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Swim meet at Provo

12/16/2015

By Naabaahii Tsosie
On the 10th of December at the Provo Rec Center the Mountain View Bruins swam against the Provo BullDogs. One of the top placing Bruins was Lauren VaughAn, who got first in the women’s 200 Backstroke. Junior, Tate Pitcher got 3rd in the 500 freestyle race. The Bruins had a lot of high placing athletes at this early Provo meet. Isaac Robinson got 2nd in the meet. When the Bruins started the season almost none of their swimmers were able to place, but this meet the Bruins had multiple swimmers get first and even more place in the top 3. Tony Puertas got 1st in his race helping the Bruins to finish with 2 first place swimmers. This is a higher number than any other meet this season. When the Bruins started this season the swim team looked like they wouldn’t perform very well, but this meet looks to be proving the opposite.

Elaine Granados Diving in during the Women's 200 Freestyle

Boys Basketball beat Charlotte Christian

12/14/2015

By: Emi Cano

Mountain View Boy’s Basketball team took home a W in the FreeTaxUSA Shootout tournament. Mountain View beat Charlotte Christian 72-63. The Bruins beat Charlotte Christian, a high school from North Carolina. Charlotte Christian is the alma mater of nba all-star Steph Curry’s. It was a close game, but for most of the game Charlotte Christian held a lead. At the half the score was 27-28 Charlotte Christian. Brigham Bateman went off in the second half and brought MV back. Junior, Kedrick Clayton really contributed scoring 12 points from the start of the second half to start of the fourth. Both Clayton’s huge 26 points, and Bateman’s 30 were essential to mountain view victories. MV is excited to see what this duo can do the rest of the season. #MVSplashBrothers?

PHOTO: MV in a huddle around Coach Alan Groves

Boys basketball at Lehi

12/14/2015

By Naabaahii Tsosie
The Mountain View Bruins faced off against the Lehi Pioneers on Wednesday December 9th. The Bruins have had a good season so far with a 2-1 record. But with this tough 87-58 defeat the bruins sit at a 2-2 record. The Bruins fought hard with Brigham Bateman, the second highest scoring boy in the state, leading the team. The Bruins played well, but by halftime the score was already 48-27 Lehi. The Bruins continued to fight through the second half, and ended up losing the game 87-58 Lehi. Kent Free said “ Our Shots weren't falling in, we played our hardest anyway”. Kent along with the other players played their hearts out but 5A Lehi still came out victorious.

PHOTO- Tanner Fernandez getting a rebound

Sky View defeats lady Bruins

12/14/2015

By: Emi Cano
The Lady Bruins coming off a big win at Murray faced off against Sky View, but failed to come out with a win losing 66-39 . This is a non-region game, but still a tough loss. The Lady Bruins are going to come off this loss and come back playing strong against a 2-2 Spanish Fork Dons team. It looks like the Lady Bruins have the upper hand in this game. Mountain View is excited to see what the Lady Bruins do the rest of the season.

Lady bruins crush Murry

12/14/2015

by: Emi Cano
The girl’s basketball team coming in with a 1-1 record, and really showed up beating murray 54-44. The Lady Bruins dominated throughout the whole game. At halftime the lady bruins were cruising with a huge lead of 20 points, and a score of 38-18 at half. The lady bruins held off murray keeping the lead during the second half to win the game at 54-44 with what appeared to be an effortless win. Next week they face defending state champs, Sky View.

PHOTO: The Lady Bruins before game time. photo by @mvhsbruins on twitter

Cross Country Goes to California

12/14/2015

by: Naabaahii Tsosie
The Boys and Girls Cross country team went to Walnut, California for Foot Locker West meet last weekend. The Cross Country team has been waiting for this huge meet all year. This was one of the largest meets the Mountain View team has been to. The bruins all raced hard with solid races all around. Allissa Fielding get 41st place in her Sophomore race, and Samantha Williams got 20th place in her race both receiving medals for their performances. The whole girls team performed well with Elena Magistro and Allie Warner racing the seeded race. Jarron Nielson got 43 in the Sophomore race with a really strong time for the mt. sac course. Jacob Cheever who placed 84th place in his junior race said “ The course was hard with lots of great athletes present ”. The Mountain View team is improving consistently with their new coach Mike Strouss the girls team placed second at state and had respectable finishes at both arizona and foot locker.

James Mangum finishing his race photo by: Austin Nielson

Bruins almost surpass Cougars

12/10/2015

By: Prince Fielder
Mountain View Boys Basketball had tough loss friday with a final score of 72-75. Many predicted that Mountain View had no chance to beat Kearns High. The Bruins surprised the Critics ending the game with an amazing comeback, finishing the game only 3 points behind the Cougars. According to Ricky Stafford “Turnovers in the beginning of the game is what killed us. We realized it during halftime and made improvements coming into the second half. We did better, but we still have a lot of room to improve.” So far the Bruins have showed that they can play with anyone and perform at a very high intense pace. Coach Groves has had a lot to do with recent success pushing the bruins to be their very best. Bruins now have a record of 2-1-0.

Bruin Crazies

12/10/2015

By: Andrea Ruvalcaba & Naabaahii Tsosie & Tiana Vakaafi
Mountain View is notorious throughout state for it’s exceptional school spirit displayed by the entire student body. Bruin Crazies overflow the student section on a weekly basis going out to support the different sports. Mountain Views motto is “Show up,” picked by this year's Student Council. Students took the motto to heart when it came to showing up to the football and volleyball games, supporting and cheering the sports teams on in from the hard times to the good. Now that wrestling and basketball games are beginning, the bruin crazy captains Brigham Bateman and Payton Riggs challenge students to show up to as many upcoming games and meets as they can. Brigham Bateman said, “Come support, a lot of students help with performance.” the deafening cheering coming from the crazies creates a helps push out players on, and serves to intimidate opponents players.

Bruin Crazies cheering at a pep rally

Crazy Captains speak about season

Santa Clara vs BYU Women's Volleyball

12/4/2015

By Vanessa Martinez

On Saturday November 26 2015, cougar senior Alexa Gray had the best 31 kills in the 3-1 victory against Santa Clara. BYU got out to a 5-1 lead in set one and had lead the whole way. at second set point a cougar teammate, Whitney Young Howard, blasted a kill of a 25-19 win. Also at second set cougar Alexa Gray had passed to her former team mate Nina Puikkonen with her 13th kill in the second set against santa clara.Santa Clara got hot and held off a BYU rally to claim a 25-23 win off of a kill from Jensen Cunningham. Cougars started to take lead after a few hits by santa clara and took a lead of 12-8 from a kill by Howard.

Swim Team at Timpview

12/4/2015

By Naabaahii Tsosie

Mountain View swim team faced off with the Timpview T-Birds. Tate Pitcher a Junior said “H20: 2 parts heart, one part obsession!”. Tate is an oncoming swimmer he got first place in the boys 200 IM. This is a huge accomplishment to be a junior and be able to place first in the Individual Medley. Which means to swim all four strokes in one race. The Mountain View Bruins Swim Team have a big season in front of them, the future's looking bright.