Skill, courage, sharing, and joy are the four pillars that define a dedicated swimmer—a swimmer like Carly Puccio (11).
She’s a girl who has progressed in swimming alongside dealing with common...
Competition is a fact of life. It appears in all aspects of life—including school. Some students enter sports competitions. Others compete over baking, or drawing, or singing. Keira Cockerham (9) and...
It’s not just about being smart.
It’s not just about being a good test taker.
You have to be elite.
Of the 1.3 million students who take the PSAT, only 16,000 are named National Merit Scholarship...
Ghost Whitehall jumps up and down, dripping sweat. Pulled into the middle of the ring to face their opponent, and with one look and a smirk from Whitehall, the match begins.
When quarantine began in...
KJ Kroetch is a true novelty.
Over the past four years, the girl's swim team has had four different head coaches. Breaking that streak, Kroetch, the newest head coach, is determined to stay and help...
Despite the fact that many of us assume teachers only teach, grade assignments, and repeat, they're not so different from us students. Hidden beneath the red pen scratches all over our essays and attendance...
Image courtesy of Patrice Fehlen
The rise and fall of the under the radar, americana ridden rock band The Damnwells; what’s their story, and how did they trudge through musical downfall only to revert...
On December 6th, 2012, staff reporters Olivia Coleman, Ellie Oliver, Tori Ganahl and I made our way to downtown Denver with about 45 other Monarch thespians. We were on a quest to absorb as many theatre-related...
