“I started playing [tennis] when I was around seven,” said senior Erin O’Neal. “I played with my dad because he played in high school, and he's also a coach. He cares about it a lot. It's probably...
Freshman Oliver Davis started the music. Hip-hop played as he walked through the routine he’d only practiced once. All of the hopeful cheerleaders stood anxiously in the Shawnee Mission Northwest Gym....
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...
By the time junior Gina Duarte walked through the doors of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, she knew she was lost.
Students moved confidently through crowded hallways while she stared at room...
She can always say ‘no.’
That’s what Senior Megan Chidlow thought as she approached her mom.
This wasn’t in regards to throwing a small party, skipping school or spending the night at a...
Senior Kim Mpeck wanders the cafeteria. Cheese pizza, canned pineapple, ketchup packets and chocolate milk puddles litter the lunch tables. Cougar pride posters are everywhere. The loud chatter mixed with...
![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)
