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At the end of his race, Freshman Miles Patterson runs through an injury. Photo by Ty Browning

Posted May 8, 2017

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Starting 73 feet away, junior Cate Conrad ran full

Starting 73 feet away, junior Cate Conrad ran full speed at the 11’3” pole vaulting bar. After a warmup that felt mediocre, she didn’t expect much. She’d never cleared this height before.

Conrad ran 12 steps on the Blue Valley High School track, launched herself off the track with her left foot and hoisted herself up using the 13-foot pole vault. She flipped over in the air and her back hit the memory-foam-like mat.

She had just cleared a new height for the first time since last May.

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I’ve read 91 books in the past year, and only th

I’ve read 91 books in the past year, and only three have made me audibly gasp or set my drink down to process a plot point, but “Fearless,” by Lauren Roberts, was among the few that did. Alongside the shock, the book also left me in tears, staring at the wall after finishing the epilogue. Considering I’ve cried over three books in my life, this story is now one of my favorites.

“Fearless” is the last of the fantasy romance trilogy, “Powerless.” The main plot of these books is centered around a kingdom divided by the Ordinaries, who have no powers, and the Elites, who do.

I take my Goodreads account and ratings very seriously, so when I rated this a five out of five, those stars were earned. I found myself constantly taking pictures of pages to come back and dissect them — a tell-tale sign of a good book.

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The Varsity Baseball team will play against Rockhu

The Varsity Baseball team will play against Rockhurst today at 7:00 P.M. at 3 & 2 Baseball ComplexField 1 and celebrate the seniors during their senior night.

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Then-juniors Elizabeth Starr and Zoe McCamy woke u

Then-juniors Elizabeth Starr and Zoe McCamy woke up every morning at 7 to the sounds of birds chirping and rain falling on the tin roof of the compound they were staying in with 18 other girls.

After a breakfast of rice, beans, a cheese called queso de freir and plantains, Starr and McCamy spent the day and the following week mixing concrete for a pastor’s home. They also took care of single mothers’ kids at the local San Isidro, Costa Rica day care.

“You subconsciously just feel better about yourself, in a sense,” McCamy said. “And I’m not doing it for myself. I’m doing it for everyone else.”

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Sophomore Catherine Sullivan played her fifth game

Sophomore Catherine Sullivan played her fifth game for the C team this year after tearing her ACL during the first week of last year’s season. Sullivan was unable to play her freshman year and was finally cleared to play right before this year’s tryouts. Within the first 20 minutes of the game, Girls C team scored against Olathe South. Sophomore Annie Trenkle scored two of the three goals against Olathe South, both in the first half. Trenkle was pulled up to play with the girls JV soccer team the previous week. The remaining goal was scored by freshman Sadie Jolicoeur in the second half. The girls overall record is four wins, one tie and two losses.

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The varsity softball team will play against Lawren

The varsity softball team will play against Lawrence Free State at 6 P.M. at the Shawnee Mission Softball Complex.

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The first time I walked through the glass doors of

The first time I walked through the glass doors of the SM East library, I passed a dim and oddly rectangular room. Naturally, I assumed it was storage or maybe even a depressing teachers lounge.

But, in the coming weeks, I came to know this room as the paper-copying, packet-stapling, worksheet-printing hub of East.

Although I was used to doing paper tests and quizzes, the rationale behind using paper — a precious resource — to print out busywork, such as vocabulary bingo and mathematician crossword puzzles, was unclear.

In a new age of technology with students armed with MacBooks and iPads, traditional, paper-based education shouldn’t be the focus. To move into the modern area of education, SMSD should eliminate using paper for coursework other than quizzes and tests.

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Girls swim and dive senior night will be tonight a

Girls swim and dive senior night will be tonight at 4:30 p.m. at Shawnee Mission Aquatic Center.

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