Photo Gallery: Senior Awards Night
May 15, 2013
Senior Awards Night took place May 1, 2013. Seniors accepted scholarships, awards, and other honors. After the ceremony, parents and students enjoyed black and gold cupcakes.
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![Junior Jonathon Thompson has studied Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) for the past year and is now trained in various forms of martial arts.
“[HEMA] is the European equivalent of Taekwondo and other martial arts,” Thompson said. “It’s a fun combination of history and fencing.”
Growing up, Thompson has always been interested in fencing, wrestling, and taekwondo. To master the skills necessary to become a proficient fighter, Thompson attends classes where he practices with other students.
“There's a Kansas City [class] where you meet up and do it two times a week for two hours,” Thompson said.
Although Thompson’s favorite part of HEMA is sparring with other students and instructors, the matches don’t always go his way.
“When you're in a fight your adrenaline gets running and you can't think clearly,” Thompson said. “That happened to me. My mind just went blank because I couldn't think so I lost that pretty badly.”
These experiences pushed Thompson to continue to learn and practice more, which has made him the fighter he is today.](https://bvtigernews.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
![Arriving in style, senior Tate Gillen enters BV on return day —
cheering. Although he admits the vast increase in students seemed strange at first, he believes it also brought back a greatly missed sense of normalcy. “The freshmen and everybody deserve a good welcome back, so I think [it] was nice,” Gillen said.](https://bvtigernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_0185-475x317.jpg)
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