Friday Night Lights

By Dominic Cipriano: This Friday, St.Edmond’s is renting lights for the sports field. All of the lacrosse teams are playing. The 3rd and 4th grade team will play at 6:30, 5th and 6th grade team will play at 7:30, and closing the night down the 7th and 8th grade team will play at 8:30. All of the teams are going against the Brandywine Youth Club(BYC) The varsity team has played them twice already with a win by at least 10 each game. That is all of the games for Friday night lights at SEA, so come support your classmates.

Penn Relays

Penn Relays
By: Chris Avila

WILMINGTON, DE – Penn Relays is a meet full of tradition. In its 119th installment, the Penn Relays draws crowds of 100,000+ each year and is a premier event for Track and Field worldwide. Athletes as famous as Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay and Mary Decker have competed at this meet.

The CYM is lucky enough to have a spot in this meet each year for 8th grade boys and girls 4x100m. As each year in the past, St. Edmond’s will have a team contending for the medal stand. This year the squad for Penn Relays is (in order) Dino Matulas, Chris Avila, James Wolf and Peter Regas; with Mali Mase and Cody Tampanella as alternates.

Before this weekend we thought that St. Elizabeth’s, a team of truly superb sprinters, was the easy favorite to win Penn Relays. But, All Saints, a team St. Edmond’s has only lost to by 1 second, beat them this weekend in an amazing finish by Billy Sullivan. This just shows that anything can happen and that St. Edmond’s could definitely come out with a top three finish.

Top 5 St. Edmond’s Traditions

WILMINGTON, DE – Our top 5 St. Edmomd’s Academy traditions are:

1. The Florida Trip. This year in its 34th installment, Brother Joe is leading yet another trip to the parks in Orlando.

2. Tug-of-war. The tug-of-war is always the highlight of Red and Gray field day and a source of great excitement for the younger kids.

3. Taco Thursdays. For years, tacos have been serves in the cafeteria every three Thursdays. Tales of students eating through 10+ tacos in one short lunch period, burning $30, aren’t uncommon. James Wolf currently holds the record with a whopping 19 tacos in one period.

4. Red Blazers. The red blazers that we wear during the winter are the most important part of the uniform. Swag is for boys, class is for men.

5. Varsity Red Basketball Games. Our top varsity team is always one of the best in our league and is always fun to watch.

SEA Basketball Teams Finding Success

We talked to Mr. Holsten about the basketball teams at SEA and so far our teams are playing very well. Overall here are the records of each team:

3-4 grade Red 0-7
3-4 grade Gray 4-4

JV Red 4-2
JV Gray 6-0
JV Black 5-2
JV White 2-4

Varsity Black 7-1
Varsity Red 10-1
Varsity Gray 6-2
Varsity White 5-2

Of all the SEA school basketball teams, our record is 46 wins and 25 loses.

Hottest Kicking it Catholic Shoes

WILMINGTON, DE – Catholic Schools Week officially started Monday but didn’t really “kick-off” until Thursday with “Kick it Catholic Day.” On “Kick it Catholic Day” students were allowed to wear whatever shoes they felt fit. And trust me when I say, we had some pretty fresh shoes. From Vibrams to freshly copped L.L.Beans/Nike transfusion shoe “Kick it Catholic Day” was a huge success.
This article includes the top 5 shoes that were worn that day ranked.

1. Bradford Poole’s rainbow colored Nike ID Free Run 3s were not a hard choice for the #1 shoe worn that day.

2. My powder blue Vibram KSOs were a close second in the contest. Being the only person wearing “toe-shoes” today I truly stuck out, in a good way I hope.

3. For the first time in school history Br. Joe was seen wearing shoes that weren’t black. News like this only breaks the press a few times a decade so Br. Joe’s classic white Dr. Scholl’s made our list for third coolest shoe of the day.

4. Ben Horgan gave us a tip to check out John Turley’s “sparkling” Lebron Xs. So we gave them a look and they are now placed #4 on our list.

5. Last, but very far from least were Dom Cipriano’s freshly copped L.L Bean/Nike Transfusion Shoes.

Sadly, nobody came in with the old-school LeBron 1s. If someone did, I would applaud them.

Spring Musical

by Michael West and Donovan Temme. This year the play is “Pirates Of Penzance”
Here is the cast: Fredrick: Jack deBruin, Pirate King: Mark Worth, Modern Major General :Andrew Avila, Samuel: Matt Sullivan, Benjamin: Alex Horgan, Alastair: Reid Hartman. The Grey Pirates are Anthony Penna, Julian Iacono, Max Iacono, Donovan Temme, Will Jaskot, John Frankel, Johnthan Falix, Quinn lachman, Bradford Poole, Rocco Bifferato, Connor Alcarese, And Ben Horgan. The Red Pirates are Danielle Temme, Sebastian Gropp, Delaney Witherell, Domianic Rottura, Maria Wirt, Joe Mesa, Melina reilly. The Police are sergeant is Luke Kovel, corporal is Michael Devine. The Police Men are Mathew Witterholt, Andrew Martin, Frankie Frabizzio, Sam Truluck, and Riley McAvinue. The Maidens are Mabel is Kyla McAvinue, Kate is Emily Martin, Edith is Danielle Martin Isabel is Katherin Alberta, Elena Tart is Anne, Jane is Kelsey Obostead We are are here to interview a gray pirate played by Anthony Penna.

Question: What do you think the best part of the play is?
Answer: The pirate because you get to beat the police.
Question: What character would you like to be if you could pick?
Answer: Modern Major General.
Question: Why would you tell people to join the play next year?
Answer: Well, you get to have a lot of fun and hang with your friends and all the work pays off at the last show.

Florida Trip Exclusive By: Chris Avila & Nic Barbieri

WILMINGTON, DE – We interviewed Brother Joe to get the inside scoop on the 34th Florida Trip.

Chris: I’m here with Bro. joe who has been running the Florida tip for a very long time. We are going to interview him and ask him a few questions about this years Florida trip. So first, how long has the Florida trip been going on for? Why did it start in the first place?

Bro. Joe: This trip is trip 34, it started back in ’79 in a religion class. In which one 7th grader stood up in class and said, “Brother, we don’t really do anything together as a class.” And I just said, “Yeah, like Disney World!” And that was it, and a few weeks later he said, “Where’s the trip?” And that started the trip.

Chris: Oh. Yeah I remember that you told us that in 6th grade. When we were the first 6th graders to go on that trip. And the second question: what are some of the specs on the Florida trip? Price of going? How long does the trip last?

Bro. Joe: We usually leave on Easter Monday and come back Easter Saturday. So it six days. And the price when it first started was $200 but we didn’t have as many parks. Now that we going to Disney, Epcot and Universal, um, not Medieval Times this year we are going to Stallion “some-or-another” it’s a play done on horseback. The menu is excellent, each student has his choice of either steak, half a chicken, pot roast and lasagna. And for desert they have a chocolate chocolate chocolate cake.

Chris: Wow that’s pretty impressive. One follow up question: why are you not going to medieval times this year?

Bro. Joe: the price had gone up.

Chris: Okay interesting. Will everyone drive down in one bus? Will anyone fly down like two years ago?

Bro. Joe: No, everyone will be taking one bus this year.

Chris: How many eight graders are invited to come this year?

Bro. Joe: 7 have applied but we can fit up to 10.

Chris: Which parks are part of the trip?

Bro. Joe: You go to Wet n Wild, the dinner show, the next day you to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure, the next you go to Disney world and on the last day you go to Epcot.

Chris: Last question: do you have a tip for the seventh graders that have never really had an experience like this before? Try new things?

Bro. Joe: Do new things, don’t be afraid.

Chris: I remember in my 6th grade year I’d never really been on a serious roller coaster and by the end of the week I was riding some of the scariest roller coasters in the park.

Bro. Joe: I know you guys had a blast.

Chris: Yes we did! And thanks so much for this interview.

Bro. Joe: No problem. And it’s a possibility that the 6th graders will go next year.

JV Black Basketball team

Max Krinsky. Our JV Black Basketball team is looking pretty good so far. We are all fast, but I think we are most about defense so far. Everyone can steal pretty well and we are aggressive. We have a couple of players that can work on their shot but it’s looking like we could make a really good team. In our practices we mostly work on defense but then we will make a lay-up line and practice our lay-ups and cutting. When we work on defense we start the practice with shuffles across the court in a diagonal direction.Our teams record so far is 6-3.Our last game is this Saturday at vs Saint Mary Madeline at 2:15 in the field house.