Kurt Webster walks onto the field for the first football game of the season, joining the other coaches on the sidelines, and puts his headset on — all with a smile on his face.
Previous head football...
Junior Bo Bronson chose volleyball in third grade and stuck with it ever since. As she’s grown up with the sport, Bronson’s played in school and club as well as working out daily for the sport.
“It’s...
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...
Senior Enrique Reyes crashed to the soccer field’s turf. His opponent, who, like Reyes, had jumped to head the ball, landed hard on Reyes’ leg.
He felt something in his knee slip.
He couldn’t...
Shawnee Mission West’s flag flies in the wind, whipping back and forth as football players race out onto the field, their helmets winking gold in the evening sunlight.
Camouflage and Crocs are the...
The Shawnee Mission School District reversed their decision Sep. 9th and allowed Fall sports to continue. While some student-athletes were determined to play, many others saw the decision as potentially...
Eleven volleyball players lay in a circle around the center of the Auxiliary Gym on Oct. 26.
“Please help us win,” junior Taylor McCarthy whispered.
She kissed the cougar head in the middle...
The players and coaches embraced this year’s team motto “Everything Matters” and exemplified it with their planning and focus on every detail this year both on and off the field.
Preparation...
The Shawnee Mission Northwest State Cougars Cross Country Team competed in the open-air course over natural terrain at Rim Rock in Lawrence. Rim Rock has been known as the hardest course a Kansas...
The varsity volleyball team relies heavily on the skills of a younger group of players this season.
With three freshmen, three sophomores, three juniors and two seniors,...
Senior Amy Kowalcewski laces up her running shoes and gets ready to run the first cross country competition of her final year of high school.
Kowalcewski has set goals for her senior year...
The girls’ golf team is struggling with numbers after five seniors graduated in the spring.
The team only has one returning varsity player, junior Julie Johnson. Because of limited experience,...
![With a flag in his hands, senior Marques Cook runs down the sidelines Nov 8 at SM North District Stadium. This was Cook’s last time running down the field with his teammates. “When you’re waving [the flag] in the air, you’re just thinking about getting hype,” Cook said. “Then when you run out with the team behind
you, the nerves and everything go away.”](https://smnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/dmitchell_vfb300_11.8_2-900x448.jpg)
