Badminton dominates Mark Keppel in second preseason game

Badminton overwhelmed Mark Keppel on Thursday, March 15, gaining significant contributions from core players en route to a 16-5 victory. With the win, the talented squad maintains and builds on the momentum established in its season opener on Monday – a 14-7 triumph over Alhambra. The Tigers’ overall record sits at 2-0, setting the stage […]

Boys’ tennis reigns supreme versus Schurr

Photos by Thomas Forman Photography Editor Boys’ tennis crushed Schurr High School in an away match on Thursday, March 15. The squad won a total of 16 games, and only lost two to Schurr. The match increases the team’s overall pre-season record to 7-2. Singles one, sophomore Desmond Chan, defeated each of his opponents, winning one […]

South Pas students walkout in solidarity with Parkland students

Photos by Alicia Alderete and Helena Fu Staff Photographers Students toting signs and chanting anti-gun sentiments gathered in front of the SPHS campus on Wednesday, March 14 at 10 a.m. to demonstrate their solidarity with Parkland, FL students and to pressure legislators to prioritize gun control. The walkout lasted 17 minutes to memorialize the 14 students and 3 […]

South Pasadena closes in on Arroyo Seco trail project

Photo by Helena Fu Staff Photographer South Pasadena is making plans for the finalization of the Arroyo Seco Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail. The project––almost complete––has encountered unexpected hurdles in its last stage of construction, and a concrete plan for completion must be submitted as soon as possible. This new trail, which runs along South Pasadena’s […]

Girls’ soccer ends its historic playoff run with a loss to Ventura

Photos by Helena Fu Staff Photographer The girls’ varsity soccer team concluded its sensational season with a tough 3-0 loss to the Ventura Cougars at the CIF Southern California Regional Division IV Playoffs semi-finals match away on Thursday, March 8. Though the Tigers let loose their best performance on the field, they ultimately could not […]

Girls’ soccer advances to the CIF regional semi-finals with a win over Marquez

Photos by Helena Fu Staff Photographer The girls’ varsity soccer team dazzled yet again, prevailing over the Marquez Gladiators, 4-0, in the first round of the CIF Southern California Regional Division IV Playoffs at home on Tuesday, March 6. Shocking the Gladiators with a goal in the first thirty seconds of the match, the Tigers […]

Scouting the opponent: girls’ soccer prepares to face Marquez in the Regional Division V Championship

Photo by Helena Fu Staff Photographer Girls’ varsity soccer won the Division V Southern CIF Championship on Friday March 2nd, with a 1-0 win over Westminster High School, and will continue onto state competition at home on Tuesday, March 6 at 4 pm. The Tigers will take on the Marquez High School Gladiators, who sit […]

Black Panther brings together a strong cast and an illuminated new world

Story by Ben Clark Staff Writer Illustration by Elaine Yang Design Associate 4/5 Stars When Chadwick Boseman took on the role of King T’Challa in Captain America: Civil War, fans were immediately intrigued by his quiet but powerful charisma. Two years later, this fan-favorite character was given his own individual film with Ryan Coogler’s Black […]

Varsity tennis coach leaves, to be replaced by Karina Akhmedova

Photo by Luke Quezada Staff Photographer SPHS varsity tennis coach Sean Taroli has left the athletic coaching staff just days before the start of the boys’ tennis season. Taroli’s exit came a little after a year of leading both the girls’ and boys’ varsity teams, who both had a 2-6 season record during that period. […]

Girls’ soccer triumphs in the CIF southern championship game, winning its first title in more than a decade

Photos by Helena Fu Staff Photographer Establishing its first CIF title since 2003, the girls’ varsity soccer team has changed history for SPHS. The Tigers tipped the scales against the fearsome Westminster Lions, 1-0, at the brutally rainy CIF Southern Section Division 5 finals at Warren High School on Friday, March 2. After a brilliant […]

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