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Girls’ tennis is feeling very positive going into the fall season. There have been some changes under new Head Coach Nobu Tanaka that the team is confident will help them be successful this year. Coach Tanaka stated that while winning the WCACs is the ultimate goal, he has other plans
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This July, the Best Buddies Club at St. John’s received the Outstanding Promoter Chapter Award, an award given annually to the school in the DC and Virginia area that exemplified the most impressive service to Best Buddies International. The award was accepted by Meghan Strachan ’19 on behalf of
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Are you interested this year’s new clubs at St. John’s? Every year, students have the opportunity to submit their club ideas and a brief description to Ms. Clark, the administrator for all clubs. She then reviews their propositions and discusses them with the club’s moderator and at
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This summer, St. John’s own 15-year-old Azzi Fudd had the experience of a lifetime. Through her hard work and dedication to the sport of basketball, she was given the opportunity to participate in Golden State Warrior Stephen Curry’s fifth annual SC30 Select Camp. For the first time in
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Malu Tshitenge-Mutombo ended the very long and stressful recruiting process by committing to North Carolina over Notre Dame on Sept. 13. “North Carolina felt like home. The way the campus was and how welcoming the players and staff were was amazing,” Mutombo said. “The way the coaches welcomed me and
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This summer, Sara Miller ’19 spent four weeks in Costa Rica and had the chance to visit her family and learn from doctors at La Hospital Catolica in San Jose. A typical day for Miller began with breakfast and Costa Rica’s famous coffee, before making the hour drive to
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Summer is the time for students to pursue their passions without being interrupted by schoolwork. Responsibility pretty much melts away for three solid months, and most students travel to the beach or get a summer job. However, this relaxed lifestyle isn’t for all students. Michael Penafiel, a senior at
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On a rainy Thursday afternoon, the boys’ freshman, JV, and varsity soccer teams all gather on the field behind Gallagher Gymnasium for warmups. They all practice together, something third-year Head Coach Sal Caccavale began at the start of his tenure. When asked if the group mentality affected how the JV
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Ms. Katie Blanchard is one of the new faces at St. John’s this year. She will be teaching both AP statistics and pre-calculus, as well as coaching cross country, which she previously ran in college at the University of Delaware. She says that she enjoys teaching pre-calculus because “there
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You might not have heard of Carl Sagan, but you probably know who Bill Nye is. According to Mr. Dean Howarth, a new science teacher at St. John’s, Carl Sagan was the “Bill Nye the Science Guy of my generation,” as well as his inspiration for becoming a science
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It’s the start of another school year at St John’s, and that means the start of “the most arduous sport there is, by far,” according to Assistant Crew Coach Forrest Schuster. The fall season is primarily used for conditioning and figuring out lineups, with meets consisting of longer
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This fall, St. John’s has two new counselors joining the College Counseling Office: Mr. Bradley Harlan and Mr. Warren Quirett. Both have a great amount of experience when it comes to college admissions and working with young adults. The Sabre caught up with them to ask a few questions.