What a Striking Night

1/9/2025

Maidah Ahmad ‘27 (right) and Anna Ciccozzi ‘26 dress up with their bowling team as Scooby Doo and the Mystery gang.

Friday night December 6, was a night to remember for many NCS students. Oliver Lacy ‘26 held a fundraiser through the bowling night to raise money for his Eagle Ecout project of building a masthead kiosk for a river in Franklin County. “All of the money raised went to wood and screws,” Lacy said. With NCS taking up almost half of the lanes at Lee Hi, that covers a good amount.In addition to an entry fee of $12.50, many brought donations to give an extra helping hand for Lacy’s project.

To nobody’s surprise Leyton Sturm ‘25 won best bowler. This is Sturm’s third time winning best bowler of the NCS bowling night. “The threepeat was awesome,” Sturm said. “Overall I had a great time with my team that night so it was a lot of fun.” He still happened to grab this feat despite having a smaller team with Alejandro “Bob” Almenas ‘25 and Cesar Suarez ‘25. Leyton took home this prestige title for the third time with a score of around 180.

Hunter Basile ‘25 and Jahanvi Patel ‘25 also won very different awards. Basile brought home second place best bowler and Patel won best worst bowler. Hunter had four strikes in a row. One of which was for Anna Ciccozzi ‘26 as she was away, but still a feat nonetheless. Basile’s including classmates Thomas Greer, Tyler Bloomfield, Henry Schumm, and Henry Lugar. This band of brilliant bowlers took home the best bowling team.

“I would say it was a fun night with my friends and classmates,”new student Jonas Koegl-Wallner ‘27. “Even though my bowling skills need some improvement, I have a lot of fun.” Joining Koegl-Wallner on his new adventure at NCS was Nikheel Sherigar ‘26, Ameer Albishah ‘26, Anderson Ratliff ‘26, Thomas Frieben ‘28, and Walker Reel ‘27.

Coming back to school the next Monday SCA advisor Susan Wenk shared a heartwarming video of a compilation of pictures and videos from the bowling night on the Friday night before. Many laughed throughout the video reminiscing on the fun times shared with friends and classmates, whether a good bowler or not.

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The Staff

Co-Editors-in-Chief .....................................Lauren Boone ‘25 and Jacob Johnson ‘25

Digital Publishing Editor ................................................................Anna Ciccozzi ‘26

Copy Editor.....................................................................................Aadeetri Pandey ‘26

Opinion Editor...........................................................................Mason Bibby '27

Staff Writers.........................................................Hanchen Ou ‘26, Fiona Parnell ‘26,

Nola Daninger ‘27, Dara Kerman ‘27, Victoria Real ‘27,

Margaret Bass ‘28, Luke Cocowitch ‘28, Joaquin Downey ‘28, Mia Esposito ‘28,
Akali Koeda ‘28, Monica Koene ‘28, Shree Patel ‘28, Kaitlyn Perkins ‘28, Isla Whittle
Advisor......................................................................................Robert Robillard P’35

Jacob Johnson '25
co-editor-in-chief