On Wednesday, Mar. 14, the Granite Bay High School varsity boys’ volleyball team faced off against Oakridge, and won 3-1 in overall games. In the first game, the Grizzlies served to start off, and with multiple spikes and blocks took a 5-1 lead. After a timeout, Oakridge recovered the serve, but lost it again quickly, with the Grizzlies storming ahead 14-6. However Oakridge won five consecutive points before the Grizzlies regained the ball and won the first game 25-15. In [...]
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March 9, 2012 12:04 pm
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Student Spotlight: Sara Beil
Sara Beil, a senior, has been in Drama, been President of the Drama Club and on media’s Team Black. How do you manage being part of Drama and Media while keeping up on your classes? It has been hard, especially around tech week when we have five hour rehearsals … every day after school. Sometimes I would do homework during rehearsals. I also do theater outside of the school and it has sometimes been difficult being part of many different [...]
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Senior class to vote for the first time
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Barack Obama. To the many Granite Bay High School seniors who are following the presidential race politics and current campaigns, the slight mention of one of these names could spark an ongoing political conversation for hours on end.
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Two graduated Grizzlies headed to NFL
It’s the second round in the 2006 football playoffs and Union Mine High School is up 20-10 over the Granite Bay High School Grizzlies with seconds to go. Emotion prevalent on everyone’s face, two captains #9 and #7 walk off the field knowing that they have scholarships to San Diego State and Fresno State respectively. That is the last game that Miles Burris and Devon Wylie played in a GBHS uniform. Five years later, Burris and Wylie appear again, this [...]
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Trap pulls trigger on a new season
How many Granite Bay High School sports players, when they go to practice, stand 16 yards away from a clay thrower and shoot at clay pigeons that are being shot into the air? The answer: only members of the GBHS Trap Shooting Club. The club, only being on campus for four years, and has both male and female members from freshmen to seniors. Senior Chris Beck joined the Trap Shooting Club when he was a freshman. As the senior who [...]
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College gets put on hold
For the past couple of months, Granite Bay High school students have been anxiously waiting for college acceptances. Now that college acceptances have been released, students have until May 1 to submit their Statement of Intent to Register form. Many individuals found out they would be attending a four-year university; however, for some the waiting game is not over. A handful of seniors were waitlisted at a wide array of schools. This leaves seniors in the dark for yet another [...]
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Program recognizes students
Boys’ and Girls’ State is a program that allows two representatives (one girl and one boy) from every school to go to a state convention that teaches them the importance of being a citizen and how government works. The students who are involved in the program have the task of making all the rules for the week-long camp, while participating in a mock legislative and judiciary system and receiving firsthand experience with government operation.
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Students can’t give blood, can’t save lives
There is perhaps nothing more rewarding than saving another human’s life. BloodSource provides potential blood, plasma and marrow donors with an opportunity to give blood that can help patients across California and the nation.
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Varsity soccer strives to excel despite injuries
Granite Bay High School varsity soccer coach Mark Broers hopes to be the first to make history. “I haven’t heard of any team that has ever won (the section championship) twice in a row,” Broers said. Last season, the team managed to win the section title with a league record of 6-3-1 and 15-4-2 overall, but this season the team has suffered injuries early on and has had to readjust its strategy. “We’ve tried a hodgepodge of different tactics,” Broers [...]
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