2004
SPECIAL
EDITION
Lightning
PRESS
VOLUME 8,ISSUE 2
OCTOBER 8TH, 2004
SERVING THE EASTVIEW HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY SINCE 1997
Take My Breath Away
Eastview looks forward to a ‘Top Gun’ Homecoming
Memoirs of a
Homecoming King
by Jon Friedman
Staff Columnist
‘MONSTER 4 KING’: The slogan pays off as King Jon Friedman locks arms with Queen Thuy Trinh.
(left) Junior royalty Zachary Habeck and Stephanie Sonnenberg look forward to becoming EV students.
(top right) The senior homecoming court girls celebrate Trinh’s crowning. (Photos by M. Fangmeier & J.
Hohmann)
Student Council ‘Takes to the Sky’ during HC
by Grant Anderson
Managing Editor
For most Eastview students, Homecoming is just another week of the school
year, but for the Student Council it is
much more than that.
“Homecoming week is to Student
Council what the Super Bowl is to a profootball team,” says Jodi Hanson, a student council advisor.
Student Council has been planning
for Homecoming week since their meeting in mid-August. Planning has included voting on this year’s theme,
“Take My Breath Away” as well as the
activities that happened throughout the
week.
Student Council breaks both activities and special events into committees
led by the most involved members of
Pajama Day
Even foriegn exchange
student Ryota Matsuyama
is excited.
Trivia
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for anwers
Student Council. These committees
encourage participation in Homecoming week activities and plan events
like the outdoor movie and Kiss the
Pig.
Monday night’s outdoor movie,
Top Gun, was played on the side of
the school with as many as 600 students attending, despite it being nothing like a hot summer night. Matt
Jesse, Senior Homecoming royalty,
said Top Gun is one of his favorite
movies. “It was hard to see the movie
at the beginning but by the end it was
both easy to see and hear and it was
really fun to just hang out with
friends.”
Tuesday night was the Soccer
Sha-bang. Although the teams were
unsuccessful, many fans attended
80’s Day
Mavericks James Hohmann,
Katina Petersen, Hannah
Paulson, Tarah Regan, and
Alex Wagner get totally tubular.
1. What was the
very first Homecoming theme at
EVHS?
the event to cheer the girls’ on to an
eventual tie at one apiece. The boys’
team lost an incredibly hard fought
game in double overtime 1-0. Senior
Julie Holt shares her memories of the
game, “We were so close to scoring
twice, we really should have won the
game.”
Thursday was the most rewarding
night for fans with a $100 money
grab in one dollar bills at the
Homecoming Volleyball game.
Eastview Student Council communications officer and volleyball player
Irina Vaynerman was excited, “It is
really encouraging to see so many
classmates in the stands.”
Student Council
Continued on backside
College Apparel Day
Jeff Frederickson and Alex
Johnson support
colleges UNC and Hawaii.
2. When did Kiss the
Pig start and how
many different pigs
have they had?
“King candidates, you may turn around and
find out who the king is!”
Well, I was still hesitant. I looked over at
Matt, who I saw begin to turn, and I followed.
Ha, a little airplane. How cute.
It was somewhat unusual for me, actually.
I’ve been writing for this newspaper since I got
to this school, and I’m even the captain of the
math team (I’m proud of that, by the way!). I
never could have expected that one day I’d be
on that gym floor, having all my privacy
invaded, as if 2500 people decided to look
through my drawers (the furniture, not the
clothing – okay, it sort of felt like both). It was
like I starred in my own teen movie. Except in
this case, I felt more respect towards my
comrades who were up for the nomination,
rather than the movies that would put me
against the angry Johnny McFootball and the
mischievous Preppy O’Connor.
Immediately following this intense moment,
there were hundreds of flashes from cameras,
many congratulations, and an aching face from
the broad smiling. Then it was over. Back to
school for me.
I’d rather not use this time to be an object of
worship. What I’m getting at is to be motivation
for any underdogs out there. You know who
you are, and apparently all you need is a really
cool beard to get yourself somewhere in life. I
guess the one thing I learned from all of it was
that some dreams can come true. Except the one
where I fly to Africa and start my own nation.
Have a great homecoming week, everybody!
I hope to see you around school!
Twin Day
Double irony as John Bauer, Andy
Cutter and Beau Jacobson support
the Minnesota Twins in the playoffs.
3. How many
Homecoming
football games has
EVHS won/lost?
4. How much did the
crown set for the King
and Queen cost in
1997?
LIGHTNING SPORTS
Welcome Home…
Where’ve you been?
From Football to
Fútbol
- the Boys of
Eastview Hope
Only two one-point losses away from being 4-1, the Lightning
For Success Soon
hope to turn around the season
saying goes ‘the game of football is 10%
physical and 90% mental,’ a win still
takes 100% effort from each team member.
Photo: John DeFrance
After playing the last three games
away at Jefferson, Eagan, and Eden Prairie, the Lightning Football team once
again finds itself with home field advan3..2..1..Lightning Pride
tage with excited fans wondering,
How a 2-3 team plans on finishing a
“Where’ve you been?”
winning season
A truly American tradition creates
and defines identity within our new subOpening up a season with a loss at home
urban school: a chance for the whole
to a perennially horrible Chaska team is
community to socialize,
not a promising
show their spirit and
start, but somecheer for the team. Centhing good came
tered around the footout of the experiball game, this social
ence. New pasgathering is truly
sion and strong
unique. It brings all
determination dewalks
of
life
veloped from the
together…unlike many
embarrassment
other forms of entertainof losing to such
ment today. Unlike reala team. Lightity TV shows, Thanksning coaches
giving dinner with the
have spotted
family, or a group of
glimpses of greatbuds watching a college
ness in the team,
game together, this
and these Kodak
event is a great connecimages only urge
tor that results in comthem to push
munity involvement.
harder. As the
From this enthusiastic E PLURIBUS UNUM: The Lightning offensive line
coaches have
crowd comes a warm, demonstrates that teamwork is the key to sucess.
been scouting
welcoming environment
out other teams,
that the chilly October wind can not the first offensive play of the day. The it seems quite possible for Eastview to
team’s coaches have modified the prac- go all the way through the playoffs and
blow away.
tice and weightlifting activities to mini- thus, play at the Dome in November.
mize injuries. A football team can be
To Win the Physical Game…
At this point in the season, the quesIn the game of football, there is a com- chockedfull of mental toughness and tion of raw talent is no longer crucial,
mon misconception that a player needs preparedness, but physical brute re- because the remaining opponents on
to weigh 300 lbs and stand 6’4 tall. More mains integral to winning. And while the this season’s Lightning schedule are
and more often, however, this expectateams with equal or less talent. Theretion is being disproven. Star high school
fore, the rest of the season will be won
players are frequently much smaller and
by the team’s determination to beat the
shorter than the stereotype would lead
opponents and fight to regain their pride
most fans to believe. An athletic, agile
within the community. Of the many goals
running back who weighs 155 lbs is, in
that the team has this year, finishing with
many situations, more successful than
a winning record remains at the top. The
a heavyweight player using the bullteam has never ended a season with a
dozer technique. And a wide-receiver
losing record so if the games don’t start
who can quickly change directions and
finishing in favor of Eastview, the team
lose the defender is often at an advanmay finish the season with the lowest
tage over a tall, slow receiver who just
win percent in school history. The
tries to outmuscle the defender. Now,
coaches, for many reasons, are very conwith all these light weight players runfident that this will not be the case this
ning around with so much more speed,
November.
what are the consequences? Well, as
As the team looks toward November,
the Lightning football program has
the coaches continue to remind the playfound out, smaller players, while being
ers to act like a championship team and
playmakers, often run themselves into
maintain the high standards that they
bad situations. As star receiver Joe
set for themselves at the beginning of
DeFrance tore his LCL before the seathe year. A victory in tonight’s game is
FAKED: Senior Joe
son even started, every Lightning
essential, they say, for the Lightning to
DeFrance fakes out
player and coach has thought about
stay in contention as the season ends.
defenders
how their own season could have ended
Photo: John DeFrance
organizes a huge tailgating party that
starts nearly three hours before the
kickoff.
To finish the week, tomorrow
night Student Council will be both
decorating for the dance and
cleaning up afterwards.
2. 2000, five
through this year
Irina continues by saying that Student
Council has worked very hard to inform
people of Homecoming week events and
she was enthused about the large turnouts to all the events.
Friday-night football is always the
climax of the week. Student Council
Student Council Vice-President
Jesse Cabak says, “Without a doubt
Homecoming is one of the busiest,
hardest weeks for Student Council.
But in the end, it is one of the most
rewarding.”
Editor’s note: Dance starts at 8:30
on Saturday. Cost is $6, but $5 with a
can.
2004 has been a rough year for the
Lightning Boys’ Soccer team. The
boys have been hampered by several
key injuries and an unusually strong
Lake Conference. Although involved
in several close games, their efforts
have yet to be rewarded with a
conference win. But, in adherence to
their annual motto “In Pursuit of
Excellence,” the team believes this
season can be used as a learning tool
for future Eastview programs.
The Lake Conference is a dominant
force in Minnesota boys’ soccer, with
three teams (Eden Prairie,
Bloomington Jefferson, and Apple
Valley) consistently listed in the Star
Tribune’s top 10 rankings. The boys
approached this season not intimidated by the abundance of power
teams on their schedule and with a
resolve to compete hard against all
competitors. They have not backed
down from their decision, playing allout to the final whistle and losing
several heart-breakers by one goal.
Strikers Mike Landerholm and
Nathan Henry have provided much of
the offense for the Lightning, each
recording nine points (goals plus
assists) over the course of the season.
Despite Eastview’s struggles this
year, the boys’ soccer program is
poised for great successes in the
future. Mr. Scott Gustafson took over
as head coach after last season and
the team has had to adjust to the new
rules and ideas that he has brought to
the program with the goal of moving
the team to a higher level of competition. Coach Gustafson stressed
physical conditioning this year and
the summer practices reflected the
team’s determination to enter the
season more fit than their last fall
campaign. Captains Nathan Henry,
Mike Landerholm, and Scott
Polansky acknowledge that the
change has been difficult at times but
agree that the new coach’s system will
benefit the team in the long run. When
asked about the future of Eastview
soccer, Captain Henry says, “We
really believe our team has a strong
core of young players that will
develop their skills over the summer.”
All players hope that their team can
return to the top of the state’s elite
conference next year.
The boys’ conference schedule
ended on October 7th with a 2-0 loss
against Bloomington Kennedy. The
last game of the regular season takes
place tomorrow night when they host
Hudson for the last game of the
regular season. They are still in
contention for the state title because
every team is guaranteed a chance for
a playoff game no matter what their
record is. While their chances for
playoff success are low, the team
looks forward to the opportunity.
1. “The Tradition
Begins”
Student Council CONTINUED from p. 1
by Tim DeBord
Lightning Reporter
Trivia
before it even started. Since DeFrance’s
incident, several other serious injuries,
as well as a multitude of small bruises
and stingers have occured. Another
receiver, up and coming junior Justin
Iverson also had his season end before
it started when he broke his right collarbone while blocking in a scrimmage during August. In the same scrimmage,
captain Ryan Ruckdashel was put on
injured reserve for four weeks during
Answers from
other side
by Lyle Newman
Sports Editor
3. Four wins,
three losses
4. $77.70