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Student Television Award of Excellence This photograph depicts a memorable moment for DHS junior, Sam Lazar. He was awarded a Crystal Pillar, which is the Student Television Award of Excellence. The award is offered by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Sam received the Crystal Pillar for excellence in sports reporting. He and other multimedia students from WDHS (the TV call name for Deerfield <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> video productions) attended the dinner ceremony. At the ceremony, Sam had the opportunity to meet many professional journalists from local TV studios. In this picture, Sam poses with Robert Jordan, an anchor from WGN TV, and Marion Brooks from NBC. To view WDHS student programs from the past school year, utilize this link: http://www.schooltube.com/user/WDHS back Respect the Red Students at Deerfield <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> “packed the place” during the boys‟ basketball season. The Varsity boys‟ basketball team developed a huge fan base because of their success as a team. With a record of 25-4 on the season, they won the CSL conference and the IHSA Regional title. Their coach, Bret Just was named the Pioneer Press Coach of the Year. The athletes worked with their fans to kick-off a Respect the Red campaign, which sought to increase school spirit and develop a culture of positive cheering, student attendance and participation at athletic events. Throughout the season, students represented their school and community in a FIRST CLASS manner, positively interacting with opposing fans and players. Later in the school year, the DHS fans garnered attention from a local band called, Endiskize, who wrote a song called “We Don‟t Back Down.” The song carries the themes of pride, spirit, adversity, resiliency, goals, victory…… all important characteristics valued by student athletes. The song was released to ESPN as a sports anthem and has been played on some of their broadcasts. DHS students were selected to film this music video because of the enthusiasm they showed in the student section at events. The song/ video was released on BET, VH1, MTV and ESPN. back