The Crystal Apple Award is a very special award given to one teacher once a year in one building, given to a teacher exhibiting excellence in his or her teaching. This year’s Payson High School Crystal Apple Award recipient is Mrs. Kaye Moos. This is her 20th year at Payson High School teaching sewing, child development, preschool, and adult roles.
Happy May Payson High School! Another year is almost over and it was time to vote for the next years Student Body Officers. 16 people were in the race for the 6 coveted offices and the girls and boys featured on this page made it!
Kai Schulze
For the next year at Payson High School the class officers for seniors are: President Zach Eddington, Vice President Hillary Frampton, Secretary Missy Jensen, and Representative KD Apgood. The Junior Officers are: President Brandon Peterson, Vice President Shantell Smith, Secretary Caleb Crump, and Representative Maygan Straight. The Sophomore Officers are: Shelby Blauer President, Kaila Birchette Vice President, Calli Jensen Secretary, and Zeb Evans Representative.
Payson High School’s Latinos in Action club and 41 other schools attended the LIA conference on March 17 at the UVU. Our LIA club took first in a competition against 27 high schools of coming up with a business proposal on how they would improve student’s transition between high school to college.
April 8 was the annual Hypno Hick, and this year I actually got up on stage along with many other Payson High students. The audience was ginormous because everyone knows how awesome the show is. The best word I can use to describe my experience is different. I definitely wasn’t like I usually am, which is unlikely to draw attention to myself. But up on the stage, I just didn’t care what anyone thought (obviously, because I scratched some guy’s feet and then rubbed my nose). It was actually really fun.
Payson High School Choirs had been preparing all year for this spring festival in the wonderfully warm state of California. Finally, the 24th day of March came, the day to embark on their epic adventure! After months of singing, signing papers, singing, rehearsing, fundraising, singing, and packing; PHS Concert Choir boarded the tour bus with an air of excitement.
On March 23 Payson’s Orchestra went to Region Festival, held at Salem Hill High School. They got two 1- awards at the festival. A 1- is the second highest score that an orchestra can receive. They were the smallest group at the festival, yet they challenged the biggest and best orchestras in the region with their quality of sound and tone getting 2nd in region. “It was funny that we had such a little group, while others had tons of people,” said PHS cellist Adam Anderson.
The Payson Boy’s soccer team is 2-2 with one of their losses coming in the final minute of the Maple Mountain game. “We got a good win against Spanish Fork and Uinta. We plan on ending the season on a high note with 3, or 4 wins. Right now our goal is to go to state, and we have put ourselves in a good position to accomplish that goal,” said Coach Wright.
Bryce Dean is an explosive runner, he loves caviar, girls love him, and he is ranked number one in the state for the long jump. The school record for the long jump is 22 feet 4 inches; Bryce jumped 22 feet 9 inches at the Utah County Invitational, but was cut short because the spotter said his hand touched the ground. Bryce, and others say that the spotter was wrong, his hand never hit the ground. Bryce “the jumping bean” Dean will have another chance to break the record on May fifth at the BYU Invitational, the biggest meet of the year, attended by every high school in Utah.
Our baseball team faced a few rough challenges last week due to suspensions. They had a couple key players sitting out. Payson went into their game on Tuesday with high hopes against Spanish Fork. They played really strong. Bryson was on the mound and was throwing great. The score was 0-0 going into the 5th inning. Spanish got 5 runs in the 5th and ended up beating us 6-0. “It’s hard to play one of the toughest teams in the nation, but we played great and pitched really well,” said Coach Johnson. Their second game vs Spanish Fork on Wednesday didn’t go well at all.
