Photo by Sam Romero ’17 – Jake Lee ’16 poses for a photo for the Roundup, Feb. 27. Lee takes both photos and videos, but focuses largely on his videos. By Brendan Hinkle ’16 THE ROUNDUP Classes have been moving to a more tech-saturated teaching style for a few years, which includes the production of […]
By Brendan Hinkle ’16 THE ROUNDUP Mr. Philip Birgenheir now has a full semester under his belt as a Brophy teacher, and so far said he has had an awesome year with all his classes going really well. Mr. Birgenheir attended Central High School in Rapid City, S.D. He received a full scholarship to the […]
By Brendan Hinkle ’16 THE ROUNDUP This August students couldn’t log in to Facebook without seeing videos of someone dumping ice water on their head. The most recent online activism campaign was the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.” According to alsa.org, the challenge involves people dousing themselves in buckets of ice water on video, posting the […]
By Brendan Hinkle’16 & William Joseph Borders IV’16 THE ROUNDUP After 23 years of directing Brophy-Xavier theater, Mrs. Dorothy Dunnion stepped down, and Ms. Maureen Dias has stepped on stage to take her place. “When I was a kid, my mom threw me in dance lessons at five because I was really awkward and gawky,” […]
By Brendan Hinkle ’16 THE ROUNDUP The golf team has started their 2014 season and head coach Mr. John Shores said he expects the team to do well this year despite the loss of seniors from last season. “We have Michael Feagles ’16, he’s one of the better rated junior players in the country and […]
By Brendan Hinkle ’16 THE ROUNDUP Track is the sport that holds the most athletes, 231 to be exact. With all of those athletes, Mr. Doug Cox, an assistant coach, said the team has been doing well. “Track is going well this year,” Mr. Cox said. “Our athletes are working extremely hard. This is one […]
By Reece M. Krantz ’16 & Brendan Hinkle ’16 THE ROUNDUP Brophy is a Catholic, Jesuit private school, which could leave many people believing its student body is all Catholic. While a majority of students being Catholic, there are still large amounts of non-Catholics from a large variety of backgrounds. Every student is required to […]
By Brendan Hinkle ’16 THE ROUNDUP Head coach Mr. Tom Succow said he expects not only the varsity baseball team, but the freshman and JV teams as well, to do well this year. “I hope all three will do good this year. They did good last year,” Mr. Succow said. “I think JV will be […]
By Brendan Hinkle’16 THE ROUNDUP The Sochi Olympics have opened and closed, and students watched a variety of events during the two-week span. The Winter Olympics boasted 98 events this year, some new and old. According to nielsen.com, the most watched Winter Olympic event is freestyle skiing, which has been an event since 1992. Skiing […]
By Brendan Hinkle ’16 & Cory Wyman ’16 THE ROUNDUP Everyone has heard a good ghost story in their life, or some other frightening tale that kept them up at night. Not all scary stories are from campfires though. Many people have had experiences with scary situations you might usually find in Hollywood. The Roundup […]
