Finding the melody in sports
Aditya Dash and Carol Lei
May 13, 2018
Filed under Best of Sports, SPORTS, Spring Sports
As sophomore Charlie Yi puts on his headphones and starts conditioning for volleyball, his teammates see a rhythmic pattern in his movement. With every drill, Yi uses his music to motivate himself, pacing himself with the beat of the music. “It just helps me work faster because as I said I want to move...
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...
Practice makes perfect: analyzing the importance of daily sports practice attendance
April 11, 2018
Filed under Boys Tennis, From the magazine, SPORTS, Spring Sports
enior Michael Wan spoke in a hurry, questions thrown at him from every direction. A robot had gone missing, and as the director of electrical engineering of the MV Robotics Team, he suddenly found himself in the middle of several interviews from local news stations. He looked at the clock and sig...
Parental position: examining the role parents play in sports
April 9, 2018
Filed under SPORTS, Spring Sports, Track & Field
Badminton: Team gets second win against Cupertino HS
April 8, 2018
Filed under Badminton, SPORTS, Spring Sports
As the MVHS badminton team prepared for its ninth game on a gloomy and cloudy afternoon, the team was warming up as they were about to play the Cupertino HS Pioneers. Having already previously defeated them on their home court, MVHS had a level of confidence and it showed when they played, ultimately be...
Review: Nike LeBron 15 Equality
April 3, 2018
Filed under SPORTS
n Rolling with the Champion Kevin Durant x LeBron James x Cari Champion, NBA superstars LeBron James and Kevin Durant discussed social issues that are important to the lives of many Americans. However, as the conversation continued, James and Durant voiced their opinions against President Donald Trum...
Boys baseball: MVHS wins three consecutive games in three days
April 2, 2018
Filed under Baseball, SPORTS, Spring Sports
Additional reporting by Sannidhi Menon and Himani Yalamaddi hree consecutive games. Three consecutive wins. Last week, the MVHS baseball team played two games against Fremont HS and one non-league game against Mission San Jose HS. See below for two out of the three victories the Matadors obtained. M...
Badminton: MVHS maintains undefeated streak with win over Milpitas HS
March 28, 2018
Filed under Badminton, Game Reviews, SPORTS, Spring Sports
VHS badminton players held cups of boba and boxes of pizza in their hands as part of a team tradition called ‘Baddy Buddies,’ a version of Secret Santa gift exchange players participate in that takes place during March. After finishing up the exchange, the players then began to warm up. The atmosphe...
Boys volleyball: MVHS dominates in spotlight by finishing second in San Diego
March 20, 2018
Filed under Boys Volleyball, SPORTS, Spring Sports
s the MVHS boys volleyball team arrived in San Diego on March 9, they experienced their own version of an all-star game. Surrounded by some of the best teams in the state, they were ready to compete against the best Southern California had to offer. With minimal expectations for this smaller than ave...
Badminton: The start of a journey towards CCS
March 10, 2018
Filed under Badminton, SPORTS, Spring Sports
s the MVHS badminton team filled the field house on March 6 before their first game, there was a sense of excitement in the air as the team practiced their serves. Looking for their first win, the players individually had a bigger goal in their mind: to make CCS and win it all. With the team and its c...
Boys tennis: Matadors dominate Gunn HS in first home game
March 5, 2018
Filed under Boys Tennis, Game Reviews, SPORTS, Spring Sports
he Matadors appeared to be in good spirits as they warmed up for their game against Gunn HS, with sophomore Evan Yu joking about the fact that he had to borrow shoes from a teammate because he left his at home. The boys tennis team returned for their first home game of the year after finishing last seaso...
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...
