Girls varsity water polo is back and ready to bring their best this season. With a central goal of winning league championships and making it to Central Coast Sections (CCS) this year, both coach Chris Ford and co-team senior Isobel Taylor are ready to lead their team to victory.
Taylor...
Ryan Manesh, Sports Editor, Business Manager
• September 13, 2019
By Ryan Manesh
Gunn’s football team is off to a historic start to the season. The team has won their first two games for the first time in seven years. The Titans started off their winning streak with a 59-34 win versus Saratoga’s Prospect High School, followed by a blowout 42-0 versus James Lick...
The Oracle: How long have you been playing for Gunn’s swim team?
Cooper McKenna: I have been on Gunn’s swimming team, as well as water polo, since freshman year.
TO: What inspired you to begin your water-dominated athletic career?
CM: When I was nine or so, it was sort of the stage where...
The boys volleyball team ended the season with a league record of 10-4 and an overall record of 15-9. Throughout the spring months, high-flying junior Songboer Yun has been seen humiliating opposing defenses, staring down rival huddles and sporting his signature trench coat.
Yun enjoys...
Sophomore standout center back Alexis Bromberg has been engaged in soccer since the age of five. His skills have progressed significantly since he first started playing. As a freshman, Bromberg made the varsity soccer team. “I joined American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) when I was five,”...
Top Pick: Zion Williamson
Ever since Zion Williamson’s junior year in high school, the whole world has known that he would be a top player in the 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) draft. Williamson, who played for Duke, has drawn comparisons to basketball legends LeBron James and...
Sophomore Luke McFaul has played basketball for almost his entire life, starting at five years old. Last season, he played his first year of varsity basketball at Gunn after playing on the junior varsity (JV) team in his freshman year. McFaul has enjoyed playing basketball for Gunn, something...
Another sport that is often stereotyped and considered undeserving of its status as a sport is golf. “I think there is an obvious stereotype with golf, that golf is an elitist sport played only by rich, privileged people,” vice captain of the boys varsity golf team senior Jamie...
The Oracle: Have you always known you wanted to be a trainer? Gagan Cheema: Yes. In school, I started off in a different health care discipline, but a lot of the prerequisites followed athletic training. Having known what an athletic trainer does—because in high school I had to see our athletic trainer...
Captain of the cheer team senior Brenda Cornelio doesn’t believe a lot of people see the full picture when they think about cheerleading. “Most people only see the cheer side to cheerleading where we stand on the sidelines and cheer up the crowd or support the team playing,” she said....
Science teacher Maria Powell stood on tiptoes to reach for something between lab stations two and three in her biology classroom—crowded with freshmen doing the bacterial transformation lab—and felt the muscles of her right calf tear. “It felt like a zipper unzipping,” she said. She...
For English teacher Paul Dunlap, running marathons is a great way to release stress and finish off the day. “After a busy day of facilitating discussions, thinking about big literary—and life!—issues and reading papers, running is a great way to release stress and pent-up energy,” Dunlap said....
