Team spirit bumps girls volleyball team to new heights
Alex Rubel, Senior Editor
October 27, 2019
Senior Ashley Botnick has played on the volleyball team for all four years of high school, and this year, she is one of the teams’ three captains. But she wears a different color jersey from the rest of the team. That’s because, for the first time in the team’s history, the team has a l...
Firehawk baseball program is no longer seasonal
Adam Tizabi, Staff Writer
October 23, 2019
Welcome to fall ball. For all of Shalhevet’s history, baseball has been played as a spring sport. But this year, in a bid to continue to grow the baseball department, Head Coach Brad Gunches was determined to organize a year-round baseball program. Coach Gunches, who took over...
Coleman now leads varsity girls and boys, Remer coaches JV
Alex Rubel, Senior Editor
October 7, 2019
Coach Ryan Coleman, who has been the head coach of the Firehawk boys varsity basketball team for the past five seasons and led the team to multiple titles in prestigious basketball tournaments, has additionally been named head coach of the Firehawk girls varsity basketball team for this year. Coach ...
Hiller fills the scorecard as Firehawk girls dominate Panthers in flag football
Alex Rubel, Senior Editor
October 6, 2019
Shalhevet's Girls Flag Football team walloped their rival YULA Panthers’ 30-2 led by Firehawk quarterback Maital Hiller’s five touchdowns and five interceptions. The game, played at the Glendale Sports Complex on Sept. 16, was the Firehawks season opener, and the first game played after a two...
Playoff appearance caps strong season for baseball team
Tobey Lee, Features Editor
June 5, 2019
After having a season last year that was described as a “debacle” by parents, the boys baseball team finished this season playing 17 games and making the playoffs. The Firehawks finished the season 8-7 but fell 13-9 to the Hillcrest Christian Saints of Thousand Oaks in the first round of the CIF...
CLARA’S CALLS: Happy Endings, and may the Raptors win
Clara Sandler, Co-Editor-in-Chief
June 4, 2019
Acharon acharon haviv. The last one is the most precious. This Rashi perfectly embodies how I feel as I write this last, most precious column. How is my run with the Boiling Point, with the sports section, over? Instead of dwelling on the sad, let’s focus on the exciting. The exciting that i...
Shalhevet announces it has suspended play against Valley Torah in basketball
Alex Rubel, Sports Editor
May 13, 2019
Shalhevet will refuse to play Valley Torah in boys’ basketball until the school’s head coach is replaced, because of help the coach provided to the Palm Springs High School Indians, the Firehawks’ opponent, in advance of this year’s CIF quarterfinal game, Rabbi Segal has announced. It was th...
At Sarachek, reigning champion Firehawks win it again
Alex Rubel, Sports Editor
March 18, 2019
They had already won the Glouberman title in November. They had already made a historic CIF run in February. And then, for the second year in a row, the Firehawks won Sarachek. With key plays by Asher Dauer, Noah Rossi and Zack Muller, Shalhevet's boys varsity basketball team came back fr...
Aiming to break records, Firehawks headed to Sarachek championship game for fourth straight year
Alex Rubel, Sports Editor
March 18, 2019
For the fourth year in a row, the Shalhevet Firehawks have advanced to the Red Sarachek Tournament Tier I championship game, which will be played tomorrow Mar. 18 at 11:30 a.m PST against the Magen David Warriors of Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Yeshiva University gym. The top-seeded Firehawks will be vying for b...
COLUMN: Are the Chargers LA’s curse?
Clara Sandler, Co-Editor-in-Chief
March 13, 2019
For the first 15 years of my life, I was football team-less. I rooted for teams here and there -- I had a Manning brothers phase between second and fifth grades when I rooted for the New York Giants and Indianapolis Colts. But in the back of my mind, and in the back of my dad’s mind, we longed for...
New baseball coach brings 40 years of experience
Tobey Lee, Features Editor
March 8, 2019
Shalhevet’s new baseball coach’s philosophy is quite simple: do your best, have a good time, and win. “I’ve only had one losing season and I don’t plan on having one at Shalhevet,” said Coach Brad Gunches, who took over as head coach in late January. “I’ve been coaching baseball for...
New hockey club turns gym into a rink for weekly games after Town Hall
Joshua Weissmman, Staff Writer
March 7, 2019
Every Wednesday after Town Hall, most students leave the gym and get their lunch, but a few stay behind to make a hockey rink out of the still-carpeted gym in order for Shalhevet’s hockey enthusiasts to be able to play their beloved sport. Lugging black plastic folding chairs to the si...
Liad Machmali, Torah Editor
January 17, 2020
Banging on his door around 7 a.m. on Saturday Dec. 14, a congregant waited anxiously to inform Rabbi David Shofet that it was not going to be a typical Shabbat morning at...
Aviva Walls leaving, will lead day school in Fairfax, Virginia, next year
January 15, 2020
January 14, 2020
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