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

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

WINGSPAN
Ana Toro

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor

Ana Maria Toro is a junior in her second year with Wingspan. She loves spending time with her family and listening to Eminem on repeat. She also loves scouting for new music and writing about it on her Acoustic Avenue blog. Ana has traveled the world and always finds comfort in traveling. She is really excited to continue on Wingspan this year. To contact Ana please email her at ana.toro.375@k12.friscoisd.org   

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In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: a final goodbye

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
May 20, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: bringing back the Rat Pack

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
May 6, 2022
The track renovation is just one of many updates to the school this year as Liberty will see a campus refresh over the summer. Last year, the campus also experienced a turf refresh.

[Photo] Athletics renovations set to happen summer ‘22

May 4, 2022
Many have seen injuries such as excessive shin splints due to the faulty old track, including senior Devansh Saxena. These injuries leave many unable to practice or even compete.

Coming in at close to a half of a million dollars, many athletes are excited for the update. As it does not happen very often, a new track means a celebration by the track team.

The red stain of the track on shoes is something many athletes are familiar with. For cheerleaders specifically, this is an event that occurs every Friday night.

In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: movie scores

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
April 29, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Camila Cabello’s “Familia”

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
April 22, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: the Grammys or the Scammys?

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
April 8, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic avenues: MOTOMAMI

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
March 25, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: New Riela EP opens door for self love

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
March 18, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Bad Bunny hops into tour

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
March 4, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: rap takeover at Super Bowl halftime

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
February 25, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: We canto get enough of Encanto

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
February 11, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Aguilera’s return to Hispanic music

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
January 28, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: The South of Spain heard

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
January 21, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: healing with Dawn FM

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
January 14, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: An Evening with Silk Sonic

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
January 7, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: remembering Flow La Movie

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
December 17, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Sauce Boyz 2

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
December 10, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: that’s a “wrap” for 2021 Spotify listeners

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
December 3, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: The beauty behind X100PRE

Ana Toro, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
November 12, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Letting the Wolf In

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
November 5, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: a conversation with Riela

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
October 25, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: students decide, Apple Music or Spotify?

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
October 18, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: a taste of Texas

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
October 4, 2021
After getting a bachelor's degree in nursing from UT Arlington, working in the cardiac department as a nurse at Texas Health Fort Worth, and subbing in as a school nurse for seven years, Lindsey McDavid is the new school nurse, and

[Photo] Lindsey McDavid

Sarayu Bongale, Guest Contributor
October 1, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: the birth of something new

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2021
Providing live streaming of any events in the campus gyms, the Pixellot cameras are completely automatic and track any action taking place on the court.

[Photo] New camera system opens opportunities for athletics

Rayquan Johnson and Will Jackson
September 21, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: a Colombian Icon

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 20, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Certified Lover Boy

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 13, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Kanye’s ode to his mom

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 7, 2021
A woman receives a vaccination for the flu virus in her upper arm. With flu season nearing, the campus is opening a flu clinic on Wednesday.

Campus hosting flu vaccine clinic Wednesday

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 2, 2021
The Taliban’s swift coup of the Afghan government was imminent. A conflict that had been brewing for decades finally resulted in the fall of the Afghan government resulting in many families effected including ones on campus.

Taliban conflict in Afghanistan impacts Redhawk’s families

Ana Toro, Aarya Oswal, and Athena Tseng
August 30, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Top 5 artists I discovered this summer

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
August 30, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: top 5 summer songs

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
August 23, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: new year, new music

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
August 16, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: favorite albums of 2021

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
May 17, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Big Sean

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
May 10, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: David Guetta’s “listen”

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
May 3, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: new music

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
April 26, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: DMX’s legacy

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
April 19, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Demi Lovato

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
April 12, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Paloma Mami debut album

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
March 29, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Revelacion

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
March 22, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: life support

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
March 15, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Kendrick Lamar album review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
March 1, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: After Hours review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
February 22, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Dangerous Woman album

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
February 8, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: James Bond music review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
February 1, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: driver’s license

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
January 25, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: top 5 albums from 2020

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
January 19, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Eminem side B deluxe edition review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
January 11, 2021
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Kali Uchis’ new album

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
December 14, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Euphoric Sad Songs review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
December 7, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: top Christmas albums

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
November 30, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Skylar Grey’s new EP

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
November 16, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Ariana Grande’s sixth studio album

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Birds of Prey album

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
November 2, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Sasha Sloan’s debut album

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
October 26, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Savage Mode II review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
October 19, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Late Night Feelings LP

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
October 13, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Marshall Mathers LP

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
October 5, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Ava Max’s debut album is finally here

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 28, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: let’s remember Dr. Dre’s 1999 album

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 21, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Big Sean album review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 14, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Katy Perry album review

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 10, 2020
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: quarantine top 4

Ana Toro, Staff Reporter
September 3, 2020
In an attempt to battle COVID-19 and the various new strands of it, the U.S. has recently issued an extended entry ban. In this week's Viral Thoughts, staff reporte Haille Hughes explains why.

Nothing is certain with COVID-19

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
May 26, 2020
With COVID-19, more and more people are sleeping longer hours. Wingspan's very own Ana Toro explores the various sleep issues during COVID-19.

Sleeping in, vivid dreams

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
May 15, 2020
Rather than taking place in one of the school's two gym, the COVID-19 outbreak led the College Board to allow students to take their exams at home, with the first one having taken place Monday. For many freshmen, their first AP exam came Tuesday with AP Human Geography.

First AP test better than expected

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
May 14, 2020
Abbott's decision to reopen is premature

Abbott’s decision to reopen is premature

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
May 8, 2020
COVID-19 has taken a turn in the present, but it will also change people's future outlook on staying safe. Wingspan's Ana Toro explores the long term effects of COVID-19.

COVID-19’s long term effects

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
May 1, 2020
Mental health in quarantine

Mental health in quarantine

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
April 17, 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spreading throughout the world, Wingspan's Ana Toro encourages people to take the virus seriously.

COVID-19 is nothing like the flu

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
April 6, 2020

Eilish kills it with ‘No Time to Die’

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
February 21, 2020
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Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
February 12, 2020
Counselors are a resource for students to reach out and share what they are going through so that they may have that support system at school. Wingspan's Ana Toro shares her thoughts about speaking up to a counselor.

Speaking up

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
February 4, 2020
Guest contributor Ana Toro shares her thoughts on Eminem's surprise album released on Jan. 17, 2020.

Eminem’s surprise album kills the game

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
January 28, 2020

Spinning Out dives deeper into mental health

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
January 24, 2020
Freshman Harshitha Suryadevara takes a picture for her 25 day project in photojournalism. “Basically its giving a theme every day for 25 days that a student can interpret however they want to and take a photo of something related to that topic,” photojournalism teacher Kim Breen.

Breen brings in 25 days of photography

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
December 5, 2019
Substitute Bernard Broderick sits in on a classroom while the primary teacher is away. Wingspan's Ana Toro shares her thoughts on giving substitutes respect.

Substituting mischief for respect

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
November 22, 2019
After its release on Oct. 17, 2019, "Mala Santa" arrived at No. 3 on Top Latin Albums and Latin Rhythm Albums Charts on Nov. 2. Gomez is the third female act to debut in the top 10 in 2019.

Mala Santa shows two sides of Becky G

Ana Toro, Guest Contributor
November 15, 2019
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