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Kickboxing energizes students with out-of-box workout

Kickboxing energizes students with out-of-box workout

Frenchie Truitt '17, News Editor May 6, 2016

While some students like to get a workout playing on a Staples sports team or spinning at the gym, others opt for a different approach. Gyms in Westport and surrounding towns; such as TITLE Boxing Club,...

Top 5 Fitness places in Westport

Top 5 Fitness places in Westport

Sophia Hampton, News Editor June 20, 2015

What Westport lacks in cultural diversity, we make up for in fitness diversity. There are no shortage of gyms and workout places around us, and as someone with self-diagnosed WADD (workout attention deficit...

Ryan Angerthal 16 and John Dedomenico 16 enjoy a game of Spikeball during their gym period.

Spikeball a smash hit amongst Staples students

Jesse Greenspun, Web Sports Editor May 23, 2015

It is a craze that has taken the Staples student body by storm. Spikeball, which combines aspects of various sports including volleyball and tennis, is quickly becoming a backyard favorite amongst students,...

Stand in to a new era of human health

Stand in to a new era of human health

Jane Schutte, Breaking News Managing Editor April 2, 2015

Over the past couple of weeks, my gym teacher, Mr. Doornwerd, assigned all his junior physical education classes to stand for a total of 15-20 minutes a day for five consecutive days. What prompted him...

I dont sport sports

I don’t “sport” sports

Andrea Frost, Breaking News Managing Editor December 7, 2014

From kindergarten to sixth grade, I played on a rec soccer team, and let me tell you, I was the shining star. I spent most of my time on the field picking at my nails and twirling my hair. There I was...

A ping-pong table gathers dust, while the shower heads begin to rust.

Getting showered with disappointment

Brendan Massoud, Sports Editor October 6, 2014

After a hard workout, the first thing anyone really wants to do is take a shower. Personally, it’s nice to know that when I come home from a sport, I can rid myself of the awful stench and one-inch layer...

New lifetime gym causes gender divide

New lifetime gym causes gender divide

September 19, 2014

Physical education, gym class, free time, torture. Call it whatever you will. For years, the physical education classes in Westport have predominantly consisted of the same type of curriculum. Each class...

PE class runs into summer

PE class runs into summer

Zoe Brown, Editor-in-Chief June 12, 2014

Ah, summer–– a time for relaxing, sun-bathing, pool-hopping, and… taking a physical education class at school? Staples offers a PE Fitness and Sports class during two different sessions throughout...

Choice between lifetime and team physical education splits genders

Choice between lifetime and team physical education splits genders

Claudia Chen, Features Editor April 3, 2014

For several weeks, students have been selecting classes. Honors or A? Culinary or drawing? And for sophomores this year: lifetime or team physical education? Guidance counselor Deborah Slocum said that...

Greater choice gender-segregates gym class

Greater choice gender-segregates gym class

Claire Quigley, Opinions Editor January 31, 2014

Gone are the days of boys and girls huddling together under multicolored parachutes, forming alliances in the cutthroat world of freeze tag, and sacrificing themselves for fellow minnows.  These epic...

June 2, 2010 | Election Day

June 2, 2010 | Election Day

June 2, 2010

7:14 a.m. Gym teacher Janet Zamary and English teacher Christina Richardson monitor the voting booth for the 2010 elections for president of the teacher's union.  This year, guidance counselor and incumbent...

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