Author: aliao13
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Go Team? The Argument Over Cheerleading at Newark Academy
By Soven Bery ’15, Staff Writer Newark Academy is blessed with the resources to boast a broad and varied athletic program of 23 different sports teams. However, one program remains noticeably missing: cheerleading. Whether this is for the better or worse is up for debate in the school community. “I think it would be great…
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With a New Attitude, the Swimming Team Turns Heads
By Matt Cowen, Staff Writer Newark Academy swimming had a banner year, literally and figuratively. It all started, as men’s team captain Harry McCarthy ’13 put it, “when the winter sports captains got together for a meeting.” It was at that meeting that each set of captains would plan out how to best lead their…
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Concussions Wear Down Newark Academy Athletes
By Soven Bery ’15, Staff Writer It’s a cold October Monday morning and sophomore football player Dan Kwiatkowski painfully opens the doors and trudges into Newark Academy. A week earlier he had lined up at nearly every position for the Minutemen on the gridiron. But today he faces something much tougher than the Sussex County…
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Volleyball’s Experienced, Yet Young, Leader
By Gabriella Giachin ’14 and Kristen Nachtman ’14, Staff Writers As the Volleyball team walked up to Kanye West’s booming anthem “Clique” during the pep rally, the entire school felt the trademark energy that they bring on and off the court. Having moved up into the Colonial Division this year, the team’s intensity and competitiveness…