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Oak Basketball: Physical and Mental Strength of Players

Oak Basketball: Physical and Mental Strength of Players

Katherine Reyes, J1 Writer November 16, 2016

New Coaches Starting off the basketball season with two new head coaches, Brennon Scanlon, boys head coach, and Zane Tanner, girls head coach. Scanlon has been a coach for 13 years. He will be coaching...

Fans Share Football Memories

Dom Bailey and Erik Kellgren, J1 Writer November 4, 2016

As the football season come to an end, players and fans had much to say about the boys this year. Even though the Northmen didn’t take a victory once this season, spirits stayed high. Sophomore...

Sports Column: From a Softball Player

Catie Janeczko, J1 writer October 14, 2016

The JV softball team had a great season. At the beginning of the season, they were not used to their new coach; this was coach Dan Backhaus’ first year of coaching softball. He coached baseball...

Fall Tennis Season Wraps Up

Abigail Clapham, Axe staffer September 30, 2016

The girls tennis season is coming to an end. However, before the last hurrah, they have districts. On Monday, Sept. 26, they traveled to Winnetonka to play their first round of districts. The girls...

Fall League Preps Varsity Basketball

Jordan Deng and Erik Kellgren, J1 Writers September 29, 2016

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays boys basketball works on preseason and conditioning play. They do drills and run some plays and learn some plays and scrimmage. As of today, boys varsity is 4-0...

Basketball prepares to play as a team

Erik Kellgren, J1 Writer September 29, 2016

“There is not a best player, we need to work as a team,” said coach Zane Tanner. Basketball boys prepare to bring it this season. “At workouts, we do dribbling drills and shooting drills,...

Cheer welcomes new squad

Cheer welcomes new squad

Bailey McQuillen, Axe staffer May 9, 2016

Say hello to your new Navy cheer squad! This is the varsity level team, and it includes: Ember Lewis Brianna Starks Ollie Kerns Sammi Johnson Karson Gustin Bailey Brewer Lacy Potter Kylee...

All Things Come To An End

All Things Come To An End

Landon Patterson, Axe staffer March 3, 2016

As high school students, we tend to take advantage of what we have and assume things last forever. They don’t. There are so many things we all get involved in during high school that we spend our whole...

Phillips manages swim, loves her job

Chloe Maddox, Cambia staffer December 18, 2015

To swim or not to swim? Good question, did you know you could join swim and NOT actually swim? It’s true. Senior Miranda Phillips has been a swim manager for three years at the Gladstone Community...

Kohn’s Notes: Sports Love

Harry Kohn, Axe staffer December 14, 2015

Since I started wrestling freshman year I couldn’t stop, I was immediately hooked on the sport. I fell in love with the sport, it wasn’t just the aggressiveness of the sport it was the hard work you...

Sporting KC Academy Development player comes back to Oak Park

Sporting KC Academy Development player comes back to Oak Park

Shereen AlSaoudi, Cambia photographer October 30, 2015

Jose Cambreros played for Sporting KC Academy his junior year of high school.  He came back to Oak Park because he missed it. He has played soccer for about 13 years, he has also played for Oak Park...

Half way through the eighteen holes Cerv hits it into the rough.

Girls golf plays in cancer tournament

Sandy Lopez, Cambia photographer October 30, 2015

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