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The student news site of Kingwood Park High School

KP TIMES

The student news site of Kingwood Park High School

KP TIMES

The student news site of Kingwood Park High School

KP TIMES

2025-2026 Staff

Tricia Darcy
Editor-in-Chief

Tricia Darcy

 Tricia Darcy is a senior and in her third year on the newspaper staff. Some of her interests include writing and social media. Outside of journalism, she likes to play basketball, draw and paint. Some of her favorite music arti...

Sydney Ortiz
Editor-in-Chief

Sydney Ortiz

Sydney Ortiz, a junior, is starting her third year on staff. She created the Latinos Unidos club and is the NHS publicist. Outside of journalism, Sydney loves to watch sports, specifically the Indiana Fever and Los Angeles Dodgers. ...

Cameron Minatrea
Sports Editor

Cameron Minatrea

Cameron Minatrea is a senior who loves writing and broadcasting. When he’s not listening to music or walking, you can find him watching sports with his dad or old rom-coms with his mom. He hopes to pursue a Public Relations de...

Paisley Thomas
Opinions Editor

Paisley Thomas

 Paisley Thomas is a senior who loves anything creative! This is her second year on staff. Some of her favorite things to do include reviewing movies on Letterboxd, reading and doing people's nails. Her favorite movies include Dun...

Danielle Nalley
Online Editor

Danielle Nalley

 Danielle Nalley is a junior going into her second year on staff and first year as online editor! She enjoys volunteering at nature centers, hanging out with her siblings and anything journalism related. When she grows up she ...

Chloe Sales
Video Producer

Chloe Sales

Chloe Sales is a senior in her first year of journalism. She really likes filming, editing, animation and art. She is vice president of the National Art Honor Society and the social media manager for Painted Panthers. She loves...

Muhammad Adnan
Staff Writer

Muhammad Adnan

Muhammad Adnan is a senior and this is his first year on the newspaper staff. He enjoys watching soccer and spending time with friends and family. Inspired by his passion for creating innovative technologies, Muhammad plans to...

Charlie Crass
Staff Writer

Charlie Crass

Charlie Crass is a passionate soccer player with over 12 years of experience on the field. Beyond athletics, Charlie is deeply involved in creative and journalistic pursuits on the school newspaper. With a love for, images and art...

Chase Canlas
Staff Writer

Chase Canlas

Chase Canlas is a sophomore in his second year on the newspaper staff. He enjoys movies, music and hanging out with friends. Chase is a cartoonist for KP Times and is a very hard worker. Chase is also a very talented surfer and...

Shawn Chaney
Staff Writer

Shawn Chaney

Shawn Chaney is in his sophomore year and has joined the newspaper staff. He enjoys doing sports photography and writing. He plays viola in the orchestra too. His favorite artists are Queen, Metallica and David Bowie...

Eleanor Durand
Staff Writer

Eleanor Durand

Eleanor Durand is a sophomore. This is her first year on the newspaper staff, but it’s her third year in journalism overall. She has a passion for theater (acting and tech), writing and space. When she isn’t in school or i...

Marien Martinez
Staff Writer

Marien Martinez

Marien is a sophomore and in her first year in journalism. She's also a part of the swim team and serves as a Class of 2028 delegate. In her free time, Marien enjoys hanging out with friends, sleeping or playing pickleball – and s...

Pilar Retamales
Staff Writer

Pilar Retamales

Pilar is a junior entering her second year on the newspaper staff. She enjoys making videos and writing feature stories. She is a part of the swim team, NHS and other clubs. Outside of school, she enjoys going to the beach, hang...

Caleb Kazeem
Staff Writer

Caleb Kazeem

Caleb is a junior entering his first year on the newspaper staff. He loves playing sports like football and running track. He also likes watching sporting events, especially the Dallas Cowboys. He hopes to go to the Universit...

Marie Wakefield
Staff Writer

Marie Wakefield

Marie Wakefield, a junior, is involved in swimming, NHS (as Historian), and, of course, journalism. She loves Brandon Sanderson books, “The Office,” “Star Wars,” “Star Trek” and bossing people around. Kidding on the l...

Jack Coffey
Staff Writers

Jack Coffey

 Jack Coffey is a senior and entering his second year on newspaper staff and first year in yearbook. He enjoys reviewing films, shooting videos and attending sporting events. His favorite team is the Knicks and his favorite ...

Sophia Artola
Staff Photographer

Sophia Artola

Sophia Artola is a junior on staff, she enjoys sports photography and editing/making graphics. Outside of school, she also likes baking and scrolling through Pinterest.

Leonardo Peña
Staff Photographer

Leonardo Peña

Leonardo Peña is a junior on the staff and excited to contribute to the yearbook. His main interest is photography but is more than happy to design sports graphics. Outside of school, Leonardo spends his time flipping burger...

Rocco Huerta
Staff Photographer

Rocco Huerta

Rocco Huerta is a senior and is excited to be here for his second year of yearbook. He’s one of the yearbook photographers and is always shooting any game there is and always learning ways to take photos. His dream college ...

Michael McElmurray
Staff Photographer

Michael McElmurray

Michael is a senior and in his first year on the newspaper staff. When he’s not eating or playing with his dog, you can find him listening to some of his favorite artists like Pierce The Veil, Paramore or Arctic Monkeys or h...

Jacob Dinh
Staff Photographer

Jacob Dinh

Jacob Dinh is a sophomore and entering his second year on the newspaper staff. Jacob is also on the golf team. Other than playing golf, he loves spending time with family and friends. Jacob also enjoys listening to music and w...

Rayden DeSouza
Staff Photographer

Rayden DeSouza

Rayden DeSouza, Staff Photographer, is a junior entering his first year on the newspaper staff. He is a varsity wrestler and loves watching sports like football, basketball and baseball. His main hobby is photography and he wan...

Izzy Fabrizio
Yearbook staff

Izzy Fabrizio

Izzy Fabrizio is a sophomore and part of the yearbook staff. She loves to write and take sports photos. Izzy is part of the girls basketball team and enjoys watching basketball as well. When Izzy grows up she wants to be an air...

Rachel Hamilton
Yearbook staff

Rachel Hamilton

Rachel Hamilton is a sophomore and in her first year on the yearbook staff. Her favorite colors are pink, purple and blue. It's her second year playing golf for the school. She enjoys listening to The Weeknd in her free time....

Rya Johnson
Yearbook staff

Rya Johnson

Rya Johnson is a junior on the Silver Stars dance team. She’s on the yearbook staff and in her second year in journalism. She likes movies, her family and friends, animals of all kinds and is willing to help with anything. ...

Austin Farmer
Special Contributor

Austin Farmer

Austin Nathaniel Farmer is a freshman in his first year in journalism. In addition, he is also a part of the football team. He deeply enjoys journalism because of its investigation and the process of writing stories. He first go...

Amita Ramcharan
Special Contributor

Amita Ramcharan

Amita Ramcharan is a freshman entering as a freelance writer. Some of her interests include dancing, writing, reading or doing anything creative. Her favorite book series at the moment is The Fourth Wing series or the book QuickSilver. ...

Kalia Gaeta
Special Contributor

Kalia Gaeta

Kalia Gaeta is a junior entering her first year of photojournalism and also her first year here at Kingwood Park HS. She is involved in choir, soccer, track and, of course, photojournalism. She loves to take sports and nature...

Joshua Harris
Special Contributor

Joshua Harris

Joshua Harris, a freshman, loves everything: art, TV, theater and animals. He enjoys playing games with friends, taking photos and martial arts. On top of that, he loves baseball more than any other sport and is a big Astros fan. ...

Addy Patton
Special Contributor

Addy Patton

Addison Patton is a freshman. This is her first year in high school journalism. Her extracurriculars are Art 1 and track.  Her interests unrelated to school are art, writing, rock music, Marvel (specifically X-men) and Castle...

Alex Hawkins
Special Contributor

Alex Hawkins

Alex Hawkins is a freshman. He loves fishing, fighting, music and football. He doesn’t do much after school other than football practice and football games. Nobody really talks to him outside of school, but he’s fine with...

Jackson Matlock
Special Contributor

Jackson Matlock

Jackson Matlock is a freshman. He loves to practice for baseball in his free time. Other than baseball, Jackson loves music. He spends time with friends outside of school to have fun and study with them at their house or the libr...

Jacob Holmes
Special Contributor

Jacob Holmes

Jacob Holmes is a freshman and in his first year of journalism. In his free time, Jacob likes to listen to music and play his electric and acoustic guitars. His favorite music artists include lil peep, $uicide Boy$, Xavier Wulf...

Molly McCall
Special Contributor

Molly McCall

Molly McCall is a sophomore on varsity cheer. Balancing school and cheer takes commitment, but Molly has an exciting life off the sidelines. On top of school and cheer, she has a very eventful life. She's been to six countries, on...

Alex Pozzi
Special Contributor

Alex Pozzi

Alexander James Pozzi is a freshman in his first year of journalism and high school. Recently moving from Vernon Hills, Ill., to Kingwood, Alexander has been in love with both writing and sports. From basketball to football to ...

Ja'Kayla Scott
Special Contributor

Ja’Kayla Scott

Ja’Kayla Scott is a sophomore who has been in basketball for five years. She started her first year in journalism. She watches basketball whenever she isn’t playing basketball. Her favorite team is the Dallas Wings and he...

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