The Musket

Girls’ Outdoor Track Team Places 1st in ML-12 Championships

Lena Lee and Rachel Lei • June 24, 2025

The Lexington High School Girls Outdoor Track Team recently placed first out of twelve Massachusetts high school teams in the Middlesex League-12 (ML-12) Championships, an outdoor track competition held...

Boys Varsity Ultimate Frisbee Team Places Third at the Amherst Invite

Hannah Han • June 24, 2025

On May 3 and 4, 2025, the Lexington High School Boys Varsity Ultimate Frisbee Team participated in the Amherst Invite, a qualifying tournament for frisbee nationals. The team was ahead by four points during...

Sports Recap: Issue 4

William Tang • May 1, 2025

Former LHS star CJ Cox started in his March Madness debut for the Purdue Boilermakers, scoring 2 points in a victory against the 13-seed High Point Panthers. In the 2nd round, Cox scored 11 points in a...

Ice Mates Dazzle at Colonial Classic Competition

Meghna Rajesh and Jo Vijayarangan • March 14, 2025

On Jan. 4, the Ice Mates synchronized skating team competed in the 40th Colonial Classic, an annual skating competition hosted by the Colonial Figure Skating Club at Tsongas Stadium in Lowell, Massachusetts. The...

Junior Aidan Raney Sets New LHS Pole Vault Record

Jack Yao • March 13, 2025

On Dec. 21, Aidan Raney, a junior on the Lexington High School track team, broke his previous school record in the pole vault with a height of 13'5.50—an increase of nearly a foot. Raney, initially...

Ice Mates Dazzle at Colonial Classic Competition

Meghna Rajesh and Jo Vijayarangan • March 10, 2025

On Jan. 4, the Ice Mates synchronized skating team competed in the 40th Colonial Classic, an annual skating competition hosted by the Colonial Figure Skating Club at Tsongas Stadium in Lowell, Massachusetts. The...

Sports Recap: Issue 2

William Tang • January 16, 2025

The Girls Varsity basketball team, led by captains Stella Criniti, Samantha Fortier, and Gloria Doyle, bounced back strongly from their 0-5 start to the beginning of the season with 4 consecutive wins....

Balancing Sports and School: Life as a Fencer

Ethan Shao and Daniel Xu • January 16, 2025

At Lexington High School, students participate in an array of activities during the school year. Student-fencers, for example, are tasked with balancing a chaotic workload with a time-consuming sport. The...

Athlete of the Issue: Caitlin Lennox

Khadijah Mohmand and Hannah Sul • January 16, 2025

As a child, Lexington High School senior Caitlin Lennox pursued martial arts, but after discovering her aptitude for running in sixth grade, she decided to try out for track. Now about to graduate LHS,...

Sophomore Trevor Stevens Breaks Lexington 5K Course Record

Ryan Qin and Maanav Kakkad • December 3, 2024

Lexington High School sophomore Trevor Stevens set a new record on Lexington’s 5K course. Stevens, a cross country athlete since elementary school, was the first person to run the course in under 16...

Lexettes Attend Judging Session in Minnesota

Jack Yao and Olivia Desjarlais • December 3, 2024

On Sept. 28, the Lexettes, a synchronized figure skating team based in Lexington, participated in a monitoring session in Minnesota to receive feedback from judges, marking the start of their season. ...

Lexington Girls Varsity Swim Team With Record of 8-1

Ethan Shao, Anya Sawant • December 3, 2024

After a near-perfect season, the Lexington High School girls varsity swim team is on the road to the sectional tournaments on Nov. 3. Teams from around the Boston area come together to compete for a chance...