Ready to take on this year’s competition, school mascot Rocky stands with strong arms.
To start off the season, Rock Hill announced most of the school’s sports that will be playing this fall. The traditional Meet the Blue Hawks event was held at the PISD’s Children’s Health Stadium, Saturday, Aug. 19. Students and parents started making their way to find seating, while the ceremony started at 7 p.m.
The athletic teams who were presented at Meet the Blue Hawks were football, cross country, tennis, aquatics, volleyball, cheer, and the Rockettes. Followed by the sports medicine team, and this year’s new yell leaders.
Seniors who participated in a specific sport were announced by their name as well as students who earned awards or scholarships in the past year once their sport was called.
![AP World History students created political campaign posters for a mock election project between two candidates– Genghis Khan and the White Lotus Society.
. “I think [everyone] should all have a say on who they think is going to run the country best,” sophomore Rohit Darbhakul said.](https://rockhillmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ZH_1107_Lanier1187-copy-1200x800.jpg)
![U.S. Government teacher Adam Barclay gives advice about the importance of local politics. “The presidential elections, or the big Senates, or the House of Representatives— that gets all the [attention],” Barclay said, “But that doesn't affect your everyday life. Your mayor, your city council, your school board— that affects your everyday life.”](https://rockhillmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ZH_1028_Barclay0580-copy-1200x800.jpg)
![Sophomore Aparna Uppalapati crouches between two girls, engaging with them as they create a chalk flower on the pavement. “I love children and I’m very passionate about children, so that’s why I joined TAFE,” Uppalapati said. “After being in TAFE, I learned how to get a child to understand [me] better and how to understand a child better.”](https://rockhillmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/kidscamp1-2-1200x801.jpg)
