One year ago I was your average sport-hater.
I had never watched a full football game other than the Super Bowl. I regularly declined invites to basketball and baseball games. I had never made a...
Junior year: finding value in sports when you’re not the best player
Junior year is demanding academically, but it also may just be the height of our social lives, too. Compound these factors with the...
With just a few minutes remaining in the second quarter of the football team’s second game of the season against Jefferson, the Wolverines led 20-6. Even in the evening, it was a scorching 90 degrees...
The wooden arrow hurtled at cross-country coach Tim Sharpe’s thigh. Thirty years ago in the Michigan woods, his friend’s finger slipped while stretching out his bow, letting an arrow hurtle point blank...
Offensive lineman Liam Douglas '18 committed to play football for the University of Southern California on June 19, signing to the Trojans just hours after he was offered. Douglass is the second Harvard-Westlake...
Every Tuesday and Friday, Paul Leclerc ’18 wakes up at 4:30 a.m. to attend swim practice. For one and a half hours, Leclerc and the swim team train in the water, followed by a 45-minute weight...
I was in an Uber last fall when the driver asked me where I went to school. When I told him, his eyes lit up. “Doesn’t that Cassius Stanley kid go there? He’s insane. I’m gonna go to some...
Golden trophies line the thin shelves nailed to the wall of the school’s Salle d’armes- French for “armory.” A trash can sits in the middle of the floor, collecting the water dripping from...
After eight years of working as a strength and conditioning coach at Harvard-Westlake, Mike Tromello is ready to close the door.
Tromello completed his final day as Strength and Conditioning Coach on...
It’s not always easy to see the flag from Ted Slavin Field.
When we turn our backs from the field, put our hands over our hearts, and crane our necks so we can see the flag over the Munger Hall hedges,...
Q. How did you start playing football?
When I was in kindergarten, we brought out a football, and I just loved the game. I begged my mom to let me play flag when I was in first grade, and I have loved...
Among the most prominent figures on Ted Walch’s desk, which is wedged into a back corner of the drama office at Harvard-Westlake, are two transparent cases.
One is a cube encasing an old, yellowing...
