Honoring Canyons Paraeducators with 2024 Outstanding Paraeducator Awards

It’s been said, “together everyone achieves more,” which certainly applies to the classroom as administrators, teachers, paraeducators, and a bevy of staff members work yearlong to ensure Canyons District students graduate college- and career-ready. Each year, the Canyons Office of Special Education & Related Services acknowledges the hard work and dedication of the numerous paraeducators […]

Corner Canyon’s Brody Kozlowski Leads On and Off the Court

Corner Canyon’s Brody Kozlowski is synonymous with basketball. The 6-foot-7 four-star recruit is a two-time Utah 6A Player of the Year, an Adidas All American, and McDonald’s All American Nominee. Courted by schools like Stanford, UCLA, and the University of Utah, he initially chose USC before committing to Brigham Young University where his mother, Kristen […]

Corner Canyon Graduate Charges Into Future Dreams

Corner Canyon High senior Ben Perry has seen first-hand how the creative power of art can build bridges, strengthen connections, stir emotion — and inspire healing.  The Charger student body officer whose main responsibility is to add flair and shine to posters publicizing student activities has dedicated more than 150 volunteer hours doing arts and […]

‘All the World’s a Stage’ for this Jordan High Grad

While performing on the stage is where Jordan High’s Parker Bettinson feels most at home, he says owning your role and nailing your lines doesn’t happen by accident. “The true magic happens behind the scenes when you put in the hard work,” says Bettinson who will now apply that work ethic to his studies at […]

Sophia Mun Celebrates Music, Giving Back As She Steps Into Her Future

Sophia Mun is the kind of person who is driven to excel, but improves herself by doing better for others. In fact, if you ask the Hillcrest High senior to reflect on her goals and accomplishments, she’ll start by mentioning the $22,000 she and her fellow Student Body Officers raised for the Husky’s food pantry […]

Goal!  Celebrate School-Year Achievements at Canyons District Night with Real Salt Lake on June 1

Celebrate the start of summer fun at Canyons District Night with Real Salt Lake. On Saturday, June 1, just days after diplomas have been handed to the Class of 2024 for Alta, Brighton, Corner Canyon, Diamond Ridge, Hillcrest and Jordan high schools, the hometown Major League Soccer team is hosting a end-of-the-school-year celebration for CSD […]

Dance Keeps Bengal Grad Balanced In Pursuit of American Dream

The high school years are challenging enough without the added difficulty of adjusting to a new home, culture, and language. But for Brighton Bengal graduate Danny Arroyo, the sacrifice was worth it, and made all the more enjoyable through the universal language of dance.    Arroyo moved as a teenager to Utah from Costa Rica […]

Corner Canyon Graduate Takes Rooke in Game of Life

Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Fynman once compared discovering the laws of physics to learning the rules of chess merely by observing a chess game. “You don’t know the rules of the game, but you’re allowed to look at the board from time to time, in a little corner, perhaps. And from these observations, […]

CSD Alumnus Credits Teachers, Hard Work for Achieving Goal of Working for NASA

Think bigger, fail smarter, work harder. That’s the motto Canyons alumnus TJ Neyman lives by. Years ago, when he was a student at Draper Park Middle, the career aptitude tests he took all pointed to him being an engineer. At the time, Neyman thought the tests were wrong. A high school field trip to an […]

Not His First Rodeo: This Alta High Graduate Takes Life By The Horns

Years of practice, bumps and bruises, and a load of nervous jitters culminate in eight short seconds the moment you climb atop a thousand-pound bull and nod to set him loose in an arena of cheering fans. That’s assuming you manage to stay atop the bull for eight seconds, the time limit for a qualifying […]