With the day of cards and of broken hearts, St. Valentine’s day, approaching, Prep News asked SLUH’s most talented poets to send in their Apollo-inspired verses. Here’s what they sent in:

This past week, the Jr. Bills faced off against Marquette in a doubleheader in the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup where they were eliminated Monday night. A 3-2 win Friday night against the Mustangs put the Jr. Bills into the driver’s seat coming into Monday night’s game. With a win or tie, the Jr. Bills would have advanced to the semifinals of the playoffs. However, Maquette won 1-0, and then advanced in the 3rd game’s shootout, knocking SLUH out of the playoffs and ending its 2020-2021 season. 

As the Saint Louis U. High wrestling team progresses towards the District Tournament this Saturday, they are making their final preparations to give themselves the best chance at reaching the next round of the postseason, the Sectional Tournament.

The St. Louis U. High rifle team’s practice paid off, as the team beat Montgomery Bell Academy last weekend by a landslide, putting three SLUH teams above MBA in terms of score. The Jr. Bills rifle team has had a bit of a rough patch the past few weeks, but the shooters pulled themself from the valley and beat its long standing rival from Nashville.

The St. Louis U. High basketball team suffered a 64-40 blowout loss to Chaminade on Feb. 3 and, two days after the defeat, paused all basketball activities due to Covid-19 contact tracing protocols. The announcement came just hours before SLUH was supposed to play CBC at home, forcing the game to be postponed until a later date. The status of games scheduled for the remainder of the week have not been decided, as the team has not received results of their Covid-19 tests yet.

With SLUH’s traditional foreign exchange and international summer experiences being no longer feasible given COVID, the Foreign Language Department has been using technology to bring global education to students outside of the classroom. 

After seven years in the United States, Spanish teacher Javier Moreno is now a United States citizen. Moreno was born in Colombia, and attended the District University in Bogota there. While at college, he studied English, North American literature, and North American culture.

The St. Louis U. High speech team competed in its final speech meet on Sunday, Feb. 7. Several speakers competed in the finals and three emerged victorious. 

The two committees on Equity and Inclusion at St. Louis U. High have been busy this year, working in conjunction to draft a strategic action plan based on the themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The plan will be the second in school history—the last one drafted in 1991—to create initiatives directed at making the SLUH environment more welcoming to people of color.

With in-person classes canceled for a snow day, the Prep News took production online once more. Editors gathered on zoom to edit articles and layout the paper. When pushed to its limits, the Prep News once again persevered and put out another issue of the best paper west of the Mississippi.