By Jasmin Taylor, The American School in London
• October 13, 2020
“Sticking to sports” or being told to “shut up and dribble” has never been easy for athletes. Sports are often connected with current events, as athletes are people beyond their sport and are deeply...
By Andrew Park, Sunny Hills High School
• October 9, 2020
When senior Katie Cho was 14 years old, the athlete found herself in a yearlong slump.
Even in the absence of any physical injuries, Cho found her skills declining, and so in a session with a physician...
By William Palmer, Henry W. Grady High School
• October 9, 2020
Many high school athletes hope to one day represent a college team. Recruitment is the process that gets them there, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, that process looks different.
Atlanta Public Schools...
McCallum English teacher Nikki Northcutt said that it was clear from looking at pictures on Instagram that student athletes and coaches are putting themselves in a more high-risk environment than she is...
By Victoria Hertel, Coppell High School
• October 7, 2020
A decade ago, marching into the crowded football stadium at the University of Nebraska, the Colclasure family could be spotted cheering for the Cornhuskers from the stands. In these moments, the charisma...
By Purbalite Staff, Baldwin High School - PA
• October 5, 2020
Reactions today from athletes and their parents ranged from anger and frustration through understanding to Thursday’s court decision that at least temporarily reinstates crowd limits at sports events.
...
By Haley Luersen, Highlands High School - KY
• October 2, 2020
The weather is cool as the sun is hidden behind dreary clouds. The crowd cheers louder and louder as the exhausted runners race to the finish line - pushing harder than ever before. Parents line up at...
By Noah Weiskopf, Beachwood High School
• October 2, 2020
Athletes were looking forward to their fall season throughout the summer.
But in late July, Beachwood Athletic Director Ryan Peters emailed students to notify them that the Cuyahoga County Board of...
By Cole Parker, Henry W. Grady High School
• October 1, 2020
Although alumnus Josh Wolfe had been anticipating it, the news was still a let down for him.
Wolfe had just finished his freshman year at Lafayette College and was home for the summer, working his...
September 21st, 2001. Mike Piazza launches a blast into deep center to send Shea Stadium into pandemonium just 10 days after the tragedy at the World Trade Center. April 17th, 2013, barely 48 hours removed...
By Keira Coverdell, Lafayette High School
• September 28, 2020
Since the first outbreak of COVID-19, there has been overwhelming confusion for athletes and coaches alike. Both had to cope with a lot of setbacks and frustration concerning the delay in their seasons...
“The future’s not coming. It’s already here” says a U.S. Air Force ad. And they’re right.
Technology, one of the most obvious indications of this future, has steadily inundated our lives....
By Blake Loria, Abigail Bell, and Hannah Backus
• September 28, 2020
Whether they are on or off the field--in high school or several decades graduated--a Canyon Eagle is always a Canyon Eagle. After 21 years of coworkers becoming family and students becoming friends, the...
By Purbalite Staff, Baldwin High School - PA
• September 28, 2020
Allegheny County’s decision to lift strict limits on crowd size at sports events will not only make most athletes and parents happy, but also may lead to better performances at games, Baldwin students...
By Madi Olivier, Marcus High School
• September 25, 2020
If anyone glanced through the window of the cross country team’s bus in July 2016, they wouldn’t have seen anything special.
They were on their way home after training in the Woodlands. Athletes...
By Vijay Viswanathan, Lafayette High School
• September 25, 2020
"The counties around us [St. Louis County] have been going to school and playing sports and nothing has happened to them, so why can't we play if they can? That is my main question," senior cheerleader...
By Annie McGinnis, Marquette High School
• September 24, 2020
After St. Louis County Executive Sam Page cancelled competitions for moderate and high contact high school fall sports effective Friday, Sept. 11, a student-made online petition quickly gained attention.
...
By Nicholas Hanscom, Downers Grove North High School
• September 23, 2020
“I was always the type of student that needed to be in class to be able to interact,” physical education department chair Courtney White said. “[As] human beings, that’s what we crave, and to not...
By Mia Dudek, North Allegheny Senior High School
• September 18, 2020
No one can doubt that North Allegheny is packed with excellent student-athletes. Ranked the top school district for sports in Pennsylvania, NA routinely nurtures young athletes who bring forth state championships...
By Matthew Dearolph, Hagerty High School
• September 18, 2020
As she dragged the cold-water immersion tub behind her, junior student athletic trainer Sophia Ramirez struggled across the football field, face mask shortening her breath. Behind her, fellow athletic...
By Zara Tola, Marquette High School
• September 18, 2020
When Christopher Kenny, varsity boys soccer coach, learned that one of his players tested positive for COVID-19 last Wednesday Sept. 2, he immediately called off practice for the team.
Coach Kenny is...
In the first four days of hybrid learning, the district has seen three positive coronavirus cases, with two at the high school level that also have disrupted the seasons of two sports teams.
A second-grader...
By Joshua Baxter, Carlmont High School
• September 17, 2020
With the first pick of the 2020 fantasy football draft, Happy Golladays selects Christian McCaffrey!
The time has come. With the conclusion of week one of the 2020 NFL season at the end of Monday...
By Cole Pressler, Lincoln High School - OR
• September 17, 2020
Before the NFL Kickoff on Sept. 10, the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans linked arms and stood together in silence in a “moment of unity,” announced inside Arrowhead Stadium as being “dedicated...
By Peter Jones, Latin School of Chicago
• September 17, 2020
Note: the names of the students in this article who tested positive for COVID-19 are kept anonymous for reasons associated with Latin’s nondisclosure policy on private health information.
Ever since...
By Jayanti Jha, Monta Vista High School
• September 16, 2020
On July 21, the MVHS athletic department released the new schedule for athletic teams for the 2020-21 school year. Sports typically played in the fall season will now be either in the winter or spring,...
Around 6:30 in the evening of Sunday, September 13, cars began to trickle down N Spoede road, searching for the residence of St. Louis County Executive Sam Page. After being turned away by police upon...
By Benjamin Gamson, Shalhevet High School
• September 11, 2020
When Nathan Benyowitz saw pictures of an arson attack burning the Chabad Jewish Center serving the University of Delaware, he realized he had a platform to take a stand against hate.
Nathan, who graduated...
By Anjali Krishna, Coppell High School
• September 4, 2020
The Milwaukee Bucks’ decision to strike on Aug. 26 - announced just moments before their game against the Orlando Magic - began a domino effect including every remaining playoff team in the NBA.
In...
By Cole Parker, Henry W. Grady High School
• September 4, 2020
In a virtual tournament created by MileSplit Georgia, 2017 Grady alumnus Christian McNair-Jones was voted the top Georgia boys hurdler in the last decade.
Going into the tournament, McNair-Jones was...
By Remi Williams, Liberty High School - TX
• September 2, 2020
What most people consider a quick break turned into a little over an hour long ordeal when soccer player and senior Kallin Brown realized she was locked in a bathroom Thursday morning with no one around.
“I...
By Noah Elad, Shalhevet High School
• September 1, 2020
Shalhevet Firehawk athletes were unanimously supportive of professional athletes’ boycotting games in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, an African-American man, by police in Kenosha, Wisc., Aug....
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![IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Junior Zalie Mann performs “I Love to Cry at Weddings,” an ensemble piece from the fall musical Sweet Charity, to prospective students during the Fine Arts Showcase on Wednesday, Nov. 8. The showcase is a compilation of performances and demonstrations from each fine arts strand offered at McCallum. This show is put on so that prospective students can see if they are interested in joining an academy or major.
Sweet Charity originally ran the weekends of Sept. 28 and Oct. 8, but made a comeback for the Fine Arts Showcase.
“[Being at the front in the spotlight] is my favorite part of the whole dance, so I was super happy to be on stage performing and smiling at the audience,” Mann said.
Mann performed in both the musical theatre performance and dance excerpt “Ethereal,” a contemporary piece choreographed by the new dance director Terrance Carson, in the showcase. With also being a dance ambassador, Mann got to talk about what MAC dance is, her experience and answer any questions the aspiring arts majors and their parents may have.
Caption by Maya Tackett.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/53321803427_47cd17fe70_o-1-1200x800.jpg)
![SPREADING THE JOY: Sophomore Chim Becker poses with sophomores Cozbi Sims and Lou Davidson while manning a table at the Hispanic Heritage treat day during lunch of Sept 28. Becker is a part of the students of color alliance, who put together the activity to raise money for their club.
“It [the stand] was really fun because McCallum has a lot of latino kids,” Becker said. “And I think it was nice that I could share the stuff that I usually just have at home with people who have never tried it before.”
Becker recognizes the importance of celebrating Hispanic heritage at Mac.
“I think its important to celebrate,” Becker said. “Because our culture is awesome and super cool, and everybody should be able to learn about other cultures of the world.”
Caption by JoJo Barnard.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/53221601352_4127a81c41_o-1200x675.jpg)
![Then-sophomore Katie Cho swims toward the finish line in the 2019 Division 3 California Interscholastic Federation [CIF] finals for the women’s 100-yard Butterfly held at Riverside City college in Riverside. Cho set three Sunny Hills records for the varsity swim team.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG-0210-900x610.jpg)
