Boys' Tennis Team Starts Season on a Roll

By Cyrus Gill

Dunn Student Journalist

Last year, the Dunn Boys' Tennis Team had one of their most successful seasons. Beating Thacher for the first time in 15 years, Dunn was ranked in the Top 10 of CIF Division IV for three weeks and made it to the second round of the CIF playoffs before losing to the eventual Division IV champions, Viewpoint. The team has been excited about this season with the return of all current senior players.

Coach Graham believes this team is deep and determined and will be able to perform as well, if not better, than last year. "Ever since I have coached at Dunn,” said Graham, “we have never had a more skilled team in terms of overall talent." He has set high expectations for the team in hopes that both Cate and Thacher will not be able to capture a win from the Earwigs. The team will now be lead by senior captains, Kyle Nelson and Brandon Yau. 

The 2011 coaching staff is comprised of Andrew Graham and Ryan Bowden. Coach Bowden brings many years of athletic experience from coaching the football and track programs and will play a valuable role in the conditioning of the team. Due to Mr. Bowden's new tennis conditioning course added during the winter sports season, players like brothers Brandon and Ryan Yao, Ohm Sirimongkolkasem, and Kyle Nelson have been able to amply prepare for their upcoming season. With the season underway, the team could not be happier with the results. The team so far has had no losses and four wins, one of which was garnered against Dunn's out of league rivals, Villanova Prep.

Dunn Graduate and Seattle Sounders Player Sends Message to School




Dunn alumna and affiliate to Ghana's Right to Dream Academy presents Dunn soccer coach Mark Geriak with a Seattle Sounders jersey signed by player Michael Tetteh.  Tetteh, a 2008 graduate who came to Dunn from the Acadeny, was recently drafted by the Sounders.  Ms. Sullivan delivered a message from Tetteh to his former coach during morning assembly thanking him and Dunn for all they have done for him, on and off the soccer field.

 

Girls' Lacrosse Posts Win Versus Midland

Dunn student journalist Maddy Carroll reports that the Girls' Lacrosse Team beat Midland by the score of 16-6 on Saturday.  Next game is on Wednesday, March 23 at Laguna Blanca.

Boys' Varsity Tennis Continues Winning Ways

For more information about the Dunn Boys' Varsity Team, click on to http://www.dunnearwig.org/dunn/dxi320/2011-Boys'-Tennis-Team

Dunn Boys' Varsity Tennis had a great victory today against Frontier League's defending conference champion Villanova Prep. Dunn beat Villanova 13-5 behind the play of the doubles team of Ryan Yau/Jack Lee. They swept all three of their sets (6-1,6-0,6-0). Dunn had faced Villanova last year in the first round of the CIF Division IV Championship and Dunn won a close match 10-8. The Dunn boys have shown continual improvement and focus in hopes of reaching the playoffs again this year. Dunn is currently 5-0 and will host Cate School on Wednesday March 23. Cate finished 1st in the Condor League last year whereas Dunn finished 2nd.


Overall Record 5-0, League Record 1-0

Dunn School 13

Villanova Prep 5

Individual Scores:

Dunn 1st singles: Allen Lee 2-1

Dunn 2nd singles: Brandon Yau 2-1

Dunn 3rd singles: Kyle Nelson 2-1

Dunn 1st doubles: WooJin Choi/Jacob Bronfman 2-0

Dunn 1st doubles (substitute): Sean Lin/Jacky Wu 0-1

Dunn 2nd doubles: Ryan Yau/Jack Lee 3-0

Dunn 3rd doubles: Joseph Cho/ Ohm Sirimongkolkasem 2-1

Class Visits Martin Luther King Jr. Institute

Last week, Ms. Cook’s Social Movements in American History class traveled to Stanford University to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute. The purpose of the visit was to allow students to conduct research in the King archives, a collection of thousands of speeches, sermons, letters, and other historic documents by and about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. After touring the King Institute with Associate Director, Tenisha Armstrong, the students were given an orientation by King Institute research assistants on using the King records database. Aidan Terry, who is researching the influence of celebrities on the civil rights movements, found a letter by Nat King Cole to King, in which Cole offers to hold a benefit concert to help raise money for the movement. Jake Ragen, who is examining the influence of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, found a collection of FBI memos by J. Edgar Hoover expressing concern about the communist presence in the NAACP. (Jake joked that all the most important passages in the memos had been blacked out.) Alex Zheng was excited to find a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Jackie Robinson, in which King told Robinson, ‘‘You have made every Negro in America proud through your baseball prowess and your inflexible demand for equal opportunity for all.’’


Following the research session, the class had lunch at Stanford’s Tressider Student Union and then returned for a lecture and discussion with King Institute Director and Professor of History, Clayborne Carson. Dr. Carson talked with the students about King’s influence on social movements around the world and then answered questions about their specific research topics. Janaya Reid, who is interested in the influence of Malcolm X on the residents of Harlem in the 1960s, said Carson’s feedback on her research was very helpful. She and Hayley Harrison - who is comparing the American civil rights movement to the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa – both expressed appreciation for Dr. Carson’s willingness to discuss their research topics with them and make recommendations for additional sources. Professor Carson was impressed with the students’ research interests, stating, “These sound like graduate student topics.”

Ms. Cook’s students will continue their research over the next few weeks in preparation for writing a final research paper that will serve as the capstone for the course.
 
Click on the link below to watch a video about the visit:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qstOzbI0FOM