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Sports

December 17, 2014

Varsity boys basketball team

Weight training class
dribbles to Florida tournament strengthens students
By LILY FRIEBEL
Sports Editor
The varsity boys basketball
team will be in Orlando, Florida over winter break to play in
the KSA Holiday Tournament.
The team goes to different states
to compete in tournaments every other year.
The Cherokees hope for
a good record in Orlando to
kickstart them for this upcoming season.
They are among about 50
teams from across the country
in an eight team bracket competing in this tournament.
The Cherokees leave Dec.
Photo by Lily Friebel
26 and return Dec. 30. While
The varsity boys basketball team will compete against
there, they will stay at the Disaround 50 other teams from all over the nation in Orney World Resort and spend
some of their downtime at Dis- lando, Florida this winter break.
ney World.
To help fundraise for the progress, senior Tommy Lo- but we have a young team this
number of
piparo said.
year. Were starting one freshtrips, playThe team man and one sophomore, but
ers scorelost six se- theyre gonna step in nicely and
We always have a good time:
keep
for
niors
last well still be pretty good, senior
weve been to Las Vegas, SacNational
year,
which
Martin Mylod Yee said.
ramento, San Diego and AriJunior
may
impact
The team obtained six new
zona. Were all pretty close alBasketthe
results players, three freshmen, one
ready, but itll be fun to go all
ball (NJB)
of how they sophomore and two juniors.
the way across the country.
most weekcompete in Their first home league game is
Martin Mylod-Yee,
ends at Sethe upcom- a quad game versus Woodside,
senior
quoia.
ing tourna- Jan. 9.
I think
ment.
Lopiparo said, We hope evthat we look stronger this year
Despite the loss, the team is eryone comes out and supports
than we did last year. I think we confident they will do well this because we think we can go a
learned how to play with each year as they compete in the PAL long way and the crowds always
other pretty quickly. I mean South division.
a good advantage for us.
[were] still not where we need
I think [the graduated seAdditional reporting by staff
to be yet, but were making good niors] were really good leaders, reporter Dominick Graham.

By SUNAINA BUTLER &

MARS SVEC-BURDICK
Staff Reporters
Most students get their
physical education workout
dancing or playing capture
the flag, but for some gym
class means pumping iron.
The weight room smells undeniably like rubber and
sweat, but the class is no longer phased by it.
On a block day, the class
begins with a warm-up of
jogging, walking, stretching and core strengthening. Then, they travel to the
weight room.
We walk on the track a
little bit, then do burns on
the machines, freshman
George Sparling said.
Most time is spent on individual workouts, which
students keep track of on
spreadsheets in their binders.
Each kid will pick a category to work towards for
the quarter. The workouts are
already preset, P.E. department chair Adrian Dilley
said. While some join the
class to bulk up, others just
like the exercise.
The weight rooms racks of
weights and huge machines
present an initially daunting
challenge. The sheer size of
some of the disks is impressivesome students can
bench press more than 200

pounds. But as the class progresses, it is easy to see that

superhuman abilities arent
necessary. With a lot of hard
work, students build strength
and reach their goals.
We see strength gains
after about a month, Dilley said. After that it is just
kind of about maintaining
strength levels.
How much students get
out of the class depends on
how much they put in.
Its kinda how you make
it. If you goof off, Mr. Dilley will be on your case, but
its a good class to work out,
senior Dominic Veimau said.
The machines may be intimidating, but the atmosphere of the class isnt.
Its cool to get some new
workout buddies, Veimau
said.
Fewer than 50 students are
enrolled. The lucky ones who
make it in are a horde of boys
and, this year, two girls.
Weight training is not
a huge attraction for girls.
In the past, Ive heard comments like I dont want to
get any bigger, or I dont
want to gain muscle. Dance
class usually pulls a lot of
girls out, Dilley said. In the
future, I would love to see
weight training offered more
periods, so that more kids
could benefit. I think there
are definitely more girls and
boys that are interested.

Winter sports previews

Girls soccer
This year, the team as a whole is communicating better, were very cohesive and I
think we will do very well this season because weve come together as a team, more
than we have in the past years.

Girls basketball

Girls wrestling

This year its a younger team, its a lot of

freshmen and sophomores, a couple juniors
and then only three seniors, so itll be a lot
different leadership wise, [....] theres going
to be a lot of learning.

The team is a lot smaller than last year, but

everyones really close and everyones really
welcoming, and the environment allows us
to function as a team; its an individual sport
but the team is really supportive.

Camille Louie, senior

Kayla Funk, senior

Must see
games of
the season: 1/20
Girls soccer

vs Terranova

Boys soccer
For us, were all mostly seniors, and were
all really close friends, so [this] helps us because we communicate better, and weve
all played for similar teams so we all know
how our [teammates] play.
Misael Montes, senior

Boys basketball

Girls basketball

Girls wrestling

@ Carlmont

@ Half Moon Bay

1/23 1/23
@ Carlmont

Hannah Dosen, sophomore

2/5

Boys basketball
Its sad knowing its our last season but at
the same time, its what weve been waiting
for since freshmen year, so its exciting.
Brady Stubblefield, senior

Boys wrestling

Boys soccer

vs Capuchino

vs Carlmont

2/12 2/18
Boys wrestling
Were very close. That relationship helps us
build a strong community and team.Tournaments are all day so youre stuck with
them, and you learn to like each other.
Ben Inglis, junior

Compiled by abigail wang