The Patriot Press

Girls’ Varsity Soccer strives for the prize

Tyler Rubenstein, Editorial Board Member – October 20, 2023

Liberty High School is often denoted in official forms as “Liberty Senior High School” as a way of differentiation. Liberty Girls’ Varsity Soccer is bringing this name to life, as their team is stacked...

Liberty athletics has a knockout season

Tyler Rubenstein, Editorial Board Member – June 2, 2023

Liberty and its sports teams have dominated this past spring season with quite a few of our teams advancing all the way to state! Here are some of their postseason highlights:

Baseball and softball are batter than the rest

Addison Milne, Editorial Board Member – April 28, 2023

“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.

Freshman Peter Steilberg: Competitive Dirt Bike Racer

David Terayama, Beat Editor – April 28, 2023

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.

Mackenzie aces the tennis season

Maiya Lester, Editorial Board Member – April 28, 2023

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.

Girls golf get time off from competition

Kylie McGrath, Editorial Board Member – April 28, 2023

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.

Racing freshman: Madilyn Knox

Allyson Phung, Editorial Board – April 28, 2023

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.

A stellar season for Liberty Drill

Caitlyn Mckinzie, Editorial Board – April 28, 2023

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.

Chemistry among demons: Varsity soccer quote of the day

Tyler Rubenstein, Editorial Board Member – April 28, 2023

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.

Winter sports recap

Sarim Khan and Sylvia Aquino – March 24, 2023

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.

Athlete Burnout: What is it?

Sabrina Holmes, Staff Writer – March 24, 2023

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.

On track to succeed

Jocelyn Hood, Editorial Board Member – March 24, 2023

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.