“Swimmers, take your mark.” Since she was 6-years-old, swimmer Sophie Thompson, a freshman at CHS, has heard these four words more times than she can count. Thompson began swimming on the Algonquin...

Twenty-nine years. Just last year, the CHS girls’ varsity basketball team ended their 29 year drought and were Class 4 District Champions, the first time since 1988. As the new head coach of the girls’...

Khaylie Ross had already received a full-ride scholarship for wrestling at Missouri Baptist University in seventh grade despite only wrestling for one year. However, unlike most of the other wrestlers,...

With the conclusion of the football season, CHS junior Jeremiah Austin is gearing up for the wrestling season. With his drive to perfect his craft after a tough shoulder injury late last season, Austin...

Girls' Swimming Players to Watch: Christine Kuehn Julia Beliz Sophie Thompson 2016-2017 Record: 0-6 Goal: To qualify as many new swimmers to state with the new class system.     Wrestling Players...

Senior Caleb Heusel did not start playing competitive basketball until he was 12-years-old. However, since his sophomore year at CHS, Heusel has been starting for the Varsity squad. “I started playing...

Class 1 MSHSAA Boys State Swimming Championships ended November 3. In the last event of the day, the Boys 400 yd Freestyle Relay team finished 8th overall. The team consisted of Matt Graham, Koji Barrette,...

“There’s nothing left for me to say to you. You guys already know what you have to do. This has to be the hardest race you’ve ever run. This has to be the hardest race of your life. You have to give it everything you’ve got.” These inspirational words from Coach James Crowe guided the CHS boys’ cross country team just before they raced in the district meet.

Q: What is their role on the team as freshmen? A: They came to the team as defensive specialists. We went to a tournament early on in the year and we had a bunch of players who hadn’t reached eligibility...

The Girls Varsity Golf was a very strong team that achieved many victories this season. The team had 5 players and 1 swing player who played between JV and varsity. 2 seniors, 1 junior, 2 sophomores, and...

“Really the only thing you can do without driving yourself crazy is resolve to do better next time. I told myself that next time I would make it. It wouldn’t be an option.” -Kate Cooper.

“When I was [playing] at Miami of Ohio, there was this speaker who played in the NFL and he just gave me a fact. He used to always tell me and it stuck in my head that ‘only two percent of all college...