Stanwood’s girls tennis team has fought all year long to get the highest seeds possible for the district tournament.

This past week, all their hard work fell into place.

Head Coach Trudy Abrams was all smiles and good vibes as she paced around the outer edges of the court, confident in her tennis players.

Elle Shaughennsy, Caryn Nash and Zanetta Uy, and Rachel Rich and Christina Wolf all qualified for the district tournament, with Wolf and Rich taking the number one doubles seed from the North, going in. Alessia Piazzi was a singles alternate.

Read more: Wolf and Rich pull through to advance

As the year is coming to a close with only Memorial Day as the last vacation day, that can only mean one thing for seniors, it’s senior skip day.

Although it is supposedly a secret skip day, that is a bit of a misnomer as the highly anticipated day has been on the same day for many years, the Friday before Memorial Weekend.

Read more: Shhhhhhhh!!!!

The Stanwood Spartans boys soccer team played their last game on May 11 against the Shorecrest Scots.

There was a lot on the line going into the game. This game would determine which team would take the final spot for the state tournament. Both teams played hard but in the end it was the Scots who took home the 3-1 win and the final spot at state which would have been the Spartans first.

“The last loss was pretty emotional,” said senior defender Josh Tcheng. Even though they lost, there is a lot of positive to look back on from the season.

Although the SHS boys soccer team has never gone to state, there was a lot of talk about how the boys might be able to pull it off this season.

The fact that the Spartans lost their starting goalie, Riley Martin, in the first eight minutes of the season wasn’t helpful. “It would have helped us more if we had our goalie for the whole season,” said Tcheng, “but if we didn’t play our last three games at home, the final game would have been way different coming from more experience on turf fields.”

Above all, they sure proved  the naysayers wrong. The team’s record for the season was 13-5-2. “Overall I think the season was definitely successful,” said senior midfielder Eli Broadfoot. The team was undefeated against the 3A North.

Read more: Boy's soccer team scores their final goal

“When the sun’s out, the provocative clothing comes out,” a teacher at SHS recently noted.

I’ve noticed that with the weather, more and more people are wearing spring clothing. Girls have started wearing tank tops, shorts, and skirts to school, and guys have started a trend of “bro tanks”- brightly colored tank tops that go low in the chest and down the sides. Which poses a possible danger of over-showing certain body parts.

Read more: Suns out, guns out?

Seniors, starting on May 28, you’re going to have a busy two weeks before graduation, but once completed, you will be free from Stanwood High School.

Read more: Hey, Seniors!

A certain video has been making the rounds of the internet this past week, in which a student stands up to his history teacher over the issue of her not actually teaching the class, but simply handing out packets and having the class read them. The teacher, in an infuriatingly apathetic tone, responds by simply dismissing the student from her class on the basis that he’s “wasting her time”.

Read more: Are Our Teachers Really Teaching?