Author: Meonna Sloan, staff writer
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Title: Tips on how to succeed in high school
High school is a big part of life because it’s the start of your future. There are so many ways you can be successful in these years to prepare you for your next stage…
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The Class of 2025
Leesville Road High School has a senior wall that got painted each year, but it had stopped in 2023. So instead of painting it they changed the year to the graduating class every year.…
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Staff Spotlight: Mrs. Oxendine
Sarah Oxendine is a counselor for students whose last name starts with Sm-Z at Leesville Road High School. She has two kids that currently go to Leesville. ( Photo courtesy of Meonna Sloan)
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Day trips in North Carolina: 6 fun places within 90 minutes of Raleigh
Zoo North Carolina Zoo is a fun family friendly day trip to take. It is located in Asheboro, NC and it is around an hour 36 minutes away from Leesville Road High School. Not…
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Tips to doing well at LRHS cheer tryouts
Leesville Road High School cheer team is having tryouts July 31 and August 1. There are over 30 students trying out for the cheer team. Here are tips for doing well. Jumps In cheer,…
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LRHS — Health care high school opportunity
According to the Mycenaean News instagram %50 of students at Leesville Road High School want to work in the medical field. At Leesville, there are many opportunities for students who want to work in…
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Principal Spotlight: Taylor-Jones
Last year 2022-2023 Leesville Road High School gained two new administrators and one of them was Beverly Taylor-Jones. Taylor-Jones is originally from New York City and then moved to North Carolina. She went to…
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School Shooting in America
There has been many school shootings so far in the year 2023. “It’s just a serious problem, and it’s not taken as seriously, and we shouldn’t be having this amount of school shootings this…
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Pepi
Leesville Road High School (LRHS) has an elective class called Pepi that helps interact with special needs students. “We help out and play games with students. It helps them develop skills so we work…
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Knightdale Carnival
Genesis Ride This is a ride where you sit in these seats and go counterclockwise, then it goes clockwise. This is a ride where you can feel you stomach drop each time you go…
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Teacher Spotlight: Coach Frazier
At Leesville, Russ Frazier is the new athletic director. He is a coach for Leesville Road basketball team and has been coaching for 20 years. “I have been the assistant athletic director for 7…
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Stunt Season Came to an End
For Leesville Road High School, cheer season starts in the fall, where they cheer for football and basketball with 2 or 3 competitions in the middle of the season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSKKCM30IM But stunt is a…
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2022-23 Cheerleading Season is Almost Over
Leesville Road High School 2022-2023 varsity cheerleading team is Wake County first place Varsity Large Coed champions and NCHSAA 1st place champs. There are 22 girls and 5 boys on the team which is…
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Music of the ’90s
There are a lot of quality ‘90s bands that some of our parents grew up listening to. My parents gave me their top 3 favorite bands that they used to listen to last century.…
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Sports Spotlight: Summer Debnam
Summer Debnam is currently the JV cheer coach of Leesville Road High School. She has been coaching for 7 years; this is her 5th year at Leesville. She coached at Orange High School for…
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Teacher Spotlight: Mr. Caregnato
Nicholas Caregnato is the new Sports Medicine teacher at Leesville Road High School. This is his first year of teaching. He is from New Jersey. Thankfully he was able to step in as the…
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Teacher income
Teachers do a lot and are hard working, but they don’t get paid as much as they should. They pay for materials out of their pockets to help kids learn, have to teach a…
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Leesville Wrestling 2022-2023
Leesville Road Wrestling has had a good season so far with a record of 25-5. The wrestling team goes to meets during the week and tournaments on the weekends. For meets, they compete as…
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Athlete Injury
When you play sports like football, basketball,soccer, cheerleading, and etc. You have a very high chance of getting hurt while you’re playing or at practice. When you first get hurt at a game or…
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NC State Fair
Air raid This ride goes up really high and when it rotates it also flips the seats upside down. Circle ride You are in this cart that can fit 2 people in each and…
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LRHS Marching Band
Every home game on Friday nights the Leesville Road High School Band plays to support the football team. “[Marching band has] morning rehearsal and then practice marching on the field during 4th period,” said…
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LRHS Tennis Team
Leesville Road High School Women Tennis Team is 9-4 so far this season. “I have loved being part of the LRHS JV tennis team. The overall experience has been very positive for me,” said…
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Sports Medicine Program at Leesville
Sports medicine, or Sports Med. is when the athletic trainers help athletes when they are injured. There is also a sports medicine assistant who helps out the trainers and they learn from them. “To…
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Bringing Back Pep Rallies
In fall of 2019, Leesville Road High School (LRHS) stopped having prep rallies due to Covid-19. “During the pep rally, the whole school came to the field, and we did a dance and did…
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2021-2022 VS 2022-2023 Football Season
Leesville Road High School Football is a big part of the Leesville community. Last year, in the 2021-2022 season the football team made it to the 4th round in playoffs. The 17 senior players,…