The East Vision

Luke Glendening: From EGR to the NHL

Luke Glendening: From EGR to the NHL

Sophia Bouwkamp, Staff Writer December 7, 2020

Luke Glendening ‘07 is thought to be one of the best athletes ever to come out of East Grand Rapids High School. Glendening currently plays for the Detroit Red Wings, “The team I grew up rooting for...

How COVID-19 has affected team traditions

How COVID-19 has affected team traditions

Ruby Hollis, Staff Writer September 30, 2020

With many people upset over Governor Gretchen Whitmer's original decision to postpone football and possibly postpone other fall sports, she has announced that all fall sports can resume this season. This...

Girls Track and Field…future State champions?

Bailey Vydareny, Guest Writer May 27, 2018

The Girls Varsity Track and Field team has been working harder than ever this year trying to be the first East Grand Rapids team to be Girls Track and Field state champions. This year has already had many...

Lacrosse goalie Lily Kate Rogers fulfills high expectations for young team

Lacrosse goalie Lily Kate Rogers fulfills high expectations for young team

Sophie Ackermann, Sports Editor April 27, 2018

Lily Kate Rogers ‘19 is filling in some big shoes of four-year varsity goalie Rebecca Scobell, and she is not skipping a beat. Rogers has been playing lacrosse for six years, and has been playing...

The Rogers siblings find success on the lacrosse field

The Rogers siblings find success on the lacrosse field

Erin Rogers, Staff Writer March 27, 2018

As spring sports are off to a fresh start and everyone is breaking in new cleats, sticks and rackets there will always be an aspect of a particular spring sport that will never change. Lacrosse is a very...

Beloved Gym and Team Games teacher Tompkins retires

Beloved Gym and Team Games teacher Tompkins retires

Michael Barnes, Staff Writer March 26, 2018

Anywhere else, students enter gym class merely fulfilling their necessary credit as they suffer through the lethargic conditioning and come to despise physical activity in their own lives. Thankfully at...

Robotics takes second at West Michigan district competition, looks toward states

Robotics takes second at West Michigan district competition, looks toward states

Lauren Vanden Bosch, Web Editor March 25, 2018

The robotics team had high hopes and expectations going into West Michigan, their second district competition. Last year in their second season they won this event and secured their first blue banner....

Swimming towards the final races

Swimming towards the final races

Lauren Ors, Staff Writer March 1, 2018

The boys on the swim and dive team had a plan walking onto the Northview High School pool deck for the day of finals on February 24th. To place in the top three, and when the swim and dive team sets its...

Ski team looks forward to joint victory at states

Lauren Ors and Sophie Sears March 1, 2018

Biz Markie’s, “Just A Friend”, and Tee Grizzley’s, “First Day Out”, are the songs Will Marsh ‘18 and the rest of the boys on the ski team scream at each other on top of the slopes to reach...

Ten more student athletes sign

Anna VanderLaan, Staff Writer March 1, 2018

Ten of East Grand Rapids’ outstanding student athletes committed to the schools they will attend next fall. The Feb. 7 signers are as follows: Marty Ward to Kalamazoo College, Elliot Bergsma to Lake...

Students playing hockey at the highest level

Students playing hockey at the highest level

Emily Bergstrom, Staff Writer January 23, 2018

Hockey season is in full swing and the EGR hockey team is doing very well. After all, what many of us forget is that there are many other people who go to East that play hockey, but they do not play for...

The dynamic sister duo on the court

The dynamic sister duo on the court

Anna VanderLaan, Staff Writer January 18, 2018

It isn’t hard to tell that Olivia and Jillian Brown are sisters. The girls share the same house, the same brown curls, the same fun-loving personality, but the resemblance doesn’t stop there. Both...

Senior volleyball trio anticipate their collegiate athletic careers

Senior volleyball trio anticipate their collegiate athletic careers

Lauren Vanden Bosch, Staff Writer November 29, 2017

Although the atmosphere of volleyball can often be extremely competitive, Seniors Ana Grunewald, Sara Vargo, and Katie Persons have never been rivals during their many years of playing volleyball with...

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