Winter break is a crucial time for students to rest from the stress of school, especially after a hectic first semester and finals week. It also provides a valuable rest period for Berkeley High athletes, most of whom train every day of the school week.
Berkeley High School’s boys varsity soccer team took on Bishop O’Dowd High School on January 21, to cheers of ‘Go Jackets!’ The game kicked off with O’Dowd on the offense, making a shot at the goal, and Berkeley’s goalkeeper, Patrick Devaney, lunging to make the first save of the game.
While Berkeley does not experience extreme winter weather, with daily highs and lows usually in the 60 to 40 degree Fahrenheit range, the temperature change, early sunsets, and rain are still significant factors in the winter training of many Berkeley High School athletes.
At Berkeley High School, the wide variety of sports lead to a wide variety of injuries for athletes, all of which have implications for entire teams. One of the main support centers for injured athletes is athletic trainer Lauren Small
The alumni game is a Berkeley High School tradition for many of its sports teams, in which alumni athletes are invited back to BHS to play with athletes of their sport.
Winter break is a crucial time for students to rest from the stress of school, especially after a hectic first semester and finals week. It also provides a valuable rest period for Berkeley High athletes, most of whom train every day of the school week.
Pick-up games are constantly running in parks around Berkeley, consisting of groups of people who come together — often spontaneously — in a public place to play sports.
With Berkeley High School sports such as water polo or soccer at the forefront of students’ minds, it is often easy to forget that there is a rich multitude of other sports at the school.
Electronic Sports, commonly known as Esports, are a relatively new type of sport since their beginnings in the early 2010s. Defined by Oxford Languages as “a multiplayer video game played competitively for spectators, typically by professional gamers,” they are video games to an organized extreme. Some common and popular examples of Esports are League of
At the close of the 2021 fall season, Berkeley High School’s varsity football team finished with a 3-6 record. “The guys played really hard. We had the opportunity to win every game, even if it didn’t always go our direction,” said James Hodgins, head coach of varsity football.
Rugby, a sport strangely unfamiliar to so many Americans — considering our love for its athletic cousin-of-sorts, football — still has its own place in the pantheon of Berkeley High School clubs.
On October 14, a Giants vs. Dodgers game ended with many fans taking to social media to express their frustration about the officiating of the game. Fans ranted that calls were unfair and the umpires were biased.
As the Berkeley High School girls tennis team stepped onto the court on Wednesday, October 6 for their match against San Leandro, they had a specific goal in mind: win four out of the seven matches.
Shoes squeak on the gymnasium floor while the bustling stands are full of intently watching volleyball fans. Teammates cheer one another on. Varsity girls volleyball coaches Em Huang, Alison West, and Kim Rock lead players and encourage them to be their best, creating a place for them to simultaneously work with each other as a
After playing in and winning the 1982 National Basketball Association national championship while wearing them, Michael Jordan alternated between two pairs of shorts for the rest of his career.
Though Latinx Heritage Month is celebrated between September 15 and October 15, the National Football League is using it to jumpstart a longer-lasting program. The NFL, alongside the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, partnered with Puerto Rican singer Ozuna to incorporate Latinx Heritage Month into its sports season in a program called “Feel the Orgullo.”
On September 28, the Berkeley High School varsity girls water polo team defeated the Castro Valley High School Trojans 10-8 at the Jacket Pool. While COVID-19 protocol restricted the crowd capacity, the game was sold out and fans were cheering passionately.
Jasmine Moreira-Cortes, a junior in Berkeley International High School, joined the cheerleading team for the community, and has grown into a leader of a sisterhood.
