The Hawkeye - Issue II

Running in a Winter
Junior Merritt Peterson has
been running track at Brooke
Point for three years. She
usually runs only distance
events, including the mile
or the 1,000. According to
Peterson, winter and spring
track are pretty similar.
Winter track runs from mid-
November until February
and meets are held inside.
Peterson explains, “The
season goes much faster than
you’d think.” She is looking
forward to the spring season.
She says, “Everyone has been
working and training hard.”
Peterson stays in shape during
the winter months by using a
tredmill and doing a lot of leg
and ab workouts. She claims
to like the spring season more
because more people come
out to their events. This three
year runner says “there’s
alot of talent on our team
and we have great coaches!”
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Wonderland
By Cassidy Hoff and Emma McElwain
Upcoming
Winter Track
Events
Tuesday January 12th: 3:30 Boys
and girls indoor meet at NSHS
Friday January 15th: Boys and
Girls varsity invitational at St.
Christophers
Saturday January 16th: Boys and
Girls varsity invitational
Friday January 29th: Boys and
Girls varsity meet
Friday February 6th: Boys and
Girls varsity meet
Monday February 8th: Boys
and Girls Varsity Conference
tournament. BPHS
Wednesday February 17th:
Boys and Girls Varsity Reigon
Tournament. Prince George
Complex
Friday February 26th: Boys and
Girls States. Boo Williams Center
Saturday February 27th: Boys and
Girls States. Boo Williams Center
While runners are practicing
inside, Addison Phillips is
practicing shotput in the cold.
He explains that he prefers
spring track because it is much
harder to throw in the winter.
He says, “It’s more difficult to
be fluid with your movements
and you can’t throw as far.”
Phillips expects to qualify for
conference later on this year.
bradybarr.com
The History of Valentine’s Day
By Regan Flieg
You know that Valentine’s Day is the
designated holiday for expressing love,
but do you know where it comes from?
According to History.com, Valentine’s
Day’s origins stretch back to the Ancient
Roman feast of Luperci, the festival of
fertility. As a part of this celebration,
Roman priests sacrificed dogs and goats.
They proceeded to dip strips of goat hide
into blood and slap fields and women
with them. This was gratefully recieved
as it was believed that this action would
increase fertility. To end the festival of
Luperci, bachelors drew the names of
single women out of an urn and were
randomly paired with them for the year.
In an attempt to override Luperci,
the Catholic Church placed the feast of
Saint Valentine on Feb. 14, one day before
Luperci.
According to Catholic Online, not
much is known about Saint Valentine, but
one of the stories depicts the saint as a
priest administering Catholic weddings
to couples despite this action being
illegal. He was put to death for his crime,
and he is believed to have sent a letter
to the daughter of his jailor signed “Your
Valentine” before he died.
According to History.com, the
holiday of Valentine’s Day didn’t take
a definite turn toward romance
until the Middle Ages when it
was believed that February
marked the beginning of mating
season for birds. Charles,
Duke of Orleans, was the writer of the
oldest Valentine still in existence. It is
a poem written to his wife during his
imprisonment in 1415.
The mass-production of Valentine’s
Day cards began in the 1840s when Ester
A. Howland began selling her creations.
With approximately 1 billion Valentine’s
Day cards sent a year, it is the second
most popular holiday for card sending,
ranked only below Christmas.
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