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Allison Schmidt and Lily Dodd-Ruessing, KHS lacrosse players.

Stick sisters

Madeleine Krewet, entertainment editor February 21, 2024

The scoreboard buzzes as the team jumps up and down, glorious in their victory. Allison Schmidt, senior, takes a moment to celebrate with her teammates before running to the benches. The girls lacrosse...

With the popular debate on whether or not dance is a sport, most of Kirkwood is in support of their dance team being a sport.

Disrespecting dance

Natalie Bednarski, news writer February 9, 2023

Similar to other KHS sports, the KHS dance team has a varsity and JV team, practices three times a week and participates in various competitions. However, on the KHS athletics website, they’re still...

Students stand on current KHS fields, which are subject to change moving forward.

BOE approves turf fields

Ava Tebo, web editor October 25, 2022

New turf fields for KHS were approved at the KSD Board of Education meeting Oct. 24. Aside from the “behind the scenes” topics, issues such as outdated policies and transfer students were addressed...

Norah Manwaring, sophomore, listens to coach Pounds during a timeout.

Photo gallery: Kirkwood girls JV volleyball parent night vs. Nerinx Sept. 13, 2022

Marilynn Steuby, photographer September 28, 2022

On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the KHS girls volleyball program held their annual parent night against Nerinx Hall.  Freshman and Varsity both fell to Nerinx, but JV won, taking the game to three sets. For the...

Front row, pictured left to right: Grace Hupp, Jane Upmeyer, Alyssa Dennis, Elena McCarthy, Brooke Kittner, Aiden Troup, and Brian Loudenslager. Back row, pictured left to right: Adam Gates, Diego Guzman, Darius Jones, Jack Shanahan, Cameron Paul, Finnegan Mulvaney and Xavier Austin. Photo courtesy of KSD.

KHS athletes honored at Athletics signing ceremony

Henry Chappell, sports editor February 11, 2022

KHS’s annual athletic signing ceremony took place Thursday, Feb. 10 in the David Holley Assembly Hall. A total of 14 student athletes were recognized at the celebration for verbally committing or having...

10 Reasons why KHS will win Turkey Day 2021

10 Reasons why KHS will win Turkey Day 2021

Henry Chappell, sports editor November 24, 2021

Another year, another winless Webster season. Not to mention no wins since November 1st 2019. The Frisco Bell has been in our library for so long, the floor is dented. Webster plays at Hixson...

A young boy and his mom watch the parade as it comes down Argonne.

Photo Gallery: Greentree Parade

Maya Rubin and Marianthe Meyer September 27, 2021

For 60 years Kirkwood has had the Greentree festival. To kick off this years festival, the annual Greentree parade was held Saturday Sept. 18. Watching the Greentree parade has been a tradition for many...

Jeremy Maclin will become the next KHS varsity football head coach after two years as an assistant. Profile photo courtesy of KSD press release, action photos from 2019 by Hayden Davidson.

Jeremy Maclin named next KHS head football coach, pending board approval

Hayden Davidson, design editor February 15, 2021

Just over 15 years after taking off his Kirkwood football uniform for the last time, Jeremy Maclin will now don the headset and head coaching attire as the KHS varsity football head coach. Maclin, 2006...

Photo courtesy of KSD. 

Front row, pictured left to right: Jackson Fortner, Kaya McArdle, Kamryn Ealey, Emma Ealey, Kate Domian, Morgan Gindler,  Paige Howell, Aliya Swearingin, Ella Pearl and Jaylen Phipps. 

Back row, pictured left to right: Nick Walker, Sam Bryan, Jack Matousek,  Will Lee, Blake Seifert, Kannon Nesslage, Asher Weinberg, Ryland Irvin and Jakob Limpert.

Athletes honored at the annual KHS athletic signing ceremony

Henry Chappell, sports editor February 4, 2021

KHS’s annual athletic signing ceremony took place Thursday, Feb. 4 in the David Holley Assembly Hall. In this year’s ceremony, there were a total of 19 senior student-athletes present, not including...

Photo by De Lila Green; visual put together by Hayden Davidson

From Longhorn to Cougar to Pioneer

Hayden Davidson, sports writer May 10, 2019
A KHS math teacher was a three-sport athlete in high school and a Division I football player in college. Learn who it is and more about him here.
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