Category: "Feature" Articles
December 4, 2024
On the final Monday practice before the end of the high school cross country season, the Austin Vandegrift boys met in the parking lot below Texas Highway Loop 1. This was a normal occurrence...
November 23, 2024
AUSTIN – Emily Venters said her return to the grass on Thursday for the Cross Champs, two years after her final cross country race for the University of Utah, brought her back to the...
November 20, 2024
AUSTIN – Cruz Gomez has come to find that the life of a post-collegiate runner can sometimes require an adjustment period. Take for instance a recent workout wherein the 24-year-old Gomez, fresh off a...
November 3, 2024
ROUND ROCK – Colby Huntress is not a superstitious person. However, ever since the Austin Anderson High School junior began wearing a pair of Oakley’s he was gifted by his club coach – Born...
November 2, 2024
ROUND ROCK – A season-long dream ended in the span of 10 seconds on Friday. That’s how close, and how agonizingly far, the Austin Vandegrift boys were away from clinching their first state title...
October 23, 2024
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. – The worst possible outcome fell to Gage Horejsi at his District Championship race 12 days ago. The Leander High School senior, a sub-16 minute runner for 5,000 meters, experienced an...
October 22, 2024
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. – Perhaps the final conversation the Round Rock High School girls had with each other before a do-or-die UIL Class 6A state qualifier on Monday at the Region IV Cross Country...
October 21, 2024
The stakes will be as high as ever for Austin-area cross country athletes and teams on Monday and Tuesday in Corpus Christi. The long, three-hour journey down I-35 and I-37 will take the region’s...
October 16, 2024
AUSTIN – Destin George Bell knew no one. Somehow, though, he always found the connections. He’d fire off texts, emails, DMs, all of them going to developers, engineers, founders. He did whatever it took...
October 1, 2024
What character did you dress up as and why? Funny enough, it was initially MC Hammer, but after talking with Weston, the Genie was born. I wanted to represent the magical side of Halloween...
October 1, 2024
What character did you dress up as and why? Raven from Teen Titans, I like her look and understand her melancholy demeanor. What was your first Halloween costume/memory? I think my first one may...
October 1, 2024
What character did you dress up as and why? I dressed up as Harley Quinn. I loved watching Margot Robbie play her character in Suicide Squad and in Birds of Prey. She’s funny, passionate,...
October 1, 2024
What character did you dress up as? Astronaut What was your first Halloween costume/memory? I was Dorthy from wizard of oz – favorite fit by far, I pretended the stuffed dog I carried around...
October 1, 2024
What character did you dress up as and why? Cupid. As a self-professed lover of Rom Coms, the cupid costume was perfect for me because, as we all know, Cupid is well-known for being...
