With the winter sports season reaching its peak at De Smet just before Christmas break, one winter sport De Smet often overlooks is the official De Smet Scholar Bowl Team. Scholar Bowl is an after school event that challenges and pushes the limits of student’s knowledge of Math, Science, Pop Culture, and a litany of other topics, forcing avid competitors to exercise their brain more than their bodies....

The soccer team came off a great season finishing second in state. Although they did not clinch their goal of winning state, they finished second and that is still a fantastic accomplishment thus far. “As much as we’d like to get first, there were a lot of teams that didn’t expect us to win so we were like the underdogs,” Matt Russo said. “And we liked that, we loved being the underdogs.” The...