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The student news site of Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas

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Spending all four years of high school as part of choir and journalism, senior editor-in-chief Brooke Colombo writes that saying goodbye isnt as easy as she anticipated.

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief

Brooke Colombo is Editor-in-Chief of Wingspan, and has been involved in journalism since her freshman year. It’s been a year now, and present Brooke still isn’t 100 percent sure of what she’s doing with her life. In addition to Wingspan, Brooke is involved in the school’s varsity choir, and especially enjoys singing a good ol’  jazz tune. In her spare time, Brooke enjoys indulging in obsessive tendencies, subjecting her friends to astrological analysis of their personalities (she’s a Libra, by the way), “enlightening” her mind and body with a solid yoga practice, and sitting in her bed watching educational YouTube videos on loop. While she thinks she’s more than ready to be out of high school, Brooke is planning on making her last year as fulfilling as possible.

Contact Brooke at: Brooke.Colombo.184@k12.friscoisd.org 

All content by Brooke Colombo
Taking a page from a Christmas gift exchange, some choir students took part in a Secret Valentines gift exchange on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. The idea was hatched by several freshmen as something to do for with their classmates on a day choir director Toni Ugolini was absent.

[Photo] Choir students give Secret Santa a Valentine’s flavor

Rhea Advani, Guest Contributor
February 13, 2020
In 2018, the choir made their first appearance at a professional sporting event, singing the national anthem at FC Dallas. This year, the choir will be heading to the Comercia Center to sing the anthem before a Texas Legends basketball game.

[Photo] A change of scenery, choir sings at Texas Legends game

Caroline Caruso, Guest Contributor
November 20, 2019
Auditions for the Talent Show are on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in room F107. Students trying out will have a chance to perform their talents at the show on Jan. 31.

[Photo] Auditions to show talents at Talent Show

Melody Tavallaee, Managing Editor
January 17, 2019
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Frisco ISD is hosting Find Your Future Night for Texas schools. The event is Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Panther Creek High School.

[Photo] Frisco ISD hosts Find Your Future Night for Texas schools

September 14, 2023
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Spending all four years of high school as part of choir and journalism, senior editor-in-chief Brooke Colombo writes that saying goodbye isnt as easy as she anticipated.

Ready for my next chapter

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
June 1, 2018
Choir takes a final bow

Choir takes a final bow

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
May 15, 2018
Students preparing for theatres last improv show of the year.

Cake wars follows final act of improv season

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
May 11, 2018

Driverless car service comes to Frisco July

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
May 9, 2018
There will be a new UNT campus in Frisco near the Dallas North Tollway.

UNT to open new campus in Frisco

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
May 1, 2018
Standing on the stage at the north end of Toyota Stadium, choir director Bruce Stevenson leads the choir in their performance of the national anthem before Saturdays F.C. Dallas games.

[Photo] Singing in the rain

April 24, 2018
Organizer and junior Aarti Poduval makes remarks while students listen.

Students join forces for national school walkout

Megan Lin, Kasey Harvey, and Brooke Colombo
April 20, 2018
After sending in their audition tape, choir will be singing the National Anthem for the upcoming FC Dallas game Saturday.

Choir makes the major league

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
April 20, 2018
With stacks of flyers detailing the student led walkout scheduled for April 20, senior Parker Butler, along with juniors Dena Assad and Amina Syeda discuss their plan for handing out the flyers and raising awareness for the event.

Walking out for a change

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
April 19, 2018

Coffee and choir on the menu Thursday night

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
April 19, 2018

Water damage disrupts school day for third time in five months

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
April 16, 2018
Editors Kasey Harvey, Keegan Williams, and Brooke Colombo hold up what is often referred to as the pulitzer prize of journalism, the Online Pacemaker.

Wingspan named one of nation’s top online publications

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
April 16, 2018
Little Women, the Musical is nominated for many Dallas Summer Musical High School Musical Awards, with many students up for awards.

Little Women, big awards

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
April 10, 2018

Sweet victory for cupcake competitors

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
April 4, 2018

Last chance for 2018-19 schedule changes

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
April 2, 2018

Mock accident designed to prevent the reality of Shattered Dreams

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
March 23, 2018
Theater 1 students continue to explore the art of theater through storytelling and scriptwriting with a project that began by having  students write a fairy tale they remembered from there past and create two scenes based off of it, and now, students are required to make an adaptation of those two scripts.

Theater’s One-Act Play advances to district

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
March 19, 2018
With the start of the school year, all members of Red Rhythm are back to in-person practice. With this, the team is able to bring back many traditions they were unable to do last year.

Countdown to Red Rhythm tryouts begin Monday after school

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
March 19, 2018
Holding her ribbons proudly, freshman Sabrina Wood is awarded first place from the the Dallas County Veterinary Medical Association and second place in Animal Science Computational Biology at the Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair.

Freshmen bring A game at Regional Science and Engineering Fair

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
March 7, 2018
Student artwork lined the hallways Friday night for the National Art Honors Society Art Gallery Show with students not only having the chance to display their art, but topotentially sell it as well.

NAHS art exhibit celebrates visual art during Youth Art Month

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
March 5, 2018
Redhawk Rants will be used to raise awareness about drug abuse.

Cultivating cultural awareness the focus of Redhawk Rant

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
February 28, 2018
(front row left to right) sophomore Geethika Bonthala, junior Grishma Geedipally, senior Ria Bajaj, senior Shree Balaji, junior Caroline Overall, sophomore Kate Liang. (back row left to right) senior Siddhi Patadia, junior Saahithi Joopelli, junior Dea Divi, senior Sonika Rao, junior Andy Liu, junior Aten Kumar, junior Maanas Dogga, senior Varun Manjunath.

8 DECA students aim for internationals

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
February 23, 2018
Black Panther is the newest Marvel movie that features a majority black cast.

More than just a movie

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
February 16, 2018

Junior violinist takes spotlight with Lewisville Lake Symphony

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
February 12, 2018

Senior makes Boy Scouts history

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
February 9, 2018

Lin to play with Lewisville Symphony

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
February 9, 2018

Student performers to showcase their talents

Aliza Porter and Brooke Colombo
February 1, 2018
Students talk in the schools Black Box Theatre, the site of Fridays Improv Troupe Show taking place at 7 p.m.

What happens next is anyone’s guess at Friday’s improv show

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
January 26, 2018

Moving to Memorial, campus secretary leaves Liberty

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
January 12, 2018
Registration begins Monday for the Armed Services Vocational Aptitutde Battery for interested sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The test is being administrated Wednesday.

Registration opens for military assessment

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
January 8, 2018
The Frisco Education Foundation hosts its 19th annual Scholarship Night on May 23, 2018.

Frisco Education Foundation ranked as one of nation’s best

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
January 5, 2018
Having fun with dance and giving back to the community is goal of the schools Dance for a Cause club which is open to anybody regardless of their proficiency in dance.

Dance group gives back to community

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
January 4, 2018
Over the course of two weeks, the school raised nearly $4,000 through a donation drive held primarily in 2B classes. The money is being donated to the Samaritan Inn and Small World.

[Photo] Nearly $4,000 raised in holiday donation drive

December 15, 2017

Carnegie Hall awaits junior violinist

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
December 15, 2017
Performing at the Frisco ISD administration Tuesday afternoon, the schools varsity choir sang holiday songs for district administrators.

Choir decks the halls of with winter songs

Catie Reeves and Brooke Colombo
December 13, 2017
Mondays regularly scheduled Frisco ISD Board of Trustees meeting will discuss numerous items in regard to the 2018-19 school year. The public portion of Mondays meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

2018-19 calendar and attendance zones up for approval Monday night

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
December 11, 2017

Rain showers down on stage after water pipe breaks in auditorium

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
December 11, 2017
Prior to Thursdays winter concert, choir students spent class time rehearsing a variety of songs to be performed in the cafeteria starting at 7 p.m.

Songs of winter to fill the cafeteria Thursday

Brooke Colombo and Olivia Howard
December 7, 2017
Senior Caitlyn Hazzard, who plays tenor trombone, is one of multiple students who advanced to 5A area.

Dozens make All-Region Band; 16 advance to area

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
December 7, 2017
Taking part in Thursdays Learning Walk, science teacher Lara Russey takes a tour of another class and looks on as student Sam Mills does his work.

Walking and learning, teachers get tips and strategies

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
November 30, 2017
17 DECA members attended the Mavericks game on Wednesday to learn about sports business.

DECA slam dunks real marketing at Mavs game

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
November 29, 2017
Thanksgiving isnt for everyone

Thanksgiving isn’t for everyone

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
November 17, 2017
Sid Sadhu (8th Trumpet), Nathan Brooks (1st Alto Sax), Reuben Mathews (4th Trumpet) are the schools three All-State Jazz musicians. Competing against students for all classifications of school size, they are ranked among the top 1 percent of musicians in Texas.

Jazz trio grooves its way to state

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
November 14, 2017
From left to right: senior Hanna Alnemer, junior Jordan Miller, senior Hailey Middleton, and senior Kirk Niekamp.

Future farmers harvest wins at district

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
November 8, 2017
Computers throughout the district saw this message for at least four hours on Thursday as an internet outage limited the ability of some classes to get work done.

Campus struck by internet outage Thursday

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
November 3, 2017

Collin Dual-Credit forms available

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
October 27, 2017
Pre-AP Art I students experienced a project that combined artistic elements with principles of physics.

Whistling through art

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
October 19, 2017
19 orchestra were selected to the All-Region orchestra with a chance to earn All-State honors and perform in San Antonio in February.

Orchestra has 19 chosen for All-Region

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
October 17, 2017
Featuring plenty of things lurking, loud noises, bright lights and smoke, Dark Hour in Plano is rated as one of the top haunted house experiences in the nation according to USA Today.

Review: Dark Hour brings out the scare

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
October 13, 2017
In this file photo, now junior Aliza Porter talks with a nurse in the library as part of FISD program that allows employees and their children to get this years flu vaccination. (October 12, 2016).

Flu season here and expected to be worse than last year

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
October 12, 2017
Band is competing at the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Tournament of Champions this weekend.

Band and color guard set their sights high

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
October 5, 2017
Stalking was the theme of this visual representation of a law in the Texas penal code. The work of junior Aliza Porter was part of an assignment in the Survey of Law course at the CTE Center.

Bringing the law to life

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
October 4, 2017

Monday’s advisory period to be extended

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 29, 2017
Empty shelves are a common sight at the Frisco Family Services Food Pantry as Hurricane Harvey put a dent in the organizations food inventory.

Harvey drains Frisco Family Services

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 28, 2017
Trying to help people on campus understand each other better, senior Zaki Sayyid started the Culture and Social Issues club with the intent of doing more than just a weekly meeting. “We also hopefully plan to do activities on the weekends, Sayyid said. If there’s a really culturally or socially relevant film that comes out, we would go see it or if there’s a festival or something like that, we would go to that and that would be a weekend event for us.”

Club dives into political and social climate

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 27, 2017
Changes to the advisory period implemented Monday allow students to go from class to class instead of being limited to attending tutorials with just one teacher.

Alterations made to advisory period

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 25, 2017
Opinion: done with mums

Opinion: done with mums

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 19, 2017
Anchoring the WTV Daily Update, senior and executive producer Neha Perumalla and the rest of the broadcast team, along with several individual students were honored with national recognition by the National Scholastic Press Association.

WTV Daily Update receives national honor

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 13, 2017
Named 2016 Homecoming King, Grant Buss poses for a picture with Queen Cameron Robbins.

Homecoming nominations open until Wednesday

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-Chief
September 11, 2017
Featuring 8 cords to serve a variety of devices, the two charging stations donated by student council can be found in both corners of the cafeteria.

Cafeteria now a place to fuel self and phone

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 8, 2017
Show choir auditions results were released Tuesday afternoon.

Show choir auditions begin Wednesday

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
September 8, 2017
Having spent more than a decade in Frisco ISD from 2002-2014, Dr. Mike Waldrip returned to the district this summer as the new superintendent after serving in the same position at Coppell ISD from 2014-17.

Familiar face returns to lead Frisco ISD

Neha Perumalla and Brooke Colombo
September 7, 2017
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[Photo] Wade Glover

August 21, 2017
Virtually all gas stations in the area looked somewhat similar on Thursday, August 31, 2017 as most were sold out of gas as residents rushed to fill up throughout the day.

Harvey leads to gas shortages in Frisco

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
August 31, 2017
Stretch nearly all the way to the school, the line for gas at the RaceTrac just east of school on Rolater was more than 20 cars deep before the station ran out of gas early Thursday afternoon, Aug. 31, 2017.

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Frisco ISD may be contemplating a larger school model in favor of its current small school model.

Committee to look at Frisco ISD small schools model

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
August 30, 2017
Each program from the fine arts department is preparing for the fall concert season.

Fall arts performances

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
August 29, 2017
Answering his students question, AP Human Geography teacher, Tim Johannes helps guide his students throughout their work on making a tourism video.

Tourism videos introduce freshman to world geography

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
August 25, 2017
Sitting in the cafeteria, 9th graders are introduced to the school and how things operate as part of the 2017 Freshman Flight Camp on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017.

9th graders make their debut on campus

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
August 10, 2017
Freshmen gather in the cafeteria with their friends before the tour and presentations begin. (August 14, 2015)

Freshman Flight School set to launch Wednesday

Brooke Colombo, Editor-in-chief
August 8, 2017
French teacher Dina Baalbaki will be inducting several students into the National French Honors Society on Wednesday at 8 a.m. in the auditorium.

Induction ceremony for NFHS Wednesday

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
May 30, 2017
A college fair for historically black colleges is tonight from 6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.

Historically black college fair Wednesday

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
May 24, 2017
For seniors interested in going to Six Flags, students must attend a mandatory information meeting on Tuesday at 8:30 to 8:55 a.m. in the library where details on the trip will be provided.

Rain washes out Senior Night

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
May 22, 2017
Among the more than 40 items up for auction in the bands silent auction are multiple gift baskets. Bidding for the online auction ends at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. All auction items can be viewed in person at the event from , 6-9 p.m. at Liberty High School. Visit www.32auctions.com/springswing2017 for a look at the items available for purchase.

Band hosts concert and silent auction Saturday

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
May 19, 2017
Holding is 2nd place medal while wearing his Mickey Mouse t-shirt, senior Nick Lovan (standing 2nd from the left) poses with other BPA students from the district that traveled to the national conference May 10-14. Lovan took 2nd in the Network Administration Using Microsoft competition.

Self-taught concepts lead to 2nd at Nationals

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
May 16, 2017
Proposed bill would limit school calendar flexibility

Proposed bill would limit school calendar flexibility

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
May 11, 2017
The number of parents opting out of vaccinations is one the rise with the rate of students in FISD who had filed for vaccine exemptions at 2.05 percent in 2015-16 which is more than double the state average.

Vaccine exemptions on the rise

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
April 19, 2017
The W Hotel in Dallas will again be the venue for prom, set to take place on Saturday April 13 at 8 p.m. Wednesdays prom hype party aims to get seniors engaged in the event and boost turnout.

Wait is over, prom is Saturday

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
April 7, 2017
National Honor Society will be holding their first meeting in person meetings of the year since Spring 2020 this Tuesday and Wednesday. “I think the biggest difference between last year and now is the volunteer opportunities we have for members,” she said. “This year, we really want to provide opportunities that are geared towards our members’ interests.

Voting irregularities lead to new NHS voting

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
March 30, 2017

Search process for new superintendent underway

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
March 21, 2017
The theater department competed in the District 13-5A UIL One Act Play competition on Thursday. Eight Frisco ISD schools competed with the top three advancing to the next round.

Curtain closes on theater’s UIL One Act Play

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
March 17, 2017
A table in the teachers mailroom featured more than two dozen pies as part of the Math Honors Society Pi Day celebration.

Pies for Pi Day

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
March 14, 2017
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[Photo] Spring break reading contest

Victoria Gong, WTV Staff Reporter
March 3, 2017
Classrooms throughout campus will be converted into make-shift dressing rooms for the dozens of dance teams that will be taking part in the M.A. Dance Contest on Saturday.

From classroom to dressing room

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
February 24, 2017
Custodians used disinfectant to wipe down surfaces throughout the school in the effort to slow down the spread of things such as the flu.

School seeks to stop sickness from spreading

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
February 21, 2017
Counselors will be hosting Coffee with Counselors Friday to discuss college registration, scholarships, and financial aid.

Coffee and college registration

Brooke Colombo, News Editor
February 16, 2017
Currently a part of the schools choir, junior Andrea Cobos aspires to be an opera singer.

[Photo] Andrea Cobos

Prachurjya Shreya, Staff Reporter
February 8, 2017
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