Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

Palo Alto High School's sports news magazine

Viking Magazine

Single Leg Squats:  Start with your legs about shoulder width apart. Extend one leg straight out while bending the opposite knee. Reach with the hand that is on the side your knee is bending. You want to try and make a parallel line with the extended knee and your outreached hand.    (TIP: Lean forward so your weight is pushing towards your extended leg to stay balanced)  3-4 sets of 10

Viking Workout

Talia Moyal March 11, 2011

The Viking prides itself in being a magazine full of athletes. This issue we decided to explore what makes us athletes and how we prepare our bodies for competition. We spoke to Brian Fox and Nick Weiss,...

Paly’s Competitive Edge-ucators

Jack Smale March 11, 2011

Some students see their teachers as one-dimensional figures, administers of knowledge and the occasional discipline. However, not so long ago, some teachers were student-athletes, just like the majority...

Stretching the Truth

Jack Smale March 11, 2011

Numerous athletes and teams believe that winning a game cannot be accomplished without proper stretching, while others deem the act of stretching a pure waste of time. The controversy of stretching is...

Crossing Over: Roadunners Basketball in East Palo Alto

Alistair Thompson, Managing Editor March 11, 2011

Great teams have great supporting communities that fill the bleachers. The legendary Milan High School Hoosiers played for a community that rallied around them and followed them all the way to the 1954...

Playing Dirty in Sports

Jack Smale March 11, 2011

November 6, 2009 was arguably a day of one of the poorest displays of sportsmanship in sports history. In a womens' soccer match between New Mexico University and Brigham Young University (BYU), New...

Nate Bills (12) struts down the court with his players. I couldnt have asked for a better opportunity, Bills said. Photo by Jacob Lauing

From Center Court to Sidelines

Jacob Lauing, Staff Writer March 11, 2011

One year ago Nate Bills ('12) stood tall at center court in Palo Alto High School's big gym, dressed in a full green and white uniform, post-warm-up sweat drops on his forehead, basketball at his side...

The Cal womens’ gymnastics team competes on the beam in a meet against the University of California Los Angeles last season.

Cal drops five sports due to budget cuts

Emy Kelty March 10, 2011

Around the country a handful of high school athletes dream of someday playing sports at University of California Berkeley, one of the top athletic and academic universities in the world. 814 young adults...

A look at Palo Alto High School’s first football coach Hod Ray

Emy Kelty March 10, 2011

The Palo Alto High School football team runs onto Hod Ray field in their sharp green and white jerseys. Almost 90 years ago a similar scene would have taken place, though with a few differances. The...

Yoga both relaxes and strengthens the body.

The Serene Sport

Mira Ahmad March 9, 2011

All athletes know what it feels like to be sore. Whether it is because of a tournament, practice, tryouts, all athletes have rolled out of bed with tight hamstrings, sore arms and aching feet before...

Varsity basketball teammates Israel Hakim (12), Mathias Schmutz (13) and Tori Prati (12) show off their game day swag.

Game Day Swag

Paige Borsos, Staff Writer March 9, 2011

Game day: For any athlete, it signifies an opportunity to compete, to showcase practice and to take home a victory. Unlike an ordinary day, it is 24 hours of being in an athletic mentality. Whether it...

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