At the start of this year’s Unified Bowling season, things were looking uncertain for MN. A majority of the team’s bowlers were new to the sport, a departure from previous years, when the team had many seasoned bowlers. Additionally, the added factor of the COVID-19 pandemic had thrown a wrench into plans.  However, despite these starting hurdles, Unified Bowling coach Tricia Rohde says that...

Suspense hangs in the air, looming over the golfers as they anticipate the results of the tournament. Tensions are higher than ever for senior Katie Ruge, who is about to discover how her last golf tournament in high school will turn out. On October 11th and 12th, the Millard North Girls’ Golf team competed at the state tournament in Norfolk, their last competition of the season. After two months...

Someone sprints past you and you watch as his blurred figure rushes past the crowd you are standing in. His blonde hair flies in the wind as he flies through the racecourse. Senior Will Ramsey has been on the varsity cross country team at Millard North since his freshman year. “I enjoy running because it simply makes me feel good. I don’t think it’s much more complicated than that,” Ramsey...

After starting the fall morning with a Mustang Mentoring meeting, selling cookies to raise money for DECA, and planning school fundraisers for the Student Council, senior Ava Hollingsworth ends the school day by heading on over to the track to run for cross country and later heads home to finish mountains of homework for AP and honors classes.  After a day filled with nonstop work, Hollingsworth...

Heavy breathing echoed throughout the weight room as the MN swim team trained for their upcoming season. Everyone's breath seemed to hitch as junior Andrew Zheng fell to the ground.  On Nov. 23, Zheng was doing box jumps and surpassed the height of the box, inadvertently kicking it out from underneath him. Zheng fell to the ground fracturing his radius.  After setting the school record in the...

The camera pans the field, first focusing on the star players, then shifting to the sidelines full of coaches, trainers, and even more players, before it finally lands on the stands.  There is something a bit different about the stands this year… they are practically empty, or in some cases, completely void of all fans.  This season, the National Football League is having to do something...

The players on the court seem miles below the stands, and yet, all of their actions; every twitch of their hand throwing the ball back into another dribble, seem microscopically visible. All the sounds, whether it be the rhythmic thud of the basketball on the court floor or the frantic thud of students jumping up and down on the stands, all feels equally projected directly into your brain. It all comes...