Category Archives: Features

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

Rugby: The Father Of Football

By Oreoluwa Tokan-Lawal Rugby: the closest thing to football anywhere that isn’t the United States. Growing up in the UK, I played…

Collegiate Boys Basketball: Focused And Ready

By Rhodes Sinnott After months of anticipation from the entire Collegiate community, Collegiate’s 2023-2024 basketball season is in full swing. Many star…

Brunch 2023: The Lorax

By Mary Katherine Brost Every year, on the morning of Thanksgiving Eve, Middle and Upper School girls anxiously wait to discover the…

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…