March 19, 2024

Once a Cardinal Always a Cardinal

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Newton High’s football team lost would-be senior lineman Trenton Brady in June. Brady died in a car accident. The Cardinal players’ will wear a memorial sticker “TB 52” on the back of their helmets throughout the 2016 season.

Family and friends of the late Ryan Klingensmith, a 2010 Newton High School graduate, presented donations to the Newton Booster Club and the Newton Dollars for Scholars funds during a pregame ceremony Friday at H.A. Lynn Stadium. Klingensmith, a former NHS football player and multi-sport athlete, died in a drowning accident in June. In the front row are, from left, Newton High Principal Bill Peters; Kelly Klingensmith, a 2016 NHS graduate and sister to the late former Cardinal player; Newton High activities director Scott Garvis; the late Klingensmith’s girlfriend Kelly Pottle of St. Charles, Ill.; Dennis and Lori Klingensmith, his parents; and brother, Cory along with friends.