Three freshmen. Six medals. One set of talented triplets. Unfazed by their status as underclassmen, Kaylee Caudle, Zachary Caudle and Aidan Caudle kicked off their first high school University Interscholastic League (UIL) season with a victory. The triplets competed in their first high school-level academic UIL meet on Saturday, Jan. 25 at Cypress Park High School and dominated the math events, with their sights now set on the upcoming Feb. 15 invitational. Kaylee placed third in both Number Sense and Mathematics, Zachary placed second in Number Sense and sixth in Mathematics, and Aidan placed...

Last night, Wildcat Theatre premiered their latest musical, Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls.” This is the theatre department’s wildest and greatest performance of the year. Not only is it funny and entertaining, it's also rich with a great story and characters, topped off with wonderfully composed and choreographed music. “Guys and Dolls” tells the story of two gamblers running an illegal crap game. But these two gamblers, Sky Masterson and Nathan Detroit, are romantically involved with an evangelist and a hotbox dancer. Now it’s up to the gamblers to balance their criminal lives...

  FFA students participated in the annual TISD Project Show and Sale last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with several students earning awards. The event included showcases of many different animals, along with activities such as a live auction on Saturday. Student awards included: Grand Champion Steer - Chayn Foster Grand Champion Rabbits - Grace Williams Champion Showman Steer - Brandon Traw Reserve Champion - Courtney Burch Reserve Champion Swine - William Harl Reserve Champion Lamb - Isabelle McCarthy Reserve Champion - Courtney Burch Reserve Champion...

With thousands behind them, they jump and then bump - senior defensive back Anthony Jones and junior cornerback Treton Jordan celebrate a Wildcat interception. To hype each other up on the field, the two boys often do their classic chest bump after a good play. To them, it’s like a high five but only with your chest, and has a better meaning to it. “The meaning of a chest bump is when something was done good,” Jordan said. “It’s really just better than a pat on the back.” Their two-year friendship didn't start with a bond. Jordan came from his hometown, Orange, Texas, to Tomball,...

Read more "Behind the Scenes of Band" stories here. A special team of six students - the band uniform officers - worked tirelessly inside the uniform room before football games, searching for the right hangers and sharing a laugh or two, all to ensure hundreds of band students received each piece of their uniform on time.                  

Read more "Behind the Scenes of Band" stories here. While all the other band members are in the air conditioning, these members are out lifting and loading in the Texas heat, making sure the band has everything to be successful for game day and contest day. “We work really well together,” loading crew captain Ian Brown said. “We have great communication which is key.” The captains begin their job before the rest of the loading crew. “Before run through starts I make all the Gatorade,” loading crew captain Giovanni Caruso said. “Then we set it on the carts.” On...

Forming a forever friendship does not happen everyday. Building special connections takes time and patience, but over the course of the past year, senior Courtney Smith and junior Justice Davis have established a once-in-a-lifetime bond. Smith and Davis met through the Best Buddies program, which connects students in the PALS (Practical Application of Life Skills) program to general education students, last year and have since grown tremendously to become the “best of buddies”. Before being matched in the one-on-one friendship, Smith and Davis did not know each other well; however, upon...

Looking up at the drum major, senior co-section leader Abby Cascarelli took in a deep breath. This would be her last time performing the marching band’s contest show, “The Day the Music Died.” She exhaled and played her first note. This performance would be the best one yet. This past November, Cascarelli finished her last season as the front ensemble section leader, serving as one of the front ensemble’s first two co-section leaders her junior and senior year.

When most students signed up for clubs as wide-eyed freshmen, they knew it would take commitment - the long hours in the dance room, the sweat after a grueling band practice, the tense moments perfecting a cheer routine. Luckily for these students, these long hours paid off one bright and early morning when their commitments earned them their 15 minutes of fame. To highlight the football team before the second round of playoffs, local TV news station FOX 26 featured Tomball Memorial in a segment on Friday morning, with students from band, cheer, ROTC, Student Council, Navy Empire and...

Shivering in the cold, senior Courtney Smith goes from guest to guest with a smile across her face despite the large grey sky and the looming dangers of Type-1 Diabetes, present in her life since childhood. October 26 marked the last Cure for Courtney walk, a diabetes awareness and fundraising event that has been a large part of student lives for the past nine years. “It’s really all about spreading information and knowledge,” senior Daley Craft said. “Most importantly though, it’s about supporting Courtney.” Smith was diagnosed with diabetes in June of 2011 and the hospital...

With 11 minutes left in the second quarter, the perfectly synchronized Silver Stars follow their leader down the stands to perform in their halftime performance, a two-minute show built from weeks of practice. Though most stadium fans only see the finished product, the Silver Stars endure hours of weekly practice, beginning in summer, to learn five routines performed during football season. “We try to pay attention to every detail and polish, so every single girl looks the exact same,” Silver Star director Samandra Nail said. During the school year, the Stars practice every day from...

Five years of hard work and growth, all leading up to a national honor designated for the most talented student musicians in the country. After performing at various venues together since eighth grade, senior saxophonists Blaise Alfredson, Ben Bourg, Max Gray and Amber Wigle will perform as a quartet at the Music For All National Festival in Indianapolis this March. “We have worked so ridiculously hard for the past five years,” Wigle said. “It was all practice and group effort.” During the State UIL Solo and Ensemble competition last year, a judge approached the quartet with...

I've seen over one thousand movies in my life, and in today's era of endless blockbusters, true artistic gems are hard to come by. Once in a while, however, a movie comes along that changes my perception of film - right now, The Lighthouse is that movie. Robert Eggers’ black and white epic The Lighthouse is a perfect film by all accounts. The harsh tone on it surface is only the tip of the iceberg; The Lighthouse is a horror film triumph and a glorious descent into the madness of its characters. The film begins with two men arriving at an isolated lighthouse post on the shores of Nova Scotia....

Starting this school year, school officials will administer an optional state-funded SAT for free on March 4 to all juniors during the regular school day, much like how the PSAT is administered. Student reaction has been positive and the expected number of test takers in the junior class is in the majority. “If the test is free, I think more students will want to take it,” junior Kylie Mustachia said. “With a set date in mind, students can prepare for it with their peers.” Reasons for taking advantage of this opportunity vary by student and range between college preparation and...

A few days into the school year, French students walked into the classroom expecting a normal day. The same colorful grammar posters hung on the walls, the same wooden desks filled the room in neat rows, but something critical was different - an unfamiliar substitute stood in the place of French teacher Rajini Christadoss, and after several days of absence, it became clear she would not return. “Mrs. Christadoss, our French teacher, was here for about two days, and then she left,” French III student Sarah Arnold said. As Christadoss was the only French teacher at school, her disappearance...

In the dark and cold streets of a small Illinois town on Halloween night, there's a killer on the loose. His name is Michael Myers and vengeance is his middle name. That sounds like an engaging and thought provoking piece of art doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t. John Carpenter’s 1978 “classic” Halloween tells the famous story of Myers crusading through his home town after escaping from a mental institution. After a young woman notices he is following her, her Halloween gets spookier as she tries to fend off Michael and his sinister intentions. After watching Halloween, I have...