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Home Volleyball Games Return to Eastside Friday, September 24, 2021, 5:25 pm | Eastside Panther, Eastside Prep
The Junior Varsity and Varsity girls volleyball teams played in-person home games on Sept. 22 to a modest-sized crowd of fans for the first time since the 2019 season, bringing wins overall to the Panther scorecard. About 20 Eastside friends and family came to cheer the Panthers against rival Mountain View Academy. The JV team... Read More >>
Girls Volleyball Kicks Off Panther Sports Season Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 12:51 pm | Eastside Panther, Eastside Prep
Sports games are finally back, Eastside! The girls volleyball teams had two games in the first week of September, coming together to compete in-person for the first time since the 2019. In the first game on Sept. 3 against University Prep Academy and the second on Sept. 7 against Redwood Christian, the girls showed strong... Read More >>
The NCAA fails women: A symbol of the disparities in athletics Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 6:17 pm | Counterpoint, Castilleja
The 2021 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship kicked off in March, hidden in the shadows of American media with its viewership a fraction of its male counterpart. But soon after the start of the championship, players publicized the laughable and appalling difference between the men’s and women’s facilities on social media, suddenly pushing the women’s championship... Read More >>
The ball rolls again: Reflections on the return of Castilleja athletics Friday, May 21, 2021, 8:25 am | Counterpoint, Castilleja
March 13, 2020 The amount of uncertainty that filled the air was suffocating. The entire globe seemed to freeze along with everyone’s little worlds. Among those, a bigger world, the sports world, stopped more abruptly than anyone was ready for. In May 2020, depression and anxiety among adolescent athletes spiked. 74.1% of team sport athletes... Read More >>
Behind the scenes: What goes into making the Castilleja athletics playlists? Thursday, March 11, 2021, 11:10 am | Counterpoint, Castilleja
Have you ever been struggling through a workout, but then a song comes on, and suddenly, it feels like you are flying? It has to be the right song, but you go from nearly collapsing to the powerful main character of a music video? Well, me too, and for a lot of these mid-workout breakthroughs,... Read More >>
Profit over people?: Big Ten football season resumes Saturday, November 14, 2020, 12:46 pm | Counterpoint, Castilleja
On August 11, 2020, the Big Ten, arguably the best power five conference, shocked fans across the nation by postponing fall sports, more specifically, football. Quickly, the Big Ten players, led by Justin Fields (the quarterback for Ohio State) put together a petition to reinstate the 2020 football season. Within 24 hours, the media had... Read More >>
Athletic recruitment in the middle of a global pandemic? Friday, November 13, 2020, 4:53 pm | Counterpoint, Castilleja
Every year, the most elite athletes from all over the world compete for the handful of spots available on the top sports teams at American universities. Although the formal recruiting process does not occur until mid-high school, these dedicated high school athletes spend years practicing and perfecting their sport. And, when these students aren’t on... Read More >>
Signing Of The Times Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 3:53 pm | Raven Report, Sequoia High School
Senior athletes have worked hard throughout their past four years of high school, working on their craft and bettering their skills to compete at a high level. On Friday, May 22nd, Athletic Director Melissa Schmidt held a virtual signing day to celebrate these hard working athletes for committing to play at the next level in... Read More >>
