After winning 10 of their 13 regular-season matches at No. 1 doubles in the PAL Bay, seniors Arihant Mishra-Agoram and Ryan Gyde had one mission in last week’s league tournament: to keep winning. “It...

While the gap in the PAL Bay Division between fifth-place Burlingame (6-8 overall) and second Aragon High School (10-2 overall) seems wide, their two meetings this season have proved otherwise.  In...

Tennis is an unforgiving sport: you can play toe-to-toe with an opponent, competing for every point — and still fall remarkably short on the scoreline.   And, as boys’ tennis sits at No. 6 in...

Girls’ varsity soccer’s CCS matchup was a tale of two halves, as Burlingame controlled the first half, while Aragon improved its play in the second half.

For better or worse, “soccer is a fluky game,” has become one of varsity girls’ soccer head coach Philip De Rosa’s most-used mantras.  Coming off two straight wins after a tough 0-3 opening...

In 1997, Burlingame’s Italian language program was on the brink of collapse. In a last ditch effort to revive the program, the administration took a chance on a young teacher with new ideas: Antonella...

The Panthers gather around for their first pre-game pep talk of the season on Nov. 29.

Freshman Gaelle Foy practices a corner kick in the girls’ varsity soccer practice on Friday, Nov. 18.

Senior quarterback Malia Schmidt scans the field, spotting an open Izzy Kossar 25 yards ahead of her. Without hesitation, she launches a spiral towards the endzone. Touchdown! 30 seconds later, Kossar...

Burlingame varsity football team celebrates on the field after winning the Little Big Game on Nov. 5.

Girls’ varsity volleyball (PAL Bay 11-2, 21-5) has had their October rematch against Hillsdale High School circled on their calendar since their bitter 3-0 loss to the Knights on Sept. 22. On Tuesday...

Armed with talent and grit, varsity girls’ volleyball fought off a case of jitters to triumph over Menlo Atherton High School (MA) in their league opener on Sept. 8. The Panthers entered their matchup...

Co-captain senior Tarik Burlingham (pictured) will help spearhead the Panthers as they enter the Ocean League with renewed vigor this year.

(From left to right) Senior Mallory Nowitzky, juniors Morgan Toomey, and Madison Langlais prepare to receive a serve in their practice on Aug. 19.

Junior Jackson Spenner serves in his 6-1, 6-1 win against Mills’ Nicholas Chang on April 19.

Millions saw, perhaps you among them, the jarring photo circulating social media last March ahead of the NCAA Division I Women and Men’s Basketball Tournaments.  The photo dichotomized the women’s...

Any high school tennis coach likes the sound of leading 3-0 in a best of seven matchup. That’s exactly where Burlingame head coach Bill Smith found himself in the boys' varsity tennis (1-1) matchup...

Burlingame’s previously unnamed stadium is filled with memories of runners going the distance, graduations and eight Little Big Game victories, all overlooked by a scoreboard reading “Peter Umland...

“Ooh ah, you wish you were a Panther! Ooh ah, you wish you were a Panther!,” the Burlingame girls’ volleyball varsity team roared in unison before hitting the court, where they won 26 of their 33...

The Panthers, who won 37-7, closed the game with sportsmanship, shaking the hands of their Wildcat opponents.

The girls volleyball program has battled through its fair share of obstacles since winning the CCS Division III Volleyball Championship and playing their last game against Lowell High School on Nov. 16,...

With COVID-19 cases decreasing in the past months after a surge during the holiday season and with San Mateo County having moved into the orange tier on March 16, Burlingame Intermediate School (BIS) has...

 In a more conventional year, the Students in Action (SIA) club might have held a clothing drive. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, where donating used clothes and being in close proximity with others...

If you’ve turned on the news in the last ten months, it is very probable that there was one topic dominating the newscast  — COVID-19. It is seemingly all we hear about when we click our remote controls...

As winter break approaches, so does the prospect of yet another unprecedented change marking 2020, as people prepare to celebrate a holiday season during a global pandemic. Some students are finding creative...

Burlingame is home to countless creative and dedicated student artists, with talents ranging from sculpting to musical instruments. These students have stumbled across art in various ways but all are passionate...

From begging students to talk in a breakout room to staring at a multitude of foreheads on a monitor, teaching in the age of distance learning is a far cry from being at school physically. Teachers have...

This school year, the Burlingame math department added Kelsey Holtzinger to their team. Or as most of her students call her, “Ms. Zinger” or simply, “Zinger.”   Before arriving at Burlingame,...