Throughout the two-week Olympic games in Paris, American sprinter and 100-meter dash champion Noah Lyles went viral online for his criticism of American leagues and players, igniting rifts between players...

Hard work over talent. This mantra runs incessantly through Brayden Washington’s (10) head as he runs, lifts and practices. Standing at 6-feet-5 and weighing in at almost 300 pounds, Washington not only...

Silently eating, a girl in special education sat alone during lunch. Even at 6-years-old, Remi Richardson knew this was not right. After receiving a reward for eating lunch with her teacher with the choice...

It’s 7 on 7.  He’s on the line. His mind is clear.  No. 7 is ready to do what he does best — run the route.  What began as 7 on 7 with friends led to starting on the varsity football...

124 years to the day after Olympic water polo debuted in the River Seine, Team USA led Hungary 3-0 in a penalty shootout during the bronze medal match, in the same city where the sport first made its Olympic...

Sophomore swimmer Sarah Paisley Owen recently competed in the 2024 Olympic Trials, adding to her list of accomplishments. She competed in the preliminaries, which is the first round, and placed second...

0.00015871%. That’s the percentage of US Olympians relative to our population. It makes sense of course, because these are the best of the best. The New Trier Township doesn't have a massive population,...

WOODBURY -- No one knows exactly where it began -- a combination of rumor, hearsay, and speculation -- but the spoon has grown to become Nonnewaug High School’s unofficial mascot. Students, especially...

Davis Field buzzes with excitement as the varsity football team huddles up to prepare for its season opener. When a whistle blows at the start of the game, the players begin to spread out, but something...

Of all the athletes who have graduated from Alexandria City High School, none have hit it as big as Noah Lyles ‘16, the recently crowned fastest man alive. It felt like the whole world was holding...

Grit: courage, resolve and strength of character.  However, to Coppell cross country runner and senior Pranav Vegiraju, it is more than what the book definition says. With temperatures higher than...

Since senior Courtney Daniel started throwing shot put and discus in seventh grade, she dreamed of throwing at an SEC school. Daniel had five trips planned over consecutive weeks this semester, but one...

He’s not racing for the awards. He’s racing because he wants to be there. For junior Rory Pilcher, racing is never far from his mind. Underneath a gray hoodie, he typically wears a shirt from the...

Feet stomping. Hands clapping. Arms rolling. “Everybody rumble!” The fan favorite cheer, dubbed the ‘Longhorn Rumble,’ echoes through the air during a fall football weekend where the Longhorns...

Amaris Vazquez, who graduated in 2023, has trained for years for one lifelong goal: to make the Paralympics for the Paris 2024 games. “I always wanted to make it to a high level and knew that was...

The door opens, and the crowd cheers. They walk to home plate, then to first, and finish by sprinting to second and third. The crowd begins to start the wave. The smell of kettle corn and hot dogs looms...

Less is more. Everyone knows the saying, but the motto rings especially true for Coppell senior wide receiver Tucker Cusano. There tends to be a very specific stereotype around the position group:...

Execution. Technique. Originality. Vocabulary. Musicality. Breaking, commonly known as breakdancing, made its debut in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Freshman Caroline Le watched the first-ever Olympic...

As Revere football fans’ cheers and yells quieted between the first and second quarters of the season-opening game, Casey Nance, Larry Nance Jr. and Pete Nance stepped onto the track alongside their...

The Arizona Interscholastic Association’s motto, “Pursuing victory with honor,” perfectly encapsulates the athletic program at Xavier. For generations Gator athletes have pursued excellence on the...

When Ean Jones (11), Chancellor Gray (12) and Bryan Bratcher (12) first joined high school football, the team lacked confidence. From 2021-2022, the team had only won a third of the games they played and...

As the Wildcats gear up for their matchup tonight, the backfield will be without a key aspect from years past. Their star running back, junior Dylan Byrd, transferred to Whitman in the offseason. Although...

Sophomore Eduardo Arcile's breath was heavy. He watched the mass of runners far ahead of him. Shin splints he earned from the practice before only helped widen the gap. He noticed teammate sophomore...

Students at West High take pride in their extracurriculars, often showcasing their spirit on and off campus. However, this fall season, news of the recent discontinuation of junior varsity, freshmen or...

Junior Hunter Turkstra was in disbelief walking into his AAA locker room on gameday for the first time.  From freshly painted walls, brand new carpet, jerseys hung neatly over each stall, and the name...

Starr’s Mill alumni Cole Bishop and Sam Martin will now be playing together in the Buffalo Bills. With Bishop just starting his career as a rookie and Martin entering his 12th year in the NFL, their...

Tears came at practice this past week when senior Hannah Lee realized her broken toe might keep her from competing, but now Lee said she will dive in and play tonight to help her team defeat Lewisville...

**This article was also published in Headliners in Education In the bottom of the ninth inning, bases loaded in a 5-5 game, in walks the ace closer. First throw, he strikes in a 98-mile-per-hour four-seam...

Scholastic recognition is nothing new to The Nest, but a former Redhawk brought a new honor to campus on Friday when 2011 graduate Jay Ajayi took the field at the Ford Center as part of the 2025 class...

For many high school students, fall nights are defined by one thing–football. Athletes have waited all year to step onto the turf wearing varsity numbers, cheerleaders have spent months practicing routines...

After helping lead the University of Connecticut (UConn) mens’ basketball team to back-to-back NCAA National Championships, former Algonquin player and Southborough native Alex Karaban returned to...

When she was four years old, World Languages and Cultures Teacher Tamara Smith watched the 1976 Montreal Olympics on TV, and it altered the course of her life. “I saw the Soviet pair skaters clearly...

Head baseball coach and PE teacher Bryan Resnick created his YouTube channel Domingo Ayala in 2009 as a casual hobby with friends in the dugout. Now, with over 223,000 subscribers and a total of 42 million...

Junior Mia Milicevic played many sports as a kid, including soccer and swimming; however, one of her childhood hobbies has followed her as she has grown up in the last eight years. Tennis has been a constant...

Junior Madeleine Simmons acquired her love for the sport of swimming at a very young age. From watching her two older siblings and the swim team at her summer pool practice, she always knew she was destined...

The term “skater kid” often conjures images of a rebellious teenage boy clad in baggy jeans, skateboard tucked under one arm. Part of this stereotype holds some truth: many skateboarders wear similar...

Anyone who knows Panther baseball for the past five years knows that this year’s state championship is no surprise. It was foretold that the Panthers would come out on top.  This senior class propelled...

On April 4, the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team announced that they would relocate to Sacramento for the 2025 through 2027 baseball seasons. The announcement has been met with mostly negative...

As the official blows his whistle to signal five minutes until the cross country race begins, runner Laney Parmeley rips open a packet of Skittles while Reese McDevitt drinks honey from a small bottle....

According to the St. Louis Youth Soccer Association, there are over 1,000 soccer clubs in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Rockwood United SC is one of these teams. Rockwood United SC was created...

Noora von Bulow (’27) started horse riding at the age of 4, trained competitively at the age of 8, was on the national team at 12, and now represents the U18 Great Britain team internationally.  ...

Senior Tommie Aberle is an accomplished multi-sport athlete; his skills, raw talent, and athletic versatility are undeniable. Aberle’s accomplishments in basketball include earning three-time All-Conference...

While powerlifting, weightlifting and lifting have some similarities, powerlifting’s aim is different. At its base, powerlifting is the effort to maximize absolute strength in the three main lifts of...

SBHS former girls soccer coach Kylie Cerra remembers when she decided to quit coaching. It was halfway through the 2022-2023 girls soccer season and she was looking forward to having her free time...

Junior Jaden Perez took first in the Panam Trials at 60kg, or 152 pounds. He will now be representing Puerto Rico in the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic at the end of June. Perez found...

Senior Asa Rosenberg is used to sticking the landing. Ten years as a gymnast taught him that much. But now, there’s no solid ground to catch him. There’s just the free fall from three meters up and...