Letter from the EDITORS

Welcome back to our forth and our final issue of Viking. This has certainly been an exciting ride, and we are so grateful for everything we have been able to share with you. After a long and exciting year of sports achievements here at Paly, we can’t wait to bring you one last issue of Viking before our time as editors comes to an end. We are looking forward to handing over the reins to our brilliant new leadership team, as they bring you issue five highlighting Viking’s annual athlete of the year awards.

We feel fortunate to have been able to share four issues celebrating the athletic community and stories we feel passionate about, and hope all of you enjoy issue four as much as we did making it. Within Viking, we strive to represent every athlete at Paly, regardless of gender, sport, race, or ability, and hope to highlight unique stories and skills. Our final

Staff Writers

Abigail Karel, Amani Elfadil, Ashton Chow

Avery Reller, Aspen Stitt

Beau Revenaugh

Caroline Mostofizadeh, Claire Cho

Jason Hu, Katie Yen

Lily Jeffrey

Sirisha Mitra

Takumi Weiman, Trey Collins, Tyler Frick

Tyler Harrison, Tyler Martin

on the cover:

or Exceptional Sports is an organization that provides united classes for kids with and without IDD. Our cover story, “Pioneering Progress” (page 13) brings awareness to members of the athletic community playing with disabilities, a group of athletes who are often overlooked. (cover by Owen Bittinger) cover story, “Pioneering Progress” (page 13) brings awareness to members of the athletic community playing with disabilities, a group of athletes who are often overlooked. The story highlights both Paralympic and professional athletes with disabilities as well as talented athletes here at Paly, and the difficulties they face on a daily basis.

On a similar note, our second feature story “Saying Bye to Bias” (page 34) dives deep into bias and stereotypes within sports themselves, and the influence on the sport itself booms in and out of the media. As a publication and leadership team, we always think it’s important to talk about gender bias and representa tion in sports and its direct application into our publication. We want to give a huge thank you to all of you, our readers, for supporting us through the last year and allowing us to do what we love: write about sports. Without all of you, we would not be able to publish this magazine the way we do. We would also like to shout out the Paly athletic community, for continuously giving us exciting events and accomplishments to keep you all updated on. Finally, we want to thank our publication advisor, Mr. Wilson and all of the Viking staff. We are so grateful for everything all of you do to support us and this magazine would not happen without you. Well that’s about it, Vikes. Thanks for coming along with us this last year, and as the last two years of EICs have said, “this may be the last chapter of our time as editors, but it’s the first page in a rock-