El Estoque

Powering through practice

Kalyani Puthenpurayil and Lance Tong • May 27, 2022

At MVHS, different sports have different types of practices that target the various skills they each require. Students find the physical aspects such as stamina and technique and mental aspects such as...

Down to the bits: technology in sports

Meggie Chen, Michelle Chen, Krish Dev, Irene Tang, Aashi Venkat, and Nika Zamani • April 1, 2022

Exploring how MVHS sports uses technology

MVHS sports teams implement technology

Krish Dev, Website Editor • March 25, 2022

This January the Monta Vista Athletics Department replaced their existing Pixellot auto-tracking cameras with two Hudl Focus cameras for $8,000 so that teams can record practices and games and review the...

Listening in on the music of practice

Crystal Cheng • February 11, 2022

How musicians at MVHS approach their craft

Athletes continue practicing virtually

Jayanti Jha and Jefferson Le • May 13, 2020

Video conferencing apps like Zoom have become almost an essential for school due to shelter-in-place restrictions. In particular, student athletes at MVHS use apps like Zoom as tools to host virtual workouts...

Warming up

Sreya Kumar, Charlotte Chui, Gauri Kaushik, Iman Malik, Ankit Gupta, and Tina Low • April 10, 2019

El Estoque documents how teams and athletes prepare for the big day

Rain, Rain Go Away

Jai Uparkar • March 14, 2019

Playing the Erhu

Jai Uparkar and Tyler Cho • October 24, 2018

he erhu, a two-stringed musical instrument which is more commonly known as the Chinese violin, was created during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 C.E.). Considered one of the most popular Chinese musical instrument,...