Ben Woodard '25, Managing Editor

From July 22nd- July 28th 2023, 16 Jesuit students traveled to Emory University for the NJCL's 70th convention. Students competed in academic, creative arts, and sports contests throughout the week. The students who competed this year were Samuel (Sam) Carley '25, Teddy Matthews '26, Massimo Caruso '25, Lucian Matula '25, Brandon Gibson '24, Luke Nettune '26, Michael Hasenfratz '25,...

On April 25, 2023, the Jesuit community came together to celebrate the last all-school Mass of the year, specifically the last Mass for the senior class of 2023. Also, April 25th was also the feast day of St. Mark, the author of the Gospel of Mark. Finally, this Mass commemorated Jesuit priest Father Wally Sidney, who passed away five...

From April 15-16, 2023, 35 Jesuit students headed to Marcus High School to compete at the JCL state competition. Every student contributed to the school's success and helped make the state convention an amazing experience for all. Also, I would like to thank Mrs. Hudec, Ms. Jones, Mr. Pointer, and Mr. Erickson for chaperoning the Jesuit students throughout the...

As the school year comes to an end, Jesuit tennis has worked hard to finish their season strong. Particularly, players performed at their best to win districts and go far in regionals. Frisco Wakeland Tournament On Friday, March 24, a group of players competed at the annual Frisco Wakeland Tournament. In the end, freshman Mathis Valenta got second place in the...

On February 21, 2023, Fr. Anthony Corcoran visited Jesuit Dallas from Kyrgyzstan to speak with students on his time back home. Fr. Corcoran is a native Texan and has traveled to many different countries around the world spreading the Word of God to people who have never interacted with God or heard of Christianity. Jesuit students, during Fr. Corcoran's...

The Jesuit tennis team's beginning season has started very successful and strong so far this year. With two matches in January and three in February, the tennis team has worked hard to prepare before districts at the end of March. The team has won all of the after school matches so far, and has placed in each tournament this...

On Tuesday, February 6, Dr. Chad Carlton, a Bariatric surgeon came to speak to medical society members about his field. Dr. Carlton spoke not only about bariatric surgery, but also gave the students a hands-on experience on how bariatric surgery works. What is Bariatric Surgery? A main portion of Dr. Carlton's presentation was an explanation of bariatrics, a field many people...

On February 7, 2023, the Jesuit community came together to celebrate a prayer service about the variety of languages students speak in our school. The service highlighted many different languages and how some of the most popular languages in Catholicism translate and sound like in different languages. In this prayer service the reflected scripture passage came from 1 Cor...