1. Women’s Tennis crushes Holy Names 6-0
On Tuesday, September 23, the women’s tennis team beat Holy Names in a home game 6-0. The junior doubles team, Elaine Fang and Chloe Drulis, quickly won two sets with scores 6-0, 6-1, putting a swift end to their match. Sophomore doubles Jackie Hoe and Zoe Kritikos also ...
2. Homecoming Schedule - Update^2!
Tues - 9/30 Powder Puff Preliminaries Freshman vs. Juniors
Wed - 10/1 Powder Puff Preliminaries Sophomores vs. Seniors
Monday - 10/6 Twin Day + Boys' Volleyball Preliminaries
Tuesday - 10/7 Disney Day + Powder Puff Finals
Wednesday - 10/8 ...
3. Volleyball Players Save the Best for Last
To call the match a complete blowout would be pushing it. The St. Joe’s Pilots played well late into the match. But either way, there was not much competition for the Cougar volleyball players Thursday, September 11. In fact, the first game ended before the match ...
4. Cougars Breeze By Emery 50-0
The Albany High varsity football Cougars took an easy victory last Saturday with its 50-0 win over the Emery High Spartans. Emery High, which has struggled to field a team the past few years, put up a good fight, but couldn’t keep up with the experience and skill ...
5. Running into Fall Sports
Expectations are high for the 2008 Cross Country season largely due to the 11-1 girls varsity and 9-2 boys varsity finishes last year.
After the loss of seniors like Jackie Quinn and Natalie Buck-Bauer, the success of the girls team will depend in part on incoming freshman. Top incoming ...
6. Feeling Stuffed?
If the hallways seem more crowded than usual, you’re right. Enrollment at Albany High has gone up 27 students from last year, making the total enrollment 1279 students. That’s 279 more students than what we are told the school was built to hold. Overcrowding has been an issue for ...
7. Homecoming Schedule - UPDATE!
Tuesday – 9/30 Powder Puff Preliminaries Freshmen vs. Juniors
Wednesday – 10/1 Powder Puff Preliminaries Sophomores vs. Seniors
Monday - 10/6 Twin Day + Boys’ Volleyball Preliminaries
Tuesday - 10/7 Disney Day + Powder Puff Finals
Wednesday - 10/8 Generation Day + Food Eating Contest
Thursday - 10/9 Class Color Day ...
8. Aloha Dance! Friday September 5th
The Hello (Aloha) Dance is this Friday, September 5th from 8-11 pm. This Hawaiian themed dance is an annual welcome to new and old faces alike. Tickets go on sale Wednesday at lunch for $5. They are sold Thursday and Friday at lunch and after school. Tickets are ...
9. Words on our generation
Senior Will Kasten has a few parting words for the class of 2008 and the rest of our supposedly self-entitled and ego-centric generation.
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We’ve heard a thousand times about our generation’s overwhelming sense of self-entitlement, so I’m not going to talk about that; it’s old news. Instead, I want to ...
10. News for the rest of us
National Public Radio has long and often been ridiculed as the radio station for geeks, as the station brings a plethora of programs devoted to the stock market, analyzing political figures, and other serious and worldly news.
However, for those of us who enjoy stupid criminals, sexual innuendos, and weird connections, NPR has a program that delivers obscure ...
11. NBA Finals Preview
By Ahmed Khater, Forrest Johnson, and guest analyst Robb Silverstein
The Lakers Celtics rivalry has been one of the most prolific in sports history. This time, as 10 times before in history, the two teams are meeting in the NBA finals. Your two Cougar Sports Analysts will break down what promises to be one of the most hotly contested ...
12. Complete list of AHS Hall of Famers
Saturday, April 26 marked the first of many inaugurals to Albany High School's new Athletic Hall of Fame. The Cougar's full article on the newly created Hall of Fame appears in the June 6th issue of The Cougar magazine. Hall of Famers Don Kaer1942Football Dawn Pawson1944Synchronized Swimming Joan Pawson1949Synchronized Swimming Mel Tamm1953Basketball Baseball Joe Dorsey1954Basketball Baseball Football Bruce Keppel1954Swimming ...