BAY SPOT | Featuring Sunnyvale Baylands Park
March 5, 2021
Destination: Sunnyvale Baylands Park.
Address: 999 E Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Cost: From March through October, there is a car entry fee of $6. Frequent visitors can purchase a season pass for $25. Entry is free of charge year-round for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Hours: The park is open everyday from 8 a.m. to half an hour after sunset.
Dog-friendly: No. Dogs are not allowed, even if leashed. This restriction is put in place to protect the park’s wildlife.
About: Baylands Park
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![The ping pong club was successfully founded by Alan Jian and Michael Xiong in 2019 to build upon their similar interest and bring attention to a lesser-known sport, ping pong club public relations officer Alan Jian said in a Zoom interview.
“I often play ping pong with my family,” Jian said. “I just have some fun and some time away from my screen just to be moving a little bit, especially during quarantine.”
Jian said the ping pong club is not a well-known club at HHS since it was only created a year ago, and is still in the process of expanding to the student community.
“I was one of the founders of this club,” senior Michael Xiong, vice president of the ping pong club said in a Zoom interview. “We actually started applying to this club in our sophomore year. The first time, we failed, and the second time we succeeded.”
Xiong also mentioned that although the strength of the club is the free play, quarantine has forced officers to focus more on media videos in relation to ping pong in order for more students to learn about the club.
“I [have] met several people who play ping pong,” Senior James Jian, the ping pong club president said in a Zoom interview. “Many of them actually play really well, and play competitively. I just feel like the school lacks some kind of ping pong culture and there](https://hhsepitaph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-02-22-at-6.35.22-PM-475x262.png)
