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SMNW

The Student News Site of Shawnee Mission Northwest

SMNW

The Student News Site of Shawnee Mission Northwest

SMNW

Student Profiles

WITHOUT BREAKING

WITHOUT BREAKING

Sofia Ball October 24, 2025

Junior Husna Asalati’s feet pound the cracked pavement. Hard. The almost-90 degree heat is stifling. Thick droplets of sweat swim down Asalati’s neck. A stream of cars whoosh by on 67th street as she...

BEYOND THE SIDELINES

Sofia Ball August 18, 2025

  Northwest cheer has stacked expectations for the new season.  After having time to rest and rebuild their team, they are fixated on winning big at the state competition, expanding their knowledge...

GROWTH

Sofia Ball August 18, 2025

Dance team is ready to perform before a roaring student section with hair glitter, smiles and high kicks once again. To prepare for the season, over summer break they’ve had dance practice, band camp...

PREPARING FOR THE SEASON

Kayla Chege August 18, 2025

While most teenagers were asleep over the summer at 7:15 a.m, sophomore Micah Baker was hitting the hot summer pavement with her cross country teammates by her side.  What started out as soccer conditioning...

GREEN RIBBONS

GREEN RIBBONS

Claire Rodgers August 18, 2025

She walks past the rows of gravestones, where his headstone would soon join. The weight of her best friend's casket in her hands.  She walks through the field of green, dew-covered grass in a green...

Smiling, junior Charles Lin cuts a green onion April 4 in his house. Lin cuts many green onions and oranges daily for his culinary classes.
Photo by Cooper Evans

DIFFERENT

Sofia Ball May 12, 2025

Junior Charles Lin is no stranger to the inner workings of a kitchen. In second grade, every day he would walk home, alone, from the bus stop. And on those days he had the same routine. Slip off...

Freshman Tessa Brocker claps her hands together on Nov. 19, 2025 in Room 151

WHAT IT TAKES TO HEAL

Harper Ward March 15, 2025

Freshman Tessa Brocker left the first gymnastics meet of her 2025 season limping.  Her Achilles tendon had been bothering her for a couple of years, but it was starting to hurt worse and worse.  Her...

DATE NIGHTS IN KC

DATE NIGHTS IN KC

Sophia Ragan, Staff Writer March 15, 2025
Freshmen Brooklyn Goilford and Emmet Hyter have been dating for nine months on March 10. The two have been friends since the summer before eighth grade, and have lived close to each other since elementary school. Hyter and Goilford hang out at each other’s houses whenever they can, watching movies and baking.  “If I had the money to go on dates, we’d be going on dates all of the time,” Hyter said.
Seniors Emily Little and Jonty Harris-Webster pose for a photo in room 151.

FOUR YEARS

Grace Rau, Staff Writer March 15, 2025

Most high school couples don’t span all four years — but most high school couples aren’t seniors Emily Little and Jonty Harris-Webster.  With him being a football player and her being a cheerleader,...

BITTERSWEET

Sofia Ball, Staff Writer March 15, 2025

Mar. 4, 2015. That’s the day senior Kara Simpson remembers she was supposed to be getting a haircut.  She realized something wasn’t right while waiting to be picked up at her grandparent’s...

Senior Brendan Lee poses for a photo in Room 151.

THE PATH TO COLLEGE BALL

Brynna Emler, Staff Writer March 15, 2025

The road to D1 college baseball was certainly unorthodox for senior Brenden Lee, yet he will be on his way to the University of Evansville to play baseball next year. It was a long journey but he had gotten...

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