El Estoque

Introducing the winter season sports

Taryn Lam, Anna Jerolimov, Anna Kaminitz, Matthew Yoshimoto, Ishaani Dayal, and Michelle Zheng • December 10, 2021

Showcasing games and practices from MVHS's basketball, soccer and wrestling teams

Athletic conditioning

Anjali Singh and Anika Sharma • September 24, 2020

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on team conditioning

Girls Basketball: Matadors defeat Fremont HS on senior night

Sophia Chen and Lance Tong • February 22, 2020

MVHS wins its last home game after an emotional senior night ceremony

Girls Basketball: MVHS falls to Homestead HS

Jayanti Jha, Elena Khan, and Neysa Singh • February 10, 2020

MVHS lost to Homestead HS in its eighth game of the season, bringing their current league standing to 5-3. During the first and second quarter, HHS players played a hard defense, making it difficult...

Athlete of the Month: Ashley Liu

Rucha Soman • February 7, 2020

After watching people who played at her elementary school and noticing her dad’s keen interest in the sport, senior Ashley Liu started playing basketball in sixth grade. At first Liu would shoot hoops...

Ball in the family

Anish Vasudevan and Jayanti Jha • February 7, 2020

Sisters Emi and Kelli Kosakura share the girls varsity basketball court

Girls Basketball: Team narrowly defeats Santa Clara HS

Rucha Soman, Justine Ha, and Kamyar Moradi • January 28, 2020

The Matadors win by four points at the Women in Sports celebration game

MVHS girls basketball defeats Santa Clara HS

Kamyar Moradi and Neysa Singh • November 24, 2019

he MVHS varsity girls basketball team began their season with a victory against Santa Clara HS: 40-35. The Matadors were the first on the board as Senior Daphne Lam knocked down a baseline jumper...

Defining Success

Rucha Soman and Sophia Chen • September 27, 2019

How teams measure success besides winning

Girls Basketball: Matadors fall to Homestead HS after losing an early lead

Sreya Kumar, Iman Malik, and Tina Low • February 10, 2019

Senior Jessica Ji walked down the court hand in hand with her parents, clutching a bouquet of flowers and colorful balloons given to her by her teammates. Coach Sara Borelli read out her thank you letter...

Girls Basketball: Matadors emerge victorious with a 45-33 win against Fremont HS

Sreya Kumar and Tyler Cho • January 12, 2019

With some hiccups in the game MVHS rebounds after narrow game against Gunn HS

MVHS basketball teams lose intense matchups against Lynbrook HS

Anish Vasudevan, Oishee Misra, and Rajas Habbu • January 11, 2019

Girls Basketball With two weeks of winter break to prepare for their matchup against Lynbrook HS on Jan. 4, the MVHS girls basketball team was confident that it would win against LHS after failing to...