Hitting it out of the park
by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
October 20, 2017
Filed under Featured, Sports Features
To continue to the next level of sports for high schoolers requires the three important factors of time, dedication and hard work. Committing to a college to continue their sport is the goal of many. Lions have gone all over the country to play the game they love. However, for one freshman, it led to...
Working her tail off to work with tails
by Rebekah Hui, Staff Writer
September 29, 2017
Filed under Careers & Academics, Features, Spotlight, Student Life
She is an officer in FFA, works at the New Hope Animal Hospital, and is raising a goat and pig. Since she could walk, she's had a love of animals that drives her to work her tail off to become a future large and small animal veterinarian. Senior Brieanna Damron started working at the New Hope Animal...
Around the world in 87 days
by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
September 4, 2017
Filed under Featured, Features
Over the summer, Lions travelled near and far enjoying the break from school. Here are five of the most unique destinations visited. Austria and Slovakia Sophomore Trinity Vasquez visited Vienna, Austria and Prešov, Slovakia with her family to visit her stepfather’s family. While there, she...
Amans lingua Latina
by Taylor Key, Staff Writer
May 23, 2017
Filed under Featured, Features
Although it is considered a dead language and not spoken by any one country, Latin has managed to maintain the rich Roman history and culture that surrounds it, while giving glimpses into the past of a civilization has long since past. It is a tie to a world that is gone, but not forgotten. It was th...
Run to live, live to run
by Amanda Nguyen, Staff Writer
May 1, 2017
Filed under Features, Sports Features, Varsity Track
She is running to get to class on time, running to release stress, running to improve her time, running towards her future. As she crosses the finish line, she knows she’s one step closer to breaking her personal record. Freshman Elizabeth Roca is on the Varsity track team. She runs the 400 meter ...
Living with Leukemia
by Austin Graham, Assistant Editor
April 5, 2017
Filed under Featured, Features
Three years old. There are strange people standing around the hospital bed that she is laying in. There beady eyes are all on her and the doctors say a bunch of words that she doesn't know. She hears "Leukemia" float around in the confusion as everyone looks down on her with worry and pity. This...
Number one, IB and all
by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
March 3, 2017
Filed under Featured, Features
Being number one in your class comes with high expectations from your peers, stress after getting a high A but not a 100, and constantly getting questions for help. However, it can help lead to a world of opportunities and rewards as one junior has already seen. Since freshman year, junior Emma Aldred...
Seeing America
by Michelle Parker, Staff Writer
March 1, 2017
Filed under Features
It’s the tiny details that catch you. Talking about Instagram instead of Weibu or introducing yourself as Lisa instead of Jinghuan. Sophomore Lisa Xu is an exchange student from Qingdao, China. The exchange program allows students to travel and stay with a host family as they attend school and expe...
The experience of a lifetime
by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
February 17, 2017
Filed under Featured, Features
Waking up in a stranger’s house and walking downstairs to hear a different language. Wondering why on your history test they give you the answers behind the letters A, B, C and D. Wanting to call your parents because you haven’t heard their voice in your ears for a whole month but realizing that...
Made by the Hart, for the heart
by Austin Graham, Assistant Editor
February 15, 2017
Filed under Features
Holding three awards for swimming, and being the captain of the swim team, senior Tanner Hartwick may just be seen as a swimmer, but there’s more to his story than that. Hartwick was struck with a bolt of creativity as a kid when he realized his last name would be great for a candle business, Hartwicks...
Creating love
by Gigi Allen, Staff Writer
November 11, 2016
Filed under Features
Jared Bouloy has a full day. He writes a last minute prompt for Youth and Government. Once done with that his next item is helping children with PALS, but suddenly he is running off at cross country and track. When practice is over, he ends his day with a job at Lifetime Fitness, but something stops hi...
Just for kicks
by Amanda Nguyen, Staff Writer
November 5, 2016
Filed under Features
She goes to dance every day and gives her all in each move she makes. Even though sleep and her AP world history homework are calling her name, she continues to move. As she dances, all of her worries escape her body. Ayanna Zachary started dancing when she was ten years old. Dancing just came natural ...
by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
March 6, 2018
For 16 days, athletes from around the world gathered in Pyeongchang, South Korea to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Americans watched as seventeen year old Red Gerard...
by Bri Branscomb, Assistant Editor
February 28, 2018
The Parkland shooting that occured last week resulted in the loss of 17 lives, marking it as one of the deadliest shootings in modern US history, and the deadliest high school s...
by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
February 15, 2018
Last week seniors from all around LISD were given the chance to do week long internships at jobs all around the state, country and world. This week is called COOL week and...
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My name is Logan, and I love writing. I am the newspaper’s resident music nerd when I am not busy covering JV Football and ambiguous political issues. I hope to have a great time writing for the pape...
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Hello! My name is Amanda Nguyen. I am a junior, and this is my second year as a staff writer for The Roar. I have a passion for writing in all forms, and I can’t wait to see where it takes me throughout my life. W...
