Track and Field league finals took place last week and Harker has three league title holders, all seniors. Tiffany Kyi took first in the long jump; Thomas Enzminger threw for first in the discus and Aadithya Prakash also took first in the 3200. All three are league champions and have qualified for CCS trials. Watch for a complete sports update in the next week as spring sports wrap up league play.
Tags: SportsSabreur Eric Pei, Gr. 5, took the silver medal in April in Virginia Beach, Va., at the North American Circuit event in the Youth-10 boys sabre category, placing him second in points in the U.S.. Pei will next fence in Summer Nationals in Atlanta in July. At the Virgina Beach tournament, Pei won five out of six pool bouts and seeded fourth into the elimination table, then fought his way through three elimination bouts to reach the gold medal match. Pei trains at The Fencing Center of San Jose and Halberstadt Fencers Club, San Francisco; his main coach is Rob Handelman at Halberstadt.
Tags: Sports, topathleticsHarker swimming, boys volleyball and track and field are all participating in big events Thursday, May 13. Come out and support your Eagles!
At 5 p.m., Harker will participate in league swim championships at the Singh Aquatic Center at the Saratoga campus.
Varsity boys volleyball will play at the CCS quarterfinals at the Archbishop Mitty campus at 7 p.m. Admission is $7, or $3 for students with I.D. View the map and get directions from Saratoga.
Further away, at the College of San Mateo, varsity track and field will compete at the league finals at 3:30 p.m. Map and directions from Saratoga.
GO EAGLES!
Tags: SportsSwimmers from around the South Bay swarmed at Harker’s Singh Aquatic Center and the surrounding areas as they prepared for the West Bay Athletic League championships. Harker swimmers, both boys and girls teams, are ranked second in the league and 17 Harker swimmers had qualified for Central Coast Section championships prior to today’s championships.
Tags: SportsIn April, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), a nonprofit organization that honors the scholastic achievements of high school students, began releasing the names of winners in the 55th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Harker’s Sarah Teplitsky was on that list.
The second round of winners has just been released. These are scholarships of $2,500 apiece, sponsored by National Merit’s own funds or, in a few cases, underwritten by corporations.
Harker has 21 seniors named in this round, the most in California. The schools with the next highest totals are Torrey Pines (San Diego) with 13 and Gunn (Palo Alto) with nine.
Congratulations to these seniors: Brandon Araki, Virginia Chen, Victor Chen, Jeanette Chin, Nathaniel Edwards, James Feng, Alex Fotland, Alex Han, Kelsey Hilbrich (underwritten by Tomkins Corporation), Sonya Huang, Vishesh Jain, Carissa Jansen (underwritten by UPS Foundation), Rachel Luo, Christina Ma, Arjun Mody, Adam Perelman, Mark Roh, Rashmi Sharma, Haran Sivakumar, Andrew Zhou and Kevin Zhang.
Tags: Featured Story, In the NewsRecently two more sports said farewell to seniors following the final game of their season. The boys volleyball team congratulated graduating seniors Andy Fang, Ankur Ahuja, Chad Gordon, Eugene Huang, Jeffrey Tan, Kevin Fu, Kevin Liu and Rohan Chopra. Meanwhile, the girls lacrosse team said goodbye to Brittany Chu, Carissa Jansen, Connie Lu, Elaine Song, Julia Shim, Kelly Chen, Manasa Reddy, Miriam Lee and Virginia Chen.
Look to Harker News online in late May for the final round of senior night ceremonies. Boys baseball wrapped up its home season April 14, tennis had its final match April 22 and swimming finished April 28.
Tags: SportsMany Harker middle school students recently participated in the annual overnight picnic, dubbed the “Party All Night Party.” Held at the Saratoga campus, the fun kicked off with a pizza dinner. The students then set up camp and were treated to a variety of exciting activities, including swimming, campus treasure hunts, glow in the dark tag and crazy crafts. The evening was capped off with the showing of a movie, complete with popcorn and hot chocolate. For those middle school students who missed out on this year’s slumber party, don’t worry. You will have another chance next year to take part in this annual tradition.
This year’s Evening of Jazz represented a first for Harker’s conservatory. It was the first concert to feature musicians from both the lower and upper school jazz bands. Director Chris Florio said he was “really passionate about [the school’s] instrumental program being strongly K-12.” He called the pairing of the bands “the newest example of how we’re succeeding with that goal.” The night got off to a rousing start with the lower school band performing first. Next up was the upper school band, featuring soloists Ben Tien, Dwight Payne, Frankie Nagle and Nikunj Donde. The show ended with an encore of “Brick House,” with solos from graduating seniors Aadithya Prakash, Sammi Werthen and Won Hee Lee.
Exercising their creativity, Gr. 7 advisories took a break from their studies in early April to make sidewalk chalk drawings of things they love most about Harker.
Two teams of Gr. 8 students were recently declared winners in the Southwest Pacific Region for this year’s eCybermission contest.
Dubbed the Dust Busters, Sharon Babu, Allen Cheng, Albert Chu and Daniel Pak won first place and each received a $3,000 savings bond. They will also travel to Baltimore in June for the National Judging Event to compete against three other teams at the same grade level. In the past five years that Harker has participated in the eCybermission competition, five teams have advanced to this level.
Vikas Bhetanabhotla, Divyahans Gupta and Brian Tuan, collectively known as Analytic Trio, won the criteria award for Application of Science, Math and Technology. The award included a $2,000 savings bond for each member of the team.
Every year, schools from across the country compete in the web-based eCybermission competition, which has students solve problems in their community by utilizing their skills with science, math and technology.
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