Hail to the Chief
October 21, 2010
Filed under News
Priscilla Mendoza, representing Cedar Park Chick-fil-a, presented the Lion football seniors the winning trophy for Brad Mansfield’s incredible pre-game field goal. Football fans at Friday night’s home game vs. Round Rock witnessed the moment of triumph when Mansfield successfully kicked a field...
Austin City Limits 2010
October 8, 2010
Filed under Entertainment, Features, News
By Matt Klein If you have been bummed about missing out on this year’s Austin City Limits, don’t worry. Those sold out 3-day wristbands that everybody is dying to have are still available. Even without a wristband, Austin has much to offer for audiences of all ages and tastes in music. Austin City Lim...
New LISD Policy Raises Doubt
October 8, 2010
Filed under Community, Features
By Emma Berkel This year a new policy has been introduced to LISD schools, and as a result, a five-day grace period is offered. The grace period, intended to help students, allows one to make up a failing grade. While this should theoretically keep students from failing a class, it’s questionable as to ho...
College Night
September 28, 2010
Filed under Community, Features
By: Erin Andary LHS will be hosting the LISD College and Career Fair on Thursday, Sept. 30 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Booths will be set up in the Commons and Middle Gym, with 110 to 115 colleges and universities from all over the country, including one international college from Switzerland. This is...
Gunman Found Dead In UT Campus Library
September 28, 2010
Filed under News
By Ben Fischer Early this morning (9/28), UT Campus police were informed of an armed suspect found dead on the 6th floor of the Perry Castaneda Library, due to a self-inflicted gun wound by an AK-47. The unidentified male was one of two suspects said to have entered the Campus at about 7:30 this ...
Cross Country off to the races
September 10, 2010
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By Ben Fischer Cross country started their 2010 season off with a roar. “This weekend the cross country team traveled to Hutto and burned up the course,” Kevin Lawson, coach, said. Bringing home two gold medals, as well as several other placing medals, at the Aug. 28 meet. The boys...
Earth Week Aims to Create Awareness
April 19, 2010
Filed under News
By Ashley Bagwell Photo By Matt Broussard Every year a group of students devote a part of their lives to an increasingly important cause, diligently contributing their time and energy to making the environment just a bit better on behalf of the school. They take turns o...
IB Seniors Raise Funds for Kenyan High School
April 13, 2010
Filed under News
By Ashley Bagwell He has experienced more tribulations in his life than the vast majority of Leander students. He understands what it means to truly long for an education. He stands over six feet tall. He sits on a rock, not a chair. He writes on a board, not a desk. He walks to the classroo...
Mexico: A Vacation to Remember
March 11, 2010
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By Emma Berkel As spring break rolls around once again, students the state over are bubbling with anticipation. For some, the joy of spring break is logging in a few more hours of sleep, while for others it’s taking off on the trip to remember. Here in Texas, the quest for that dream trip oftentim...
National Pride Alive and Well
March 5, 2010
By Cody Zivley The 2010 Winter Olympics have come to a close, but has left an impression of positivity in the minds of those who witnessed and shared the emotional journey of their country and its athletes. Rarely is global competition not taking place behind the desks of a nation’s...
Students advance to State at SkillsUSA
March 5, 2010
Filed under News
By Ashley Bagwell Students came out in force to represent Leander at the Skills USA district competition held in Waco Feb. 18-20. The students involved in the electrical trades, drafting and cosmetology programs which competed did especially well; a number of them will be moving on to compete ...
Leander Wrestlers Advance to State
February 19, 2010
Filed under News, Sports, Wrestling
The third round, the definitive pin, the roar of the crowd and the honor of competing. Two wrestlers have advanced to State, Jonathon Flores and Jadon Kempers will be representing Leander on Feb. 26-27 at the Delco Center. Flores will make his 2nd appearance at State and Kempers is only th...
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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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...
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