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

The Healing Game

The Healing Game

Beau Revenaugh and Carter Burnett March 28, 2024

High schoolers are no strangers to being stressed, anxious, depressed or lonely, and each kid has a different way of dealing with these negative emotions, some good, and some bad. From dangerous extremes...

Torturous Training

Torturous Training

Lucas Tung and Tyler Cheung February 22, 2024

Track: Running is the most common form of punishment training in other sports. But what if your sport is running?  Paly track sprinter Daniel Rainey shares that track runners currently don’t...

Peak Rivalry

Peak Rivalry

Scarlett Frick, Claire Cho, and Evin Steele February 20, 2024

Junior and dedicated skier Milo Sabina knows how stereotypes can affect people’s opinions on the debate.  “As a skier, I will always say that skiing is better than snowboarding, and I’m sure...

Astros Second baseman Jose Altuve

Beneath the Surface

Beau Revenaugh and Tyler Harrison February 16, 2024

It’s the bottom of the ninth in the 2017 American League Conference Series game six. Yankees 4, Astros 4. Bang! Yankees Pitcher Aroldis Chapman stands on the mound confused as his 84 mile per hour slider...

Photo courtesy of Celeste Bates

Signed & Sealed

Luke Joachim, Alena Lotterer, Max Merkel, and Aspen Stitt February 15, 2024

Communication The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) permits contact and communication between high school athletes and college coaches beginning June 15 between the athlete’s sophomore...

Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures

Roan Haney and Tyler Harrison October 22, 2023

A guilty pleasure can be defined as something that one enjoys even if it may be commonly looked down upon, such as eating sugary candy, scarfing down junk food, or enjoying an objectively bad song. Student-athletes...

Lessons from Little League

Lessons from Little League

Eliza Gaither and Katie Yen October 16, 2023

Anyone who passes by the Greene Middle School field on a Saturday morning will see hundreds of little kids running clumsily around chasing soccer balls. Many of us were once members of this herd, and have...

The Voices of Sports

The Voices of Sports

Oliver Marburg, Tyler Martin, and Caleb Wong March 31, 2023

If you have ever listened to a Spanish commentator of a soccer game, you may have heard the iconic ear-splitting scream of “¡Gól, gól, gól goooooool!” from the commentators whenever a team scores...

Was It Worth It? Playing through Pain

Was It Worth It? Playing through Pain

Grace Gormley, Ashton Chow, and Jason Hu February 24, 2023

Contact is a part of nearly every sport. In football, players tackle each other. Water polo players battle for position. Runners have repetitive contact with the ground. Soccer players head the ball. However,...

King of the Atlantic: Cal Currier

King of the Atlantic: Cal Currier

Eliza Gaither and trey collins December 14, 2022

After eighteen days of tirelessly leading his sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean, 16-year-old Cal Currier, a junior at Paly, found himself in the Azores Islands; a group of volcanic islands about 1,000...

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