Chaminade forgot about SLUH. They forgot to give the student section a place to sit as 70-plus SLUH students were forced to stand clumped together in the corner of the gym. They forgot that even without Nick Kramer, this Jr. Bills team has more talent than ever before. But most importantly, they forgot that the Saint Louis U. High basketball team has all the momentum in the world and look like they cannot be stopped. SLUH (12-6) upset the MCC favorites Chaminade (14-6) 72-69 last Friday during their McBride night.
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Eighth graders across St. Louis received letters of admission to St. Louis U. High last Friday, Jan. 27. They were able to visit Backer Memorial for the first time as Jr. Bills to buy merchandise and take pictures with the Billiken on Saturday. In total, 292 students were admitted to the class of 2027 from 60 different zip codes.
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After a month away from campus, the Class of 2023 returned to St. Louis U. High this week fresh off of the first traditional Senior Project of the post-pandemic era. Seniors were formally welcomed back on campus during an all-school assembly Tuesday morning, after which seniors shared their takeaways from Projects in advisory rooms.
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The Jr. Bills are back on top of the Metro Catholic Conference. Announced in Principal Ian Gibbons S.J. 's weekly newsletter, St. Louis U. High won the MCC All Sports Trophy for the 2021-2022 school year.
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Bands and choirs from all over the state came to the Missouri Music Educators Conference in the Lake of the Ozarks region last Wednesday through Saturday to produce and listen to amazing music.
While St. Louis U. High seniors ventured across the world in January for their Senior Projects, a group of Polish students came to St. Louis to do their own service projects. In this first-of-its-kind exchange, the high school students have been staying with SLUH host families, serving the local community at numerous St. Louis organizations, and acquainting themselves with St. Louis culture and history through excursions with SLUH Global Ed and their host families.
Eighth graders across St. Louis received letters of admission to St. Louis U. High last Friday, Jan. 27. They were able to visit Backer Memorial for the first time as Jr. Bills to buy merchandise and take pictures with the Billiken on Saturday. In total, 292 students were admitted to the class of 2027 from 60 different zip codes.
After a month away from campus, the Class of 2023 returned to St. Louis U. High this week fresh off of the first traditional Senior Project of the post-pandemic era. Seniors were formally welcomed back on campus during an all-school assembly Tuesday morning, after which seniors shared their takeaways from Projects in advisory rooms.
Prep News explores the historic legacy of Fr. Claude Heithaus, SJ, the namesake of the new media center.
Theology teacher Rob Garavaglia embarked on Sabbatical at the beginning of last semester. Since then, he has completed the 30-day Spiritual Exercises and led many retreats across the country.
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Chaminade forgot about SLUH. They forgot to give the student section a place to sit as 70-plus SLUH students were forced to stand clumped together in the corner of the gym. They forgot that even without Nick Kramer, this Jr. Bills team has more talent than ever before. But most importantly, they forgot that the Saint Louis U. High basketball team has all the momentum in the world and look like they cannot be stopped. SLUH (12-6) upset the MCC favorites Chaminade (14-6) 72-69 last Friday during their McBride night.
I talked with senior Max Bely this week about his hockey career, past, present, and future. Bely is the starting goaltender for the St. Louis U. High hockey team and earned the U-Chain in the 4-2 victory against CBC last Friday.
The Jr. Bills are back on top of the Metro Catholic Conference. Announced in Principal Ian Gibbons S.J. 's weekly newsletter, St. Louis U. High won the MCC All Sports Trophy for the 2021-2022 school year.
This week has been a busy one for the St. Louis U. High Wrestling teams, as they have faced off in two major meets, including the MCC Championships. The team took home third with a historic win against CBC and a nail-biting loss to De Smet.
After a one month hiatus of match play, the St. Louis U. High Varsity racquetball team faced off against Kirkwood’s Varsity 2 team. After a tough defeat and the first loss in five years to Kirkwood’s Varsity A team earlier this season, the Jr. Bills looked to have a bounce back day. That they did, with a perfect sweep in match play.
After setting a new freshmen team record, the St. Louis U. High rifle team traveled to Nashville, Tenn. to shoot against their long-time rival Montgomery Bell Academy and last year’s National Scholastic Champion, Harpeth Hall.
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This week marks the first issue of the Prep News to be produced in the brand-new Claude Heithaus, SJ Media Center. With this move comes overwhelming sadness, as it means that J220—home to the paper’s office for over two decades—is rendered vacant. The PN moved to the J-wing some time in the late 1990s, and countless memories were forged in the space, which we hope to suggest below, as current and former editors reflect on some of their most notable moments in the PN room.
To many at St. Louis U. High, the Prep News room is one which is seldom visited, if ever at all. It sits on the second floor of the J Wing, an area typically reserved only for art students, lost freshmen, or recipients of an official SLUH tour. For the 20 or so staffers of the paper at any given time, though, it was an effective second home, serving equally important duties of home to production nights and go-to AP/free period hangout spot. It can be said with utmost certainty that the PN room was unlike any other on campus. Its walls were adorned with two decades’ worth of memes, inside jokes, funny posters, and a parade of Indiana University certificates, which were always certain to spark questioning from any first-time visitor. Complete with three couches, a conference table, and several slow-though-functioning Mac desktops, there was no better place to do (or more likely, procrastinate) homework.
Senior Jack Evans is spending his Senior Project with fellow senior Luka Okropirashvili working at the Barnes Jewish Extended Care Center in Clayton.
Senior Joe Zarilli has been working hard on his senior project at Great Circle, where he is helping students with special educational needs and learning disabilities.
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