Senior Night
November 1, 2018
Filed under Best of Sports, Main slider, SPORTS
During the last week of October, MVHS fall season teams celebrated the end of their regular season with senior night games. In their last home game of the season, seniors were celebrated in ceremonies before or during the games. Click the photos below to read the stories about each of the senior nights. ...
Field Hockey: Matadors suffer 0-2 loss on senior night
Sreya Kumar, Tyler Cho, and Justine Ha
October 28, 2018
Filed under Field Hockey, Game Reviews, SPORTS
It was an unnatural feeling for her. For the past three years, she has always held up her stick, cheering for seniors as they walked down the field. But now, it was finally her turn. She stood at the end of a line with her teammates, filled with nervous energy as her hands wrapped around her parents’....
Girls Volleyball: Senior night performance falls short as Matadors lose 3-1
Roshan Fernandez and Brandon Ng
October 26, 2018
Filed under Fall Sports, Game Reviews, Girls Volleyball, SPORTS
ears. That’s how the night began for the Matadors, as numerous players grew emotional during the senior night ceremony. Teammates spoke about the impact seniors had on their life both on and off the court, honoring the seven seniors after their last season of high school volleyball. Following the tri...
Boys volleyball: MVHS defeats Saratoga HS on senior night
May 8, 2018
Filed under Boys Volleyball, SPORTS, Spring Sports
On May 4, banners and posters decorated the sides of the field house, which buzzed with excitement from family and friends. This day marked senior night for the volleyball team and the last home game of the season against Saratoga HS, a team that MVHS had lost to earlier in the season. Before the gam...
A look back: Girls soccer team closes out season with dominant victory
March 19, 2018
Filed under Girls Soccer, SPORTS, Winter Sports
Additional reporting by Anthony Moll hen the 10 seniors on the MVHS girls soccer team took the field on Feb. 16 for the final time in their high school careers, emotions were mixed. They were nostalgic, remembering all of the times that they joked around with their friends and the quirky traditio...
Boys soccer: Team sends off seniors despite narrow senior night defeat
March 9, 2018
Filed under Boys Soccer, SPORTS
ork ethic, positive attitude and talent were just some of the praises that Coach Todd Kimble echoed across the field during the boys soccer senior night on Feb. 14. After a few friendly jabs at the players, laughter broke out from the bleachers, where friends of the seniors cheered and raised their po...
Girls basketball: Senior night game lost in final minutes of fourth quarter
March 5, 2018
Filed under Game Reviews, Girls Basketball, SPORTS, Winter Sports
uring the warmups leading up to their senior night game, the three seniors on the girls basketball team came out onto the court wearing bright yellow shirts with one bold word written across: chicken. The shirts, which also had small drawings of chickens along the sleeves, were part of an inside joke from...
Wrestling: Matadors victorious in final dual home meet against Saratoga HS
February 6, 2018
Filed under Game Reviews, SPORTS, Winter Sports, Wrestling
Correction: February 7, 2018 at 8:55 p.m. A previous version of this story incorrectly spelled the name of senior Colin Yang. he voice of the Saratoga HS coach rang through the gym during the meet on Jan. 30. He yelled to his players, directing them on how they should position themselves and what moves t...
Field hockey says goodbye to their seniors as they end their season with a tie
November 10, 2017
Filed under Fall Sports, Field Hockey, SPORTS, Sports
he stakes were high for this game. For MVHS, this would be the seniors’ last game; for Saratoga HS, this was their shot at making CCS. Both teams had the incentive to give it their all, but what was supposed to be an intense game had a strange turn of events. After a discussion with the team, th...
Girls water polo: Senior Night
October 26, 2017
Filed under Game Reviews, Girls Water Polo, Girls water polo, Sports
ith an array of posters lined up against the pool deck, and loud music blaring in the background, the MVHS girls water polo team got ready to celebrate their senior night against Fremont HS. The cheers for MVHS could be heard from the parking lot even before the game had started. Before the game st...
Boys water polo: Matadors narrowly lose senior night to Palo Alto HS
October 24, 2017
Filed under Boys Water Polo, Fall Sports, Game Reviews, SPORTS
olorful ribbons and posters lined the pool deck, a table with cake, drinks, and other snacks sat up against the wall, and fans filed into the MVHS pool area, filling the bleachers until they were packed to capacity. Coming into their senior night game against Palo Alto HS, the Matadors knew it woul...
Softball: Nail-biting senior night game against Los Altos HS ends in victory
May 20, 2017
Filed under Softball, SPORTS, Spring Sports
t was the bottom of the sixth inning with the score tied at 0-0 against Los Altos HS on May 11, and the crowd was beginning to grow restless. MVHS was up at bat, but the scoreboard read with two outs, and it seemed as if this inning would be scoreless just like the past five. The team needed a win i...
