Pats continue athletic excellence on the path to sixth straight KELO Cup
Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor
May 22, 2019
The LHS athletic teams have come together for one common goal over the past five years, the KELO Cup. With the school year wrapping up, that also means high school athletics are coming to a close. At this moment, LHS is atop the KELO Cup leaderboard and is looking to claim their sixth straight KELO Cup t...
LHS Track and Field looks to take 4-peat
Spencer Wasmund, Journalism Student
May 21, 2019
Coming off of another dominant track season, the LHS track and field team looks to make another run at the state title, already having won the title three years in a row dating back to 2016. There have been many dominating performances throughout the season, with the most recent being at the Metro Conference...
NBA playoffs: Can anyone beat the Warriors?
Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor
May 2, 2019
In the blink of an eye, the NBA regular season has ended and the playoffs are now in full swing with eight teams left in contention for the Larry O’Brien trophy. Here are the cases for the teams with the best odds of becoming champions and cementing their names in NBA history. The favorites to wi...
LHS goes viral
Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor
April 25, 2019
Before the four-day break for Easter weekend, the LHS track and field team headed to Fargo, ND without a clue in their minds that their trip would create a viral video viewed by millions of people worldwide. The meet produced a large amount of LHS winners in a variety of different events, but no...
Merkley: Jumping past expectations
Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor
April 12, 2019
Last Saturday at the Harrisburg Invite track and field meet, LHS junior Hunter Merkley broke one of LHS’ long-standing track and field records, as he broke the 35-year-old record for the long jump with a leap of 23 feet 0 inches. Merkley’s record-breaking jump surpassed former Patriot Bill Mattinglyâ€...
The end of an NBA era: Nowitzki and Wade call it quits
Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor
April 5, 2019
It is the end of an era in the NBA as two icons of the game, Dwyane Wade and Dirk Nowitzki are retiring. This means it is time to rewind and look back at some of the great moments of the illustrious careers of the two legends. The 40-year-old power forward, Nowitzki was drafted as the ninth pick to t...
March Madness: Who will prevail?
Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor
March 28, 2019
As we head into the second week of the NCAA Division 1 College Basketball Tournament, the stage is set for a team to start clicking and make a run at the title. The Sweet Sixteen will feature many of the favorites to win the title, such as the Duke Blue Devils, the Michigan State Spartans, the Gonzaga...
How many State championships are too many?
Johana Brower, Staff Writer
March 26, 2019
The LHS boys tennis season started March 13, with all eight of the courts covered in snow and water. The boys set to work shoveling the courts so they could begin playing challenge matches to set the lineup. LHS has been the team to beat in recent years, as they have won five state titles from 2014-...
The fight for state
Caleb Miller, Staff Writer
March 19, 2019
Last Tuesday, March 12, LHS students woke up to news of impending snow and winter weather warnings heading for the west side of the state. With the Class AA Boys Basketball State Championship set to start two days later, the trip out to Rapid City became much more problematic. With wind, snow and blistering cold weather ...
The road to Rapid: Pats compete for postseason glory
Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor
March 6, 2019
Last Friday and Saturday night, the LHS girls and boys basketball teams claimed their spots in the State basketball tournament. With the number three seeded girls defeating the Huron High School Tigers on Friday, and the number one seeded boys defeating the Mitchell High School Kernels Saturday, b...
Mind over matter: How Fikse recovered from her concussion
Molly Wetsch, Journalism Student
March 6, 2019
One of the most widely disputed issues in teenage and high school level sports is whether or not athletes should be more concerned about their ‘head health’ while playing a contact sport. Concussions can be unexpected and sometimes dangerous, and LHS sophomore Jaydyn Fikse experienced her own in De...
Crazie of the Month: Vanderloo
Somer Luitjens, Staff Writer
February 12, 2019
There is no doubt that the LHS basketball team draws a large crowd of Crazies because of their unbelievable record and intense atmosphere this season. No matter how many Crazies come and go throughout the season, the basketball team can always expect to see senior Daulton Vanderloo in the front row, rea...
Cathleen Weng, Editor-in-Chief
June 9, 2019
As the Spanish Immersion program in Sioux Falls continues to grow, LHS’ library plans to equally expand the amount of Spanish literature it supplies to students. LHS...
Top five Netflix shows to binge this summer
May 24, 2019
As the final days of the school year are approaching, students are growing increasingly busy with senior graduation parties, AP tests and award...
LHS without bear club is unBEARable
May 23, 2019
During my three long years at LHS there has always been one announcement that has left me baffled: Robert Grimm’s ambiguous statement about...
May 23, 2019
The day never ends as it once began. Nevertheless, I must persist as though it did. At first, I didn’t notice my scars growing around me,...