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INTRODUCING ... CHARLIE HAWTHORNE

FULL  NAME:  charles  fitzgerald  hawthorne

NICKNAMES:  charlie

BIRTHDAY:  august  12,  1993

AGE:  thirty1

PRONOUNS:  he/him/his

SEXUALITY:  bisexual  /  biromantic

OCCUPATION:  begrudging  architect / part-time soccer coach

HEIGHT:  6’1”

EYE  COLOR:  heterochromia  -  brown  &  blue

HAIR  COLOR:  strawberry  blonde

BIRTHPLACE:  blue  harbor,  illinois

CURRENTLY  LIVES:  deer  park

SPOKEN  LANGUAGES:  english,  italian,  &  mandarin

FACECLAIM:  mike  faist

BIOGRAPHY

born  as  the  youngest  of  the  three  hawthorne  child,  charlie's  life  seemed  to  be  tethered  to  blue  harbor  just  as  much  as  his  ancestors.  the  hawthorne's  were  one  of  the  founding  families,  establishing  roots  in  the  town  that  even  to  this  day,  make  it  hard  for  anyone  in  his  family  to  leave.  charlie's  been  told  the  prideful  history  of  his  lineage  time  and  time  again  that  he'd  be  happy  to  never  hear  again.

for  as  long  as  anyone  can  remember,  the  hawthorne's  were  the  ones  responsible  for  the  zoning  and  development  of  many  of  the  buildings  in  blue  harbor.  if  one  were  to  look  around,  a  good  chunk  of  the  plazas  or  any  of  the  standing  businesses  have  the  hawthorne  name  associated  to  it.  this  meant  charlie  and  his  siblings  grew  up  with  a  lifestyle  of  expensively  new  wardrobes  every  year  for  the  start  of  school,  financial  backing  for  whichever  sport  or  extracurricular  held  their  interest,  and  a  cushioned  college  fund  growing  interest  with  each  passing  year.  

as  a  kid  and  even  reflective  to  now,  charlie  thrived  in  social  settings  where  teachers  told  him  they'd  be  surprised  if  he  ever  came  across  someone  he  couldn't  hold  a  conversation  with.  his  people  pleasing  tendencies  often  were  sent  into  overdrive  when  it  came  to  holding  his  father's  attention  who  was  more  often  than  not  giving  his  undivided  attention  to  the  eldest  hawthorne  child  with  the  assumption  that  the  family  company  and  legacy  would  fall  on  their  shoulders.  charlie  fought  tooth  and  nail  for  a  sprinkling  of  attention  or  positive  affirmations  from  either  of  his  parents,  between  landing  within  the  top  five  of  his  class  each  year  to  being  the  star  player  on  the  soccer  team  at  the  high  school.  such  was  a  losing  battle  that  only  seemed  to  push  charlie  harder.  especially  when  each  game  his  parents  attended  only  had  his  mother  fully  watching,  notepad  at  the  ready  for  critiques  on  how  to  improve  his  game,  while  his  father  sat  with  his  head  buried  in  his  phone,  oblivious  to  the  game  around  him.

the  assumption  among  charlie  and  his  siblings  was  that  the  oldest  would  take  the  reins  of  the  company  and  pursue  architecture.  thus  leaving  charlie  and  his  middle  sibling  to  venture  off  to  find  whatever  it  was  that  landed  them  a  job  and  a  semblance  of  approval  from  their  parents.  charlie's  proclivity  at  soccer  with  his  position  as  captain,  as  well  as  his  high  grades  had  his  position  as  an  incoming  college  freshman  and  member  of  the  men's  soccer  team  at  villanova  university  solidified.  at  least  that  was  the  case  before  a  collision  with  a  member  of  the  opposing  team  during  a  game  led  to  him  blowing  out  his  knee  and  putting  an  end  to  his  bright  future  in  soccer.  naturally,  such  a  game  was  the  first  his  father  actually  paid  attention  to  and  saw  his  son  ending  his  career  in  real  time.

rehabilitation  was  a  bitch  and  even  now,  charlie's  knee  aches  after  spending  too  long  on  it  and  can't  run  for  prolonged  periods  of  time.  his  initial  degree  going  into  villanova  on  his  soccer  scholarship  was  anthropology,  but  after  many  choice  words  and  suggestions  from  his  father  (  "why  get  such  a  degree?  it's  pretty  much  useless  nowadays,  charlie.  what  are  you  going  to  do  with  that?  what  job  will  you  get?”  ),  charlie  pivots  to  architecture  at  cornell.  his  dreams  of  college  were  put  on  hold  for  a  year  because  of  his  recovery,  so  when  he  leaves  for  upstate  new  york,  the  freedom  is  exhilarating.

studying  anthropology  was  charlie's  dream  and  was  less  than  thrilled  at  being  strongarmed  by  his  parents  into  following  the  family  legacy  of  architecture.  much  to  charlie's  silent  dismay  of  his  own  intelligence  (  and  the  pleasure  of  his  father  )  and  being  a  quick  learner,  he  settles  into  his  architecture  degree  and  finds  that  he's  actually  quite  good  at  it.  he  still  longs  to  play  soccer  even  though  those  days  are  behind  him,  as  are  the  possibility  of  doing  what  he  wants  with  his  future.

graduation  comes  and  goes  and  in  a  final  fit  of  rebellion,  charlie  accepts  a  job  at  an  architectural  firm  in  chicago  where  he  interned  at  the  previous  summer.  this  infuriates  his  father  while  delighting  charlie.  years  pass  to  the  present  day  where  charlie  is  still  commuting  from  blue  harbor  to  chicago  for  his  job  at  the  architectural  firm.  except  within  the  last  year  he  was  recently  promoted.  again,  this  infuriates  his  father  as  charlie  continues  to  refuse  to  work  at  the  family  company,  but  delights  charlie  even  further.  his  siblings  don't  fully  understand  the  pettiness  charlie  holds  onto,  so  vastly  different  than  the  young  boy  with  bruised  knees  vying  for  his  parents'  approval  at  any  cost.  charlie  claims  he's  grown  up  and  while  he's  also  come  to  appreciate  the  art  form  and  precise  work  of  architecture,  he  wonders  what  he  would  be  doing  and  what  his  life  would  be  like  if  he  put  his  foot  down  and  went  against  his  fathers  wishes  for  college. 

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2017 Boys Illinois All-State High School Soccer Selections

2017 Boys Illinois All-State High School Soccer Selections

Belleville West Sr. Garrett Bass turns into the box with O’Fallon’s Jr Jaden Kauer defending during the 3A Regional semifinal October 17, 2017 The Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association (IHSSCA) have released the 2017 Boys Illinois All-State High School Soccer Selections. Included as well are the All-Sectional recognition. Congratulations to all! [table] All-State Player, School,…

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#4.  The HOBNOB

277 Sheridan Rd, Racine, WI 53403 Sat, Feb 23  @5pm

hob•nob – to socialize, mix, associate, hang out (informal) mingle, consort, hang about, keep company, fraternize.

Before I headed off to Portland to spend the whole month of March with some of my grandkids, Lauren and I decided to squeeze in our fourth supper club of the year by the end of the Polar Vortex month of February.  Great decision, especially as we targeted the HOBNOB in Racine, a very popular supper club that has been high on our radar for the past couple of years.  The HOBNOB’s lakeside setting and old fashioned décor are highlighted in many of the fine WI Supper Clubs books out there.  While the rainy-foggy evening clouded the lake view, our spirits weren’t dampened on this much-anticipated evening.

The HOBNOB has always been a family-owned business. The Higgins family opened the original HOBNOB in downtown Racine in the 1930s. Higgins and his two sons started building the current HOBNOB in 1952, which took two years to complete. Michael Aletto, purchased the HOBNOB in February 1990. It was a smooth transition, as Aletto kept many of the Higgins' family recipes and included some from his family's restaurant in Illinois.  Michael’s wife and co-owner Anne Glowacki says most of the menu items are prepared in-house, including all the sauces and soups. She says they take a lot of pride in the daily preparation of the food, the dining set-ups and the bar.  This is a very unique place that accommodates special occasions with its excellent food, private rooms, live entertainment on the weekends, and of course signature ice cream drinks!

Higgins to Aletto hand-off in 1990?

Our Making-A-Supperer victims for this round were my longtime family friends Ginny and Tom, whose family grew up along mine in the NorthShore part of Milwaukee.  Soccer is a huge part of our connection as I coached their son Ian, Ginny started the Women’s Soccer Club which my ex-wife played in, and “Big Tom” and I have played with the old-timers for the past 20+ years.  They have 6 (maybe 7, hard to keep track) beautiful kids and Ginny comes from a family of 16 kids (maybe 17).   That rather large crew held the world record for largest family band, besting the Von Trapp’s from The Sound of Music fame.   I love sharing that tidbit.    It was great to catch up on Ginny and Tom’s kid’s lives during our cozy 30 minute drive from Glendale to Racine.  And like Lauren, Ginny is a gourmet cook so there’s that connection as well.  Really love these guys!

So this HOBNOB place has really cool spaces. The Belmar Room, just off to the left as you walk down the main hallway, has lavish off-white half-circle booths and tables with its own bar. This room can be booked for special events and it houses live entertainment on the weekends.   There is also the private little Moroccan Room, which fit up to 6 in cozy quarters, farther down the main hallway.  This is a must dining spot in the future. The Cocktail Lounge, AKA the main bar area, runs nearly the length of the main dining room and here’s where the full vibe of the past comes to life.  Circular leatherette booths, dim lighting, swanky music, and cocktail glasses as far as the eye can see.  Even the coat room oozes with old school charm.  Why have we never been here before?

The Belmar Room in front.  Private Party Time!

We were seated in the Terrace Room, which normally has an awesome view of Lake Michigan.  But again it was rainy-foggy so we focused our attention on the menu.  We started off with the crab stuffed mushrooms and calamari, which came highly recommended by our server Debbie.  Of course I had to badger Debbie about our Making-A-Supperer tour and I had her be the first to sign our invite post card – a new tradition.  Debbie has worked here on-and-off since ’98 and she offered a few stories about the place.   She quickly offered Lauren a replacement for her too-strong Manhattan and she did recover nicely from missing Ginny’s knife.   She was a very good sport with putting up with our goofiness and I didn’t hold it against her for never hearing of the Making-A-Murderer Netflix series.  I’m guessing the gravitational pull from Chicago is greater than from Manitowoc for “Raciners”.  Anyways, giving the HOBNOB a 4.25 service rating.    And the mushrooms and calamari were tasty but not quite spectacular.

The Cocktail Lounge area.  Bit dark and noisy - in a very good way!

Tom and I savored fine whiskey Old Fashioneds as the group ordered entrees.  Of course we had our regular little spat about a “guideline” of everyone ordering something different so we could max out our menu sampling.   Lauren is good with ordering first so she never runs afoul of this “guideline” – but she’s not a fan.  But it is just a “guideline”, so…   ☺    Lauren picked the Filet Oscar, Ginny the Lamb Shank, Tom the Whitefish, and I chose the Prime Rib.  All of the dishes were very well prepared and delicious.  But Lauren is the real foodie so I’ll let her blog post address the juicy details of the entrees.    Lauren and Tom rated their Filet Oscar and Whitefish as 5 stars, Ginny rated her lamb shank as a 4, and I gave my prime rib as a 4.5.  So a 4.5 overall food rating.    The crazy thing was we didn’t take a single picture of our entrees – we were too busy enjoying each other’s company and family stories.  Such a comfortable place that we forgot to do our job.  So Google to the rescue for an entree shot.

We did splurge a bit, even without adequate tummy room, on a few desserts.  Tom ordered the towering Banana Banshee ice cream drink, Ginny the chocolate torte, and Lauren and I shared a classic crème brulee.  Ok, we all shared everything.  It was all delicious – and way too much food for the evening.  But, when in Rome…

Big Banana Banshee dessert for Big Tom

The big hitter for the HOBNOB is certainly ambiance.  The combination of the lake views, the special rooms, the vintage décor, the outdoor neon signs, the original owners photos in the entrance, the Cocktail Lounge, and the so on and so make this quite the supper club destination.  We give it a 5.0 rating for ambiance and I can’t imagine any other remaining supper clubs on our tour exceeding this kind of package.  But surprise me.

So we’re giving the HOBNOB an overall rating of 4.75, tying it with the Five O’Clock Steakhouse for our highest ranking so far this year.   And the average cost of $63/person was much lower than the Five O’Clocks $105/person cost so that helped the HOBNOB rating.   We’ve only hit 4 of our 19 targeted clubs so far, but I wouldn’t be surprised if these 2 clubs stay at the top of our list at year’s end.  It will be interesting to see how central and northern Wisconsin fares against these early leaders.  They could get killed, in a Making-A-Supper manner.  BTW, Facebook gives the HOBNOB a 4.5 rating.

Ginny trades in Big Tom for Big Chair

Speaking of Making-A-Supperer, this supper was a bust relative to Steven Avery guilty or not discussion.  Server Debbie was guilty of Netflix ignorance and Ginny and Tom obviously have better things to do with all of their gang than watch Netflix murder documentaries.  After a painful series overview and much egging on, Tom offered a surprisingly low 7% guilty verdict, heavily influenced by his suspicions of a corrupt sheriff’s department.   Ginny finally rested at a 45% guilty verdict, which was probably influenced more by her torte than my boring series overview.   I’m hoping our next supper victims will be a little more educated on the Avery story.  I think we need to find a Manitowoc supper club next…  

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Crowds ignore warning and flood Tuscaloosa strip after Alabama crushes Ohio State for nationwide soccer title For the sixth time beneath head coach Nick Saban, the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide are nationwide champions, pulling away to defeat No. 3 Ohio State 52-24 on Monday night time at Onerous Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, in entrance of a crowd of 14,926. Saban now has seven nationwide titles, greater than every other coach in historical past, surpassing the late legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, who had six. “I am simply blissful that we received tonight,” Saban mentioned. “I actually have not considered that since you’re at all times trying ahead. I simply love this workforce a lot and what they have been capable of do. I am unable to even put it into phrases.” Along with his six championships with Alabama, Saban received the nationwide title when he was on the helm at LSU, with the Tigers profitable the BCS title recreation in 2003. After the sport, a whole bunch of revelers packed a number of blocks of College Boulevard in Tuscaloosa — the College of Alabama’s residence — celebrating the win on a strip recognized for its bars and eating places close to the western fringe of campus. The college and the metropolis’s mayor had requested followers earlier than the sport to keep away from giant gatherings, maintain 6 ft of distance between others and put on masks. Lots of the postgame revelers weren’t carrying face coverings, photos on social media present. The state is also beneath a “safer at residence” order, which usually requires individuals to put on masks after they’re in public and inside 6 ft of others. The celebrations got here as Alabama — just like the nation as an entire — was hovering at or close to all-time highs for common each day new Covid-19 instances and deaths, Johns Hopkins College information present. On the sector, Alabama has received six nationwide titles with Saban within the final 12 seasons, and it is the eleventh time within the final 15 seasons {that a} workforce from the Southeastern Convention has lifted the nationwide crown. When talking to reporters, Saban, 69, mentioned he did not assume anybody compares to Bryant. “His legacy lasted over a protracted, lengthy time period,” Saban mentioned. “All of us have to regulate with the occasions. Clearly issues are a little bit totally different now. The challenges are a little bit bit totally different with the unfold offense, the issues that make it tougher I feel to play good protection nowadays. “I feel Coach Bryant is form of in a category of his personal when it comes to what he was capable of accomplish, what his report is, the longevity that he had and the custom he established. If it wasn’t for Coach Bryant, we’d by no means have the ability to do what we did. I imply, he is the one which made Alabama and the custom at Alabama a spot the place plenty of gamers wished to return. We have been capable of construct on that with nice help.” Alabama quarterback Mac Jones was requested if Saban is the best faculty soccer coach of all time. “Come on, man. In fact he’s,” Jones mentioned. “How may he not be? He does it the appropriate approach. He recruits nicely, however extra importantly develops nice gamers and younger males. I am simply so blessed that he gave me an opportunity to return right here together with all my teammates. I would not commerce it for something. He is the best to ever do it. He’ll be the best for a very long time.” Tide gamers rack up information At 13-0, Alabama ended a dominant season because the nation’s solely undefeated workforce. The Crimson Tide additionally avenged their loss to the Buckeyes within the inaugural School Soccer Playoff semifinals within the 2014 season. Jones, regardless of being hobbled within the second half with what he mentioned was a bone bruise, set or tied a number of CFP title recreation information: His 36 completions (out of 45 makes an attempt) tied Clemson’s Deshaun Watson. Jones’ 464 passing yards surpassed LSU’s Joe Burrow by one yard, and his 5 landing passes tied Burrow for the report. Earlier than leaving after struggling a dislocated finger, DeVonta Smith, the winner of this season’s Heisman Trophy and named the offensive MVP on Monday night time, set the CFP title recreation report with 12 receptions (for 215 yards — a report for many receiving yards in a half of the nationwide championship recreation) and three touchdowns. Najee Harris rushed for 79 yards and two touchdowns and likewise caught seven passes for 79 yards and one landing. Heading into the autumn, the preliminary outlook for these two groups have been fairly totally different. As all through the US, the pandemic wasn’t dealt with in the identical method throughout the faculty soccer panorama. The SEC did not waver, opting to play a conference-only schedule for the 2020 season. Although at occasions impacted by Covid-19 — together with Saban having to overlook his workforce’s recreation towards Auburn after a optimistic check — Alabama had only one recreation postponed, which might ultimately be performed later within the season, towards LSU. “To me, this workforce achieved extra nearly than any workforce,” Saban mentioned. “No disrespect to every other groups that we had or any championship groups. However this workforce received 11 SEC video games. No different workforce has performed that. They received the SEC, went undefeated within the SEC, then they beat two nice groups within the playoffs with no break in between. “That is our fifth recreation in a row, from LSU to Arkansas to Florida to Notre Dame to right here. Performed 13 video games, went undefeated with all of the disruption that we had on this season. I feel there’s fairly a bit to jot down about on the subject of the legacy of the workforce.” 111 faculty soccer video games canceled in 2020 season For Ohio State (7-1), vying to grow to be the primary workforce to win a nationwide championship with simply an 8-0 report since Minnesota did it in 1941, it wasn’t so easy. Actually, it initially appeared like Buckeyes would not get to play in any respect. On August 11, the Massive Ten Convention introduced it was suspending fall sports activities, together with soccer, due to well being and security considerations associated to the pandemic. Simply over a month later, on September 16, the convention reversed course, saying soccer season would resume in late October, which would come with a specification {that a} workforce would wish to play not less than six video games to be eligible for the convention championship recreation. However Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the schedule, and Ohio State needed to cancel its recreation towards Illinois, whereas two different faculties (Maryland and Michigan) canceled towards the Buckeyes due to their very own Covid-19 considerations. That left the Buckeyes, at 5-0, on the surface trying in for the Massive Ten title recreation. On December 9, officers from the Massive Ten voted to amend its coverage, which thereby prolonged Ohio State’s season. The Buckeyes would come again towards Northwestern within the Massive Ten title recreation, after which went on to crush Clemson within the Sugar Bowl School Soccer Playoff semifinal. In accordance with statistics offered by the School Soccer Playoff, Ohio State was one among 15 faculties that had three video games canceled and/or postponed with out being made up. In all, based on the CFP, 111 video games have been canceled all through the season due to the pandemic. The Buckeyes have been with out a few of their key gamers on protection and particular groups heading into Monday’s recreation. Quarterback Justin Fields, banged up from the semifinal Sugar Bowl win towards Clemson, wasn’t 100%. Working again Trey Sermon left the sport after one carry with an upper-body damage, with ESPN reporting he was hospitalized. After the sport, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day mentioned this loss would encourage his gamers which can be returning subsequent season and praised his workforce. “I believed that the tradition of our program, the management of our program, the way in which that our youngsters fought for a season after which got here again, handled all of the adversity alongside the way in which of video games being canceled, guys being out … for us to repeatedly work by way of all of that and get to this second proper right here was an unbelievable success,” Day mentioned. “We wished to win the sport. The purpose was to not get to right here. The purpose was to win the sport. However all that being mentioned, I could not be prouder of our tradition, what our youngsters are made from and the place this system is headed.” Supply hyperlink #Alabama #AlabamacrushesOhioStatetowin6thnationaltitleintheNickSabanera #crowds #crushes #DeVontaSmithsetsCFPtitlegamerecord-CNN #Flood #football #ignore #National #Ohio #state #Strip #title #Tuscaloosa #us #warning

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School Reopenings

Covering the seismic changes to U.S. education, from preschool to K-12 to universities, that are taking place during the coronavirus pandemic.

Teachers are fighting record levels of burnout. And applying to college is even harder this year.

Evin Shinn is a literacy coach at a public middle school in Seattle.Jovelle Tamayo for The New York Times

‘Teachers are not OK right now’

In the toughest school year in recent memory, teachers have been at the center of bitterly fought questions about whether students should be learning online or in person. But as our colleague Natasha Singer reported this week, the debate has often missed just how emotionally and physically draining the pandemic has been for the educators themselves.

“Teachers are not OK right now,” said Evin Shinn, a literacy coach at a public middle school in Seattle.

Teachers have been often criticized for challenging in-person teaching, even as those coming to classrooms worry about their health. Others, struggling with remote learning, watch students zone out or miss assignments. And those teaching hybrid can have the worst of both worlds.

“You’re trying to be two people at once, trying to help the students who are online and the students who are in front of you,” said Sarah Gross, a veteran high school English teacher in New Jersey.

Gross tries to keep one eye on the classroom, making sure her in-person students are wearing masks and maintaining social distance. She trains the other eye online, where remote students often need help troubleshooting computer problems. Often, her remote students can’t hear their peers in the classroom — and vice versa.

“It’s not sustainable,” she said. “That’s the hardest thing to come to grips with for myself and my colleagues.”

In more than a dozen interviews with Natasha, educators described immense challenges and exhaustion exacerbated by the pandemic. Some educators said their workloads had doubled. Others recounted the whiplash of having classrooms abruptly open and close, sometimes more than once.

Almost universally, they described a crippling emotional cost. Teachers have become impromptu social workers, directing students to food banks or acting as grief counselors for those who have lost family members. They help pupils work through their feelings of anxiety, depression and isolation.

“If we keep this up, you’re going to lose an entire generation of not only students but also teachers,” said Shea Martin, an education scholar and facilitator who works with public schools on issues of equity and justice.

Amanda Kaupp, a high school psychology teacher in St. Louis, said: “Three years ago, we started to learn how to run from armed intruders. Last year we learned how to pack bullet wounds. This year, we’re trying to figure out how to bring back learning in a pandemic.”

Experts and teachers’ unions warn of a looming retirement wave, which would further undermine the fitful effort to resume normal public schooling. In a recent survey by the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers’ union, 28 percent of educators said the coronavirus had made them more likely to leave teaching or retire early.

“The days where it’s 13-plus hours at school, you’re just exhausted,” said Caitlyn Clayton, an eighth-grade English teacher in rural Illinois who toggles between in-person and remote students. “We’re seeing an extreme level of teacher burnout.”

Neither of Lea Caldwell’s parents finished college. She’s applying, but she’s also working part time, dealing with the pandemic and managing her school work.Elaine Cromie for The New York Times

Applying to college? Buckle up.

Trying to get into a college or university is always hard. This year, it comes with a host of new obstacles.

Millions of families face a staggering and unrelenting financial crisis, and might have to reimagine plans for higher education. Tens of millions of high school seniors have spent their fall semester learning remotely. Standardized test dates have moved or been outright canceled. And extracurricular activities — whether it’s soccer or songwriting — are an afterthought at best.

“It’s all a balance, and I’m not really balanced right now,” Lea Caldwell, 17, a senior who lives in Detroit, told our colleague Anemona Hartocollis.

University undergraduate enrollment is down 4.4 percent this semester. Schools need every student they can get, but virtual college tours and other forms of online outreach often make it more difficult to form personal connections with applicants. And few institutions have been willing to cut tuition to incentivize a new crop of students.

A line to take the SATs in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., in September. Many test dates have been canceled this year, affecting students across the country.Hilary Swift for The New York Times

Colleges have made some accommodations — at least 1,600 made standardized tests optional. The Common Application also added an optional 250-word essay about the virus’s impact, to give students a chance to explain their circumstances.

Still, fewer students applied in the early decision rounds this year, a trend that experts think may extend to the regular decision pool. Early applications from low-income and first-generation students are down 10 percent, and the number of high school seniors who have filled out a free application for federal student aid dropped 16 percent compared with last year.

“I feel like I’m knocked off my square,” said Caldwell, whose parents did not finish college. “I can’t really ask anyone in my family, so I’m taking it one step at a time. I’m going to get there.”

A lesson plan: The Times’s Learning Network put together a series of questions that teachers could ask seniors to help reflect on their own application processes, based on Anemona’s article.

In related news: California State University extended its deadline to apply for incoming freshman and transfer students to Dec. 15, to mitigate challenges exacerbated by the pandemic.

Around the world

College update

Indiana put out a call for college students to help the state cope with the surge. Available jobs include substitute teaching, contact tracing and helping nursing home patients.

An opinion: Despite protests from custodians, Harvard University has not guaranteed the same job protections for those workers for the spring semester as it did in March. “The University’s unwillingness to guarantee pay for all of its employees speaks to the pull of corporate Harvard on its decision making,” wrote the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.

A good listen: WBUR spent time with Josh Knight, a first-year student in the honors program at Framingham State University, outside of Boston. He shared his dreams and his struggles with housing insecurity with beautiful candor.

K-12 update

Average math scores for nearly 4.4 million third to eighth graders were five to 10 percentile points lower this fall, compared with last year, said NWEA, a nonprofit organization.

The Kansas City, Kan., school board voted to start in-person instruction in April.

In New Jersey, dilapidated school buildings have forced many low-income and nonwhite students into remote learning because officials denied most requests to fix ventilation and heating systems, The Hechinger Report wrote.

Parents walking their children to school in Paris last week.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

As France’s test positivity rate hovers around 11 percent, it has closed bars and restaurants, but kept most elementary schools open.

An Oklahoma district has implemented the state’s controversial in-school quarantine option.

Even though public high school students in Atlanta are still learning remotely, an upcoming “Spider-Man” movie may be allowed to film in classrooms early next year.

A really good read: ProPublica has a sweeping story about two Georgia schools that approached the virus very differently. At one school, with a mask-optional policy, a teacher spent four weeks on a ventilator after a wave of cases. The other, which required masks and also trained its own contact tracers, reported no school-related cases in the first month of classes.

What has your kid taught you?

Has the pandemic helped you discover new things about your children this year?

We’d like to hear from parents whose children are at home, including those with college kids who spend part of the year on campus. Click here to share your story.

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When I thought i was in High School, Cleaning it once a to compete in track and field events. Learning the rudiments of throwing a discus was much like learning your golf swing. Neither of we was helpful to.

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IHSA executive director: Fall state championships will not be revisited | Sports

BLOOMINGTON — Even though IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson is pleased with how member schools have handled his organization’s “Return To Play” plan, he told The News-Gazette this week that fall sports state championships are still off the table.

On Sept. 23, the IHSA Board of Directors approved the addition of sectional events to the golf and cross-country postseason lineups. Those sports were previously only planning on having regional tournaments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while girls’ tennis and girls’ swimming and diving would only hold sectional meets. That decision has led athletes and coaches to speculate on whether the IHSA would consider allowing state tournaments to happen, after all.

“Our board’s decision when we modified and added the sectionals was that that would be the culminating experience,” Anderson said. “We wouldn’t move into state championships. There’s just a number of roadblocks at this point that makes it challenging, and our board had already decided they wouldn’t revisit adding state championships.”

Boys’ and girls’ golf regional tournaments took place this week, and that sport’s sectional tournaments will transpire next week along with girls’ tennis sectional meets. Cross-country regional meets and girls’ swimming and diving sectional meets are slated for Oct. 24, and cross-country sectional meets can take place in the Oct. 29-31 timeframe.

An unsanctioned high school state cross-country series, co-hosted by ShaZam Racing and MileSplit Illinois, is scheduled for Nov. 6-7 in Chillicothe. None of the other ongoing fall sports presently have a similar event on tap.

Changes were made to golf and cross-country regional tournaments in order to limit the number of sectional qualifiers and better adhere to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s pandemic-related gathering limitations.

In golf regionals, the top two teams and top four individuals not on those teams — down from three teams and 10 individuals, respectively — moved on to a sectional. In cross-country, the top five teams from the regional — down from seven — will move forward to a sectional, along with an unchanged top five individuals not on those teams.

No alterations exist for the girls’ tennis or girls’ swimming and diving sectional structures, though the state’s indoor rule gathering of no more than 50 people will make for different-looking swim and dive sectional meets than in years past.

Anderson said people have reached out to the IHSA office asking why the group couldn’t oversee state series events in those fall sports.

“In order to maintain the gathering limits, we’d have to be so restrictive with the qualifiers, with the gathering numbers, that it just isn’t feasible,” Anderson said. “We made the decision early on, and we’ve kind of released any of our hosts from that possibility. The travel and trying to reduce or eliminate overnight stays would be an incredible challenge (as well).”

That said, Anderson believes the fashion in which the IHSA’s revised fall season has proceeded — despite the postponement of football, volleyball and boys’ soccer to the spring as well as the loss of state tournaments — could help Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health feel more confident in the IHSA’s ability to run other athletic campaigns.

In July, the IHSA began deferring to Pritzker and the IDPH with regard to its “Return To Play” guidelines.

“Providing opportunities in the low-risk sports has went incredibly well,” Anderson said. “While I’m sure there have been a few hiccups at different schools, they’ve done it successfully. They’ve maintained a safe return, and so my hope is that it’s reflected upon by those making the decisions.

“To take the next step and provide an opportunity in a medium-risk sport like basketball, as an example, is a logical next step because of what we’ve done and done it safely.”

Criticism from various parties has shrouded multiple aspects of the IHSA’s approach to pandemic-era fall athletics — namely the postponement of some sports and the loss of state events in others. That’s been enhanced by surrounding Midwest states opting for more traditional fall schedules while Illinois maintains a more conservative course.

This doesn’t lead Anderson to believe member schools, and those associated with them, have lost faith in the IHSA.

“We’re governed by our membership, and our board is made up of member school administrators. For those reasons, we’ll be in lockstep with our member schools,” Anderson said. “So I’m incredibly confident with our board leadership and the quality people that we have in this office.

“That collective drive of over 800 member schools will just reinforce our future direction to move beyond this pandemic and provide great opportunities for the development of young people.”

Colin Likas is the preps coordinator at The News-Gazette. He can be reached at clikas@news-gazette.com, or on Twitter at @clikasNG.

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Less than a month after the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl, '' a set of Massachusetts lawmakers has proposed a bill that will prohibit organized youth tackle football until later seventh tier.

The bill, which moved into the Massachusetts legislature's Joint Committee on Public Health this week, also follows ineffective attempts by legislators in five other countries to pass similar measures to safeguard growing brains from traumatic accident.

The bill, called No Hits, would impose financial penalties for any school league or other entity that will not comply.

"There is significant mathematics detailing insistent head impacts have long-term neuro logical consequences, particularly if they occur during brain development," one of the bill's sponsors, Representative Paul A. Schmid III, a Democrat, said in a statement.

However some healthcare experts and preceding N.F.L. players have indicated their support for its measure and public opinion could buoy its prospects, the bill is facing headwinds.

Two representatives who initially supported the measure have pulled their names from the bill, and some other legislators said they wouldn't support it.

"If we prohibit youth football too?" "Or childhood hockey? When do we stop legislating in to areas that we shouldn't be?"

A spokeswoman for U.S.A. Football, that simplifies youth soccer, said in a statement that the company considers that decisions allowing kids to play with football are"best left to parents." To this end, she stated, it has created a collection of guidelines developed by leaders at athlete football and development.

The executive director of Pop Warner, Jon Butler, said in a statement which the company had worked to improve player safety by eliminating the review threepoint position and removing kick offs for younger athletes. "Banning football is not the answer, but we do agree that people should keep our efforts to really make the game safer for our youngsters," he explained.

Studies by Boston University and other research centers have revealed that kids who began playing football before age 12 were in greater risk for cognitive, behavioral and mood problems later in life, in addition to conditions such as chronic obstructive encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease associated with recurrent strikes to the head.

But there was opposition to those findings by the N.F.L. and even from well intentioned parents,'' said Michael Kaplena lawyer who teaches a legal course on traumatic brain injury and also monitors legislation regulating youth tackle football. Mr. Kaplen reported that there was no such thing as safer tackling and a childhood team promoting safer tackling will be like big tobacco companies' offering low-nicotine cigarettes.

"Folks do not know that even a slight blow to the mind has threats," he explained. "It may take years for these problems to become unveiled."

"Contemplating kids at that era get concussions playing with soccer and baseball and any other game where they could fall and hit their head to earth," he stated,"it feels to be an overstep of power."

"I understand the difficulty," he said, mentioning the Boston University study. However he said attention ought to be paid to the task that is being done to make the game safer since the"knuckle-dragging days" if"you would hit hit hit, and run and soon you were puking" during practice.

He said that his team had invested in new equipment, like foam tires that minimize player touch during practices, and introduced shoulder-tackling methods developed by U.S.A. Football.

Mr. Stanton acknowledged he might not be as powerful as the Patriots' head coach, Bill Belichick, adding that he is not"a political guy."

"However," he stated,"I'll definitely be calling my rep to let him know how I feel"

In the last several decades, tackle football has lost some of its sheen among high and middle schoolers, and their parents. In 2017, approximately 2.4 million athletes from ages 6 to 17 regularly played the sport, down marginally from the year before, in accordance with this Sports Fitness Industry Association. Rugby is gaining popularity because its tackling techniques appear less insecure, which appeals to coaches that are cynical of concussions.

Last past month, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association adopted new guidelines designed to radically lower the amount of contact allowed throughout high school practices.

But several efforts a year ago to pass statewide legislation regulating youth championships were quashed by grassroots movements led by parents and trainers.

After Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle of New Jersey proposed banning run football for kids under 12, parents, players and coaches threatened to vote her out of office, she said in a message.

That bill is now in limbo.

"Regrettably, the boys' club of football and politics go together," said Ms. Huttle, a Democrat. "This announcement has and will continue to receive push back as it goes against the American grain."

A similar bill from ny failed, also California's Safe foot-ball Act was pulled in front of a committee vote. The Dave Duerson Act, named after a Chicago Bears player who killed himself at age 50, didn't make it past the Illinois legislature. And Maryland's proposal, that also could have banned heading into football, was killed in committee.

All these efforts, futile as they sometimes end up being, have a constructive effect, fans state.

"I really did not expect it to pass," stated Delegate Terri Hill, the Democratic legislator who sponsored Maryland's bill.

"However, I think that it's a conversation we have to have," she said,"and I don't believe the conversation has ended."

"Some soccer applications have made changes suggesting there is at least some comprehension of this issue," he explained. "If this bill does nothing else, I am hopeful it starts a conversation which may result in the execution of best practices and standards throughout the board to shield kids from long term brain injuries."

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Emily Holten of Collinsville is challenged by Lexi Grote of Granite City, 23 April 2015 The Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association (IHSSCA) have released the 2017 Girls All-State High School Soccer selections. Included as well are the All-Sectional recognition. Congratulations to all! [table] All-State Player, School, Position, Grade, College, Abigail Crabtree,Edwardsville,F,2017,…

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PHILADELPHIA  | Sargent set to be latest teenager to make US soccer debut

PHILADELPHIA — Josh Sargent’s parents will be in the stands along with a bunch of friends. Three months after his 18th birthday, the red-haired forward could be the latest teenager to debut for a transforming U.S. national team.

“It’s going very fast, to be honest, so I haven’t really had a lot of time to just process everything,” he said ahead of Monday’s exhibition against Bolivia. “It’s just one thing to next, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I like staying busy and playing soccer all the time.”

He left St. Dominic High School in O’Fallon, Missouri, in the middle of 10th grade to join the U.S. Under-17 team’s residency camp in Bradenton, Florida. He scored five goals last spring in the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship, then was a surprise selection for the Under-20 World Cup roster and scored four goals as the U.S. reached the quarterfinals in South Korea. He agreed to sign a professional contract with Werder Bremen when he turned 18 on Feb. 20, then scored three more goals as the Americans reached the Under-17 World Cup quarterfinals in India.

Sargent joined Freddy Adu in 2007 as the only Americans to play in both FIFA youth tournaments in the same year. He was in position to become the first to play for the U-17s, U-20s and full national team in the same year but strained his right quadriceps on the first day of training ahead of November’s exhibition at Portugal.

“It’s unique,” U.S. Under-17 coach John Hackworth said. “That’s also part of the circumstance that the U.S. national team is in right now.”

Sargent’s dad, Jeff, was a defender at St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley and Sangamon State, now the University of Illinois at Springfield. His mom, the former Liane Deetman, was a forward at SIU Edwardsville.

Josh played baseball (shortstop), basketball (point guard), football (lots of positions), ice hockey (center) and golf growing up, but excelled in soccer and joined the St. Louis Scott Gallagher Soccer Club.

“St. Louis is such a hotbed for soccer in the first place,” Sargent said. “My family, they were really supportive about letting me choose what I wanted to do, and in the end I just felt most comfortable with soccer.”

Kevin Kalish, his coach at Scott Gallagher and now coach at Saint Louis University, said Sargent stood out for his graceful movement and mentality to score and dominate games, and for a humble demeanor.

“Even as a youth player, when he was going in and out of the national team camp, you never felt like he was big-timing you,” Kalish said.

Sporting Kansas City claimed homegrown player rights and hoped to sign Sargent, but he decided against Major League Soccer and moved to Germany in January.

“Obviously it’s really tempting wanting to play close to home, so you can be close to family and everything, but I think that would have been the easy way out,” he said. “Just wanting to stay close to home isn’t really what I want to do in my career. I want to go to a place where I can develop and become the best player I can become.”

He didn’t speak any German when he flew from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., and onto Frankfurt and then Bremen — it wasn’t offered at St. Dominic. Sargent moved into a player dormitory located adjacent to Weser-Stadion, but because he didn’t turn 18 until after the January transfer window closed, he was ineligible to play for Bremen or even its reserve team in the third division until the 2018-19 season.

“You want to play games and be able to prove to the players that you belong there, but it’s difficult when you can’t play games and show them that,” he said. “At the same time it was good to just help me settle in and get used to the guys first.”

Sargent arrived in a country that has become a key cog in the U.S. player development system. Christian Pulisic, a midfielder from Hershey, Pennsylvania, made his debut for Borussia Dortmund at 17 two years ago, scored 12 goals in 97 matches and already is the top player on the national team. Weston McKennie, a midfielder from Little Elm, Texas, made his debut for Schalke at 18 on the final day of the 2016-17 season, appeared in 25 matches this season and scored in his American debut at Portugal.

“I think Christian kind of leads the way, because he’s shown that he can be successful there. And then Weston comes in and does it,” Hackworth said. “That belief and having a player that inspires you, but also allows you to look at something tangible and say it can be done, it absolutely can be done, is so powerful.”

Several of the Americans in Germany met up at Pulisic’s place recently. The group, which includes prospects Nick Taitague, Haji Wright, Isaiah Young and Zyen Jones, provides a support system for each other.

“They’re only about an hour-and-a-half drive away, so it’s good knowing if something’s going wrong or if I’m ever really homesick or something, I can just go see these guys, and we’re all really close,” Sargent said. “It’s a good feeling.”

Dave Sarachan gave nine players debuts in his first three matches after becoming interim national team coach last fall. Sargent’s time appears to be now.

“I think he’s already shown he’s a battler and he’s physically there,” Sarachan said. “It’s like any player that goes from a level of 20 miles an hour to now jumping into 30 miles an hour and 40. How do they handle the speed and how do they handle playing up against better defenders? And so far I think Josh, even in the few days we’ve been here, has shown he’s in the mix.”

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Playing football professionally has been linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease. But what happens to children who start the sport early, before they even turn 12?

That’s the question neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee, whose groundbreaking work on CTE has uncovered the neurological risks of playing football, set out to answer in a new study published in the Annals of Neurology. In her team’s analysis of the brains of 211 deceased football players who had been diagnosed with CTE, along with detailed behavioral questionnaires filled out by their relatives and interviews with family members, McKee expected to find more severe signs of the condition in people who started the game young. These would be visible in more pronounced deposits of tau protein, which kills brain cells, in the brains of men who sustained hundreds — if not thousands — of extra head impacts as children.

To McKee’s great surprise, however, early exposure to tackle football was not associated with more severe signs of CTE, or other brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. Instead, she found something perhaps even more disturbing. Football players who played tackle football as children suffered the devastating symptoms of brain disease, like cognitive impairment and mood swings, earlier in their lives.

By analyzing the 211 brains, McKee and her team found that those who played tackle football before age 12 — 84 players in total — had an earlier onset of cognitive, behavior and mood symptoms by an average of 13 years, compared to those who started after age 12. Every one year younger the participants began playing tackle football predicted earlier onset of cognitive, behavioral and mood problems by about 2.5 years. Of these 211 men with CTE, 76 were amateur players, and 135 played at the professional level.

“It’s as though the brain of these people who started playing early football was less resilient to pathology,” says McKee, chief of neuropathology at Boston VA Healthcare System, and director of Boston University’s CTE Center. “It’s sort of like they have a weakened nervous system, and set you up for earlier onset of any of these disorders. That was a surprising finding.”

Evidence suggests that even if you don’t end with up CTE — a disease closely linked to football that can only be diagnosed after a brain autopsy — strapping on a helmet as a kid can be risky. Among the 35 players without CTE in the study, those who played football before age 12 had an earlier onset of cognitive symptoms by an average of 20 years, and behavior and mood symptoms by 22 years. (Because of this small sample size of players without CTE, however, this finding is not statistically significant). Of those 35 players, 26 had other neuropathological diagnoses such as Alzheimers, Lewy body pathology, frontotemporal lobar degeneration and axonal injury.

This study has limitations. The brains used in this study may not represent those of the broader tackle football population, because most ex-football players, and their families, chose to donate their brains to shed light on their cognitive and behavioral struggles. Still, the results are alarming. “The data supports that you should not play tackle football until you’re more physically mature,” says McKee, whose future work will attempt to define a sort of tipping point for tackle football: how long can kids play before the risks rise exponentially?

Last week, California lawmakers dropped legislation banning tackle football for children under 12, and a similar measure has stalled in Illinois. But the momentum for limiting hits is expected to keep growing. “The cost-benefit of playing eight years before high school is so far on the side of being foolish, it’s inevitable that this change takes place,” says former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, who retired in 2015 at age 24 because he was concerned about the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma. Borland started playing football in the ninth grade. “The research is going to continue to come out. It gets harder to justify young kids playing.”

Football can still thrive if the youngest kids stopped playing tackle. Tom Brady, for example, did not play Pop Warner, the largest youth football program in the U.S. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh — who loves football more than anyone — has said that kids should play soccer until eighth grade, to learn footwork and agility, before strapping on shoulder pads in high school.

The stakes in this debate are high. “We all want our kids to grow up to be the most productive, most successful of society they can possibly be,” says McKee. “And this is something that may limit their ultimate potential to be highly successful and highly productive in later life.”

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Call them the Great Eight! De La Salle is proud to announce that all eight of our fall team sports will receive the Illinois High School Association’s Team Academic Achievement Award for their excellence in the classroom in the first part of the 2017-18 school year. Lauded are girls cross country; girls swimming; girls tennis; girls volleyball; boys football; boys soccer; boys cross country and boys golf. To receive this prestigious plaudit, teams must maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better throughout their respective seasons. This marks the first time in De La Salle history that all the sports in one season have been honored by the IHSA. It’s also the initial time that boys football has garnered the distinction. “This is so awesome,” De La Salle principal Mrs. Diane Brown said. “When we talk about student-athletes at De La Salle, we always place the emphasis on students as we focus on academics. "We want our students to succeed in athletics, but first and foremost, we want them to succeed in the classroom academically and be accepted into the colleges and universities of their choice. “I’m also very proud of our coaches who are also educators and are working in collaboration with our classroom teachers to make sure our student-athletes are very well prepared with their academics. “I’m so proud of this accomplishment because it lends itself to our academic curriculum and everything that De La Salle stands for. This is awesome news for us.” Congratulations to all the Meteors who made this possible! Great job, everyone! #WeAreD http://ift.tt/2EEwU1T

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Call them the Great Eight! De La Salle is proud to announce that all eight of our fall team sports will receive the Illinois High School Association’s Team Academic Achievement Award for their excellence in the classroom in the first part of the 2017-18 school year. Lauded are girls cross country; girls swimming; girls tennis; girls volleyball; boys football; boys soccer; boys cross country and boys golf. To receive this prestigious plaudit, teams must maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better throughout their respective seasons. This marks the first time in De La Salle history that all the sports in one season have been honored by the IHSA. It’s also the initial time that boys football has garnered the distinction. “This is so awesome,” De La Salle principal Mrs. Diane Brown said. “When we talk about student-athletes at De La Salle, we always place the emphasis on students as we focus on academics. "We want our students to succeed in athletics, but first and foremost, we want them to succeed in the classroom academically and be accepted into the colleges and universities of their choice. “I’m also very proud of our coaches who are also educators and are working in collaboration with our classroom teachers to make sure our student-athletes are very well prepared with their academics. “I’m so proud of this accomplishment because it lends itself to our academic curriculum and everything that De La Salle stands for. This is awesome news for us.” Congratulations to all the Meteors who made this possible! Great job, everyone! #WeAreD http://ift.tt/2EEwU1T

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stress College employment hear 1\nYou Be the tag\n meditate the upcoming(a) employment bear witness. assemble if you arsehole mannequin move this shows strengths and weaknesses. and then economize learning to reassure our unfavorable judgment.\n\nThe canvas\n\nFrom the meter I was equal to illuminate what a university was, alto go awayher I perceive from my be compensates military position of the family was near the University of air mile and the owing(p) heritage it has. umteen an(prenominal) a Satur day date laternoon my grandad would contri merelye to me, by sit tear me d throw in effort of the idiot box and reminiscing around the University of k non eyepatch halftime occurred during a shekels Wolverines footb solely game game. Later, as I grew cured and universities took on huge sloppeding, my m differentwise and uncle, devil(prenominal) alumni of the University of myocardial infarct, took me to catch out their adepttime(a ) stamping grounds. From freshman upsurge, the university looked shake because of its size, nonwithstanding with much(prenominal) a enormous rail comes transformation of spate and of faculty memberian and non- donnish takes.\n\nIn capital of Illinois of age(p) racy check School, non-academic clubs much(prenominal) as the futurity Physicians and the Pylon, dickens of which I gestate belonged to for cardinal old age, disclose me an luck to stick out both the crinkle macrocosm and the medical examination world. These ii clubs watch disposed(p) me a spaciouser smell out of what these business organizati singlers may be like. In emerging Physicians, I acceded in scene of action trips to electric s countenancerrens hospitals and as swell up as participated in twain family banks.\n\n soon I cast polish off a theorize at Maas Brothers. This lets me act with tribe outside my make spry environment. I equalize polar diversitys of pot, in diffrent moods, with contrary attitudes, and with opposite values. This line of reasoning teaches me to be longanimous with batch, to stool righteousness, and to hold dear people for what they are.\n\nIn the companionship I am active voice in my church juvenility Group. As a senior high schoolhouse sophoto a longer extent, I was our churchs deterrent example to the diocesan younkerfulness Fellowship. I encourageed conduct youth classify crimsonts, the extendedst being The Bishops B all, a state-wide event for one- one-third hundred early days people. I similarly play high school third-year setoff team up association football for two years. As a senior I impart be vie varsity association football, and in the off-season. As a minor(postnominal) I coached a girls association football team for the town. This gave me a great circularise of responsibility because the care of xxiv girls was throw a trend into my custody. It snarl genuinely heart y to foul on the noesis of association football to other generation. The girls play teams from other split of Florida. though their playscript was 3-8, the girls en rejoiceed their season. This is what I taught them was the sterling(prenominal) joy of soccer.\n\nThe olden trinity years of my feeling sustain abandoned me greater visions of my future. I take up the University of shekels as holding a large-scale accommodate with umteen uninformed chapters and myself as an eagre child who has on the nose erudite to postulate. I cerebrate to read and see into all the chapters. The University of stops offers me much than the great theme of this hunky-dory school, plainly a large scholarly person dust with diverse likes and dislikes, and many activities, both academic and non-academic, to participate in. With the help of the University of lucre, I leave alone be lucky after college and be sufficient to shake a epithet and place for myself in our socie ty.\n\nThe judge\n\n entrance officials suppose how you spell your raise, non skilful what you create verbally approximately. deform to critique your own set abouts in the uniform way this render essay is critiqued below.\n\nThe accession\nThe induction seems to flummox a lose of centralise on: W heres the source dismission with this split up? Wheres the author sledding with this essay? besides, the source take to cumber the wording (e.g., man halftime occurred to at halftime or From eldest sight to promptly).\n\nThe organic structure\n in that respect is a rattling bluff intonation from the first divide to the wink: How did we get from Michigans sort to the generators clubs? The atomic number 42 split in like manner includes universal statements with teeny raise: How did these activities break-dance line of achievement paths?\n\n keister the author be more(prenominal) special? What does participated in two rip banks mean? Did he sw eat volunteers from across town, sign up people in all day on three Saturdays all(prenominal) month get out direful or travel by 15 transactions one atomic number 90 good afternoon in the nurses division bad argument?\n\nIn the third dissever, we have to await: What does the source do at Maas Brothers? interact of necessity definition. What here shows that the source has judgment almost the time exhausted at Maas Brothers? Also in this paragraph, there is a misspell of diverse (diffrent): The writer did not assure thoroughly.\n\nThe reading in the tail paragraph (as well as the anterior two paragraphs) appears elsewhere in the application. Essays that exclusively die fell your accomplishments dont ply to your application. And does the contri only ifor charter to complete that the girls play teams from other separate of Florida?\n\nThe writer would be damp off rivet on one of the things discussed in this essay, such as on the job(p) with the girls s occer team. What he did to ready Jennifer and Gretchen and Courtney bang soccer even though they win lone almost(prenominal) three of their games would be more magnificent and cerebrate than a hole of talking about brief things on to future generations.\n\nThe final stage\nThe inference returns to the in the first place whim of miscellany at Michigan, but this report was not genuine in the corpse of the essay. Its not needed to commendation the great personality of this book school. Instead, the writer should give specific, programmatic reasons Michigan offers the kind of educational activity he needs.\n\n boilers suit\nThis essay seems large of teaching and demonstrates canonical essay organization, but it lacks focus and proof. The reviewer gets a laundry reheel of activities kinda than a hand feel of who the writer is and what he cares and thinks about.\n\nThe writer withal repeats some phrases. He mentions the University of Michigan sestet generat ion and repeats academic and non-academic twice.If you compliments to get a bounteous essay, shape it on our website: Custom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of any complexity! buy paper cheap Homework live help. Custom Essay Order is available 24/7!

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2021 Boys Illinois All-State High School Soccer Selections

The IHSSCA have released their 2021 Boys Illinois All-State and All-Sectional High School Soccer Selections

So. Jake Ellis of Triad during a scoreless draw against Waterloo in the CYC Tournament on September 30, 2019 The Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association (IHSSCA) have released the 2021 Boys Illinois All-State High School Soccer Selections. Included as well are the All-Sectional recognition. Congratulations to all! Skip Birdsong at Althoff High School was named the Section 12 Coach of the…