Athletic events, practices canceled
Mackenna Moslander and Clara Bonomi
March 10, 2020
WEB EXCLUSIVE Parents received an email on March 9 from the school administration informing them that all school sports are canceled for the next two weeks due to COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. The suspension of athletic activities is a precautionary measure to protect students, fa...
Silent Killer
Gray Timberlake, Editor-in-Chief
February 14, 2020
Nineteen-year-old Claire Chung posted a picture of herself in a hospital bed and a scan of her lungs on her Instagram warning friends to quit vaping. The posts blew up with thousands of likes and comments, proving the success of teen consultation. “Someone put the post on their story and I clicked...
On Your Mark: Acting out of bounds
Adele Bonomi, Sports Editor
February 14, 2020
Legends may never die but, in this case, interest in a sexual assault lawsuit certainly did. When Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers star player and National Basketball Association icon, died on Jan. 26 in a helicopter crash with eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, fans paid tri...
Volunteers help disabled athletes
Adele Fratesi, Reporter
February 14, 2020
Although the world-wide games only take place every two years, the Special Olympics have ongoing events in the Bay Area yearound. “The organization creates an opportunity for people that otherwise would not have that opportunity to get out run, play, and move their body,” volunteer Frank Moslande...
Stretch before you stroke
Mackenna Moslander, Reporter
February 14, 2020
Before spring sports begin and swimmers dive into the pool for the first practice of the season, the swim team is participating in preseason Kundalini yoga sessions to work on breathing and muscle strength. Yoga can help with many skills including core strength and endurance, which are necessary...
Restrictive diets can foster bad habits
Madeline Thiara, Components Editor
February 14, 2020
Although not eating for extended periods of time can be a healthful diet tool for adults, intermittent fasting may not be the right decision for teenagers. “I choose to only eat eight hours a day and fast for 16 hours," chemistry teacher Roderick Mobley said. “I have already lost seven pounds in t...
Speeding down the slopes
Olivia Rounsaville, Senior Reporter
February 13, 2020
Many students are pulling out their goggles, helmets, boots and snowboards in preparation for a popular winter activity over next week’s Winter Break ― snowboarding. “One day my parents suggested either taking a snowboarding lesson or a ski lesson,” junior Audrey Hunnicutt said. “I loved wa...
Community mourns basketball legend
Grace Krumplitsch and Paige Retajczyk
January 27, 2020
WEB EXCLUSIVE Many members of the athletic and school community alike joined the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who tragically died in a fatal helicopter crash on Sunday, by posting tributes on social media and sharing the impact his career had on their lives....
New arena, new experience
Madeline Thiara, Components Editor
December 12, 2019
Since the opening of Chase Center in Sept., Mission Bay’s new 18,000 square foot stadium has hosted music concerts and Warriors games. The arena also brought Thrive City — a 3.2 acre plaza with dozens of restaurants — to the neighborhood. “Chase Center is overall easier to navigate than Orac...
Run it out
Adele Bonomi, Sports Editor
December 12, 2019
A “New York Times” Opinion video beginning with a foot stomping down on a track took over news and social media platforms in early November, encapsulating Mary Cain’s detrimental experience with the Nike Oregon Project. When Cain was 16, Alberto Salazar at Nike, formerly the world’s most famo...
Warm up, exercise, cool down
Paige Retajczyk, Senior Reporter
November 15, 2019
From tennis to golf to field hockey to soccer, stretching can help athletes prepare for games as well as help them recuperate after playing or after a workout. Strength and conditioning trainer Barclay Spring emphasizes the importance of dynamic stretching to improve an athlete's health and warm-up routi...
Gymnast uses platform
Adele Bonomi, Sports Editor
November 13, 2019
Springy, powerful, double-twisting double backflips make Simmone Biles standout in international competitions, but her confident voice outside the gym is shifting the public face of gymnastics and the definition of what it means to be an elite athlete. Bile’s original moves are impossible for a...
Madeline Thiara, Components Editor
March 30, 2020 • No Comments
Teenagers are using social networking apps such as TikTok, Twitter and Instagram to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic through humor, even though many posts...
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Components Editor
Sophomore Madeline Thiara is the components editor for The Broadview. When not writing for the publication, she runs cross-country and track and field. Madeline is also a member of the Wellness Wisdom...
Editor-in-Chief
Senior Gray Timberlake is Editor-in-Chief of The Broadview. She has explored her interest in writing not only through The Broadview but also while backpacking through South America where she contributed...
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Junior Charlotte Ehrlich is a web editor for The Broadview. She has explored her passion for journalism through a two-week intensive at the School of the New York Times. When not writing for the publication,...