Moriah Ruelez reacts after having cake smashed in her face as part of her 14th birthday celebration outside of La Luz Del Mundo (The Light of the World) church. At 14 young adults in the church are given the opportunity to decide whether or not they would like to stay with the church or leave. In this particular instance Moriah decided to stay. BRIA GRANVILLE
Fans wait for the start of an NFL football game between the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Nashville, Tennessee. WESTON KENNEY
The Annual Honey Festival draws crowds of all ages to Leitchfield, KY. The festival consists of carnival rides, food carts, craft vendors and, of course, lots of honey. JENNIFER KING
On Saturday September 26, 2015 Elisa Yamileth celebrates her Quinceañera, a mexican tradition celebrating the 15th birthday, by riding in a horse drawn carriage down the streets of Bowling Green, Ky to the church where her family will gather for a ceremony. Her cousin Paco made a selfie for her and her cousin as her uncle Juan Barillas and two friends of the family ride behind them for the parade. In Mexico the quinceañera is considered a milestone when a young girl enters womenhood. BETINA GARCIA
A cyclist bikes up the hill on Avenue of Champions between class changes on Tuesday, Sept. 22. In 2013 WKU received a bronze level certification for bike friendliness from the League of American Bicyclists. JAKE POPE
Dancers wait patiently back stage before performing in the annual Festival Latino de Lexington at Robert F. Stephens Courthouse Plaza on Sept. 19, 2015. The festival boasted a display of traditional dances from numerous organizations around the lexington area. HARRISON HILL
Florida International University sophomore middle blocker, Brianna Gogins, (9) attempts to block a hit by Western Kentucky University sophomore setter, Jessica Lucas, (1). The Lady Toppers defeated the Panthers in the first three sets. JAKE POPE
Paige Lauren McCord prepares for her role as Jean McCormack the mistress secretary in the Plaza Suite play by Neil Simon at the Phoenix Theatre in Bowling Green, Ky. McCord is a Music Ed major and takes part in various plays for fun and to gain first hand experience. MICHAEL NOBLE JR.
Greenwood Gator Noah Pillow,6, waits with teammates to enter the field against Logan County in a non-conference homecoming game at the Swamp on September 18, 2015 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. MICHAEL NOBLE JR.
Tommy Warmsbecker plays in his superhero costume at Potter Children’s Home. He is one of 4 children of Sarah, who declined to give her last name, who lives in the single parent program on Potter’s campus. ABBY POTTER
Greenwood Gators Cole Kremlin, number 73, left, Kevin Fields, number 65, and Jackson Fletecher, number 69, pray before taking the field against Logan County in a homecoming game at the Swamp on September 18, 2015 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Fields was emotional due to the loss of his brother Kyle Fields, number 61, who committed suicide in May. MICHAEL NOBLE JR.
Left to Right. Lily Martin and Martin Junior, poked fun at their sister, Lidia, by imitating her as she pouted while waiting for her mother to get out of class at WKU on Wednesday, September 19, 2015. WESTON KENNEY
Marlene “Mo” Beach, left, was headed to a wedding when she was bombarded by a swarm of zombies in downtown Bowling Green, Saturday. Jacob Glass, right, participated in the Zombie Walk that was held to raise awareness and funds for the third-world tetanus crisis. WESTON KENNEY
Members of the Daviess County High School football team put on their pads before their 49-21 loss to Owensboro High School on Sept. 18, 2015 at Daviess County’s Reid Stadium in Owensboro, Ky. MIKE CLARK
Members of the Western Kentucky University dance company rehearse for their spring performance, Evening of Dance, on Sunday, April 26, 2015. BROOK JOYNER
Physique competitors wait for their divisions to hit the stage during the annual NPC Kentucky Derby Festival Championships on April 25, 2015 at the Convention Center in Louisville, Ky. Hundreds of body builders, physique, figure, and bikini competitors from across the country competed in the festival. HARRISON HILL
Chi Omega junior Alyssa Bush, from Franklin, looks back at her team as she pulls for the Tug competition on Friday April 24, 2015 at the Ag Farm. WKU fraternities and sororities compete in Tug for Greek Week at Ag Farm on Friday April 24, 2015. AGD won Tug for the sorority team and AGR won for the fraternity. JEFF BROWN
Participants run through Iriquois Park as part of the Kentucky Derby Marathon in Louisville, April 25, 2015. JUSTIN GILLILAND
A model stops to strike a pose at Rip the Runway, a fashion show hosted by the WKU Black Student Alliance. The show was held at the J. B. Preston Health & Activities Center on Friday, April 17, 2015. WILLIAM KOLB
Hippie Hill residents Destiny, left, and Zombie, right, share an intimate moment before a kiss in their camper on Hippie Hill in Christiana, Tenn. Hippie Hill is a home and a haven for transients in rural Tennessee. EMILY KASK
Community members move closer to the fire as the Flint fire department contains a large blaze on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at Averill Recycling in Flint. The fire started at about 5:45 p.m., and continued to burn more than five hours later, as crews could not get close enough to the flames because of debris and junk. Flint Fire Chief David Cox Jr. said crews created a fire stop, which will hold the fire from spreading, and will allow it to burn itself out. BRITTANY GREESON
Gabriela Alvarez, 4 of Northfield, Minn., isn’t impressed with the lone candle atop her birthday cake during her birthday party on Sunday, April 19, 2015. NICK WAGNER
Adam Hudson, 22, of Dayton, Ohio, performs a flip in the middle of the Grand Fountain on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at the Riverbank Park in downtown Flint. Hudson and other free running enthusiast gathered at the fountain to practice various runs and tricks as part of the Tempest Freerunning sponsored event. BRITTANY GREESON
Laura Bird, of Ypsilanti, sits in the auditorium during a rehearsal for the Flint Symphony Orchestra on Friday, April 17, 2015 at The Whiting in Flint. BRITTANY GREESON
On any given 9-5 workday, Clarence Allen, 55, a mechanic at Phelps & Son Detail Shop and Small Auto Engine Repair in Bowling Green, Ky., can be found covered in sweat and grease under anything from a lawn mower to a 1951 Packard classic car. WESTON KENNEY
Minnesota Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon (46) skates over to his teammates to celebrate the game-winning goal in the third period of Thursday’s game against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. NICK WAGNER
Looking out from his room at the Economy Inn in Bowling Green, Ky., Danny Shelton, 42, looks toward the 31W Bypass. Shelton lost his left leg five years ago after doctors failed to detect a clotting issue in his limb. Having not worked a day since his amputation, Shelton relies on a $1,289 disability check to live. He’s an everyday face at the Salvation Army’s free lunch and he currently spends $800 of his monthly check on rent for his motel room. NICK WAGNER
Sandi Rutter, of Flushing Township, sits in Paige’s Playroom, a room named in honor of her deceased daughter Paige Rutter, on Friday, April 3, 2015 at Hurley Children’s Hospital in Flint. Paige was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a cancer of the central nervous system in July 2003. She passed away shortly after her third birthday on June 30, 2004. The playroom opened two years later and has since functioned as a room where sick children can briefly escape their hospital bed. Today, Sandi is a registered nurse at Hurley alongside her Husband Andy Rutter who is a physician in the trauma department. BRITTANY GREESON
Lindsey Wilson junior Greg Smithson exits the water ditch during the Hilltopper Relays’ 3000-meter steeplechase event in Bowling Green, Ky., on Saturday, April 11, 2015. NICK WAGNER
Brad Porter, a freshman at Saginaw Valley State University, waits for the second half of his game to start. The game would determine which teams would compete in the National Collegiate Dodgeball Association Championship. Having lost the first half, Porter understands the significance of the rest of the game. “I like dodgeball because it’s fun. Even though on the court it looks like we are trying to kill each other, off the court we are all best friends,” Porter says. ABBEY TANNER
University of Kentucky fans lit t-shirts on fire to swing around while chanting “fuck Wisconsin” on State Street in Lexington, Ky., after UK lost to Wisconsin in the Final Four NCAA basketball tournament on April 4, 2015. EMILY KASK
Jessie Anderson, 20, of Benton, Ky., is a mechanical engineering major at WKU. She has been swimming for about five and a half years and competed for her high school. “I always swam and loved being outside all summer. I loved it so so much and some people get really burnt out and I didn’t get tired of it at all…It puts you somewhere else. It’s super relaxing and it’s a very good sort of tired,” Anderson said. LEAH JOHNSON
Chase Gilliland prepares to swim in the flash flood that caused cancellation of Jefferson County Public Schools, April 3, 2015. JUSTIN GILLILAND
A man squats over a fire of burning t-shirts on State Street in Lexington, Ky., after University of Kentucky lost to Wisconsin in the Final Four NCAA basketball tournament on April 4, 2015. EMILY KASK
Taylor Blair, a 19 year old custodian at the Preston Center, works the night shift in order to support her 3 year old daughter, Kaylee. Here she does her nightly job of polishing the floors, among other things. Blair says it’s often hard but, “she [her daughter] is the reason I do what I do here.” ABBEY TANNER
Morgan Moore, 19, of Louisville, Ky., is a dance and psychology major at WKU. She started dancing six years ago. “I knew when I came to college that I loved dancing and I didn’t want to stop yet. I used to be really really shy and dancing helped me open up. I don’t have to talk but I can still express myself,” Moore said. LEAH JOHNSON
A UK student flashes herself on State Street in Lexington, Kentucky, after the UK basketball team lost to Wisconsin in the NCAA Final Four, April 4, 2015. JUSTIN GILLILAND
The morning light pours through a stained glass window as a young boy looks toward the pulpit during a resurrection day service at State Street Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Sunday, April 5, 2015. ALYSSA POINTER
Chuck and Betty Ann Bosstick lay in bed and tell each other how much they love one another. Betty Ann has alzheimer’s, so she is in bed basically all day every day while Chuck will keep her company and hold her hand. “She’s my life. She’s my life. Without her, I don’t want to live, but as long as she’s alive, I want to be alive with her,” said Chuck. The couple have know each other since they were ten years old and have been married for almost 68 years. 1938 was their first date and first kiss. “[Marrying him] was the best thing I ever did,” said Betty Ann. ERICA LASFER
Carson Myers, 11, left, son of the head coach, shushes Cruz Dougherty, 4, right, son of the assistant coach, after a baseball game at the Hot Rod Stadium in Bowling Green on March 24, 2015 between WKU and UK. WKU won with a final score of 12-3. EMILY KASK
Sydney LaDonna Farrar, known as “Donna”, a resident of Hippie Hill, a haven for transient and homeless people in Christiana, Tenn., holds 10 month-old Lennon Joiner in a mobile home on Hippie Hill where Lennon and his mother, Stacey, are currently residing. Farrar has two biological children herself, but does not have custody of either of them. She helps take care of a few of the children who live on the Hill. “I’m made to be a mother, I love taking care of other people, much more than I can take care of myself” said Farrar. EMILY KASK
Caylie Hadden of the Bowling Green Thunder collides into teammates Chas Brassell and Jackson Lindsey of the Bowling Green Flames in the third period during an inline hockey game at Basil Griffin Park on March 23, 2015. HARRISON HILL
Maggie Kruger sits in her greenhouse at her home in Adair County, Ky. Maggie is a mental health advocate and is currently fighting for her son, Paul, who is in the juvenile justice system and not receiving the help he needs for his mental illness. ADAM WOLFFBRANDT
A muslim woman prays at the Islamic Center of Bowling Green, Ky. on March 20, 2015. DOROTHY EDWARDS
Buddhist youth are led in prayer at a Buddhist temple in Bowling Green, Ky.. The temple is run inside the home of Ashin Cando Bhasacara, a buddhist monk. DOROTHY EDWARDS
Scott Harkins, 50, poses for a portrait in the back of his work truck. Harkins, who moves between Bowling Green and Louisville to find work, is in his 31st year as a drywall finisher and has developed arthritis from the work. “Finishing drywall is a young man’s game,” Harkins said. ABBY POTTER
Marilyn Johnson, 17, a senior at Bowling Green High School in Bowling Green, Ky., gets ready for the final dress rehearsal of her school’s musical presentation of “Into The Woods.” WESTON KENNEY