March Madness: Impact on Tam (Web Exclusive)
April 18, 2017
Filed under Sports
What could be more thrilling than watching the best college basketball teams square off in March Madness? Simple: filling out a March Madness bracket for yourself! However, this tradition of filling out a bracket may distract students from participating in class and completing their schoolwork. Every year...
Sports Opinion: Physical Education: Unnecessary for Student Athletes
March 31, 2017
Filed under Sports
Physical Education (P.E.) is a two-year required course for every student that attends Tam. It has two components–one that encompasses the information a student would learn in a health class and a second, composed of the physical exercise itself. Students regularly try to find ways out of P.E. in...
Athlete of the Issue: Isobel Wright
March 31, 2017
Senior Isobel Wright will be a part of the Wesleyan University track team as a high jumper come next fall. Wright attributes her passion for high jump to joining track in eighth grade. “[The Mill Valley Middle School track coaches] made you try all the events, so I kind of got dropped into high j...
Spring Season Sports Previews: Quotes from the Coaches
The Sports Staff and The Sports Staff
March 14, 2017
Filed under Game Coverage, Sports
Girls’ Swimming, Brittney Boyd: “I hope that everybody swims fast this season, is having fun, and puts in some best times, and hopefully we’re top competitors at MCAL.” Boys’ Swimming, Ken Weber: “[My main goal for this season] is that we are going to win the MCAL championships this yea...
Boys’ Soccer Wins MCAL Championship Title
Calvin Rosevear and Calvin Rosevear
March 14, 2017
Filed under Game Coverage, Sports
The boys’ varsity soccer team won the MCAL championship beating Terra Linda 3-0 on February 11. The team had progressed to the finals after beating Novato 1-0 in the quarter finals and beating Drake 4-1 in the semifinals. Senior and Tam News reporter Ryan Leake scored two goals in the victory and ju...
Girls’ Varsity Soccer Loses to Redwood at Home (January 21)
February 28, 2017
Filed under Game Coverage, Sports
The girls’ varsity soccer team lost 0-1 to Redwood in a highly contested match at home on January 21. Both sides had several shots on goal and created many passing connections in the first half. The game was deadlocked until the 40th minute, when a foul gave Redwood a freekick just outside Tam...
Breakthrough Day: 50 Year Anniversary
February 26, 2017
Filed under News
On February 27, 1967 Tam Students participated in a teach-in on race relations known as Operation Breakthrough . The teach-in was an attempt to alleviate racial tensions. At the time race relations were so poor that they even escalated to a race riot. As former staff member Jewel Barrow told the Tam News ...
Lily Travers: Kicking Up a Storm
February 4, 2017
Freshman Lily Travers has been dreaming of playing for Tam’s varsity soccer team for years. “I used to practice on the side of the Tam field,” Travers said, “And I’d see them, and I’d always come to the games and I watched their MCAL finals, and wanted to be on the team. That was like my o...
Jordan Jackson: Cross Up
February 1, 2017
This year’s boys’ basketball team is on fire this season. After taking down Terra Linda, Justin Siena, Marin Catholic, and Redwood, they have begun their season as a top three-team in the Marin County Athletic League (MCAL). Senior and Redwood transfer Jordan Jackson has emerged as a key cont...
Sports Opinion: Selective Spirit
February 1, 2017
Filed under Sports
Ask a student about Tam school spirit at basketball games and they’ll probably describe the atmosphere as electric. Masses of people line up at the door waiting to get their hands stamped so they can run onto the bleachers where they will remain riveted for the next four quarters. The bleachers are fu...
Sowerby Commits to Macalester College
November 9, 2016
Unlike most seniors, Katie Sowerby already knows where she is going to spend the next four years. She recently committed to play basketball at Macalester College, a Division III school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Sowerby believes she will enjoy her college life both on and off the court. “I found [a s...
Homecoming Rally 2016-2017
October 12, 2016
Filed under TBN, Video - Lifestyles
https://youtu.be/zAng0gF7XQc
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