Signing Day at Apex High School February 12, 2019
With our second semester underway, spring sports are up and coming. The spring sport teams include women’s soccer, men/women’s lacrosse, softball, stunt, track & field and baseball. Let’s look at each team’s first game, when they play, and where they play. To being the season, women’s soccer will play their first game against Panther Creek. This is sure to be
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The Super Bowl has happened once a year for the past fifty-two years. The two best teams in the United States go against each other in the last professional football game of the season. Large crowds of people are gathered in a stadium with a bright green field in the middle. The grass plain has been cut with white lines
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On Friday, January 25, the Cougars competed at their conference swim meet. Both the men and women’s teams placed second overall. They trailed behind the Apex Friendship Patriots, a strong competitor. The women’s team has taken home the title of SWAC Champions the last three consecutive years, so they were especially hopeful for a win. The Apex men’s team scored
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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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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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The Apex High School wrestling team is about halfway through their season and is striving for success and improvement. It has been difficult for Apex to win as a team due to the fact that there are not many members compared to other schools’ teams. However, wrestling is both a team and individual sport, and individually, our Cougars are performing
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Athletic Director Del Phillips will be stepping down from the Athletic Director spot later this month. There is a running joke about him always cutting the grass. We are going to miss the beautiful fields he maintains, and I hope that the incoming AD, Mr. Scott Ferguson, enjoys the grass as much as Del! I wanted to interview Coach Phillips
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Kyndall Boxell, a junior at Apex High School, is currently involved in many of our school’s athletics. Throughout the span of her life, sports have played a major role in her upbringing. The sport that started her long line of athletics was dance. Boxell did both ballet and tap all throughout kindergarten and part of first grade. With her love
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Winter sports are in full swing, and the Apex Women’s basketball team has been in action since November. After a slow start, the Cougars are starting to get rolling, and it will be exciting to watch their progress throughout the season. The Cougars began their season 0-5, but have begun to find their stride winning their last two games
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