Should College Football Players Get Paid?

by Khari Dash

College football is a big thing in America. During weekends, people will tune in to watch different schools and players played against each other. Despite the love and glamor, people have for college football, many have different issues with it. One issue in particular people have is whether college players should be getting pay to play in college.

People believed that they should get paid for playing in college games and I believe they should get paid for the hard work and effort that they put in for the team and the support they bring in to the school. College football players deserve to get paid for numerous reasons. 

One reason is the ratings college football players help bring in to primetime television channels like ABC, Fox, and other channels. These channels will show different ads showing when the games will be televised and show different highlight from players from previous games to draw in the viewers' attention and see how good the school players are.

Final Messages to Underclassman from Seniors With Experience

By Christino Maldonado, Emerson Maldonado and Julio Ramirez

Dear, Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Super Seniors:

This is to give all of you some advice for your future here at West Hempstead.

1. Focus on your grades! It’s really hard to fail, I promise you that if you put a little bit of effort into your school work you’ll easily be in the 80s. 
2. Save your money. Lots of things to pay for your senior year. No joke you'll need like 1,000 dollars to cover most of the senior year expenses. 

Rams Put the “Bad” in Badminton!

by Harpinder Kaur and Taylor Ephraim

After a season of great success last year, the Girls Varsity Badminton team moved up into a higher division this year. The team led by Coach Tracy Hutt put in all efforts for a great possible season. 

Each new season comes with many different factors such as past team members graduating, new freshmen with great potential, and girls willing to move up in terms of ranking and being a good badminton player. This season has been an intense season with matches and practices. The season ended off with a remarkable record, not undefeated, but something to be proud of.

Boys JV Lacrosse On the Rise

by Haj Kargbo & Julio Ramirez

           

Will the upcoming sophomores continue the successful season the outgoing seniors and incoming seniors have started?

Lacrosse isn’t the most popular sport in West Hempstead High School; however, this 2017-2018 lacrosse season was one of high hopes and achievements. Despite the fact that both JV and Varsity were short staffed, they still managed to have a decent season. JV, in particular, was a surprise amongst many.

Boys Track Sprints to the Top

by Regina Figaro & Ryan Charles

Boys track, coached by Mr. Carre and Mr. Debenedetto, has been having an amazing season. Personal records have been broken and qualifiers have been met. The hard work and dedication of the student-athletes have not gone unnoticed or unrewarded.

As the track team advertises on their shirts, “The competition isn’t against the runner next to me, but the runner inside of me.” 

Pushing themselves to new heights this team has gone above and beyond to bring West Hempstead track to a new level.

The Resurgence of Ibrahimovic

by Julio Ramirez, senior reporter

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a Swedish soccer player who is world class. He suffered an injury in late December of 2017. It was a very serious knee ligament injury that almost threatened to end his career. But he fought his way back through intense rehab and physical therapy for 3 months.

His contract with Manchester United in England was not renewed and he wasn’t sure where he would land until he was signed by the La Galaxy this season. According to Ibrahimovic, he said, “his sights were always with La Galaxy even before he signed with Manchester United.”

Boys Junior Varsity Basketball Team Started its Season

By Vanessa Tribie and Victoria Akingboye

The Junior Varsity Basketball team coached by Mr.Senia started their season on Tuesday, December 5th against Valley Stream North.  

With an almost all-new team, this year will require some rebuilding and a lot of practice. 

The players on the team include Brian Pierre Louis, Kalobe Threewitts, Marques Valme, Jalen Jean, and David Cadet.  

Girls Basketball Just Getting Started

By Kai Warner and Aleyna Zaim

It takes long afternoon practices, tryouts, and hard work to put together a great team.

Of the 20 girls that attended the first meeting and tryouts, only 13 girls made the final cut.  

Although the season has just started for the West Hempstead Girls Basketball Team, they started off strong.  

Tennis Team Takes it on the Road

By Eilyn Maldonado and Briana Pierre Louis

This season the girl's tennis team learned how to serve, rally and pass, use forehand and backhand, follow through on shots, smash and also how to keep score.

The singles and doubles teams varied, no one had a permanent spot.

Our singles players were Laura Eivazi, Alina Czavar, Shanelle Yanqui and Sarah Mojica.

Our doubles players included: Rabiya Khan, Unsha Monaj, Paola Cardenas, Cindy Cardona, Sarah Mojica, Kim Lazo, Krista Baumann, Laura Padilla, Abby Isseon, Lauren Sharma Galarza, Eilyn Maldonado, Vanessa Tribie, and Briana Pierre Louis.

A Sophomore Look at Homecoming

By Omosefe Ikpia

This year’s homecoming started off near the Chestnut Street School. We marched from there back to the school to watch a game between our Girls' soccer team and Friends Academy.

In addition to the game, Homecoming also had many other features like the Stuff the Bus project in which we donate anything helpful to support those affected by the hurricane, there was also many stations of little games, face painting and a bouncy house for the kids, included in the parade was our banner where we think of something creative to go along with our sophomore theme for the year.