SJHS News

Chelsea Ricks
SJHS Staff Writer
The Springville Junior High boys’ and girls’ basketball teams at played games on December 3, 2009. Both teams played against Murray Junior High School.
The girls played hard, but lost their game 33 to 35. The boys won their game 62 to 56. Cole Bertelsen, a member of the boys basketball team, said, [...]

Team Captain Derek Boyer
Max Schreiner
SJHS Staff Writer
Twelve people made the boys basketball team this year, and two of those twelve were voted team captain. One of those captains is Derek Boyer. Derek has been playing basketball since he was born and has always loved it. This year he made the junior high basketball team by [...]

Jantzen Dalley, team captain
Max Schreiner
SJHS Staff Writer
Twelve people made the boys basketball team this year, and two of those twelve were voted as team captains. One of those captains is Jantzen Dalley. Jantzen loves basketball; he has been playing basketball since he was in third grade and has loved it from the beginning. This year [...]

Max Schreiner
SJHS Staff Writer
Fridays at Springville Junior High are always fun because Friday is the day we spin the wheel at lunch. For most students, Friday is the day they get their awesome prizes such as iPods, chips, fifteen and five dollar gift cards to Wal-Mart, Yuda Bands, one dollar bills, and coming soon, Krispy [...]

Max Schreiner
SJHS Staff Writer
As the first term comes to an end at Springville Junior High, another one starts right back up. For students this is an opportunity to get it right the second term; students like Kaleb Barnum, an eighth grader at SJHS, said, “it’s a fresh start, all my grades are A’s.”
During term two, [...]

Jacob DeRosia
SJHS Staff Writer
Basketball open gym is an after school program were anyone can come in and do some fine tuning on their skills.  If students are looking to polish up on their skills or just to play some basketball, open gym is open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 3:00 pm to 4:30pm.  [...]

Hayde Blanco
SJHS Staff Writer
Ready, set, SCORE! Basketball tryouts are happening November 9th at Springville Junior High. The ninth-grade boys are going to be able to participate in this event and show off there skills to Mr. Shaun Blakey, the basketball coach and counselor here at Springville Junior High.
Basketball tryouts start on Monday, November 9th, and [...]

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High School is committed to excellence, it is in their “Knight’s Code.” One of the many people who help make the school so great is Mr. Shaun Blakey, counselor and boys’ basketball coach.
Mr. Blakey was born and raised in Springville, Utah, and graduated from Springville High. After high school he [...]

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
This year, counselors at Springville Junior High decided that they would try something new in order to help new students succeed. “Peer Pals” is a program in which students try their hardest to look out for new students and make sure no one feels excluded or left out. Teachers recommended students who [...]

New seventh graders Camilla Dunn, Peggy Sorenson and Sean Tedrow
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Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
With the new school year starting to pick up speed, Springville Junior High is excited to get to know and teach the new seventh graders. The new seventh graders are also excited to get to know the school a little better and begin [...]

KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
Ninth grade students at Springville Junior High are excited about the new Electronic High School, or E.H.S., that is currently offered to them. E.H.S. is a program that provides free courses for 9th-12th grade students enrolled in any public school in Utah. This is a convenient way to take classes that aren’t [...]

Mindy Stapel of SJHS received a first place medal for the 100 meter hurdles at the district junior high track meet.
Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
With the school year wrapping up, so is Springville Junior High’s track team. On Friday May 8th, the track team had the opportunity to run in the district track meet at Springville [...]

Rylee Vest
SJHS Staff Writer
This year at Springville Junior High there is a new program where students use laptops in their classrooms in order to make testing easier. End of year testing started on Tuesday, April 21st and will end on the 13th of May. Make-up testing will start after the 13th.
Tests are taken in English, [...]

Kara Dunn
Staff Writer
After a year of sweat, blood, and tears, this school year is beginning to wrap up. That means end of year testing. Most students groan at the thought of taking end of year testing. Autumn Hathaway, your average student at Springville Junior High, said, “I think that it’s boring, but it’s also necessary [...]

KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
For the past few weeks, the Springville Junior High track team has been training rigorously all for this one day. SJHS competed in their first track meet on Friday, April 10th against Mount Nebo and Diamond Fork Junior Highs. SJHS took first place, the girls earned 98 points, and the boys earned [...]