The Hawkeye » competition http://www.thehawkeye.org Mountlake Terrace High School's online student news source Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:12:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sports and music are equal http://www.thehawkeye.org/2010/05/13/sports-and-music-are-equal/ http://www.thehawkeye.org/2010/05/13/sports-and-music-are-equal/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 20:50:06 +0000 Peter Bowman http://www.thehawkeye.org/?p=1162 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I’ll just come out and say it. Music is not harder than sports, and sports are not harder than music.

Most musicians in this school would agree with me in saying that, a band for example, is comprised of one team trying to achieve one goal: a flawless performance. No other opponents. No fields to run. Just one band sitting on stage and performing music.

In sports like football, for example, two teams are competing head to head, trying to get a single ball into their opponent’s end zone and they are intent on laying out any guy who’s got it. Music involves one team. Sports involve two. Put in this perspective, sports appear to be harder.

The equivalent to a running back plowing through the deffensive line while getting stripped of the football in front of thousands of people would be this: Imagine a band performing on stage. They’re about to begin to play when all of a sudden some members of another high school band jump up on stage and begin to shout and clap and wave their hands. Then, the entire audience is yelling “Mess Up!” and “No Pressure!” Then the people from the other school take away one-third of the band’s instruments. Now, things are starting to look as difficult. That’s what it would be like for a music group to experience the last play of a football game that’s on the line.

As for the mind set of both sports and music, both require the sense of getting “hyped up” before performing. What do you think is going on in a huddle before a football game, or a team meeting before a basketball game? For music, it requires a mental attitude to prepare for what’s ahead. Last year for example, I had the privilege of playing in the MTHS Jazz Ensemble 1 at the Paramount Theatre in front of 3,000 people! We performed a “Yes!” Clap, gradually speeding up our rhythm. It got us fired up, and we undoubtedly put on the best performance of the night. I honestly don’t believe that an athlete with little experience could pull that off.

You cannot say music is harder than sports or vice versa. I guess it really depends on where you stand with your amount of experience toward one or the other. What genre of music? Which sport? How strong is your opponent? I’ve heard people who know only one side of this argument, and quite frankly they don’t make much sense to me. Sports and music are equally as challenging.

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]]> http://www.thehawkeye.org/2010/05/13/sports-and-music-are-equal/feed/ 0 Terrace Hi-Q faces off in the theater http://www.thehawkeye.org/2009/02/04/terrace-hi-q-faces-off-in-the-theater/ http://www.thehawkeye.org/2009/02/04/terrace-hi-q-faces-off-in-the-theater/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:15:34 +0000 Suzanne Cho http://thehawkeye.org/?p=69 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The MTHS Hi-Q team had a home match on Wed, Jan. 8, in the MTHS Theater. The MTHS Hi-Q team was up against the Hi-Q teams from Cascade High School and Glacier Peak High School.
Hi-Q, an academic quiz competition for high school students, first started in 1948 in Pennsylvania and Washington in 1976. The goal of Hi-Q is to foster deeper student interest in learning and strives to engage the entire student body. Questions are primarily based off of 14 high school subjects. Peter Breysse is the current adviser for the Terrace Hi-Q team.
“We scored well the first match,” he said, “and we’ll score even better the first couple of matches.”
Everett Community College is the main sponsor of the Hi-Q program, but there is some support from local community groups, businesses, and foundations as well.
The Hi-Q season formally begins again in Jan. of 2009. There are 20 high schools competing this year for the Hi-Q program. Currently, there is no rank since most schools have not competed yet.
“This is the first time we came in the lead in a while,” said veteran team member Jeremy Rowe. “I think the biggest change this year is a strong opening round.”
The match first started off with team questions, then toss up questions, and lastly, envelope questions. During the match, after a question is presented, the chosen team must answer correctly within fifteen seconds. Other teams also can buzz in if one team says the wrong answer.
As for the toss up question, all teams are able to answer the same question, but only one team has to answer correctly within 45 seconds.
Last, the envelope questions are for all teams to solve the questions in the given envelope, and the first team that answers correctly within the allotted time gets the points.
In the first round, Terrace was in the lead scoring 25 points, Glacier Peak trailing up with a score of 19 points, and Cascade was third with nine points.
In the second round, Terrace did well again, leading with a score of 34 points, Glacier Peak with a score of 28 points, and Cascade with a score of 21 points. This ended the game with Terrace winning the match, Glacier Peak second, and Cascade third.
According to Breysse, last year Terrace was “in the middle.” “We weren’t great but we weren’t bad either,” he said.
“I think that the new schools [like Glacier Peak] are going to try a little harder than us veterans,” said new member Jacob Laugeson.
The Hi-Q team at MTHS had a great start with the first match of the season and the team will continue to play matches throughout the season. Their next match will take place Jan. 22 at Sultan High School.

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