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FEBRUARY 2015

Trinity TimesThe Monthly Newspaper of Holy Trinity Catholic High SchoolVolume 15, Issue 5

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Seniors build their faith at Senior Retreatby Libby NashStaff writer

This year’s graduating class recently had their se-nior retreat.

Each year, the senior class is given a retreat as a gift from the school and the parents.

Students have been mak-ing gifts and writing let-ters of affirmation for over a month to be given to the seniors.

Theology teacher Pam Fette took charge of orga-nizing the retreat with mul-tiple speakers and activities for the seniors.

Seniors spent two days

and one night at Cedarbreak Retreat Center bonding and sharing memories of the past four years of being in high school.

Meals were provided by the generous donation of parents and underclassmen. Parents volunteered their time by chaperoning the se-niors overnight.

Seniors also celebrated Mass and Adoration with Fr. John Kim.

“It was really cool to just sit and bond outside of a classroom for once,” said senior Travis Blackburn. “It was a good experience. The food was awesome.”

Seniors play a game to break the ice at Cedarbrake Retreat Center. (Photo courtesy of Pam Oman)

Holy Trinity celebrates Catholic Schools Weekby Brittany ParksCo-sports editor

Every year on the last week of January, National Catholic Schools Week is celebrated across the coun-try. This year’s theme is “Catholic Schools: Com-munities of Faith, Knowl-edge, and Service.”

The point of the week is to focus on the contribu-tions that Catholic schools bring into young people’s lives. The school celebrates

how valuable and effective a Catholic education is not just to Catholic students, but students of all faiths.

“Since the classes are smaller, we get more one on one time with the teachers,” said sophomore Laura Wil-liams. “It’s like after school tutoring, but it’s just another class day.”

Catholic Schools Week began in 1974. The National Catholic Educational

See “Catholic” page 3

See story on page 2. Art students and Princi-pal Veron-ica Alonzo say goodbye to former art teacher Marilyn Ritchie at the home basketball game on Jan. 27. Please see page 2 for full story.(Photo by Bruce Ma-tous)

Gala raises money for schoolby Rebecca LindbergEditor in chief

The theme of this years Gala was “Dancing with the Stars.”

The annual Celtic Gala was on Jan. 31 at the Cul-tural Activities Center in Temple.

“It was a great turnout, and we had more people come than last year,” Direc-tor of Advancement Lindsay Fredenburg said.

The Gala began at 6 p.m. and dinner started at 7 p.m. Tickets for the event cost $100 each and there were

various items to bid on dur-ing the evening.

There was a live and silent auction as well as a heads or tails game with a GoPro bundle as the prize. Silent auction items included a Holy Trinity t-shirt quilt and a guitar signed by Taylor Swift.

The money raised went to the Annual Fund which helps provide funding for everything from student aid to paying the utilities. It also helps updating technology and classroom equipment.

“Last year the format

was changed into a wonder-ful party to celebrate Holy Trinity and the students and I wanted to continue that,” Fredenburg said. “People had fun, and wanted to gen-erously help our school and students.”

Fund-A-Need helps fund special projects at the school. This year’s project is reno-vating the science lab while last year’s was the new sign in the front of the school. The benefactors exceeded their set goal of $35,000 and raised approximately $50,000 for the school.

The Holy Trinity Advancement Committee poses at the Gala on Jan. 31. (Photo by Mr. Alonzo)

Holy Trinity says goodbye to two teachers

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Changes in Charity

The Killian Family family has recently changed the charity that they support. It was brought to attention that LLS supports embryonic stem cell research, so they have chosen to support a different organization.

The Killian family will continue with their Valentine’s Day fundraiser. They are

selling Yummy Rummy’s treats.

--Catherine Lowry, Staff Writer

Auxiliary Bishop

On Tues., March 3 Father Danny Garcia will be ordained auxiliary bishop of the

Diocese of Austin. Each school and parish has been given five seats at the ordina-tion. From Holy Trinity, Dr. Alonzo and one board member will attend. The other

three seats will be open to students. In order to obtain a seat, one must write an essay about why they want to go. The students with the three best essays will

attend.

--Catherine Lowry, Staff Writer

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Faculty Adviser: Chris Mosmeyer Editor in Chief: Rebecca Lindberg

News Editor: Julia Jones Life and Arts Editor: Catherine Lowry

In-Depth Editor: Collin GloriosoCopy Editor: Sarah Baker

co-Sports Editor: Brittany Parksco-Sports Editor: Jack Pliska

Staff Writers: Colette Glorioso, Kamarqui Cedeno, Jack Dowling, Elizabeth Nash

College AcceptancesRebecca Albers: Texas A&M Univ.Sarah Baker: Univ. of Dallas, Franciscan Univ. of SteubenvilleNeyda Camarena: Univ. of Mary Har-din-Baylor, Houston Baptist Univ.Andrea Cyr: Univ. of Mary Hardin-Bay-lor, Barry Univ.John Escobedo: Texas A&M Univ.Karson Kasberg: Texas State Univ. Texas A&M Univ.Rebecca Lindberg: Texas State Univ.Texas A&M Univ–Corpus Christi, Univ. of DallasMichael Mercado: Texas Tech Univ, Univ. of Houston Pavia Ann Muringathuparambil: Univ. of Texas–Dallas, Univ. of Texas–SAElizabeth Nash: Texas A&M Univ.- Cor-pus Christi, Texas State Univ., Our Lady Of the Lake Univ., Univ. of Texas at San AntonioSimon Pinkston: Univ. of North Texas Zeyad Rabie: Texas Tech Univ.Andrea Reano: Texas Tech Univ, Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Univ of North Texas, Texas State Univ, Stephen F. Aus-tin State UnivMariah Rios: Univ. of Mary Hardin-Bay-lor, Stephen F. Austin State Univ. Tarleton State UniversitySophia Weisbruch: Benedictine College in Kansas, Franciscan Univ of Steuben-ville, Benedictine Univ, St. Gregory UnivCarolyn Weidenfeld: Aveda Institute of Austin

HT says goodbye to two teachersby Sarah BakerStaff writer

At a school as small as Holy Trinity, the people that make it up are especially impor-tant. That is why two teachers leaving mid-year is especially crushing.

Marilyn Ritchie was midway through her 10th year as the art teacher, while James Diddle had worked in multiple math classes as well as all computer classes for the last six years.

“They were a great addi-tion to our team,” School Prin-cipal Dr. Alonzo said. “Mrs. Ritchie’s enthusiasm and pas-sion for art mirrored Mr. Did-dle’s enthusiasm and passion for technology.”

Mr. Diddle was working on his masters through the Uni-versity of Texas. He was trav-elling to Singapore for his class when he was offered a job.

He will now be going on to work as the System Support Specialist at the Texas Military Department.

After 10 years of teaching art at Holy Trinity, and even more at Temple’s Cultural Ac-tivities Center (CAC), Mrs. Ritchie has retired.

With these teachers’ sudden departure, many students are now reflecting on their con-tributions and the unique tal-ents that they brought to the school.“Whenever we were working in class [with Mr. Diddle], it didn’t feel like work becauseit was so easygoing,” senior

Nathanael Powers remarked. Teacher Christopher Mos-

meyer, who worked closely with Mr. Diddle through the FAC team, also remembers how talented Mr. Diddle was in his field.

“I think he spent much more time up here that anyone re-alizes,” Mr. Mosmeyer said. “Once, I had the opportunity to work with him setting up com-puters; I always knew that he knew what he was doing, but it was fascinating seeing him in his element,” Mosmeyer re-called.

Mrs. Ritchie had an unusual placement by teaching off-campus at the CAC.

“She was the kind of person who remembered her students clearly. She remembered my sister’s artwork from six years ago as if it was yesterday,” Se-

nior Rebecca Lindberg remem-bers.

Sophomore Myra Mudas-sar agreed. “She was a very genuine person. She let us ex-plore and use our creativity in the classroom, instead of just giving us strict instructions,” Myra said.

Mr. Diddle’s statistics class will now be taught by Mrs. Jacque Johnston, a recent addi-tion to the Holy Trinity family.

Art classes at the CAC will now be taught by Mrs. Judy Rosas, another new face.

While Holy Trinity has moved into the new year, it is clear that these teachers have left an lasting mark and will be missed.

James Diddle (left) celebrates Halloween with seniors Travis Black burn and Andi Cyr. He taught various computer and math courses at Holy Trin-ity for the last six years. (Photo by Jahanshah Farrokhnejad)

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by Catherine LowryLife and Arts editor

Many people are aware that the Holy Trin-ity cafetorium is used for Yoga on Wednesday nights, but what is fairly unknown to many stu-dents is that Holy Trinity is used by the public for much more than yoga.

“If we can partner with another organiza-tion to help them out, we will definitely agree to it,” Principal Veronica Alonzo said.

In the past, Holy Trin-ity has been a polling site for municipal elections.

“They wanted to have it at the tornado shelter because it was an op-portunity for the voters to see that there was a tornado shelter. Some of them didn’t even know we existed,” Dr. Alonzo said.

Holy Trinity has been a neutral site for sports games as well. In other words, Holy Trinity does not play in the game-- two opposing teams play each other. Teams

that are scheduled to play each other but are very far away often use a “neutral” site which di-minishes travel time for both teams.

The Ralph Wilson Youth Group has also contacted Holy Trinity about using the gym for their pee-wee basketball games, since they do not currently have a gym of their own.

There are about 14 small teams that play in their youth basketball di-vision. They have sched-uled their games around the Holy Trinity’s basket-ball games and Forensic events.

“They play pretty much every Saturday and two to three evenings during the week,” Ath-letic Director Jonathan Yosten said.

Yoga Instructor Lisa Walker has been hosting the Wednesday night yoga for two years. This gives students, parents, and faculty a chance to wind down and “destress.”

This month, we examine why we poor suffering teen-agers are forced to wear, in this ‘mockery of an institu-tion,’ ties on Tuesday. There is simply no point in this.

At least, that’s what most students think.

Studies taken from a fair-ly reputable shady guy I met at the Panama Canal says that almost all students who attend Holy Trinity Catholic High School actually -- get this -- do not like wearing Mass dress uniform on non-Mass days.

We took some totally non-selective polls, and it turns out that most of the students are of the opinion that there is no point to it. So, in this column, I propose that it does, in fact, have a purpose behind it.

Yes sir or madam! As I mentioned before, we took several polls, interviewing no one in particular. This poll asked what students thought the reasoning be-hind the Tuesday Mass dress was. Here are some of

the results: “To subvert the patriar-

chal paradigm.” -- Anony-mous.

“Illuminati.” -- This con-

tributor chose not to be named, but we shall simply refer to him as Single L.

I love you wacky read-ers! Please stay away from my house!

Seriously though, the stu-dents really have no idea of why we have to wear ties and button-ups (not but-ton downs, as commonly thought) on Tuesdays when we don’t have Mass dress.

Travis Blackburn puts it nicely: “As of now, the for-mal ‘Mass dress’ is more of a ‘Tuesday/Thursday’ dress that really has no ties to the actual formality of the uni-form and the purpose of its

use for formal school occa-sions. Nothing really special happens on Tuesdays (ex-cept for Collin Glorioso’s singing).”

However, when rereading the original student dress policy, the detective team (meaning me), found that we originally had to wear what is now dubbed as the “Mass dress uniform” ev-ery. Single. Day.

Of course, as time passed, the policy was amended, and while many of the stu-dents do believe that the Mass dress uniform is meant for a sense of formality, it’s not for the reasons that they think.

“I wanted the school to retain a sense of formality, while still giving the stu-dents some freedom. It’s not actually a ‘Mass dress’ uni-form,” Doctor Alonzo said.

The mystery is revealed. Maybe this is a bit of a let-down to all the students who thought they were onto a world-class conspiracy, but it is, at the least, an answer.

by Jack DowlingStaff Writer

Every year in the third quarter, students at Holy Trinity must complete a re-search paper, and each year, the students take a school-sponsored trip to a library to prepare.

While the freshman and sophomore classes travel to the library at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, the juniors and seniors travel to the Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas.

Freshmen and Senior English Teacher Pam Oman has helped organize this trip for years.

“The trip gives the stu-dents a taste of college life, especially for the students traveling to Austin,” Mrs. Oman said.

The subject of each pa-per varies by grade. Mrs. Oman’s freshmen class re-searches a scientific topic, Jennifer Laxton’s sopho-more and junior classes do an in-depth book analysis, and the seniors seek to com-plete their poet project for teachers Chris Mosmeyer and Pam Oman.

Because of the level of research required for their papers, the underclassmen

and upperclassmen go to different libraries for differ-ent amounts of time.

While the freshman and sophomores return around noon, the juniors and se-niors do not get back until ninth period.

The library trip is a use-ful tool to the students as it not only provides additional research time but also helps expose the students to an-other source outside of the internet that they may have missed.

Many students tend to put off their projects until the last second, and the library trip tends to put the proj-

ect into perspective, and to help beat procrastination. One student who is helped by this trip is junior Kacey Dach.

“I like going to the library with the school because it makes me stop procrastinat-ing,” Kacey said.

Unlike in previous years, when students had to find the material necessary at the library, now they are able to find their sources before even leaving school campus by using the libraries’ web-sites, making it much more time efficient.

Students travel for research papers

Sophomores Catherine Lowry, Alexandra Mares, and Brittany Parks research their literary analysis paper topic at the UMHB library. (Photo by Cadafe Williams)

Why things are all tied up

JackDowling

Columnist

Holy Trinity gives back

Pancakes fund promby Sarah BakerStaff writer

One of Holy Trinity’s lon-gest traditions is celebrat-ing Fat Tuesday by having a Pancake Supper. Student Council has hosted the rev-elry since the first year the school was founded in the winter of 1998.

The Pancake Supper this year will be on Feb. 17 from 5-7 P.M. It will be at Christ the King Parish. There is no cost, but donations are en-couraged.

“People have always

been very generous with do-nations. It is quite the bless-ing,” recalls Student Coun-cil advisor Cheryl Sanders.

Travis Blackburn, the vice president of Student Council, will be busy this year flipping pancakes.

“I can make a mean choc-olate chip pancake--hope-fully mean enough to make lots of money for prom.”

The Student Council hopes to make a $500 profit this year to help finance the prom.

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Association (NCEA) gives a list on their website of important statistics com-paring Catholic schools with other schools.

Like every year, Holy Trinity has a list of special events we are doing to cel-ebrate Catholic Schools Week.

One of this year’s events included the Aidan family putting on a volleyball

game between the faculty, parents, and students on Jan. 28.

This Catholic School’s Week included breakfast for all grades, dinner for the HT community, and it ended with the Celtic Gala and the 10th annual Celtic Invitational foren-sics tournament, one of the FAC team’s biggest fundraisers.

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It’s Raining Cats and Dogs!An in-depth look at Holy Trinity’s marvelous menagerie

HT Speaks: What’s your dream pet?

by Collin GloriosoIn-Depth Editor

School is stressful, there’s no denying that. Different people resort to different means of relieving that stress, such as exercis-ing, playing video games, eating, or simply screaming in frustration.

Many people fail to re-alise that owning a pet can actually be a huge comfort in an otherwise stressful life.

There’s just something

about hearing a cat purr, or having a dog snuggle up next to you, or watching a fish shimmer as it moves through the water that can turn any bad day around.

“Pets combat feelings of loneliness by providing companionship, which can boost your overall mood and even bring you feel-ings of joy and happiness,” reported an article from animalplanet.com. “This is particularly apparent among groups--including

the sick and elderly--who may be on the receiving end of Animal-assisted Therapy (AAT) or Pet-facilitated Therapy (PFT).”

Senior Karson Kasberg owns a cat he is very fond of.

“He always lays on my lap when I play Xbox, and he sleeps on my bed some-times,” Karson said. “It’s soothing, I guess. Emotion-ally stabilizing,” he added, laughing.

Owning animals can help

in other areas of life as well. According to the aforemen-tioned article from animal-planet.com, having a pet will likely increase a per-son’s level of physical ac-tivity and responsibility.

Junior Davis Kurtin owns two dogs, and knows how to properly care for them.

“Feeding them is impor-tant, clean water every day, and proper shelter from the elements,” Davis said.

Davis also knows how to keep both a dog and its

owner healthy. “Walk them at least once a week, and a good session of fetch is good exercise for both you and your pets,” he said.

Within Holy Trinity and be-yond, pets have been, and will continue to help people stay hap-py and healthy.

Creature Comforts Popular Pets: The Holy Trinity Family’s AnimalsFor this chart, we interviewed every member of the Holy Trinity student body, something that certainly couldn’t be done at a larger school! These are the results of all the pets owned by HT’s students.

Elisa BrownFreshman

“I want a pet blanket. With eyes and a face, but no mouth so it isn’t

loud.”

Laura WilliamsSophomore

“I want a red panda named Henry. Because I used to have a pet rac-

coon named Patsy.”

John DaoJunior

“I would have a dragon. They’re cool, spit fire, can protect me, and can fly. I could ride on its back.”

Karson KasbergSenior

“Maybe a liger. I thought of Napolean Dynamite when he was

drawing a liger.”

Lindsay FredenburgDirector of Advancement

“A pot-bellied pig. My brother and sister-in-law have one named Pre-

cious, and she is the greatest pet in the world. So awkward, but cute!”

Tom Sawyer Garcia


Popular Pets: The Holy Trinity Family’s AnimalsFor this chart, we interviewed every member of the Holy Trinity student body, something that certainly couldn’t be done at a larger school! These are the results of all the pets owned by HT’s students.

Tom Sawyer Garcia



Tom Sawyer Garcia

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by Colette GloriosoStaff Writer

With the craziness of school and extra-curriculars, it can be difficult to find time to take care of pets, especially the strange ones.

However, many students at Holy Trinity have this re-sponsibility.

Strange pets owned by students at Holy Trinity in-clude goats, frogs, and chickens.

Depending on the animal, exotic

pets could really be hard to care for with the students’ busy schedules.

Catherine Lowry, a sophomore at Holy Trinity, owns 65 goats, 12 dogs, four cats, two turtles, four horses, and two fish.

“It’s not that hard to take care of them, because I’ve grown up doing it. I’ve lived on a farm all my life,” she said.

“But it is diffi-cult sometimes. For example, in middle school, I woke up to clean my horse and

its stall every morn-ing, because I was showing.”

Not only is taking care of out-of-the-ordinary pets diffi-cult, but it can also be dangerous.

“The moment a goat is born, it’s ba-sically trying to kill itself, so we have spend our lives mak-ing sure it doesn’t,” Catherine said.

“And when the babies are born in the winter, we have to be out there blow-ing them with blow-dryers to make sure

they stay warm and dry.”

Another student at Holy Trinity, Laura Williams, owns five African dwarf frogs, which some might consider pretty ex-otic.

“They live with our fish underwa-ter, but they have to come up for air. They eat fish food, and, for a treat, we give them bloodworms.

“And we have to clean the tank at least once every two weeks,” she said.

It’s a zoo out there!HT’s strange animals and how to care for them


Dogs..........................................................127Cats............................................................81Goats..........................................................72Fish............................................................55Chickens....................................................16Horses........................................................10Rabbits.......................................................7Birds..........................................................7Frogs..........................................................5Turtles........................................................2Cows..........................................................2Guinea Pigs................................................2Monkeys....................................................1Snakes........................................................1

Abbie Glorioso RIPTom Sawyer Garcia

Two of Catherine Lowry’s goats take a nap in a pile of hay.(Photo courtesy of Cath-erine Lowry)

by Julia JonesNews Editor

The second semester used to mean preparation for band and choir region-als, but not this year.

TAPPS has removed re-gional competitions for all fine arts, including choir and band.

This change has left many students ill-prepared for the state competitions in March. Band Director Jennie Miller is not pleased with this change.

“I think it is going to do more harm than good to our programs,” Ms. Miller said. “I think it was a bad idea and I’m very opposed to it.”

Many students are also displeased with this change, such as Junior Eugenie Fon-taine.

“I recognize that it’s hard to run two competitions, but I think it may reduce the level of challenge that comes from performing our pieces,” Eugenie said. “I think by lowering the standards they may be also lowering the honor of a high score.”

Instead of being on a ranking system like foren-sics events, band and choir events are evaluated based on individual performance.

The highest rank that can be achieved is a one, and the lowest rank one given is

a five. In the past, in order to

qualify for the state meet, students had to receive a one at regionals.

TAPPS decided to change because there were too many entries in the state music competitions.

They no longer felt the need to hold regional com-petitions.

The choir state competi-tion will be held at UMHB on Mar. 27, and the band state competition will be held at UMHB on Mar. 28.

Holy Trinity’s choir, Bel-la Sona, and HT’s band are all planning on attending the state competitions.

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Forensics Team continues to dominate

The Holy Trinity FAC Team poses with the awards won at the El Campo Tournament. (photo by Paul Erchinger)

by Catherine LowryLife and Arts Editor

The Holy Trinity Foren-sics Team has seen nothing but success in their past few tournaments.

They have been to 5 tour-naments and hosted their biggest fundraiser, the Celt-ic Invitational.

“At El Campo, we have a great time and we always do very well. This is the tenth year we have won a sweep-stakes trophy,” Head Coach Chris Mosmeyer said.

For more than ten years, Holy Trinity has been at-tending the El Campo Invi-tational Tournament. This

year, the tournament was held on Jan. 16 and 17. The team brought home a total of 27 awards with Blaise Mosmeyer winning Top Novice Performer.

“El Campo is really our last warm up before the NFL district meet, that’s why it’s so important,” Mr. Mosmeyer said.

For the first time, they at-tended the Lampasas Tour-nament which was held on Jan. 24. They won 10 awards.

“I really didn’t know what to expect. It was a good tournament. They had a lot of schools we don’t normally see. I was very

pleased with how we did,” Mr. Mosmeyer said.

The school hosted the Celtic Invitational Jr. High School Tournament on Jan. 31.

This is the 11th year in a row that Holy Trinity has hosted this tournament. This is the biggest fundraiser that the team has put on, and it raised a total of $3211.14 after expenses.

“It went well. It ended slightly early and everyone seemed happy. It was good,” Mr. Mosmeyer said.

The Forensics team is currently busy preparing for more tournaments, in-cluding district and state.

Drama department introduces “Elvis People”by Jack DowlingStaff Writer

Starting Feb. 2nd, stu-dents began to rehearse for the upcoming drama pro-duction: “Elvis People.”

Students have a lot of fun not only watching the play, but also during rehearsal.

“It was a lot of fun last year, and I don’t think that’s going to change,” says Soph-omore Colin Rockwood.

Rehearsal practice is on a rotation, and allows for schedules that take Foren-sics and Academic meets or sports practices into ac-count.

There will be two show-

ings, the first on April 17, and the second on April 18, at 7 PM.

The cost for attendance is eight dollars at the door, or five dollars in advance.

“Elvis People” focuses around the impact that Elvis had on a variety of lives.

The play is a series of vi-gnettes, ranging from a man who manages to steal a but-ton from “The King’s” shirt, to a family whose daughter brought home a Vinyl fea-turing Elvis.There are even vignettes centered around some supposed sightings of Elvis in rural towns.

The play offers an expan-sive view on the old “Rock

King.”“There will also an ex-

citing, creative dance num-ber in the play, ‘Jailhouse rock,’” cast member Laura Williams said.

Auditions started in De-cember, and have been col-lecting actors along the way. Although the play is hosted by the drama class, audi-tions were open to the entire school.

There are a total of 28 cast members. The director is Mrs. Jennifer Laxton.

“I think it will be filled with music and life, consid-ering rehearsals are already nice and have been very easy to direct,” says Laxton.

Fine arts regionals removedA poster advertising the up-and-coming play “Elvis People” made by Jillian Lauver. (photo by Catherine Lowry)

Pro-Life hosts the Snowball for Lifeby Julia JonesNews Editor

The Holy Trinity Pro-Life Club raised money in a new, fun way this winter.

They recently hosted Holy Trinity’s first ever Sa-die Hawkins “Snow Ball” for Life on Jan. 9 in the Cafetorium.

Pro-Life Club vice presi-dent Thomas Mosmeyer is pleased with the turnout.

“I felt that the Sadie Hawkins Dance went well. I had a great time,” Thomas said. “I wished more people had come because those who weren’t there missed out on some real fun.”

Many students attended

the dance such as junior Jo-anna Fetherman.

“It was different, and definitely a new experience for the school,” Joanna said. “I don’t think they’ve ever done anything like it be-fore.”

Members of the Pro Life Club were asked to bring in food, drinks, or decora-tions.

The Cafetorium was decked out in sparkling Christmas lights and full of sweets and snacks for the occasion and donations were graciously accepted.

All of the donations will be going toward the im-provement of the pro life movement in this area.

Waco Vanguard in a home game. The game was on January 20 and we lost with a score of 0-4.

Holy Trinity played

against Brazos Christian on January 26. The game was played at Brazos Christian School and lost with a score of 2-1.

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Name: Michael MercadoHeight: 5’11

Sports: cross country, soccerPositions: midfielder

Name: Francesca WeisbruchHeight: 5’ 4

Sports: cross country, volleyball, basket-ball, track

Positions: point-guard

Celtic Athletes of the Month

Celtic Basketball

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Lady Celtic BasketballNov. 18Nov. 25Dec. 2Dec. 4Dec. 9Jan 2-3

Jan. 6Jan. 13Jan. 16Jan. 19Jan. 23Jan. 26Jan. 27Feb. 5Feb. 10Feb. 17

CTCSBryan St. JosephBuckholtsSan Juan DiegoAustin Waldorf*CTCS Tournament vs. Vanguard vs. Hill Country vs. Live Oak vs. TCA vs. CTCSTCA*Waco Live Oak*Austin Hill Country*Austin Veritas*Austin Waldorf*TCA*Austin Veritas*Waco Live Oak*Austin Hill Country*Allen Academy

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Some boys feel that they can improve in some areas. “I think that we need help with passing, and probably some of our defense,” said sophomore Joshua Marti-nez.

The boy’s lost against Austin Veritas on Jan. 27. The final score was 56-44. John Dao scored a total of 16 points.

The team won against Summit Christian on Feb. 3. The final score was 41-39, with Xavier making 16 re-bounds.

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because of it.”On Jan. 23 they began

the second round of dis-trict, the first game was against Austin Waldorf.They won the game, which was played at home, with a score of 41-33.

The girl’s team played and lost against Waco Texas Christian on Jan-uary 26, the score was 34-30.The game was played on Texas Chris-

tian Academy’s court.On January 27 the

girl’s team played Aus-tin Veritas. It game was a home game and Holy Trinity won with a score of

The girl’s team played against Waco Live oak in a home game . The game was played on Fe-burary 5 and Holy Trin-ity won with a score of 40-26.

“I think we have a

great chance of doing well,“ said Coach Weis-bruch. “I think we will win district.”

Coach Weisbruch says he expects Waldorf to be the most chal-lenging team and that the girl’s team is train-ing and working even harder in an effort to beat Waldorf. The Lady Celtics were second in District 5 as of Feb. 11.

Girlsfrom page 8

by Rebecca LindbergEditor in Chief

Holy Trinity will once again not have a softball team.

Softball season had re-cently started up and prac-tices started on Jan. 16 but due to low participation numbers and grade ineligi-bilities, there will not be a team.

“I’m disappointed but I still want to have practices to build skills and get the girls excited for next year,” softball coach Rebecca Brink said.

Many players were new this year to softball, so the season would have been significantly more oriented around practice rather than playing games.

Brink also says she hopes to practice 2 or 3 times a week.

The softball team was not going to be playing in a TAPPS district but was rather going playing inde-pendently. This meant that Holy Trinity could choose to play more local teams, which will help with prac-tice and improvement.

Softball girls do not come out to play

Soccer from page 8Support Holy TrinityAthletics!

Baseball team takes formby Brittany ParksCo- Sports Editor

Athletic Director Coach Jonathan Yosten has said that there will be a baseball team.

He is currently in the process of recruit-

ing people to play and in charge of the team’s schedule.

“Kids with no experi-ence are welcome,” said Coach Yosten. “We still want them to play. We are trying to reassure them that it’s okay if

they’ve never played.”HT’s baseball sched-

ule has not been com-pleted yet. However, Coach Richard Esqueda is currently training the new baseball team.

by Jack PliskaCo- Sports Editor

The Girl’s basketball team ended district on Feb. 10 with and ending record of 8-2.

The team began district play on Dec. 9, and have continued to rise in the ranks.

They continue to practice in the mornings, trying to hone in on skills to make every game better than the last.

On Jan. 2 and 3, the team played a non-district tour-nament at Central Texas Christian School. The team won three of the five games played

Many, including their Coach, Doug Weisbruch, expected the girls basket-ball team to excel. “I’m

very happy that all their ef-fort paid off and knew they would do very well,“ Weis-bruch said.

The first game they played was against Austin

Waldorf on Dec. 9, 2014. They played at Waldorf and lost with a score of 27-32.

The following game was against Waco Texas Chris-tian on Jan. 6. Holy Trin-

ity won the home game with a score of 43-12. On Jan.13, the girls played against Waco Live Oak. The game was played in Waco and Holy Trinity won with a score of 49-29.

On Jan.16, Holy Trin-ity played an away game against Austin Hill Coun-try. The girl’s team won the game with a end score of 47-38.

The girls continued their success with in Austin against Veritas. Holy Trinity won the game with a score of 31-16.

Junior starter Kimi Cyr was injured during a game of ultimate frisbee at the Di-ocesan Catholic Youth Con-ference in Waco on Jan. 16-18, and as a result will be unable to play for the rest of the season.

“It was definitely disap-pointing to be out of the game and the rest of the season.” Cyr said. “Hope-fully the rest of the team will learn to be better

See “ Girls” page 7

by Jack PliskaCo-Sports Editor

This years soccer has had enor-mous improvement .Within the first three games, the team had scored more points than the previous year.

“I feel confident that the team will start putting together more com-petitive games “ said Team Coach, Chad Doyle. “ We’ll see some ex-citing results moving forward.”

Coach Doyle say’s he expects the most challenging team facing Holy Trinity will be Brazos Chris-tian High School, who won district champion last season.He also says that the Holy Trinity Soccer Team could be in playoffs.

However, even with the im-provement, the Soccer Team still so far has not won any games.

The closest they have come to a win was a tie with San Juan Di-ego.

On January 5, the team played their first game. They played against Bryan St. Joseph High School at Holy Trinity.We lost with a score of 1-2.

The Team next played Brazos Christian School on January 8. The game was played Brazos High School and Holy Trinity lost with a score of 0-6.

The third game they played was a tie, 3-3, with San Juan Diego . The game was played on the opponent’s

field.On January 15 Holy Trinity

played against Austin hill country . The team lost the game with a score

of 0-1.Holy Trinity played off against

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Sports FEBRUARY 2015PAGE 8

Girls basketball headed for victory

Senior Sophia Weisbruch runs down the court to make a lay up against Aus-tin Veritas on Jan.27. The team won with a score of 50-29. (Photo by Dr. Keith Thompson)

Boys basketball season coming to an end

Short soccer season ends with only one victory

by Brittany ParksCo-Sports Editor

The boys basketball season was off to a rocky start, however they are still try-ing their hardest to meet their goals. Coach Jonathan Yosten still has hope for this years team.

“Since we’ve played each team once al-ready, we know we’ll make the proper ad-justments to improve our rankings,” said Coach Yosten.

The team lost against TCA on Jan. 6. The final score was 59-22. Junior Ahmari Simmons lead with 10 rebounds, and junior John Dao lead with 6 points.

Even though the boys had a rocky start, they still have their hopes for this year’s team.

“Individually, our goal is for the players to be all district,” said Coach Yosten. “As a team, our goal is to be more consistent.”

On Jan. 8, the boys won against Summit Christian Academy. The final score was 46-35. John Dao lead with a total of 14 points, and Ahmari Simmons got 12 rebounds.

The boys lost against Live Oak on Jan. 13. Junior Xavier Charles- Walters scored 6 points, and junior Collin Glorioso made 9 rebounds. The final score was 45-23.

John Dao lead the Celtics with 14 points in the game against Hill Country on Jan. 16. The boys, however, lost with a final score of 49-37.

The team lost against Austin Veritas. The final score was 69-41. Collin Glorioso led with a total of 15 points.

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Senior Michael Mer-cado goes in

to steal the ball against

an opponent. (Picture by

Kim Gil)

JuniorJohn Dao executing a layup against Summit Christian Academy.( Picture by Dr. Keith Thompson)

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