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The North Star

The Student News Website of Bloomington High School North

The North Star

The Student News Website of Bloomington High School North

The North Star

Construction workers begin work on removing the current tennis courts at BHSN (May 1, 2025)

Construction of North’s Tennis Courts and Soccer Fields

Eisley Motz, Staff Writer May 22, 2025

North’s tennis courts have been struggling for quite some time, and over the course of 25 years they have been held together with small patchwork repairs. Unfortunately, bigger issues lie within the...

BHSN Athletics Changing Conferences in 2026

BHSN Athletics Changing Conferences in 2026

Eisley Motz, Staff Reporter February 17, 2025

Bloomington High School North has been a part of Conference Indiana since the 1997-98 school year. After nearly 30 years of competing with these schools, North has made the decision to join the Mid-State...

The boy swim team cheers on their teammates at a meet last winter.

BHSN winter sports are ramping up

Gracie Stevens, Staff Reporter November 15, 2024

Coming back to a sport after off-season can bring many different emotions. It can cause anxiety, joy, excitement, nerves, panic, and so much more; which is why it is especially important to make...

Juliana Maltese and Nina West engage in a pre-game warmup activity before a soccer game.

Game day rituals: Inside the superstitions that fuel athletes

Eisley Motz, Staff Reporter November 14, 2024

Ernie Thompson, former running back for the Los Angeles Rams in 1991 and the Kansas City Chiefs in 1993, always woke up at 6:30 before his games. It was a constant for him. “The first thing...

Navigating NIL and the NCAA: How High School Athletes Can Manage Eligibility and Recruitment

Navigating NIL and the NCAA: How High School Athletes Can Manage Eligibility and Recruitment

Jonathan Josefy, Staff Reporter November 12, 2024

High school athletes now have to navigate the same line that NCAA athletes had to navigate decades ago. Take examples from what happened to players like O.J. Mayo and Lebron James. Both took...

Caelan D'Onofrio pushes hard at the state meet and finishes 13th overall.

BHSN Cross Country Wins State Championship For First Time In 44 Years

Nash Henry, Staff Reporter November 8, 2024

For the second time ever and first since 1980, Bloomington High School North has won the IHSAA Cross Country State Championship. Five Cougars completed the 5k race in 16 minutes or under, led by highest...

Win In Sectionals Sets Up For Crucial North-South Sectional Championship This Friday

Win In Sectionals Sets Up For Crucial North-South Sectional Championship This Friday

Nash Henry, Staff Reporter November 8, 2024

After a gritty 27-13 sectional win at Terre Haute North, a thrilling North-South battle on the Cougars’ home turf has been set up for this Friday in Round 2 of the playoffs.  In their last game,...

BHSN Football Nearing The End of the Regular Season

BHSN Football Nearing The End of the Regular Season

Nash Henry, Staff Reporter October 9, 2024

Under the leadership of 1st-year head coach Anthony Lindsey, the Cougars are sitting pretty at 6-1 with a win over South a few weeks ago and an undefeated record on home turf. Averaging 35 points a game,...

Alix Burns wrestles in last year’s wrestling season in a meet against Edgewood.

Building Up North’s First Girls’ Wrestling Team

Elia Defore September 23, 2024

For years, wrestling has been a men’s sport. A masculine art. All up until a few girls decided, “Why can’t I try?" Since then, interest has been growing in girls’ wrestling. Growing enough that...

Mia Robbennolt

Mia Robbennolt becomes all-time leading scorer

Nadia Radu, Staff Writer February 15, 2024

Senior Mia Robbennolt became the all-time leader scorer for North Girls Basketball with 1229 points in her career. “It was a relief, because I have been working up to it all season, and it was nice...

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Purdue vs. Indiana: What BHSN staff has to say

Nash Henry, Staff Writer November 6, 2023

The rivalry between the Indiana University Hoosiers and the Purdue University Boilermakers is a common talking point in Bloomington. Multiple teachers at BHSN have gone to both colleges and seen similar...

Bloomington North Wrestling Program on the Rise

Bloomington North Wrestling Program on the Rise

Samantha Scott, Staff Writer November 3, 2023

For a sport that requires so much physicality and mental fortitude, wrestling often gets a bad rap and tends to be highly disregarded by students. So far during this 2023-2024 school year Bloomington High...

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