Somewhere in Texas in 2011, I was accompanying my mom in races across the state, sitting in the running stroller as her unofficial cheerleader. I enjoyed the thrill of moving at breakneck speeds...

I will say it outright: You will never meet the standard of “good enough.”  Though it is a harsh sentiment, there is no use in dancing around the truth. There will always be some aspect of...

It was early on in my first year of high school swim when I first realized that my school had a newspaper.   The desk of the pool had a stack of the most recent issue of the Viking Vanguard,...

High school can be overwhelming. There are so many things that come up, in what sometimes feels like random times, that it may cause student’s heads to spin with all the information or contrarily, that...

A flip phone at 15 is unheard of; it’s something you just don’t hear of anymore.    There’s fifth graders who have the newest iPhone, not because they need it, which they don’t,...

For one week every July, a patch of forest located just off a main road in Pierce County, between shopping centers and suburbia, becomes a whole world of magic.  I first came to Camp Oh Ah Lay...

Student publications produced as part of the school’s curriculum or with the support of the associated student body fund are intended to serve both as a vehicle for instruction and student communication. Although...

The Viking Vanguard is an open forum for student expression, meaning we represent the feelings and voices of the student body of Puyallup High School in any way we can. The editors, writers and photographers...

Summer—it’s the time of year where anything can happen. I could get a job, meet someone, learn a new sport, pick up a strange hobby, or just lay on my couch and watch Disney movies. For students specifically,...

As a little girl who craved the adrenaline that competition provided, I tried it all.   Gymnastics, martial arts, softball, basketball, swimming, even pickleball.   And as a young woman who found...