For Mia DeJohn, ‘25, the 2025 soccer season will be one to remember. The Boulder High women’s soccer team began the season with a record of 6-0-2 – undefeated after eight games. This is the strongest start the team has seen in the seven years Coach Carlos Real has led the program. The team's strong performance thus far was also reflected in their climb to the number one ranking in the state,...

For the first time since 2016, Boulder High Boys Basketball won the title of league champion. A large part of that win was due to Lake Smith's, ‘26, on-court efforts. December's panther athlete of the month, Lake Smith averaged 15.7 points per game this year and ended the season with a point total of 376 points.  Smith began playing basketball in second grade because his dad played and he grew...

Walking into the first Women’s Empowerment Club meeting of this school year, I was immediately drawn to the pastel-colored presentation with the words “Intersectional Feminism” featured as the title. Many people know the word “feminism”, but the addition of intersectionality may leave someone confused if they don’t see what this powerful term means. The word “feminism”, especially in...

Arkansas swim commit Sloan Zallen, ‘25,  has been swimming for 13 years. She says she started swimming because she has “always loved the water and the competitiveness of the sport.” Swimming runs in the Zallen family. Sloans older sister, Zara Zallen ‘23, is currently swimming for the University of Missouri at the D1 level.  Zallen says her best memory in swimming came during her sophomore...

Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, many of the systems and structures that support undocumented residents of the United States have either changed or toppled. Facing an unknown future, organizations, community members, and Boulder High School are examining ways to move forward. Mekela Goehring is the executive director of Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), a nonprofit organization...

High school hasn’t always been easy, and perhaps each student in this school can agree with me. Many things pile on to each other to make high school a hard period in our lives, ranging from long hours, hard classes, and from time to time, difficult students and teachers. In spite of these struggles, there’s always a way to make your time here enjoyable. You may not always have control over...

As I file through the gymnasium doors after school on March 19th, I find the gym filled with noise, laughter, and booming Y2K music uncharacteristic of any school event save the occasional rally. The space, typically an empty passageway to the gravel lot by 4:00 pm, has been repurposed to hold an audience of dozens of folding chairs, facing off with a line of seven barber-style chairs each complete...

It has been three months since BVSD enforced ‘Away for the Day’, a policy that requires phones to be turned off and in backpacks or lockers from 8:35 a.m. to 3:55 p.m. BVSD cited The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Hait and survey statistics to garner support for this policy at the district level. 54% of teens agree social media distracts them from the people they are with, and test scores have...