From the start of the second semester, Indiana has experienced unexpected extreme cold weather affecting school life, student drivers, and sports. With temperatures reaching into the negatives, along with icy roads and sleet, students have had to adjust their lives to accommodate weather conditions.

Entering her first semester of lacrosse, Audrey Wagner ‘27 reflected on the kickoff of her season: “Well, we haven’t had as many practices as we’re supposed to. So it’s kind of difficult to get into the start of things, but I think it’s going pretty well based on what practices we have had.” Due to the extreme temperatures, practices for emerging spring sports have had to face much flexibility with scheduling practices around with weather.

Similarly, boys lacrosse has also dealt with this struggle. Colin Stevens ‘25, discussed his experience with box lacrosse as an alternate form of practice, sharing, “We’ve incorporated box lacrosse which is just like a hockey rink with grass, but it’s indoor. So we’ve been able to still get wall ball and the fundamentals in in practice as a team which is going to help us in the spring.”

In addition to sports, there have been changes in school life. With icy roads and the traffic light breaking outside of the school, the staff at Brebeuf have been more lenient on tardies as the commute to school is complicated. 

On Friday, January 19th, with below zero wind chill, high winds, and snow, the school experienced its first two hour delay of the school year. The delay brought a lot of disruption for students, as the day was set up with 48 minute classes and no PRTs. 

Señora Grimes commented on the craziness of the 2-hour delay: “It’s definitely harder to get students focused. And I just feel like with two hour delays, students are just really squirrely, and they don’t have time to take a breath, even though they started later.”

Now that the weather is heating up, life at Brebeuf is turning back to the norm. With temperatures reaching the 50’s, sports are back in full swing and the winter weather’s effects on the school have diminished.