Skyline cruises to win over Eastlake
April 23, 2013
After having two of its singles matches decided in tie-breaking sets, the Skyline High School tennis team beat Eastlake 6-1 April 16.
“Skyline’s our rival. Obviously, we want to win, and when we can’t win, we want to put up a good match,” said the Eastlake Wolves’ coach Bud Peterson. “They are a good team. We had our hands full from the get-go.”
Thanks to inclement weather, including hail earlier that day, the match almost didn’t happen. Giving the court extra time to dry out, the two neighboring teams got started about 30 minutes late. Once they did, though, many of the girls found themselves face-to-face with very familiar opponents.
Skyline High School’s Shreenu Sivakumar returns a shot during her No. 2 singles match April 16 against Eastlake’s Michelle Knutson.
By Lillian O’Rorke
Skyline grad’s anti-rape PSA video goes viral
April 9, 2013
By Samantha Stendal
This frame from Samantha Stendal’s video, ‘A Needed Response,’ shows a man talking as a woman lies slumped on a sofa, in a scenario where his choice was to show her respect and compassion.
After handing in her blue book for her Japanese final March 19, Samantha Stendal returned to her dorm and got to work on a video that she hoped would change the conversation about rape.
The 2011 Skyline High School graduate is now a sophomore and cinema studies major at the University of Oregon. For months, she had been following the Steubenville rape case, in which two Ohio teenagers were found guilty March 17 of raping a 16-year-old girl while she was intoxicated.
Scholarship topics announced
April 9, 2013
The Issaquah Alps Trails Club has announced the topics for its annual Bill Longwell Memorial Scholarship.
Longwell was a longtime club member who taught English at Hazen High School for many years. He was an avid hiker and trail builder who, often with the help of his students, was responsible for building and maintaining many of the trails on Tiger and Squak mountains.
Student sets rocket trajectory for nationals
April 9, 2013
Skyline High School’s Physics/Rocketry Club is headed to the Team America Rocketry Challenge National Fly-Off May 11.
The club’s design is one of 100 rockets selected from 725 entries from across the country in the contest. Skyline also is one of two clubs that will represent the state of Washington at the altitude and duration competition in Washington, D.C., next month.
Skyline speeds past Roosevelt
April 9, 2013
The rain and wind didn’t let up April 4, and neither did the Skyline High School track and field team as it bested Roosevelt in both girls and boys events.
By Greg Farrar
Nicole Cox (right), Skyline High School freshman, dashes to the 100-meter finish line for the win during the Spartans’ track meet April 4 against Roosevelt. Teammate and fellow freshman Stephanie Lunde (left) races close behind.
The girls 800-meter relay team, composed of Alexis Daugherty, Dorie Dalzell, Kaylie Greninger and Brandy Hughes, started the Skyline Spartans with a win by edging out Roosevelt by a 2-second victory.
Skyline’s offensive explosion downs rival Issaquah, 9-6
April 2, 2013
The Issaquah High School softball field was host to an explosion of offense when rivals Issaquah and Skyline High School squared off March 25. It was the Spartans’ bats that proved to pack the most punch, though, defeating the Eagles, 9-6.
The schools combined to produce 25 hits, but the game remained scoreless through two innings, before Skyline pushed six runs across the plate in the third.
Skyline’s Madisen Camp-Chimenti put the Spartans on the board first, driving in two runs with a double laced to the left-center field gap. It was just the beginning of what would be a productive day for the Skyline junior, who collected four hits and three RBIs.
Students to take part in aerospace scholars program
March 26, 2013
Seven local students have been accepted into Phase One of the Washington Aerospace Scholars Program at the Museum of Flight.
Affiliated with NASA and the University of Washington, the program is a free, competitive, science, technology, engineering and mathematics program for high school juniors.
This year’s participants are Amber Dannis, Priyanka Kompella, Grant Vaska and Austin Weinstein, of Issaquah High School; Jeremy Stroming, of Liberty High School; and Kevin Liu and Zachary Freedel, of Skyline High School.
Local students serve as pages in state senate
March 26, 2013
Jaden Mongauzy, of Issaquah, and Cooper Antin, of Renton recently, served as a page for the Washington State Senate in Olympia.
Burnett was sponsored by Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah.
Jaden Mongauzy
Cooper Antin
Jaden Mongauzy, a junior at Skyline High School, is a member of the student government and said his favorite subject is social studies.
Skyline battles the elements, beats Woodinville on the links
March 26, 2013
By Lillian O’Rorke
Brya Vowels, Skyline High School senior, puts on to the green of hole No. 5 March 19 at The Plateau Club golf course.
As the wind and rain swept over the front nine holes of The Plateau Club March 19, the Skyline High School girls golf team carried on until it had Woodinville beaten 286-313.
“They are not complaining with this horrible weather,” said Michael Fleming, the girls’ new head coach.
Fleming also coaches the boys team in the fall and said he has been pleasantly surprised by the girls.
Who keeps a school running behind the scenes?
March 26, 2013
More than 2,000 students roam the halls of Skyline High School every day.
That is more than 2,000 plastic water bottles waiting to be dropped, and more than 2,000 pieces of gum waiting to miss the trash can. Despite these possibilities, the school’s custodial team makes sure that every day runs as smoothly as the last.
“Our goal and biggest focus is creating a safe learning environment for students with no distractions,” said Mr. Buchanan, Skyline’s head custodian. “We make sure everything is running behind the scenes so that the kids can keep doing what they do best.
Sampurna Basu
Skyline High School
