The changing face of Urban athletics: Urban’s new athletic trainer
Sydney Reimer, Staff Writer
December 20, 2018
Filed under Sports
According to At Your Own Risk, a website created by the National Athletic Trainers Association, 90 percent of student-athletes have experienced a sports-related injury and 54 percent of students have said that they continued to play their sport while injured. The website claims that in order to make sp...
Final girls varsity tennis match
Sydney Riemer, Staff Writer
November 12, 2018
Filed under Online Exclusive, Sports
On the afternoon of Oct. 24, 2018, the Urban girl's varsity tennis team, along with a couple high achieving JV players, set their hopes on beating Convent of the Sacred Heart High School and making it to the semi-finals of this year's BCL West playoffs. After a strong, competitive season, the team...
Boys soccer kicks off first winter season
Ian Ryan, Staff Writer
October 25, 2018
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
In December, the boys soccer teams will kick off their seasons in the winter rather than the fall for the first time. Many schools, including Lick-Wilmerding High School, University High School, and Marin Academy, have already made this move to the winter, leaving Urban to compete in a fall league wit...
Urban Swimming team’s positive attitude
Zoe Lusk, Staff Writer
May 28, 2018
Filed under Sports
Last place. It isn’t a place that many high school teams would like to accept, but for Urban’s swim team, accepting a loss does not mean accepting defeat. Some credit this acceptance of mixed results to the team’s size. Urban’s team has only twelve members, while opponents such as Marin Aca...
Urban School joins in annual March Madness craze
Tikloh Bruno-Basaing, Staff Writer
May 28, 2018
Filed under Sports
From March 13 to April 2, 68 men’s college basketball teams faced off to take home the title of the NCAA Division One March Madness tournament. The tournament is an annual event with games hosted in colleges across the country. Each team represents their school in single elimination games, playing...
Korea unites for the Olympics
April 3, 2018
Filed under Sports
The Korean Peninsula has been saturated with conflict between North and South Korea for decades due to war and politics. Like in many cultures, athletics have been able to provide a level of harmony between the countries. In the past, North and South Korea have united in the name of sports, where th...
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