Sports

  • Soccer Superstar: Freshman goalkeeper dives into reality television

    Katie Meyer is taking the soccer world by storm. Katie, a freshman goalkeeper for the Eagles club team and the Newbury Park Varsity Girls’ soccer team, was recently cast in a new Nickelodeon soccer reality show entitled “Soccer Superstar”. Katie describes the show as “almost like soccer survivor. There are eliminations and you get…

  • Baseball and … yoga?

    Employing unconventional methods to improve their performance on the field, the baseball team has been working with sports psychologist Dr. Jeff Gero for the past month to learn meditation and yoga techniques. “We have just started league games and have about two thirds of our season left to play. So far this year, our…

  • Winter Sports Wrap-Up

    Boys’ Soccer “Knowing that a banner with my team and all of our names will be up at our school means a lot to me,” said Isaiah Garza, sophomore. “This was the most memorable season of my soccer career by far.”  Varsity: 6-3-1 JV: 7-1-1 Frosh/Soph: 7-0-0 Girls’ Soccer “We connected, which definitely showed on the field, and…

  • Signing Day: Challenges and rewards lie ahead for future collegiate athletes

    On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 15 student-athletes signed with their future colleges for athletics. Among the athletes that signed their letters of intent in the quad at lunch are seniors Thomas Ponticelli, Tyler Resnick, Maddy Spangler, Emily Williams, Ryanna Hammond, Mariana deMaille, Celeste Rains-Turk, Ryan Blaich, Parker Maki, Michael Marinelli, Ryan Shen, Kendall Mader, Elizabeth…

  • Winter Sports Update

    Boys’ Basketball: 0-6 Because of their success in the past few years, the team has been moved up into Division 1A, the most competitive division of CIF. A few close calls have not gone the way the team would have hoped this year, with score margins falling in favor of rival teams. However, the…

  • A Victory Flip: Gymnasts excel on and off campus

    Victory Gymnastics is living up to its name; it’s one of the highest ranked teams in California. Contributing to Victory’s success are Joe Dixon, sophomore, and Chris Osgood, freshman. “Chris and Joe are two of our highest level gymnasts,” said Howard Laguna, owner of Victory Gymnastics. The two competed at the State Championships and…

  • Baseball’s Christmas Tree Lot is a Home Run

    Between Nov. 29 and Dec. 21, more than one thousand Christmas trees made their way to the parking lot of the Newbury Park Library for the baseball team’s 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lot. Every year, team members, coaches, and parents work to sell and deliver Christmas trees to raise money for the Baseball Boosters.…

  • The CIF Mud Bowl: Football ends season with a bang

    For the first time in 19 years, the Varsity football team played in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) finals against Paso Robles High School on Dec. 7. Although the game ended in a 13-10 loss, meaning the Panthers are not moving on to regionals, the team was undefeated in the Camino league and won…

  • The season of touchdowns

    1983: that’s the last time the freshman football team went undefeated until this year, when they finished an undefeated season with a 49-7 win against Thousand Oaks. “It’s always high anticipation playing Thousand Oaks, even if we won all our games before that, since they are our school rivals,” said Kevin Koenig, head freshman…