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Granite Hills Clarion: Web Edition
Granite Hills Clarion: Web Edition
A Look into Sports Medicine
Morgan Mehrer, Editor in ChiefA Look into Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine is a career pathway at Granite Hills with hands on learning of the basics of preventing, assessing, and treating sports injuries.
Sports Medicine teacher Katherine Leek said, “The first year we go over general information about what is sports medicine.” The second year is more of assessment and treatment of injuries.
The students “learn about the taping techniques,” Leek said. Being able to use them outside of class once they’ve learned them is a very useful skill for students.
“We’ve learned about lots of different injuries and how to help them,” Bailey Wallace (20) said. Some of the skills students learn are shoulder bracing, wrist taping, ankle taping, and checking vital signs.
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The Show Must Go On: How Granite Hills' Choir Prepares for Concerts
Mia Gonzalez, Staff WriterThe Show Must Go On: How Granite Hills' Choir Prepares for Concerts
Every year, all of the choir classes come together to plan multiple concerts for the enjoyment of the Granite Hills High School community. With these concerts comes many weeks of preparing. The mind behind it all, Janessa Nadeau, has to plan at least three months prior to see what the concert will look like. She has to find one hour of songs that will keep the audience entertained, that sticks with the theme that she chooses, and that fits the skill set of the choir.
The next step in the process is finding who will perform solos within each choir performance. Nadeau requires whoever wants a solo to audition with a recording of them singing. Within the recording, she looks for in tune singing and confidence.
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Different Art Electives at Granite Hills
Emliy GaliciaDifferent Art Electives at Granite Hills
Granite Hills is known for their IB and AP programs as well as their sports. There are many classes that students can take to complete their one-year requirement of an elective to graduate. Some of these options include Art, Photography, and Choir. All of these classes need to have two semesters completed with a C or higher to finalize the one-year requirement of graduation requirements. Although to graduate we need electives, many students to have no clue on what type of options they have to choose from and what these classes will teach them, and what will be a good fit for them.
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Student Features
Student Features
Student Musicians
Claire Bakke, Website EditorStudent Musicians
At Granite Hills there are many talented musicians and artists, who can sing, play the guitar and many different instruments. Here are some of those students.
This story features Anthony Ojeda, Andrew Yette, Alli Benedict, and Brooke Scudder.
Click here to read the full story and listen to performances by these students.
Student Athlete Shoutout
Xavria Poag, Sports EditorStudent Athlete Shoutout
Student athletes are people who challenge themselves to keep up with school work and do well academically as well as strive to succeed in the sports they play.
Bailey Christian(19) is one of the many students at Granite Hills High School that is a student athlete. Christian plays football and is also a wrestler, he is on the varsity team for both sports. He has been on the Varsity wrestling team all four years of his high school career and has been on the Varsity football team for the past two years.
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Swamped, Slammed, and Snowed Under
Chloe Rambo, Staff WriterSwamped, Slammed, and Snowed Under
The life of a high schooler can be extremely busy. Club meetings, classes, community service, and not to mention maintaining relationships with family and friends can be a daunting task. Due to the higher demand of students from colleges to be well-rounded people and someone who serves their community. Students often can’t find time to balance extracurriculars and school work. Some star students do manage to miraculously find a sweet balance for all their extracurriculars and balancing school work.
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Student Artists
Kate Duffy, Opinions EditorStudent Artists
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Aussies Visit Campus
Amaya Esparza, Staff WriterAussies Visit Campus
The Australians came to Granite Hills High School to visit the campus and experience life as an Eagle for a day on the 18th of January. Nineteen Australian students and 2 teachers came to the United States for a total of 21 days, visiting San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, during their summer vacation. They stayed in San Diego for a week and a half and then flew back to Australia two days before school started back up for them.
“It is an educational trip, a cultural exchange, and it was designed from their end to help these Australian students have an opportunity to see what life is like in a different country,” Tracy Brewer, an English teacher at Granite Hills and the coordinator of this program, said.
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Electronics on Campus
Nicholas Devaux, Staff WriterElectronics on Campus
You never leave home without it. Every five minutes, you feel the need to take it out and check it. “Has someone texted me?”, “What’s the latest news?” , “Am I being left out?” you might say. You might order food or look at comedic videos, perhaps call or text a friend.
It’s funny to think that technology has come so far because of addiction. Let’s lay some facts down, shall we? Yes, cell phone addiction is a real thing. Social media developers have designed their apps to be addictive and manipulative of your mind.
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High school Sports vs Off-season
Laura Sanchez, Staff WriterHigh school Sports vs Off-season
During the young part of people's lives many students, especially high schoolers, decide they want to play a sport or possibly numerous sports to keep busy, stay fit, meet new people and have fun. Students differentiate on how serious they take the sport, whether it is to compete at a higher level one day or if it is just another activity to just help them get out of the house. High Schools typically offer countless amounts of sports for students to engage in. While off-season clubs and such offer more time to dedicate to the sport. Many student athletes participate in both off season as well as high school season, but when compared which is preferred.
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We Should Be More like The Irish
Maribeth McCainWe Should Be More like The Irish
When my dad told me we were going on a surprise trip to Ireland, I didn’t know what to expect. I knew it would be grassy, there would be lots of potatoes, and awesome accents, but that was the whole spectrum of my knowledge of this foreign place. Therefore, I wasn’t really excited and had no idea what was in store, but I am so thankful I got to go. I learned valuable lessons including: It’s easier to be nice than to be rude, you can usually solve problems on your own, and do not procrastinate. (because you’ll be super stressed with makeup work if you do) Plus I got to see some beautiful sights along the way.
To get to Ireland, we had a layover in Philadelphia. Philly happens to be one of my favorite places. I visited it in the eighth grade and fell in love with primarily brick buildings and the overall vibe of the city. After telling my family about how much I love it there, I decided to get a coffee. Upon arriving at the airport coffee shop, I immediately had troubles.
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Eagle Basketball’s Crunch Time Comeback
Julian Sanchez, Staff WriterEagle Basketball’s Crunch Time Comeback
Our Granite Hills Eagles take down the El Cajon Valley Braves in a come back winning fashion, with a final score of 55-48 on January 15, 2019.
To begin the game, the Braves start by winning the jump ball and quickly converting into two small buckets, but not long for Hunter Pike (19) to nail a three pointer to maintain a close game. Within the first quarter, the Braves had controlled the game with their tight defense, which lead to multiple fast break layups. Successful drives from McKay Roberts (20) had kept Granite Hills within a four point losing deficit, and a score of 12-16, by the end of the quarter.
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Life as a Wrestler
Izak Arredando, Staff WriterLife as a Wrestler
Wrestling is one of the most physically,emotionally, and mentally demanding sports anyone can do. I found this out when I decided last year that I would become a wrestler for the Granite Hills Wrestling team.
Last year I started wrestling as the 182 pound wrestler. Last year I wrestled many duel meets and tournaments and my final record for my freshman year was 17-6. My freshmen season was cut short at the so-cal frosh championship when I was wrestling for 3rd place and I was bridging super hard trying not to get pinned and I was able to get out and I heard and felt a pop in my foot. I felt no pain at the time. I unfortunately lost the match, fast forward to Monday after school I was at the hospital getting a cast for the two broken bones in my right foot.
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Two of our students participated in a radio interview at the Union Tribune!
Two of our students participated in a radio interview at the Union Tribune!
Kate Duffy and Angelica Garcia were guest hosts of a radio interview. If you’d like to hear the radio interviews they participated in, here they are:
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