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What's in your bag?

What's in your bag: Dance team

What’s in your bag: Dance team

Christopher Bacon, Staff Writer January 15, 2026

Tumblers filled with iced water, turn shoes for dancing and cosmetics are just a few of the many essentials that keep Falcon dancers organized as they pirouette through the day with one goal: to “do...

Ava Bauer (12) smiles in her sacred 'sports medicine' creweneck with her med-kit wrapped around her body. Bauer has been in the sports medicine program for three years, now serving as president, and intends to pursue sports medicine as a career. (Viktoria Kiss)

What’s in your bag: Sports medicine interns

Viktoria Kiss, Sports Editor October 16, 2025

Various tapes, gauze, scissors and electrolytes fill a sports medicine intern’s “med kit” bag. You may have seen these kits wrapped around interns' bodies at sporting events, without knowing they...

Varsity football head coach Scott Ashby holds up his football backpack. He received this bag six years ago.

What’s in your bag: Teachers

Claire Zhou, Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Design September 15, 2025

Jim Munger, what’s in your backpack? If you have passed teacher’s aide and custodial-staff-helper Jim Munger in the B-building hallways, then you have probably seen his knee-high socks, contagious...

Sophie Lesser (12) holds up her backpack and On Cloud running shoes. The bag was a gift from her father, who has a matching backpack.

What’s in your bag: Student athletes

Claire Zhou, Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Design August 26, 2025

Stray socks, scattered notes and little things folded between jerseys somehow always find their way back inside of athlete backpacks. When student athletes carry backpacks from bag drop to practice fields...

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