Soccer coach and history teacher Mark Hinshaw is a dedicated marathon runner, finishing 14 to date. “The Dallas White Rock Marathon [is] the only one I’ve done but I’ve done it 14 times, I just love the course so much,” Hinshaw said. “I’ve always compared it to potato chips–you eat one chip and no one can have just one. Once you run a marathon it kind of gets in your system and you want to improve upon it and it just becomes a competitive thing with yourself.”
AP U.S. History teacher Taylor Adams has two toe rings. “I think they look cool and they remind me of my mom from the nineties,” Adams said. “ You can take them off but I don’t even notice that they are there, I’ve been wearing them for many years.”
“I went skiing when I was 13 years old [and] my friends and I almost died,,” AP Art teacher Miles Bowen said. “A bunch of snowboarders crashed into us and we were on a really hard run that we should not have been on. I basically rolled down the entire hill and then I was fine. Nobody got hurt, it just felt like I was gonna die.”
Ceramics teacher Angel Reiswig partakes in wheel throwing, which is the process of forming shapes out of clay on a potter’s wheel. Reiswig is able to “throw” a 12 inch pot. “Any pot, I can throw it 12 inches,” Reiswig said. “I just challenged myself to do it and I did it.”
“A fun fact about myself is that I can come up with really witty comebacks and remarks to my students and I zing ’em every single time,” English teacher Macgregor Surles said. “A couple of weeks ago I had a student ask if I had a water bottle, I said ‘No, but there are these magic things outside the restroom that will give you what you want.’”
“I do kickboxing and indoor volleyball,” chemistry and aquatic science teacher Andrew Nguyen said. “I played indoor volleyball during my time at Texas A&M and I got into kickboxing a few months ago for fun.”
Art teacher Mary DeJute was a nationally ranked sailor during her time in middle school and high school. “I was in a race and there was a storm and probably 75% of the boats capsized,” Dajute said. “I didn’t because I was a pansy so I was very safe. I didn’t take any chances and it worked, I won because I was taking my time. I didn’t care where I was in the race, I just didn’t want to be in the water.”
