“My biggest accomplishment for baseball so far has to be going to state for legion [the summer baseball league for varsity players] last summer,” Brisk said.

When Brisk isn’t on the baseball field he spends a lot of time in room D-106, the room where he throws clay. A lot of people have spent one or two quarters in that room with Mr. Holtz but Brisk has spent five quarters there. He’s completed all of the ceramics classes offered at BHS and has been a mentor for other ceramics classes twice. He is now involved in an independent study, allowing him to further improve his skills on the wheel.

“It’s really fun to watch him create, he’s nonstop and sometimes my job is to just get out of the way and watch him create,” Holtz said.

Brisk is a very skilled potter too, last year he threw a massive 37.5 lbs of clay at once.

Ceramics teacher Jon Holtz commented on this, “I often use him as an example in class… He gets a lot of attention from the other students, this is usually because of how big his work is.”

Brisk has grown to be skilled in both baseball and ceramics but this is all because of his work ethic and determination to be the best he can. This is something Holtz stressed and he made it clear that Brisk is where he is today because of all the work he’s put in. Brisk has also been playing baseball since he was around five years old and has spent a lot of time in summer leagues and putting in extra work.

Next year Brisk is taking his baseball skills to the Division II school, Northern State University. He also plans to continue his passion for ceramics and will be majoring in it.

Photos by Rob LaPlante and by and Seth Curran

“15 minutes, that’s not enough,” Senior Tristan Eull, former Bison football player said.

According to Assistant Coach Mike Curry, the Buffalo varsity football team isn’t really limited to a certain amount of full contact practice, although on average, they utilize about one and a half hours per week in full contact practice. He says that a rule change similar to New Jerseys wouldn’t be a bad thing for the team and that splitting up into different skills groups and focusing on the team’s mindset are just as important, if not more important than full contact practice.

These measures will minimize repeated blows to the head which is what has been found to cause long term health problems in football players. As more information is being brought to light about the health concerns involved with football. These measures are a step towards healthier players in New Jersey and have the potential to make an impact in Buffalo and around the country.

Students were able to connect to the network after obtaining the password from friends, but after the removal of BHM Staff at the high school in late January, these problems were fixed with the new WiFi, “Authorized BHM User”.

“Authorized BHM User provides individual logins and is secured by certificates,” said Technician Mandy Green. “We can control which IP subnet a user or computer gets put into based on the computer name or username that he or she logs in with. Security is enhanced because everyone uses their own account.”

The removal of BHM Staff began in September 2018 in the districts elementary schools and was eventually removed at the high school in January 2019.