Sammi Carr's The Jaguars’ Spot column for Wed., Oct. 24, 2007

Poor Sports Fess Up

Sad but true: Two weeks ago, during a girls varsity volleyball game at Mission Hills High School (MHHS), girls on our team was verbally accosted by a rowdy group of MHHS football players who were hanging around in the stands.

It started innocently enough when the guys began cheering for their own team, but their enthusiasm slowly morphed into making comments FAR too crude for me to include here. How crude? Let your imagination run wild–THAT crude. Team member Stephanie Ryan told me, “The boys were incredibly disrespectful and inappropriate.”

Team player and senior Taylor Semrau agreed. “They were unsportsmanlike and completely violating established rules that state that schools have to be respectful of one another whether they are spectators or players.”

“The ref asked the boys to stop,” remembered co-captain Melanie Sourbeer, “but they only moved back a couple of rows and kept on with their coarse comments and catcalls.”

So, did our volleyball players make all this up? Ask the MHHS boys who were ordered by their own coach to drive over to VCHS and personally apologize to our girls. The team players I talked to were still pretty angry but agreed it was a nice gesture for the guys to come all the way up here and said they accept the boys’ apology.

Ready for business!:

The AVID Club’s student store has changed locations, but count on them to carry all the great school supplies you’re used to finding there: pencils, paper, notebooks, markers, pens, erasers–you name it. Find them now at the Media Center (in front of the library windows). Just like before, they’re open every Tuesday and Thursday at lunch, so check them out!

Here’s something I betcha didn’t know:

Last week, senior Kelly Schrader was driving down Lilac Rd. on her way home from school. She looked down for just a couple of seconds to change a song on her radio, she told me, and looked up to see she was about to plow right into a stopped school bus that was preparing to let off kids. She managed to swerve at the last moment, hitting the left rear section of the bus and doing it minimal damage, but her car was completely totaled and some of her toes were broken from slamming on the brake. Thankfully, none of the kids onboard were injured.

“I feel so bad that this happened,” Kelly told me. “I’m just glad I’m the only one who got hurt.”

So, let this serve as a reminder to all of us new or soon-to-be new teenage drivers. Drive carefully!

Know something I don't know? Catch me on campus or send me an e-mail at sammi@carrfamily.com. See ya, Sam.