South takes a new swing at the 2017 golf season
Oliver Hall, Staff Writer
April 27, 2017
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
Standing out on a cloudy day just cold enough to the point where the tips of your fingers are numb, geese squawking loudly and a massive expanse of green. A new player lines up a shot and hit the ball towards the hole. For some it may sound boring but for others it's their favorite pastime. Golf is going...
South badminton team wins with flying birdies
Mia Swanson, Staff Writer
April 25, 2017
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
The bleachers are up. The nets have been set. Along the sidelines one girl in pigtails stretches her legs, and another secures her shoes for the impact they will embrace. The energy in the room is powerful however it is contained inside a badminton bag. But one by one the players start to unzip the ...
Rugby: a rucking good time
Sophia Manolis, Staff writer
April 18, 2017
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
In terms of popularity, the sport of rugby isn’t really at the same level as sports like football or soccer. Oftentimes it’s mainly just thought of as “dangerous,” and because of this many people are too scared to play it. However, the girls on South’s rugby team have discovered that rugby...
Changing seasons bring fluctuations to sports participation
Henry Holcomb, Staff Writer
April 15, 2017
Filed under Sports, Top Stories, Ultimate Frisbee
Although South’s ultimate frisbee team has existed in some form or another since 2001, it has drastically exploded with popularity in these last few years. South has frisbee teams playing in both the Fall with an all-gender inclusive team, and in the Spring with a men’s and a women’s team....
Crowded YWCA makes practice hard and coaches nervous
Luca Raffo-Simoes, Staff Writer
April 14, 2017
Filed under Sports
What if your practice was interrupted by different sports running through your space? This has been a problem since the beginning of the spring sports season at the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) off of Lake street. When spring sports first started the weather wasn’t nice enough to practice out...
Badminton coach intercepts head football position
Oliver Hall, Staff Writer
March 17, 2017
Filed under Football, Sports, Top Stories
Sports are a large part of the lives of very many students, from badminton to football the coaches have a big impact on the teams that these students play on. This affects many different parts of students on the team’s lives, and with a new coach comes a different way of playing the game. Recently a...
Winter Olympics: win or lose you’ll have fun
Katherine Lundquist, Staff Writer
March 16, 2017
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
On Friday March 10 during 5th, 6th and 7th hour many students gathered in the gym to watch the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympics started as a way for students to relax for the second half of the day and just have fun. “It was a way for students council to get a community together and have fun” said D...
South swimmer goes to state
Oliver Piotrowski, Staff Writer
March 7, 2017
Filed under Sports, Swimming, Top Stories
Dutch Franko-Dynes, a junior here at South, won first place in the 100 yard freestyle for swimming and went to state. He originally started competitively swimming in February of 2012 at the age of 13, he mentioned, “it was on my birthday when I joined my first team.” He is still swimming for the sa...
Girl’s basketball team swished the net in Semi-finals, but missed the game
Livia Lund, Features Editor
March 4, 2017
Filed under Basketball, News, Sports, Top Stories
After a hard fought battle this Saturday, March 4th, against Hopkins, the women’s basketball team lost in Sections semi-finals 85-42. “We played the top team in the state that hasn’t lost a game all season, we knew that it was going to be tough,” explained Head Coach Nathan McGuire. The teams...
Ben Neal goes from Tiger to Cougar
Oliver Piotrowski, Staff Writer
February 24, 2017
Filed under Sports
Ben Neal, one of our own peers was signed to a College, Chatham University in Pittsburg, to play Lacrosse. Ben talked a lot about how much he liked the school. One of the things he said was “I liked it because it was small, I really wanted to go to a small school, it has about 3,000 students and it...
Flips and turns, and ups and downs: South gymnastics finishes their season strong
Madeline Mahoney, Staff Writer
February 22, 2017
Filed under Gymnastics, Sports, Top Stories
Have you ever attended a South gymnastics competition? Probably not, in fact, a lot of students don’t even realize we have a gymnastics team. Gymnastics is very physically demanding but it doesn’t receive as much attention as other sports teams at South. Sophomore Bo Coultrip, who has been a gym...
Nordic team takes on State meet
Luca Raffo-Simoes, Staff Writer
February 22, 2017
Filed under News, Skiing, Sports
The Minnesota state skiing meet was at Giants Ridge on Thursday February 16th. A couple of South High School students participated. Ethan Nelson(senior), Nick Carter(freshman), Anna Mulhern(junior), Ethan Davenport(senior) and Sam Kleven(junior) all raced, as well as Ella Hoch Robinson who is a 7th grad...
Hazel McKinney, Staff Writer
December 13, 2018 • No Comments
The Minnesota Whitecaps are breaking barriers in women’s sports. This local hockey team is one of the only professional women's hockey teams in the United States that has...
The ‘Clue’ performance was a play to die for
December 12, 2018
Graffiti around South echoes nationwide hate
December 11, 2018
South’s ceramics program gives students the opportunities to advance their skills and future careers
December 10, 2018
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