Charlotte Adams’21 presses on a restart. Avery Mitchell’22 stares down the opposition. Regan Cornelius’21 dribbles the ball into the circle  Zoey Black’21 splits two defenders. (Courtesy/BJ Ranji)   Coming off a strong 8-1 start to the season, the field hockey team hosted its undefeated archrivals, Thomas Worthington, on Carlin Field on Tuesday, September 22.  Our…

Defenders and  goalie lock down the cage. (Credit/BJ Rangi) Hot off from two straight state championships, Coach Anne Horton’s girls are ready to seal the threepeat.  Despite losing key seniors last year, the team has remained solid, starting the season with a record of 5-1-1 and outscoring their opponents 51-4 in that time, only falling…

(Ethan Weiser’22/Managing editor) Over this September 18-20 weekend, Jews around the world celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, marking the change from 5780 to 5781.  Some things were the same this year as in most years: my house smelled like chicken soup, I ate apples and honey, I attended services, and I felt change…

Perusing an article about quitting and failure by Rachel Friedman in the May/June issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette late week, I came across a passage reading, “poor Samuel Beckett’s out-of context ‘Fail again. Fail better’ quote.”  Having studied under an advisor whose unofficial mantra, in my mind, is “words are like dollars – save them,”…

This week, April Absadity hit record voter turnout with a solid group of 10 people participating! The winners from each matchup read as such: In the productivity region, four-seed cleaning out your inbox upset one-seed walking your dog by a whole 10% while two-seed organizing barely beat out three seed DIY/home improvement. In the academic…

Last week, the committee – a whopping three people – voted on their favorite chores to go up against each other via a Google Form. Each region had eight tasks that required one response each. To get the score for each region, I added up the rankings 1-8 for each activity from each voter, with…

This year, many Americans were disappointed to see March Madness, one of the biggest annual sporting events in the country, cancelled by the Coronavirus pandemic. Closer to home, our Columbus Academy community has been disappointed that Governor DeWine has – rightfully – shut down schools until May 1, subsequently leading to the cancellation of April…

Over lunch one day in 2015, when Mr. Bolognese (Mr. B) and Mr. Mena’s were in their first year as teachers at Academy, they discussed over the relationship between math and art and how interesting it would be to show this intersection as an exhibit. Flashforward four years later and the two were hard at…

(Henry Rubey’22/Media) On Saturday, February 22, Academy took on Sycamore at the Ice Haus for the first round of the OHSAA state qualifying tournament. Understanding the high stakes of the game, the Vikes came out firing, with junior Luke Budzik scoring only three minutes into the first period, assisted by classmate Andrew Golden. Unfortunately, Sycamore…

(Suzy L’Hommedieu’21. (Josh Tu’21/Staff) On Friday, February 14, our boys and girls played in their first round of the CBJ Cup tournament, the Capital Hockey Conference’s annual tournament to determine the winner of the conference. Playing at the Ice Haus, attached to Nationwide Arena, the 14 seeded Vikes took on 11 seeded Springboro. The game…