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The Lady Basketball Season Starts off Strong

By Lauren Penington

The Lady Titans basketball team is already up and in action for their winter season. Although their first game ended up with the girls on the losing end, they soon rebounded — winning their second game and restoring their mojo.

With seven seniors leaving the team last year, the team only has two returning members that have played on the varsity level. This has become one of the team’s biggest challenges.

“Our biggest challenge is experience,” senior Ally Lowe said. “We’re working on growing everyone’s skill and making sure we’re all up to varsity level.”

Lowe and her team are under no illusions — the team is not perfect, especially as they work with almost an entirely new line up.

“Obviously we still need to improve — we can work on finishing our shots; making good, smart passes; and not turning over the ball,” Lowe said.

Aware of what they need to work on, the team has continued making conscious strides toward success, hoping to make this season a great one. 

“After tryouts finished, we started practicing and conditioning,” Lowe said. “We’ve been working on plays, strength, and team bonding in order to make sure that we are a close and well connected team.” 

With only two returning varsity players, the seniors have taken on much more of a leadership role. Not only are they leading a group, but they are actively teaching new players the moves and tricks they need to know to succeed. Lowe has not only stepped up as a senior, but has also moved up as team captain. 

“I just love playing basketball because it’s a fun team sport and although it is mentally and physically challenging, the outcome of winning games and working together with my team is very rewarding. It’s a great challenge,” said Lowe.

Even with the loss of their first game, the Lady Titans Basketball team is rearing and ready to go, constantly learning and evolving to better themselves, enhance the team, and prepare for this new season.

A New Regime: Introducing Legend’s New Basketball Coach

Zach Gotlieb

It’s the beginning of a new era for the Legend boy’s basketball program. For the first time since the school opened in 2008, the basketball team will be led by a new head coach. Social studies teacher Mr. Brenning will now also go by Coach Brenning as he begins his first year as the head coach of the program.

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Students from Spain attend Legend

By Shantel Schwehr

During the first month of the school year, five students from Spain attended Legend.  Read what two of those students thought of their experience here at Legend.

Miguel Daniel-Mozo

Q: What have you learned about the U.S. in your time here?
A: American culture is very different from spanish culture. Our time-schedules are different, our societies are different, high schools are different… I got to experience all this for a month, so I got to learn about everything a typical american family would do.

Q: How is high school here different than in Spain?
A: Schools in Spain are organized in a very different way: All the kids, from 1-12 grades, are usually in the same building. Also, most schools are not as highly-teched as Legend, that’s one thing that’s impressed me a lot. Our teachers try to treat us as college freshmen, so we get the feeling on what college is like. There are lots of different things.

Q: What did you think of homecoming here at Legend? Did you dress up?
A: I found it a great way to mix school and have fun together. We don’t have it back in Spain, it’s an idea that definitely wouldn’t work, but I did dress here. I also went to the homecoming dance, I really enjoyed it.

Q: Why did you choose to be an exchange student? Was it a hard decision?
A: I chose to be an exchange student because I wanted to learn more about American culture [and] American high school… I have stayed with a host family three more times, and [it has] always been a great experience, so I thought that this one would be as well.

Carlos Soriano

Q: What have you learned about the U.S. in your time here?
A: US is awesome, people are very nice and there are so many things to do.

Q: How is high school here different than in Spain?
A: First we stay in the same class for the whole year, teachers move. We don’t have lockers. Our teachers in Spain (some of them) aren’t very nice as here in the US where classes are more fun. Finally we don’t have homecoming week.

Q: What did you think of homecoming here at Legend? Did you dress up?
A: I was so fun, I wish we could do that in Spain! Of course I dressed up, I wanted to be part of the school.

Q: Why did you choose to be an exchange student? Was it a hard decision?
A: The experience of being on an American school and [I had] a great time. At first I was not sure, but I finally decided to come.