As Jen McLain and her brother walked to school, they passed by a house owned by their neighborhood’s resident “crazy cat lady.” Everyday they saw what seemed like dozens of cats lazily lying around….

Luc Wehby could no longer handle the pounding in his head. It had been throbbing since the night before. Now, as he sat in his sixth-grade World Cultures class, he finally gave in and asked to go to the…

Lexi Shannon stood outside of the plane before her first solo flight. Her dad waited for her to ask the same questions his other flight students always ask.
“Are you sure I’m ready?” they ask him….

Everyone in the world has a story: things they care about, things they love. This, for the Smoot family, is Texas A&M university.
“A&M is the one thing that connects my whole family,” freshman…

After a six-hour work day in Daytona, Fla., sophomore Arrie Shockley and 15 other exhausted teenagers ran across the street to 7-Eleven. They bought all the snacks they could afford and made their way…

Ashton Smith rushed from one event to another.
He dressed in his Parker the Panther suit for Friday night football. The next morning he posed with little kids at the Silver Star dance camp.

He then…

People know senior Katina Mundemba as many things: a high-achieving honor student, a varsity-level cross country runner, and a member of both STUCO and NHS. What most don’t realize is that he and his…

Soccer practice had just ended when they noticed the bump.

“Did you roll your ankle?” Scott Ahrendt asked his then 9-year-old son.

“No,” Landon Ahrendt replied as he took off his shin guards.
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Senior Maddie Sandquist had imagined it a thousand times. The roar of the crowd, the anticipation, and the pure exaltation had run through her dreams time and time again. These dreams came to fruition…

Emma Yeager wonders what being normal even means. 

To the sophomore, normal is missing sleepovers and parties for soccer practices and games. Normal is scoring goals around the country as one of the…

A smile grew across senior Parker Ryan’s face as he cut through the red ribbon that was held in front of the tiny home he designed and helped construct as lead architect. The home was donated to U.S….

Senior Maddie Sandquist paced the purple mat in her lucky cherry pie socks. Junior Lexi Shannon played a game of solitaire on her phone. Each tried to distract themselves before their final matches. 
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Jesse Cervantes jogged to the 25 yard line, yelling alongside his teammates with a grin on his face. He had just scored his first goal of the 5A boys state semifinal game when he looked into the crowd…

Over the last seven years, ever since the worst day of her granddaughters’ lives, DeeDee Kirsch helped pick up the pieces of their broken hearts. She took the girls to work when they were sick and snuck…

Learning to ride one’s bike is a rite of passage many will never forget. What’s more, the memories of riding it will often stick with a person, whether it be the first time they get up after a fall…

The nerves were intense as Shiloh Wilson tried to regroup after being bucked off his first horse in the biggest rodeo competition of his short career. A moment before the 7-year-old got on his second horse,…

Foreign exchange students Cindy Schiller, Mariu Bertolo and Clara Schulze spent their junior years at Kingwood Park. The girls were supposed to fly back to their home countries in early June, but nothing…

With the amount of hours teachers and coaches spend at school, it is often difficult for them to find time to focus on their own personal fitness. Many have additional after-school commitments and families…

In 2018 there was a record number of 24 school shootings across America in which students were killed or injured. Ten of those students were at Santa Fe High School – just 61 miles from Kingwood Park High…

FFA students spent months preparing to show their animals at the Houston Livestock Show. They were devastated when Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced the livestock show was closing almost two weeks…

The schedule that algebra teacher Kathryn Espinosa made for her kindergartner Lilly was not very well received. The six-year-old drew an X through each heart that represented the lessons that she would…

Principal Lisa Drabing spent the past week and a half working to get electronic devices in the hands of students. Humble ISD rolled out its fourth nine-week grading plan on March 29, and since then Drabing…

In November, Summer Creek alum Sarah Smithson moved to Shanghai, China, to work at Disney English. The 2015 graduate was set to spend 14 months teaching English to children in China through a Walt Disney…

Senior Jacob Allen has crossed the sea in order to compete in races all over the world, and he credits his success to one thing – his pre-race meal of chocolate cake.

“I eat chocolate cake every time,”…

Megan Krippel had waited three years for this semester. The St. Mary’s University junior moved to France to study abroad in January. However, nothing has gone as planned. She spent the past few days…

For 27 minutes, sophomore Kate Tiedtke lay on the floor, her gray Nike sweatshirt cut in pieces at her side.

For 27 minutes last December, it didn’t matter that the sophomore was ranked first in her…

A few seconds was all it took. For senior Luisa Alcala, her dreams of collegiate swimming vanished when she felt the pop. Her childhood dream vanished as quickly as the pain rose.

“I remember it like…

In James Showers’ 30-year coaching career, he has coached a half dozen sports, reached the playoffs and won coaching awards. The accomplishment he considers his greatest, however, did not happen on the…

Senior Libby Overmyer changed in and out of dance tutus, heels and fancy outfits 10 times a day. She pretended to be a ballerina and practiced back handsprings in her yard daily, convinced she would become…

Pond water was already pooling inside Hoa Do’s living room when she woke up on Sept. 19.

She faced the water alone. With her parents at work, the sophomore began to worry.

She was afraid her parents’…

The broom strokes echo rhythmically through the FFA barns as Ellie May works on her new victim. Her black snout sniffs around before choosing a pair of black and white Adidas. Senior Lauren Kocian wasn’t…

Sandwiches, dip and cakes filled the kitchen table at the Stanton household as guests filed in wearing “crazy pants” as requested on the invitation. Joseph Stanton, the birthday boy, wore a yellow…

If there’s one thing the Golden siblings can’t agree on, it’s who would win in a race. They all know that John, a junior and the oldest of the three at Kingwood Park, would come in first, but the…

Brooks Powell found success early. He was a three-time state champion swimmer at Kingwood Park, National Honor Society president and homecoming king. He then went on to become the first in his family to…

Senior Sam Johansen never intended on being a quarterback his senior year. In fact, he had been looking forward to spending his third year on the varsity football team as a linebacker. However, his coaches…

Going from a class of 33 students into a class of 500 can be a bit challenging, but freshman Juan Cintron has found has groove at KPARK. Cintron is one of  many transfer students from St. Martha Catholic…