Winter Sports Tryouts
![[From left to right] Student-athletes Elaine Ho (10), Mekala Kumar (9), Nuha Farooqi (11), Swati Kumar (10), Margaret Davis (9), Tiffany Guan (9), Ngan Nguyen (9), and Oluwafeyitamilore Banjo (9) pose for a picture after a rigorous day of tryouts.](https://thevikingpresstvs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-08-at-10.47.56-AM-900x496.png)
[From left to right] Student-athletes Elaine Ho (10), Mekala Kumar (9), Nuha Farooqi (11), Swati Kumar (10), Margaret Davis (9), Tiffany Guan (9), Ngan Nguyen (9), and Oluwafeyitamilore Banjo (9) pose for a picture after a rigorous day of tryouts.
Over the week of October 14, 2019, the winter sports had their tryouts for the Varsity and Junior Varsity (JV) teams of soccer and basketball. Girls JV basketball and JV soccer tryouts were extended into the week of October 21, 2019, due to the number of athletes from that were coming from the fall sports season.
“[I think to be] able to work as a team even though a lot of us are new,” freshman Divya Khatri, a student on the varsity girls soccer team, said. “I think it will be nice to be able to work as a team even though there are a bunch of different grades and different levels of experiences.”
The teams have now been picked and are rigorously practicing for the upcoming season.
Jyotsna Balamurugan is a junior serving her second year as a staff writer and club manager. She currently plays on the Varsity Lacrosse team and is now...