Category: Sports
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Volleyball’s Experienced, Yet Young, Leader
By Gabriella Giachin ’14 and Kristen Nachtman ’14, Staff Writers As the Volleyball team walked up to Kanye West’s booming anthem “Clique” during the pep rally, the entire school felt the trademark energy that they bring on and off the court. Having moved up into the Colonial Division this year, the team’s intensity and competitiveness…
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Field Hockey: For Females Only?
By Cory Tell ’14, Staff Writer Much like politics, controversy is regularly at the center of sports. Whether it’s the Pete Rose betting fiasco, the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, or the atrocities that occurred at Penn State, sports and scandal are often bound together. You need not look further than our own community to…
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Why Do We Run?
By Siddarth “The Tiger” Kannan ’14, News Editor, and Max “Quickmore” Whitmore ’14, Guest Writer, ’14 “You’re crazy.” We, along with many other members of the cross country team, hear this phrase all too often. Our friends, peers, and parents alike cannot begin to fathom why we love running — something that is often regarded…
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Arky Crook: The Man Behind the Curtain
By Soven Bery ’15, Staff Writer Editor’s Note: This article was written before we heard the news of Arky’s injury. We wish him the best and hope he has a speedy recovery. Everyone at Newark Academy knows about the men’s and women’s tennis teams. Their wins are about as inevitable as advisor group meetings on…
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To Play or Not to Play: The Debate on Newark Academy Football
By Alex Liao ’13 and Zach Gross ’14, Sports Editors Newark Academy is not known for football. While our school thrives in classrooms and concert halls, on tennis courts and courtroom floors, the gridiron has not traditionally been a location of Academy glory. And despite fielding a resilient team led by a dedicated group of…
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From NA to the Pros: A Common Path of Hard Work and Perseverance
By Matthew Press, ’14, Staff Writer Athletics are an integral part of the Newark Academy culture. For athletes, the daily grind and time commitment of sports can bring even the most diverse set of students together as a unified team. For the school as a whole, watching the athletic teams on the field instills a…
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The Jets and the Mets: Two Franchises Aligned by More than a Rhyme
By Tyler Park, ’14, Staff Writer New York is a city well-acquainted with athletic glory. Its teams have long been synonymous with victory parades and winning records, embodied by clubs like the Yankees, who’ve won an astounding twenty-seven World Series Championships. Many Big Apple sports fans have been spoiled by this success and expect championship-caliber…
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Tearin’ Up the Turf
By Lauren Whelan, ’14, Staff Writer Over the past few years, the Newark Academy athletics program has taken massive strides towards relevance in the crowded New Jersey high school sports scene. Although larger programs continue to dominate the state, the Academy’s talent pool and performance has improved immensely over the past few years thanks…
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Cory Tell All Sports
By Cory Tell ’14 At Newark Academy there is a wide range of talents and interests amongst the students. Some kids are adept at playing an instrument, some kids are skilled in physics or in a foreign language, and I go home and write a sports blog. While it may not appear to be as…
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The Life of a Student Sports Blogger: Soven Bery
By Soven Bery ’15 In the eyes of most, watching Blake Griffin dunks and Marshawn Lynch runs on a computer cannot possibly count as doing work. Luckily for me, I have an incredible job where following ESPN constantly, keeping an eye on live games, and monitoring scores is not only encouraged, but actually required. I…