When thinking of the role of teachers and coaches, many think the jobs are separate. However, some teachers at South are coaches after school hours end, Philip Ralston, varsity boys’ basketball Head...
Emily Pavlik, co-editor-in-chief November 10, 2022
Football players lined the field as they tookon Homewood-Flossmoor High School for their first playoff game on Oct. 28. As the scoreboard counted down to the end of the third quarter,senior running back...
Seniors Ellie Moen and Abby Muir noticed a problem whenever they lifted weights: they were almost always in a majority-male environment. Both wishing for a lifting environment surrounded by other girls,...
Referee shortages have been a struggle for many high school sports, sprouting from the lack of sportsmanship displayed by parents, South’s Athletic Director, Tom Mietus said. Other causes such as the...
When many of us are young, we take on a sport not thinking about where it could take us in the future. For junior Ava Pratt, varsity Volleyball Outside Hitter, she will be contiuning her childhood...
Keith MacDonald proves that when someone is passionate about their sport, they can follow it throughout their lives. But even with passion for the sport, MacDonald, Head Coach of boys’ varsity Swimming...
The day of an average high schooler can be filled with a thousand different stressors, but for a student-athlete, this stress is often compounded by a pressure to succeed during sports, senior Ashi Chikani,...
Tennis
Sophomore Sarina Harjani started her varsity tennis season strong, maintaining a winning streak for her first few doubles matches.
“In our [first two] dual matches, we won both [of] them,”...
Running has been one of the only things that made sense to me. As a clumsy and uncoordinated
person, picking a sport when I was growing up was exhausting.
It took so many coaches, traumatized...
With the willingness to excel and a complex skill set, freshman defender Adyson Clemen and freshman forward Lauren Koopersmith have flourished on this year’s girls’ varsity soccer team, Mark Daniels,...
When junior Arman Patel saw the income inequality in high school sports, he decided to find a way to help the issue. Patel created a website called KickBuds to connect young athletes with high school student...
On warm, Saturday afternoons my dad and I would play badminton together. Although the wind would carry the birdie away from my racket, I still enjoyed playing and laughing when the birdie got stuck in...
