Just a few days later, the boys had a Princeton invite in Hinckley at Grand National Golf Club. They then proceeded to shoot a season low of 299, which won by 9 strokes. Leading the way was, Goodmanson, Ylitalo, John Russett and Trevor Dalbec.

The boys look to keep their success going, especially with sectionals next week on May 29th and 30th.

That can get to be pretty long, especially for people who don’t have much patience, or just genuinely hate taking tests. With limited time to answer the questions for the sections, it can be hard to complete all of them before the time is up.

With the ACT having such an importance in our life, whether it’s for college, or a job, students know that getting a good score will benefit them in the long run.

The first athlete I talked to is basketball/ softball star Jordan Zrust. The first question I asked her was ” How have your softball practices been so far?” She responded with, “We so far have been inside, and we can only do so much. We mostly just hit off tees and in the batting cages, but field is different, because we can’t use a normal ball inside, so we have to use a “softy”, so that we don’t wreck anything by overthrowing. We only practice until 5, because we get kicked out of our gym space. We’d be lucky if we get to go outside anytime soon.”

On the follow up, I asked, “Will your month of May be packed, and possibly cause you to miss more school than usual?” Zrust then stated, ” Yeah most likely. We will be playing every day of the week and double headers might be cut down to 5 innings. We will also have to get out early on every game day.”

Now, I thought I would give my opinion on what my practices have been like for golf for the past few weeks. We have been practicing inside the Civic Center and hitting balls into nets, and using the workout facility. It felt good just to be able to use something, because most of us haven’t had the opportunity to play since this past fall, and with the weather not cooperating, we are all unsure when we will start having meets. One thing we do know is that May is going to be busy, and the amount of school that the team already misses, will be much more than usual with the packed schedule.

In conclusion, this year has been nothing but a little out of the ordinary, and I, for one am getting a little tired of the snow. I am just ready for the golf courses to open, and be able to have meets. Now, after getting over a foot of snow this past weekend, the start of spring sports games/matches are only going to get delayed even longer into the season.

I was able to catch up with Junior Travis Bradford, and asked him “What are your thoughts going into the test?”, he then answered with “Do well, it will help my future.”

I then proceeded to ask him “What are you most worried about?”, he then said “I’m not too worried about it.”

Then I talked to Junior Mitch Green, who had already taken it this past summer. Green, when asked, “How did you feel going into it?”, he responded with ” I had taken the Pre-ACT, so I knew what to expect, but I was still a little nervous to make easy mistakes.”

I followed up with asking Green “What will you do differently the next time?”, he then said “I’ll definitely get more sleep, and use my time more wisely. I rushed things a little too much last time, especially on the reading section.”

In conclusion, students are looking at the test in completely different ways, and I am interested to see how emotions can effect students’ overall scores on the test. After reading this article, how are you feeling going into it?

When asked what he is looking forward to most this season, Joe Carothers responded with “ I am looking forward to hanging out with the boys, and having a good chance at winning sections and conference.”

After hearing about how he enjoys his time with the boys, I then asked “ What is your favorite part about playing with the boys?” He responded with “ Just being out there and having fun. Laughing, playing games and making jokes.”

Following the previous unsuccessful years to make it to state, Carothers says “ If we all play to our potential, I think we have a good chance to make a state appearance.”

Since Carothers has been on the team now for what will be his third year, I thought I would ask him who his mentors have been, and he said “ Probably the seniors, and the older kids that just set up everything in a fun mood, and make me want to be there.”