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SPORTS
Appleton, Wisconsin
March 2017 Volume XXll
Issue V Page 11
Boys’ Swim and Dive
Boys’ Hockey
Girls’ Hockey
Record:
4th at Conference
9th at Sectionals
Coach’s Quotable:
“
With over half of the team new to the sport
of swimming and diving we struggled in meet
this season. However we did improve a great
deal over the course of the season. Our
strength was our divers, where two of them
qualified for state and one finished 2nd.”
-Scott Stepanski
Winter Sports Results
Boys’ Basketball
Girls’ Basketball
Coach’s Quotable:
“The 2016-17 wrestling season had
its ups and downs like most seasons
do, but overall we experienced many
more ups than downs. It took our team
awhile to get going, but we are very
proud of how they finished.”
-Scott Clough
Wrestling
Record:
8-6
Overall Season:
14-9-2
Coach’s Quotable:
“We had a very successful season. We
learned a lot about working together
and we came out with some big wins
against great teams.”
-Kristina Skowanderson
Regular Season:
19-0
Coach’s Quotable:
“I have some very talented people in
our program and they believe in each
other. It is that trust that allows us to
maximize our talents. We see ob-
stacles as opportunities and each night
we face a new one. This season about
growth as an individual and team. I
could not be prouder of them.”
-Joe Russom
Overall Season:
15-8-1
Coach’s Quotable:
“Our season went well, we had our share
of ups and downs We had our share of
ups and downs. It obviously didn’t end the
way we planned, but competed hard til
the end of the buzzer in our final play of
game.”
-Mike Brolsma
Coach’s Quotable:
“We had a good season. The season
definitely should not be measured by
the wins or losses.”
-Jerry Overstreet
Members of Appleton North community participate in March Madness
It’s that time of year again,
ladies and gentlemen.
Sixty-eight teams vie to be
national champions for Di-
vision 1 college basketball.
Since 1977, college basketball
fans from all around the world
have attempted the impossi-
ble to fill out a perfect March
Madness bracket. In order to
achieve a perfect bracket, one
must predict the winner for
sixty-seven games. After do-
ing the math, I calculated the
odds of achieving that illustri-
ous feat is approximately 1
in 9.2 quintillion! You have
a better chance of death by a
vending machine, winning the
lottery, and becoming presi-
dent of the United States! So
why do so many people con-
tinue filling out these brackets
even though they understand
that they have an extremely
small chance of filling out a
perfect bracket?
“I do it for the fun of it,”
says Appleton North math
teacher, Mr. Rueckl, “It brings
a fun element to college bas-
ketball that you don’t see with
any other sport.” He also said,
“It’s a great challenge, you get
to see who the ‘alpha-male’ is
within your group of friends.”
As far as getting money in-
volved, Mr. Rueckl likes to
keep money out of it. Howev-
er, if he’s feeling lucky he will
put a little bit in and some-
times get a little bit out. When
asked, Mr. Rueckl said he will
be rooting for Duke Universi-
ty in this year’s March Mad-
ness tournament.
Junior Adam Zeratsky is
also a huge college basketball
fan. Unlike Mr. Rueckl, how-
ever, Zeratsky said, “I like to
get money involved. Making
a pool with my friends and
seeing who wins at the end of
it all is very rewarding. Brag-
ging rights is also a fun aspect
Zeratsky is rooting for the
University of North Carolina
in this year’s tournament.
As for myself, I also enjoy
the thrill of filling out a brack-
et and seeing how lucky I re-
ally am, just like Mr. Rueckl
and Zeratsky. I choose not to
get money involved, but it is
still very fun to fill out brack-
ets and see if you can be the 1
in 9.2 Quintillion who are able
to fill out a perfect bracket.
Students and teacher
talk about their
brackets and experience
By Kyle Hoffenbecker
Mr. Rueckl and junior Adam Zeratsky holding their completed
March Madness brackets.
Photos by Kyle Hoffenbecker
Overall Season:
3-20
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