Kennedy Lawson Shawn Busha is a seven time junior national champion, cheered at the University of Louisville from 1996 to 1997 while there won a national title in 1996. Transferred to Daytona University cheered for them from 1998 through 1999. Also coached many all-star teams including Power Cheer, All-star cheer, and Gym Tyme all-stars. Plans to make J-town the best high school cheer program around town.
The Jeffersontown high school Cheergers start their season with new head coach ‘Shawn Busha” leading them to the top. Shawn says he plans to “change the way cheer is perceived at J-town, bring back the pride into the stands and students.” According to some of the girl this year will be stricter than the past seasons because Coach Shawn believes the cheer leaders need to be held accountable for their actions and know he is changing the program. “My captains (Amber Carr,Caitlin Lehmenkuler, and Shyanne Serrett)have more influence in the things we are trying to accomplish as a team.” Many of the cheerleaders agreed with Shawn when he said “we are going to be showing charger pride by allowing the student staff, and fans to have something to look forward to each and every home game with the amazing cheers and great student section themes.” As a student of Jeffersontown high school I honestly think if we had more school spirit in our student section we would have so many more student at our games, more kids would cheer for our football team, and be more into the cheerleader’s cheers. Kennedy Lawson This year’s 2016 Rio Olympics Great Britain’s own Justin Rose calls his hole in one, one of his “icing-on-the-cake moments” in his career. Rose crushed a 7 iron 189 yards onto the par 3 green, after a couple bounces the ball went straight into the cup for the very first hole in one in 112 years of the Olympics. Justin celebrated his 67 telling reporters, "When you're the first to do anything, no one can ever take that away from you, whatever it is. That was definitely a cool moment."
Rose went from being one under par, to making a drastic jump down to 3 under par after the hole in one. Justin finished his remaining 15 holes with his head held extremely high ending the day being four under par. One of Justin’s good friends ,Jason Sobel, shows a huge celebration was called for after the match when tweeting, “There are millions of people in Rio this week. Gonna be a hefty bar tab for Justin Rose.” Fun fact not only was it the first Olympic hole in one in 112 years, it was also believed to be the first hole in one made by someone wearing sunglasses as big as Justin was wearing. I guess you could say Justin rose was pretty happy about his accomplishment. After a very memorable 2016 Olympics, Justin Rose lead with a one shot advantage being 11 under, over Australia’s Marcus Fraser scoring a 9 under. Overall I think we can assume this was an Olympic golf year that will go down in the record books. As for Great Britain’s head golfer Justin Rose, this a golf match that he will remember for his life. Chase Schoeff Cupping may be trendy now. But it's not new. It dates back to ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern cultures. Ebers Papyrus is one of the oldest medical books out there dating back to 1550 B.C. According to the Webmd.com, there are two types of cupping dry and wet. Wet cupping creates a mild suction leaving a cup in place for about three minutes. The therapist then removes the cup and uses a small scalpel to make light, tiny cuts on your skin. Next, he or she does a second suction to draw out a small quantity of blood. Dry cupping suction could be created by using heat to warm the cups so that the cooling air inside the cup creates a vacuum that tugs the skin upwards. All this therapy really does is increase blood flow to sore muscles so muscles heal faster. Michael Phelps six time olympic medalist states “does it for his health.” Recently in the olympics cupping has been seen on swimmers bodies, but in other sports in the olympics I personally have not seen cupping. Cupping has side effects just like anything nowadays like big purple plum looking circles on your back or wherever the ancient treatment is needed. Of course there are positives and negatives to every treatment out there. Fortunately cupping has a really good reputation, for the most part benefitting most users of the treatment again including the Michael Phelps. Michael Phelps is not the only user of the cupping theory many other swimmers such as Natalie Coughlin and Nathan Adrian from Cals Aquatics have also positively benefited from the cupping theory.G ustavus Adolphus College athletic trainer Jon Carlson uses this therapy at Gustavus Adolphus College says “They introduced it this fall, slowly at first, but they quickly expanded the program due to its success and popularity with athletes.”If you’re curious about finding a new way to help you recover faster and train harder, check in with our personal athletic trainer Jason about the cupping therapy. And have no fear the bruises don’t hurt at all. Though they do make quite the fashion statement!
Eddy Graham As the season approaches, the Jeffersontown Cross-Country team sees a bright season ahead. After a pretty positive season last year with a small team, the pack is led by a few seasoned seniors: a senior-to-watch, Ben Lush. “The season usually passes pretty quickly, but our progress does not go unnoticed” says Ben. Each runner pushes one another to a whole new level of athletic excellence and eventually victory. Led by Coach Brown, everyone is committed to improving. Most of the runners take time from their day to improve stamina, speed and endurance. Some run for as much as two hours preparing for the next meet. Even though the drive to be the best is important, Coach sees and acknowledges true effort given by her runners. Whether the race they run is slow, fast, or at a top-gear competitive pace, Coach is proud to know all effort was put forth into the meet. Each runner cares for one another as if they were all family. To some, they consider those they run with to be their family! Progression is a definite goal for this year’s Cross-Country Chargers. “Being a small group brings us close together and ultimately creates larger goals. ” comments Lush. (12) Their numbers have grown since last season. However, that does not mean any slacking will be tolerated. “Anything less than one-hundred percent effort will not be accepted.” says Coach. The runners have already begun their conditioning for the upcoming season and plan to be more than ready for their first encounter with the enemy. Back our Chargers as they race to the finish!
Eddy Graham Once again, the coaching staff for the Charger’s Football team has made a swift change. Finding the right fit has been a journey and this time, all parties are positive that it’s time for the revolution that the Chargers deserve. This year’s new head coach position is taken up by Russell Rigdon, a 15 year veteran in the coaching game. He comes to us from DuPont Manual High School, where he used to be an assistant coach. “I have a really good feeling about the future of this team” comments Coach Rigdon. According to Coach Rigdon, the team is ready for success and they just need to all come together to pull off some big-time wins this year and the years to come. “I’m not going anywhere, guys” he boldly states in a post-game huddle in the early season. This speaks volumes for his commitment to us, Chargers. Surrounded by a new coaching staff, a promising freshman class, and some determined seniors, coach is provided with a solid start in his first year as a head coach of high school ball. “He’s by far the most committed coach I’ve played for at J-town” says JaCorey Grinstead, (12). It may take lots of patience and hard work, but Coach Rigdon is prepared to do all that is necessary to take the Chargers to the top. For what lies ahead, that can only be determined by the heart of the coaches and the players. Go Chargers!
Allie Milliner There is a God amongst us in J-town and we found him not really but, Damorian Travis wrestling skills might as well be Hercules himself. He is the first wrestler in four years to place in the state tournament. He is placing 8th in the weight class 220.Damorian is not just amazing at wrestling but also in the football as well plays fullback and defensive end. Coach dean has always said that he is a wonderful Athlete and knows that he is going to win state in his up coming years as a wrestler. Damorian says, “The tournament was tough but I am glad that he pulled threw and place for the school. He is trying to improve his skills by having an individual trainer in taijutsu and working on his grappling moves. He also said that he will drop weight down to 195 so it can give him the leverage to win the regional and state tournament for next year. Over all Damorian Travis will be the next upcoming star of J-town.
Lindsay Orosz As a part of the spring sports that are offered at J-town, tennis is starting! Tennis is a very fast-moving and quick game that requires agility, carefulness, and speedy players. In the game of either one-on-one or two-against-two, a ball is hit from one side of a net to another whereas the object is trying to hit the ball strategically where the other team can’t or miss it. Ms. Weaver, coach of both the boy’s and girl’s tennis teams, requires that a player must have eye-hand coordination and good footwork (which is very important to every sport, not just tennis). “It is a very active sport. Many people want to join it because they play WII where they just stand there and move their wrist. You can’t do that in real tennis.” The season has already begun and they have already had their first match.
Asa Carter The softball team this year has had a great start so far. The team is now 1-1 after losing to Marion County, but they came back with a squeeze and beat Graves County in extra innings. This season Savannah Brinley is hoping to improve herself and also hopes the team will improve as a whole as well. She wants to improve her leadership skills for the younger teammates. She is hoping to be the role model that she knows that she can be. She is really looking forward to the team hopefully winning the District tournament. “Our lady chargers have a winning attitude and the mindset that they are the team to beat in the regional or state tournament this year”. Come and support our Lady Chargers to help them push for the state championship that we all know they can win. |
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