Category Archives: Features

Feature stories from our staff, including profiles of people and places of interest to our community.

From Henrico to Hollywood: The Blowzee

By Claire Lareau It is late January 1979. The Village People’s new song “Y.M.C.A.” is selling at a rate of over 150,000…

Xavier and Zachary Zengue: Soccer Star Brothers

By Harrison Baxter Scrolling through Twitter on a December evening in the winter of 2022, my cousin Xavier Zengue, a senior soccer…

A Sikh’s Outlook On Christmas

By Sanjum Sandhu “It’s the season for sales. I love a good deal!” says my dad, gastroenterologist Bimal Sandhu, after buying 15…

Beginning The College Search: The Tour

By Olivia Bowman At Collegiate School, the college search begins as early as the fall of Sophomore year, when the entire 10th…

Wacky Christmas Traditions

By Maddie Jewett With the holiday season approaching, everyone is starting to feel a little sparkle of magic in the air. Everyone…

Middle School’s Nathan Goodwyn, English Teacher and Coach

By Brennan Heims When I was in 8th Grade in 2020, everyone at Collegiate was returning from the spring of online school….

A Day In The Life of a Middle School Science Teacher

By Mary Ann Zyglocke As I sit and anxiously await the 8:10 bell, I run the lesson plan through my head one…

Thanksgiving in London

By Mary Ellis Logan Turkey, I firmly believe, is the most disgusting food ever fed to humankind. While many of you were…

Re-Lax Sports Company: Making Lacrosse Green

By Jackson O’Keefe On July 18, I contacted a lacrosse company that sells equipment such as lacrosse heads and shafts. They had…

Honors Feature: The John Maloney Project

By Chloe Miles Each Sunday during the fall and spring, I venture from my home in Short Pump to Collegiate’s West Gym….