I started playing travel softball when I was seven years old. Even before that, I played t-ball and park district softball. When you have played the same sport for most of your life, you experience all...
Now that spring has sprung, the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing. However, this season will look much different from prior years due to the addition of various new rules, specifically...
I’ve known some of my baseball teammates at South for as long as I can remember. From first grade to my senior year gym class, they have always been a part of my baseball journey. There are others I’m...
Everyday after school, the boys’ and girls’ track and field teams pack nearly 300 athletes into the fieldhouse for practice. In high school track, running events range from the 50-meter dash to the...
Tryouts, cuts, and competition excluded. South’s Ping-Pong Club offers a relaxed environment where students can play ping pong while still maintaining a competitive spirit, Steven Berkley, Ping-Pong...
Ever since I was young, I have been an avid football fan. I grew up in a football family rooting for the Green Bay Packers and watched Aaron Rodgers dominate in the National Football League. I have always...
Motivation. Discipline. Perseverance. These have all been prevalent skills for me during my experiences as a GBS athlete.
Although I play two very different sports, basketball and golf, they both have...
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...
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,”...
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,...
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