A Union of Music
Meghan Helton, Reporter
May 20, 2019
School is coming to a close and soon we’ll be welcoming the new year. To celebrate the end of this long nine months, the musical groups will perform their annual Spring Concerts. This year, however, the two varsity instrumental groups will join each other on the stage for the grand finale to an amaz...
Gotta Catch’em All
Mandy Huynh, Reporter
May 20, 2019
Welcome to the world of Pokemon! This world is inhabited by creatures called pokémon! For some people, pokémon are pets. Others use them for fights. Now are you a boy or a girl? Based on the The Detective Pikachu Game (2016), the new 2019 Detective Pikachu movie left longtime fans anticipating and...
Political Position
Mandy Huynh, Reporter
March 7, 2019
1500 miles away from his family, junior Travis Christoff stood in Washington D.C as a page for the senator when President Donald Trump walked over to him to chat. “The President talked to us for a little bit, he said ‘Y’all are doing a great job, I wish I had your job’, and it was really coo...
Season 8 of Game of Thrones Expectations
Emily Dillard, Reporter
February 22, 2019
Season eight of Game of Thrones is coming out this year on April 14 and people are ready. A lot of theories about the show surfaced when HBO released a commercial about new seasons and new shows that were coming out in 2019, which featured around a seven second part of the last season of Game of Thro...
Students Raise Awareness on E-cigarettes
Sheridan Allen, Reporter/Photographer
February 8, 2019
Vaping has slowly become more popular among teens in the past few years. However; according to the National Institute on Drug abuse (NIDA), 13.75% of teens do not know what is inside of their e-cigarettes. PALS (Peer Assistance and Leadership) teacher, Marina King, decided to help students become more aware....
As High as You Can Go
Mandy Huynh, Reporter
December 5, 2018
A counselor at Rider High School takes her education to the next level as she receives her doctorate degree. With this, Wendy Risner becomes the third faculty member to earn the title, specifically in philosophy and counselor education at Texas Tech University. She also has a bachelor’s in English...
New Club on the Block
Victoria Hitchcock, Section Editor
February 28, 2018
Movies often depict high school to be full of cliques. There are the jocks, the goths, the geeks, the preppy kids, and countless others. As ridiculous as they seem on screen, a less extreme version does tend to exist in real life, and this division can leave some kids feeling excluded. Everyone want...
A Dream for Coaching
Amaya Spearman, Reporter
January 26, 2018
After fifteen years, a familiar face is returning to the soccer field at Rider High School. While he was a leader as a player, now he is the leader as the new boys head coach. “Everyone has their dream job, but this is what I've always wanted to do,” Head Coach Dustin Holly said. Since wi...
Without Words
Carson Lee, Editor-in-Chief
January 2, 2018
She wakes up at 5:50. She leaves the house at 6:30. It’s a daily one hour and two-minute commute to Rider High School from her house in Graham, but this is just one of the “should be” challenging aspects of her day. Sophomore Jackie Anaya is deaf. When she was a toddler, her parents became aware...
Capturing Carroll Collectively
Brooke Inman, Reporter
September 28, 2015
She arrives at work at 7:15 a.m. every morning. Immediately, she is taking calls and aligning papers for the principal. Administrative assistant and bookkeeper Montie Carroll works at least eight hours every day. Being an administrative assistant, Carroll is responsible for Rider’s budget and ma...
