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Colorado Springs marching bands aim to defend their state titles
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As high school marching bands across Colorado prepare for the upcoming competition season, two Colorado Springs-based bands are gearing up to try to defend their 2024 state titles. Last October, The Classical Academy and Rampart High School marching bands realized the dream of every high…
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Colorado Springs native explores abandoned places in award-winning podcast
Anemoia is one of Blake Pfeil’s favorite words. Author John Koenig coined the unofficial English word, which means a longing for a time or place you’ve never known, in his 2021 book, “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” a collection of words he dreamed up for emotions not described in English. It’s an apt word for…
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Rampart High School marching band celebrates first Colorado state championship in 18 years
When Irene Wich joined the Rampart High School marching band in 2021, she felt a mixture of excitement and apprehension. Schools in Colorado and across the U.S. were still adjusting to the havoc wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the band’s numbers reflected the lingering uncertainty. Rampart fielded 65 students that year. But Wich was…
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Faith-based Colorado Springs theater company to stage ‘Newsies’ musical
“Newsies” is the “Law and Order” of Broadway musicals. Based on the 1992 musical film of the same name, the Tony Award winner is ripped from historical headlines and inspired by the true-life newsboys’ strike of 1899, when newsboys Kid Blink and David Simons led a band of orphan and runaway kids on a two-week…
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Rampart High’s ‘Bald for Bucks’ raises funds for cancer research
Rampart High School and surrounding Academy District 20 schools participated in the 17th annual Bald for Bucks fundraiser on Friday, March 8, 2024. During the event, many students shaved their heads to raise funds for cancer research. Together, the schools have raised more than $600,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
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GAZETTE PREPS | 2021 5A/4A Girls’ Volleyball Peak Performer of the Year
Get to know Rampart High School’s Riley Simpson, the 2021 5A/4A Girls’ Volleyball Peak Performer of the Year. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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GAZETTE PREPS | Boys Cross Country Peak Performer of the Year
Get to know Rampart High School’s Ben Conlin, the 2020 Gazette Preps Boys Cross Country Peak Performer of the Year. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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GAME OF THE WEEK | Rampart vs. Mesa Ridge
Highlights from the Gazette Preps Game of the Week between the Rampart Rams and the Mesa Ridge Grizzlies, brought to you by Pizza Hut. (Video by Katie Klann)
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PHOTOS: Rampart Rams 5A Boys’ Soccer falls to Regis Jesuit, 3-2.
The Rampart boys’ 5A playoff soccer game against Regis Jesuit High School at District 20 Stadium in Colorado Springs on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. The Rampart Rams lost the playoff game against Regis Jesuit by a score of 3-2.(Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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PHOTOS: Rampart High School 2019 graduation
Rampart High School held its graduation ceremony at the Air Force Academy’s Clune Arena on Wednesday, May 15, 2019.