualified eight students to state and seven to nationals.


Holy Trinity mourns loss

The Holy Trinity family grieves the loss of another member, Charles “Chuck” Schwartz, Coach Cory Schwartz’s father. Mr. Schwartz passed away on Nov. 24, at the age of 71, after a lengthy illness. He was surrounded by members of his family at the time of his passing.

Several of Holy Trinity’s faculty and staff attended the funeral in Bryan.


Celtic Shortsby Kacey DachStaff writer

This year, potluck night was held on Oct. 25 with games and lots of chili as well.

“The Aidan family helped set up this year,” Mrs. Karen Kacir said. “It was a good ser-vice project for our family.”

The purpose of potluck night is to give families a chance to come and spend an evening with other families from Holy

Trinity. It’s a good way to meet the new families that en-ter Holy Trinity each year and have a fun evening along with good food.

“This year the turnout was lower due to the weather,” Prin-cipal Veronica Alonzo said. “It was too hot for chili.”

Last year, the event was held after soccer practice, giving lots of hungry teens a chance to enjoy themselves after a long day and a hard practice.

This year, the cross country team made it to the dinner as a good luck and farewell for the race the next morning in the state meet.

“Because there aren’t as many cross country runners as there are soccer players, the turnout was lower,” Dr. Alonzo said. “But it was good to wish the runners luck before their meet the next day.”

by Natalie LauverLife and Arts Editor

Holy Trinity held an open house from 1 p.m to 3 p.m on Nov. 3. The purpose of the open house is to invite other students to come to Holy Trinity. Pro-spective students and parents come to get more information about the school.

“The [students and parents] will take a tour of our campus,

spend time with the principal, meet some of our teachers, have their questions answered, and watch a presentation. They’ll see where our graduates go and how they do academically and they’ll even get to skype some of our alumni,” Director of Ad-vancement and Admissions Mi-chele Padilla said.

“In the fall we invite a lot of St. Mary’s students and at our Spring open house we get a lot

of students wanting to transfer from public school. We also get students from St. Joseph’s and home schools.”

Some of these tours are led by school students called stu-dent ambassadors. Student am-bassador Jillian Lauver said, “It [being a student ambassador] gives me a chance to share my excitement for the school and everything I do here with the people who come.”

Prospective students visit open house

Where are they going? HT’s seniors are getting accepted to colleges around the country

*indicates scholarship money also awarded to student along with acceptance

DECEMBER 2013PAGE 3 NEWS

Holy Trinity students and families gather in thanksby Kacey DachStaff Writer

Holy Trinity Catholic High School held a Thanks-giving luncheon in the cafe-torium on Nov. 26.

The students had an ex-tra long lunch and had their families enjoy lunch with them as well.

“[The meal] was a good way to begin our Thanks-giving break by breaking bread as a Celtic family,” Principal Veronica Alonzo

said.The families were asked

to participate by bringing food to share with the other families. There was a wide variety of different Thanks-giving foods.

“There was lots of talk-ing and laughing with par-ents and students,” Jennifer Laxton said. “It was a great bonding experience.”

The students were seated by grade level but moved around and mingled with all the parents, teachers, and

fellow students.“I enjoyed [the lunch] a

lot,” Chrystal Nebgen said. “I got to spend it with my family and it was nice to eat lunch with them.”

The cafetorium was packed with students and parents. Afterwards, the se-niors stayed behind to help clean up. Although the stu-dents had to go back to class, the meal was a great start to the Thanksgiving holiday. Families joined their students to celebrate Thanksgiving by having

lunch together on Nov. 26. (Photo by Kacey Dach)

Float

from page 1from Christ the King Parish in Belton.

Throughout the day, all the students participated in various games led by the seniors.

The whole school divided into small groups at certain times of the day, each led by two of the seniors.

“I think it’s wonderful to have the seniors lead the re-treat,” Mrs. Pam Fette, the theology teacher, said, “it’s the seniors’ gift back to the school after all their years here.”

The student body of Holy Trinity touches their knees with competitive zeal as they play an intense and tiring game of Simon Says. (Photo by Hannah Gokingco)

Retreat

from page 1

created a float to enter in the Temple Christmas parade. This year there were over a 100 entries.

“I enjoyed working with families from both Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s,” Dr. Alonzo said. “I liked work-ing with the other parents.”

The parade was at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 2. The floats went from Adams Avenue to 8th St., then west to 23rd St.

The float was built by Jim Fetherman with the help of other volunteers. The float was kept at the Hallee fam-ily household.

“I was happy that there were lots of people willing to help with the float,” Sue Fetherman said.

The entry and partici-pants were organized by Mrs. Fetherman. The theme was Santa’s Workshop. The

Holy Trinity float had elves delivering presents to the manger scene.

“One of the unique things about our float was the costumes that all the rid-ers wore,” Mrs. Fetherman said.

The participants wore elf costumes made by parents that volunteered to help out.

“We were able to create an atmosphere of fun as well as incorporating the real meaning of Christmas,” Mrs. Fetherman said.

“It was a very creative design,” Dr. Alonzo said. “I loved the fact that we were able to add our Catholic tra-ditions.”

“It definitely got me in the Christmas mood,” soph-omore Mary Rongey said. “The design of the float was cool because I got to inter-act with the little kids.”

from page 1“As much as I don’t like

to make the change, I’m fine with it if that’s what is best for the team.”

The change into six-man

will create more substitu-tions for the Celtics, as the number of players on the field is cut close to half. This would help the play-ers know how to play more

spots and keep the guys fresh.

The change to six-man also means that there would be much more emphasis on each position as there would

not be as many. “I love having lineback-

ers, but the change is good as we can focus on each spot closely.” Coach Schwartz said. “I still want our team

to fight and work hard.”The guys have been

keeping fit in athletics class, as well as other sports this year, and will be well con-ditioned next year.

Participation on the Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s float led to a second place finish for the float which earned both schools $500 and a plaque of recognition. (Photo by Sue Fetherman)

Returns

IN-DEPTH DECEMBER 2013

The Holy Trinity family is continuing their service toward those who are less fortunate.

In the effort to build the “Christian Leaders of Tomorrow,” Holy Trinity supports people all over the world who are in need of help.

“Service keeps our faith alive,” said theology teacher Pam Fette, a leader of many service projects in the school. “At Holy Trinity, we want our faith to be alive through service. Sometimes we get caught up in our lives too much. I hope that through the service projects we can learn to deny ourselves more so that others can have more.”

Support from Holy Trinity has gone to people from all around the world in the forms of money, daily supplies, and food. In past years, Spanish teacher Marlene Poehlmann has taken students on mission trips to far South Texas.

The Interact Club has sponsored a child in Africa, and several students have gone on missions with their churches.

by Andrew DoakIn-Depth Editor

Across the World: Called to Service

Holy Trinity sponsered the Food for Families food drive, the students contributed more than 2,000 pounds of food. (Contributed Photo)

Holy Trinity will be help-ing to supply people with gifts this Christmas.

The Finnian Family is hosting a toy drive for children from 0-18 years old to which the students will contribute.

“I’m glad that Finnian can help out with the toy drive,” Senior Anthony Doak, the Finnian family head, said, “I like the tradi-tion of the family helping out with schoolwide events, it helps us to develop the character of the Holy Trinity students.”

Gifts were assigned to

classes according to age.The freshmen will buy

gifts for children under six years old, sophomores were assigned ages six-10, juniors had 10-14, and the seniors bought things for 14-18 year olds.

“I think it’s great to have the toy drive.” Mrs Pam Fette, theology teacher and one of the teacher advisors for Finnian said. “It’s a great experience and I hope that everyone can come through so that less fortunate people can have a Christmas. It’s the least we can do to give back to the community for

Each week, the students of Holy Trinity are assigned to do all of the recycling for the week.

“[The Green Team] helps us to keep the reusable resources out of landfills,” Craig Morris said.

Four students a week go from classroom to classroom retrieving the recycling bins and sorting the contents into the right bins.

“[Recycling] teaches students to be good stewards

of the planet,” Counselor Cheryl Sanders said. “Stu-dents need to take care of what we have now.

Green team recycles white paper, cans, alumi-num, plastic, and cardboard. All of the cardboard is put into a dumpster in the northwest corner of the gym. Aluminum and plastic go into Ms. Jennie Miller’s room. And white paper goes to the bins outside by the portables.

Senior Angele Couvillion and Sophomores Jahandar Farrokhnejad and Natalie Lauver stand by a dumpster in front of the A+ Learning Center on service day. The students went to nine different locations to work for the day. (Photo by Nathan Powers)

Holy Trinity’s recycling program is becoming more active this year, with all stu-dents being encouraged to recycle more. (Photo by Kacey Dach)

In the Classroom:by Kacey DachStaff Writer

For the Kids:by Andrew DoakIn-Depth Editor

Holy Trinity service reaches out far and wide

Called to Service



Called to Service



DECEMBER 2013 IN-DEPTH PAGE 5

Called to Service

On Sept. 30, students from Holy Trinity Catholic High School went to places like the Ronald McDonald House, Our Lady of Guada-lupe, Scott & White Thrift Store, A+ Learning Center, Kids to Kids, NewDay Fel-lowship, Wilson Park Rec Center, St. Mary’s and St. Luke’s.

“Service day is good no matter what the cause is be-cause you’re helping people,” Ms. Molly Mikes said. “I had three students with me at the

Lady of Guadalupe. They were very hard workers and didn’t slack off at all.”

All the students participat-ed in giving their service to various places. Each group had one to two teachers as-sisting the students.

“I painted a house and the people were very nice and grateful,” Libby Nash said.

The students left the school around 9 a.m. and returned around 3 p.m. They spent the whole day doing service for the people and organizations

in their community.“[Service day] is an op-

portunity for Holy Trinity students to give back to the community,” Dr. Alonzo said. “Part of our mission statement is to ‘form the character of each student’ and I think that this is a great way to do it.”

Service day is an annual event for Holy Trinity. Just another great service to look forward to from Holy Trinity next year.

Throughout the Community:by Kacey DachStaff Writer


Juniors Sarah Baker and Rebecca Albers carry prayer blankets into St. Mary’s Catholic Church. The school made a total of 154 blankets to distribute to the community. (Photo by Nathan Powers)

Sophomore Eugenie Fontaine collects the recycling bins from teachers’ rooms. Four students each week are assigned to take out the recycling. (Photo by Kacey Dach)

Holy Trinity’s helping out for the holidays; Holy Trinity students and staff helped sponsor the Food for Families food drive by collecting canned goods and other items.

Students brought in items like canned meats and veg-etables, cereals, flour, sugar, beans, and rice for two weeks. These foods were collected on Friday, Nov. 22 by St. Vincent de Paul and then delivered to Scott &

White.To encourage students

a competition between the upperclassmen and lower-classmen was held to bring in more food. The upper-classmen won with 1115 lbs. of food. The lowerclassmen collected 532 lbs. of food. Students were also allowed to bring in money to help with one dollar equal to 2.5 lbs. A total of $529 was raised equaling 1322.5 lbs. The overall total was 2969.5

lbs of food items.“Food for Families is a

good opportunity for our school to get together for a little friendly competi-tion and help these families and the needy.” Said David Weisbruch, a senior.

“It was really fun to have a competition between class-es. On top of that it’s nice to know it was going to a good cause.” Agreed sophomore Collin Glorioso.

In the Family:by Natalie LauverLife and Arts Editor

The Pro-Life club showed their commitment to respect all life, young and old, in their prayer blanket service project.

The club puts on a prayer blanket workshop to donate blankets to local nursing homes. This year a record total of 154 blankets were made.

“I try to get them [the stu-dents] as involved as I can,” club sponsor Kathy Albers said.

Any students or parents from Holy Trinity or St. Mary’s Catholic School were welcome to participate. The workshop was from 4-6 p.m. On Nov. 15 in the Cafeto-rium.

These special blankets are made by cutting 4 inch square out of the corners of two pieces of fleece placed on top of each other, cutting strips 4 inches in length and 1 inch in width all along the edges, and then tying the pieces of fabric together. Each knot is tied with a prayer offered for the person receiving the blanket.

“It was great to be in such a prayerful environment and to know that what we did would affect so many lives for the better,” sophomore Julia Jones said.

The prayer blankets were delivered after the Advent retreat on Dec. 5 to two local nursing homes.

by Kimi CyrStaff Writer

For the Unborn:Holy Trinity service

reaches out far and wide

Life and ArtsTrinity Times

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Drama takes the stage for one act night

by Alex JacobsNews Editor

Voices could be heard ringing through the halls of Holy Trinity as the members of the Bella Sona Con-cert Choir performed for the first time this year.

Bella Sona had its first concert on Sunday Oct. 20, in Holy Trinity’s chapel. The theme was On a Won-derful Day Like Today.

“It was fantastic,” said Theol-ogy teacher and Bella Sona’s direc-tor Pamela Fette, “This is the best sounding choir yet. They have a beautiful tone and blend and purity when they sing all together.”

The choir spent several weeks

preparing for the concert. Because choir is also an elective period, members were able to practice in school.

“In class we work on the music, memorization and our entrance,” said sophomore Danielle Hallissey, a second year member of the choir.

Putting together such a perfor-mance is not easy, “The work ethic these girls have is also amazing,” Mrs. Fette said.

“It was a good start to the year,” said the choir’s only senior Angele Couvillon.

“Overall, it was very success-ful,” said sophomore member Julia Jones.

Bella Sona performs “On a Wonderful Day”

Band rides Polar Expressby Andrew Doak and Francesca WeisbruchStaff Writers

Holy Trinity’s band is off to a good start to the school year.

The band’s fall concert, their first of the year, took place on October 7 in the Cafetorium.

“The band is meeting my expec-tations, the fall concert went really well. I have high expectations that the Christmas concert will be as good or better,” Mrs. Jennie Miller, the Holy Trinity band instructor, said.

“I think we’re definitely getting better as the year progresses, it’s been coming along nicely so far,” junior Sophia Weisbruch said.

The Holy Trinity Band also brought Christmas cheer to the community with their 2013 Christ-mas concert.

Holy Trinity performed the con-cert at 7 p.m. on Dec. 9 in the Cafe-torium.

“This was the most challenging music program that I have put to-gether yet,” Jennie Miller, the band instructor, said. “It went well.”

The band performed six pieces: “A Christmas Festival” by Leroy Anderson, “From the Realms of Glory” by Patrick Roszell, “For Unto Us” by George Fredrick Han-del, “Dashing Through the Snow” by Richard L. Saucedo, “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” by Jule Styne, and “Selections from The Polar Express” by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri.

“I’m pleased with the students’ performances,” principal Dr. Ve-ronica Alonzo said.

The next band concert is on March 18.

“I’m looking forward to our next concert because we will be playing our pieces from the Solo and En-semble Competition,” senior David Weisbruch said.

by Natalie LauverLife and Arts Editor

Lights, camera, action! Holy Trinity’s Drama class performed one act plays for One Act Night Nov. 22. Per-formances started at 7 PM. All proceeds will go to the Spring play.

The plays performed were 30 Reasons Not To Do a Play, Prison break, Home-

coming Queen, Boy Meets Girl, Camp Sunshine, Want To Talk Southern, and How To Succeed in High School Without Really Trying. There were also several dance and singing perfor-mances to the songs Radio-active, I Will Follow You into the Dark, Wanted, Sail, a pop medley, and Young and Beautiful.

“I like that it’s a dynamic

class and it’s always mov-ing.” Mrs. Jennifer Laxton said.

Students agree: “I like that we get to interp all the time.” Kimberly Gil said. “I think it was hang-ing out backstage with all my friends that I like the most.” She said about One Act Night. “It’s [performing is] just like adrenaline, like a roller-coaster.”

Bella Sona and Mrs. Fette perform in thier concert, On a Wonderful Day Like Today. (Photo by Ms. Kelly Hallissey)

Drama class takes a bow after all their performances are fin-ished. (Photo by Nathaniel Powers)

Danielle Hallissey, Simon Pinkston, and Mrs. Jennifer Miller get ready for the Christmas Concert that took place on Dec. 9 in the cafeto-rium. The next concert will be on March 18 and they will also be preparing for the Solo and Ensemble competitions later this school year. The band played “A Christmas Festival,” “Dashing Through the Snow,” “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It snow,” and other classic holiday selections. (Photo by Ms. Kelly Hallissey)

Sounds of the Season

The Hound of the BaskervillesA Comic Thriller Starring Shirley Holmes and Jennie Watson

produced by Holy Trinity Drama

April 4-5

DECEMBER 2013 SPORTS

Celtic Soccer

Lady Celtic Basketball

Dec 9 Waco Reicher L 7-1*Jan 13 Waco Vanguard 4 p.m.*Jan 16 Bryan St. Joseph 5:30 p.m.*Jan 23 Austin San Juan Diego 5:30 p.m.*Jan 27 Brazos Christian 5:30 p.m.*Jan 30 Austin Brentwood 5:30 p.m.*Feb 3 Waco Vanguard 5:30 p.m.*Feb 6 Bryan St. Joseph 5:30 p.m.*Feb 10 Austin San Juan Diego 5:30 p.m.*Feb 13 Brazos Christian 5:30 p.m.*Feb 20 Austin Brentwood 4 p.m.

*district game bold- home game

Nov 15 Bartlett CancelledNov 19 CTCS L 45-30 Nov 26 Austin San Juan Diego W 37-11Dec 3 Bryan Allen Academy L 44-33 Dec 7 New Braunfels JPII CancelledDec 10 Bryan Allen Academy L Dec 12- 14 Austin Hill Country TounamentDec 16 Bryan St. Joseph 6 p.m.Dec 30 Austin San Juan Diego 6 p.m.*Jan 10 Marble Falls Faith Academy 6 p.m.*Jan 17 Austin Hill Country 6 p.m.*Jan 19 Texas Christian Academy 6 p.m.*Jan 21 Summit Christain Academy 6 p.m.*Jan 24 Waco Vanguard 6 p.m. *Jan 28 Marble Falls Faith Academy 6 p.m.*Jan 31 Texas Christian Academy 6 p.m.*Feb 4 Austin Hill Country 6 p.m.*Feb 7 Summit Christian Academy 6 p.m.*Feb 11 Waco Vanguard 6 p.m.

*district gamebold- home game

Nov 15 Bartlett CancelledNov 19 CTCS L 42- 26Nov 26 Austin San Juan Diego W 41-27 Dec 3 Bryan Allen Academy L 49-38 Dec 7 New Braunfels JPII CancelledDec 10 Allen Academy L Dec 12- 14 Austin Hill Country TounamentDec 16 Bryan St. Joseph 8 p.m.Dec 30 Austin San Juan Diego 8 p.m.*Jan 10 Marble Falls Faith Academy 8 p.m.*Jan 17 Austin Hill Country 8 p.m.*Jan 19 Texas Christian Academy 8 p.m.*Jan 21 Summit Christain Academy 8 p.m.*Jan 24 Waco Vanguard 8 p.m. *Jan 28 Marble Falls Faith Academy 8 p.m.*Jan 31 Texas Christian Academy 8 p.m.*Feb 4 Austin Hill Country 8 p.m.*Feb 7 Summit Christian Academy 8 p.m.*Feb 11 Waco Vanguard 8 p.m.

*district gamebold- home game

Celtic Basketball

by Kimi CyrStaff Writer

The soccer field this year is more crowded with boys and girls uniting under a new coach.

There is only one coed Celtic soccer team this year instead of separate boys and girls teams. The team is coached by Aaron Gist, who helped coach soccer at St. Mary’s in previous years.

“An opportunity opened up, and I like the Catholic school system,” Coach Gist said when asked why he decided to coach the team. “This is a great bunch of kids who have talent and are great athletes. It’s my job to turn that athleticism to skill.”

The team practices every

day from 5- 6:30 p.m..The Celtic soccer team

had their first home non- dis-trict game on Dec. 9. They lost with a score of 7-1.

With only 11 players needed on the field in a game, the 23 strong team has plenty of substitutions, as opposed to last year with

both teams playing with no substitutions and often down 1 to 3 players.

“I feel better about this year,” senior Anthony Doak said.

Coach Gist has brought in a different style of coach-ing from last year for both the boys and the girls.

“It’s a more intense work-out, and it’s sharpening my skills,” sophomore Zayne Clayton said. “I’m feeling

optimistic about possibly going to Playoffs since it’s coed, and we have a lot of subs.”

The Holy Trinity Celtic soccer team starts the season

against the other teams.”Holy Trinity played their

first game against Central Texas Christian School in an away game on Nov. 19. Despite their efforts, the Celtics could not beat the Lions, and lost 42-26.

The Holy Trinity Celtics played their first home game against Austin San Juan Di-

ego Saints on Nov. 26. The guys had a better game as they won 41-27.

At their second home game on Dec. 3, Holy Trin-ity played against Bryan Allen Academy in a close game. At the fourth quar-ter’s buzzer, the Rams beat the Celtics 49-38.

Senior Chris Hodges attacks the ball during the Celtics season-opener against Reicher Catholic High School. The Celtics lost 7-1. (Photo by Joanna Fetherman)

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Girls win bi-district championshipby Kimi CyrStaff Writer

For the first time in school history, the Celtic volleyball team won their first round playoff game, defeating Christian Heri-tage School in Longview in five games. This win earned them the title of Bi-District Champions.

The playoff run was short-lived, however, as the Celtics lost in round two of the playoffs.

“I’m so proud of the team. It was very loud with a big crowd, and we had a lot of chances to give up, but we pulled it together,” Head Volleyball Coach

James Albers said after the first-round win.

The Celtic volleyball team played their first play-off game on Oct. 29 on the road at Christian Heritage School in Longview.

The Lady Celtics started off strong in the first set, winning it 25-18, but lost some momentum in the sec-ond set, falling 25-11.

The Celtics came back in the third set and had a solid win of 25-16.

The fourth set was close from start to finish, but ul-timately, the Celtics lost, 25-20.

The fifth set in volley-ball is played to 15 points. The Celtic volleyball team

played hard and emerged with a victory, 15-11.

“We worked together well as a team and it paid off,” senior libero Hannah Gokingco said. “I’m excited to continue in Playoffs.”

Leading the stats were Molly Daheim with 63 digs, Rebecca Albers with 10 aces, Francesca Weisbruch with 20 assists, and Rebecca Albers and Andi Cyr with 6 kills each.

The Celtics lost their sec-ond round Playoff game to the Denton Calvary Lions.

The Lady Celtics lost in three sets. They lost the first set 25-13.

They went on to lose the second set, 25-6, and the

third set, 25-19. Calvary went on to win

the the TAPPS 2A State

Championship two weeks later, defeating Boerne Ge-neva School of Boerne.

Senior Molly Daheim bumps the ball in a home game against Summit Christian Academy on Oct. 10. The girls won the game in three sets. (Photo by Carolyn Wiedenfeld)

Girl’s basketball season beginsby Kacey DachStaff Writer

The Lady Celtic basket-ball season started October 28 bright and early at 6:30 a.m. The girls started early because of volleyball prac-ticing in the afternoons. Af-ter a week of early morning practicing, the girls moved to afternoon from 4-5:30.

“I think that our team is really coming along and we are improving daily in prac-tice,” Sophia Weisbruch said. “Hopefully we’ll win a few more games and stay strong against the other teams.”

This year, Doug Weis-bruch is the coach with Er-nest Medina as the assistant coach.

“I think we have a lot of potential to do good this

season,” Andi Cyr said. “We have a good chance to go to playoffs because we have good skills and are playing cohesively.”

The girls’ first game was scheduled to be November 15th against Bartlett but was canceled.

“We are looking good and

trying to perfect our skills,” Rebecca Lindberg said. “We have the makings of a good team. Our team this year is strong, even stronger than last year. With all of our ef-fort put together, we have a good shot of making play-offs.”

by Francesca WeisbruchStaff Writer

The several weeks of hard practices paid off for the Cross Country team as the Celtics had their best ever showing at the state meet.

The Holy Trinity cross country runners ran the TAPPS 2A State Track Meet on Sat., Oct. 26 in Elm Mott.

The girls team placed sixth overall, while the guys came in 10th.

“I was very proud and very pleased with the teams. The times and overall attitude greatly improved from the beginning of the season,” Coach Rebec-ca Brink said.

Junior Sophia Weis-

bruch placed 10th over-all with a time of 13:12 in the two-mile run out of 74 female runners. Francesca Weisbruch placed 17th overall with 13:45, followed by Zayne Clayton, 41st , 14:52; sophomore Kimi Cyr , 47th, 15:09; and sophomore Eliza-beth Hernandez, 59th, 16:03.

The top Celtic was John Escobedo who placed 27th out of 89 runners with a time of 19:29 in the 5K run. The other guys were Michael Mercado , 44th, 20:31; Travis Blackburn, 65th, 22:39; Thomas Mosmeyer, 73rd, 23:02; and Jahan-dar Farrokhnejad, 80th; 24:45.

Boy’s basketball off to rough startby Daney OandasanSports Editor

The Holy Trinity Celtics have improved a lot going into this year’s basketball season.

The team has started with three non-district games and has a record of 1-2 under the new coaching of Coach Ernest Medina.

When asked about the season Coach Medina said,

“It’s great. I think that we have made great improve-ments from last year. The guys have matured and we are getting back to the fun-damentals, but most impor-tantly, we are learning to have fun.”

The guys practice from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. dur-ing the weekdays, and the majority of the team attends athletics. On game days, the team has a light morning

practice and a study hall in-stead of the regular athletics period.

“It’s going extremely well.” senior John Ogun-muyiwa said. “Our defense from last year has improved phenomenally, but our tran-sition game needs work. I feel like when we get into the district season we will be able to compete well

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Sophomore Francesca Weisbruch looks for an open teammate during the basketball game against Bryan Allen Acadamy. (Photo by Joanna Fetherman)

Cross country finishes strong at state

The Cross Country team poses for a group picture after compet-ing in the TAPPS 2A state meet. The team had its best perfor-mance in school history with the girls placing sixth.

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