Skip to Main Content
The official student news site of Westview High School

The Nexus

The official student news site of Westview High School

The Nexus

The official student news site of Westview High School

The Nexus

Rosemary Cabanban

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor

Rosemary Cabanban (11) is currently in her third year as a Nexan. If you encounter a Rosemary in the wild, please offer a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and/or perform a little jig.

All content by Rosemary Cabanban
Photo Illustration by Evelyn Shoemaker, Ella Jiang, Rosemary Cabanban, and Kai Snyder

Asian Invasian ups the ante

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor December 20, 2024

Joel Jacob (11) hammers a nail into a wooden framework, Nov. 9. Jacob helped build a home for a family of five in Mexico. 

Photo Courtesy of Joel Jacob

Jacob constructs house in Mexico

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor November 22, 2024

Joel Jacob (11) spent his Veteran’s Day weekend in a camp 45 minutes south of Tijuana, volunteering in a small rural community in Mexico.  From Friday to Monday, he and 17 other high schoolers slept...

Involuntary servitude for prisoners takes advantage of vulnerable inmates

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor November 22, 2024

Recently, California voters rejected Proposition 6, which would have changed state policy that some refer to as a loophole for “modern-day slavery” in the form of involuntary labor in prisons. The...

Review: Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor November 1, 2024

Early on Monday morning, Tyler Okonma, professionally known as Tyler the Creator, released his seventh album, Chromakopia. With 14 unique tracks, beginning with “St. Chroma,” featuring popular R&B...

Woobin Wang (12) draws on her tablet outside the library, Oct. 16. Due to a lack of staffing and budget cuts, the library now closes at 4 p.m. Mondays.

Budget deficit reduces library hours, students forced to adapt

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor November 1, 2024

For much of her previous three years in high school, Woobin Wang (12) would make her way to the library right as school ended on Mondays. She would take her spot in the space reserved for quiet study, ...

Kadence Ly (12) [left] celebrates with her teammates after scoring the winning goal at Senior Night, Oct 21. Ly and five other seniors played their last regular-season game. 

Courtesy of Peter Bostrom

Field Hockey ends league with 1-0 win against Vista

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor November 1, 2024

After a defensive battle in the first half, featuring a lot of back-and-forth passing and several attempted shots on the Vista goal, in the third quarter, right mid player Kadence Ly (12) scored the only...

Ethan Tram (12) restocks the shelves at Lucky Seafood, Sept. 29. Tram started working at the store at the beginning of the school year through his dad, the owner and since then, has been able to practice Vietnamese and social skills with customers.

Tram improves social skills as grocer

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor October 11, 2024

Seeing an empty check-out aisle and waiting customers, Ethan Tram (11) unhesitantly dashed to the cash register, smiling at a customer on a Sunday afternoon.  He made casual small talk as he scanned...

Colloquial Connections

Colloquial Connections

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor September 20, 2024

 Eva Porter (12) is a member of Westview Dance Troupe. She rehearses with the team nearly nine hours per week. After each good run-through, the team congratulates each other with a resounding “werk.” “On...

AIM teen mental health course aids teenagers with helping peers in crisis

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor August 30, 2024

After noticing that a lot of students struggle with their mental health, Robbie Gray (12) said he decided to do more to try to help. He attended a three-day course this summer on teen mental health first...

Gabby Scott ('15) runs in the 400 meter dash in the 2024 Paris Olympics for Puerto Rico, Aug. 6. She originally aimed to become a professional in volleyball and soccer, but it was former Westview coach, Jamal Felton, who encouraged her to run. 

Courtesy of Gabby Scott

Westview alumna Gabby Scott competes in Olympics

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor August 30, 2024

Sporting bright blue and the Puerto Rican flag, Gabby Scott (’15) faced the 80,000 sold-out seats and deafening cheers above her in the Stade de France, a stadium bigger than any she’d ever competed...

Westview GOLD's saxophones, sousaphones, and percussion march through Disneyland, May 4. This was the first time in over four years that Westview was able to participate in the Disneyland Star Wars Day parade.

GOLD performs Star Wars arrangement at Disneyland

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor May 31, 2024

Zoe Marshall (11) concentrated on the sound of their French horn as Westview GOLD marched down Main Street at Disneyland. In neat columns and rows, the band paraded through the park while playing “Star...

Signing off: student-athlete commits

Signing off: student-athlete commits

Sébastien Wenger - University of Alabama Sébastien Wenger (12) began swimming when he was only 2 and started competitively by 4 years old. After trying football, rugby, and lacrosse in elementary...

Photo Illustration by Abby Siu, Phoebe Vo, and Rosemary Cabanban

Spring Music Festival

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor May 3, 2024

Jenna Knott (11) walked alongside her friend Jordyn Nygren (11) facing the crowd of high schoolers in the amphitheater during lunch, April 26. They searched the crowd for the smiling faces of their...

Derek Ho (9) competes in the 100-yard breaststroke race at home against Poway, March 15. As one of the fastest on the team, Ho placed first with a time of 59:35.

Ho swims 100-yard breaststroke, ranks 14th in history in age group

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor April 5, 2024

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 ('20) directs a film for her thesis project at SDSU titled "Dissonance," March 9. Tonnu's film was aided by DMP class' students and equipment.

DMP class acts as extras in Tonnu’s thesis film

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor April 5, 2024

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...

Huisa captures emotions through videography

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor March 15, 2024

  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,...

A Loneliness Epidemic

A Loneliness Epidemic

Haven Teudt and Rosemary Cabanban March 15, 2024

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) cuts fabric for a menstrual health kit during a volunteering event, Feb. 5. The Days for Girls organization creates each kit then donates them to women in need in developing countries.

Daines, Days for Girls donate menstrual products to DRC

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor February 16, 2024

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) [third from the left] practices with his rowing team at Mission Bay, Feb. 8. McAllister has learned to work in unison with others on the water.

McAllister ranks third in ergometer rowing

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor February 16, 2024

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) fixes a wiring issue inside his team's robot and reattaches the cover panel with screws, Jan. 15. For this year's FTC challenge, the robot is required to pick up hexagon-shaped tiles to create an artistic design on the game mat.

Doran leads Gear Up to third in league

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor January 26, 2024

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...

Eva Porter (11) waves while dancing in London's New Year's Day Parade. She performed with the United Spirit Association.

Porter dances at New Year’s Parade in London

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor January 26, 2024

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...

Community member Sarah Eishen takes six dogs on their daily walk, Dec. 5. She has cared for dogs for 10 years.

Eishen serves as dog-walking icon on block

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor December 22, 2023

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...

Daines adjusts the alternator and checks the carburetor in her 1966 Chevrolet C20 Custom Camper. Daines and her dad worked on repairing the truck for several years in Utah until they could tow it home. Now, Daines drives her truck every day to school.

Daines builds car passion

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor December 22, 2023

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...

Donna Mahmoudi (12) and Aleyna Pala (12) construct inspirational posters out of magazines, newspapers, and paints in their Spanish 9-10 class, Nov. 7. The posters will be used to decorate the classroom, each student's art contributing.

Fun engages Spanish 9-10 students

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor November 17, 2023

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) points out sea life in a touch tank of the Preuss Tide Pool Plaza at the Birch Aquarium, Nov. 4. Wiener volunteers at the aquarium, talking to visitors about local marine species and answering questions.

Underwater Wonder

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor November 17, 2023

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 students serve soup to the unhoused community of San Diego at the First Presbyterian Church, Oct 8. Young Life members have worked with Ladle Fellowship for two years.

Young Life serves at soup kitchen

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor October 27, 2023

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,...

Red dye No. 3 ban ensures safety of Californian consumers, sets precedent

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor October 26, 2023

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law banning red dye No. 3, a colorant that gives foods bright red and pink colors, and three other potentially harmful food additives on Oct 7. Assembly Bill 418,...

Dance requires athleticism, should be recognized as legitimate sport

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor October 10, 2023

In elementary school, when people asked me what sports I play and I told them that I danced, they looked a bit puzzled. Apparently, my response was inadequate. As  I have been told many times since...

Rabanal performs Armed Exhibition for NJROTC

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor October 10, 2023

When Adam Rabanal (11) was in eighth grade, he was in search of a hobby to begin in high school: a new activity for a new start. However, he lacked ideas as to what it could be. Unbeknownst to him,...

Park wins first in the Charleston International Piano Competition

Park wins first in the Charleston International Piano Competition

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor September 15, 2023

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...

Purple Crocs have defined my childhood

Purple Crocs have defined my childhood

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor September 15, 2023

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....

Playing at the Next Level

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...

Students set up donation boxes, collect funds for Promises2Kids

Students set up donation boxes, collect funds for Promises2Kids

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor June 2, 2023

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...

Black and Gold

EVAN ERICKSON Boys Volleyball There is nothing that gives Evan Erickson (12) more joy in a volleyball game than yelling for his teammates. Since joining the program as a freshman, he’s found his...

My sophomore year won’t be perfect

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor May 5, 2023

Summer break is near and with only about five weeks left of school, I’m busy anticipating trips to the beach and excursions with friends. However, not all my thoughts include sun tans; the end of my...

Double duty: Brown joins Girl Scouts, then joins Boy Scouts

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor May 5, 2023

Sea Sirens from Greek mythology are infamous for being part woman and part animal, often luring sailors to their demise. On the contrary, the all-girl patrol of the Scouts BSA named the Sirens is far more...

Robotics animation team wins second place internationally

Rosemary Cabanban, Sports Editor March 17, 2023

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...

Load More Stories