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@LibertyPublicat @libertyhspublications www.pinterest.com/tyearbook February/March 2019 Patriot Press News Team Volume 25: Issue 4 Liberty High School Talon Yearbook and Patriot Press Newspaper 6300 Independence Avenue, Bealeton, Virginia 22712 Buzzo Football Legacy Continues by Zoe Lowe season, and making it to states. ~Editor-in-Chief years. There are so many factors “Liberty football has in making the decision as well. had a great program over the “I have lived this life last 25 years, and it is a hon- of understanding the head of or to carry on the tradition,” coaching since I was little when said Coach Travis Buzzo. my father was head coach,” Coach Travis Buzzo be- said Coach Travis Buzzo. coming the head coach is a big “Honestly not only one change to the Liberty program, person inspired me to become while it impacts the returning a head coach. My dad and my players and last year’s seniors. coaches along the way, I would “I have played football say helped the most though. I went all four years of my high school from wanting to coach to wanting career, and honestly I am sad that to go into business to make more this past season was my last. I can money. I finally decided to do not wait to see where the LHS what I wanted to do. I am now football program goes with Buzzo the defensive coordinator at Em- being the new head coach. I think ory and Henry College. Coaching it is a positive step towards the fu- college football is not all that dif- #53 Travis Buzzo has always been Coach Travis Buzzo, one of the comfortable playing on the Liberty ture of the football program,” said ferent from teaching high school football,” said Tommy Buzzo. senior captians, posing for a High School football field since he senior Tony Santos. Coach Tommy Buzzo talking to picture on the field with his dad, was a young athlete. Travis has Travis’s football career Travis Buzzo and the rest of the Every team sets goals at Coach Tommy Buzzo. Photo been helping out with the football team before rushing out of the the beginning of their condition- courtesy of Coach Tommy Buzzo. team most of his life. Photo started when he was just a toddler. tunnel onto the field. This was courtesy of Coach Tommy Buzzo. “Travis was five years Travis’s senior year playing foot- ing season, from the team grinding hard in the weight room to grind- under Tommy Buzzo, I coached old when he really sparked an ball for the Liberty Eagles. Photo Travis on the offensive and de- As the Liberty commu- interest in football. He wanted to courtesy of Coach Tommy Buzzo. ing hard in the classrooms. Some- nity may know, the football staff thing to keep them motivated is fensive lines. I was very lucky play little league football, but I to bring Travis back to coach un- gained a new head coach this did not want him to. The Power ing, but everyone also develops to keep trying and never give up. winter. As Coach Travis Buzzo their own way of coaching as well. “This year, our goal is to der me. Honestly, I believe he is Rangers were big back then, so I the best fit to take over as head steps up and takes on a big re- tried to get him to take karate class- “I assume he has a stay focused, and to work hard. sponsibility, he becomes a part good amount of me in him, but Making it to states next season is coach. He grew up around the es, and he was not having any part football field atmosphere. I think of the football legacy. As many- of it. So I let him play football. He of course, every coach has their a big goal, but we have to take it may know Coach Buzzo’s dad own ways of coaching. Some little steps at a time. Starting with he is going to have a success- was really involved with the Lib- ful career coaching at Liberty. was one of the first head coaches. erty football team as a child too. advice that I would give to Tra- keeping grades, working hard on “I was the head coach vis would be to have a steady and off of the field. We will go I am sad to leave Liberty, Travis went from being the wa- but I am excited to be coaching at at Liberty for 10 years and Tra- terboy at five years old, to the course and stick to it. There are with the strategy of letting our vis was five when he became many different phases to being a players have full confidence in Patriot High School. I am coach- ball boy, to a freshman player, to ing and conditioning with the foot- the waterboy for the team,” a senior captain, to an assistant coach. I would also tell him to just themselves,” said Travis Buzzo. said Coach Tommy Buzzo. be himself,” said Tommy Buzzo. “I have been at Liberty ball team now three to four days coach, to the head coach at Lib- a week and start teaching in the Some of the teams big- erty,” said Coach Tommy Buzzo Inspiration plays a big for fourteen years. I coached un- gest goals for this upcoming sea- part in any type of coaching. der Coach Tommy Buzzo, and fall,” said Coach Sean Finnerty. Every coach picks up Congratulations to son are building up the football things from their years of playing Maybe from parents, or even oth- then became head coach when program, having a successful er coaches they have had over the he left. While I was coaching Coach Travis Buzzo on his new football, and even assistant coach- head coaching position. Saying Farewell to Coach Finn After Fourteen Years “Coach Finn always helped me “Coach Finn has taught me self lift during the off season. We discipline and respect. On a bad lifted together along with Tony day, he would be there for me. “One thing I learned from Coach “One thing I am going to miss “I am going to miss Coach Santos and it helped us get stron- When I did not have food, he was Finn was to keep pushing and about Coach Finn is how he Finn’s yelling and screaming. It ger. Coach Finn always looks out there. When I needed a shoulder never give up, no matter the always kept me in check, on and was espesically funny at some for his players. He helped me not to cry on, he was there. He was situation,” said senior Jordan off the field. And I am going to times and scary at others. No only on the field, but also in the not just a coach to me, or anyone Mighty. miss his support,” said senior one will ever match his yell or classroom. Whether it was being on the team, he was a friend, and Cornelius Minifield. his coaching style,” said senior a linebacker or needing help with a father figure,” said senior Tony Raymond Morton. school, he was always there for Santos. me,” said senior Jake Waldo. 2 News February/March 2019 25 Years of Liberty Tradition 25 years have passed by Melissa Reyes were a lot more willing to dive since Liberty High School first ~Staff Reporter in and work. That’s not very opened. Since opening in 1994, air. There was a feeling that great nice, but it’s something I have Liberty has changed in a num- things were possible and likely,” noticed over the years. I still am ber of ways. Every year there said math teacher Ms. Wynn. lucky I get wonderful students are new students, and some- “A lot of teachers for the most part, who want to times new teachers. There are were coming together in a new stay forever,” said Mrs. Kissell. few teachers that have been at school, so some of us knew These teachers have also Liberty since the beginning. The each other and some of us did seen many things change for them. teachers that have been here not,” explained Mrs. Kissell. “I think a little more since the beginning still remem- Over the years these interactivity in the classroom ber what it was like back then. teachers have seen many changes. where they’re not just sitting Mrs. Kissell is the Latin “There have been many chang- there talking the entire time, Address: 11077 Marsh Rd C, teacher here at Liberty who has es to the staff, including three there's a lot more more activi- been here since the beginning. or four different principals. The ties going on,” said Mrs. Jacobs. Bealeton, Va 22712 Mrs. Kissell described the time building is not quite as shiny “Teachers have more ac- Phone: (540)-439-9054 when Liberty first opened. Stu- and new, but it is still clean cess to technology now. We used dents actually had a choice as and bright,” said Ms. Wynn. to use paper gradebooks and we to which school they want- “There have been didn’t have any computers in our ed to go to, either to stay at staff changes, people retired, classrooms,” said Ms. Wynn. Fauquier or go to Liberty. people moved away, students “Certainly the use of ATC Insurance Agency, Inc. “Seniors had the changed schools, and I’ve been technology has changed drasti- Auto, Motorcycle, Home, Business choice whether to go to Lib- here through several different cally, we had chalkboards and we erty or Fauquier,” said Lat- principals,” said Mrs.Kissell.