Derek Ho (9) swam the 14th fastest 100-yard breaststroke in the history of all 13-14-year-olds in the Winter Age Group Championship meet in Oceanside, Dec. 14. After qualifying to compete in the championships...

Emily Tonnu, a Westview alumni 2020 graduate and senior film major at San Diego State University carefully watched the monitor in the Westview stadium from her director’s chair, March 17. One Westview...

  Marko Huisa (12) first watched the 2002 Spider-Man movie when he was only 6 years old. Mesmerized by the movie’s ability to bring other-worldly scenes to life, Huisa committed himself to videography,...

Navyaa Sharma (12) is a straight-A student. She has worked a job and completed an internship in her high school career, all while taking 15 AP classes. In her senior year, she dedicated hours of energy...

Abby Daines (12) worked with the Days for Girls organization to pack 1,000 menstrual health kits for women in need in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Feb. 5. In the gym-like cultural hall of her...

Alexander McAllister (10) likes to tell people that breaking his back on a Wiffle ball inadvertently led him to rank third internationally of 13-18-year-olds in RowErg 100 meter speed of 2024 on the ergometer,...

Liam Doran (10) led his robotics team, Gear Up, to 10 wins at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) league meet at Sage Creek High School, ranking them third in their league, Jan. 14. The league meet was the...

On New Year’s Eve, Eva Porter (11) focused more on the New Year’s Day ahead than the midnight clock strike. She would dance for the largest audience of her life of almost a million spectators in the...

Sophia Hellenkamp (11) has known the neighborhood-renowned “dog lady” for as long as she can remember. Sarah Eishen, the local dog nanny, used to take care of Hellenkamp’s black lab, Shana, whenever...

Abby Daines (12) was only 6 years old when she began working on cars. That year, her dad bought an old Chevrolet square-body truck in need of restoration. At first, he asked Daines to help him with simple...

Celine Ciotta (12) has family in Venezuela who she often calls and greets in Spanish, but she was never very confident in her Spanish grammar prior to taking classes in the language. Ciotta said that by...

Malea Wiener (11) spent much of her childhood in the desert of Albuquerque, New Mexico. In third grade, when she moved to California, she enjoyed frequent trips to the beach with her family. Wiener played...

Westview Young Life joined with the Ladle Fellowship, a food distribution organization, to serve meals and clothes to San Diego’s unhoused community at the First Presbyterian Church in downtown San Diego,...

Daniel Park (10) was merely four years old when his mom taught him to play the electric keyboard in their small Chicago apartment for the first time. Nearly 12 years later, Park won first place in the...

These days, I see Crocs everywhere. They line the walls in stores, cover my socials, and I spot multiple Westview students in Crocs daily. This isn’t just a local trend and definitely isn’t just me....

In an effort to collect money for foster children, Thea Roy (11), Lauren Kadlubowski (12), Sarah Shaw (12), and Nicole Gordon Tsantsaridi (12) brought eight white boxes to various sites on campus, May...

It was one o’clock in the morning, and the screen from Shawnee Halander’s (11) iPad illuminated the pitch-dark room around her in a white fluorescent hue. Drawing digital drones, rabbits, and slippers...