South high girls swim to the top at the Maroon & Gold Invitational state competition
Soline Van de Moortele, News Editor
September 18, 2016
Filed under News, Sports, Top Stories
Loud cheering and the smell of chlorine filled the aquatics center at the University of Minnesota as high school women's swim teams from across Minnesota compete at one of the biggest meets of the season, a meet that has been done annually since its founding in 1993. South is part of a joint-school team featuri...
South bikers join 24 hour bike race
Livia Lund, Features Editor
August 16, 2016
Filed under Features, Sports, Top Stories
It’s t-minus 90 minutes until the start of the Powderhorn 24, a 24 hour bike race with a 4.8 mile route circling the blocks around Powderhorn park, and it’s raining outside. Hard. Two South juniors, Maxwell Hansen and Ben Meier are eating their pre-race meal at Pineda, a common hang-out sp...
Soccer bridges cultural gap for immigrants
Livia Lund, Staff Writer
May 31, 2016
Filed under Sports
Soccer, or football as it’s known in most countries outside the US, began in 19th century England and has since exploded and become the most popular sport in the world. It is played on every continent (except Antarctica) and it a huge part of many differents countries’ cultures. This diversity of...
Men’s Soccer produces state soccer player
Livia Lund, Staff Writer
May 13, 2016
Filed under Sports
This year senior Hamzard Abdul from the Men’s soccer team was chosen to participate in the Minnesota All-State Soccer Team. This a group of the top men’s and women’s soccer players from each conference in the state. Abdul will represent the men’s city conference. Varsity Coach Patrick Bartel c...
Competition is redefined in Northern Indigenous Games
Emma Pederson, Opinions and Social Media Editor
April 18, 2016
Filed under Sports
If you ever exit the school through the doors by the snack shack, you’ll notice that every Tuesday and Thursday, students and teachers begin to warm up to play the Creator’s game, the traditional version of lacrosse. Or perhaps you see students throughout the day, carrying their lacrosse sticks, some ...
Sports rivalries continue even as participation drops
Eva Shellaberger, Features Editor
April 11, 2016
Filed under Sports
Every few weeks, the rocks outside South change colors-haphazardly painted over with the name of another school, until another South student returns to paint over in black and orange. Supposedly, the rocks were put out in front of the schools so that the building itself would not be vandalized. In effect,...
New badminton coach accepts large crowd, creates “family”
Livia Lund, Staff Writer
April 11, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
In mid-March, as students and staff walked through Souths doors in the morning and wandered toward the commons they might have noticed a man sitting at a table with a large sign the words “join badminton” proudly written on it. That man was Rodney Lossow, new head coach of the girl’s badminton t...
Player leadership shone as women’s basketball team adapted to change of coaches
Soline Van de Moortele, Staff Writer
March 10, 2016
Filed under Basketball, Sports
Even with a change of coaches and a heartbreaking last game, the girls varsity basketball team persevered and finished the season off well with a record of 16-10. Adaptability was key in this season’s success: many of the girls emphasized the challenge of adjusting to the new coaching style of Nathan...
“Quadzilla” leaves his prints with 5th place State finish
Sera Mugeta, Staff Writer
March 9, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories, Wrestling
“It’s a long story...” senior Sam Truen chuckled when asked about how he got his wrestling tag name Quadzilla. “One time, I was about to wrestle and my opponent looked at the bracket. Then told his friend ‘Who’s this kid?’ and the other guy said ‘That’s quadzilla, he has big quads.’...
Girls at South kick back in self-defense classes
Livia Lund, Staff Writer
March 7, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
“I thought it would it would make me feel more comfortable being out at night alone,” said sophomore Caroline Haarman explaining why she first took a self defense class. Almost every woman and girl has her own set of horror stories: near brushes with sexual violence, experiences with continual har...
Women’s basketball team beats Southwest and Roosevelt for city champ title
Anna Kleven, Sports Editor
February 24, 2016
Filed under Basketball, Sports
The varsity women’s basketball team is resting on their laurels after decisive wins against Southwest and Roosevelt. They defeated Southwest on Friday, February 19th with a final score of 61-50. Sophomore Mariaunna Green called the game “the big focus of the season.” “I knew we were gonna...
Busy AVID student and emerging soccer star knows her priorities
Nara Coldwater, Staff Writer
February 17, 2016
Senior Harmony Chino has always had a knack for predicting the outcomes of her soccer games. “When we would play soccer she was always pessimistic about our winning...we would always be like ‘don’t say we’re gonna lose, don’t say we’re gonna lose!’ She’d predict what our score would be...
Elliott Askari-Rabe, Staff Writer
April 22, 2019 • No Comments
Birds are truly a sight to behold. They are, literally, avian dinosaurs, so it's no wonder that students at South have founded a new bird watching club. They had their first...
April 19, 2019
April 19, 2019
April 19, 2019
If you were able to vote (regardless of age) out of the following declared or likely to declare candidates, which would you choose to be the 46th President of the United States?
- Former Vice President Joe Biden (43%, 72 Votes)
- California Senator Kamala Harris (20%, 33 Votes)
- Current President Donald Trump (17%, 29 Votes)
- Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (7%, 11 Votes)
- South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (7%, 11 Votes)
- Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (4%, 6 Votes)
- Entrepreneur Andrew Yang (2%, 3 Votes)
- Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard (2%, 3 Votes)
- Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (1%, 1 Votes)
- Former Federal Housing Secretary and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (0%, 0 Votes)
- Washington Governor Jay Inslee (0%, 0 Votes)
- Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (0%, 0 Votes)
- Maryland Representative John Delaney (0%, 0 Votes)
- New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (0%, 0 Votes)
- New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (0%, 0 Votes)
- None of the above (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 13,849
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