{"id":1069,"date":"2025-12-12T14:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:10:24","slug":"great-teammates-and-big-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Great Teammates and Big Victories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Middle School Athletics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Sammi Atkinson, Meera Shah and Olivia Rosen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middle school athletics are one thing that can make a student&#8217;s middle school experience that much better. Seven Hills offers many sports for middle school athletes to try, experience and make new friends. These middle school sports include Soccer, Cross Country, Golf, Girls Volleyball, Squash, Basketball, Lacrosse, Tennis, Track and Field, and Swimming.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/For-the-hive-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.503677624010876;width:271px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/For-the-hive-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/For-the-hive-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/For-the-hive-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/For-the-hive-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/For-the-hive-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/For-the-hive-135x90.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI like the enthusiasm that our middle schoolers want to improve and want to win, but they don\u2019t have the same pressure that high schoolers have,\u201d said Coach McGarvey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach McGarvey is a big influence on Seven Hills athletics. He has been coaching at Seven Hills for a total of 35 years and has really helped many young athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niam Patel is a 6th-grade athlete at Seven Hills and really enjoys it. He played soccer in the fall and is currently playing basketball this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI love having the teachers as our coaches. My coaches for middle school are very cool and help me become a much better player and person,\u201d said Niam.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-2-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1078\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.503677624010876;width:373px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-2-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-2-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-2-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-2-135x90.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anna is an 8th grade athlete who has played Soccer, Basketball and Squash for the Seven Hills Middle School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy squash season is going excellent, and I think we have started a great journey together, &#8221; said Anna Kettunen Rebola.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Anna\u2019s favorite things about athletics is the teammates and friendships she made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cMy favorite part of Seven Hills athletics is that I gain closer friends that I never thought I would be close to, who really help me throughout my middle school years,\u201dAnna also said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middle School sports can really help a student gain friendships in middle school from their teammates and coaches. They also are a great step to starting a sport and helping with your teamwork skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" data-id=\"1079\" src=\"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-3-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-3-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-3-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-3-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-3-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/for-the-hive-3-135x90.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessa is in 8th grade. She currently plays golf and basketball. In her 7th-grade year, she ran cross country and played basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessa said, \u201dThe difference from 7th grade and 8th grade athletics is that in 7th grade I was scared because I had never done that sport in middle school, but now that I am in 8th grade, I have experience, and I can help lead the 7th grade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle School Athletics By: Sammi Atkinson, Meera Shah and Olivia Rosen Middle school athletics are one thing that can make a student&#8217;s middle school experience that much better. Seven Hills offers many sports for middle school athletes to try, experience and make new friends. These middle school sports include Soccer, Cross Country, Golf, Girls Volleyball, Squash, Basketball, Lacrosse, Tennis, Track and Field, and Swimming. &nbsp;\u201cI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=1069\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Teammates and Big Victories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}