Nicolas Fowler is a sophomore at Hoover High School. He is 15 years old and plays basketball for his school. He has a younger sister that attends Hoover as well and is a freshman. He's been playing for 2 years and says it’s a tradition to play basketball in his family. As of now, he plays on the varsity team for Hoover. He...

Kenya Pineda is a 15 year old sophomore at Hoover High School; she was born in Escondido, California. Her favorite sport is wrestling in which she is a wrestler for Hoover. Kenya was also one of the managers for Hoover’s football team. Her favorite food is cheese burgers because she loves In N Out and Burger King. Kenya has...

Keoni Ben was born on the Marshall Islands. He is currently a senior at Hoover High School where he has attended for almost all four years. At four years old, he moved out to California with his mother, grandmother, brother, and also a little sister. Although he was mostly raised in California, he still follows his Marshallese...

Racism has interfered with sports, making the love for a sport harder and harder. The sad part is it happens in high school more often than not, and in most of the cases, the differences of areas that schools are located have a big impact. Schools north of the 8 Freeway are predominantly white and schools to the south are...

Some students think that it is a joke or that it makes them “cool” to vandalize school property. What it really does is show that they are immature.  We are high school students and here to prepare for college. Vandalism is not the type of behavior that should be shown by anyone who will potentially go to college and interact...

There is a growing problem on our campus; students using the bathrooms for the wrong reasons; by hiding themselves to smoke in the stalls. There are students who ditch class to go smoke in the bathrooms which disturbs other students  by the smell. Students that go to actually use the bathroom can’t because then they will...

A majority of students would say that they enjoy having time away from school. Field trips are a way for students to learn from besides regular school work, though students at Herbert Hoover High School say that they haven’t gone on any interesting field trips. 33 students say that they would prefer field trips during class...

Besides being a sophomore at Hoover,  Faith Clark is a part of College Avenue Compact, Cardinals Interact and the GSA club. She was born on Christmas Eve and raised in San Diego. Going to school early every morning makes her satisfied because the gates haven’t open and/or students aren't around which means it's nice and quiet....

Bird scooters are electric scooters that are charged by the mile. Many students at Hoover High School use bird scooters as their form of transportation to and from school. They are convenient to students because it is a way to get to school on time. However, students don’t use them responsibly. In the mornings, you will...

This week’s Athlete of the Week is 14 year old Joel Castro. He is currently the fifth person on the Hoover High school’s varsity cross country team. Joel started running toward the end of his 8th grade year with City Heights Runners. His teammates motivate him to continue running and he will aim to run cross country throughout...