It’s Wednesday, August 19th and the sun is beating down on the Benninghoven field. It’s day three of tryouts. A group of girls in white shirts, with tryout numbers written in black sharpie stretch...
The field is silent.
The 300 track athletes, coaches and parents notice the boy on the ground.
His eyes are rolling into the back of his head, his body is convulsing. None of it seems right.
Minutes...
Shawnee Mission Northwest varsity football played their first game of the season Sept. 4. They played against Mill Valley and lost 25-56.
“There's a lot of things we can improve on,” Head coach...
A loud pop rang out. All around her, things seemed to freeze. Dearing’s opponent let her go. The referee stopped the match. Dearing went down, and she couldn’t get back up. The athletic trainer arrived...
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...
![Juniors Tad Lambert and Lily Reiff watch swim footage Jan. 19 in Room 153. Lambert and Reiff were editing their swim recap for Cougar Roundup. “[KUGR] is such a great environment for creativity but also to form amazing friends,” Lambert said. “KUGR has become like a home for me and I feel like I’ve gotten super close with so many other members.”](https://smnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ejohnson_KUGR_7-900x600.jpg)
![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)