“The best piece of advice I have received from a coach is to be the alligator in a swamp. It basically means to be the aggressor,” senior Terry Hayes said.

When most high school students are studying or playing video games over the weekend, freshman Peter Steilberg can be found racing dirt bikes across the U.S. 

With the sun beating on her back and sweat dripping down her forehead, junior Mackenzie Cung bounces the tennis ball, once, twice, three times. She throws it up and quickly swings down, serving the ball to start the match. 

The Liberty varsity girls’ golf team teed off the season with two league wins, and they are excited to carry this momentum into their next match; however, they need to wait an unusually long three weeks before competing again. 

After multiple driving lessons, a written exam, and scraping by with a 80% on the driving test, freedom is awarded with a plastic card– a driver’s license. However this isn’t the case for freshman Madilyn Knox, who participates in wheel to wheel racing, otherwise known as road racing. 

Most students only get to see a Liberty Drill performance during sports or assemblies, but their season runs longer than that of many other sports. And this season, for the first time in five years, Liberty Drill competed at the USA Dance Nationals competition. 

Liberty Boys Varsity Soccer started this year extremely new as the core of last year’s successful team successfully departed for college. They have had to navigate the rough seas of building chemistry throughout the season in order to achieve their goal of winning KingCo. One specific aspect of their team this year has been helpful in this fight is Kellen Kobata’s Quote of the Day. The belief around the team is as follows: by believing in the quote of the day, they will become a team full of chemistry demons.

The winter sports season has come to an end. The teams had fulfilling seasons and have plans to continue improving their skills in preparations for next year’s season.

Waking up for school at six am, bleary eyed senior Keaton Canaday eats breakfast and quickly gets ready for school. After eight long hours of school, she drives 30-35 minutes to practice at King Aquatic Center, where she will remain for three hours until she arrives home at about nine o’clock. 

Most people only run when necessary, like when they’re late to their bus or there’s a dramatic explosion right behind them and they have to just barely get away in slo-mo. Callie Holmes and Sutton Flint aren’t “most people”; they run for fun, and that takes a lot of passion.