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It wasn’t looking good for Cleveland High senior Cristin Sammis (Cleveland, 2002) in the 2002 state singles final against Wilson sophomore Momei Qu. Qu had won the first set 6-4 and was up 4-1 and 30-love in game six of the second set. “I was six points from losing,” recalls Sammis-Bansen, who married Joseph Bansen […]

Byron Strickland (Roosevelt, 1963) remembers life during his Roosevelt High days as low-tech but high-fun. Technology in the early 1960s couldn’t rival what kids today are blessed to own or operate. Things to do weren’t lacking, however, as Strickland became a football and basketball star for the Roughriders before graduating in 1963. A 2008 PIL […]