Jenna Hickey, Phoebe Kim, Victoria Soulodre, and Parker Bates
October 12, 2020
Katherine Sung: On July 9th, Paly alum Katherine Sung (‘20) woke up to an email relaying the news that her golf team had been cut from Dartmouth athletics. After committing in her junior year, Sung had her heart set on continuing the sport after high school. Similar to other colleges, the...
Ya'el Sarig and Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa
May 27, 2020
In 2001’s Legally Blonde, a classic murder mystery—husband murdered, wife caught standing over the bloody dead body by the daughter and the pool boy—is cracked by an unlikely candidate: Elle Woods, Delta Nu sorority queen and lover of all things pink and strawberry-scented. From the start of her...
Kate Milne, Ethan Hwang, Hallie Faust, and Avantika Singh
May 23, 2020
Left foot forward. Right foot forward. While that may well be the mantra playing in 18-year-old Caster Semenya’s head as she flies furiously down the length of the track towards the finish line, the spectators watching her would be lucky to be able to distinguish between her feet as she runs. Her high...
Ya'el Sarig, Natalie Schilling, Victoria Soulodre, Libby Spier, Emma Stefanutti, and Gwyneth Wong
May 22, 2020
It’s a sunny June morning in Sacramento, California, and Alysia Montaño bears the look of a competitor so focused on the race ahead of her that she’s immune to the effects of the heat. She’s clad in black compression shorts, a bright pink tank top, and a yellow flower tucked behind one ear, but...
April 10, 2020
Saints receiver Tommy Lee Lewis streaks down the right sideline to catch the pass that Drew Brees lofts him. Before he attempts to secure the football,...
April 10, 2020
If you were to look down at the field during Super Bowl LIV, you would see a sea of men. But standing in front of the mass of red and gold with the Niners...
Parker Bates, Guest writer
May 30, 2020
The absence of any kind of televised sports over the last two months is wreaking havoc on my household. Two months ago, at precisely 7:10 PM every night, you would have found my dad and brother glued to the TV watching their beloved San Francisco Giants. If the game was not televised, it would be on...
May 27, 2020
As a team sport athlete, I am very used to and deeply enjoy being in the presence of others: my teammates, my coaches, my adoring fans, etc.. Therefore, my experience in quarantine has been extremely jarring and unpleasant. Not only stripped of the closure to my high school softball career, I suffered...
May 26, 2020
In the past decade, esports have come a long way. Playing video games in front of an audience for a living, a concept that was laughed at in the past...
May 23, 2020
The Coronavirus has had many impacts on the world around us. One thing that it greatly affects is the world of sports. Sports all over the world have canceled...
Griffin Kemp and Adar Schwarzbach
May 28, 2020
It’s hard for us to internalize how much sports mean to our society until they cease to be played. The coronavirus pandemic has provided us with exactly that perspective after it caused March Madness to be cancelled and the NFL and MLB seasons to be indefinitely cancelled— yet it is important to...
May 28, 2020
Erik Anderson (‘13) strolls into work and prepares to meet with his numerous clients. Today will be a busy day, but he is looking forward to it. His office is different from a typical college graduate’s. Instead of stacks of paperwork to fill out, stacks of 45 pound plates rest by a squat rack. There...
Extra Year of NCAA Eligibility
May 27, 2020
On Friday March 13, 2020, students walked into Palo Alto High School oblivious to what the day would bring. Around lunchtime, word started to spread that...
May 25, 2020
“You don't know how much you love something until it's gone.” As we navigate our lives around the limits of the coronavirus, we can now see how much...
