Felix Cortez new position as varsity basketball coach
Felix Cortez is the head Varsity Basketball coach at Ventura High School. He started his basketball career at VHS playing on varsity for three years....
After being tackled by COVID-19, Ventura High School’s Football team is getting back up
The pandemic has drastically changed sports, and football is no exception. Head football coach, Tim Garcia,...
How much more can soccer players handle?
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, many soccer leagues postponed games for a long period of time for the safety of the players and the people who attended...
Let ventura play... seriously let us play
(For: by Savanna Nustad-Franzen)
A movement started by students at Ventura High School, “Let Ventura Play” is a movement much needed and the voices should...
Now that the slopes are open, students share whether or not they believe it is COVID-19 safe.
After COVID-19 cut the ski/snowboard season short in the spring of 2020, the slopes are back up and running...
What the spring season might look like.
Ten months into staying at home due to the Coronavirus pandemic, VHS student-athletes, coaches and supporters are anxious about getting back to their sports. The...
Despite there being some objection to restarting games, it’s clear Ventura athletes want sports to reopen fully again.
COVID has halted sports across the county and beyond since March 2020. ‘Let Ventura...
Boys and girls tennis practices are starting up.
Though quarantine has kept the majority of sports unable to practice, the Ventura High School boys and girls tennis teams were given the ‘ok’ to start...
High school athletes are forced to pave a new path to obtain sports scholarships.
COVID-19 has overall complicated the college admission process for high schoolers around the country, but one particular...
Fall sports will have a whole new look for the 20/21 season
The Ventura Unified School District fall closure cancelled classes all over the county, but also tainted the seasons of many upcoming and returning...
Annual Phoenix Triathlon proceeds go towards former VHS teacher’s scholarship fund
Sunday, March 1 was the 13th annual Phoenix Triathlon that took place at the YMCA at 8 a.m. The event was put on by...
On Feb. 27, the boys varsity volleyball team played their first home game against Port Hueneme High in the Bob Tuttle gym. The boys came out strong with senior Nathan Johnston (number 9) scoring the majority...
![Sophomore Olivia Roman (pictured) said, This year Ive gone [snowboarding] three times. This differs a lot from past seasons because I probably would have already gone at least six times if it wasnt covid. Photo from: Olivia Roman](https://thecougarpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Olivia-snowboard-e1612550036806.jpeg)
![Junior Grant Lawler said, I got [my letterman jacket] to have something nice to remember my high school years when Im older. I know Ill look at it in the future and be reminded of all the good things that happened in high school. Photo by Riley Ramirez](https://thecougarpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Grant-Lawler-11-RR-300x400.jpg)
![Caroline Dickinson, who is a senior at El Camino, but is in the music program at VHS, was kicked off campus by security because she was still on campus after her class was over. She was told that El Camino students weren’t allowed to stay here during the times they had gap periods. “I was walking to Santa Cruz to get a snack, [. . .] and then I came back on campus and I was kicked off, because I didn’t have an off campus pass.”
Read more on Elise Sisk’s new article, “New security rules on VHS campus have major effects on student life.”
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