Where's my Shirt? (From the 1996 Academian)
by Adam Kukic and Matt King

    We were the defending WPIAL champs. The first day of pracitce: six upperclassme, about 30 underclassmen - not the makings for a successful season. It came as a surprise to once again reach states. The two reasons for our success: strong leadership and amazingly good freshmen runners.
    The captains were a mixed bunch. Jared Williamson, a psycho-fitness man; Adam Kukic - the mature, slacking senior, and immature joker, Matt King. We soon became compatible. Old traditions were put aside, discounting SUDA, and new ones were formed. Unfortunately, Matt fell to a mysterious ailment and could not continue after one month of the season.
    The outlook after having lost Matt was bleak. We still had Jared at #1, and Adam at #2, but who would be #3? Brandon Tung. Frosh Brandon's talent is immeasurable. Pat Dickinson and Andre Moura rounded out the top five. As freshmen these runners are bound to improve. Ganesh Muthappan, Drew Gifford, John Baglier, Rob Csendes, Dan Nguyen, Bryan Bailey, and J.R. Urish also contributed to the teams success. We won IPSL, and came in fourth at WPIAL finals, two runners away from going to states. Brandon, however, did go, after placing 13th overall in WPIAL championship. [sic]
    The season would not have been complete without several other key events. Mac, great managers, Adam's and Dan's love for field hockey, other athlete's support, Jared's and Adam's barefoot runs, J.R.'s science outreach pleas, Adam's wonderful announcements, no initiating, Brandon and Andre the kleptomaniacs, the team's financial losses, the rainbow at WRA, and most important, everybody's fear of Satan. Oh, and did anyone see our team shirts? We seem to have lost them.