Dear freshman Charlise,
I’ll be honest, I don’t have much to say to you because I already know that if I were to try to give you advice about your next four years, you wouldn’t listen. You think...
After trying to master 11 new skills over the course of this year, I thought I would use my final column to rank my top five experiences based on three variables: my success rates, the difficulty of learning,...
Hii, my name is Charlise Larot and I’m from San Diego, California. I am fully committed to UCI, and majoring in literary journalism. I love hanging out with my friends, reading, traveling, and finding...
Senior year is a year of lasts for many students, but for Lucy Cribb (12), hers would have a first, too. She decided that this would be the year she tried out for the lacrosse team despite never previously...
I have a confession: I was holding back on you guys when I said my only athletic experience was playing one soccer season in the second grade. I also have done three years of ballet. But that was when...
Nothing could have prepared me for the feat I tried to accomplish for this column. With how great the track team has been doing recently, I thought now would be a good time to try something from their...
Out of all the sports, my most anticipated one to try has been lacrosse solely because of how much I loved To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han.
For this endeavor, I had the help of my friend...
For this year’s graduating class, PTSA has organized their Grad Nite to be at Belmont Park, June 7, the day after graduation. Grad Nite is a PTSA-organized event for the graduating class where seniors...
When Xavier O’Boyle (12) joined the Broadcast Journalism class during his sophomore year, he knew that he wanted to be in front of the camera to be an anchor or an announcer.
“I thought [newscast]...
When I started this column, the only athletic experience I had was playing a soccer season in third grade. So, for this issue, I wanted to see if my limited soccer skills were still with me. I asked...
In middle school, I considered myself to be a pretty average height. It wasn’t until we came back on campus from COVID-19 during my sophomore year that I fully realized how vertically challenged I was...
Dance Troupe
Dance Troupe’s preparation for the Winter Show starts in mid-October, but for Rosemary Cabanban (10) and Cecilia Canty (10) it started Sept. 24 when they began choreographing their...
I love the cold but there is nothing I hate more than swimming in a cold pool. I always feel like I am going to freeze to death, which made learning water polo with my friend Kate Tripiano (12) even...
As the members of Westview GOLD rushed across the football field, Color Guard placed the cityscape backdrops across the 20 and 30-yard lines, percussion wheeled out their instruments, and the Band...
Roury Fitzpatrick (12) has known she wanted to pursue a career in broadcast journalism ever since she joined the Westview Newscast her sophomore year.
“Watching the Westview Newscast during...
With the fall sports season coming to a close, I decided that this issue I wanted to try a sport that few people talk about on campus: golf.
This time I met up with Samantha Song (12) at The Heights...
The Westview Ambassadors gathered backstage making last-minute preparations for the skit they were prepared to perform in front of the students, parents, and staff of Adobe Bluffs Elementary School...
I am not a very coordinated person. So, after my unfortunate attempt at kicking field goals, I thought for this week that I would try a sport that I thought required more upper body skills, which brought...
At the start of marching season, Westview GOLD members have been exposed to new choreography and music that they have been consistently practicing together as a group and within their own instrument sections...
For the past 17 years of my life, I have solely been a distant observer of all things sports-related—unless we count the one soccer season I participated in during third grade. I never really had...
Track and field athletes PR throughout CIF competition, Welton advances to state finals
The 2023 San Diego Sections CIF finals were a long day for Westview’s track and field team, but after nine hours,...
Kate Sealy
While Kate Sealy’s (12) senior year may be drawing to a close, her soccer career won’t be. In Fall 2021, Sealy committed to play Division I soccer at the University of San Diego, with...
Members of Bayanihan and K-Pop Dance Club (KPDC) gathered around the outer edge of the plaza, getting ready to perform during lunch in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Month,...
The sun was out and anticipation was in the air as the boys’ tennis team made their way to San Dieguito Academy High School for the first round of CIF Tennis Individuals, April 24. The competition for...
In the theater, the orchestra pit is located underneath the main stage, and the entrance can be found behind the half-wall on the right side of the theater. Seldom used, this cave is occupied more by spiders...
GOLD director Mitchell Way walked back to the center of the stage after giving the audience a few seconds to applaud Wind Ensemble for the first piece, “Procession of the Nobles,” composed by Nicholas...
On Jan. 19, Kaleis Vitug (11) walked into the Westview gym for her first wrestling match on the varsity team and saw countless familiar faces: her friends in the stands and her teammates by the mat....
“As long as you do the classwork and the homework, you’ll do well on the test” is a maxim that almost all students know. However, too many students believe that as long as they do the work, and memorize...
On June 8, 2021, the home-side of the stadium was nearly packed––a rare sight for a soccer game––and the girls were filled with adrenaline. Their opponents were the Alma Loma Braves for the final...
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is one of the most highly anticipated Marvel films of this year. After the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman, many fans wanted to see how Marvel...
For first and second grade, I attended Zamorano Elementary Fine Arts Academy. While I was there, I would participate in classes with varied art forms including pottery, painting and drawing. These lessons...
The role of Lieutenant Governor is to the governor as the Vice President is to the President. The job includes serving as the acting governor when the current governor is unavailable. They are also the...
Growing up, I loved the Disney princess. They captured everything that I wanted to be when I grew up—intelligent, gracious, kind, beautiful—but I could not see myself in them. Granted, there were...
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On Aug. 26, Laufey released her debut album: “Everything I Know About Love.” In July, her popularity increased when one of her singles, “Valentine” became a popular...
When I was in kindergarten I attended a dual-immersion elementary school that taught German incorporated into the curriculum. I would spend one week with a teacher that taught in English, and the following...
