Story by Addie Buckingham, Messenger Staff Writer
• March 18, 2022
Placer High School has a very strong athletic program. There are many different sports teams for both boys and girls, but do some get more attention than the other? More funds? Better playing conditions?
An...
With spring sports starting, athletes are excited to play in a somewhat normal sports season. Sports like baseball, softball, boys volleyball, and track are beginning, and athletes have lots of ambitious...
“It’s going to be a state of the art beautiful facility, with a state of the art training room, we will have brand new equipment in the weight room and training room we haven’t had here in years and it’s going to feel like a brand new place. It’s really really exciting" - Coach Montoya
Story by Ava Conn, Features Editor
• March 18, 2022
As of this year, Placer Girls beach volleyball is up and running. Coach Karly Sipherd is currently running the program and has devoted hours of her time to making beach volleyball available to the girls...
Story by Rylee Yetka, Messenger Sports Editor
• March 9, 2022
On March 4, 2022, Placer High hosted the annual LeFebvre Relay for track and field athletes to compete in from schools around Northern California.
The LeFebvre Relay was the first-ever...
The Placer High School Athletic Hall of Fame has displayed Placer’s athletes throughout Placer’s 125 year long history.
Every year, different athletes from Placer are inducted into the hall of...
Story by Rylee Yetka, Messenger Sports Editor
• February 11, 2022
Every year a handful of underclassmen athletes are asked to play on a varsity team. For some the transition is easy but for others, it is a challenge.
There is a big difference in the level...
Story by Marilyn Schackner, Hillmen Messenger Staff
• January 28, 2022
With 11 wins and one loss, the boy’s varsity soccer team has high hopes for the rest of the season and making it to the playoffs. Since the beginning of the season, the team has been playing amazingly...
Covid-19 has drastically changed physical education in schools. With physical education online teachers can’t monitor their students like they could during in person school.
Covid has caused schools...
Story by Delaney Stetka, Staff Writer
• February 18, 2021
Placer High School is the home of a new world record holder. In December, Wyatt Hamilton ran 100 miles in under 23 hours, a world r
ecord for anyone his age. The 17-year-old junior has been running...
Story by Rachel Edwards, Staff Writer
• February 15, 2021
After nearly a year of Covid-related high school sports cancellations, Placer High School started select practices last month.
High school sports schedules were disrupted in 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions....
By Katie Schwab
Messenger Staff Writer
Many freshman can’t wait to be able to take a P.E. sport. However, not every sport is offered as a P.E. at Placer.
“It is actually a pretty simple formula”...
