El Estoque

Girls Basketball falls to Maria Carrillo High School 59-52

Manas Kottakota, Sagnik Nag Chowdhury, and Eshika Tiwari • March 2, 2024

Varsity Girls Basketball fell to Maria Carrillo High School 59-52 on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Coming off as the Division II CCS champions, Head Coach Sara Borelli expected the team to play hard and showcase defensive...

Boys Basketball falls to Saratoga High School 53-47

Shannon Yu and Yixuan (Joyce) Li • February 13, 2024

Varsity Boys Basketball fell to Saratoga High School on Thursday, Feb. 9. With SHS taking the first seven points of the game — mainly due to multiple layups from SHS senior Brooks Overton — MVHS struggled...

Boys Soccer defeats Wilcox High School 3-2

Liz Liu and Alan Tai • January 28, 2024

Varsity Boys Soccer defeated Wilcox High School 3-2 on Friday, Jan. 26. The game started with WHS scoring the first goal, but after halftime, MVHS returned stronger and won the game 3-2 through a series...

Teamed-up takedowns

Shannon Yu and Arjun Dhruv • January 28, 2024

It was 2022 when freshman Kennedy Ancheta wrestled for the first time. Despite Ancheta being one of just a handful of girls on her club team, nurtured by her team’s support, her love for wrestling grew....

Athlete attendance

Lauren Chuu and Asha Wojciechowski • January 27, 2024

MV Dance Team Coach Joy Lee has a policy in place for all of her dancers: if you can’t make it to practice, you have to write a paragraph detailing how your absence impacts the team. With the exception...

Mixed-gender events

Manas Kottakota and Daphne Huang • January 26, 2024

This year, the 2024 Summer Paris Olympics and Paralympics were able to achieve an equal number of male and female participants for the first time in history and the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics were...

Competing to connect

Lily Jiang and Kalyani Puthenpurayil • January 25, 2024

MVHS parent Lee Nguyen says that the heightened emotions his customer felt heavily contributed to them closing a business deal over dinner. They had just played a golf match together to discuss the deal...

On a higher level

Dylan Nguyen • January 24, 2024

Off to the games

Ethan Eisler and Arshiya Sen • January 24, 2024

The 2024 Paris Olympics are coming back after eight years and a canceled 2020 Olympics with four additional sports: skateboarding, breaking, surfing and sport climbing. The organizing committee at Paris...

Girls Basketball beats Homestead High School 68-39 in an away game

Daphne Huang • January 24, 2024

Matadors dominate the game throughout all four quarters

Varsity Girls Basketball loses to Evergreen High School 65-55

Arushi Singh, Arshiya Sen, and Trisha Sannappanavar • January 18, 2024

Varsity Girls Basketball lost 65-55 against Evergreen Valley High School on Saturday, Jan. 13. Both teams started strong with MVHS scoring nine points and EVHS scoring 14 in the first quarter. The Matadors...

Boys Basketball falls to Cupertino High School 50-22

Shannon Yu • January 13, 2024

Varsity Boys Basketball lost to Cupertino High School 50-22 on Thursday, Jan. 11. MVHS fell behind 8-3 in the first quarter after CHS broke through MVHS’ defense multiple times with consecutive layups....