Author: Parker Yount, senior editor 2015-2016
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Mareno breaks two more State Records, continues NC track dominance
Sometimes it’s easy to take for granted the athletes that a 4A public high school like Leesville has to offer. Especially in less covered sports like, say, track. However as junior Nevada Mareno continues…
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Men’s Lacrosse Falls to Gibbons in Fourth Round
Friday the 13th started off well for Pride Men’s Lacrosse, but the end outcome wasn’t what they were hoping for. In the fourth round of the NCHSAA playoffs, Cardinal Gibbons took down Leesville by…
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Soccer Becomes Next Victim of Cinderella Athens Drive Team
On Friday, May 22, Leesville Women’s Soccer fell victim to a classic cinderella story and lost to Athens Drive by a score of 1-0 at home. The 24 seeded Jaguars came into the game…
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Leesville Alum Meredith Bissette Named “A Medical Mystery”
The last two months have been a rollercoaster for Meredith Bissette. Meredith, an alumni of Leesville and a sophomore at the University of South Florida, has been battling a well documented fight against chordoma…
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Leesville Spiritwear for Everyone
At Leesville Road High School, supporting the school through spirit wear is a right of passage. Through spirit wear, we are supporting not only our school, but some of our favorite sports teams and…
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Pride Baseball travels to SC for Spring Break
While most Leesville Road High students were enjoying Spring Break 2016, Pride Baseball was heading down to Columbia, South Carolina where they would face off against some of the best teams in the state.…
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Pride, Benjamin Shock Heritage with game winning three
As time ran down Thursday night against Heritage in round two of the NCHSAA state playoffs, Leesville turned to freshman Jalen Benjamin to hit the game winning shot to knock off the Huskies in…
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Pride Basketball Handles Wake Forest to Advance in CAP-8 Tourney
On Tuesday night at Leesville, the Pride Men’s Basketball Team was able to knock off Wake Forest by a score of 69-45 in the first round of the CAP-8 tournament. The win will force…
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Pride Men’s Basketball Extends Winning Streak Against Enloe
Tuesday night at Leesville, Russ Frazier’s Leesville Road basketball squad was able to extend their conference winning streak to three games and maintain their second place CAP-8 standing as they defeated Enloe 80-53. The…
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Pride Complete CAP-8 Sweep of Heritage Thursday Night
Thursday night, in the second game of a two game CAP-8 series between the Leesville Road Pride and the Heritage Huskies, Leesville defeated Heritage 60-47 in a game that was lopsided from the very…
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The Evolution of Loonieville
Leesville Road head coach Russ Frazier is in his fourth year at Leesville. He grew up in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina as the son of legendary coach Terry Frazier, who won hundreds of games…
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WCPSS response to snow predictions
As many Leesville students, parents and faculty remember, last year’s winter was one for the books. On average, the RDU area receives 6.74 inches of snow per year, and last year the area received…
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Millbrook offense too much for Leesville in Annual Halloween Game
For the second year in a row, Leesville played Millbrook on the eve of Halloween, and the result this year was the same as the result last year. Thanks to good Wildcat defense all…
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Leesville stays undefeated in CAP-8 with Broughton win
Leesville is off to a 2-0 start in conference play thanks to a solid 24-7 victory over the Broughton Capitals in week 8 of the 2015 football season. For the second game in a…
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Bruised Leesville Road squad falls to Garner despite improvements
Had Leesville Road been healthy and with a full squad on the road at Garner, the Pride might be going into their bye week with a .500 record. However, the team was plagued by…
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Catamounts outlasts Leesville on a night that had it all
On a night that featured a little bit of everything, finding a headline can be challenging. For starters, the Pride fell short of a comeback in what would have been an epic way to…
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Leesville overpowers Jordan despite sluggish second half
In the first game of the 2015 NCHSAA football season, the Leesville Road Football team was able to cruise to 34-6 victory on the road at Durham Jordan. The game started off quick, as…
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Coach Wilson chomping at the bit for Pride Football
As the 2015 football season looms around the corner, Leesville Road head coach Brad Wilson is still settling in. His office has a few pictures, posters, and books yet to be put in place.…
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Newspaper hosts its annual end of year party
On Tuesday night, the 2014-15 Mycenaean staff gathered at Ben Pope’s house for an evening of food, fun, and lots of laughter. Even long-time LRHS Newspaper advisor Eric Broer stopped by to enjoy the…
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FCA club spotlight
The Fellowship of Athletes (FCA) organization was started back in 1954 by founder Don McClanen and lives on today–not just at schools across the nation, but also at Leesville. In 1954, McClanen founded the…
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Hurricane season in NC heating up quickly
Technically, hurricane season starts on June 1 each year. However, that doesn’t mean tropical storms won’t develop before then, and North Carolina could be affected by one as early as this Friday. All week…
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Nevada Mareno continues breaking records
Nevada Mareno: student, athlete, and record breaker. Last Saturday, January 31, Malia Ellington from Community School of Ellington set the new 1000-meter N.C. record with a time of 2:53:23. Just a few hours later,…
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Leesville Basketball overcomes deficit to upset Broughton
Tuesday night, the Leesville men’s basketball team overcame an early 14-point deficit to defeat Broughton at home by a score of 58-51. The Pride (10-9, 6-3) had fallen to the Capitals (16-2, 7-2) previously…
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Students win in battle of grading equality
On Saturday, January 4, it was announced that after much protest and petition regarding the decision to only change freshmen and not the whole school to the 10-point grading scale, Wake County and other…
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Leesville Road widening project update
Leesville Road sees heavy traffic every day, with some 24-30 thousand vehicles commuting on the road each day. The traffic is especially bad during the early morning rush hour, school start and stop times,…
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Strongest flu epidemic in the 21st century?
If you haven’t gotten a flu shot, it might be time to change that. Thursday, January 8th, the NC Department of Health and Human Services released the numbers of this year’s flu epidemic thus…
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Leesville Basketball falls to offense-heavy Millbrook
Leesville boasted a 5-1 conference record entering Wednesday night’s game vs. Millbrook, but that 5-1 quickly fell to 5-2 in a 91-67 rout of the Pride. Leesville head coach Russ Frazier shared his thoughts after…
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Men’s basketball has unique trio
The 2014 Leesville men’s basketball squad is back practicing and ready to make a run for the CAP-8 championship again. However, it’s a new season, and with a new season comes new faces. In…
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Raleigh should experience rough winter
While most reports have been scaled back at least slightly from what they were originally reporting, many forecasters are still saying that Raleigh should see a winter with more cold and more precipitation than…
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Personal Finance Club now at Leesville
Leesville will have at least one new club this year-the personal finance club. Brought up as an idea that stemmed out of an AP Macroeconomics class discussion, Sean Nichol went straight to Dr. Mutillo…
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Get ready for big changes to NC grading scale
Big changes are coming to North Carolina public schools grading scales, including the scale used here at Leesville Road High School. The State Board of Education last Thursday approved switching to a 10-point grading…
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The Big Three: Volleyball Version
The 2014-2015 women’s varsity volleyball team is full of new faces, inexperience and a whopping three seniors. Say what you want about having only three seniors. Of course, it’s not “ideal.” But lately in…
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Leesville students have one more off-campus lunch option
Leesville Road High School students will have one more off-campus lunch option, perhaps as soon as October 10. The construction to build the tenth Chipotle in the Triangle area is almost completed at 9504…
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LRHS boasts five National Merit Scholar semifinalists
Five students at Leesville Road High School were selected to be 2014 National Merit Scholar Semifinalists. One was selected from Millbrook and three from Broughton. Enloe led the CAP-8 with a grand total of…
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Leesville hires new varsity Lacrosse coach
Leesville Road High School Men’s Lacrosse named a new head coach on Thursday, Sept. 11, according to Jack Rogers, Leesville athletic director. “LRHS is very excited to announce the hiring of former East Chapel…
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Heard of “Ducks Unlimited”?
If you haven’t heard of “Ducks Unlimited,” you ought to check it out. Already immensely popular in the South, the organization does a wide array of things to garner support for conservation of waterfowl.…
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Leesville area undergoing fire protection changes
You may have noticed land being cleared on the north side of Leesville Road just past the Harrington Grove subdivision. or the sign placed in the front of the construction site. The city of…
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It’s time to Look Up…
If you haven’t seen the video “Look Up” already, you need to take a look. Gary Turk, the video’s director, proposes a five-minute film centered around the addiction that many, many Americans struggle with.…
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New look for 2014 graduation reception
The class of 2014 is wrapping up their final days of high school, but there are a few more things they can look forward to at LRHS. One is the Class of 2014 graduation…
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Best place to live in America?
Many people across the county are aware that Raleigh is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation, but few understand why. In late 2013 in a Fortune Magazine article, Raleigh was named…
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Womens Soccer in the playoffs
First game triumph The Leesville Pride womens soccer team won their first round game of the NCHSAA playoffs. The game was played between the 27-seed Athens Drive, a fellow Wake County school, and the…
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City to expand Leesville Road
The City of Raleigh has finalized plans to widen a section of Leesville Road. The proposed project plan is for the portion of Leesville Road between I-540 and New Leesville Road and could start…
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Wake School Board fired up over teacher tenure legislature
The Wake County School Board met on Tuesday, March 4 to draw attention to the state legislatures plan that would affect teachers greatly. In an attempt to cut the budget a little at a…
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Which one matters more: AP classes or standardized testing scores?
How many AP classes did you sign up for this year? Five? Two? None at all? Many students think that the more AP classes you take, the better chance you have of getting into…
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Women’s Soccer Preview
Paul Dinkenor, longtime head coach of the Leesville Road women’s soccer team, loves a good challenge, although this season may be a big one. The Lady Pride is coming off an 18-win season, along…
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Preview For 2014 Pride Baseball
Guy Civitello, head coach of the Leesville Road varsity baseball team, is looking forward to a successful yet challenge-filled 2014 baseball season. “This year the expectations are higher and we are certainly looking to…