Peabody senior Katie Houlden and her Tanner teammates lost in the playoffs to Central Catholic, but she loved every minute competing for the volleyball team for the past four seasons.
For Peabody High's Katie Houlden, the libero on the girls’ volleyball team, going 17-2 this season wasn’t as much fun as she and her teammates had hoped. Unfortunately, the Tanners lost their 19th game of the season in the Division One North quarterfinals to Central Catholic, 3-1, ending their season. Peabody came in as the second overall seed, behind 20-0 Andover (the eventual state champs), before they bowed out. A match-up with the Golden Warriors for a state title didn’t happen. Houlden, who shared the Tanners' captaincy with fellow seniors Kim Sousa, Jen Pearl and Lauren Zaines, will have to wait until the spring lacrosse season starts to compete for Peabody again. Houlden plays attack on the lacrosse team and libero on the volleyball…
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Students in the high school DECA club are selling Tanners Crunch at $5 per box.
Peabody High principal Ed Sapienza believes in the effort so much that he eats this cereal daily, and it is pretty good, he says. The high school's student marketing club DECA is selling Tanners Crunch, a Kashi-like blend of cornflakes, granola, raisins and almonds, to benefit academics and athletics. In fact, all 110 members of the club are now actively involved in a student-formed corporation to market the cereal to other students, parents and the community. Each box of cereal costs $5. DECA advisor and business teacher Leonard Brand breaks it down: "One dollar of every box will go to the technology fund to keep technology updated, elementary schools get $3 and DECA will get $1." The intent of DECA is to teach students marketing, …
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Tara Vocino
11:05 am on Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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