Sports

The Scots sent home with a bitter result.

The GHS girls basketball team has been playing a remarkable season, placing 6th out of more than 130 teams in the whole state of Utah, with an overall of 13 won and only 2 lost games.

Massimo Ciaschetti, Editor • January 22, 2024

Emma Thacker

Baylee Lowder dribbling the basketball at GHS on 1/15/24

The girls basketball team is very unite, with a shared friendship that takes them to win almost everygame they play.

Gracie Holm, junior of the basketball team, said, “The friendship and culture that we have and we are growing is the best part of playing basketball”.

On Thursday, the 18th of January, the Cowboys team played Ben Lomond in an home game full of excitement from the student section.

Grantsville started really good, by closing the first quarter with a clear advantage on the opposing team, with a partial of 19-7.

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The Cowboys were very confident on the second quarter, but they didn’t know that Ben Lomond would not surrender easily; the Scots played their highest scoring quarter, with 14 points, but the Cowboys responded with 25 points to take the partial at 44-21.

After the half time show of the Lariettes and the Cheerleaders the two teams came back strong on the court, and between a steal and a stop, between a three-pointer and a layup, the third quarter ended again with the Grantsville Cowboys on the lead, with a partial of 63-30.

The last quarter was very intense, and even if all the players were tired they still showed the student section and the public on the stands a very good game, full of twist and turns, taking the final score at 70-34.

There’s a lot of excitement in the air, since the Girls Basketball team is playing a great season, and in the Region Championship they are unbeaten with an overall of 4-0.

Lexi Egbert, junior of the basketball team, said, “I think region is going great, it’s an amazing opportunity for us to go more in depth on our skill work and focus on the small parts of our game that we somethimes don’t get to work on; region is my favorite part of the season because I love being able to play ahainst our rival teams and showed eberyone how hard we’ve worked.”

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About the Contributors

Massimo Ciaschetti

A new school year has came, either you are brand new to a high school or you might be returning for another year, or if your this specific student then you might have traveled the world to be able to come to America to try high school in the American view. Massimo Ciashetti is a foreign exchange student that is from Italy. He has come to Grantsville High School all the way to Utah to try highschool in the American way and see how things are different here than it is in Italy. He decided that he wanted to try something new and come to school here in America. When he and his family went on a family vacation to America they went to Los Angeles and visited the Grand Canyon. After they got back Massimo was interested in coming to school here in America to try something different and he thought that it would be an amazing experience. Him and his family found an agency that is for foreign exchange students and they got all of his information and put him on the website for any family in America to choose him to come live with them and go to school in America. A Family in Grantsville Utah chose him to come live with them and go to school in Grantsville. I asked him, “Why did you choose to come here? There is seriously nothing here. He said, “ I was put on a website for foreign exchange students and a family here picked me and that's why I came here” He can’t choose where he gets to go. He got picked by a family and then he traveled all the way from Rome, Italy to New York to Chicago then to Salt Lake to meet his new family in America. He still has been trying to get used to everything.

Emma Thacker

Breaking Stereotypes What are highschoolers biggest fears in high school? Not graduating? Getting bullied? Not making friends? Getting pregnant? Having no plan after graduating? Well, for Emma Thacker only one of those was a worry for her. Emma got pregnant sophomore year of highschool. Emma has beat the stereotype of teen moms in highschool. Emma was never supposed to be able to have children so she pushed harder, literally, instead of dropping out. She went the hardest she's ever gone just for school. She goes to Grantsville High, The CLC, and Utah State. She will be graduating early as a junior with 2 certifications in medical assisting and medical math. Emma strives to break the stereotype of not finishing school and not being able to provide for her kid. She wants her child to grow up having an even better childhood than she did. She doesn't want her to grow up thinking everything you get is given to you. Emma works 2 jobs as well as President of Hope squad, Youth City Council, taking college classes, and getting certified with two things by graduation. Hers and Lee Maile's baby, Koa-lelei, is now 3 months old. She loves food and never wants to miss out. She suffers from fomo when she’s not out and about with others. She only takes 1 to 2 naps a day and hates laying down. In the month she was born Emma worked ahead and finished all of her classes 2 weeks before school had ended. Her parents were disappointed in the situation, but proud of what she made it out to be. That is Emma Thacker for ya.