Olympic Week 2017
Each year, Seattle Prep students, faculty and staff compete in a variety of events which test their intellectual, physical, and emotional prowess. This tradition is Olympic Week.
Juniors Kick off Olympic Week with Opening Ceremonies Win
There is no better way to kick off Olympic Week, than with opening ceremonies. This year, students were curious and excited to see what each class had prepared for their skit. In the past, the class of 2017 has had notoriously bad skits, but this year expectations and hopes were set high. Though most students agreed that the Juniors’ Oscar skit deserved first place, there was some outrage that...
Seniors Triumph in New Human Foosball Event
This year, Seattle Prep introduced an exciting event to Olympic Week. Human Foosball, a new take on the classic tabletop game, has been introduced this year. During this event, players try to kick the ball into the other team’s goal while holding on to one of the long poles that run across the field. Players greatly enjoyed this event and it was a huge success. In the end, the Seniors were the overall...
Juana Collegio Prevails in Handball Championships
Olympic Week Handball always draws a crowd and countless determined teams, and this year was no exception. This five on five team game has a take on basketball and soccer, with the object being to throw a foam ball into a goal. Players can pass, dribble, or toss the ball to each other in hopes of outscoring their opponents in goals. During this years finals assembly, sophomore Collegio Juana, and...
Hippopotamus Topples Tough Competition in Spelling Bee
The annual spelling bee during Olympic Week 2017 was a tight competition to the end, with surprising moments and ultimately a win for senior Eliot Evans. Mr. Kiehn of the faculty and staff was devastatingly eliminated on the word hippopotamus, and junior Sophie Wolfson took second place overall. Mozzarella, unceremoniously, and abhor were some of the words these champs had to spell.
Cake for Days
All of Prep was interested and excited for the new event, the Cooking Contest! The first ever theme for this competition was…Birthday Cake! There were so many amazing entries, including a fondant covered birthday present cake to a rainbow frosted cake with strawberry buttercream layering. This competition was able to showcase the amazing bakers Prep has, and was fun way for them to express their...
Name That Tune
Name That Tune is always a crowd favorite at Olympic Week because of the impressive skill of its competitors, and the popular songs they have to guess. Competitors play six point rounds, where the name of a song and the artist count for one point each. Songs are played for about ten seconds, or until the first person has an answer. This year, players were especially adept at guessing songs of all...
Seniors Take the Win at Closing Ceremonies
The roar of the crowd. The most skilled competitors on the school's biggest stage. Cheers, insults, and class rivalries coming to a crescendo. Closing Ceremonies for Olympic Week 2017 closed off in grand style, if a bit predictably with an uncontested win from the Seniors, but with a few decidedly unpredictable twists. Karaoke was a definite highlight of the assembly, with a hilarious showing from...
Art Gallery Wows with Stained Glass Style Pieces
Various geometric figures are plastered on the window. Red, green, yellow, blue, all the colors of the rainbow, are boldly contrasted against finger-print filled glass. Scissors, pencils, and numerous scraps of papers fill the surrounding area. All of these components come together to assemble a masterpiece created by the students competing in Art Gallery. This year Prepsters from each Collegio/class...
Olympic Week From a Bird’s Eye View
In Seattle Prep's Olympic Week 2017 an unexpected event caught more eyes than ever before: the Picture Perfect contest. With a picture of the new event Human Foosball, Adam Ambuske took first place for his Sophomore Collegio, Juana. This unordinary picture showcased a birds-eye view of different classes competing on the back field with students kicking a soccer ball inside a blow up arena....
Kinect Dance Connects Students
The theater was packed with screaming supporters in white, green, red, and blue on Thursday March 9th while Backstreet Boys blasted from the speakers. Olympic week dancers on the stage took turns competing against each other to dominate at Xbox Kinect Dance. However, despite the overall effort and passion put forth into hitting all the snazzy moves, only Alexis Wong '19 and cafeteria Head Chef Kenyetta...
Kent Topples the Competition in Jenga
Those watching Jenga in the Commons could feel the intense energy radiating throughout the entire room. Senior George Kent was facing off against Eddie Miller ‘19 in the final round. For the rest of the bracket, a normal sized Jenga set was used, but the championship was played on a giant Jenga set. After a tense round, Kent came out as a 2nd time champion, after previously winning Jenga as a...
Seniors Victorious in Thrilling Spike Ball Finale
Spike Ball is a game played between two teams of two, a hoola-hoop sized net, and a ball. To play Spike Ball, one serves the ball, by hitting the ball into the net and having it bounce off the net. The other team has three hits to bounce the ball back on the net without the ball touching the ground. This continues until the ball either, touches the ground, or hits the rim of the Spike Ball net, and...
Teachers Take Tug-of-War Title
Olympic Week tug-of-war confronted Teilhard Collegio with an unfortunate series of rematches. After losing their first game to the Senior team, Teilhard now found themselves opposite the Seniors for the second time that day. It was the semifinal to see who would play the faculty in the final--a team the seniors had already lost to. Teilhard improbably won this second matchup, and advanced to the finals o...
Sing Your Heart Out
During Olympic Week, karaoke is one of the events where the students are most able to express their creativity and show off their singing and dance moves. The entire school was able to watch the concluding sing/dance-off in the finals assembly. Third place went to the Sophomores in Juana Collegio who performed a combination of "Billionaire" by Bruno Mars, "1, 2 Step" by Ciara ft. Missy Elliot,...
Hopkins Victorious in Olympic Week Ping Pong
Olympic week at Prep is always a competitive time, and the Ping Pong competitors this year did not break that trend. Each Ping Pong match that was played, both during tournament play and during the finals, was highly competitive, exciting, and impressive. The crowd that gathered to watch the first day of the ping pong matches added to the high and spirited energy of the players. Because of this ...
Nakata Triumphs in Super Smash Bros
In this year’s very exciting Olympic Week, there have been various competitive events that have resulted in many different and surprising outcomes. The games varied from the wiki race to basketball. In one very nerve-wracking, competitive, exciting event, senior Jarrid Nakata won. The event was the Super Smash Bros video game. Super Smash Bros is a Nintendo video game that is a crossover between...
Prepsters Give Big with Canned Food and Dollar Bill Drive
This year’s Olympic Week canned food and dollar bill drive were very successful. Prep students, faculty and staff were able to bring in more than 850 canned food items and more than $3,500. With an unexpected twist Loyola Collegio was able to snatch first place in both the dollar bill and canned food drive averaging more than $25 per person. Rahner Collegio came in second followed by the seniors...
Quiz Bowl Pits Panther Wits
Great minds went head to head this week in a battle of intellectual stimulation and random knowledge called the quiz bowl. On Thursday, students from all Collegios as well as Seniors and Faculty took to room I100 to compete. The teams of four were given a test consisting of 120 questions ranging from STEM to Seattle Prep. After 30 minutes of rushed whispers and deep thought, the teams put their...
Volleyball Crunch Time
2017's Olympic Week volleyball games have been rife with drama and competition. Collegio classes and grades may turn against each other, but those on the same team come together in an all-out effort to outplay their opponents. An upset came from freshman Collegio, Loyola, who plowed through upperclassmen. Ultimately, Loyola Collegio prevailed against a team of seniors, including Colin Welp who towered...
A Joust to the Death
At Seattle Prep, the Panthers take Olympic Week very seriously. But nothing is taken more seriously than one of the most popular olympic week events of all time, Jousting. In this sport, two players start out facing each other by standing on two unsteady inflatable podiums. Each player is holding a long inflatable jousting stick. As soon as the game starts, the players start hitting each other with...
Upset! Faculty Beats Seniors in Basketball
On March 6, 2017, Olympic Week began. Olympic Week is considerably one of the best weeks at Seattle Prep. For many, Olympic Week is an opportunity to prove themselves in certain events. Others may find Olympic Week stress relieving because they are able to take a break from school work to participate in fun activities. Basketball, one of the most popular events, was not only exciting but very intense...
Wiki Race Takes Students from Pokemon to Ford Motor Company
This Tuesday the wiki race Olympic week event took off in full swing. Wiki race is a head-to-head competition between two people who are given the same site on Wikipedia and have to navigate their way to the final destination. In the first round contestant Hugh Killalea of Juana Collegio was asked to start on Patrick Star and had to navigate his way to A Tale of Two Cities protagonist, Charles ...
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