This week, 21 students from all three LSR7 high schools performed their own poetry, essays and stories, as well as those written by other African American writers, for a crowd of a hundred at the first ever NCTE African American Read-in in LSR7.
Plus a Q+A with Lee’s Summit North state swimming champion Daniel Worth
The Lee’s Summit North Boys Swim Team had an impressive weekend at the state swim meet this past weekend.
Junior Daniel Worth became the Missouri State Champion in the 100 Breastroke, and broke a 28-year record with his time of 53.53.
While Daniel’s record-breaking feat was featured in the Kansas City Star and Swimming World Magazine, his breaststroke event is far from the only gold the team came home with.
Senior Ally Lawrence has spent the past month preparing for Red Ribbon Week, when members of Lee’s Summit North’s Bronco SMART club visit feeder elementary schools to promote their Better Education about Resistance Strategies (BEARS) program to keep kids drug and alcohol free.
Christion Doan is one of several students who debuted artwork at ProDeo Youth Center’s inaugural showcase, Structures, Sketches, & Strokes: The Story of Us, last Friday.
Thank you to Miss Wheelchair America 2020 Hilary Muehlberger, of Greenwood, for visiting with the Lee’s Summit North girls tennis team last week. Hilary shared her story of finding adaptive tennis after a spinal cord injury in a 2015 car accident.
She’s a Lee’s Summit North art student who makes fonts in her spare time and is considering a career in graphic design. LSR7 caught up with senior Annie McCord, the 17-year-old the ProDeo Youth Center tapped to design its marketing materials for its August fundraiser, “Structures, Sketches and Strokes: The Story of Us.