For the fifth year in a row, the Archbishop Murphy High School girls soccer team raised money in the effort to build awareness and support for those who have been affected by breast cancer.
This year the team raised $1,300 after selling pink doughnuts and pink lemonade and also accepting donations during bucket brigades before and after school and at the football game Oct. 23.
During half time of the Oct. 23 football game, the girls displayed a tribute banner covered with written prayers, well wishes and notes from students, teachers and families of Archbishop Murphy High School that have been affected by breast cancer.
All proceeds raised by the team go towards raising awareness and the prevention of breast cancer.
Over the years, the team has raised more than $7,000.
Jackson sophomore honored
Henry M. Jackson High School sophomore Margarita Seroshtan was awarded best in show by the Scholastic Arts &Writing National Awards Council. She produced the winning digital picture in a graphic design class last year as a freshman. That artwork was selected by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers and is now on display in Washington, D.C.
The art will be on display at the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities for the next year. Government workers, education professionals and travelers from all over the country and the world will see their work.
Jackson junior qualifies for trip to France
Brendon Beardsley, of Silver Lake and a junior at Henry M. Jackson High School, has qualified for the world championships in F3J remote control sailplane flying. The event will be held in France in 2010. The qualifying round was held last September in Denver.
Beardsley’s friends, Michael Knight, of Kirkland ,and Connor Laurel, of Redmond, both Redmond High School students, also qualified to go to France as part of a three-person team.
The trio competed in trials that included 19 rounds of flying over a three-day period of time. The team also qualified for the world championships in 2008.
“It’s an interesting hobby,” said Sherman Knight, Knight’s father, who helps train the boys. “It’s not a real big hobby in the United States. It’s a difficult thing to be competitive in.”
Each of the boys expressed an interest in all things flying at a young age and took up the activity soon after. Competitors fly the planes, which have a 14-foot wingspan, to catch one or more “thermals” — columns of rising air that help keep the plane afloat for more than 10 or 15 minutes. Players get points for staying in flight and also for landing on a piece of tape in a circle only 14 inches across. The team practices at Sixty Acres South, a King County park in Kirkland, and the old Carnation farm.
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