For Easter this year, as many people do, I went to church. But the service I attended wasn’t like any other that I’d experienced before. The lively band, complimentary coffees, and colorfully lit stage...

Dylan Bui (12) performs at Note by Note foundation's first event for Rady's Children Hospital children at the Ronald McDonald Charity House Charities, Saturday.

The blacked-out stage slowly illuminated, and pink and white spotlights focused downstage on Mr. Bayanihan contestant Camden Sermona (11) and his partner, Aren Dizon (12). The excited silence of the audience...

Over the past year, I’ve noticed a significant decline in my ability to smell. Although the loss of the sense makes little impact on my capacity to live, and despite its gradual onset, I still find myself...

Nothing puts me in the holiday spirit more than my Christmas music playlist, which defrosts every year on the first day of November. With my beautiful, extensive list of songs, I begin celebrating the...

El Salvador led 10-8 in the bottom of the seventh inning at the Women’s Softball Central American Games finals as the Guatemalan batter faced her second strike. She fouled off the third pitch, and the...

EZ Lang-Loveless (12) anxiously anticipated his entrance into the Westview pool. In front of more than 75 spectators, he would ceaselessly tread water, try to complete powerful passes to his teammates,...

  Origami paper cranes of vibrant reds, blues, pinks, and greens draped from the ceiling, adorned the walls, and embellished the floor surrounding Terri Sun (10) and Albert Li (12) at the Bonita...

As the final song of Dance Troupe’s Spring Show, “Colors,” came to an end, senior technical director and stage manager Max Graham (12) signaled for the lights to dim and the curtains to close, May...

Captain Bhavaani Nayak (12) took a deep breath and one last glance at her team and family anxiously cheering her on before mounting the beam. Lifting herself up four feet to find her balance at the top,...

Soles pressed carefully against the starting block, Luke Yakubisin (12) mentally prepared for his 110-meter hurdle race at the home dual meet against San Marcos, March 20. As his heart raced, he reminded...

Second Platoon Commander Julia Cheon (11) took off in the 100-meter sprint, her team lined along the right side of the track bursting into vibrant cheers. Their deafening shouts of encouragement urged...

Having made it past the break, Nishk Shah (11) balanced easily with his surfboard on the now calm water. The weather was mild and the ocean was quiet, which is why Shah said...

Leonardo Cano (11) serves as the recruitment officer of the Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC). Despite his recruitment efforts, enrollment in the program continues to decline. Now, Cano...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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) 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...