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Prints May 2022
Editor: Paiten Prescott
News
Co-Editor: Terry Smith
Sponser: Mrs. Porter
And the new Drum Major Clinic was an
experience where 29 band
Drum Major is.... students, including some
from Davidson and Shoal
River Middle Schools, got
to learn, interview, and
try out to be their school’s
next Drum Major. Eleven
students were selected as
finalists and were given
the opportunity to conduct
the Wind Ensemble. The
Big Red Machine baton will
be passed down from Anna
Todd to Haily Brubacher,
Christy Lasky, and Sara
Nelson on May 23rd.
Picture from Crestview High School Facebook Page
Table of Contents Page 5... Sports Page 10... Senior Signings
Page 1... Drum Major Page 6... Coach Grant Page 11... Retirement
Page 2... Mr. Lowery Page 7... Clubs Page 12... French Students
Page 3... Austin Daivs’ story Page 8... SGA Page 13... Max Anderson
Page 4... Graduation Preperation Page 9... Top 5 Page 14... Summer Break
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Welcome to CHS
Mr. Lowery grew up here in Florida, and where he was a winning
quarterback for Baker School. During high school, he got a scholarship
to Carson Newman University, where he won 3 national championship
rings. After his time at Carson Newman, he went on to get a masters
degree in Education at Tusculum University. In 2002, Lowery was a
reading teacher and a football coach here at CHS. As the new dean of
students, he can be found in discipline.
Fun Facts about Mr. Lowery:
- He likes football
- He is a retired Army Veteran, where he toured Iraq and Afghanistan
as a Lieutenant Colonel.
- His ultimate goal is to get every student to graduate.
- He wants to make a difference as much as he can.
His Words of Wisdom:
- People will be people,
just try to avoid any trouble.
- Do the right thing when no one’s
watching so there is no one who can
question your morals or integrity!”
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There’s always hope... Austin Davis is just an ordinary student here at Crestview High. Born on March 30th, 2004 in Knoxville Tennessee, Austin lost his mom to a drug overdose when he was 13 and his father left the picture. He came to Crest- view in 2018 to live with his uncle, an Airforce Veteran. From a student who did not care about his future to a passing graduate with a bright future ahead of him, here is his story: It all started when I was 13, my mom passed away from an overdose and my dad went away to prison. After that my life went into a spiral breakdown. In 2018, I moved to Florida with my aunt and uncle. They treated me fairly well but I wanted my old life back. So I moved back to Tennessee. I got into some really bad teenage stuff and even ended up homeless for three months. I finally moved back to Florida after moving around too much. When I came back, I had a lot of work to do. My GPA was low at a 1.2, I had to make up a lot of credits. When I had made them all up, and took the FSA and such, I was so happy because my guidance counselor had told me I did. Then, she called me to her office to tell me that I missed by one point. Apparently, there was a mix up with some other senior named Austin Davis, and he passed and I missed by that one single point. I asked what else I could do and she gave me the chance of taking the SAT. So I studied hard and worked my way up. And there it was, I passed the SAT. Now, I can graduate and I got into trade school for free. I’ve accom- plished so much but I won’t just stop there. I have more hard work ahead and I’m not gon- na quit. And this was my story, Austin Davis. No matter what life threw at him he didn’t stop. Let Austin Davis and his story be an in- spiration. Story from: Ceira Hunter.
Preparing For Graduation 1. Keep up with your school work: First things first, if you want to enjoy your big graduation day, make sure you do the work to get there! It’s easy to get caught up in college applications or just celebrating your senior year with friends, but make sure you’re still doing your schoolwork and keeping your grades up. 2. Plan for your future: Though it may sometimes seem like high school is going to last forever, senior year will be over before you know it and you need to have a plan for life after graduation. Whether that means going off to col- lege, joining the workforce, or travelling the world; you need to start plan- ning for it before the day graduation. 3. Create a shedule: From dealing with college applications to planning the day of your graduation, you have a lot of things to organize during your se- nior year. To make sure you stay on track, draw up a schedule for yourself. If you have scholarship or school application deadlines, add them to your calendar. If you need to request grad- uation tickets or order your cap and gown by a particular time, put those on the calendar too. Even for things that might not have specific deadlines, it’s a good idea to come up with some dates to aim for, just to keep yourself on track. If you do everything on your calendar in time, your graduation day will be a piece of cake! 4. Get senior pictures: Senior pictures aren’t just for the yearbook, they’re the photos your parents will frame and you’ll want to give copies of to your friends. Many people choose to go to a professional photographer to do a special photo shoot for their senior year. You can take formal pictures, as well as more casual ones such as playing your sport, hanging out with your pet, or just wander- ing around. 5. Send announcements: It’s a tradition to send graduation announcements out a few months before the big day to let everyone know that you are grad- uating. It is basically a formal way for your parents to brag about you. You’ll want to order invitations in advance to make sure you have time to send them out well in advance of your actual graduation day. For an occasion as important as graduation, you want to have your closest friends and family in attendance. Schools often have a policy where they reserve a couple of tickets for each student right off the bat, but you may be able to request a few additional tickets if you get around to it early enough. Once you’ve made 4
Crestview Football had an eventful season, to say the least. They
started their season with three wins in a row: Milton, 27-14; Fort Walton
Beach, 36-0; and Ambassadors Christian Academy, 62-0. This hot start
gave Crestview a little chip on their schoulder going into the fourth game
of the season against a tough opponent in Rickards. Falling short, 31-21,
the Bulldogs suffered their first loss of the season. Crestview also lost their
next two games to Choctaw, 16-13, at home and Niceville, 42-21, on the
road. With a 3-3 record, Head Coach Tim Hatten had to change things up
and get the Bulldogs back on track. They traveled to Andalusia and won
27-21, hosted Tate for Homecoming and skid past with a 7-6 victory, and
surpassed Pace at home with a 27-26 win. Leading up to their match up
against Navarre, they knew that it was a win and you’re in situation for
the last playoff spot. The game went down to the wire, and, unfortunately,
Crestview fell short and saw their season end with a 29-22 loss.
Finishing 20-9, CHS basketball has noth-
ing to hang their heads on. An impressive
season all-around ended in the Sweet 16.
Beating rival teams like Niceville and Fort
Walton Beach, the Dawgs won their district
Sports
and hosted a regional playoff game. Hav-
ing a better season than the previous year,
Crestview showed hustle and out ran most
of their opennets. A well conditioned team
would still be hustling late in the fourth
quarter, other teams could not keep up
with the Dawgs. The student section came
alive this season as every seat was filled
during the playoffs. Having the school
behind them, they did not back down from
any challenge. story from Casey Treadway
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On Tuesday, May 3rd, Crestview High School announced the hiring of
Varsity Football Head Coach Thomas Grant. Grant’s first press confer-
ence was held on Friday, May 6th, giving him an opportunity to introduce
himself and his plans for the team. Grant is an alumni of Crestview High
School and has dreamed about becoming the head football coach since
the fifth grade. Being known as one of the most passionate coaches to step
foot on the field, Grant described this achievement as “truly an honor and
privilege.” Making some changes to the offensive side of the ball, Grant
CONGRATULATIONS
will lean towards a run-heavy playbook, while still working in the
passing game. When asked about beating our biggest rivals, Grant said
“we will take a one game approach at a time, get better everyday and pre-
pare and work as hard as we can.” Grant will start his head coach cam-
paign on May 20th at Fort Walton Beach Highschool, where we will get
a preview of how he will coach this team. The regular season opener is at
home on Thursday, August 28th against Merritt Island and Coach Grant
looks forward to starting his career off right!
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Book Club Cyber Security
Welcome to Hackers Anony-
Book club is sponsored by mous - oh, nevermind, the lawyer
Mrs. Payne. This club starts out by said it can’t be called that.
picking a book everyone wants to Welcome to Cybersecurity
read. They individually read the Club, which meets every
chosen book and when the group Wednesday in room 511 from 2:00
meets again, they discuss book. to 3:30. Here, members learn and
Book club gives a sense of a comfort practice computer safety and ad-
because students can do something vanced management skills. They
peaceful and enjoyable, but also be participate in annual
social. Cyberpatriot competitions to
The club meets every 2nd and 4th showcase their learned skills on a
Thursday of the month. You could national level. If you want to join,
send Mrs. Payne an email or just don’t be intimidated. This club
come to the meetings. equipts you with the knowledge
needed to leave the other
Academic Team competitors in the dust. Students
of any skill level are welcome to
Okaloosa County holds six check the club out at anytime.
tournaments per year, meaning
there is one almost every month of MultiCultural
the schoo year. Students self trans- Council
port to the tournaments, which are The MultiCultural Council is a diverse
hosted by different Okaloosa group of school students, sponsored
County middle schools on by Ms. Parker. The club strives to focus
and bring awareness to different cul-
Saturdays.
tures. Everyone is included and wel-
Our team also competes in comed to become a member. “We want
NAQT tournaments, which are
Clubs
you to be comfortable in your skin,”
hosted by schools in surrounding is a common phrase in club literature.
counties (some as far as The club holds many projects, meet-
Jacksonville) on Saturdays through- ings, and various other activities that
out the school year. keep them occupied and busy. Feel
free to become a member and make a
difference in today!
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Crestview High School’s Stu- SGA meets weekly on Wednes-
dent Government Association days at 2pm in Mrs. Young’s
(SGA) serves as an organiza- room. SGA meetings are open for
tion in which students’ ideas viewing by any student.
can be brought to fruition. We strive to help the communi-
CHS’s SGA is part of a larg- ty and to make Crestview High
er organization known as the school the best that it can be!
Florida Association of Student
Councils (FASC). FASC
consists of over 200 middle and
high schools from throughout
the State of Florida. They work
together to bring about growth
in student leadership develop-
ment, participation in student
activities, and student en-
gagement in civic affairs. SGA
hopes to develop a student’s
SGA
leadership skills,
responsibility, and personal
growth all while practicing and
promoting the idea of a
representative democracy.
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Senior Top 5
1 Aubrey Tew
Let love conquer pride. You’ll never regret being
kind.- Aubrey Tew
Hongloan Tran
I keep getting asked how I feeel about right now and the truth is that I
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am at a loss for words. Speechless has honestly been my theme for the
year. Whether it be during the good times, or the bad, the emotions I
have felt and experiences I had throughout this year are hard to describe.
The one thing I’ve learned, however, is that only YOU get to decide the
outcome of whatever it is you go through. We hold the power to override
the challenges thrown our way and turn them into opportunities for
success. Even when it feels like everything is turning against you,
remember that nobody can take your birthday; and when in doubt, vote
#GWAT4PRESIDENT.
3 Ryleigh Strong
“Rome is built on ruins and is quite breathtaking. What
makes you think you can’t be too?”- anonymous
4 Ilya Nosik
“Big dreams have small beginnings” by T.E. Lawrence.
Raj LaRue
5 being in this position now only proves that in order to
achieve your goals, all you need is a little motivation and
the right guidance- Raj LaRue
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Senior Signings
Olivia Keith: Coastal Alabama East
Marcus Patterson: Western Kentucky University
Joe Thomas: Coastal Alabama South
Tison Breen: Coastal Alabama East
Courtney Hill: Faulkner University
Shelby Allen: Coastal alabama East
10Goodbye....
We will miss you!
One of our beloved spanish teachers is retiring..
After 22 years of teaching at Crestview High School, Ms. Rivera is
retiring. She is ready to move into a new chapter in life. She said
that she has mixed emotions about retiring, but is looking forward to
moving onto a new chapter. She says that she will miss the
connections with students the most. She is not fully sure what her
plans are, but she would love to open up a little cafe’ later on in the
future.
Thank you for all you have done for us, Mrs. Rivera, and always re-
member that once a bulldog, always a bulldog!
- Story from Terry Smith and Logan Briscoe
11As many of you might have noticed, we had some
special guests walking the halls. Those were our 18 French
exchange students from Nourmoutier, a Northern
community on an island off of the coast of France. After a year
and a half delay, the students were finally able to come experi-
ence life in America!
Most of the students spoke English, which they learned at
their school back home, and the students stay with host
families from CHS. Matteo, one of the exchange students, said
the family he was staying with had an arctic wolf and he was
extremely excited about it.
The hosts held many activities for the group; a make-your-own-
tacos party, shrimp boils, a guest chef dinner at The Ambassa-
dors (the student organization of the Crestview Area Sister City
Program, which for 25 years has partnered with Noirmoutier’s
local organizing committee), the Mayor’s
welcome lunch and the gala, etc. Additionally, individual host
families also planned special meals and activities for each of
Bonjour!!
their students. Some of the most favorited American activities
were the trips to Waffle House, All-American field trip to the
skating rink and Twin Hills that PACK hosted, and the fact that
the school day was only seven hours (in France, it is ten!).
Overall, it is safe to say that the French students enjoyed
their time here. Many of them said that we’re so nice and
friendly here that they wish they could stay forever. The good-
byes were emotional, but hopefully we get a chance to meet
them again.
story from: ceira hunter
12Thank You, Max
We would like to give Max
Anderson a big “THANK
YOU” for all of the photos he
has provided us this year.
Max, you are an amazing
photographer and I hope
that you will continue with
this skill.
~Terry Smith & the Paw
Prints Staff
13As this school year wraps up, we wanted to wish you an amazing
break!
Everyone in this school, from students to staff, faculty and volun-
teers, played a part in making this school year as amazing as it was.
We hope that you all have an amazing summer and cannot wait to
see you next year!
And to our seniors/those who will not return: have an amazing sum-
er and always remember where you came from - Like we always
say... once a bulldog, always a bulldog!
Summer!!
Congratulations to the
Class of 2022
Graduates!
May you find success in
designed by: Aubrey Hudson
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