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The Marquee

Marcus High School's Online Newspaper

The Marquee

Marcus High School's Online Newspaper

The Marquee

Nick Chase and mother Tamara Castaneda celebrate after winning a total score of 7500 points in a regional ACDEC competition.

Chasing Perfection

Alyssa Schmidt, Online editor in chief April 8, 2015

Tamara Castaneda walked into the Main Street Bread Baking Company in Grapevine to meet her son, graduate Nick Chase, for brunch. He had abruptly chosen to stop going to college, and she was going to ask...

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Senior Matthew McClay holds his son in the hospital. He was born on February 12th at the Medical Center of Lewisville.

Father on board

Alex Helm, Copy editor April 8, 2015

Senior Matthew McClay sat in the chair next to the hospital bed where his girlfriend of two years, junior Chloe Fortune, laid. Both of their moms were in the small white room with them, eagerly anticipating...

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Get back to the game

Get back to the game

Rachel Ramirez, Entertainment editor April 8, 2015

The boys’ varsity soccer team battled against Plano Senior High School. The winner of this game would advance to the 2005 playoffs. The school was down by one when suddenly freshman standout Sam Garza...

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The Corkran family take a family portrait. From left to right, father Tery, sister Amanda Miguez Miller, mother Scherrie and sister Kimberly.

Wrestling in remembrance

Rachel Ramirez, Entertainment editor April 7, 2015

Every March, the school’s wrestling team sits down to have their end of season banquet. Among the awards being presented, members also vote for one senior wrestler to receive the Jared Corkran Teammate...

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Juniors Bryce Osborne and Gabbi Morris have been dating for over a year and three months. They support each other by going to each other's lacrosse and golf tournaments.

Love isn’t black and white

Alex Helm, Copy editor April 7, 2015

Junior Gabbi Morris was speechless. A girl had just told her that she shouldn’t be dating her boyfriend, junior Bryce Osborne. But her reason why was what made Morris cringe. “I had an African-American...

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Salls looks on from the sidelines while her teammates train. She will play soccer next year at the University of Central Oklahoma, located outside of Oklahoma City.

Game changer

Alex Helm, Copy editor April 7, 2015

Senior Ally Salls sat on the bench on the side of the soccer field, watching her teammates practice. The girls were scrimmaging, yelling across the pitch to one another. One of the forwards shot the ball,...

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Junior Calla Hamlin meets President Bust at Penn Station in Southlake. Hamlin has also met him at the store's Flower Mound location, her place of work.

Executive cheesesteaks

Austin Rickerson, Editor in chief April 7, 2015

Junior Calla Hamlin put on her black visor and yellow shirt as she prepared to go to work, just as she always did. But as she got in her car and cranked the engine, something was different. She was...

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Seniors Jenny Hollowell (right) and Emily Plummer (left) were in colorguard for all four years of high school.

Flag phantoms

Alex Helm, Copy editor April 7, 2015

As the band played their final notes and the color guard caught their flags for the last time, cheers erupted throughout the stadium. The stands of the Alamodome were filled from bottom to top with parents,...

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Kahu Tataurangi, Griffin and Riley Hall take in the moment after they para-glided off the Remarkable Mountains.

New year, New Zealand

Rachel Ramirez, Entertainment editor April 7, 2015

When most people beat cancer, it can be difficult regaining a sense of normalcy. Typically, they don’t take a trip to New Zealand. However, when eighth-grader Riley Hall received a Make-A-Wish trip,...

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Altitude adjustment

Altitude adjustment

Sanika Sule December 15, 2014

As junior Madeline Stanfield packs her parka and ski boots, she knows she is one day closer to being in the crisp mountain air. She anticipates the next few months, which will be filled with gliding in...

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Former substitute Joel Weber stands in front of his future home. He started his project this summer.

Small spaces

Alex Helm, Copy editor December 15, 2014

Former Briarhill Middle School substitute Joel Weber, nicknamed Tarzan by his students, stood looking out at the Nicaraguan community around him. He came to Nicaragua to experience a new culture and a...

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The Trotter family, Richi (left), Bambi (right) and Camden (bottom) , pose together for family picture before the car accident occurred  in early August.

One percent

Jacob Fontaine December 15, 2014

Bambi Trotter, a kindergarten teacher at Bridlewood Elementary, doesn’t remember the day of her accident. She doesn’t remember the one-hour struggle the first responders undertook to cut through the...

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