Sports >> December 08
by Ambika Bist
After many new additions to the Cross Country team, the team has united under their captains and their coach. This unity is reflected in the consistent stellar results of the team.
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by Sophie Ho
Anyone walking around campus will see them: the broken legs, the foot braces, and the arm casts. We dismiss them without a second thought, but do we ever look to see who bears the injury? When we look to see the poor recipient of the fracture or bone splint, it is almost always a female, one who got injured from a sport. Equality between female and male sports is something that is fought over each day, whenever the media displays photos of “delicate” female athletes or whenever a spectator doesn’t take a female athlete seriously--just because she is a woman.
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by Josh Cohen
On November 10, San Francisco 49ers Offensive Coordinator Mike Martz was fined $20,000, 2% of his annual salary. Just three days later, Sacramento Kings Coach Reggie Theus was fined $25,000. What were their offenses? Interfering with the game? No. Swearing at the referee or opposing team? No. In fact, all Martz did was say that the 49ers got “screwed” because of poor officiating, and all Theus did ws say that the referees called too many fouls on his team and not enough on the opponents.
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by Guest Writer Neerav Dixit
Every year on a Friday in early September, I walk into class wearing my football jersey before the first game of the season. And, inevitably, each year I am forced to endure the startled glances of my classmates. I always receive at least one silly question, posed something like, “You’re on the football team? But you actually care about your grades” or “You don’t start, do you?” My classmates’ surprise is the result of an ugly stereotype about many student-athletes, that they are unmotivated in the classroom.
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by Einny Yu
While I stumbled and tripped my way across the court during the badminton unit of freshman PE, playing alongside Junior Zenas Lam would make me seem even more amateur, if that’s even possible. As several of us have accidently whacked ourselves with the racket, or have been so busy keeping an eye on the airborne birdie that we get tangled up in the net, this player will never be seen running away from the speeding birdie.
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by Leslie Mitchell
Starting this fall at MVHS, boys will have the opportunity to join the new bike team created by Senior Jason Wimp and headed by administrator Lori Nock—who has a lot of experience with riding and racing. The goal of the team is to improve the skill and knowledge about riding of its members, and ultimately they hope to compete in races against other teens in the area. The first race the team strives to be ready for is a century ride, or a one hundred mile race.
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