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BARON BANNER
Issue No. 3 | Volume XXXI
w w w. B a r o n N e w s.c o m
February 2015
FVHS boys
basketball team
constructs a
book club
Varsity players hit the books and learn that
aside from the court, the small details in life
matter.
GRACE CHIEN
STAFF WRITER
Members of the boys and girls track team share the track during practice.
After an investigation
started late last year by the U.S.
Department of Education of Edison High School regarding equal
access to equipment, coaching
and medical facilities for female
athletes, Baron Banner decided
to look at access to Fountain Valley High School equipment and
facilities for both boys and girls
sports.
We spoke to male and
female athletes from basketball, soccer and track as well as
coaches and Athletic Directors
and asked them questions regarding equal access.
The athletic department stated in an email that they
believe in a fair and equitable
educational environment for all
students. Both female and male
athletes confirmed this notion.
Track member Carolyn
Koo (16) noted gender does
not play a factor in her coaches
expectations.
Our coaches believe
that girls arent dolls...females are
athletes too and should be trained
regardless of gender, Koo said.
She explained that
coaches maintain an intense level
of training, in weight lifting for
example, for female athletes.
We get trained the same
way as the boys do, said Koo.
Male members of tracks
distance teams agreed.
I feel that our school,
both men and women, have
equal access to both coaching
and equipment, as such there
appears to be no apparent gender
discrimination, said Kenneth
Barrios (15).
Soccer players have
similar access and mentioned that
coaches from different sports and
levels work hard to avoid scheduling and facility conflicts.
We share the equipment equally, said Karley Duda
(17). Both varsity boys and girls,
know each other well and split
the equipment, and our coaches
respect each others space.
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This year, the boys
varsity basketball team took
training to new heights
through the creation of a book
club. which has inspired the
players to exemplify leadership,
good morals, and attention to
detail on and off the court.
Coach and English
teacher, Steve Schultz, created
the book club for the varsity
boys basketball team in order
to promote leadership among
his team. Each week, players meet in Schultzs room
during lunch to discuss the
book, Coach Woodens Greatest
Secret...How Little Things Make
Big Things Happen, by Pat Williams.
We come in at lunch
and then there is one person on
the team who leads the book
club. Its usually on one chapter.
Then, [Schultz] just talks about
[the book] and we joke around
and laugh. It taught us about
how the little things matter,
said Nathan Hong (16).
The book club first
originated at Los Alamitos,
where Schultz used to be the
coach of the varsity team. Its
legacy continued as Schultz
took over the book club of
previous FV football coach Ray
Fenton. Each year, the book
club focuses on a different
theme. This year, it is Details
Make the Difference.
I thought that the
main thing lacking from this
basketball program before I got
here was attention and detail,
said Schultz. I think most
people would cut corners and
look for a short cuts...you have
to be someones whos motivated by all the details.
Through this book
club, not only has Schultz
combined both his passions
for teaching through mentoring players on the court and
students in class, but he has
also inspired leadership among
players.
[he book club meetings] make me a better person
outside of school, not just for
myself, said Jake Garrett (17).
PHOTO PROVIDED BY
STEVE SHULTZ
STUDENTS OF FV
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February 2015
NEWS
New guidance
specialist joins
FVHS family
Since the end of the first semester, Lindsey
Garrett has taken on the role as a new FVHS
guidance specialist.
AHMED FAYAD
STAFF WRITER
& KATRYA LY
NEWS EDITOR
From the moment
she began as the new guidance
specialist, Lindsey Garrett defied
all odds to take on the role all
while keeping a smile on her face.
Garrett went to El Toro
High School before attending
Cal State Monterey Bay where
she played volleyball. There, she
Lindsey Garrett looks forward to her future as a guidance specialist at Fountain Valley High School.
Gender equality
in sports
cont. from page 1
KAREN TRINH
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
KATRYA LY
NEWS EDITOR
For two years, UCLA
has been working with FVHS
students to conduct a psychology
study called Adolescents Coping
With Everyday Stress, regarding
student stress.
According to Hannah
Nguyen, a postdoctoral scholar
from UCLA, the goal is to
understand the daily experience
of teenagers and how cultural
aspects can affect their stress and
their coping techniques.
At the beginning of
the study, earlier this year, the
entire sophomore class was given
a survey in their social studies
classes. Then from the results of
the survey, students were selected
to undergo a screening process
before a select group were chosen
to be a part of the two wellness
programs designed to prevent
depression.
The first program, called
Learning to Breath, focused
on mindfulness. Students were
encouraged to take notice of their
everyday actions, such as walking, eating and breathing. They
were taught to focus on their
current situation rather than
allowing negative emotions to
overwhelm them.
Oftentimes you hear
students share that they sometimes pay so much attention to
their worries and it really leads
According to varsity
girls coach Scott Goldman,
collaboration between
coaches helps maintain a
cooperative atmosphere.
It is a very fair arrangement, Goldman stated.
We also work together to
ensure that we arrange our
training and game schedules
to have as little conflict with
each others programs as possible.
The boys basketball
teams had positive comments regarding the equity
among the teams as well.
I think [the boys
and girls teams] are equal
because theres many cases
where the varsity girls team
had center court and varsity
boys had to move to the side
court girls have their own
time to be on the court and
guys have their own time. I
think its equal, said former
varsity basketball player
Chris Meyer (16).
The girls basketball
teams also stated the both
teams had fair access to practice time in the gym.
Varsity captain
Ashley Masuda (15) said,
For the most part, [the boys
and girls teams] have equal
access because they do give
us times. Maybe theyre not
necessarily the best times
that wed want all the time,
but thats just going to happen because of compromise.
Equal access to
facilities and treatment of
boys and girls teams may not
always be readily apparent.
At the conclusion of a recent
girls varsity basketball game,
a Baron Banner reporter
noticed that the team put
away the chairs, when at the
previous boys game the team
moved immediately to their
locker room.
In response to this
observation, Co-Athletic
Director Dawn Lawler said,
The players of all levels,
coaches and parents for all
gym sports help in the set up
and teardown of the games
each night.
Later, Meyer noted
that the first team to use the
courts had to set up, while
the last team to use the
courts held the responsibility
of cleaning up.
After looking at
sports that share courts and
fields, Baron Banner has
found that girls and boys
teams, coaches, and the athletic administrators work in
concert to maintain fair and
equal access to their respective arenas and equipment.
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February 2015
NEWS
With Girl Scout Cookies
back in season, many students
have mixed feelings about the
recent changes in the cookiess
price.
The Girl Scout Cookie
Program is the third-largest
cookie company in the world. It
is the largest girl-led business in
the world. For every box of Girl
Scout Cookies that is bought,
approximately two-thirds of
the purchase is used by the Girl
Scout Councils in the community.
Well to begin with I
already thought that four dollars
was pretty expensive because it
was just for a small box of cookies so when they raised the price
to five dollars I guess that kinda
sucked, said Sara Nguyen, (18)
This year, the price has
increased to $5 a box, instead of
Each troop will receive
more profit for each box sold
from the price increase. When
prices were $4, the troops earned
about 71 to 72 cents per box
sold. Now that the price is $5,
the Girl Scouts will earn around
$1.05 per box, which goes towards the cookie credit to help
fund for both troop activities and
fees.
Though the prices may
seem to high for some, the Girl
Scouts on campus are selling
cookies to raise cookie credit,
which allows them to fund projects, badges, and camps. In the
end, the cookie credit allows
them to further their impact on
the community through their
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February 2015
SPORTS
WINTER SPORTS SE
Blake Vasques (15) turns against his opponent during the Five Counties Tournament
on Friday, Jan. 16.
Boys Basketball - 4201: Adam Trounce (17) takes the ball
downcourt with a Charger close behind in the boys
basketballs game against Edison on Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Abby OToole clears the ball away from a Viking during girls
soccers game against Marina on Thursday, Jan. 29.
Hannah Baldridge (16) rears back to shoot over a Sailor during girls water polos
game against Newport Harbor on Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Fountain Valley High
School Coach, Harshul Patel, was
chosen by the U.S PTA for the
Coach of the Year award for his
work and contributions to not
only tennis, but to the team and
students here at FVHS.
The U.S PTA, California
division, covers a majority of the
schools on the west coast, ranging from schools in San Diego
to schools in San Luis Obispocovering a total of around 3,000
schools and 4,000 coaches in the
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February 2015
NEWS
EASON HIGHLIGHTS
Co-captain Ryan Fusco (15) signals for his teammate in the boys basketballs game
against Los Alamitos on Friday, Feb. 6.
Stephanie Tsai (17) goes up to score during girls basketballs game against Marina on Thursday, Jan. 29.
Michelle Wu (15) dribbles past a Sailor during girls basketballs game against Newport Harbor on Tuesday, Jan. 27.
Co-captain Larry Jared Turner fought in the air for the ball against a Charger
during the first half of boys soccers game against Edison on Wednesday, Feb. 4.
ANDY KIM
STAFF WRITER
Varsity Co-Captain Larry
Turner (15) earned the achievement as one of the top ten scorers in
Orange County for soccer.
I do my best for the team and thank
God for the opportunity to be up
there, said Turner.
During the preseason
games, Turners record was 10 goals
and one assist. He is currently ranked
third with a total of 11 goals and two
Turner has high hopes for
his team in his senior year of Sunset
League. They all prioritize the same
goal: to take the Sunset League
Championship title.
Tuner is well aware of the
challenges ahead of him, and he is
willing to put everything he has to
make sure he and his team are up
to the challenges they have ahead of
them.
League is going to be hard,
but fun, said Turner. Every game
and every practice we are going to try
our hardest, get better and leave it all
out on the field.
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November 2014
NEWS
English teachers set off
to UCI once a month to further
improve their skills in the classroom during what is known as
the UCI Writing Project.
The UCI conference
collects speakers to give presentations on various topics relating to
a theme that year. Teachers go to
speakers and listen to topics that
they are interested in learning
more about and can incorporate
it into the classroom.
The UCI Writing conference [is] where teachers go to
learn how to continually integrate
writing into teaching, whether its
teaching English or other things,
said English teacher Elizabeth
Taireh.
Teachers
can go to
a speaker
and learn
new
skills to
pull out
of the
conference and
into the
classroom.
I attended a
speaker
whom
I have
listened too on the same topic
maybe five
years ago and he was discussing
ways to incorporate authentic
writing activities, said English
teacher Lauren Bielefeld. So getting students to write commentaries and his session basically involved him having us participate
and write the commentary for a
poem he had us read as a class.
With teachers informed
with new strategies, it helps the
teachers build communication
with the students. It pulls the
both taught
innovative new
techniques
at the UCI
conference.
Blau spoke of
incorporate authentic writing
activities and
how to apply
them to high
school and elementary school
level. Jago was
a well respected
presenter who
talked about the
importance of
reading literary
text. She had
ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY DUONG
a lot of suggestions on how to
teacher out of their comfort
incorporate different types of text
zone and keeps students out of a
into the classrooms. Jago also
repetitive state to help them focus
demonstrated
in the classroom and understand
how teachers could bring all
in new different ways.
these ideas that dont seem to be
I think this benefits the in any way connected together
student because we all come away and connect them. She brought
with something new and inin paintings, poems and stories
novative practice to either bring
and connected things that dont
back. As a reminder like hey,
seem to have any similarities.
you should be doing this, said
We were looking of a
English teacher Amy Futagaki.
picture of ebola and the places
Guest speaker Sheridan
to treat ebola and it was amazing
Blau and key speaker Carol Jago
because she broke down the psy-
DEMETRIA MA
STAFF WRITER
With her calm and conservative demeanor, senior Lily Mooney isnt
one youd expect to have been runner-up
for Miss Fountain Valley. As she settles
into her seat, her nervous smile makes it
evident that she generally doesnt like attracting too much attention to herself. Her
modesty gives way to a sparkle in her eyes
as she starts off by recalling her favorite
moment during preparation for the Miss
Fountain Valley pageant.
[The other contestants and I]
had the chance to eat donuts and watch a
little live performance after a long practice
the singing and dancing and, well, the
eating. It brought us all together; we were
just having fun, said Mooney.
Mooney entered in her first
pageant and came out as second runnerup for Miss Fountain Valley 2015 on Nov.
1. She then went on to compete in an
open, state-wide pageant for Miss Orange
County 2015 on Jan. 10.
I learned so many different life
skills from being part of these two pageants that I can hardly believe I never con-
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February 2015
NEWS
MANAGING EDITOR
Jessie Le
PHOTO MANAGER
Ashley Le
Designer-in-chief
Crystal Hui
News
Kristie Hoang
Katrya Ly
WRITERS
Ally LeNguyen
Nicole Tieu
Heather Carr
Carly Shaw
Zainab Khan
Demetria Ma
Colette Nguyen
Caitlin Pham
Rachel Nguyen
James Nguyen
Elaine Vo
Judy Hua
Amanda Ice
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Bryan Tran
Heather Kim
Chris Wells
Andy Kim
Carolyn Nguyen
Thien Le
DESIGNERS
Grace Chien
Albert Tang
Anisah Ullah
Celine Hoang
Pallas Ziebarth
Ahmed Fayad
SPORTS
Mackenzie Hill
Arts&entertainment
Claire Pritchard
advisERNews
Sean Ziebarth
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November 2014
Winter Fashion
ARTISTS AT FVHS
Water Drop
Artist - Kaitlyn
McCowin
Unnamed
Artist - Elizabeth
Huang
Medium - Cardboard
Survivor
Finding Yourself
Medium - Acrylic
Unnamed
Artist - Tina Hong
unnamed
Medium - Ceramic
Clay and Acrylic
Paint