As the fall sports season comes to an end, sports captains for sailing, cheer, tennis and cross country share their experiences of captainship this 2024 sports season. Sailing Senior Lucia Sharp, one of the captains of the Troy United Sailing Team, has been playing the sport since her sophomore year. When Sharp was awarded with captainship she felt proud, not only for herself, but for the entire...
Krish Gupta is a Troy High School Class of 2023 graduate and a sophomore at the University of Michigan. He has medaled in races across the country and competed in the 2024 Under-20 World Championship in Peru for Team USA. Gupta considers his time in high school to be “fantastic.” Apart from his obvious athletic involvement, he was an active member of the DECA and Model UN teams. Gupta’s Advanced...
When asked what makes sports gambling exciting, an anonymous Troy High School student who will be referred to as source A said, “If Jameson Williams is going to score and you’re going to win 1000 dollars, it’s another level.” Source A has been gambling for two years, using his mom’s credit card to set up an account on the betting app FanDuel. When asked how he heard about the app,...
Senior Genevieve Clark first joined the Troy United Gymnastics team in her sophomore year. She’s been doing the sport for 10 years after being introduced to it by her mom and grandma. She began her gymnastics career “at GTC [Gymnastics Training Center], where my mom started gymnastics and grandma was always into it as well. Doing that as an eight-year-old, it was so fun and the coaches loved me...
Senior year is a year full of choices and decisions; many students attend college or trade school, join the military or enter the workforce. A few students, however, commit to college for sports through an extensive recruiting process that requires an immense amount of time, dedication and passion for their sport. Troy High School boasts a number of student-athletes who have committed to colleges to...
On March 6, the Troy Boys Varsity Swim Team competed in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Boys Division 1 State Championships, placed 17th and scored 49 points. Preparing for state championships took a lot of dedication from the swimmers. While the team has been ranked fairly high in the state of Michigan over the years, the team improved by 25.76 points compared to the previous year. “It...
Troy High School sports range from the least popular, such as golf, softball and synchronized swimming, to the most popular, such as track, cross country and soccer. With every school sport comes prices for various elements. Troy High School is relatively low on costs compared to Farmington Public Schools, who charge a one-time fee of $350, “meaning if you play one sport, you pay $350. If you...
This past NFL season, fans experienced a new side of the Detroit Lions. They reigned as NFC North Champions and ended their season in the playoffs for the first time since 1993 with their final score being 12-5. As a state, Michigan recently has had many athletic wins including the University of Michigan becoming National Champions and the Red Wings having a six-game winning streak for the first time...
Parker Silagy is many things, but a coward is not one of them. While most might be daunted by joining a traditionally all-girls synchronized swimming team, the junior takes it in stride. “I don’t really care about that,” he said. “It’s definitely something that crossed my mind but it never made me uncomfortable. It was more like, yeah, I’m going to be the only boy on the team and it's...