Jayden McCaster - Running Back
Senior running back Jayden McCaster is a recent transfer student from DeSmet Jesuit, a private school in St. Louis. Standing at five feet and eight inches, he joins the...
Wyatt Vincent, a 2025 Nixa High School graduate and current New York Mets player, received his first collegiate baseball offer in eighth grade from the University of Missouri. By his sophomore year, he...
Reflecting on a year of personal growth, challenges, and new goals, the Nixa High School Girl’s swim and dive team finish up their winter season, while the boys’ team celebrated their accomplishments...
Nixa High School sophomore Brianna Bidinger has strived since her years in junior high to win in track and cross country. Since going into high school, she has gone to state twice for Cross-Country....
Nixa High School’s bowling team has been making swift progress recently. The bowling team earned the 2024 state championship and continues to compete for its title this year.
“A lot of...
Going into the 2024-25 season, Nixa High School’s basketball teams performed better than some had expected.
Nixa boys basketball won a game by 26 points when they were predicted to lose by 11.5 points...
The Nixa Girls Swim are headed to a strong wrapup to the 2025 season. The girls won meets such as COC and were placed in different relays. They competed throughout the district such as the Ozark...
With a boxing record of 3-0, sophomore Cross Potts has made strides as an early competitor. Potts trains with a boxing class called Jab-Lab, located at Grappling Concepts in Nixa, led by head coach Dejan...
Zero losses, outscoring opponents 423-77 for the whole season, and for the second year in a row going undefeated. All these achievements set the Nixa Eagles football team to be one of the top-ranked teams...
The Raiders, a physical and mental competition group students can join through the school's The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) class, have a team of 14 students who spend hours pushing...
Some people think of gaming as a fun hobby that shouldn't be taken too seriously. Still, this is not the case for these kids as they play video games competitively with games such as Overwatch, League...
![“My coach is Dejan Cvetkovic,” Potts said. “ I call him Coach Jan. He's from Serbia, [and he] moved to Chicago… then he came to Missouri, and he saw [Grappling Concepts] didn't have a boxing class, so he talked to the owner, Jacob Ritchie, and asked him, ‘Hey, can I open up a boxing class?’ And they agreed that there would be a boxing class.”](https://nixajournalism.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_1203-e1738782650567-900x1200.jpeg)
