Our Founding Fathers' Final Goodbye

When a bunch of sweaty, shirtless men are screaming out insults about each other on football’s practice field, you know the next school year is right around the corner. As official practices for the 2017-18 school year are about to begin, we’ve figured that it is finally time to formally pass this account down to Incumbent President Jason McNeany, VP Aidan Harding, and Assistant to the President, Todd Robinson. But not without one last story. Without further ado, here goes:

What a year. From broadcasting Sam Taggart's record breaking performance in the Powderpuff football game (8-12, 216 yards, 3TD), covering Boys Basketball's magical run back to the playoffs, and officially naming Scott Holcomb as the GOAT, we had a lot of fun covering sports (and other topics) during this past school year.

What started out as a joke, blossomed into a way to report scores and relay information to all of Rocketeer Nation, as well as to the rest of the league and state, influence snow days (unofficially), and have a lot of fun doing so.

On a serious note, the school's first year in the Davenport was a success, gathering 13 out of 25 league championships, in Football, Girls Soccer (First ever), Golf, Boys and Girls XC, Boys Winter Track, Girls Swim, Gymnastics, Basketball (First in 15 years), Wrestling (Again), Boys and Girls Spring Track, and Boys Lacrosse (First ever). None of us are math majors, but that’s more than half of the league championships we competed for with 5 other schools in our division. Dominance.

On a less serious note, we had a few ideas that we were unable to carry out, the most popularly requested one being “The NASPY’s”. So here are a few of our award winners that didn’t end up getting an NASPN Certificate handed to them by guest host John Nally. We apologize this didn’t make it to air.

• Mr. Rocketeer (Given to a senior three sport athlete) - Kyle McCarthy Ms. Rocketeer - Liz Morehouse

• Coach of the Year (Given to the only coach that accepted to do an interview with us) - Mr. Mulkerrins (Boys Basketball)

• Manager of the Year (The one, the only) - John Roache (aka JayHawk)

• PowderPuff Player of the Game - Sam Taggart

Lastly we’d like to thank a few people that made this year possible:

-Hockomock Sports. By Ryan Lanigan and Josh Perry taking us seriously, NASPN picked up a ton of followers, and grew to become an official score reporter to the rest of the state. We can’t thank them enough for that.

-Guest Reporters. As a small group of student-athletes ourselves, it was impossible to be at every event going on. Everyone who, took over our account, texted us scores, or tweeted at us to RT, was vital in this account’s success. We’d especially like to thank Mr. Feid, who made a regular habit of doing this over the winter.

-Coaches. Coaches taking us seriously (Especially Mr. Mulkerrins and Mr. Herber) made it much easier to relay information to the public, and that’s more fun for everyone.

-The Rowdy Crowd. Must we explain?

Not to mention we went 5-0 vs our “Rivals” from the south in @RowdyCrowd2k16 sponsored games, bringing Hilda home, and preventing our “tiny” gymnasium from being painted.

Remember that? They actually threatened to paint our gymnasium blue. #FakeNews! Weakest chirp of all time.

-The Fans. We never thought this would take off as far as it did. But it succeeded because you tapped a heart button on some of our tweets. Your support meant a lot to us. Tom was so proud of this account he put it on his college application. Not a joke.

We hope this account continues to run smoothly and grow, bringing scores and info to all Rocketeers wherever your path may take you. We’ll be back to live tweet the Thanksgiving Day football game when we mop up the floor with our neighbors to the south on Community Field.

- Cam Crosman, Tom Vidal, & David James