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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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Batter Up

Batter Up

ryan liston, reporter April 30, 2013

Eleven straight wins is always better than six straight losses. This season, the baseball team started off with an 11-game winning streak--a significant improvement from last year’s six-game losing...

Taking Flight: Lady Firebirds Soar Above Competition

Jake Stegall, Reporter February 28, 2013

  In the middle of a game during the three day long Winter Classic, senior A’liyah Rogers stood up from the bench, lowered her shorts, and casually removed the ACE bandage that had been...

photo credit to BozDoz

Free State Bowling Is On Fire

gavin spence, reporter February 25, 2013

Standing tall, silent and still. An incoming force approaches and slides down the lane. The pins fall over, defeated, and the bowling team celebrates another victory. “Our bowling team is ranked up...

Free State vs. Shawnee Heights Girls Varsity

darian koenig, photographer February 25, 2013

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Free State Girls Varsity Basketball 2013

Free State Girls Varsity Basketball 2013

darian koenig, photographer February 25, 2013

doubling up

sarah lieberman, reporter February 5, 2013

Sports require amazing amounts of dedication, commitment, and unfavorable sleep schedules. Senior Ben Sloan is in the pool practicing for swimming eight to nine times a week for approximately two and...

Gymnastic Program Overcomes All Difficulties

Gymnastic Program Overcomes All Difficulties

hannah reussner, reporter January 24, 2013

Gymnastics is full of death-defying leaps, tangling twists and intricate routines on skinny beams.  Gymnasts throw themselves through the air and catapult at neck-breaking speeds. So, it' s not a surprise...

Senior Ben Sloan signs to swim at the University of Massachusetts in the Free State library in December. Coach Annette McDonald looks on from his side.

Swimmer Sloan Signs with University of Massachusetts

sarah lieberman, reporter January 15, 2013

Google Maps directs any Kansan on their way to the University of Massachusetts to pull into I-70 to begin the 21-hour drive to Amherst, Mass.  Even for an athlete like senior Ben Sloan, the distance is...

photo credit to 007NASCARCovert

NFL Player to Talk at Free State

sam boatright, co-editor-in-chief January 11, 2013

This Monday, January 14, Cincinnati Bengals offensive tackle Anthony Collins will be at Free State to talk to any Can We Talk members and other students that want to attend. Collins, a KU grad, will speak...

The Life and Times of Title IX

kyra haas, Reporter December 10, 2012

In 1975, Linda Wedge’s sister Rose made a monumental transition from playing church youth league basketball to playing varsity for her school. She was one of the first girls to don a jersey for her school,...

The Boys of Fall

ryan liston, reporter December 10, 2012

A nearly undefeated football season ended on November 16 with a 48-21 loss to Shawnee Mission West. However, senior Kyle McFarland still feels that the season was a success. “We had a successful season,”...

photo by darian koenig

Commitment for Success

hannah reussner, reporter November 8, 2012

Kennedy Kirkpatrick: Basketball  Senior Kennedy Kirkpatrick is home free. To start off year next year as a freshman in college, she is signing for a division one basketball school at Bowling Green University...

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