We are happy to present our final issue of the Radnor Sports Rounddown for this year! It’s been an amazing year for Radnor athletics, with amazing accomplishments like girls’ Canoeing taking home the Olympic bronze and boys’ Trampolining making it to district semifinals. It feels bittersweet to say goodbye, but I’m just so happy that I could be your Rounddown editor. Without further ado, here’s the last batch of blurbs for Radnor’s most talented athletes.
-Anrui
Hacky Sack – Grace Gullan
After cold temperatures cut the fall season short, the Radnor Hacky Sack Team is back and ready for an incredible season! Their first match of the year this past Tuesday against Upper Darby during Lunch A ended in a phenomenal win of 182-156. A special shoutout to the juniors, who took up strong leadership as they kicked with both the inside and outside of their feet. Despite some challenging matches in the next few weeks, the team is ready to come out on top, even following an intense lack of training this past winter. In other team news, RAHS celebrates their seniors at their home game against Conestoga later this month during Learn 2 – don’t forget to come out to the quad to cheer them on!
Water Polo – Evie Oakley
Radnor Water Polo has had an amazing year, sending over fifteen of their athletes to top schools! The program’s success is reportedly due in large part to the team’s trademark teal uniforms, affectionately called “varsity blues,” which help players to blend in with the water and sneak past opponents. The RHS athletic department’s annual fiscal report named the team as Radnor’s most revenue-generating sport. Coach Krupp credited the team’s financial success to their “amazing management and low operating costs, as our only real expense is the Photoshop subscription.”
Keep-The-Balloon-Up – Ema Zhang
The season was brought to a close last week in our final game against Springfield. However, before I declare the score of this game, it’s been brought to our attention that some of our peers have not heard of this sport and are unclear on the rules of this age-old game. There are 5 rounds in a game, each of which lasts 2 minutes and consists of 1 individual from each team. If the balloon hits the ground, the person who last touched it will automatically lose and earn no points for the entire round. If the balloon does not touch the ground for the entire time, then the person who hit it the most times will win. Points are the number of times the player hit the balloon in the round. Now the few of you who were not invested in this game before are under the same suspense as the rest of us… we destroyed Springfield with a score of 159-102! Despite the rough start to this season, our coaches and athletes are extremely pleased with their performance in general, and we could not be more proud of them! One coach shares: “Our guys have worked so hard this season, it would defy the laws of human nature if they lost this game.” Keep it up, RKBU!
Disc Golf – Henry Bishop
RADG actually won the state championship last year, but everybody hit the transfer portal this year so they didn’t have anybody this year. Next blurb.
Cheesewheeling – Sophie Mascioli
As temperatures finally warm up, it becomes time to prepare the grounds for perhaps the single most exhilarating sporting event: cheesewheeling. For any peons who somehow have not heard of this legendary sport, it consists of a tense race down a practically vertical steep hill. Radnor’s Cheesewheeling team has been working countless hours to prepare for what is ultimately the race of a lifetime, spending many days focusing on technique and debating over how to best handle the hill: run or roll? Regardless, practices have been devoted to both strategies, ensuring that the ideal radius is reached for rolling down a hill at the ideal speed. An emphasis has been placed on safety as well, as injuries are quite common; however, as the RACW coaches always say, “no pain, no gain!” A broken bone can always be fixed. Anyhow, we recommend you show up to support Radnor’s courageous Cheesewheelers as they show school pride and race down that hill in hopes of bringing home the grand prize: a very useful 8-pound wheel of cheese! (Essentials of Cooking students are required to attend, as their cheese rations are getting low.)
Sepak Takraw – Martin Moon
Unfortunately, Radnor’s attempts to start a Sepak Takraw team have not gone very well. In their inaugural season, all of the players ended up being injured in practice before a single game could be played due to a few backflip kick drills going badly. We will keep our heads up for next year in hopes of healing everyone’s ankles and getting back onto the court!
Shooting Trash Into Trash Cans – Liv Gai
As the 2025-2026 school year is coming to a close, we round off another highly successful year of shooting-trash-into-trash-cans. Though it pains us to see that the season is ending so soon, let’s go over some season highlights and numbers. Overall, this year has proven to be an incredible one for all our contenders, with the leading demographic once again being freshmen boys and middle-aged male teachers. Though this sport is often played casually, the newly formed SEPASTITCL (South-East Pennsylvania Shooting Trash Into Trash Cans League) has required for season demographics to be officially posted outside the SEPASTITCL headquarters, in the basement level of 6741 Main Street, Radnor, PA, the residency of the league’s founder, Imaloser (pronounced John) Smith, and his mother. From the demographics, we can see that the popularity of this sport continues to grow exponentially, however the number of “wins” (pieces of trash successfully thrown in the can on the first try) does not grow at the same rate as the popularity. In fact, in some regions it seems to be regressing, which is a story for another time. In Radnor, we are happy to report that the win rate is at a triumphant 8%, which is 8 more than past seasons. We are so proud of all of our contenders, and hope they return to play again next year. We’ll miss you seniors and retiring teachers!
Spikeball – Evan Duff
As summer approaches, one game is taking all of the attention; spike ball. This fast-paced game incorporates volleyball and elements of four square. It’s very simple to learn, but it’s hard to keep up with some of Radnor’s best. The squad of Wesley Sule, Jacob Dankwerth, Hugh [HuggyBlizz] Blisard are entering the championship for the National Spikeball conference. Wesley Sule and Jacob Dankwerth use their peak athleticism to ravage competitors. Sule uses his quick agility to make plays that are seemingly impossible while Dankwerth uses his strength to slam the Spike ball down with uncanny power. Hugh [HuggyBlizz] Blisard is their super sub and is versatile to play both of these roles. Good luck to our athletes!
Interested in writing about Radnor sports for the Rounddown? Contact our editors for next year, Martin Moon and Evie Oakley, by smoke signal!
