One day last month, after Goddard senior Austin Chippeaux cleared a career-best 6-foot-8 in the high jump, he nearly derailed his chances of winning a Class 5A title when he was injured – playing dunk ball.
Yes, dunk ball. A game he and his frie...
May 30th 2014, 11:46pm
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The words of his father spill from Dominick Fonseca’s lips.
The father who was a stranger until Fonseca, a West High junior, went to live with him following his mother’s death in a car accident. The father who was a stranger because he w...
May 30th 2014, 5:05am
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It’s 9 p.m. on another bitter-cold night in December and Sarah Hines is doing her work in an empty hallway of West Elk High.
Classes were let out six hours ago and basketball practice ended a hour ago, yet Hines remains, obsessively honing her c...
May 30th 2014, 5:05am
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Courtney Griffiths will tell you she hates running.
She claims to hate the physical toll it puts on her body. And how time-consuming it can be. And how hard it is.
But Griffiths, a junior at Winfield, doesn’t really hate running. She loves it. S...
May 30th 2014, 5:05am
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