The Urban Legend

Increased interest in Urban School volleyball creates frosh-soph team

Zoe Meneghetti, Editor-in-Chief of Newspaper • November 2, 2016

This year, there has been the biggest increase of girls volleyball players since Athletic Director and Boys Varsity Basketball coach Joe Skiffer has been at Urban. With 38 students showing up to tryouts,...

Urban sailing team: small but mighty

Zoe Meneghetti, Staff Writer • December 8, 2015

Cayley Crist (‘17) buckles up her life jacket as she admires the Golden Gate Bridge. Captain Marie Bergsund (‘16) and Hannah Schrank (‘19) bring their sails down to the dock, and Hanna Pierce...

Bring Back Our Girls’ “School Girl March” seeks to raise awareness about Nigerian kidnappings

Ilana Brandstetter, Staff Writer • May 22, 2014

Bring Back Our Girls, a social awareness campaign that started in California, is organizing a worldwide School Girl March today to raise awareness about the plight of 276 Nigerian girls abducted from their...

Opinion: When it comes to sexism, girls may be more than half of the problem

Marney Kline • March 27, 2013

In the film, “When Harry Met Sally,” 22-year-old Sally (Meg Ryan) arrives in New York to pursue the trifecta of modern-day womanhood: career, partner, and social milieu. Several years later, Sally...

Urban School team captains offer outlook on spring sports

Jenna Waldman • April 24, 2012

With the end of winter just four weeks away, captains for Urban's spring sports teams offer their outlooks on the spring season. Baseball – Albie Brown (’12) For baseball preseason, we met in...

A dominant season: Urban’s girls soccer team makes NCS

Jason Cinti • June 10, 2011

It’s the kind of boast most high school soccer coaches dream of making: "Most wins in school history, fewest losses in school history, most shutouts in school history, best record in school history,...