Brothers draw inspiration from mother’s fight

  • The Leonard family, from left are Jody, Bryce, Janelle and Brooks.
    The Leonard family, from left are Jody, Bryce, Janelle and Brooks.
  • Natchitoches Flipping Athletic’s Rain team has been working hard all season and will perform at Future Flyer Faceoff on May 10. In front row from left are Reilly Harris, Annie Lambert and, K’Lynne Bedgood. In back row are Raylee Hines, Everleigh Raggio and Anniston Wilkerson. Not pictured are coaches Honor Camus, Mallory Jenkins, and Adonis Hurrington.
    Natchitoches Flipping Athletic’s Rain team has been working hard all season and will perform at Future Flyer Faceoff on May 10. In front row from left are Reilly Harris, Annie Lambert and, K’Lynne Bedgood. In back row are Raylee Hines, Everleigh Raggio and Anniston Wilkerson. Not pictured are coaches Honor Camus, Mallory Jenkins, and Adonis Hurrington.
    As twin brothers, Northwestern State baseball players Brooks and Bryce Leonard always leaned on one another.There may not have been a time when the Leonard twins needed that support more than Oct. 16, 2023. That day their mother, Janelle, FaceTimed Brooks, Bryce and their brothers Brayden and Baylor to tell her sons she had breast cancer.“It was a moment of realization where it ...

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