Challenges students face with change to online classes
Dayton Jones, sports editor
April 13, 2020
Moving from regular school to online school is a big change happening during the last semester and students are feeling it. Students are trying to adapt to this form of learning, and with online school being new to most it comes with challenges dealing with not only the work but also how students are...
New era begins in season of firsts: Pavlenko’s inaugural season sees wrestling reach new height
Roman Valenzuela, Staff Reporter
March 5, 2020
Puma’s Wrestling in the 2019-2020 season saw a groundbreaking season, the Pumas took the Division-1, Section I championship by storm, and twelve individual wrestlers headed to the Arizona state championship at the Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott. “Everyone wrestled well, performed,” said head c...
Basketball season ends on a low point
Nick Manzo, Staff Reporter
March 5, 2020
The Pumas playoff run began on Feb. 14, when they defeated Queen Creek 69-54 to earn a spot in the round of 16. Head coach Sam Duane established a clear game plan coming into the game: “Our game plan was we had to defend really well, take away their three-point looks, and then we wanted to establi...
CUSD plans to build new high school
Jessica Lee, Staff Reporter
January 16, 2020
The Chandler Unified School District has been planning on adding a new high school to the district. As the area around Perry grows, more and more students attend the school. Perry was originally designed to hold a little over half of the number of students it holds today. Many expansions to the school h...
Cheer going to state, let’s take home the win!
Jalyn Knight, Staff Reporter
December 13, 2019
The Pumas are home to many triumphant sports teams, including one that numerous people tend to overlook and discredit as being a sport altogether. The cheer and pom team are once again heading to state with the pom team having qualified at the highest they ever have. Head cheer coach Desiree Houg explains tha...
The People Behind the Performance
Jalyn Knight, Staff Reporter
November 8, 2019
From pep assemblies to football games, the fans are riled-up by dance performances by Moveo Dance Company and pom. Hallie Reggio, a senior dancer on both the pom and Moveo team explains that “they’re very different, because with pom it’s a lot of technical skills and big turn sequences, but ...
Inexperience affecting Puma golfers play
Carter Richey, Staff Reporter
September 26, 2019
After what Coach Nold believes was a disappointing start for his men's golf teams season, he firmly trusts that his team just hasn't played their best golf yet. He sees that "We need more consistency from top to bottom," and understands there will be a few bumps in the road because of the lack of high...
New academic decathlon team makes history
Dayton Jones, Sports editor
September 26, 2019
The new academic decathlon team, it's going to be there first year here at perry, and there are many hopefuls that great things will be coming from the team. The club itself was formed by Cole Wilde and a few other friends with the intent of making it a fun time for all. “Me and my friends ...
PHS takes proactive step towards mental health
Isabel Behrendt, Opinions Editor
August 30, 2019
Living with depression, anxiety, self-harm impulses, personality disorders, and other disorders are a part of our daily reality. As time goes on, it almost seems as if these issues become increasingly common amongst youth, more specifically high school students nationwide. Recently, as the world evolves to fit to the...
Briefs
Joielline Tchilao, Staff Reporter
February 4, 2019
Photography Invitational Art Show Recently, the Fall Blick Fine Art Photography Art Show was hosted by company Blick Art Materials, and several of our students were able to participate and show off their creative talents. In total, more than 20 of our students were able to be apart of this competition...
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