SpaceX: The Future of Travel

By Travis Ostby The word ‘space’ creates images of the planets, stars, and even the objects non-existent or undiscovered. The vast amount of research and development put into space missions encounter limited materials and limited human-resources. However, the technological age arrives and with it brings new opportunities of exploration and resupply by means of reusable…

Same Lanes, Different Days

By Travis Ostby Balls rolling down bowling lanes and ivory-colored pins falling sets the scene for the Madison bowling team as they clutched a spot for regionals, and a chance to compete in state. The amount of practice that goes into each game  tremendous. After countless hours spent at Brunswick to prepare themselves, the team…

Playoffs Bring Praise To Madison

By Travis Ostby The sounds of pads hitting other pads and the crowd cheering with every score fill every stadium that Madison plays at, especially those that hold the playoff games. Every game is an emotional roller-coaster for the team and the student body as a whole. Madison entered the post-season with high hopes of…

Madison To Meet Rockets In Playoffs

By Travis Ostby With the streak of lost games in the Alamodome broken, and many touchdowns scored, the Mavericks set off to face Judson to battle for a spot in the semifinals. After the victories over New Braunfels, O’Connor, and Sharyland, Madison advances to the quarterfinals of the state championship playoffs to play Judson at…

Bowling Team Rolls To First Victory

By Travis Ostby The bowling lanes of Brunswick were filled with excitement and nervousness as the Madison bowling team took to the pins for their first match of the season. Making their way to the bowling alley, the girl’s team was down one player, as grades made her ineligible to play,  thus they started the…

First Nine Weeks Withers Away

By Travis Ostby As the nine weeks comes to a close, students and teachers alike move at a quick pace to get all due assignments in before the grading window shuts, and the new one opens. But with that brings stress for both students and teachers. During each nine-weeks, grades are compiled into a big…

Mavericks Stomp Out The Antlers

By Travis Ostby The Friday night lights shine bright in Kerrville, the roar of the crowd for each team fills the stadium and areas surrounding. Madison and Tivy both take the field to give their all for this victory for week two. Only one left with the glory, and the other with only pride. The…

New Rules and New Beginnings

By Travis Ostby With the new school year beginning, the administrative staff at Madison – both old and recently added – set out to enforce all of the old school policies everyone’s used to, or the recently changed ones, much more efficiently than years past. As many Sophomores and Juniors probably noticed, the discipline assemblies…