The band presented their annual Band Follies performance on May 3rd. This was Dr. Babb’s last performance as band director at MHHS.
Thanks to the generous community contributions, Dr. Babb was given a kayak handcrafted by former science teacher David Mauney.
April 25 was senior night for Women’s Soccer. The Cougars beat Mitchell 2 to 1!
Early into the first half, senior Sarah Feldman scored the first goal on the Mountaineers!
Later in the second half, senior Katherine Rothe-Skinner scored another goal on the Mountaineers, and helped the Cougars win 2 to 1!
It was also senior night for women’s soccer. Congratulations to Ashlyn, Rachael, Lety, Tori, Katherine, Courtney, Lizzie, Keely, Sarah, Brenda, and Lauren for their hard work and dedication!
Pictures by Donna Sink
Lady Cougar Megan Reecer signed her letter of intent to play golf for the MHC Lions in a ceremony at Bubba’s.
“Since I stated playing golf in the 8th grade I have wanted to continue to play the sport on the next level and now I am going to get the opportunity,” Said Megan.
A four year participant on the Lady Cougar team, Megan was voted to the All-WHC squad three times while earning the leagues Player of the Year honor in her junior season. Megan will get an athletic scholarship and plans on majoring in integrated education with a minor in Spanish while at Mars Hill.
1st Half:
At 30:58 #4 Mary Reeves of Madison scores a hard fought goal. #5 Sarah Feldman scores at 24:00 to tie 1-1. At 19:00 #18 Julia Metscher scores for Madison and at 15:45. Lizzie Thomason scores for a halftime score of 2-2.
2nd Half:
Quick goal by #4 Mary Reeves. Cougars can’t respond to give Madison the win 3-2
Revenge is best served in the form of a softball.
Varsity girls: Right off the bat Cougars had the lead with scoring by #2 Penny Lane Buckner, #25 Samm Chandler, and #12 Nyssa Freeman. #4 Summer Ray had her eyes on the prize helping to give the Cougars a large advantage after 4 innings with a score of 9-0. The Asheville Home school Trailblazers remained scoreless until the top of the 5th inning when #20 knocked a shot to deep left field to bring two Trailblazers home. However that would not be enough as the cougars went on to score three more times with a win of 12-2.
JV girls: The Trailblazers aimed for revenge after the loss to Varsity. They scored four times in the 1st inning while the Cougars could only score once. Neither team scored for two innings until #7 of the Trailblazers helped another make it home. #4 Destiny Elkins and #11 Kendyll Neil were able to make it home and narrow the lead to three. Both teams battled tor the remainder of the game, but the Cougars could not overcome the six hits by the Trailblazers in the 5th inning. The cougars failed to defeat the Trailblazers with a loss of 15-10.
Baseball and Softball teams all defeated the Mitchell Mountaineers at yesterdays games.
Varsity boys beat Mitchell 2 to 1
JV boys beat Mitchell 2 to 0
Varsity girls beat Mitchell 17 to 3
JV girls beat Mitchell 21 to 0
Photos courtesy WKYK
Dr. Tim Babb announced plans to retire at the end of this year. He has taught at MHHS for 33 years.
What will you miss miss the most? “The interaction with the students, the fact that they love life an making a connection through music.”
What will you miss least? “The bell schedule and the bells. To build life in a schedule.”
What has been the most memorable moment in your teaching career? “I don’t know if I could define it as one moment, but every opportunity I can share about my life.”
Why did you choose to retire? “I didn’t want to risk waking up and not having that passion for it, and I recognized in my life that if I wanted to do something, I needed to do it now. I wanted to leave still loving what I do because of the students that are here, they will be here next year, they are passionate about what they do.”
Brad Hearon, a recovered meth addict spoke to students about his life choices that lead to the explosion that almost took his life.
When Brad was nine years old his family moved to Houston, Texas, from Liberal, Kansas. Brad played on the JV A team his sophomore year in his high school of nearly 5,500 people with five football teams. He and his family moved again when he was sixteen. This time they moved to a small town in the panhandle of Texas. “I immediately portrayed myself as a ‘bad boy’ from Houston. I talked big and tough. Which all that did, was give me a bad name in the town.” He was kicked off the football team because of a failed drug test, and by the time he was 18 he had learned how to cook meth.
On January 7, 2003, Brad was nearly killed while in the final steps of making meth in his El Camino when the guy he was with lit a cigarette. Brad had 3rd and 4th degree burns on over 80% of his body. He was given .1% chance of survival and spent his 20th birthday in a coma at St. Francis in Wichita, Kansas.
Today, Brad proudly wears the scars as he goes around the country educating young people about the dangers of drugs.
Sophomore and high achieving FFA member, Sarah Watkins was awarded a scholarship to attend the Organic Growers School Spring Conference at the UNCA campus on March 3rd. At the two-day conference attended by over 1,500 people, Sarah was able to choose from 100 classes on organic gardening. When describing her interest in agriculture, Sarah said, “… I feel as if organic growing methods will help replenish our natural resources and eventually our health and that’s the reason I seek information and knowledge about it.”
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