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Free State Girls Varsity Basketball 2013

darian koenig, photographer • February 25, 2013

doubling up

sarah lieberman, reporter • February 5, 2013

Sports require amazing amounts of dedication, commitment, and unfavorable sleep schedules. Senior Ben Sloan is in the pool practicing for swimming eight to nine times a week for approximately two and...

Gymnastic Program Overcomes All Difficulties

hannah reussner, reporter • January 24, 2013

Gymnastics is full of death-defying leaps, tangling twists and intricate routines on skinny beams. Gymnasts throw themselves through the air and catapult at neck-breaking speeds. So, it' s not a surprise...

Swimmer Sloan Signs with University of Massachusetts

sarah lieberman, reporter • January 15, 2013

Google Maps directs any Kansan on their way to the University of Massachusetts to pull into I-70 to begin the 21-hour drive to Amherst, Mass. Even for an athlete like senior Ben Sloan, the distance is...

NFL Player to Talk at Free State

sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief • January 11, 2013

This Monday, January 14, Cincinnati Bengals offensive tackle Anthony Collins will be at Free State to talk to any Can We Talk members and other students that want to attend. Collins, a KU grad, will speak...

The Life and Times of Title IX

kyra haas, Reporter • December 10, 2012

In 1975, Linda Wedge’s sister Rose made a monumental transition from playing church youth league basketball to playing varsity for her school. She was one of the first girls to don a jersey for her school,...

The Boys of Fall

ryan liston, reporter • December 10, 2012

A nearly undefeated football season ended on November 16 with a 48-21 loss to Shawnee Mission West. However, senior Kyle McFarland still feels that the season was a success. “We had a successful season,”...

Commitment for Success

hannah reussner, reporter • November 8, 2012

Kennedy Kirkpatrick: Basketball Senior Kennedy Kirkpatrick is home free. To start off year next year as a freshman in college, she is signing for a division one basketball school at Bowling Green University...

Sports Conditioning

kimberly messineo, reporter • August 30, 2012

Summer has drawn to an end, but the fall sports season has already begun. Late night games and celebrations haven’t started, but the preparation has been under way. Athletes have been preparing for...

Khadre Lane: Small School Player

kimberly messineo, reporter • May 14, 2012

“I just couldn't get over how many people are at Free State,” sophomore Khadre Lane said. Lane transferred from Bishop Seabury Academy during the middle of his sophomore year so he could experience...

Senior Sports: Fall vs. Spring

kimberly messineo, reporter • March 12, 2012

With the third quarter coming to an end, and graduation getting closer, seniors have a lot on their minds. For some, it’s finishing scholarship applications and awaiting acceptance letters. But for others,...

Wheeling to Victory

ciara sayler, reporter • March 7, 2012

When senior Lucas Mehl was first diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, he was in sixth grade. Still a young boy, he didn’t know what to think. “I was diagnosed and I really didn’t know what...