Contact is a part of nearly every sport. In football, players tackle each other. Water polo players battle for position. Runners have repetitive contact with the ground. Soccer players head the ball. However,...
After a successful competition season, the Paly Cheerleading team is now transitioning into a new sports season, called STUNT.
STUNT is a Title IX category sport and is a newly evolved version of...
During the winter months, on any given morning at seven, the Paly lacrosse field is full of players. But not from field hockey or lacrosse. Instead, it is the girls soccer team, warming up on the turf:...
Happy New Year to everyone! Although this is coming a little late, all of the fall sports deserve huge congratulations. The Palo Alto High School Athletics program would like to thank the fall coaches,...
A single week has a finite number of hours. For students, the challenge is often fitting everything in: Thirty hours of school; Fifty-six hours of sleep; Sometimes 18 or more hours of schoolwork and studying;...
Paly athletes, and most high school athletes in general, participate in club sports along with their high school counterparts. This gives them two unique opportunities to improve and play at a high level....
In most sports, the higher the score, the better. This holds true for almost every professional sport played here in the States; in basketball, football, baseball, and soccer, the team who wins is the...
When it comes to coverage of sports locally, globally, and nationally, there is no doubt that some get far more attention than others. Even here at Paly, where publications and journalists strive to report...
It all started one sunny fall afternoon when a young girl was running up and down Peers park playing with friends. She ran until her nose turned pink in the cold air, her hair flying around her head...
In the Scandinavian countries of Norway and Sweden, the yearly average temperature is 46 degrees Fahrenheit. The coldest ever recorded temperature is 63 degrees below zero. To put that in perspective,...
