Payson High Boys Golf is number 2 in region just behind North Sanpete High School. Led by Coach Marilyn Miller, Payson’s team is 10 strong.
“We are doing really well,” said PHS junior Brandon Montague. “Our team averages a score of 325 – 330.”
The boys are headed to the state tournament Oct. 5, 6 at Fox Hollow in American Fork.
By Brady Clark
Aug—Playing in their first road game of the season, the Payson Lions traveled to Salem Hills High School to take on rival SkyHawks.
Payson’s assistant coach Lloyd Mason motivated the team in a pre game speech. “We’re all in boys, now the question is; are you guys?”
By Krystal Baker
The Payson High Cross Country team participated in a pre-region meet Aug. 31 at Spanish Fork. A pre-cursor to the region championships, the team’s second place win, just 4 points under Juab High School, puts the team in a good position to take the region title.
By Krystal Baker
The Lion’s Roar Newspaper Staff at Payson High School is ready to report. With fourteen student writers, photographers, and layout designers the school paper is sure to look better than ever. One change the community can expect to see this year is color. The Lion’s Roar will print two color pages per edition.
In addition to color there will be new types of articles. The combination of new and old staff members infuses a fresh life into the paper and new ideas.
By Krystal Baker
History in the Making is the theme of the 2011 Payson High School Homecoming Week. Celebrating 100 years of Payson High history, the weekend will kick off Thursday Sept. 15 with a moonlight parade.
“We want to do something special and different for the 100th year and we hope the parade will achieve that,” said Payson High Student Body Advisor Melissa Brotherson.
Two Payson High School teachers are practicing what they preach. They aren’t just encouraging their students to develop and share their talents, they’re doing it too.
Payson High’s Stan Peck and Marilyn Morgan perform key roles in Payson Community Theatre’s production of Jekyll and Hyde. Peck plays Sir Danvers Carew, a man brutally murdered by Dr. Hyde, and Morgan plays Dr. Jekyll’s very proper Victorian fiancée, Emma Carew.
A tale of alter-egos and murder, Jekyll and Hyde isn’t typical musical theatre.
Normally when you think dissecting in biology you think of frogs and worms, but Mrs. Gowans’ biology class did the extraordinary, dogfish sharks. Not only is it exciting to say that you’ve dissected a shark, but there is great learning aspect to it as well. For starters, sharks are larger making it easier to see the individual organs. Mrs.
Earlier this year, physics students got to see a rocket test up at Promontory Point. Now physics students get the opportunity to build and test their own rockets, launching an egg up to four stories.
The seniors aren’t the only ones saying goodbye this year. Our very own Officer Shepherd will be saying so long to the halls and parking lots of Payson High as well. He will be missed by many, and is probably one of the coolest police officers our school could ask for. I know from experience, he helped me out a few times, like when I locked my keys in my car and he pried my door open and got them for me. He will be hard to replace!
The woodshop classes at Payson High School are holding the annual Cabientry Show this week in the main gym. "It was nice, there were a lot of very good projects!" said Brayden Walker. Coach Lunt worked hard with his students throught the year, there were over fifty projects in the show. "The kids did an outstanding job!" said Coach Lunt.
