Alex Leonard played on both the Apex junior varsity basketball team and the varsity team. He graduated in 2017. He now attends Virginia Wesleyan University and is apart of the Batten Honors College. The following interview is about the skills he gathered as a player that have helped him in college. What was your position when you played at
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Exams are just around the corner, and that means studying for the test – worth twenty percent of your final grade. For some people, this also means excessively worrying whether what you are doing to prepare is enough. This is not unnatural, and if you have experienced this before, it is perfectly understandable. However, I would not go so far
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Imagine you have fallen into a deep and peaceful sleep. You feel as if you are floating on a cloud with dreams as tranquil as can be. With the silence of the night, you lay peacefully resting, preparing your mind and body for the next day. All of a sudden you hear an agonizing screech like the wail of a
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Over the years many video games have shaped the face of how we play them today. Beginning with “Pong” in the early 1970’s- the first video game to ever be widely played, and “Donkey Kong”- the game that popularized platformers and introduced the character, “Mario.” Though the 1980’s saw video games’ initial rise to prominence, less than forty years later
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We have a hockey team here at the peak of great learning; who knew? It might be hard to believe, but Cougar Hockey is the best roller hockey team. The last four years they were undefeated, and they recently begun a new season, so everyone has high hopes for the new season. Cougar Hockey has both a junior varsity and
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Senior year is a year that some would argue is the best of your entire High School career. The first three years are the inconveniences that guide you to the great (or not-so-great), rewards of the final year. From applying to college, to getting those final credits it seems that every year seniors get sick. They get sick with a
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With the end of the semester coming, students are dreading the exams. It’s the test that counts the most toward your grade and could end up ruining it. Your teachers spend weeks trying to prepare you and rejog your memory making sure you feel the most confident about the test. Most students end up trying to cram the information given
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