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

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
Emily Thomas

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter

Emily Thomas is a junior and this will be her second year in the program. Emily contributes news stories and opinion pieces to the site and has always enjoyed writing whether it’s for school or just for fun. She is going on year three of being on the Liberty tennis team. Emily enjoys spending time with friends and family, shopping, and spending time outdoors. You can contact Emily @emily.Thomas.324@k12.friscoisd.org

All content by Emily Thomas
In this weekly podcast, editor in chief Athena Tseng and social media editor Jordan Battey talk about a variety of topics regarding high school.

Dumb and Dumber: water wars

Athena Tseng and Emily Thomas
March 31, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenue: Spanish songs

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
March 24, 2023
DECA students head down to Dallas to compete in the state competition.

DECA goes to state competition

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
March 10, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: spring break

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
March 10, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: summer songs

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
March 3, 2023
The FISD CTE Center Mock Trial team is on the lookout for new members. The team is hosting an introduction meeting Thursday at 6 p.m.

FISD mock trial team heads to state

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
March 2, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Pink Floyd

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
February 24, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: this week’s songs

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
February 10, 2023
With bids to state on the line, the Redhawks swim team competes in the district at the Bruce Eubanks Natatorium on Friday and Saturday.

State bids on the line at 5A Region III swim finals

Haley Ward and Emily Thomas
February 7, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: sad music for January

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
January 27, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: this week’s playlist

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
January 20, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Kanye West

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
January 13, 2023
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: New Years

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
December 22, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Christmas

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
December 16, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: holiday chill

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
December 9, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: songs that represent me

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
December 5, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Thanksgiving playlist

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
November 18, 2022
Six Redhawk athletes, seniors Lilian Adams, McKenna Gildon, Reese Brown, Teagen Jaussi, Grace Deshetler, and Erica Defferding, officialized their commitment to continue their athletic careers beyond high school in the fieldhouse on Wednesday.

Six athletes sign to continue their athletic careers

Haley Ward and Emily Thomas
November 10, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: a playlist for football

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
November 4, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: halloweekend

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
October 28, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: the perfect playlist for autumn

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
October 21, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Can I take my Hounds to Heaven

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
October 13, 2022
Senior McKenna Gildon reached 1000 assists during Tuesday's game. She hit this goal within only a few months of taking over a new position, and believes this accomplishment will motivate her heading into the second round of district play.

Gildon hits milestone on Tuesday

Haley Ward and Emily Thomas
October 5, 2022
Wingspan's featured athlete for 5/9, track and field athlete, senior Cori Ross.

Featured Athlete: Cori Ross

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
May 12, 2022
Wingspan's featured athlete for 5/19, baseball player, junior Jack Dehnisch.

Featured Athlete: Jack Dehnisch

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
May 5, 2022
Wingspan's featured athlete for 4/25, senior baseball player Jace McQueary.

Featured Athlete: Jace McQueary

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
April 21, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 4/12 is track runner, junior Ivana Odonkor.

Featured Athlete: Ivana Odonkor

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
April 14, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 4/7 is basketball player and track runner, junior Jonathan Dupree-Buford.

Featured Athlete: Jonathan Dupree-Bufford

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
April 7, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 3/31 is track runner, junior Sydney Smoak.

Featured Athlete: Sydney Smoak

Emily Thomas, Sports Reporter
March 31, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 3/3 is soccer player, senior Kevin Guerrero.

Featured Athlete: Kevin Guerrero

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
March 3, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 2/10 is baseball player, junior Makai Willingham.

Featured Athlete: Makai Willingham

Emily Thomas
February 10, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for date is powerlifter, junior Natalie Wilson.

Featured Athlete: Natalie Wilson

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
January 27, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 1/20 is softball player, senior Maegan Shannon.

Featured Athlete: Maegan Shannon

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
January 20, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 1/6 is basketball player, sophomore Keyera Roseby.

Featured Athlete: Keyera Roseby

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
January 6, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 12/6 is basketball player, junior Matthew Bishop.

Featured Athlete: Matthew Bishop

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
December 7, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 11/30 is basketball player, senior Ashley Anderson.

Featured Athlete: Ashley Anderson

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
November 30, 2021

[Video] TV Talk with Teachers: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
November 17, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 11/17 is wrestler, James Ethan Harris.

Featured Athlete: James Ethan Harris

Emily Thomas, Start Reporter
November 16, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 11/4 is cheerleader, junior Brooklyn Lowe.

Featured Athlete: Brooklyn Lowe

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
November 4, 2021

[Video] TV Talk with Teachers: Schitt’s Creek

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
November 3, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 10/28 is cross country runner, junior Chance Moore.

Featured Athlete: Chance Moore

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
October 28, 2021
Taking notes in the hallway, English IV students took part in a gallery walk Wednesday and Friday as they learned about the Renaissance. “It makes you think more than a traditional classroom setting," senior Temwa Symalla said.

Walking and learning

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
October 22, 2021

[Video] TV Talk With Teachers: Squid Game

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
October 20, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 10/14 is football player, Joseph Hancock.

Featured Athlete: Joseph Hancock

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
October 14, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 10/7 is cross country runner, freshman Sofia Golladay.

Featured Athlete: Sofia Golladay

Emily Thomas and Harley Classe
October 7, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 9/29 is cross country runner, senior Jada Williams.

Featured Athlete: Jada Williams

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 30, 2021
In this bi-weekly podcast, staff reporter Emily Thomas talks with teachers about their favorite TV shows.

[Video] TV Talk with Teachers: Judge Judy

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 29, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 9/23 is football player, junior Keldric Luster.

Featured Athlete: Keldric Luster

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 23, 2021

Catching up with Fred Savage

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 22, 2021

[Video] TV Talk with Teachers: The Wonder Years

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 15, 2021
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 9/9 is cross country runner, junior Andrew Jauregui.

Featured Athlete: Andrew Jauregui

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 9, 2021

[Video] TV Talk with Teachers: The Queen’s Gambit

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 8, 2021

Featured Athlete: Purnoor Sharma

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 2, 2021
In this bi-weekly podcast, staff reporter Emily Thomas talks with teachers about their favorite TV shows.

[Video] TV Talk with Teachers: Below Deck

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
September 1, 2021
In this bi-weekly podcast, staff reporter Emily Thomas talks with teachers about their favorite TV shows.

[Video] TV Talk with Teachers: Yellowstone

Emily Thomas, Staff Reporter
August 25, 2021
Playing in different tournaments nearly every week, the Redhawks tennis team will be playing at various sites on Friday. The District 9-5A tournament, which will decide who advances to regionals, will take place April 12.

March to district tournament underway for tennis

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
March 18, 2021
Guest Contributor Emily Thomas shares her opinion on sitting for the pledge.

Sitting for the pledge: a sign of disrespect

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
March 5, 2021
Collecting peanut butter and jelly for Frisco Lovepacs, the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America has donation boxes set up in the rotunda, as well as E104 and E105. The last day to donate is Wednesday.

[Photo] PB & J drive designed to help Frisco Lovepacs

Hannah Beeler, Staff Reporter
January 27, 2021
Guest Contributor Emily Thomas discusses her opinion on band shirts, and the awkwardness that may come with wearing them.

Why you shouldn’t wear shirts of bands you don’t listen to

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
January 13, 2021
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Why you shouldn’t be mad

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
December 9, 2020
Wearing pirate hats, the twins get their picture taken as toddlers. “At first the expectations were the same, we did everything together and with relatively the same skill,” Michael said. “But as we’ve grown older our parents have accepted that we have different talents and needs, and they have begun to treat us accordingly. Our parents push us to succeed according to what they believe we can handle.”

“He is like my life long best friend”: twins by each other’s side through life

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
December 1, 2020
Freshman Athena Tseng wears her mum during homecoming week on Thursday, September 26. Students can wear their mums to the football game and during the pep rally.

The history of a truly Texan tradition

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
November 19, 2020
With sports and COVID-19 continuing, all of the coaches are learning how to keep their sport in season. One things for sure that all athletes, no matter the sport, are having to make changes to their normal routine.

Sports continue to adjust to COVID-19 protocols

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
October 8, 2020
Algebra teacher Maddie Coday is a Redhawk in her first year on campus. Recently, Wingspan sat down with Coday to learn more about one of the math department's newest faces.

Maddie Coday

Emily Thomas, Guest Contributor
October 6, 2020
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