The Apache MagazineOctober 2014

GO FOR THE GOLD!

Homecoming 2014

COVERAngel Patten and the junior class cheer during the homecoming pep assembly.

Photo by JACOB LAURITZEN

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CHAZ WRIGHTMagazine Editor and Staff Writer

SHANIA BENALLIENewspaper Editor and Staff Writer

DESHAWN JAMESSection Editor and Staff Writer

MAELYN KITCHEYANSection Editor and Staff Writer

JON-NISHA LOPEZSection Editor and Staff Writer

ANALICIA COSENSection Editor and Staff Writer

JAMES DUANESection Editor and Staff Writer

TEESHA ROGERSStaff Writer

TEHYA WILSONStaff Writer

SAVANNAH TALGOStaff Writer

AYANNA MOSESStaff Writer

TATIANNA MITCHELLStaff Writer

JACOB LAURITZENJournalism Advisor

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SPORTSHomecoming Dress Up DaysBy SAVANNAH TALGO and JAMES DUANE

Homecoming Lip SyncBy MAELYN KITCHEYAN, DESHAWN JAMES, and SHANIA BENALLIE

Homecoming Pep AssemblyBy ANALICIA COSEN and TEESHA ROGERS

Homecoming GameBy TEHYA WILSON and CHAZ WRIGHT

Homecoming King and QueenBy JON-NISHA LOPEZ and AYANNA MOSES

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The Apache MagazineOctober 2014

Homecoming 2014GO FOR THE GOLD!

APACHE PRIDETracy Robertson and the senior class cheer their hearts out during the homecoming pep assembly.

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Homecoming 2014GO FOR THE GOLD!

This year’s homecoming theme was cen-tered around the olympics. Throughout the week, students participated in dress up days, lunch-time activities, a lip sync, a pep assembly, and the homecoming game itself all to prepare to GO FOR THE GOLD.

Homecoming Dress Up DaysWritten by SAVANNAH TALGO and JAMES DUANEPhotos by FTHS NEWS STAFF

6USA! USA!Alexis Benally dressed in red, white, and blue on Desti-nation Day.

Fort Thomas High School has their homecoming

week. multiple stu-dents dressed up for the homecoming events.

Monday's Dress up day was Destination day. Destination day is where you dress up, like red, white and blue for USA. Also you could dress up from another Country, maybe even representing their Country colors. The Destination award went to Mrs. Hawkins, She dressed up as a lady from Netherland.

Tuesdays dress up day was class colors. Senior class color was yellow, Junior class color was orange, Sophomore class color was green, Freshman class color was purple, 8th Grade class color was Pink, 7th Grade class was turquoise. Many students represented their class color. the class color award went to the juniors, almost all junior dressed up only about less then 5 students did not participated.

Wednesday's dress up day was,

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SHOW YOUR COLORS!The Junior Class won the color dress up day by getting almost every junior to wear orange, their class color.

RING TOSSDuring lunch, the cheer-leaders hosted several ac-tivities. Tuesday students tried their hands at the ring toss.

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AIN’T NO THING!The best play hurt. Stu-dents dressed as their favorite injured athletes.

BASHED INPoor Ms. Bash needs a break from the junior high. It looks like its starting to be hazardous to her health.

Favorite Olympian Athlete or Athletic Injury. not very much students dressed up for the Athletic Injury. Many students did dress up for the Favorite Olympian Athlete. The Favor-ite Olympian award went to Drake Abram. The Athletic Injury went to Kyler Napier.

Thursdays' dress up day was dress up as a Redneck or a

Hippie. So many students had dressed up as rednecks. A good amount of students dressed up as a Hippie. The Redneck award went to Laynce Black. The Hippie award went to Addison Fowl-er.

Last but not least, Friday's dress up day was blue and gold. Almost all kids had school spirit. Almost all stu-

dents, wore blue and gold. They had blue and gold clothes, sprayed blue and gold on their hair, had blue and gold body paint, blue and gold everything! Even the teachers wore blue and gold!

Homecoming at The Fort was amazing. The students en-joyed the dress up days, some days were a good laugh. Fort Thomas students had a lot of school spirit!

SPORTSPEACE MANStudents pose as they con-sider whether or not they were born a few decades too late.

YEE-HA!No one was surprised that there was no shortage on rednecks and hippies at Fort Thomas High School.

FLOWER CHILDMrs. LaFrance couldn’t help but show her inner hippie. She wasn’t the only one.

Homecoming Lip SyncWritten by MAELYN KITCHEYAN, DESHAWN JAMES, and SHANIA BENALLIEPhotos by AYANNA MOSES

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DANCE OFF!The 7th grade showed off their moves in a remix of sev-eral songs.

October 2nd, 2014, Fort Thomas High School had

their lip sync.

The lip sync is a contest throughout the high school and junior high. It has a group of students from each class and they compete against each oth-er and the song or songs they

chose have to be approved by the cheer coaches. When they compete they have to dance or perform and lip sing to the songs.

The seventh graders played multiple songs. The students that performed in the lip sync in that grade were Latrell, Diana, and Logan. At first Di-ana was the only one dancing because Latrell looked like he

was shy so Logan was talking to him then a couple of songs into their performance all three finally started to dance.

The eighth grade performed to the song We Will Rock You by Queen. The students that were in the lip sync were Shania, Hanna, Bridie, Chasity, and Corwin. The students all came out and made the beat to the song and then they began to

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ROCK YOU!“The Queens and King” from the 8th grade got the crowd stomping their feet to the rhythm of Queen’s “We Will Rock You.”

GEARING UPThe new judges smile before the competition begins, not knowing what they’re in for.

air guitar. Chasity was running around to the class sections and trying to get people rowdy for the lip sync.

Freshman performed to four songs. The song that had the crowd cheering the most is when Chaz came out to sing to beyonce's song Yonce. The freshman got second place in the lip sync. Students that performed in the lip sync were

Chaz, Kaitlynn, Robin, Kris-ten, Cassandra, Manuel, Evan, Kobe, Chesliauna, and Eliza.

The Sophomores had two songs and Alyssa, and Ryan performed to the first song by themselves and they did a romantic kind of theme and later on other students in there class cam on the dance floor and they danced to the song "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla

Ice. The other students that performed other than the two listed were Melanie, Lacey, Analicia, Tehya, and Tessa.

The Junior class performed to the song "Hall of Fame" by The Script. Students that performed were Angel, Juan-ita, Eva, Jon-Nisha, Dominic, Dejuan, Kyle, and Jasmine. Junior's got third place for the lip sync and they all choreo-

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BABY PLEASE ...The 10th grade took it down a notch by perform-ing a romantic duet.

WE CAN BEThe juniors showed that even football players can lip sync and dance on beat with one of the more inspi-rational performances of the competition.

WORKING ITChaz Wright showed off his stage presence by working the judges during the 9th grade’s lip sync.

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IN YOUR FACEThe senior class showed no mercy as they brought their performance to the judges’ table. Led by the antics of Addison Fowler, the seniors danced their way to victory.

graphed together and some of them got to take turns to sing the song.

The Senior class performed to a mix of songs. The main one that was dancing was Addison. The crowd went crazy when he and Ronald were dancing to-ward judges to the song " An-aconda" by Nicki Minaj. Then they finished the lip sync off with the song "Club Going Up

On a Tuesday" by Trey Songz and Chris Brown. The senior class won the lip sync. Other students who performed were Tracey, Kaynani, Blessing, Alexis, Devin, Jerome, Chey-enne, Whitney, and Aliyah.

Homecoming Pep AssemblyWritten by ANALICIA COSEN and TEESHA ROGERSPhotos by JACOB LAURITZEN

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SPIRITDeJuan Quade shows of his spirit as he waves the spirit flag.

We will be wiring about our viewing of the homecoming

parade and how it represents the theme of 2014 Homecom-ing.

First as we start on how the parade went, it was a success because everyone had school spirit and the crowd was just full of energy.

We will first talk about the 7th Grade float, it was very good knowing they had a lot of spirit in their float and this was their very first homecom-ing and I think they had a blast with their homecoming and will enjoying for the rest of their school years.7th Grade float was based on "Fear The Fort" and had a field goal and cheerleaders and athletes and their float meant to keep away

from the fort or we will beat you down.

Next will be 8th Grade Float which they were based on making a sign saying Go For The Gold and had a picture of a wildcat inside a cage and a quote on bottom saying "Tame The Cats". They had a lot of school spirit but not as much excitement.

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GAME FACEStudents paint their faces as they get ready for the homecoming parade.

Freshman Float is with a competition based upon only 3 champions and the apaches made it to the gold.Their float was based on making it to the gold and also the theme of homecoming , they had a lot of spirit and was very involved in this parade.

Sophomores was very out-standing Float they repent-ing the theme and had many colors around the float. They had a cheerleader, Volleyball player and a Football play-er also. They had their class cheer for them on when they

were showing their hard work. Also they had this big rainbow where at the end there was this big pot of gold and the Olym-pics colors, they were very outgoing.

Now the Juniors had some pride in the game and for their loss for a classmate Lybert Bond who also played football they represented him and also the fight by Duncan Wildcats.They had a creative float and they also represented what year they are going to gradu-ate.

The Seniors float was a little too plain but other then that it had everything to do with homecoming and their theme as very good and outgoing and they were very proud to show they had school spirit for their last homecoming on their high school years.The whole parade was a huge success and everyone of the classes did and excellent job with their floats and how much spirit the Fort Thomas Apaches have.

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SITTING PRETTYThe sophomores pose as their float pulls in front of the stands. Their float rep-resented cheerleaders, football players, and volley-ball players.

HUNTERSThe 9th grade targeted the Duncan Wildkats by “shooting” a cat and plac-ing it on their float.

FOR THE GOLDThe 8th grade class re-minds the crowd to “Go For The GOLD” in keeping with the homecoming theme.

SPORTSCONCETRATIONJordan Kitcheyan focuses as he holds a tennis ball between his legs during a relay race.

HOP-A-LONGStudents were required to complete several obstacles during the relay race. Alys-sa Smith jumps with a ring around her neck to help the sophomores advance in the race.

ABBEY ROADAlexis Benally cheers on her classmates as they “synchronize swim” to-wards the finish line.

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LAST WOMAN STANDINGThe 8th grade girls didn’t win, but they were close. They were the last group of girls standing/sitting before their legs finally gave out.

LEAN ON MEAt the end of the relay, students were required to support each other without putting their hands on the ground. These boys got a little extra help from the cheerleaders.

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FIRED UP!The cheerleaders fired up the crowd before the end of the assembly in prepa-ration for the homecoming game that night.

SILLY STRINGThe seniors went all out to win the spirit competition, but they weren’t the only ones. Several classes use airhorns, confetti, and silly string to show their spirit.

Homecoming GameWritten by TEHYA WILSON and CHAZ WRIGHTPhotos by SHANIA BENALLIE AND JACOB LAURITZEN

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SET HIKE!Kyle Stringfellow takes practice reps from Dechambre Dosela before the game.

SPORTSSENIOR NIGHTBefore the game, senior football and volleyball play-ers were recognized with their parents.

HEADS!Team captains meet to shake hands and to flip for who receives the ball first.

SUPPORT THE FORTApaches fans fill the stands to support our Apache Football players.

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IN THE DUSTDominic Walker blows past a Wildkat defender for another great run.

SPORTSBAND OFBROTHERSRonald Nosie congradu-lates Kaine Langley after another successful catch.

LIGHT IT UPThe sky was filled with fire-works after every Apache touchdown.

SAFETY NETStacey Kitcheyan chases down a wildkat to save the touchdown.

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KICKING AND SCREAMINGDominic Walker drags a defender to pick up several more yards after contact.

HOLD THE LINEThe Apache Defense breaks through the Wildkat offensive line to rush the quarterback.

On Friday, Octo-ber 3, was the final day of Fort

Thomas High School's homecoming.

That morning every student went into the junior high computer lab to vote for their homecoming king and queen. The candidates for king was Jordan Kitcheyan, Addison

Fowler, and Ronald Nosie, queen candidates were Nicole Ganilla, Alexis Benally, and Tracey Robertson.

Later that night, during half-time of the football game, these six students stood in the field anxiously waiting to hear who won the title of Home-coming King and Queen. The announcer mistakenly called the winner of queen title to Addison Fowler, once realiz-

ing his mistake he corrected that Adison was the Home-coming King. Tracey Rob-ertson was then announced as the Homecoming Queen. Cheerleaders then dress the king and queen in their crowns and capes.

Tracey and Addison got into Mr. Eddie Bowman's Ford Mustang, taking a victory lap around the football field.

Homecoming King and QueenWritten by JON-NISHA LOPEZPhoto by JACOB LAURITZEN

SPORTSROYALTracy Robertson and Addison Fowler were crowned Homecoming Queen and King.