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Drake Piscione (9) reaches for the ball during a boys water polo game.

Sports slideshow: Sept. 25

by Anna Vazhaeparambil, Asst. Sports Editor September 26, 2019

Cassandra Ruedy (12) passes during a varsity girls practice last week.

Weekly recap: Fall sports ace the week

by Anna Vazhaeparambil and Aditya Singhvi September 10, 2019

Cross Country The high school cross country team competed in their first meet of the school year this weekend, at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.  In the varsity girls division, Anna Weirich (11)...

Katrina Liou (19) prepares to bump the ball during the varsity teams CCS quarterfinal match against Mercy-Burlingame last year. The girls will play Mercy again at 6:30 p.m. tonight in Burlingame.

Girls volleyball faces off against Mercy High School

by Kushal Shah, Sports Columnist September 4, 2019

Coming off a recent victory over the Branham Bruins last week, the fourth-seeded varsity girls volleyball team looks to steal a win against the first-seeded Mercy High School (2-0) in an away conference...

Running back Devin Keller (12) evades a defensive player as he carries the ball downfield during the Eagles matchup against Burton High on Aug. 30.  The Eagles lost 57-22.

Weekly Recap: Fall sports come out swinging

by Anna Vazhaeparambil, Aquila Co-Sports Editor September 2, 2019

Cross Country For the past few months, ever since pre-season workouts began in the summer, the cross country team has been training extensively for upcoming meets this year. With a grueling exercise regimen,...

The seniors, sitting at a long table with name tags featuring their name, sport and college, sign their letters of commitment to play in college. Signing day was held in the athletics center during long lunch at 12:45 on Thursday, April 18.

7 Seniors Commit to College Athletics During Signing Day

by Vishnu Kannan, Reporter April 21, 2019

Members of the Harker community gathered in the Athletics center on Thursday at 12:45 during a long lunch to support the seven seniors from the Class of 2019 who have committed to play college sports....

“At Harker, every year, I just really enjoy coaching everybody, enjoy having the people around, we don’t have a lot of pains in the [butts],” Chisam said.

Cross country, track and field coach retires

by Erica Cai and Eric Fang February 22, 2019

Standing in the center of Blackford’s track with a baseball cap over his head, Scott Chisam chats with a few seniors as the other runners finish their warm-up lap and sit cross-legged in front of him...

Kalyn Su (9) attempts to steal the ball away from an opposing player in a game against the Kings Academy Knights. The soccer team plays on Dec. 6 against Wilcox High at 4 p.m.

As fall sports end, winter sports take flight

by Kushal Shah and Saloni Shah December 8, 2018

The fall season of sports ended and was marked by historic results for both girls volleyball and girls golf. Girls golf won the WBAL championship by an unprecedented 44 strokes and was just the seventh...

Ishaan Mantripragada (9) dribbles the ball downfield as a St. Francis player chases after him. The Eagles lost the game 4-2.

Freshmen excel on varsity teams in fall, winter seasons

by Irene Yuan, Muthu Panchanatham, and Helen Yang December 5, 2018

Lungs burning and hearts pounding, varsity athletes sprint back and forth, striving to improve themselves for their next game. Keeping up with the experienced upperclassmen are skilled freshmen, eager...

Singles player Santoshi Tirumala (10) prepares to hit the ball. Santoshi, along with doubles partners Gina Partridge (11) and Amanda Cheung (11), fell in Mondays quarterfinals.

Varsity girls tennis competes in WBAL tournament, players advance to CCS

by Jessie Wang, Reporter November 4, 2018

The varsity girls tennis team played in the WBAL Individual Tennis Tournament, which took place on Monday and Tuesday at Menlo. Doubles partners Fonda Hu (10) and Sachi Bajaj (10) took second place...

Abigail Wisdom talks to a coach during a game. After we won, everyone sprinted out of the water, and we pushed our coach into the pool. Some of the seniors got emotional because it meant a lot to win leagues for the first time in a few years and to just see how far the team has come,” Elizabeth Fields (10) said.

Varsity Girls Water Polo wins SCVAL Tournament

by Julia Amick, TALON Business Manager November 1, 2018

The varsity girls water polo team won all three of their games this week in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) Tournament, receiving first place in their league and moving on to the Central...

Anya Gert (11) hits the ball over the net. “[CCS] is nerve-wracking, so I know [the team] was nervous and had the jitters,” Smith said. “We came in early and actually warmed up early so we could get some of that stuff out. I was a little worried about where [the team] would be mentally, but I think we handled ourselves pretty well.”

Varsity girls volleyball wins big in first postseason appearance since 2015

by Aditya Singhvi, Sports Editor October 30, 2018

In their first postseason appearance since 2015, the varsity girls volleyball team won a blowout 25-13, 25-17, 25-12 victory over the Marina High Mariners at home Saturday, advancing to the Central Coast...

Matthew Hajjar (12) reaches for the ball, playing defense against a Cupertino player.  The first half finished 6-3 in favor of the Eagles, with Harker goals scored by Bobby and Matthew.

Varsity boys water polo defeats Cupertino during senior night

by Heidi Zhang, TALON Editor-in-Chief October 18, 2018

The varsity boys water polo team triumphed 15-6 over the Cupertino high school Pioneers with at their senior night at Singh Aquatic Center last Thursday, bringing their overall record to 11-8. The...

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