Senior night also took place Tuesday night. Having two strong senior leaders, starter Maddy Shetlar and Tionna Trarbach, the young Mustangs wanted to start the night off right for their seniors by pulling off a huge win. The girl’s took control of the Salthawks even without their two post players, Erin Harvey and Hailey Mayfield, due to injuries, and ended up winning with a score of 51-42. The boys ended up falling to the Hutch boys by 1 after a last second shot attempt was missed.

Senior night activities took place, where all the winter sports seniors were recognized in between the girl’s and boy’s games. The Central girl’s also received a spirit award from KSHAA for their shirts they made for south player McKenzie Haynes for the south vs. central game. Other activities included a great performance by the senior vets at halftime, and a drawing for free pizzas for the student section.

“We placed 19 overall out of around 25 other teams that were competing,” senior Dalton Hoffman said.

Hoffman competed in the 500m freestyle, the 200m freestyle, and 400m freestyle relay events.

With his last season of swimming behind him, Hoffman remembers the fun times had with the team during his high school career.

“My sophomore year, Mitchell Arpin swam a 50m freestyle naked in practice,” Hoffman said. “It was really funny also this year at State in the hotel when we carried a mattress from another room into mine and Brenton’s room so that we could make an H with three beds.”

For sophomore Kyler Bell, it was his first time competing at the state level in diving and was the youngest of 10 other divers on the boards during the meet and ended with an eighth place finish.

Bell is the younger sibling to graduate Evan Hall who was also a Central diver. Bell says that his brother got him started diving.

“My favorite moment of this year would be getting first place at League, scoring 331 points,” Bell said.

Freshman year; excited about being out of middle school, scared of getting hazed. Everybody seems so chill and enormous. No more smoking smarties and peddling Teck Decks and bouncy balls for a buck a piece, I’m rollin’ with the big kids.

Sophomore year; glad I’m not a freshman. I’ve sprouted a couple chin hairs and a few vertical inches. The freshman still seem like 7th graders and should not be in high school. I can’t sit at the big tables at the back corner of the lunch room, but I’m closer to those tables than I am to the sandwich line.

Junior year; this high school stuff is growing on me. I have privileges and the freshman seem like babies; however, still hesitant to boss around freshman with seniors present. I made a paddle, but never used it. My classes are hard; first year I had to study for anything.

Senior year; I’m too old to be in daycare, get me out of here. Little to no motivation to accomplish tasks

Moral of the Story: I don’t know, make one up yourself.

Bro Dictionary: I have no motivation to fill this part out

The first person I heard about asking his date was Ken Beck. He used creative origami to get Sammy Jordan to be his date (good for you Ken!).

Since then many students have started asking their dates. Whether with a sign at a basketball game or a creative note, much of the student body is starting to disapear from the pool of people that you can ask, so if you don’t have a date hurry up!

Prom is on April 21, and though that seems like it’s a long time away, it may come up faster than you think.

Freshman Caitlynn Speilman said “I just like all of my teachers and I like being at the school.” I was thrown off by this response, but then it only made sense when Caitlynn stated “I’m not nervous, I have nothing to worry about.” This only means that Speilman acts appropriately in class and is just another well-behaved student. Along with her, Oceanda Hall said she likes coming to conferences because “Your parents get to meet all of your teachers.”

While Oceanda enjoys conferences, her younger brother Dakota said “I get nervous about conferences because you never know what they [teachers] are going to say about you.” Agreeing with Dakota, Lupita Bujanda also said “I get nervous. I have a feeling that they might say something bad!”

Different people have different feelings about the inevitable parent-teacher conferences. Some people enjoy the one-on-one time with their parents and teachers and for others it definitely isn’t something to look forward to. Some students don’t even consider tagging along with their parents and would much rather just enjoy their long weekend school-free. Even though for some people conferences are a drag, at least we get out of school for them!

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It is now known that behind the complex a Dillon’s grocery store will be relocating to the now flattened area near the complex, across the street from their original leased location. Still, however, there is an empty unit inside the complex that hasn’t been accounted for.

“I say they should put something up like All-Star sports, North Rock Lane, or a Dave and Busters type place,” senior Diabllo McFarland said. “a place that kids all ages can go to.”

As an alternative to the entertainment complex, Jumpin’ Joe’s, McFarland sees a need for a safe place for people to “hangout.”

“It would give people other things to do besides drinking and smoking and all that other stuff,” McFarland said.

It has yet to be disclosed to the public about what the vacancy in the building will contain; people will continue to guess.

“I’d go for any place that has spicy food. That would be fire,” freshman Josh Claybaugh said.