Statesman

Competitive COVID-19 Cuts

Ally Flynn and Sailaja Nallacheruvu | December 4, 2020

After daily gymnastics practices in the 2019-2020 school year, Ashley Sprague ’22 and the rest of the girls gymnastics team would go out to get dinner and bond as a group. Now, with possible cuts to...

Shaping Up Stevenson Students

Alison Wade and Surya Sethi | December 2, 2020

In order to help athletes improve their physical and mental wellbeing, Stevenson’s athletic department hosted the first of its monthly virtual athletic summits on November 1. Presentations were led by...

Pinning Down COVID-19

Helen Oriatti-Burns and Mackenzie Wren | December 2, 2020

Beads of sweat rolled off his forehead as Cameron Tu ’21 walked away from the practice mat in the Stevenson wrestling room last winter. Gathering his belongings, he headed to the locker room, which...

Putting the Season Away

Bayarmaa Bat-erdene and Madeline Schmitke | December 2, 2020

Across the Stevenson campus this fall, cross country athletes ran miles upon miles in preparation for their season while golf athletes trained vigorously for tournaments. In a typical year, these student-athletes...

Fishing Up New Possibilities

Vaasu Kakuturu and Jasmine Sun | November 7, 2020

As it became apparent that Stevenson students would be unable to head back to campus for their fall semester, Eric Ramos, Director of Stevenson’s Physical Welfare Department, knew he had an important...

Court Cases

Sophia Ismail and Anika Krishnaswamy | November 7, 2020

In response to the IHSA’s statewide regulations on fall sports, three parents of Illinois student athletes filed a class-action lawsuit on October 1. These parents from DuPage County sued the IHSA and...

Why Live Fan Attendance Should be Disallowed

Griffin Brown, Managing Editor of Web | November 6, 2020

MetLife stadium glistens in the New Jersey rainy weather. Despite the game progressing in the middle of the stadium, the sound is just that, a game. There are no fans. The home of the New York Giants holds...

Quaranteamwork

Victoria Feng and Tia Vasudeva | October 29, 2020

For volleyball middle hitter Khushali Joshi ’21, safety precautions during contact volleyball practices have become almost as routine as blocking. She walks into practice wearing a mask, signs in, stays...

Chants, Choreography & COVID

Bayarmaa Bat-erdene and Shannon Moser | October 29, 2020

Sprinting across the soccer fields, varsity cheerleader Abby Ruksakiati ’21 and her teammates perform intricate tumbling routines — anything from roundoff back handsprings to aerial cartwheels. But...

Why We Shouldn’t Tell Student Athletes to “Stick to Sports”

Kelly Liu, Managing Editor of Magazine | October 9, 2020

In late August, the Milwaukee Bucks refused to play their playoff game in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Soon after, tennis player Naomi Osaka said she would sit out...

Out of Contact Sports

Aayushi Wadhawan, Matthew Mcgowan, and Myles Woodman | October 9, 2020

As he reaches the golf course, Madhav Muralidharan ‘22, makes sure he has his mask on before leaving his car and breathes a sigh of relief. Missing a piece of equipment would be forgivable, but without...

Restrictions on Recruiting

Sailaja Nallacheruvu and Thea Surya | October 9, 2020

In the fall of 2019, Anthony Skordilis ’21 was practicing and playing games after school essentially every day as a member of the Stevenson Boys Varsity Soccer team. Now with COVID-19 having changed...