When imagining what playing a high school sport might look like, many people picture a student athlete running laps around a track, scoring touchdowns or hitting home runs. But what about the students...

With his recent election to the presidency, Donald Trump signed a law to ban transgender women from womens sports teams, as he believes that biologically male athletes shouldn’t be allowed to compete...

Whether it's their first year in the sport or their fourth year, something, whether it's being cut or promoted, needs to happen when a high school athlete reaches their senior year. Right now, DV seniors...

Prior to the start of the 2023-24 school year, Principal Evan Powell named SueEllen Thomas the new athletic director of Dougherty Valley High School. Thomas has an long history of working with athletes....

Starting next spring season, the Dougherty Valley badminton team will receive a head coach stipend from the SRVUSD district. The team has not received any district funding since its founding in 2011,...

Since Dougherty Valley was founded in 2007, students have been more academically inclined than athletically adept. Known for being notoriously bad at sports, DVHS receives open mockery for the school’s...

“If you get tired, I don’t care.”  At my first swim practice on a new swim team, I vividly remember my coach reprimanding me and the other swimmers for performing poorly on a set. I was on the...

The girl in the photo has a quiet smile, her head turned to the camera as if caught in a spontaneous moment. In another photo, she is bent slightly forward, mid-laugh, sporting the bright red and gold...