Junior Linus Emmett goes to school, hangs out with his friends and works a job like other students. However, while he is out, his mother, Naomi Emmett, is at home holding interviews to meet people who...
Senior Ronnie Taylor has been playing baseball since the age of 4, but his journey from a freshman on varsity to a senior committed to Wichita State has not always been that straightforward. During Taylor’s...
Sitting on the top shelf of Lisa Smentek’s closet, there is a stack of shirts.
Shirts collected from years of fundraising events at the job she has held for the last 13 years. Each shirt represents...
Parker Primrose, Assistant sports editor
• February 17, 2017
The Eagle Angle caught up with two Allen alumni currently playing in the National Football League in order to talk about life in the pros and the pair’s fondest football memories.
Steven Terrell,...
Junior Jevon Jones has had a unique journey as an Eagle. From his freshman year to the present, Jones went from playing point guard on the basketball team, to wide receiver on the football team, to now...
New club members are clicking their cameras in excitement at the Allen Visuals Club. The founders of the club are looking forward to the new opportunities this club will offer.
“Tate and...
“School didn’t come as easy for me as everyone else. I was just never interested in what they were teaching. I was okay at math but other than that nothing sparked my interest. People like to make...
During freshman year, senior Allison* didn’t have the luxury of going to bed. She wasn’t preoccupied staying up late to finish a riveting TV thriller. She wasn’t too fixated on Twitter to let her...
In an age of increasingly crammed schedules and an overload of opportunities, time seems harder to come by than ever before. But in the span of just six months, Allen High School students were able to...
Nov. 4, 2016. The phone is ringing. You pick it up, and on the other end is the announcement you’ve been hoping for: you got the job.
Nov. 28, 2016. You scrawl your signature on the bottom of the...
Mr. Thompson is a financial math teacher here at Allen who legally adopted a former student of his who graduated in 2016.
How did this adoption come to be?
Starting last year, my now-daughter...
Maps hang on the wall. Some students study an intensive timeline covered in sticky notes, while others read from a book and make conversation. The teacher roams around the room, not intervening except...
