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Julia Sumpter

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor

Julia Sumpter is a senior at Hagerty High School, and this is her third year on staff. She loves writing all different types of stories as well as learning about different design techniques.
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Senior Bennett Duba hits one of her two doubles in the bottom of the third inning against South Lake. Duba was a top performer in the varsity softball team's big 12-2 win.

Softball run rules South Lake on senior night

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
April 13, 2023
Junior Sophia Marini hands senior Grace White her Sammy nominee certificate. The event will take place April 20 in the auditorium.

Keeping Up With the Clubs: Leadership

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
March 28, 2023
With approximately 180 students in all levels of the early childhood education program, students partake in many different roles around the preschool. Students must teach the children, as well as sweep and mop the floors, fully operating a preschool themselves.

[Photo] Little bit of chaos

Kailey Calvo, Staff Reporter
March 21, 2023
Compton and sophomore Megan Anderson empty feminine hygiene products into Girl Up’s donation bin. Girl Up’s next meeting will be in mid-March for members to get their stickers to sell and prepare to sell stickers at lunch.

Keeping Up with the Clubs: MSA & Girl Up

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
February 21, 2023
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New safe space for students on-campus

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
February 6, 2023
Opinions Editor Greta Carrasco questions her decision to try eating vegan. Turns out making a switch from meat to vegan supplements isn't so easy.

[Photo] The vegan experience

Angelica Mendez and Greta Carrasco
May 25, 2022
Senior Sarah Braun shares her insight and stories about her trips from traveling around the world. She visited all 50 states and 10 different countries but will be at 20 countries by this summer, doing it all in 10 years.

Along for the ride

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
January 18, 2023
President Mariam Al Lebban sets out cookies and lemonade at the Muslim Student Association’s interest meeting on Jan. 12. The group was started “to educate people about Islam and derail the misconception,” vice president Zahra Ateeq said.

Keeping Up With the Clubs: Muslim Student Association

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
January 13, 2023
Starting this week, digital IDs will be issued to all students on campus. The digital ID will serve as a new safety feature, showing things like the current time, the student’s ID number, and what grade they are in.

Minga app to serve as digital ID

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
January 5, 2023
Happy holi-DIYs

Happy holi-DIYs

Julia Sumpter and Angelica Mendez
December 14, 2022
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[Photo] Peppermint mocha

December 12, 2022
Hallway

[Photo] Festive hallway

December 12, 2022
Gift card

[Photo] Gift card present

December 12, 2022
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[Photo] Grinch cupcakes

December 12, 2022
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[Photo] Balloon ornament

December 1, 2022
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[Photo] Snowman cookies

December 1, 2022
Freshman Ally Leech helps a child create a popsicle stick snowflake. FEA members had to split into groups and come up with holiday themed activities for the children to do.

Keeping Up With the Clubs: Future Educators of America

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
December 5, 2022
Senior Emma Lundquist works on her modeling and simulation project. Students from Modeling and Simulation as well as Computer Programming are some of the students administration hopes take the new artificial intelligence course.

[Photo] The Clubhouse: Mod and Sim with Kevin Pham

James Lopez, Staff Reporter
November 25, 2022
Senior Emma Lundquist works on her project in her Mod & Sim class. There are a total of 67 girls and 280 boys in the Mod & Sim classes.

The BluePrint Holiday Podcast: Halloween Edition

Abigail Neal and Julia Sumpter
November 2, 2022
Freshman David Ransom collects candy from a “Jurassic World” themed trunk. Each car was decorated and themed differently by a Best Buddy member or a parent.

Keeping Up With the Clubs: Best Buddies

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
November 1, 2022
Spanish Honors Society members pass boxes and bags of food to fill up food pantry HOPE Helps' shelves. SHS partnered with Jean Scott homes team to hold a food drive, collecting a total of 127 bags.

Spanish Honor Society holds food drive

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
October 31, 2022
The girls bowling team has a 5-2 record as they hit the halfway point in their season. Leading the girls team is senior Caidyn Slawinski who averages about 150, and freshman Cami Sanguinetti, averaging about 180 and is ranked number two in the county.

Girls bowling has something cooking

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
September 30, 2022
Larrea, vice-president Genevieve Le, Pierre, and Hale finish up the French Honors Society’s road clean up. The next meeting for French Honors Society will be Oct. 17 after school in Pam Lynch’s room, 7-224.

Keeping Up With the Clubs: French Honors Society

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
September 26, 2022
Marvel releases its newest TV series that lets down fans who are excited for a new action-packed show. With a first episode that premiered on Aug. 18, “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” was a total let-down before it even hit Disney+.

‘She-Hulk’: case closed

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
September 1, 2022
Zhenzhen Zhang's fifth period class consists of Chinese III, Chinese IV and AP Chinese. As students found passion for Chinese, the program has grown to help them expand their knowledge.

[Photo] Chinese program continues to grow

Greta Carrasco, Opinions Editor
August 29, 2022
Zhenzhen Zhang's fifth period class consists of level three, four and AP. As students found passion of Chinese, the program has grown to help the expand their knowledge.

President Annabella Musumeci talks to a group of new club members while they are preparing their chocolate chip cookies. Musumeci was helping students portion out the cookie batter for the correct recipe measures.

Keeping Up With the Clubs: Culinary Club

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
August 26, 2022
Students sit with their friends during culinary in a full classroom. The student population has hit an all-time-high with over 740 students.

School opens with biggest population ever

Julia Sumpter, Print Editor
August 17, 2022
Opinions Editor Greta Carrasco questions her decision to try eating vegan. Turns out making a switch from meat to vegan supplements isn't so easy.

Opinions Editor Greta Carrasco questions her decision to try eating vegan. Turns out making a switch from meat to vegan supplements isn't so easy.

Opinions Editor Greta Carrasco questions her decision to try eating vegan. Turns out making a switch from meat to vegan supplements isn't so easy.

The majority know the feeling of someone constantly asking for homework answers. Many feel bad for saying "no" and it may be hard to find different ways to politely decline.

DIY: do it yourself

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
May 20, 2022
Released in theaters April 22, "The Bad Guys" has a heartfelt theme but is too similar to other movies to be anything more than basic. This film follows Wolf (Sam Rockwell) and his friends, who are all criminals, as mayor Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz) and Professor Marmalade (Richard Ayoade) try to help the group turn their life around.

‘Bad Guys’ is only half bad

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
May 3, 2022
Released April 22 by Luke Combs, "Tomorrow Me" is the newest addition to Combs' future album "Growin' Up." This song is very 'country,' not swaying into the pop genre, and a twist on the content fans are used to from Combs.

Growin’ on fans from the beginning

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
April 28, 2022
Senior Chloe Varady is in the bottom of her clean and jerk of 155 lbs at the district championships. Varady placed first at districts, granting her a spot at regionals and soon competed at states where she placed fifth.

Raising the bar

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
April 17, 2022
Released March 11 on Disney+, "Turning Red" follows Meilin as she fights her emotions to avoid turning into a huge red panda. This film attracted a lot of negative attention from its viewers but is truly an entertaining movie for all children.

Audience ‘Turning Red’ with anger

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
April 13, 2022
Sophomore Tanner Passons is at the top of his snatch of 145 lbs. The boys weightlifting team placed first in snatch and third in traditional (bench and clean and jerk).

Boys weightlifting competes at districts

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
April 4, 2022
Fresh roasts

Fresh roasts

Julia Sumpter and Angelica Mendez
March 1, 2022
Center back Riley Sophia takes a free shot from out half of the field. On Feb. 8, for the first time in six years, varsity girls soccer beat Oviedo in the regional quarterfinals, 2-1.

Girls soccer beats Oviedo 2-1 in quarterfinals

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
February 10, 2022
Released Jan. 14 on Amazon Prime, “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” is the fourth movie of the "Hotel Transylvania series. This film was an extreme letdown to its audience and is not worth the watch.

‘Transformania’ bites

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
February 5, 2022
Trey Terrill chose to get his mullet with his friend group. he expects to keep it at least until he graduates, contemplating joining the armed forces, which would require him to cut it.

[Photo] Mulling over mullets

Joshua Krob, Staff Reporter
February 2, 2022
Athletes work their entire lives to get to where they are today but sometimes burnout takes over and their careers end and they lose the love for the game. Burnout happens for a number of reasons, whether it is because of a coach, a toxic environment, or they are overworked, many athletes have to go through this.

The exhausting part of being an athlete

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
January 31, 2022
On Jan. 12, junior Caitlyn Hale holds a meeting in journalism teacher Brit Taylor's classroom to discuss the Literary Magazine. This was the second meeting of the school year and the group talked about themes, submissions and a possible title.

Lit Mag holds second meeting

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
January 17, 2022
Released in theaters Dec. 17, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is one for the books. This movie was full of surprises and could possibly be one of the best Spider-Man movies released.

Bringing it back home

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
January 12, 2022
Living the dream

Living the dream

Julia Sumpter, Ava West, and Emily McCluskey
December 20, 2021
Swift’s version of ‘Red’ is a ‘State of Grace’

Swift’s version of ‘Red’ is a ‘State of Grace’

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
November 24, 2021

Student-led Rhapsody debuts in December

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
November 19, 2021
On Wednesday Nov. 3 the seniors won the powderpuff game against the juniors 17-7.

Seniors win powderpuff game 17-7

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
November 8, 2021
Released in theaters Oct. 1, "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" is a great addition to the MCU. Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) tries to figure out how to handle Venom while also fighting off Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson).

Venom: another great addition to the MCU

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
October 28, 2021
The equipment bag for senior Ryan Farwig, who is on the varsity football team.

[Photo] Football – Ryan Farwig

October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for senior Charissa Thompson, who is on the varsity girls cross country team.

What’s in my bag?

Julia Sumpter and Angelica Mendez
October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for sophomore Edie Wilkins, who is on the varsity girls basketball team.

[Photo] Basketball – Edie Wilkins

October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for sophomore Ellie Wilkins, who is on the varsity girls lacrosse team.

[Photo] Lacrosse – Ellie Wilkins

October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for junior Brooke Stephens, who is on the Varsity Girls Volleyball team.

[Photo] Volleyball – Brooke Stephens

October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for sophomore Austin Jacobs, who is on the varsity baseball team.

[Photo] Baseball – Austin Jacobs

October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for freshman Alec Cilladi, is on the freshman cheer team.

[Photo] Cheer – Alec Cilladi

October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for senior Charissa Thompson, who is on the varsity girls cross country team.

[Photo] Cross Country – Charissa Thompson

October 22, 2021
The equipment bag for freshman Valeria Romero, who is on the varsity girls soccer team.

[Photo] Soccer – Valeria Romero

October 22, 2021
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[Photo] Dance- Alexis Evans

October 22, 2021
On Sept. 22, Gov. Ron DeSantis changed school districts' quarantine protocol. Similar to masks being optional, parents are able to choose if their child quarantines or not if they are aymptomatic.

Governor changes quarantine protocols

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
October 1, 2021
Released Sept. 3, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” follows Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) as he takes on his father, Wenwu (Tony Leung) for power over the ten rings.

Wouldn’t put a ring on it

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
September 29, 2021
The biggest problem in the world is people not being able to listen to differing opinions. Many closed-minded headspaces are adapted during childhood from political and family aspects.

The importance of an open mind

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
September 21, 2021
Released Sept. 10 by Nessa Barrett, "pretty poison" is made up of seven songs, Barrett's first EP. On platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube, fans will be disappointed listening to these songs.

Pretty voice, poison music

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
September 15, 2021
Released Sept. 3 on Amazon Prime, "Cinderella" features pop star Camila Cabello. As the newest attempt at a Disney remake, this one, like others, fails to be as good as the original.

From riches to rags

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
September 6, 2021
Released July 30, Outer Banks season two brings 10 new, jam-packed episodes.

Kook-o for season two

Julia Sumpter, Opinions Editor
August 25, 2021
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