The COVID-19 pandemic, needless to say, has had a large impact on sporting events at Berkeley High School. Fortunately, sports teams are slowly progressing into competition, one example of this being the BHS track and cross country team.
The wage gap between male and female athletes continues to hinder women in their field of play and frustrate the masses of sports fans across the country.
Berkeley High School has been slowly restarting sports that can be contact free since late January, but now the decision has been made to open all athletics at BHS, even if it is not immediately.
Although many Americans would like to believe we live in a perfectly equal utopia, sexism and discrimination are still very much an issue. One of the main places this inequality shines through is within the sports world.
As Black History Month progresses, appreciating the contributions and change-making of Black people in all aspects of our society must be a priority. Black History Month gives people the opportunity to reflect on American history through a different lens and fully acknowledge how Black people have shaped America’s present
The National Football League has created well paved roads for white coaches and management to advance while opportunities for Black management are slim.
Lila Sayre As Berkeley High School seniors apply for college and await their letters of acceptance, some student-athletes already know the school they will attend and play for in the upcoming year.
When the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm in early 2020, major sporting events planned for 2020 including the Summer Olympic Games and the Union of European Football Associations Euro were rescheduled to take place in 2021.
The importance of the mental and emotional aspects of participating in team sports can easily be overlooked. In a highly competitive environment, the combination of pressure placed on oneself, in addition to external pressure from coaches and teammates, can be detrimental to the athlete’s mental health.
In February of the 2019-20 school year, thousands of Berkeley High School students walked out of class, standing in solidarity with and listening to survivors of sexual harm.
Gil Gvishi Gil Gvishi, a senior in Berkeley International High School and captain of the Berkeley High School boys varsity water polo team, grew up submerged in the world of water polo.
With so much uncertainty surrounding the state of COVID-19, it’s impossible to predict when things may start to return to normal. Just as businesses began to reopen and there was talk of in-person school, case numbers began to rise and forced the Bay Area back into lockdown.
Azaria Barham, a senior in the Academy of Medicine and Public Service, a small school at Berkeley High School, is on the girls varsity volleyball team at BHS.
In four quarters, nine innings, or 90 minutes of a sports game, viewers are presented with a fierce and enthralling competition that is yet another glorification of the American Dream.
From the depths of the Berkeley High School club fair comes an activity known to only the most adventurous and alternative students. An activity centered around the idea of getting lost and then un-lost and one rumored to be the very most efficient method of earning sports credit, the orienteering club at BHS has
Known to many as the sport with the most ridiculously named ball — the “shuttlecock” or alternatively “the birdie” — badminton has existed at Berkeley High School for a long time.
Despite everyone’s best wishes, the condition of the coronavirus in California is only worsening. This comes as terrible news for youth sports organizers who have been putting in effort to ensure a safe athletic season.
On Sunday, November 8, the famous Spanish bike race known as “La Vuelta a España” came to a close after having been pushed back two months from its original start date in mid-August.
