Category Archives: Honors Features

Longer, more in-depth features written by Honors students over the course of a semester.

Honors Feature: The Gift of Stories

By June Evins Henrietta Mayer Bach always said, “Use your head for more than a hat rack.”  If you tried to rush…

Honors Feature: How NIL has Changed The College Athletics World Forever

By Miles Prusek On June 30, 2021, the NCAA passed an interim name, image, likeness policy (NIL) that would allow NCAA players…

Honors Feature: The Opioid Crisis: How Deceptive Advertising Helped Trigger An Epidemic

By Jane Roberts Following a nearly 500% increase in prescription opioid-induced overdoses of Americans from 1999 to 2017, according to the National…

Honors Feature: My Thalhimer Roots: Reflections on History, Community, and Collegiate

By Katie Adamson If you are a Richmond native, you have likely heard the name “Thalhimer” at some point in your life….

Honors Project: How Climate Change Is Changing The Skiing Industry

By Tyler Stepanian I glided through the snow, making crisp carves and turns that cut into the powder below me. The wind…

Does Music Have Healing Powers?

By Nisah Allauddin Albert Einstein said, “Life without playing music is inconceivable to me. I live my daydreams in music. I see…

Olga Mudrak: Skater, Coach, Mentor, Immigrant

By Maia Zasler I have been figure skating since I was three years old. I started taking lessons from one of my…

Concussions and CTE in American Football

By Ashwin Aggarwal The National Football League (NFL) has been put under the spotlight recently for an alarming increase in brain injuries…

The World Cup: History and Predictions

By Sam Smith Hundreds of thousands of people flood the country. In cities, streets are packed, the hotels are all booked, the…

Transgender Teens in America

The opinions published by The Match are solely those of the author, and not of the entire publication, its staff, or Collegiate School. The Match welcomes…