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Coach Steve Searle high fives senior starting pitcher Sam Stevens moments after Stevens completed a perfect game against the Navarro Vikings on Friday. Searle said that Stevens stands out, not just on this team but on all the ones he’s coached. “Sam is really poised,” he said. “In all my years, he stands out as pretty impressive. … He has a pitcher’s mentality. He’s just a pitcher, truly a pitcher.”

Stevens throws perfect game against Navarro

Dave Winter, Shield adviser
April 14, 2024
EXCLAIMING FOR THE ECLIPSE: Freshmen Jack Wood, Arwen Pelletier and Cole Truong watch the eclipse from the softball field with their digital media class. Pelletier said she was glad she chose to experience the eclipse with friends at school. “So many kids were exclaiming whenever the clouds broke and you could actually see it,” Pelletier said. “I live really close, and my mom was at home and she was outside. She said that she could hear everyone yelling.” For Pelletier, the highlight of the eclipse was the few seconds when the clouds parted and the eclipse was visible in totality. “Ill always be able to remember what it looks like in my mind,” Pelletier said. “Some things I think about, but I cant remember what they looked like. But this was memorable enough and incredible enough that Ill be able to picture it forever.” Caption by Ingrid Smith.

At MAC, the eclipse really was Knight Time

JoJo Barnard, Shila Gill, Eliza Jensen, Chloe Lewcock, Sophia Manos, Josie Mullan, Alice Scott, Chloe Seckar-Martinez, Lanie Sepehri, Ingrid Smith, Maya Tackett, and Priya Thoppil
April 9, 2024
El Escudo lanza podcast bilingüe

El Escudo lanza podcast bilingüe

Azul Cepero Cortes, Maggie Coulbourn, Ava Deviney, and Sadie Roselle
April 1, 2024
2023-2024 El Escudo staff. Front row: Front row: Daniel Fuentes, Sadie Roselle, Azul Cepero Cortes, Julissa Ayala Bonilla, Ana Mejia. Back row: Maggie Coulbourn, Luka Alvarez, Maverick Palacios, Ava Deviney.

El Escudo launches bilingual podcast

Azul Cepero Cortes, Maggie Coulbourn, Ava Deviney, and Sadie Roselle
April 1, 2024
As head coach Thomas Gammerdinger claps for his team, defenders Isa Lopez Reed and Ruby Barnett flank Madi Briggs as she raises the area championship trophy before rushing to her teammates with it. Considering that Lopez Reed, Briggs, Barnett and Sienna Gunning anchored the back line throughout the game, the image seems like an apt symbol for how the game was won.

Stingy defense makes Hauck goal stand up as McCallum tops Magnolia 1-0 in ‘slugfest’

Camilla Vandegrift, sports editor
March 30, 2024
Sunny Greenblum: Going Bowling

Visual artists win 90 regional Scholastic Awards

Mira Patel, Ingrid Smith, and Josie Mullan
March 28, 2024
WILLING WILL: Tegan Hahn and Will Bowman perform in the one act play, She Stoops To Conquer during the third of three community performances on Sunday March 3 in the MAC Theater. The plays offered a story filled with laughs and love onstage. Offstage, however, there was a little bit of nerves from an understudy, Will Bowman. About a week before opening night, Bowman had to quickly learn the role of Tony Lumpkin. “For the first couple of days it was horribly nerve-racking,” he said. Caption and photo by Katie Hyzak.

MacTheatre is all over the place these days

Katie Hyzak, Campbell Epperly, Beatrix Lozach, Maya Tackett, Katie Martin, Vivian Moore, Elli Grace Hodges, and Alice Scott
March 19, 2024
Knight ace Natalie Myrick pitched a great game in defeat, striking out 11, walking none and allowing zero earned runs and only four hits. Her teammate Lila Brotherton said she had command of all her pitches including an intimidating fastball. Natalie is an amazing pitcher and did a really good job at that game, Brotherton said. I’m not sure who is the faster pitcher [her or LASA starter Rose Harrelson], but it is definitely a close match.

LASA withstands Mac comeback to win, 5-4

Dave Winter, Shield adviser
March 17, 2024
KNIGHTS 3, HIGHLANDERS 0: The varsity volleyball team beat the St. Andrews Highlanders 3-0 on Tuesday Aug. 22 in its last preseason tuneup match before district play started this Tuesday.The Knights won the first set, 25-18. The Highlanders edged closer in the second set but the Knights prevailed in overtime, 26-24. The third set played out similarly as the teams battled evenly until the Knights made the key plays to win the set, 26-24, and the match in straight sets.The Knights performed well by finding open spots, getting extra points and finding a balance as a team.“I was happy with our performance because there was a big crowd for St. Andrews, and we didn’t let them get to us,” sophomore E’Mirrah Harris said. “We kept pushing points and we stayed together as a team.”As the season continues the Knights are looking forward to developing as a team and hopefully winning district. The Knights got off to a good start toward that goal with a district-opening win at Northeast on Tuesday. Our coverage of that match is coming to this feed soon.“I’m looking forward to winning district and hopefully going to bi-disrict,” Harris said. “I’m also looking forward to growing as a team.”

A spring break shout out for our SIPA winners

Shield staff
March 12, 2024
Freshman Paityn Jones speaks as part of the panel during the Black History Month assembly during fifth period. Jones said that being a member of the Knights Steppers and having Black teachers have given her spaces where she can be herself.

Opening doors to appreciating Black history

Shayla Allen, Gaby Esquivel, Lillian Gray, Carlo Hinsdale, Delaney Lavelle, Beatrix Lozach, Josie Mullan, Chloe Seckar-Martinez, Francie Wilhelm, and Chloe Lewcock
March 6, 2024
Clifton Career Development School assistant principal Sachi Edson leads McCallum students through the kitchen area during their tour of the campus. Edson helps coordinate enrollment for students from their home campuses such as McCallum. Freshman Wyatt Norman said he left the tour aspiring to be a chef.

Clifton Career Development School offers vocational training for AISD students

Josie Mullan, staff reporter
February 23, 2024
The history of Valentines Day is relatively bleak, which contrasts highly with the modern meaning of the holiday. On top of that, the supposed meaning of the day, which is love, does not correlate with the consumer-based reality of day.

Valentine’s Day sucks

Emerson Merritt, staff reporter
February 13, 2024
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