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STUDENT
Carlos Barquin, one of the most iconic figures in our school, often advises students to expect the unexpected. Whether it’s a pop quiz in anatomy, an injury that changes the way we play the game, or simply a personal setback, his words always ring truth in our daily lives. As we prepare to take on the world, we take his words to heart as we too, learn to expect the unexpected. We would like to dedicate this book to our Athletics Director Mr. Carlos Barquin, who exemplifies a true man for others, and is often the source of our inspiration.
-Bruno Zayas ECHOES Editor-in-Chief
OPENING the
SPIRITUAL LIFE
By: Gabriel Abril
Gathering as a community to pray
Being a community of Christians, prayer has always been a central aspect of the school. Whether it was the different masses held throughout the year, the prayers before the various sporting events, or even the daily morning prayer that kicks off the day.
Prayer is something that surrounds every member of this school, and the school wide masses were the most significant because they united every member of the community in spiritual reflection.
“I think praying before sports are important because all these opportunities that we have to play sports is given to us from God. So when we pray we ask him to help us play to the best of our abilities and also to thank him for giving us this great opportunity to play this great sport,” said seventh grader David Fernandez.
One of the most interesting facts about school-wide masses was that they were actually held in one of the noisiest places in the school: the school gym. However, for this solemn ceremony you could always hear a pin drop.
In addition to gathering in the Jesuit tradition to pray as a community, last year the student body, faculty, and staff were all able to witness alum Michael Martinez ‘09 make his vows to continue his journey to priesthood.
Martinez could have chosen anywhere to make his vows, but he chose his second home, the school from which he graduated, to make this most sacred commitment.
“It is nice to see one of our brothers follow the tradition instilled in us,” said senior Andres Artime.
Singing at the Mass of the Immaculate Conception, Dr. Josefina Chirino’s peer ministry class brings the Scriptures to life for those who attended. This was the last time in the first semester that the student body got together to celebrate Christmas mass together, and prepare for the birth of Jesus.
Reading the Prayer of the Faithful, junior Daniel Chavez participates in the Mass of the Holy Spirit. Chavez was also a member of the Peer Ministry class, and sang in several school-wide masses.
Kneeling in front of the Jesuit Provincial Father Javier Vidal, SJ, alum Michael Martinez from the class of 2009 makes his vows to continue in the steps to becoming a Jesuit priest. This very emotional Mass ended on a high note as Martinez rapped a song about embarking on the path to God for the students and all other attendees.
During a school-wide mass, sophomore Javan Rice receives Communion from Art History teacher Mr. Leopoldo Nunez. Students were given the opportunity to take part in the Act of Reconciliation during the school-wide masses.
Commemorating the International World Day of Prayer set by Pope Francis, science teacher Mr. Ignacio Scull along with some of his students set a plant in soil. On this day, the community gathered in the central patio to pray for world peace and tolerance among humans.
2. Creating their thanksgiving prayer cards, sixth graders Michael Morin and Alejandro Vasquez focus on what they are most thankful for in their CLC group.
3. Working with her CLC group, Assistant Principal Dr. Lucila Espinosa encourages Andres Jimenez and his peers to speak openly with the group.
Christian Life Community
By: Christian Norniella-Burke
Igniting the Jesuit spark in all ... one Tuesday at a time
A huge part of the school’s experience was the Ignatian values that were instilled in every student. The Christian Life Community, better known as CLC, was significantly popular among students, especially those in the middle school and in the sixth grade, where students were just beginning to make friends and getting to know each other. Students who came in to the school looking to add to their faith, were always
greeted by the smiles and kind words of the CLC guides.
“CLC is basically realizing God in your life and getting closer to Him, as well as learning how you can live your life for Him,” said sixth grader George Balepogi.
Dr. Josefina Chirino always made sure that the CLC environment was warm and inviting enough for all those involved. The environment helped the students to
feel comfortable enough to share their most inner thoughts, their questions about faith, and their every day struggles.
“CLC is one place where I can come and really deepen my faith by being able to reflect in my every day actions” said seventh grader John Broe.
The group met every Tuesday during homeroom, and often added to the friendly and inviting atmosphere with a few pastelitos.
1.In her CLC group, Ms. Ana Mora leads sixth graders Carlos Perez-Abreu and Eduardo Dager in an art project to represent their faith.
Youth Mission Trip
By: Sebastian Paoli
Making a difference in someone else’s backyard
With the help of the school alumni and students from Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, the class of 2016 traveled to the small community of El Puerto in the Dominican Republic over the summer for 10 days to build a physical and spiritual bridge between two cities.
“I was able to form a very special bond with the people in the community, and really grew spiritually,” said senior Gabriel Gonzalez.
This 100 foot bridge allowed the two communities to communicate during the rainy season, when the dangerous surrounding river had too strong of a current and had caused multiple deaths in the past.
Throughout the years, the school community has traveled to different communities within the Dominican Republic with the help of ILAC, a non profit institution that promotes and develops
1. Unloading the bags of cement from the back of the truck, senior Tomas Bello carries a bag on his shoulder to begin the mixing process. Students began to work on the bridge from the day they arrived until the day before their departure.
2. Hard at work, senior Christian del Castillo mixes one of the hundreds of bags of cement during the trip, while the other students take a
human and spiritual growth of rural communities. This project has led to many missions to help the poor and take medical care of the local in the more rural villages of this country.
“This trip allowed me to get closer to my classmates, and seeing how the people live over there and their struggles, has taught me to be thankful for everything I have,” said senior Andres Cesin.
The students over the years have described this trip as a definite life changing experience, and one that marked their lives forever. The 10 day experience included mixing cement, laying bricks, and learning many things from the local population. The majority of the students often return from the trip with a profound understanding of poverty and humility.
“It definitely taught me to be humble,” said senior Manrique Iriarte.
break from the shovels and pick axes. The trip was labor intensive, but according to those who attended, it was equally gratifying.
3. All of the BYM participants pose for a picture on the last day of the trip in front of the newly built bridge. The students were able to finish the bridge on time, and although they were happy to have helped, many expressed sadness to leave the local community.
By: Jonathan Garcia
Escaping reality to review personal relationships with God
As a part of the theology class, retreats were always offered to the student body to enhance their faith, but for each grade, there were different types of retreats. In the middle school, there were the usual retreats which were held at the Manresa Retreat House. These retreats usually marked the first time the students attended a retreat, and therefore it included various activities such as icebreakers, inspirational videos, and witnesses to strengthen the retreatants’ bond with Christ.
“I feel the highlight of my middle school retreats was the bonding experiences I had with my peers as we all have good and bad experiences but God is with us through it all” said eighth grader Juan Pablo Dibildox.
When students moved on to high school, the retreats started to change a bit and become more interactive. Starting with the freshman class that was offered the Hurtado Experience. This experience allowed an opportunity for students to immerse themselves into direct service.
The reason the high school retreats changed was to force the students beyond the typical four walls of the school and Manresa.
Theology classes wanted to try to help the students find God in all things, and hopefully do so by stepping outside of their comfort zones.
“I worked with the elderly and I was unaware that they had so many problems that aren’t their fault,” said freshman Matthew Morales. “That made me realize how short life is and to always have a positive attitude.”
During sophomore and junior year, the retreats became overnight trips in order to make the retreat feel more personal and bring everyone closer together. As a longer retreat, this one called for more activities and talks like a group balancing on wooden board, follow the leader, zip-line, kayaking and more. The main focus was usually on the witnesses which were always impacting and emotional, but the reflection after, with the song, was sometimes even more powerful.
“Doing the Zip-line and walking on a tight line, simple and fun activities but they had a message behind them that opened my eyes that no other retreat has ever done for me,” said sophomore Diego Perera.
Praying and reflecting on the day, seventh grader Gabriel Fortuny looks back on his day at the retreat.
Building a framework with pipes, sophomore Max Salazar, senior Joseph Garcia and senior Thomas Gonzalez work together in a team building exercise.
Playing a flag football game, all the freshman and students from Blue Lakes Academy compete against each other in a friendly game.
1. Doing the sign of the cross, seventh grader Sebastian Rigueiro and his classmates celebrate mass during one of the seventh grade retreat in Manresa.
2. Huddling with special needs students from Blue Lakes Academy, members of the freshman class help the Blue Lakes students come up with a strategy for the game of football.
3. Getting personal, senior Andres Artime speaks to the sophomores who went to the Cardoner Retreat about
his life and how his faith has impacted him.
4. Giving a witness, senior Nicolas Tamborrel introduces the retreat theme and some of the activities everyone will do for the day at the Cardoner retreat.
5. Speaking to his small group, senior Joseph Garcia tries to initiate a discussion between the kids about their previous talk. All retreats included older peer ministers who helped the students to find their path to God.
Papal Visit
By: Gabriel Abril
Witness history in the making
As far as international religious events go, 2015 was filled with significant moments and figures. One very important and unforgettable moment was marked by the first time in history that Pope Francis traveled to Cuba and the United States of America in order to meet with political leaders and address the nation as a whole.
In the various meetings, his Holiness addressed the country’s economical system and the fact that there was too much emphasis placed on money, wealth, and success instead of the people who really need help.
Some students had the opportunity to travel to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., to see the Pope’s speeches live and attend the masses. Among the people who were fortunate enough to travel to these places to see the pope, was senior Rodrigo Bustamante, who also made a stop at the United Nations building and spoke on behalf of the Voices of Youth.
“It is difficult to appropriately express the impact taking part in Sustainable Development Goals Summit had on me. This opportunity was nothing but surreal. As my time at the Summit came to an end, I took home the realization that my idealistic dreams are valuable, that the youth matters and that together we can achieve countless goals for our world,” said senior Rodrigo Bustamante.
Thanks to the school’s technology, students were able to watch all the events live in their classrooms.
Driving around in the pope mobile, Pope Francis greets the different people in his parade.This was the pope’s first vist to the United States.
Speaking on behalf of the Voices of Youth, senior Rodrigo Bustamante represents the school community at UNICEF in New York City.
Gathering together as a class, the juniors watched the Pope’s address to Congress in the Cosculluela.
Mass of Thanksgiving
By: Gabriel Abril
Torch passes on to new school president
1. Entering into a deeper meditative state, Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ, leads the school community in the singing of the Salve Regina.
watched attentively.
2. Leading the homily during the Thanksgiving Mass, Father Willie grabs the attention of the student body with his powerful message of prayer.
5. With a smile on his face, previous rector Father Pedro Suarez, SJ, welcomes Father Willie GarciaTunon, SJ, to the office of the school presidency. 2 3 4
3. Gathering together for the Our Father, the student body holds hands to become one. The Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated in the school gym and streamed live to the Roca Theater where the middle school
4. Celebrating the Sacrament of the Eucharist, Father Javier Vidal, SJ, prepares the bread and wine for distribution. Father Vidal, Provincial for the Antilles, oversaw the transition process between previous president Father Pedro Suarez, SJ, and the new president Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ.
ACADEMICS
Sitting
for
By: Jose Arevalo
Counseling
Getting past those rough bumps in the road
With the burden of handling all the required classes and other sports and activities, you would have thought that no one understood you, and you would have had to overcome all of these obstacles by yourself. If you would have paid a visit to one of your counselors, you would have been immediately proven wrong.
Every single student was assigned a counselor to listen to your problems and help you find a solution to those specific setbacks. Some students enjoyed speaking with their counselors and getting some quality advice from professional problem solvers.
There were students who went to their counselor’s office often. Junior Joshua Lara always stayed connected to his counselor.
“I go to Ms. Homans’ office once or twice a week to either talk about school, or just talk about what’s going on in my life,” said Lara.
Other students like sophomore Mario Rodriguez, loved going to his counselor’s office to simply vent and let the daily stress out.
“My counselor, Ralph, is a super nice person, and he is one of the funniest guys I know,” said Rodriguez.
The counselors could help manage schedules and help students organize their time inside and outside the classroom. If you felt too shy to walk up to them, they would come to you just to refresh and stay connected.
“I usually don’t go to my counselor’s office but it’s always nice when she calls me down to talk about the school year,” said junior Peter Martin.
They saw it all and understood almost every problem you could get yourself into. They were the stress cushions and helped relieve the anxieties of life. For students, one of the highlights of their day was the unexpected green pass to see a counselor.
Mr. Ledesma
“Bring
me a croqueta!”
down
his meeting, junior Peter Martin shares his thoughts about the school year with his counselor Ms. Kimberly Homans.
By: Jose Arevalo
Spiritual
His presence is closer than you imagine
Taught in a Jesuit community, one would have thought that a specific class dedicated to the study of religion would be enough. In other words, the theology class was the one place where all the religious questions would be answered.
Unexpectedly, many in depth questions about the faith were answered under the guidance of the spiritual counselors.
Every student in the school, from sixth through twelfth, was assigned a spiritual counselor. During those troubling times when you needed someone by your side to help you, the spiritual counselors were there to remind you that God was still with you and willing to help you get through the challenge that came your way.
“I’m so tired, I’m re-tired”
In a busy world surrounded by distractions and anxieties, it was nice to slow things down a bit, and have the complex questions
regarding your personal life answered.
Spiritual counseling could make a serious impact on the first visit. The counselors were not there to criticize but to help students better understand God’s plan for them.
“After my spiritual counselor called me out of class for the first time of the year, I felt closer to my spiritual self,” said junior Carlos Vazquez
Sometimes spiritual counselors could make an impact outside of their office as well.
“I rarely go to Fr. Frank’s office but I do hear him lead prayers at the football games and while hanging out with the seniors during the game,” said junior Manuel Barreto about his spiritual counselor Father Frank Permuy, SJ.
Being open to the spiritual counselors could lead to an enlightenment and sometimes even a friendship. Spiritual counseling was a unique privilege that accompanied this school’s religious experience.
Speaking face to face with a person who specialized in teaching the Jesuit way of prayer could prove to be very helpful in everyone’s life. It helped students to deal with the unexpected twists and turns of daily life.
Trying to dig a little deeper in his faith, sophomore Jason Rodriguez visits his spiritual counselor Deacon Jorge Prieto.
Fr. Cartaya, SJ
Going
By: Gabriel Abril
To teach or not to teach: Why not just let the students take over?
When taking any class, the last thing you would expect is for the students to take over the teaching process. This type of unexpected situation is exactly what happened in the freshmen English class of Mrs. Michelle Jordan and Ms. Cristina Ramirez’s junior English class.
These two teachers figured out creative ways in which they could teach the lessons while keeping their students engaged and entertained.
“I try to make my class a student-centered forum. Students read aloud, present their analysis of the work, act out a scene from a work of literature with a group of peers, or present a Power point on aspects of British history,” said Ms. Ramirez. “The hope is that they not only learn the material, but that they also enjoy the process.”
In the ninth grade, English took on a whole new level with the infamous coup d’état during the reading of the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. A coup d’état is the sudden overthrow of a government by a small group of people in, or previously in, positions of authority.
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After reading the book, Mrs. Jordan gave her freshmen students the option to throw their own coup d’état and run the class in their own way.
“Having the power of a teacher not only gives us a chance to see what it is like to teach students, but also gives us a new perspective and respect for the teacher because we can see how hard it is to be in their shoes,” said freshmen Nicolas Gonzalez.
Although their styles differed slightly, both Ms. Ramirez and Mrs. Jordan made their lessons entertaining, creative, and engaging. Most importantly, their lessons were unbelievably, and unforgettably unexpected.
“This lesson was truly different,” said junior Ricardo Labrada.
Mr. Alexander
“Be that as it may...”
over the coup d’état project, Mrs. Michelle Jordan explains the concept of taking over the class to her students.
By: Gabriel Abril
Communications
If you were to look at the curriculum of the typical student, you would probably see a variety of challenging classes such as honor or AP courses. However, once in a while you encounter those students who have an unusual type of class. Some of those classes can be found in the communications track.
One of the most popular classes under the communications umbrella was Public Speaking, taught by Mr. Leo Williams. The public speaking class was a class in which students learned to present themselves and articulate properly in front of a crowd, whether it be a personal interview or an oral presentation in front of thousands of people.
Mr. Williams
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“The class teaches many things, but most importantly, how to address a crowd,” said senior Dylan Pareja. Although it may seem like a typical class at first with the teacher taking attendance, the most unexpected things happened next.
“Whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be hot, we’ll be together whatever the weather whether we like it or not”
First, the students were led in a series of vocal exercises meant
to warm up their vocal chords. The students in the class often led these exercises, themselves. To anyone walking in it may seem like silly chatter, but the students always knew that they were learning valuable lessons in the art of speaking and projecting their voices.
“Taking this class, I now feel confident when giving a presentation to my fellow peers,” said sophomore Jorge Garcia. “I feel as if whatever it is I’m presenting will get across to whomever it is directed at.”
As if the vocal exercises were not enough, the students were often engaged in impromptu speeches. They had to choose a folded paper from a hat. The folded papers included a topic which they had to discuss, argue, or simply present. Students in the public speaking class had a set amount of minutes in which they could speak about their topic with only seconds to prepare.
“I took this class not thinking much about it, but I have come to realization that it is actually very important,” said junior Matthew Bravo.
The next part was probably the one just about everyone dreaded. The class was given the opportunity to critique the speech and tell the speaker exactly what he did right and what he did wrong. The outcome was always completely unexpected.
During the vocal exercises of class, Joey Plasencia and Roberto Lacasa practice their entonation.
Learning Abroad
At the beginning of this educational experience, students from both schools gather outside of St. Ignatius High School in Taiwan to pose for a memorable picture.
Overseas Study Program in China
When a group of students led by Mr. Charles Cleveland decided to travel to Asia to learn more about the culture, they proobably did not expect to fall in love with the country, its customs, and its people. The trip took place at the beginning of the summer break. While in Taiwan, students had the opportunity to visit Tamkang University and the Night Market.
1. Students and chaperones get together to take a group photo over looking the Hualien Coastline in Taiwan.
2. At the top of the lookout Tower in Hualien, junior Diego Ortega, sophomore Kyle Castellanos, and junior Daniel Garrastazu take a moment to take in the picturesque setting.
3. Chaperones of the trip
Ms. Annette Anton, Mr. Charles Cleveland, Ms. Hsiao Chiu, and Mr. Francisco Padura pose for a picture in front of one of Taiwan’s most beautiful beaches.
4. Members of the Overseas Study Program enjoy a traditional Taiwanese dinner at one of the local restaurants.
By: Michael Cabeza
Feria de la Hispanidad
By: Michael Cabeza
1. Modern Languages Department Chairperson Ms. Annette Anton, School Principal Dr. Maria Cristina ReyesGarcia, President Father Pedro Suarez, SJ, and Assistant Principal Dr. Lucila Marazita-Espinosa address the enormous crowd that attended last year’s Modern Languages Fair.
2. Event attendees look at the displays created by the students in their language classes. The shoe box displays of Hispanic countries were always a big hit at the fair.
3. As part of his working shift, sophomore
Sebastian Rivera uses his guitar playing skills to attract customers to the Honduras food booth.
4. Standing in front of their booth, sophomores Kasser Ismail, Ivan Pachon, Alexis Agreda, Eric Labrador, and Richard Morales represent the country of Bolivia.
5. All visitors gathered in the Garrido Family Plaza to enjoy the music, food, and company. Students, faculty, friends, and families attended this popular school event to celebrate National Hispanic Month.
Humanities
By: Jonathan Garcia
Campaigning for the best art!
During the second semester, Ms. Maria Ines Leanez, eleventh grade Art History teacher, had her students create an ad campaign using famous sculptures, forms of architecture, or paintings. The students had to blend a modern day product that targeted teenage boys, with a image of a famous artwork. This was done through Photoshop or any other imaging software.
This project gave the students an opportunity to bring out their inner-entrepreneurship and artistic side in order to produce the best advertisement campaign possible. Being a Western Civilization and Art History class, this allowed kids to apply different subjects to what they had learned in this class.
“It’s interesting to see what I learned in my business class crossing over into my Art History class through this one project,” said senior Francisco Odon.
The ad project also required students to use different types of technology such as the computer and/or iPad to edit the artwork. This gave students the freedom to blend different results with the artwork and produce a creative advertisement.
“It was cool to see how even art from ancient times can still influence us nowadays and have a real life application,” said senior Alfredo Cepero.
All ads were required to be presented to the class and
that is when everyone got to see the re-imaged painting. This ad project was a student favorite since it required them to think out of the box and see art in a brand new light.
Over the years, Ms. Leanez has seen brand name shoes sold by statues of Hermes, sports drinks in the hands of the mighty Zeus, and head gear sported by the famous Mona Lisa. One thing was for certain, the students really got to know their art.
“I have found over the years that students engage the most with Art History if they see the connection between artworks and themselves. I find that this particular project bridges academic knowledge and adolescent interests, while also giving them an opportunity to think outside of the box,” said Ms. Leanez. “It is always fun to see students present their campaign in class and explain their choices of art work.”
“Francis Bacon’s arguments were so bad, that he got fried. Get it bacon, fried.”
Mr. Lund
By: Ted Huertas
Mathematics
LoDHi-HiDLo/LoLo ... Where did the math quiz go?
Every teacher in all subjects have a different way of teaching their students. In the mathematics department, there was one teacher that had her students learn material with an unusual method.
As the eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Delgado encouraged her students to learn math equations and formulas with a tune. Using music or beats helped each and every one of her students to have the lengthy formulas embedded in their brain. Many of her students boast high grades in tests because this unusual method simply worked.
“I absolutely enjoyed the way she teaches. I feel like in the future, this way of learning will stick with me and help with a difficult test or quiz that will require tremendous amount of studying,” said junior Gabriel Seda.
Another teacher who taught mathematics and put a most unexpected twist to his test day was Mr. Jose E. Roca. Once a semester, on his test day, Mr. Roca would hide his tests in a secret spot somewhere in the classroom, and allowed his students to search for it before he arrived to class. His students
had less than four minutes to scour the room, searching every nook and cranny for the test. If it was found within the given time, then that student automatically received a perfect score on the test. Although no student has ever found Mr. Roca’s infamous hidden test, it is sworn among the math classes that someday it will be found.
“When it is test day, all of us have the mind set that we will find the test. We make a game plan to look through all the small spaces of the room. One day I will find it and get that 100!” said senior Diego Rivera.
Although the tests have not been found, the hope that someday, someone will get that perfect score keeps the students looking forward to test days, and improving their searching skills.
Mrs. Vichot “This problem is ka-put!”
Challenging his students in the Calculus class, Mr. Jose E. Roca begins the lesson in this class for juniors and seniors.
Teaching the students how to properly hold a hockey stick, coach Patrick Houlihan goes over the basic rules of field hockey.
Physical Education
By: Javier Hernandez
Learning to play sports that are a bit ... unexpected
Physical education was a class taken from the sixth grade all the way to the ninth grade. In most schools, this class often consisted of the more popular sports, such as basketball, soccer, and football.
In this school, however, the sports in P.E. were anything but conventional. Aside from the original activities like football and baseball, this class also included water polo, wrestling, ultimate frisbee, dodgeball, hockey and even European hand ball. This gave the students the opportunity to try out new sports that they may not be familiar with.
“I had never even heard of ultimate frisbee before coming to this school, but now it is one of my favorite activities,” said seventh grader Lucas Rodriguez.
One of the most popular sports in the school was barq ball. This invention by Coach Carlos Barquin was a combination of several sports. This was the only school to play this unique sport, which has been around for many generations.
“Introducing the kids to sports like water polo and
European hand ball really helps them out because they are placed in a new environment that they are not used to,” said sixth grade P.E. Coach Shane Walker.
One of the main goals was to help the students get out of their comfort zone. Additionally, playing these sports forced them to rely on their classmates and learn to work as a group. Then of course, it was always good to get a break from the same boring sports like basketball, soccer and football.
For most students, Physical Education was a time to get out of classes and have fun. Students went all day taking classes and learning, but during P.E., they had the chance to go outdoors and take their mind off from the expected schoolwork.
“If
it hurts, hurt it back”
Coach Barquin
By: Justin Rodriguez
Theology
I
am second to no one but God
In the average school day, there was always the constant pressure of work and grades. Stress is something that all students had to learn to deal with as the years went by. However, it was nice when you got the opportunity to get all the stress off your shoulders and could spend some time in reflection.
Students in Mr. Roberto Artiz’s Theology class were able to do just that. Mr. Artiz, was often times considered to be crazy, energetic, and highly unconventional in his methodology. However, his methods definitely worked. One of the ways he stood out was with the use of videos to inspire and teach.
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“I love how every day I go into class and wonder what video Arty is going to show us today. The videos he shows us inspire me daily, and I’m constantly looking forward to them throughout the day,” said senior Mark Candela
Ms. Angie Fernandez
“You are a jagged rock, and I have a chisel”
This year Mr. Artiz turned to the usage of videos made by the company I am Second
The company created testimonials of athletes who went through a rough patch in their lives and turned their lives over to God. Each testimonial was unique to the individual person, and it offered people a way to figure out for themselves how to change their lives around. The videos gave insight into what the person’s early life was like, and how they overcame the difficult challenges that they encountered.
“The I am Second video series are the best videos I’ve ever seen here at school. They have me on the edge of my seat, and are very interesting and helpful,” said senior Mario Robaina.
Mr. Artiz created an environment that allowed students to relate to his class, and provided them with time to get inspired about life. Mr. Artiz even took the time to create meetings with students who were similar to the testimonials seen on the videos. These meetings took place every Thursday after school, and included numerous athletes from various teams. It was not long before the word got out, and the videos became a habit among students.
“The school-made testimonials are really cool because they give us a chance to hear something about our teammates that we would have never known before,” said junior Pedro Garcia. “It really gives us a chance to get things off our chest.”
In his theology class, Mr. Roberto Artiz gives senior David Gonzalez advice on his analysis of the movie shown in class.
During his science class, Mr. Ignacio Scull explains to his sixth grade students the elements of the Stem Fair Project. All the sixth graders participated in this project.
By: Lucas Cabrera-Ramon
Eureka... I got an idea!
Changing the style of the annual science fair project, science teachers abandoned the idea of the invention convention and replaced it with the Stem Fair Project. The Stem Fair Project was a science project for the sixth grade class that turned the students’ focus to serious issues such as the importance of the ecosystem.
Promoting creativity and ingenuity within the science department, Mr. Ignacio Scull and Mrs. Shyara Lara urged their students to create experiments with plant growth in order to teach students the complexity and importance of plants and the environment. These teachers challenged their students to grow two different types of plants.
“The science project was fun especially doing it with the help of Mr. Scull,” said sixth grader Eduardo Arevalo. Whereas one of the plants would be grown under ideal or favorable conditions, the other one would be grown under extreme harsh conditions. Science teachers instructed their sixth grade students to use their brainpower to find out key factors that would stimulate plant growth, and then limit these factors while growing the second plant.
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The trick was that each plant required different things in order to grow and therefore, students had to understand the ecosystem and the environment of their own plants.
“The science project was the first challenging project that I had to face, and I’m happy I did well in this part of my science class,” said sixth grader Juan Pablo Miro-Quesada.
The project was intended to demonstrate the role that humans have in maintaining the environment. The students quickly realized that the amount of effort they placed on the growth of their plants made a tremendous impact on the final outcome. Students whose work excelled received place awards.
“The stem fair project helped me realize the importance of plants and how they help us with food, oxygen, and shelter,” said sixth grader Sebastian Andrew Shaw.
Mr. Padilla
“No horseyplay in the lab”
Science Fair
By:Joseph Parlade
Science Fair is the annual gathering of students and science teachers who set out to make discoveries and answer questions that concern society as a whole. Last year’s event included some new elements that challenged students in a whole new way.
1. Presenting his assignment, freshman Felipe Castro presents his project to the fair attendees. His project hypothesis was on the development of wheat.
2. To the judges, eighth grader Arsenio Moussa shows his project on the conductivity of electrolytes.
3. Moments after receiving their awards on stage, eighth graders Esteban Rincon, Michael Navarro, and Sean Luke
Beaubien pose for a picture with their trophies.
4. With a semester’s worth of research in hand, students such as sophomore Eric Lastres give their biggest effort to engage and educate the science fair crowd with a powerpoint.
5. Giving a brief explanation of the tenth grade projects, science teacher Mr. Jose Padilla introduces the works of his students to the visiting parents.
After asking a question, sixth grader Pedro Zuloaga gets one on one help from Ms. Janet Diaz.
Social Studies
By: Daniel Chavez
Travelling around the world from the comforts of your own classroom.
No one expects his geography class to be different from the rest. Map tests, notes, and the same tedious memorization of the location of countries with names that are so difficult, no one can pronounce them. That may be true, until you bring digital media into the mix.
Students in the sixth grade geography classes were given complete freedom to make a video about their favorite country and reasons they would want to visit this country. The video could include home movies, pictures, or anything that had to do with that particular country and its culture.
“We had a lot of fun and learned so much about the countries we featured. The project even encouraged many of us to visit these countries in the future,” said sixth grader Felipe Pardo de Zela.
The students also had to write an essay about why they wanted to visit the country and other important information such as typical customs and cultural traditions from the area. Many students enjoyed this project as it allowed them to use their creativity to create a video that was entirely theirs.
“Practice makes perfect when it comes to this project. Trial and error is key when filming a convincing video,” said geography teacher Ms. Janet Diaz.
Additionally, students learned at a very early age to film and edit, and use movie making software such as iMovie. Learning how to work this software helped them tremendously with other projects in other classes as well. Of course, the technology factor made this project so incredibly attractive to all students.
This project also gave students the opportunity to learn and practice their presentation skills as they showed their film to the rest of the class.
“I learned so much about the Brazilian culture,” said sixth grader Antonio Ponte.
Mr. DQ
“Let’s get fired up!”
Overseas Study Program
By: Lucas Lorenzo
Crossing the Pond
This year the Belen Jesuit Overseas Study program visited both England and France. This years trip coincided with the 70 year anniversary of the end of World War II.
1. Posing together to take a picture, students who participated in the Overseas Study Program (OSP) trip stand in front of the Buckingham Palace in London, England.
2. A group of students gather around junior Ceaser Perez-Erminy as he plays a game of Pétanque. While in France, the students were taught by locals how to play this game, which originated in La Ciotat, France.
3. During the visit to the Normandy American Cemetery in Normandy, France, Alumni Ricardo Azze ‘15 and seventh grader Sebastian Velez carry the wreath during a ceremony to honor the veterans who fought in World War II.
4. While visiting Saint-Malo, Brittany, Ms. Maria Ines Leanez reenacts the pose of Robert Sorcauf, the famous French Privateer during the 18th and 19th century.
5. While at Normandy Beach in France, senior Rafael Marmol, math teacher Mr. Jose E. Roca and alumnus Alejandro Hasegawa ‘15 pose for a picture outside a German bunker.
6. Standing outside the cemetery of the Marquis de Lafayette in Paris, Social Studies teacher Mr. Pat Collins teaches the students Lafayette’s importance to the United States during the American Revolution.
STUDENT LIFE
By: Joseph Parlade
Unexpected Activities
It’s not weird ... it’s unexpected
There were always many ways for students to relieve stress and kick back. From wake boarding in the open waters of South Florida to playing soccer in the park nearby, students made sure to keep busy.
Some students, however, took their favorite pastimes to the next level, and almost went on to become professionals with their specific hobbies.
During his free time, junior Matias Vasquez took pictures of the landscape in the city of Miami. His favorite spots to set up his equipment were the roof tops of buildings and sky scrapers.
He also enjoyed taking pictures of local landmarks such as the Marine Stadium in Key Biscayne and other historic buildings.
Vasquez also captured the beauty of other cities and countries. His portfolio includes pictures from New York City, Las Vegas, California, and the country of Colombia.
His talent brought the attention of many big name companies such as Adidas and Del Toro Shoes. These companies commissioned Vasquez to photograph their shoes.
“I love to be on top of the city and work with angles that most people do not normally see,” said Vasquez.
Sophomore Alfred Perez was not just a soccer fanatic. Like many teens, he played soccer in his spare time. He
was playing soccer for as long as he could remember.
Perez stood out from most soccer players in the school because he actually did not play for the school. When he was only 15 years old, he tried out and made it to the U.S. National Soccer Team. On this team, he competed against young soccer players from other nations.
Just about every weekend, Perez and his team flew all over the world to play soccer. Over time, he worked his way up to become one of the team’s captains.
“I enjoy representing the nation in soccer because I bring a lot of pride to my family and to other soccer enthusiasts,” said Perez.
From the soccer fields and into the water, many students took full advantage of the year round warm weather to perfect their skills in water sports.
Junior Adrian Bruna became quite the wake boarding expert, spending countless hours in the warm waters of the Florida Keys.
“Everyday I wake up and look at my poster of Travis Pastrana and Street Bike Tommy from NitroCircus. They inspire me to go out and try my hardest,” said Bruna.
Over time, Bruna perfected the tantrum back flip and the backside 360. He continued to practice to hopefully compete with professionals in the near future.
1. Setting up his equipment, junior Matias Vasquez takes the perfect shot of South Beach from Downtown Miami. As a professional photographer, Vazquez’s main focus was taking pictures of the city of Miami. He amassed over 10,000 followers on Instagram.
2. Taking control of the ball, sophomore Alfred Perez plays a soccer match against the Bolivian National Team. Perez was a member of the U.S. National Soccer Team U16.
3. At the Keys Cable Park, junior Adrian Bruna shreds it up, as he hits the ramps while perfecting the back flip. Bruna practiced his moves every week.
By: Jonathan Garcia
ACCESSORIES Hot trends of the year
Apple Watch
Owner: Sophomore Alejandro Cepero
“With new age technology, the watch allows for you to access your phone.”
Gameboy Advance iPhone Case
Owner: Senior Kyle Schaeppi-Souza
“A case with a nostalgic feel towards the old gaming system, the Gameboy Color.”
JanSport Cheeseburger Bookbag
Owner: Sophomore Eric Blanco
“Being a teenager, always thinking about food, might as well make your bookbag look like food; a burger perhaps.”
Movado Leather Quartz Watch
Owner: Senior Adrian Hernandez
“Keeping time is necessary but with a slick watch, it’s less of a bother.”
Online Market Frenzy
Ebay and Amazon are online markets that are available to everyone to shop and bid for any item. Students usually visit these sites to easily buy goods that may be limited edition or located in foreign countries.
“I only go on Amazon to buy reasonable priced items like my kid-proof iPad case which was such a steal,” said senior
Michael Cairo.
Usually the bidding wars for particular items could get challenging. Sometimes these wars went on for days. Nevertheless, a good buy was always hard to resist.
“It made me nervous being on the site until the final second, trying to win the bid war against other people,” said junior Sebastion Guinot.
1. Kimono
Owner: Senior Justin Hernandez
Usually used for ceremonies, it’s a regular thing to wear for a zen moment.
Walking around in these, makes it all more comfortable.
On a winter’s night, the hat is sure to keep your ears warm.
Cultural Goodies
Students in the school tend to go all out when they leave school grounds, specifically with their clothing. Most of them tend to wear the popular style of clothing but there are a few who break the norm and have their own unique styles. These fashion styles can sometimes simply derive from a fascination for a certain film or game.
“The games and consoles I play when I was a kid influence a bunch of things I buy today, specifically my clothing and phone case,” said senior Kyle Schaeppi-
Souza.
Some students have such an obsession with other cultural backgrounds, that it later translates into their clothing.
“I really feel like being able to relate to my ancestors. It gives me an insight into another part of the world, and me, that I easily overlook,” said senior Justin Hernandez who had an extensive collection of foreign accessories.
Odd articles of clothing also tend to be passed down from previous generations, usually from the parents or grandparents. Better
A symbol of pride for the country of Colombia, it’s a smaller representation of its flag.
known as vintage items, clothing from other generations attracted many young people who enjoyed knowing that their clothing came with history.
“I like wearing Peruvian clothing because it’s a melting pot of colors that just compels me to bright patterns,” said junior Kevin Simauchi.
Regardless of the reason, students enjoyed showing off their own unique styles. Unique styles broke the daily monotony of the much dreaded school uniform.
3. Peruvian Sherpa Hat Owner: Junior Kevin Simauchi
4. Loom Beaded Bracelet Owner: Senior Tomas Gonzalez
2. Llama Fur Socks Owner: Junior Kevin Simauchi
By: Lucas Cabrera-Ramon
Oh, the drama!
All the world is a stage! Especially for junior Gustavo Gonzalez, who could well be the stage voice for the school.
Gonzalez had been singing since he remembered, and began acted on stage in plays at the age of 13. His first play was Grease where he performed the role of Eugene for the Miami Children’s Theater Company in the Coral Gables Youth Center.
“I attended a summer camp where I had an opportunity to perform, and that was it for me,” said Gonzalez.
He decided that he wanted to try and explore the theater as a possible career venue. He hopes to one day perform on Broadway. For now, he is dedicating his time to acting in the school theater. So far, he has taken roles in The Addams Family and Thespians 101
Aside from the school plays, he has also took part in several plays for the Miami Children’s Theater Company. He played the role of Prince Dauntless in Once Upon a Mattress, and also made an appearance in Godspell, and How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying.
“At first I felt a mix of nerves and excitement, but once you get going and lose yourself in the character, it’s easy to have a great time,” said Gonzalez. “It’s all worth it when you hear the cheers when you take a bow.”
Gonzalez is also taking some singing lessons because he wants to improve his techniques and be better all around in the craft of stage performance. Part of his plan is to also take dance lessons.
“One day I wold like to stand on a Broadway stage, even though I understand that it is a difficult career to break into,” said Gonzalez. “If not Broadway, I would like to try and do something with music.”
Looking forward to taking part in many more plays in and out of the school stage, Gonzalez will continue to practice and improve his skills so that one day soon, he may accomplish his dream of being a renown performer.
The Best of Music
By: Lucas Cabrera-Ramon and Christian Norniella-Burke
The hottest songs on everyone’s playlists
Fetty Wap, an up and coming rap artist, was trending in all radio stations and parties. His music included dope beats, which were incredibly catchy.
“Fetty Wap is a new kind of rapper whose success comes less from the quality of his rapping and more from his beats.”
-Ninth grader Christopher Galliano
Calvin Harris changed his usual house music sound with the song “How deep is your love.” The song had a deep house vibe but was still incredibly popular, making top ten in the charts.
“Not only does the beat rock, but the lyrics really pull you into the song as well.”
-Junior Matthew Crespo
Songs like J Balvins “Ginza”were extremely popular latin rhythms that were frequently played at parties and other social gatherings.
“Ginza is an upbeat song that really gets people to let loose and dance with each other at parties.”
-Junior Carlos Paralta
Unforgettable Tunes
David Guetta’s “Bad” was initiated as the senior song for the class of 2015 and kept by the rising underclassmen. The song was the easiest way to get the students pumped up during a pep rally.
Travi$ Scott’s “Antidote” was considered a masterpiece by many. The unique bass drop early in the song brought out the enthusiasm of the Wolverine fans at school games.
The Bloody Beetroots Steve Aoki remix of “Warp
1.9” was the first house song introduced to the class of 2016 back in their sixth grade lock in.
Unexpected Pets
1) Playing with his two pet snakes Shadow and Lucy, senior Gabriel Jimenez demonstrates that companionship can slither its way into anyone’s heart.
2) Amused by his monkey’s antics, seventh grader Lucas Rodriguez loves to spend time with his capuchin friend.
3) With his dog standing taller than his owner on his hind legs, ninth grader Christopher Menendez’s harlequin great dane is a gentle giant. Despite the dog’s intimidating size, it was extremely gentle.
4) Squatting next to his tortoise, seventh grader Jack Powell enjoys the company of his unusual pet. The tortoise weighed so much that it was difficult for Powell to pick it up.
5) Kneeling between his two massive St. Bernards, senior Albert Maury shares a passion for this incredibly large breed.
Not your typical household pet
Most people are perfectly content with the typical household pet such as the small dog or the feisty cat. But sometimes, man’s best friend can be unexpectedly different. Pets nowadays can come in many shapes and sizes, from a hairy tarantula to a small pony.
“To me, a pet is more than owning an animal. My pet is my companion who
will always be there for me, even through my toughest times,“ said sophomore Jason Rodriguez.
No matter how big or small, tall or wide, mammal or reptilian, a pet can be simply defined as a companion that brings happiness to its owner. No need to walk it, because many pets no longer require a leash. Reptiles such as snakes and the ever popular bearded
By: Ted Huertas
dragon are common pets among students.
“I love owning a snake because whenever my friends come over, they are amazed by it,” said junior Nicholas Hernandez. Having a non traditional pet is a current trend that is becoming more and more popular. As long as you get the unconditional love that most pets offer, the size or texture, is truly irrelevant.
‘VORES
The unexpected art of eating the same foods every single day
By: Bruno Zayas
The student body was a melting pot, and no two students were the same. The one thing that everyone agreed to disagree on was the eating habits.
From omnivores to carnivores, or the occasional herbivore, students often focused their diets on the demands of their bodies and the activities they engaged in.
“Dieting is an important part of rowing,” said rower senior Ben Gilbert.
The carnivore satisfied his appetite with meat or any other type of protein they could get their hands on. Stacks of sandwich meat and bowls of beans were commonly seen throughout the tables and trays of the cafeteria, especially among the football players.
“It’s important for me to have at least 8 grams of protein every day,” said senior Dylan Pareja, who played offensive line in the varsity football team.
The omnivores didn’t care what they ate. Most had a wide palette for pretty much anything, no matter how weird the food was. From salad to steak, and the ever popular chilli dog, they consumed anything in their path.
“When I walk into the cafeteria, I just go for whatever looks good,” said eighth grader Marcos Blanco.
Your food could tell a lot about who you were. Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores walked around the cafeteria in search of their meal. With the wide variety of food choices, everyone could surely be satisfied.
Once in a while, he added a hot dog
Mad For Munchies
Oreos
Do you eat the cream first or dip it in milk?
Cheetos Cosmic Brownies Skittles
Your fingers will be orange for days. Is there real chocolate in that brownie?
Who knew the rainbow tasted this good?
Varsity football team captain senior Ariel Jimenez loads up on carbs and proteins. Football players were known to be among the top carnivores in school relying on the protein intake to better perform on the field.
Fueling up with carbs, long distance runner sophomore Christopher Garcia opts for the rice and beans lunch.
to the mix.
Taking the veggie route, eighth grader Israel Hernandez prepares a healthy salad at the salad bar. The cafeteria offered all ‘vores a wide variety of specialties.
By: Bruno Zayas
There are different types of food to satisfy all cravings, but everyone had that one favorite food that always made them feel better. Some students liked the spicy flavors of Mexican food, while others enjoyed the fried foods common in the Cuban cuisine.
“I love eating hibachi shrimp at Samurai,” said eighth grader Alexander Eckstein. “I really enjoy Japanese food.”
The different cultures represented by the student body in the school were clearly demonstrated in their favorite dishes.
Satisfying the Cravings FOOD FETTISH
From barbecue, to Asian, and Mediterranean, students always had their go-to-places that made them feel better.
“I am Cuban, so I love to eat Cuban food,” said seventh grader Kyle Guso. “My favorite dish is churrasco.”
Eating wasn’t just a necessity, it was often a social factor that brought people together. After school runs to Chipotle or after movie reunions at Johnny Rockets were a part of many students’ lives. Not to mention the daily Cuban pastelito fix at Cafe
Mexican -Sophomore Gabriel Estrada
“I like to see if I can finish the whole burrito without anything falling out of it.”
Burgers
-Sixth grader Matthew De La Riva
“I enjoy my cheeseburgers plain with just a little ketchup”
Chantilly.
“I go at least three times a week to Cafe Chantilly,” said senior Adrian Pombo.
“My favorite is the #5, which is scrambled eggs with ham and cheese, tostada, and cafe con leche.”
Food could definitely be the glue that held groups of students together. Whether it was a morning run to a breakfast cafe or a post game meal at the local joint. From student to student, despite the culture, the craving had to be satisfied.
Cuban Bakery -Junior Pedro Garcia
“Croquetas remind me of my Cuban culture and they’re yummy.”
Subs -Eighth grader Antonio Castano
“Roast beef is my preferred meat in my sandwiches.”
By: Justin Rodriguez
Blockbusters
Hollywood Throwback
that reigned supreme 20 years ago make a comeback to the big screen
Based on the blockbuster movies that came out in 2015, many would think that they were back in the 70s and 80s. Movies such as Terminator, Star Wars, Poltergeist, and Mad Max made an encore appearance in theatres throughout the nation.
“My father showed me these movies when I was younger and now I have the opportunity to watch one made for our own generation,” said freshman Daniel Esteban.
The movie business took a very unexpected turn when it decided to begin making remakes of these mega hits.
“It is a good idea to do these remakes. They add so much more depth and excitement to the films,” said film enthusiast senior Alec Castillo.
With the current resurgence, many are left to wonder whether or not the remakes are going to continue to trend.
Originally aired in 1984, the Terminator franchise made a revival and created an addition to its already established library in 2015.
The force was with this generation when Star Wars made a comeback with its seventh installment The Force Awakens. The original movie, A New Hope aired back in 1977.
Netflix: sit back & relax
By: Justin Rodriguez
In the little free time that a student has to relax and forget about schoolwork, there is one thing on everyone’s mind: Netflix. The online streaming service that provides on demand access to movies, tv shows, documentaries, and stand up comedy routines, gained a great deal of popularity among students looking to veg out.
“During the summer, after I finished my baseball practice, I would go into my room and watch shows like Lost, Prison Break, and Heroes,” said
sophomore Johnathan Barditch.
Available on tablets, phones, and laptops, Netflix was the easiest way to catch up on an entire season of a favorite show. With the flexibility of the app, this service was accessible for as little as $8 a month.
“Netflix is very addicting, I got hooked from the minute I started watching Arrow,” said Junior Francisco Menendez.
Netflix allowed viewers to catch up on shows that they missed, or also for viewers looking for a new series to get
hooked on. Stand up comic acts were also very popular. Students spent countless hours watching and laughing to the likes of Kevin Hart, Gabriel Iglesias, and Daniel Tosh.
“I love watching stand up comedy,” said seventh grader Andres Sendra. “I get a lot of good jokes from the comedians.”
The ease of the application and the hours of entertainment could easily get a person hooked. The hard part, was turning the system off.
Student Name: Junior Marc Novas Favorite Netflix Show: The Office
Student Name: Senior Gabriel Gonzalez Favorite Netflix Show: Dexter
Student Name: Eighth grader Victor Hidalgo Favorite Netflix Show: LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
By: Sebastian Paoli
Fender Benders
Those unexpected bumps in the road
As a new motorist, what you least expect when getting behind the wheel of your new car is that you will get into some sort of car accident, whether it is a minor fender bender or a total loss. Driving a car is a serious responsibility that must be handled with utmost caution. However, with all the distractions around, it is quite possible for a young, inexperienced driver to get into a car crash once in a while; sometimes, without being at fault.
“I was on my way home from school to start studying, the last thing I was thinking about was a life-threatening car accident, I am blessed to be okay,” said junior Nicholas Senior.
With this new bit of unexpected mishap, comes the also unexpected hike in insurance rate, a possible ticket, and a definite visit to the autoshop.
“My car was totalled, I did not even spend a year with it, but my insurance paid it off,” said senior Ghulian Ramos.
Student: Senior Pablo Arevalo
Model: 2011 BMW 328i
Explanation: Crashed into a mailpost.
Student: Junior Nicholas Senior Model: 2006 Honda Accord
Explanation: Hit by a speeding car.
Student: Senior Kevin Fernadnez
Model: 2014 BMW 328i
Explanation: Hit by a person talking on the phone.
With his 2013 Jeep Wrangler resting on its side, senior Ghulian Ramos felt lucky to have survived the crash. Ramos lost control of the vehicle while helping his ill father who was the passenger at the time.
Unexpectedly awesome rides
Parked in the midst of brand new rides in the senior lot was a lonely 1968 Mustang Coupe. The unexpected part of this vehicle was not the fact that it was vintage, or that it had 170,000 miles, but rather that it had been restored by its owner senior Dorian Acosta. Passing on the new rides and latest models, Acosta opted for buying a classic car and replacing all its parts to make it his own.
“The frame was off balance so the door did not close properly, the front windshield was cracked so that at any second it could break, and I had to add a new gear box,” said Acosta.
Other unexpected rides included junior Josan Elias’ 1992 Mazda Miata LE. Elias built his Miata using the parts of two previously crashed Miatas. He purchased them already totalled from their original owners. Elias took out the ignition and replaced it with a push-to-start button. He lowered the frame, repainted it, and revamped its looks with new rims.
“Other people may think it’s weird, but I take great pride in my car because I know the story behind it,” said Elias.
By: Sebastian Paoli
By: Sebastian Paoli
What are those wheels?
Student: Dorian Acosta
Model Year: 1968
Car: Black Mustang Coupe Twin Turbo
Specs: V8 289 with about 300 hp, black original leather interior, and changed from an automatic to a 5 speed manual transmission.
By: Gabriel Abril
Homecoming Week
Let’s Get Pumped
Coming to a school with a strict uniform policy, it was always fun to be able to dress out of uniform and show off some school spirit; that’s exactly what homecoming week was all about. Homecoming gave kids a chance to have dress down days and deviate from the daily routine. This ranged from the typical wacky tacky days to representing the school with its official colors.
1. Going crazy, the seniors got together to lead a pep rally that capped off the Homecoming Week, and prepared the students for the football game. That night, the varsity football team played against Felix Varela High School.
2. In order to change things up a little at the Homecoming Pep Rally, the seniors compete in a pie eating contest. Senior Alejandro Gonzalez tried to finish the pie as fast as he could.
3. Deciding to go all out, senior Andres Borroto sports his island look. Homecoming Week Tuesday encouraged students to wear their favorite Hawaiian attire.
4. Showing off their soccer jerseys along with a referee, freshmen Pietro Buzaneli, senior Nicholas Tootle, and freshman Sion Bissessar pose for a picture. Thursday was soccer jersey day for underclassmen while the seniors wore soccer referee uniforms.
5. During Homecoming Week, sixth grader Pablo Perez shows off his school spirit with a Wolverines T-shirt that he purchased from the Wolverine Den.
By: Gabriel Abril
Senior Skit
Once a year the senior class comes together to impersonate the teachers in a live performance of the senior skit. The plot included a dream sequence in which Father Suarez, SJ, was able to access the dreams of his fellow colleagues. Some of the dreams consisted of Mr. Charles Cleveland in his own dojo, Father Pedro Cartaya, SJ, doing stand up comedy, Mr. Jorge Martinez buying the Gettysberg National Park, and a Holy War between the Theology Department and the Athletic Department.
Quote: “You guys look uptight, up TI(E)ght”
Quote: “Razzle my berries”
Quote: “When you get hurt, hurt it back”
Student: Senior Michael Cairo Impersonating:Father Pedro Cartaya, SJ
Student: Senior Jaime Lopez Impersonating: Mr. Jorge Martinez
Student: Senior Nicolas Roca Impersonating: Coach Carlos Barquin
CLASS OF2016
MR. BELEN
Daniel Dager
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
-Winston Churchill
“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.”
“What’s behind you doesn’t matter.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
-Bob Marley
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
-Dr. Seuss
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Do not take life seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
“Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.”
“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
first duty of a man is to think for himself.”
all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“The mind is everything, what you think, you become.”
“Maybe I destroyed the game, or maybe you’re just making excuses.”
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”
Edel Abad
Gabriel Abril
Dorian Acosta
Erich Aguilar
Julio Aira
Alexander Alepuz Wilfredo Allen
Victor Alvarez
David Andreu Jr. Patrick Arean
Pablo Arevalo Nicholas Arias
Andres Artime
Jonathan Avila
Kristian Batista
Jason Belisario Tomas Bello
Michael Beovides
Christopher Billoch Daniel Bogardus
-Elbert Hubbard
“The
-Jose Marti
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
-John C. Maxwell
“Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.”
-Ezra Cornell
-Yogi Berra
-Walt Disney
“Love
-William Shakespeare
“Always aim for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
-Les Brown
-Sandy Koufax
-Buddha
-Wayne Gretzky
-Enzo Ferrari
-Peter Drucker
-Michael Jordan
-Josh Billings
A group of seniors take a moment to pose for a picture with their rings immediately following the mass and the ring ceremony. The ring ceremony was held October 13th in the school gym, and it was followed by a celebration in the
“The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.”
-Rumi
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
-William Ernest Henley
“When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
-Barack Obama
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”
-Bruce Lee
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
“Liberty, equality, fraternity.”
cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
Garrido Family Plaza.
Arturo Bonnet
Thomas Borell
Alessandro Borges Andres Borroto Alexander Boza
Daniel Brennan Rodrigo Bustamante
Gabriel Cabrera
Michael Cairo Orlando Calas
-Charlie Chaplin
“Don’t
-Dr. Seuss
-Maximilien Robespierre
-George Addair
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
-Milton Berle
Christopher Jauregui
“The man who has no imagination, has no wings.”
-Muhammad Ali
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persuasive one”
-Albert Einstein
“One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.”
“One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.”
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring”
“It’s not where you begin that matters, it’s where you end up.”
HAIRBEST
Mark Candela Juan Carabeo-Nieva
Emilio Cardenal
Benjamin Cardenas
Alec Castillo
Anthony Castro
Andrew Cecol
Alfredo Cepero
Andres Cesin
Sebastian Chamorro
-Ronald Reagan
-Joe Biden
-David Bowie
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-Joseph Graceffa
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself.”
“Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Giancarlo Pinto ATHLETIC
MOST
“Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person.”
“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
“One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.”
of Loyola
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
“Champions believe in themselves, before anyone else does.”
Christian Collazo Andres Concepcion
Alfredo Consuegra Nicholas Coronado Luis Corps
Carlos Cristobal Eric Cruz
Daniel Dager
Joaquin De Boytisolo Francisco De La Camara
-Christopher Hitchens
-Mark Twain
-Pope Francis
-St. Ignatius
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Pat Riley
-Muhammad Ali
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Dr. Seuss
-Steven Gerrard
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
-Pat Riley
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“It’s not a sin to get knocked down, it’s a sin to stay down.”
“Perfection is not the attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence”-Vince Lombardi
“Make
“I’ll have to settle for “cute”
-Bryan Lee O’Malley
“Determination, persistence, realism, wanting success more than your next breath – that’s the key to success.” -Logic
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” -Winston Churchill
“Obsessed with success so much that I fail to rest.”
“It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.”
-Bob Dylan
“Better great prudence and ordinary holiness than great holiness and little prudence.” -St. Ignatius of Loyola
“It’s never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.” -Confucius
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
“The evils of
and
glory arise from ignorance and blind self-love.”
Alfredo De Zayas Christian Del Castillo Gabriel Diaz Ignacio Diaz-Garza Andres Echeveria
Jason Egusquiza John Egusquiza Jorge Escobar-Mata
Robert Espinosa
David Fager
Alexander Falla
Alexander Fals Alexander Fernandez Kevin Fernandez
Max Fernandez
Javier Fonseca
Christopher Font Harry Formoso-Murias Benjamin Frisbee
Joseph Fuentes
-Gandhi
-Carl M. Brashear
-Steve Jobs
-Mark Twain
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
-Babe Ruth
yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.”
-Benjamin Franklin
-Paul George
-Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
-Walter Bagehot
-Thomas Jefferson
vanity
vain-
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasting time.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”-
-Albert Einstein
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
-Oscar Wilde
“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
-Babe Ruth
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
-Stephen King
“If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.”
-Tupac Shakur
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
-Vince Lombardi
“Prudence belongs not to the one who obeys command, but to the one who gives it.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“A trophy carries dust, memories last forever.”
“If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?”
Claudio Llaretelli
HUMOROUS
MOST
Basilio Garcia Gabriel Garcia Jonathan Garcia
Joseph Garcia Joseph Garcia
Nicolas Garcia Daniel Garcia-Tunon
Patricio Garzon
Benjamin Gilbert
-John Lennon
-Mary Lou Retton
Jorge Gomez
-Ray Lewis
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
-Milton Berle
“If God makes you suffer greatly, it is a sign that he wants to make you a great saint.”-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“When you say anything in secret, speak as if you were speaking to the whole world.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” -Mark Twain
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
-Aristotle
“There is no better wood for feeding the fire of God’s love than the wood of the Cross.” -St. Ignatius of Loyola
“Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.”
-Robert H. Schuller
“Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.”
-Derek Jeter
“Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”
-Les
“He who forgets himself in the service of God may be assured that God will not forget Him.”
Ready to leave to Gradbash, the class of 2016 poses for a picture in the bus. Gradbash began April 8 when the students left the school around 11 am and returned at 6:30 am the next day.
Alejandro Gonzalez Christian Gonzalez
David Gonzalez
Gabriel Gonzalez Kevin Gonzalez
Michael Gonzalez Ricardo Gonzalez
Tomas Gonzalez
Alberto Gonzalez Del Valle
Dary Groblacher
Brown
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“The evils of vanity and vain glory arise from ignorance and blind self-love.”
“If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.”
-Ben Bernanke
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far go together.”
-African Proverb
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
Dylan Pareja
MOST LIKELYTO WEAR THEIR LETTERMANAT50
“I’d rather be hated for who I am, rather than loved for who I am not.”
-Kurt Cobain
“If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.” -Haruki Murakami
“Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.” -Jordan Belfort
“One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.” -Johnny Depp
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” -Tommy
“I’m just about that action boss”
-Marshawn Lynch
Pablo Guerra Alejandro Guerrero
Andres Guisasola Fernando Guruceaga
Albert Gutierrez
Daniel Halphen
John Hermida
Adrian Hernandez
Alexander Hernandez
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
Lasorda
Alexander George Hernandez
ARTISTIC
Kevin Fernandez MOST
“What is good is easy to get, what is terrible is easy to endure.” -Epicurus
“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” -Benjamin Franklin
“Winners never quit, quitters never win.”
“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
“One rare and exceptional
is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
Christopher Hernandez Justin Hernandez
Luke Hernandez Rafael Hernandez Alejandro Hillman
Daniel Hondal Ted Huertas
John Hyland Manrique Iriarte
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-Vince Lombardi
deed
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”-Hunter S. Thompson
“The six W’s: work will win when wishing won’t.”
-Todd Blackledge
-Vince Lombardi
Christopher Jauregui
“One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
Seniors
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a
“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”
“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech”
“There is no
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
“It’s true hardwork never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
Ariel Jimenez Gabriel Jimenez
Jose Jimenez
William Kindelan Claudio Laratelli
Kristian Lastre Adrian Lazo
Sebastian Leiter Kevin Lemos Jaime Lopez
Michael Lopez Luis Lopez-Cabrera
Alfredo Lopez-Sotillo
Lucas Lorenzo Daniel Lugo
Francisco Marcos Rafael Marmol Andres Marquez Luis Marquez
-John Wooden
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-Martin Fraquhar Tupper
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”
-Woody Allen
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
-Peter Drucker
door.”
-Milton Berle
better wood for feeding the fire of God’s love than the wood of the Cross.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
“To leave God for God’s sake is no loss, but great profit, on the soul’s balance sheet.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-Albert Einstein
-Steve Jobs
-Ronald Reagan
“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
-Thomas Edison
-John F. Kennedy
-Soren Kierkegoard
-Milton Berle
Humberto Marrero
-Steve Martin
“I intend to live forever or die trying.”
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work for it.”
Michael Cairo
MOST LIKELYTOBEPRESIDENT
Roberto Martell Alfonso Martinez
Daniel Martinez
Thomas Mas Erik Masis
Albert Maury
Conor Meagher
Luis Mejer
Daniel Mejia
Enrique Mendia
-Groucho Marx
-Walt Disney
-Mark Zuckerburg
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
-Dion Boucicault
“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”
-Winston Churchill
“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
-Erma Bombeck
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
-Salvador Dali
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Confucius
“I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.”
-Richard Linklater
“Be sure to put your feet in the
“God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully” -St.
“If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”
-Will Smith
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.’ -Philippians 4:13
“You’re only given a little spark of madness, you mustn’t lose it.”
-Robin Williams
“What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.”
-Michael Crichton
MOST LIKELYTO BEA MILLIONAIRE
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
West
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
“If you’re doing what everybody else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.”
Christopher Menendez Giovanni Menocal
Giancarlo Mesa Marcelo Mion
Santiago Molero
Joshua Munoz
Ryan Navarro
Christian Norniella-Burke Francisco Odon
right place, then stand firm.”
-Abraham Lincoln
-Mae
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Ghandi
-Casey Neistat
Liam Mullin-Garcia
Ignatius of Loyola
“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” -Lily Tomlin
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
“The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
-Babe Ruth
“The highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
“Believe
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
belief is stronger than your doubt.”
let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
feel like I’m the
but you’re not going to get me to say that.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Nicholas Ordieres Jonathan Orta
Oscar Ortega
Christian Ortiz Lucas Osorio
Daniel Pacios
Jorge Padron
Francisco Palacios
Sebastian Paoli-Torres
Dylan Pareja
Alexander Parekh
Brian Pascual
Christian Perez
Richard Perez
Ryan Perez
Alexander Piccolo Fernando Pinera
Giancarlo Pinto
Adrian Pombo
Daniel Portuondo
-James Dean
-Vince Lombardi
“My
-Dwyane Wade
“I
best,
-Jerry Rice
-John Dewey
-John F. Kennedy
“Never
-Babe Ruth
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
-Vince Lombardi
“He who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right.”
-Confucius
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
-Jim Rohn
in your flyness… conquer your shyness.”
-Kanye West
“If you want to test a man’s character give him power.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“The best revenge is massive success.”
-Frank Sinatra
-Albert Einstein
-John F. Kennedy
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-Albert Einstein
“Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind at all.”
-Dr. Seuss
“I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they’re possible.”
-Colt Mccoy
“Winning takes care of everything.”
-Tiger Woods
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“If you dig it, do it. If you really dig it, do it twice.”
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you’ll be successful.”
-Eric Thomas
“To be number one, you have to be different.”
“You wish to reform the world: reform yourself, otherwise your efforts will be in vain.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
Fernando
test the
Pujals
PROCRASTINATOR
BIGGEST
John Powell Matthew Powell Peter Prieto
Daniel Puente Diego Puig-Corve
Fernando Pujals
Christopher Quintero Ghulian Ramos
Dajour Resiere
Adrian Rey
-Jim Croce
-Conor McGregor
“Never
depth of a river with both feet.”
-Warren Buffet
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
-William Faulkner
Nicholas Ordieres
MOST LIKELYTOBEABELEN TEACHER
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”-Francis of Assisi
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
“To put it simply, creativity is 90% craftsmanship and 10% artistic inspiration.”
-Kotaro Uchikoshi
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
-Albert Einstein
“I’m a firm believer if you don’t like me to do it, then don’t let me in.” -Cam Newton
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.”
“Music evokes a lot of different emotions, and triggers different senses.”
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Tavish Rice Gabriel Rigueiro
Diego Rivera Mario Robaina Nicolas Roca
Carlos Rodriguez Francisco Rodriguez Justin Rodriguez
“All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
“Better great prudence and ordinary holiness than great holiness and little prudence.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“There is no better wood for feeding the fire of God’s love than the wood of the Cross.” -St. Ignatius of Loyola
“Success isn’t owned, it’s leased. And rent is due every day.”
-J.J Watt
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life”. -Winston Churchill
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
-Albert Einstein
“Everything is practice.” -Pele
Ted Huertas
“Give me a museum, and I’ll fill it.”
“Everything stinks ‘till it’s finished.”
MOST LIKELYTO BEA REALITYTV STAR
Jose Rubio Alejandro Ruiz
Ernesto Ruiz-Sierra Mathew Salas
David Salazar
Steven Santos Ignacio Sapetnitzky
Renato Scerpella
Kyle Richard Schaeppi Souza Andres Signoret
-Pablo Picasso
-Jimi Hendrix
-Dr. Seuss
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
-George S. Patton
for
is no
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
-James Dean
“The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.”
-Werner Herzog
“Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.”
-Winston Churchill
“Don’t let it end like this, tell them I said something!”
-Pancho Villa
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
-Alexaner Hamilton
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
“If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.”
“Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.”
-Charles Barkley
“One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.”
“Film’s never really good unless the camera’s an eye in the head of a poet.”
“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”
-Luis Bunuel
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
-Vince Lombardi
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva Daniel Sixto
Joshua Anthony Sliva Carlos Somarriba
Nicolas Tamborrel
Daniel Tejada
Nicolas Thompson Zane Todywala
Nicholas Tootle
Julio Torrente Ryan Torres Gabriel Tozo
Jerry Trujillo
Kevin Valdes
Antonio Valencia Nicolas Vega Pablo Venegas
Andres Vila Frederico Vivacqua
-Walt Disney
-Tibetan Proverb
“Prudence belongs not to the one who obeys command, but to the one who gives it.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
“There
better wood
feeding the fire of God’s love than the wood of the Cross.”
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-Tony Gaskins
-Orson Welles
“It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.”
-Bonnie Blair
-Dr. Seuss
-John F. Kennedy
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”
is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
SCHOOLMOSTSPIRIT
Nicolas Waterhouse Dominic Wermuth
Julio Yanes Joel Yanez
Manuel Zuniga
-St. Ignatius of Loyola
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Eric Hoffer
-Kevin Durant
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” -Steve Jobs
Matthew Powell
Juan Zayas
“Experience
-Aldous Huxley
CLASS OF2017
Juniors Anthony Duarte, Gustavo Roig, and Alejandro Maduro.
Nicolas Aguilar
Michael Ahearn
Cristian Alonso
Carlos Arazoza
Andres Arenas
Jose Arevalo
Francesco Armstrong
Christopher Avallone
Michael Balbuena
Andres Balcazar
Jerry Balepogi
Kevin Baloyra
Alejandro Barnola
Manuel Barreto
Matthew Bec
Oscar Berlanga
Francisco Blanco
Alain Bonvecchio
Michael Borell
Antoine Brandt
Matthew Bravo
Edward Briscoe
Daniel Brown
Adrian Bruna
Christopher Caballero
Michael Cabeza
Lucas Cabrera-Ramon
Lucas Caicedo
Steven Calles
Alejandro Carriazo
Juan Carrillo
Nicholas Carvajal
Alejandro Chalela
Bill Chan
Daniel Chavez
Jun Hyung Cho
Alejandro Cicero
Christian Cognigni
Andre Cozier
Mathew Crespo
Nicholas Curry
Richard De Aguiar
Daniel De La Fe
Carlos De La Nuez
Christian Delgado
Jared Diaz
Marcus Diaz
Richard Diaz
Austin Dominguez
Carlos Dominguez
Anthony Duarte Jossan Elias
Leunam Escarras-Lola
Alejandro Falcon
John Farach
Guillermo Fernandez
Juan Fernandez De Castro
Manuel Ferrer Simo
Rafael Gallardo
Carlos Gallo
Jordan Galvez
Javier Garcia
Orestes Garcia
Pedro Garcia
Maximiliano Garcia Del Pozo
Daniel Garrastazu
Luis Gomez
Gustavo Gonzalez
Nicolas Gonzalez
Sebastian Guinot
Esteban Guio
Adrian Hernandez
Javier Hernandez
Justin Hernandez
Miguel Hernandez
Nicolas Hernandez
Alejandro Hunter
Alexander Iduate
Jovier Jimenez
Gabriel Kasabdji
Pablo Kurzan
Ricardo Labrada
Erick Labrador
Carlos Lara
FAVES
PEDRO GARCIA
CHRISTIANFAVES WINCH
Joshua Lara
Kevin Lemus
Agustin Leos
Victor Lopez De Mendoza
Joseph Luzarraga
Carlos Machado
Alejandro Maduro
Patrick Maher
Carlos Marin
Tristen Marin
Peter Martin
Daniel Martinez
Daniel Martinez
David Martinez
Rafael Martinez-Varela
Luis Mathison
Javier Mederos
Sebastian Melendez
Francisco Melo
Carlos Menendez
Francisco Menendez
Jonathan Menendez
Manuel Menendez
Norberto Menendez
Maurice Milton
Nicholas Milton
Jorge Miro-Quesada
Carlos Moreno
Michael Moreno
Michael Motola
Nicolas Munoz
Richard Munoz
Santiago Munoz
Aaron Muriedas
Marc Novas
Nicolas Obeso
Diego Ortega
Daniel Otero-Pfaeffle
Alejandro Pardinas
Joseph Parlade
Andres Pena
Carlos Peralta
Andres Perez
Daniel Perez
Patrick Perez
Albert Perez-Abreu
Raphael Perez-Blanco
Cesar Perez-Erminy
Marco Perosch
Andres Pinate
Javier Pita
Lucas Pola
Andres Poveda
Michael Prado
Roberto Pupo
Alexander Pusch
Juan Ramirez
Franco Rivera
Daniel Riveron
Alfonso Rodriguez
Christian Rodriguez
Juan Rodriguez Verde
Gustavo Roig
Daniel Romero
Teobaldo Rosell
Juan San Martin
Nicholas Sanchez
Stefano Santamaria
Daniel Sarmiento
Eduardo Scheuren
Gabriel Seda
Sean Sempere
FAVES
GRABIEL TRASTOY
Pizza Phineas and Ferb
Cycling
PacSun
Adele
JAVIERFAVES GARCIA
Lucas Venegas
Kristian Ventura
Nicolas Vila
Erick Wilson
Christian Winch
Nicholas Senior
Felipe Sequeira
Nicholas Silva
Kevin Simauchi
Daniel Simpson
Christopher Siu
Alejandro Smith
Andres Solares
Diego Somarriba
Sebastian Suarez
Michael Sueiro
Federico Tamborrel
Andres Taquechel
Mateus Tordin
Javier Torres De Navarra
Brandon Torricella
Gabriel Trastoy
Santiago Ugas
Maximo Ulloa
Jorge Valdes
Matias Vasquez
Carlos Vazquez
Gabriel Vazquez
Daniel Velasquez Neira
CLASS OF2018
Sophomores Jonathan Barditch, Roberto Lacasa, Santiago Venegas,and Ricardo Mayo.
Leonardo Abate
Nicholas Abunassar
Alexis Agreda
Angel Aguilar
Guillermo Amore
Ian Anderson
Gabriel Aparicio
Michael Aparicio
Javier Arazoza
Juan-Pablo Arenas
Alec Arrizurieta
Kevin Azpiri
Raul Banos
Anthony Baradat
Jonathan Barditch
Ivan Barral
Francisco Barrera
Christian Bayo
Maxwell Belisario
Jeremy Bencomo
Nicholas Besada
Alessandro Billau
Eric Blanco
Alvaro Bodero
Alec Borbolla
Angelo Borges
Andrew Burch
Javier Bustamante
Ivan Cabrera
Alejandro Candela
Andre Caputo
Ignacio Cardenal
Luis Casas
Francisco Castanos
Kyle Castellanos
Robert Castro
Victor Castro
Alejandro Cepero
Sebastian Chamizo
Gerald Chang
Paul Charpentier
Jose Chaviano
Drew Chinigo
Lucas Christie
Sebastian Clark
Gabriel Cobas
Joshua Collins
Rogelio Consuegra
Alberto Conti
Alejandro Conti
Daniel Corrada
Alejandro Corzo
Joseph Cruz
Nicholas Cuesta
Gabriel Dacal
Marcos Dajer
Marcos De La Hoz
Christopher De La Nuez
Diego De La Vega
Christian De Los Santos
Anthony Delgado
Eduardo Delgado
Federico Diago
Carlos Diaz Luis Diaz
Andres Dones
Alex Doval
Sebastian Duenas
Anthony Ebbage
Ian Escarra
Ricardo Espina
Gabriel Estrada
Daniel Fager
Antonio Felipe
Alan Fernandez
Alejandro Fernandez
Ehren Fernandez
Eloy Fernandez
Lucas Fernandez
Manuel Fernandez
Roberto Fernandez
Ryan Fernandez
Joshua Ferrer
Daniel Ferro
Eduardo Fidalgo
Alberto Fraga
Antonio Fraga
Javier Fraga-Vasquez
Aitor Fungairino
Kevin Galego
Thomas Gallinar
Joseph Gambin
Carlos Gamez
Jose Garces
Christopher Garcia
Cristian Garcia
David Garcia
Eric Garcia
Francisco Garcia
Hugo Garcia
Jorge Garcia
Fernando Garcia-Chacon
Mark Garrigo
Daniel Giacosa
Andres Gomez
Kyle Gomez
Matthew Gomez
Cristian Gonzalez
David Gonzalez
Henry Gonzalez
Carlos Grande
Daryel Guerra
Javier Guerrero Vicente
Nicholas Guthrie
Andres Gutierrez
Jared Hart
Andrew Hernandez
Eduardo Hernandez
Marcelo Hernandez
John Herrera
Jordan Hiers
Jorge Iglesias
Kasser Ismail
Justin Izquierdo
Andres Jimenez
Carlos Jimenez
Sebastian Jorge
Jason Khoury
Andres Krikorian
Gabriel Krikorian
Nicholas Krikorian
Eric Labrador
Roberto Lacasa
Juan Lam
Luis Larios
Eric Lastres
Noel Lazaro
Jon Lemos
Carlos Lenis
Francisco Leon
Claudio Leyva
Rafael Llaneza
Sebastian Llano
Maximiliano Llorente
Israel Lopez
Ignacio Lopez-Castro
Robert Lopez-Irizarry
Justin Louden
Lorenzo Luaces
Brandon Lubian
Timothy Mackle
Marlow Marimon
Hugo Marin
Rodrigo Marin
Christopher Marrero
Matthew Martin
Christian Martinez
Robert Martinez
Emilio Mascaro
Ricardo Mayo
Andres Maza
Alejandro Mejer
Eric Mena
Justin Milton
Michael Morales
Richard Morales
Bernardo Moro
Jorge Moscoso
Christopher Moustafa
James Mullis
Nathaniel Munoz
Rodrigo Munoz
Allan Navarro
Tyler Newlin
Diego Nunez
Luke O’Flaherty
Matthew Olesen
Ivan Pachon
Alejandro Pacios
Felipe Pardo
Juan Pereira
Diego Perera
Alfred Perez
Andres Perez
Mario Perez
Nicholas Perez-Blanco
Julian Piedrahita
Daniel Pinto
Jose Plasencia
Bernardo Poulat
Hunter Prindle
Alec Priscal
Deiter Prussing
Alejandro Pujals
Matthew Pulles
Javan Rice
Sean Riera
Sebastian Rivera
Andres Rodriguez
Jason Rodriguez
Nicolas Rodriguez
Raul Rodriguez
Evan Rojas
Carlos Romero
Andres Ros
Juan Rubio
Max Salazar
Daniel Salinas
Javier San Martin
William San Pedro
Daniel Sanchez
Jacob Sanchez
Javier Saumell
Joseph Schultz
Matthew Schultz
Adrian Senra
Kearan Singh
Andres Smith
Nicolas Smith
Anthony Soler
Carlos Sosa
Carlos Sosa
Nicolas Sosa
Harrison Stoker
Daniel Suels
Christian Tinoco
Nicolas Tobon
Jose Toledo
Roger Torres
Alejandro Toyos-Sitjes
Placido Valdes
Carlos Vela
David Velasco
Santiago Venegas
Enrique Vila
Ignacio Villasmil
Jorge Vizcarrondo
Diego Yaffar
Humberto Torres
Lucas Verdeja
Conner Yurkon
Lucas Zumpano
CLASS OF2019
Freshmen Victor Giorgini and Christopher Galliano.
Tyler Abella
Alfredo Abilahoud Rosa
Anthony Abinader
Dominic Abreu
Ignacio Aguilar
Cesar Aguzzi
Armando Albert
Alberto Arazoza
Gabriel Arteaga
Carlos Avila-Mata
Orlando Baella
Joseph Balerdi
Luis Balerdi
Rodrigo Barquero
Jack Barrios
Manuel Becerra
Giancarlo Benitez
Ryan Bermudez
Luciano Bettocchi
Sion Bissessar
Lucas Blanco
Manuel Bruzos
Daniel Bustos
Jose Bustos
Bruno Buzaneli
Pietro Buzaneli
Julian Caballero
Guillermo Cadima
Martin Caicedo
Julian Calas
Daniel Cantens
Javier Canto
Eduardo Cardonne
Nicholas Casariego
Aramis Castano
Felipe Castro
Xavier Cerrate
Andres Chiossone
Jose Cil
Jacob Collins
Daniel Corzo
Damian Cuesta
Robert Curbelo
Lucas De La Hoz
Ernesto De Luca Martin
Gabriel De Zendegui
Gianpaolo Defelice
Andrew Deiters
Brandon Delgado
Erik Delgado
Eric Diaz
Jorge Dominguez
Dustin Duprey
Carlos Echenique
Lukas Escapil
Daniel Esteban
Brian Feal
Lucas Fernandez
Gabriel Fernandez De Castro
Mario Fernandez-Riera
Victor Ferraz
Fernando Forte Carpio
Martin Frallicciardi
Gabriel Gallardo
Christopher Galliano
Gregory Gallinar
Lucas Garcia
Orlando Garcia
Sebastian Garcia
Jose Garcia-Chirino
David Garzon
Manuel Gil
Victor Giorgini
Andres Gomez
Carlos Gonzalez
Daniel Gonzalez
Donato Gonzalez
Jose Gonzalez
Patricio Gonzalez
Roberto Gonzalez
Sebastian Gonzalez
Santiago Gonzalez Irigoyen
Andre Hall
Seth Hart
Giovanni Hector
Matthew Hernandez
Sean Hickey
Diego Horta
Alejandro Huembes
Carlos Huembes
Kyle Huynh
Jean-Franco Jimenez
Jorge Jimenez
Ryan Jimenez
Zachary Jimenez
Thomas Kurzan
Charles Lamela
Marco Lanz
Andres Lara
Sebastian Lara
Andres Larrea
Sebastian Lezcano
Nicholas Lobato
Michael Lopez
Robert Lopez
Jorge Lopez-Cabrera
Sebastian Lopez-Ibanez
Federico Lozano
Gabriel Lugo
Rodrigo Madiedo
Daniel Maduro
Nelson Marin
Javier Mariscal
Javier Marquina
Enrique Martin
Kevin Martin
Matthew Martin
Christopher Maza
Manuel Mejia Bird
Alexander Menendez
Christopher Menendez
Michael Menendez
Ricardo Meneses
David Meza
Jonathon Micali
Juan Miguez
Lucas Miguez
Guillermo Molero
Christopher Montero
Matthew Morales
Peter Morales
Brandon Moran
Gabriel Moreno
Juan Moreno
Matthew Moreno
Michael Morera
Nicholas Mullis
Nicolas Muniz
Guillermo Najera Sweeney
Diego Navarro
Rodrigo Nieto
Joaquin Novoa
Dylan Nuno
Christian Ojeda
Gabriel Ortega
Lucas Otero
Jorge Paez
Alejandro Pardo
Andres Pardo
Gabriel Pardo
Nicholas Patricios
Zachary Paula
Christian Paz
Alejandro Pena
Michael Penaranda
Gerardo Perera
Carlos Perez
Juan Perez
Nicholas Perez
Ricardo Perez
Sebastian Perez
Stefano Pinto
Daniel Planos
Gabriel Polo
Christopher Ponce
Jose Prendes
Sebastian Prieto
Andres Puello
Benjamin Puente
Guillermo Quintero
Nicholas Quintero
David Raez
Sebastian Rafuls
Aaron Ramirez
Ethan Ramirez
Jayson Repine
Bryan Reyes
Bruce Ribbeck
Sebastian Roa
Alec Rodriguez
Edward Rodriguez
Jorge Rodriguez
Jose Rodriguez
Julien Rodriguez
Michael Rodriguez
Michael Rodriguez
Andre Rodz
Manuel Romero
Joseph Rubio
Rafael Ruiz
Raul Sague
Joshua Salandy
Alejandro Salas
Christian Salazar
Nicolas Salvat
Virgilio Sanchez
William Sanchez
Damian Sangles
Francisco Sanguino
Josep Sendra
Antonio Serrano
Eric Silva
Henrique Souza
Alejandro Suarez
Eric Suarez
Jorge Suarez
Nicolas Suarez
Daniel Sueiro
Stefan Todywala
Alejandro Torres
Waldo Toyos
Christian Trastoy
Patrizio Trippetti
Beltran Ulloa
Anthony Vadell
Daniel Vasseur
Brandon Vila
Matthew Villalba
Alejandro Villarreal
Nicolas Vurgait
Matthew Watkins
Jacob Wutzler
Julian Zulueta
Andres Zuniga
Daniel Zuniga
CLASS OF2020
Eighth graders Michael Martinez and Nicholas Oyarzun.
Francisco Aguero
Andres Alfonso
Sebastian Alonso
Christopher Alvarez
Juan Lucas Alvarez
Nicholas Alvarez
Nicholas Amaya
Edward Andrade
Andrew Arriola
Agustin Arriola-Alberti
Nicholas Augustin
Javier Baca
Carlos Bailly
Adrian Banegas
Michael Barany
Tomas Bayona
Sean Beaubien
Diego Belfort
Andres Bello
Gianmarco Billau
Victor Bisbal
Kevin Bjorkman
Brian Black
Alexander Blanco
Alexander Blanco
Marcos Blanco
Andres Borges
Stephen Alexander Brennan
Rafael Bru
Matthew Bryan
Julian-Cesar Bueres
Carlos Caballero
Roger Cainzos
Alexander Caldwell
Andrew Caldwell
Daniel Calvache
Christian Candela
Javier Cantens
Matthew Cardoso-Abreu
Christopher Carter
Antonio Castano
Alejandro Castro
Joshua Cecol
Donald Chaney
Dominic Chiappone
Jose Cobiella
Mario Cobo
Daniel Comas-Sanchez
Domingo Cortinez
Lucas Cortinez
Jonathan Cosio
Thomas Cuesta
Nicolas De Aguiar
Alejandro De Feria
Patricio De La Guardia
Tomas De La Huerta
Ryan De La Osa
Rafael De La Torre
Ramon De Legorburu
Daniel Delgado
Ralph Desantis
Juan Dibildox
Daniel Diez
Alexander Dominguez
Michael Dominguez
Alejandro Echeverria
Alexander Eckstein
Christian Eiroa
Luke Escarra
Antoni Estopinan
Diego Feijoo
Kevin Ferguson
Andres Fernandez
Nikolas Fernandez
Cristian Fernandez De Castro
James Figarola
Christopher Fraga-Vasquez
Andres Frenero
Michael Fresco
Orlando Galindez
Brandon Gancedo
Angelo Garcel
Alejandro Garcia
Andres Garcia
FAVES
DIEGO SEGUROLA
Sushi
Breaking Bad
Fishing
Nike
Drake
Carlos Garcia
Jose Garcia
Andres Garcia-Chacon
Francisco Garcia-Montes
Daniel Giorgini
Christian Godoy
Brendan Golden
Alexander Gomez
Alexander Gomez
Antonio Gomez
Eduardo Gonzalez
Luis Gonzalez
Nicholas Gonzalez
Sergio Gonzalez
Eric Gordon
Luis Gutierrez
Robert Gutierrez
Israel Hernandez
Andres Hernando
Leopoldo Herrera
Victor Hidalgo
David Jimenez
David Jimenez-Pinilla
Jonathan Juncal
Maxwell Kelley
Christopher Klemick
Christopher Krause
John Lee
David Leiva
Michael Lopez
Gabriel Lovo
Andres Ludert
Heinz Luedeking
Andres Maduro
Carlos Maribona
Jacob Marrero
Michael Martinez
Leandro Matos
Daniel McAuliff
Alfredo Melgar
Luis Mendez
Nicolas Meneses
Michael Mesa
Niko Molina
Gabriel Montero
Lucas Montes De Oca
Alejandro Morales
Benjamin Morales
Eduardo Morasso
Jorge Morasso
Alejandro Moscoso
Arsenio Moussa
Jose Moya
Connor Mullins
Michael Navarro
Joshua Negrin
Henry Noy
Brendan O’Flaherty
Mario Osorio
Nicholas Oyarzun
David Pardinas
Javier Pardo
Guillermo Pardo De Zela
Francisco Paredes
Gabriel Paula
Nathaniel Payne
Bautista Pedevilla
Joseph Pereira
Alexander Perez
Jorge Perez
Jose Perez
Kristian Perez
Daniel Piedrahita
Diego Planos
Adrian Ponce
Nicolas Poveda
Tomas Puente
Pablo Puga
Gabriel Pupo
Rafael Queiroz
Maximilien Quibet
Matthew Quintino
Sebastian Ramirez
Joseph Reyes
FAVES
Breton Rice
Esteban Rincon
Victor Rivera
NICHOLAS AMAYA
Cheeseburger
Walking Dead
Lobstering
Polo Ralph Lauren
Big Sean
Daniel Rivero
Adrian Rodriguez
Alexander Rodriguez
Christopher Rodriguez
Lucas Rodriguez
Nicolas Rodriguez
Alberto Romero
Diego Romero
Justin Rubio
Kevin Rui Chen
Michael Ruiz
Angel Sanchez
Stefano Sanchez
Vicente Sanchez
Diego Segurola
Eddie Silva
Ethan Silva
Paul Siska
Joshua Sloan
Enrique Sori
Sebastian Spencer
Kevin Steel
Herman Suarez
Luke Swisstack
William Tablada
John Tonda
Noah Torres
Mark-Edward Trapp
Adriano Trippetti
Anthony Trujillo
Juan Ulloa
Kevin Valido
Daniel Venerio
Miguel Walsh
Javier Yanes
CLASS OF2021
Seventh graders Julian Decolabus, Adrian Cicero, Robert Fernandez, and Max Roman.
Alejandro Acosta
Mark Adams
David Alarcon
Nicolas Alarcon
Alexandro Ampudia
Luis Aparicio
Felipe Arenas
Sebastian Arriola-Alberti
Sebastian Arrizurieta
Alejandro Avila-Mata
Carlos Barquin
Alexandre Beaubien
Andres Bello
Ryan Bertran
Ricardo Blanco
Luis Briones
Mariano Brito
John Broe
Kevin Calonge
Miguel Camacho
Daniel Campuzano
Gavin Cancio
Fernando Cantens
Diego Canto
Adrian Carbajales
Lucas Cardona
Pablo Carreno
Carlos Carta
Andres Castillo
Sebastian Castillo
Martin Chang
Andy Chavez
Adrian Cicero
Samuel Clark
Victor Cobas
Antonio Cortabarria
Santiago Cortabarria
Francis Cruz
Felipe Cueto
Giovanny Cueto
Jorge De Goti
Lucas De La Guardia
Julian Decollibus
Brandon Deeb
Lucas Deeb
Daniel Del Riesgo
Daniel Delgado
Edward Delgado
Anthony Derosa
Andres Diago
Matthew Diaz
Rafael Esparragoza
Roberto Espin Daniel Feal
Alexander Fernandez
Christian Fernandez
David Fernandez
Oscar Fernandez
Richard Fernandez
Roberto Fernandez
Thiago Ferraz
Alexander Ferreiro
Gabriel Fortuny
Alexander Fox
Eduardo Francia
Vincenzo Fuentes
Mateo Garcia
Nickolas Garcia-Amandi
Jaime Garcia-Oliver
Daniel Garmendia
Diego Garmendia
Phillipe Gascon
Julian Godoy
Christian Gomez
Diego Gomez
Jonathan Gomez
Nicholas Gomez-Bello
Christian Gonzalez
Dorian Gonzalez
Evan Gonzalez
Gavin Gonzalez
Jose Gonzalez
Eduardo Gonzalez Del Valle
Andres Grande
FAVES
ANTHONY DEROSA
Burgers
The Walking Dead Fishing Nintendo Coldplay
Carlos Grundler
Kyle Guso
Andres Gutierrez
John Hernandez
Julian Hernandez
Nicolas Hidalgo
Carlos Iglesias
Andres Incera
Justin Jarro
Daniel Jimenez
Matthew Johnson
Christian Kasabdji
Nathaniel Kim
Matthew Kuffo
Jesus Labrador
Jacob Lazo
Sebastian Lazo
Ryan Linares
Nicholas Llanes
Sebastian Llanes
William Lleonart
Alejandro Llorente
Peter Lopez
Jose Carlos Lopez-De Cespedes
Arshis Marfatia
Nicolas Marquez
Christopher Martel
Victor Mejer
Gianluca Mejia
Alejandro Melo
Michael Mestre
Thomas Mojena
Carlos Monge
Gian-Marco Montero
Nikolas Mora
Augusto Moreno
Manuel Morin
Dane Morrissey
Alexander Munoz
Kyle Newlin
Gabriel Nguyen
Roberto Ochoa
Daniel Oliu
Daniel Oliva
Gilberto Oliva
Noel Orozco
Andres Pacios
Sebastian Padilla
Collin Pallissery
Phillip Palma
Juan Pablo Palomera
Matthew Pancorbo
Sebastian Parada
Marcos Pastor
Anthony Patricios
Wadih Pazos
Gabriell Pena-Aleman
Lucas Pentenero
Jose Pereira
Nicolas Pereira
Alexander Perez
Brandon Perez
Daniel Perez
Dylan Perez
Nicolas Perez-Abreu
Aidan Pevida
Daniel Portuondo
Jack Powell
Diego Prieto Caro
Hayden Puente
Daniel Raez
Eduardo Ramirez
FAVES Carlos Iglesias
Julian Ramos
Christopher Restrepo
Sebastian Restrepo
Julian Riera
Sebastian Rigueiro
Manuel Rincon
Sergio Rivera
Adrian Rodriguez
Esteban Rodriguez
Kyle Rodriguez
Miguel Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
FAVES
GIANLUCA MEJIA
Pizza
The Walking Dead Baseball
Puma
Fetty Wap
FAVES
CARLOS IGLESIAS
Jorge Vigil
Andres Vila
Aiden Villasuso
Alec Vizoso
George Wiltz
Manuel Andres Rodriguez-Lapido
Maximo Roman
Oliver Romanach
Nicolas Ruiz
Luis Salazar
Marc Salazar
Jack Sampedro
Austin San Juan
Daniel Sanchez
Maximus Sanchez
Andres Sendra
Ricardo Silveira
Connor Smith
Thomas Socorro Romero
Zachary Sotomayor
Alexander Suarez
Roberto Suarez
Juan Tejera
Erick Torres
Matthew Torres
Adolfo Valencia
Sebastian Velez
Mateo Venegas
Martin Victoria
CLASS OF2022
Sixth graders Tomas Saudino, Gabriel Marrero and Alejandro Sanchez.
Daniel Acebal
Alejandro Acosta
Frank Aira
Nicholas Alonso
Kevin Alpizar
Eduardo Alvarez
John Anguita
Marco Arazoza
Felix Arbucias
Eduardo Arevalo
Santiago Ariza
Adison Arnholt
Raul Aspuru
Gabriel Baez
Luis Balcells
George Balepogi
Christian Bargueiras
Christopher Bayo
Samuel Bayona
Yair Bernardo
Alejo Beteta
Bryan Bjorkman
John Bohatch
Nicolas Bosch
Christian Brito
Ignacio Bru
Angel Bueres
Gabriel Buigas
Andres Caballero
Pablo Caicedo
Ryan Cainzos
Zachary Callejas
Adrian Carmona
Alberto Carrillo
Kevin Castro
Roberto Castro
Diego Chang
Ruben Chavez
Nicholas Chesman
William Christie
Ethan Concepcion
Jorge Coronado
Michael Corral
Michael Cruz
Daniel Cuesta
Eduardo Dager
Matthew De La Riva
Daniel De Lamar
Rolando Rodriguez
Tomas Rodriguez
Alec Rodz
Benjamin Romanach
Sergio Ruano
Marcos Ruiz
Ryan Ruz
Maximo Salazar
Alejandro Sanchez
Francisco Sanchez
Tomas Saudino
Kevin Schaeppi Souza
Alec Schneider
Sebastian Serrano
Sebastian Shaw
Nicolas Souto
Sal Stewart
Daniel Suarez
Gabriel Suarez
David Swisstack
Andres Torrente
Tomas Torres
Victor Tunon
Matthew Valdes
Sebastian Valencia
Gabriel Valladares
Alejandro Vazquez
Javier Vazquez
Gabriel Velasquez Neira
Alejandro Villarreal
Jack Volpe
Daniel Wallace
Sebastian Wallace-Perdomo
Sean Wolfington
Yun-Chan Wu
Paul Yan
Michael Zaharas
Javier Zaragoza Neira
Jose Zarraluqui
Pedro Zuloaga
and
FACULTYSTAFF
Picture of the two presidents
Gerard Albert
Anthony Alexander
Maria D. Alonso
Maria I. Alonso
Alina Alpizar
Pedro Añon
Annette Anton
Angel Aparicio
Arnaldo Arencibia
Victor Arrieta
Roberto Artiz
Jessica Avendano
Diego Ayala
Carlos Barquin
Fr. Eduardo Barrios, S.j.
Claudia Basso
Carlos Beaton
Melissa Blanco
Antonio Botella
Patricia Bustamante
Cristina Busto
Heriberto Cabada
Johnny Calderin
Miriam Cambo-Martinez
Maria Elena Cartaya
Sister Maria Cartaya
Fr. Pedro Cartaya, S.j.
Javier Castillo
Enriqueta Cespedes
Donald Chaney, Sr.
Josefina Chirino
Hsiao Chi Chiu
Charles Cleveland
Patrick Collins
Maria Consuegra
Susana Corzo
Marta Cosculluela
Miguel Couto
Eugene Cruz
Sylvia Davalos
Maria Teresa De Aguiar
Maria De La Roza
Rosario De Lemos
Thomas De Quesada
Jose Del Dago
Adriana Delgado
Eduardo Delgado
German Delgado
Janet Diaz
Julio Diaz
Ramon Dovale
Luis Dulzaides
Lucila Espinosa
Alicia Fariñas
Angie Fernandez
Diana Fernandez
Madeleiny Fernandez
Guillermo Fernandez-Toledo
Barney Flores
Ignacio Font
Zeila Frade
Eduardo Fraga
Betty Fuentes
Alain Garcia
Raquel Garcia
Fr. Nelson Garcia, S.j.
Graciela Garcia-Chang
Kelly Garganta
Emigdio Gonzalez
Lazaro Gonzalez
Mario Gonzalez
Reynaldo Gonzalez
Lawrence Goodall
Rey Guerra
Margarita Guerrero
John Gustavsen
Teresa Gutierrez
Dora Haibi
Andres Hernandez
Pedro Hernandez
Patrick Houlihan
Jennifer Iglesias
Yolanda Inguanzo
Paula Inigo
Octavio Ramos
Maria Cristina Reyes-Garcia
Alexandra Rivadeneira
Ivan Roa
Jose E. Roca
Mercedes Rodriguez
Pia Rodriguez
Leandra Rodriguez Novoa
Ophelia Roibas
Joseph Ryan
Lazaro Saldana
Sylvie San Juan
Jose Sancerni
Marlisa Sanchez
Maria Sanchez-Gallardo
Mercedes Sendros-Iglesias
Jose Sierra
Marisol Sosa
Richard Stuart
Ana Suarez
Fr. Pedro Suarez, S.j.
Orlando Tabraue
Bruce Teachey
Fr. Ernesto Travieso, S.j.
Virginia Trujillo
Francisco Tudela
Jose Urbay
Marlene Urbay
Gustavo Valdes
Isabel Valdes
Timothy Vanscoy
Marisol Varona
Francisco Vazquez
Juan Vazquez
Lourdes Vega
Gisela Vichot
Yvonne Von Der Osten
Shane Walker
Leo Williams
Tatiana Zantua
Milagros Zequeira
Eugene Zoller
FRENCH HONOR / QUILL & SCROLL
RHO KAPPA / ART HONOR / BETA
ENGLISH HONOR SOCIETY / NJHS
SPANISH HONOR / TRI-M
ORGANIZATIONS
Athletes for Charity
Max Garcia del Pozo (President), Daniel Simpson (Vice President), Alejandro Falcon, Marc Candela, Aaron Muriedas, Tyler Abella, Alexander Alepuz, Joseph Balerdi, Manuel Bruzos, Daniel Cantens, Juan Carrillo, Alejandro Chalela, Alejandro Chalela, Sebastian Chamizo, Anthony Duarte, Anthony Duarte, Leunam EscarrasLola, Alexander Falla, Mario Fernandez Riera, David Garcia, Orestes Garcia, Mark Garrigo, Daniel Giacosa, Kyle Gomez, Sebastian Guinot, Miguel Hernandez, Kevin Martin, Norberto Menendez, Michael Motola, Gerardo Perera, Patrick Perez, Jose Plasencia, Sebastian Prieto, Matthew Pulles, Rafael Ruiz, Eduardo Scheuren, Andres Solares, Federico Tamborrel, Alejandro Torres, Kristian Ventura, and Joshua Collins. Moderator: Ms. Olga Ramon
American Sign Language
Roster: Jonathan Garcia (President), Carlos Cristobal, Giancarlo Mesa, Alexander Hernandez, Jacob Collins, Dustin Duprey, Diego Navarro, Anthony Abinader, Justin Caballero, Andres Marquez, Ryan Navarro, and Brandon Moran. Moderator: Ms. Ana Suarez
Roster:
Battle Up
Dylan Pareja (President), Christian Del Castillo: (Vice President), Ariel Jimenez, Daniel Sixto, Albert Gutierrez, Joshua Lara, Lucas Deeb, Alejandro Avila, Miguel Rodriguez, Manuel Rincon, Martin Chang, Juan Tejera, Gianluca Mejia, Julian Hernandez, David Fernandez, Christian Gonzalez, Andres Gutierrez, William Lleonart, Adolfo Valencia, Nikolas Mora, Alexander Perez, Andres Incera, Daniel Garmendia, Diego Garmendia, Collin Pallissery, Daniel Campuzano, Lucas Cardona, Esteban Rodriguez, Anthony DeRosa, Luis Aparicio, Richard Fernandez, Jorge Vigil, Juan Palomera, Michael Mestre, Oscar Fernandez, Sebastian Restrepo, Mateo Venegas, David Alarcon, Adrian Cicero, Nicolas Alarcon, Augusto Moreno, Jaime Garcia-Oliver, Thiago Ferraz, and Jose Lopez de Cespedes. Moderator: Ms. Shyara Lara
Amnesty International
Roster: Daniel Brennan (Group Coordinator), Rodrigo Bustamante (Group Coordinator), Christopher Menendez (Group Coordinator), Kevin Simauchi (Urgent Action Coordinator), Luis Lopez Cabrera, Paul Charpentier, Carlos Dominguez, John Farach, Javier Guerrero Vicente, David Gonzalez, Miguel Hernandez, Carlos Jimenez, Patrick Maher, Jon Lemos, Roberto Martell, Christopher Menendez, Michael Menendez, Jonathan Menendez, Marc Novas, Carlos Perralta, Cesar Perez Erminy, Sebastian Suarez, and Maximo Ulloa. Moderator: Mr. Patrick Collins
Roster:
Future Doctors of America
Roster: Julio Yanes (President), Juan Carabeo-Nieva (Vice President), Alex Melo, Collin Pallissery, Jose Pereira, Michael Fresco, Connor Mullins, Ryan Bermudez, Mario Fernandez-Riera, Orlando Garcia, Carlos Gonzalez, Sebastian Lopez-Ibanez, Kevin Martin, Brandon Moran, Lucas Otero, Ricardo Perez, Nicholas Quintero, Julien Rodriguez, Michael Rodriguez, Waldo Toyos, Christian Trastoy, Andrew Burch, Gerald Chang, Jose Chaviano, Lucas Christie, Sebastian Jorge, John Herrera, Claudia Leyva, Marlow Marimon, Rodrigo Marin, Christopher Marrero, Bernardo Moro, Nathaniel Muñoz, Diego Perera, Daniel Chavez, Leunam Escarras-Lola, John Farach, Nicolas Gonzalez, Pablo Kurzan, Erick Labrador, Joseph Luzarraga, Carlos Machado, Tristen Marin, Andres Poveda, Nicholas Silva, Federico Tamborrel, Gabriel Trastoy, Joshua Lara, Erich Aguilar, Nicholas Arias, Emilio Cardenal, Benjamin Frisbee, Kevin Gonzalez, Thomas Mas, Alexander Piccolo, Gabriel Rigueiro, Robert Espinosa, Alexander Parekh, and Christopher Hernandez. Moderator: Ms. Shyara Lara
Astronomy
Roster: Michael Cairo (Senior President), Kevin Galego (Senior Vice President), Daniel Jimenez (Junior President), Andres Alfonso (Junior Vice President), Alexander Alepuz, Matthew Martin, Michael Gonzalez, Andres Concepcion, Kevin Gonzalez, Peter Prieto, Antonio Valencia, Sebastian Suarez, Ricardo Espina, Oscar Berlanga, Adrian Hernandez, Michaael Prado, Pablo Guerra, Ricardo Gonzalez, Thomas Mas, and Jose Gonzalez, Orlando Galindez, Zachary Callejas, Sebastian Serrano, Andres Jimenez, Matthew Valdes, Joseph Mackle, Andrew Arriola, Rafael Queiroz, and Vicente Sanchez. Moderators: Fr. Pedro Cartaya, SJ and Pedro Anon.
History Club
Roster: John Hermida (President), Michael Moreno (Vice President), Juan Fernandez de Castro, Luis Gomez, Luis Lopez, Emilio Cardenal, Michael Cairo, Nicholas Obeso, Oscar Berlanga, Sean Sempere, Marco Perosch, Nicholas Curry, Christopher Siu, Michael Borell, Orestes Garcia, Lucas Caicedo, Andres Solares, Christian Cognini, Michael Motola, Connor Yurkon, Sebastian Clark, Tyler Newlin, Ehren Fernandez, Ignacio Cardenal, Alejandro Cepero, Allan Navarro, Matthew Gomez, Anthony Soler, Jon Lemos, Nicolas Muniz, Jorge Rodriguez, Guillermo Molero, Peter Morales, Manuel Gil, and Kevin Ferguson. Moderator: Mr. Heriberto Cabada
Green Club
Roster: Kyle Schaeppi Souza (CO-President), Alexnder Pusch (CO-President), Tristen Marin (Vice President), Nicholas Arias, Kevin Gonzalez, Gabriel Trastoy, Kevin SImauchi, Nicolas Vila, Joshua Lara, Carlos Peralta, Tristen Morin, Raphael Perez-Blanco, Daniel Chavez, Andres Poveda, Tyler Newlin, Ignacio Villasmil, Daniel Pinto, Nicholas Perez-Blanco, Bernardo Moro, Guillermo Quintero, Ricardo Perez, Lucas Garica, Antoni Estopinan, Carlos Caballero, Luke Swisstack, Israel Hernandez Jr., Patricio De La Guardia, Juan Lucas Alvares, Ryan Linares, George Wiltz, Kevin Andres Calonge, Kyle Rodriguez, Kyle Guso, Alec Vizoso, Andres Incera, Adrian Cicero, Dane Armand Morrissey, Manuel Rincon, Victor Cobas, Juan Tejera, Daniel A. Oliva, Kyle Newlin, David Alarcon, Nicholas Alarcon, Alejandro Acosta, Sebastian Restrepo, Nicolas Hidalgo, Collin Pallissery, Thomas Mojena, Gianluca Mejia, Carlos Carta, Carlos Mas, Tomas Duque, David Swisstack, Kevin Schaeppi Souza. Moderator: Ms. Shyara Lara
Key Club
Roster: Rafael Marmol (President), Alfredo Lopez-Sotillo (Vice President), Tyler Abella, Nicolas Aguilar, Angel Aguilar, Julio Aira, Alexander Alepuz, Nicholas Arias, Francesco Armstrong, Michael Balbuena, Ivan Barral, Francisco Barrera, Ryan Bermudez, Edward Briscoe, Steven Calles, Ignacio Cardenal, Emilio Cardenal, Robert Castro, Alejandro Cepero, Alejandro Chalela, Bill Chan, Gerald Chang, Daniel Corrada, Carlos De La Nuez, Ricky Deaguiar, Jared Diaz, Andres Dones, Jossan Elias, Leunam Escarras-Lola, Ricardo Espina, Carlos Echenique, Daniel Fager, Alexander Fals, Guillermo Fernandez, Lucas Fernandez, Juan Fernandez De Castro, Ehren Fernandez, Joshua Ferrer, Manuel Ferrer, Sebastian Garcia, Orestes Garcia, Fernando Garcia-Chacon, Mark Garrigo, Matthew Gomez, Daniel Gonzalez, Gabriel Gonzalez, Carlos Grande, Javier Guerrero, Sebastian Guinot, Albert Gutierrez, Andres Guttierez, Daniel Halphen, Adrian Hernandez, Christopher Hernandez, Alexander Iduate, Carlos Jimenez, Andres Jimenez, Carlos Lara, Kristian Lastre, Agustin Leos, Claudio Leyva, Sebastian Llano, Maximiliano Llorente, Patrick Maher, Tristen Marin, Marlow Marimon, Humberto Marrero, Rafael Martinez-Varela, Manuel Menendez, David Meza, Christopher Moustafa, Joshua Munoz, Nathaniel Munoz, Aaron Muriedas, Alexander Parekh, Nicholas Patricios, Juan Pereira, Nicholas Perez, Alexander Piccolo, Julian Piedrahita, Bernardo Poulat, Guillermo Quintero, Gabriel Rigueiro, Bruce Ribbeck, Joseph Rubio, Daniel Silva, Sebastian Suarez, Andres Taquechel, Nicolas Tobon, Roger Torres, Carlos Vela, Daniel Velasquez, Lucas Venegas, Nicolas Vila, Ignacio Villasmil, Nicolas Vurgait, Robert Pupo, Kristian Lastre, Adrian Rey, Brian Black, Matthew Jalil, Nathaniel Kim, Daniel Marsh, John Bohatch, Daniel Jimenez, Alejandro Minoso, Matias Perinot, Lucas Richard, Santiago Richard, and Raul Rodriguez. Moderators: Mr. Johnny Calderin and Mr. Javier Vazquez
Student Council
Roster: Excecutive Board: David Andreu, Adrian Rey, Rodrigo Bustamante, Anthony Castro, Alec Castillo, Enrique Mendia, William Kindelan, John Hyland, Nicolas Garcia, Daniel Brennan, John Broe, John Lee, Javier Bustamante, Sebastian Lopez-Irizarry, Matias Gandarias, William Lima, Alejandro Vazquez, Oscar Echegaray, David Swisstack, Adison Arnholt, Francisco Prio, Tomas Duque, Jack Volpe, Tomas Rodriguez, Christopher Bayo, Carlos Morales, John Anguita, Aidan Girado, Mark Salazar, Giovanny Cueto, Aiden Villasuso, Nicolas Pereira, Phillipe Gascon, Julian Ramos, David Fernandez, Diego Canto, Robert Fernandez, Mark Adams, Julian DeCollibus, Juan Tejera, Kyle Rodriguez, Anthony Peraza, John Hernandez, Oliver Romanach, Breton Rice, Henry Noy, Christopher Alvarez, Sean Beaubien, Eduardo Morasso, Enrique Sori, Joshua Sloan, Javier Cantens, Nick Rodriguez, Nathaniel Payne, Luis Mendez, Christopher Krause, Kristian Perez, Rafael De la Torre, Maximilien Quibet, Gerardo Perea, Kevin Martin, Jacob Wutzler, Anthony Vadell, Stefano Pinto, Jack Barrios, Jorge Paez, Lucas Otero, Christian Ojeda, Guillermo Molero, Andre Hall, Seth Hart, Daniel Esteban, Ricardo Perez, Brandon Vila, Cristian Garcia, Andres Gomez, Andres Dones, Roberto LaCasa, Lucas Christie, Felipe Pardo, Justin Milton, Alejandro Toyos, Emilio Mascaro, Ivan Pachon, Alex Pacios, Jason Rodriguez, Francisco Garcia, Javin Rice, Daniel Sanchez, Luis Larios, Daniel De la Fe, Michael Moreno, Roberto Pupo, Daniel Riveron, Nicholas Milton, Nicolas Obezo, Matthew Bravo, Mateus Tordin, Carlos Gallo, Jared Diaz, Gabriel Seda, Daniel Martinez, Patrick Maher, Lucas Pola, Marc Novas, Diego Ortega, John Hermida, Emilio Cardenal, Luke Hernandez, Matthew Salas, Daniel Hondal, Joseph Garcia, Ignacio Sapetnisky, Brian Pascual, Claudio Laratelli, Fernando Pinera, Andres Cesin, Erik Masis, Dajour Resiere, Gabriel Jimenez, Alessandro Borges, Christopher Billoch, Nicholas Arias, and Giancarlo Mesa. Moderator: Mr. Luis Dulzaides
Roster: Kevin Lemus (Senior President), Gus Gonzalez (Senior Vice President), Kristian Perez (Junior President), Matthew Quintino (Junior Vice President), Diego Navarro, Jose Garcia-Chirino, Anthony Abinader, Christian Ojeda, Dustin Duprey, Oscar Berlanga, Basilio Garcia, Maximo Ulloa, Christian Delgado, Sebastian Suarez, Javier Mederos, Daniel Martinez, Christian Delgado, Antoine Brandt, Jaime Lopez, Rafael Queiroz, Daniel Oliva, Lucas Deeb, Heinz Luedeking, Peter Lopez, Gianluca Mejia, Luis Salazar, Lucas De La Guardia, Matthew Johnson, Arshis Marfatia, Richard Fernandez, Alejandro Llorente, Julian Ramos, and Lucas Cardona. Moderators: Mr. Francisco Padura and Mr. Leo Williams
Best Buddies
Roster: Daniel Sixto (President), Francisco Palacios (Vice President), Alexander Hernandez, Nicholas Garcia, Albert Gutierrez, Alexander Boza, Carlos Machado, Richard Diaz, Ignacio Sapetnitzky, Victor Alvarez, Michael Motola, Waldo Toyos, Adrian Lazo, Alexander Alepuz, Christian Perez, David Gonzalez, Eric Cruz, Giancarlo Pinto, Christopher Hernandez, and Alberto Gonzalez Del Valle. Moderator: Ms. Cristina Ramirez
Bishop San Pedro
Roster: Alejandro Guerrero (President), Rafael Gallardo (Vice President), Anthony Vadell, Gabriel Gallardo, Eric Diaz, Carlos Echenique, Erick Labrador, and Daniel Silva. Moderator: Ms. Margarita Guerrero
Roster: Cesar Aguzzi, Armando Albert, Guillermo Amore,Rodrigo Barquero, Ricardo Blanco, Javier Bustamante, Sebastian Chamizo, Andres Concepcion, Alejandro Corzo, Daniel Corzo, Damion Cuesta, Robert Curbelo, Nico De Aguiar, Richard De Aguiar, Lucas Fernandez, Manny Fernandez, Javier Fonseca, Albert Fraga, Gregory Gallinar, Thomas Gallinar, Carlos Grande, Eric Lastres, Augustin Leos, Federico Lozano, Rodrigo Madiedo, Marlow Marimon, Jake Miguez, Nathaniel Munoz, Gabriel Polo, Daniel Planos, Guillermo Quintero, Daniel Raez, David Raez, Eduardo Rodriguez, Daniel Sanchez, Joshua Salandy, Waldo Toyos, and Christian Trastroy. Moderators: Ms.Susana Corzo and Mr. Javier Castillo
Bocce
Club
Roster: Eduardo Hernandez (President), Evan Rojas (Vice President), Timothy Mackle, William San Pedro, Diego Perera, Juan Lam, Christopher Marrero, Anthony Soler, Ian Anderson, Daniel Pinto, Tyler Newlin, Julian Hernandez, Federico Diago, Manuel Fernandez, Alejandro, Andres Dones, Sebastian Clark, Lucas Lorenzo, Gabriel Krikorian, and Carlos Arazoza. Moderator: Mr. Ramon Nicosia
Biomedical Engineering
Roster: Ignacio Sapetnitzky (President), Manrique Iriarte, Robert Espinosa, Ignacio Diaz Garza, David Gonzalez, Rafael Marmol, Connor Meagher, Wilfredo Allen, Andres Borroto, Gabriel Gonzalez, Luke Hernandez, Cristian Collazo, Jose Jimenez, Daniel Portuondo, Christopher Menendez, Benjamin Gilbert, Fernando Gurraceaga, Ryan Navarro, Santiago Molero, Luis Mejer, Enrique Mendia, Jorge Padron, Alejandro Gonzalez, Kristian Lastre, Alexander Falla, and Daniel Dager. Moderator: Mr. Andres Jimenez
Business Forum
Roster: Alex Hernandez (President), Carlos Moren (Vice President), Gabriel Kasabdji, Kevin Simauchi, Andres Poveda, Javier Pita, Alejandro Maduro, Patrick Maher, Alejandro Pardinas, Jared Diaz, Richard Munoz, Eduardo Scheuren, Juan Carillo, Maximo Ulloa, Andres Balcazar, Lucas Venegas, Carlos Gallo, and Sebastian Chamizo. Moderator: Mr. Andres Jimenez
Fencing Team
Roster: Lucas Fernandez (President), Daniel Silva (Vice President), Guillermo Cadima, Alexander Nunez, Victor Tunon, Ruben Chavez, Nelson de Leon, Alessandro di Marzo, Thomas Muller, Sebastian Garcia, Brandon Vila, Marcos Marimon, Michael Nelson, Andres Torrente, Nicholas Bosch, Michael Hernandez, Donato Gonzalez, Maximo Salazar, Henry Noy, Fernando Forte Carpio, Miguel Camacho, Evan Gonzalez, Michael Ruiz, and Raul Sague. Moderators: Fr. Pedro Cartaya, S.J. and Mr. Joaquin Tack-Sang.
Chess Team
Roster: Nicholas Abunassar, Alec Borbolla, Andrew Burch, Andrew Caldwell, Ignacio Cardenal, Diego Chang, Jose Chaviano, Alfredo De Zayas, Daniel Fager, David Fager, Fasanella Daniel, Ehren Fernandez, Eric Garcia, Jonathan Herrera, Justin Izquierdo, Jason Khoury, Rafael Llaneza, Timothy Mackle, Alfredo Melgar, David Meza, Richard Morales, Guillermo Najera, Jorge Paez, Diego Perera, Daniel Pinto, Matthew Pulles, Jacob Sanchez, Maximus Sanchez, Connor Smith, Nicolas Souto, Alexander Suarez, and Luke Swisstack. Moderator: Dr. Lawrence Goodall
Roster: Christopher Font (President), Jonathan Garcia (Vice President), Daniel Portuondo, Andres Arenas, Nicholas Curry, Christopher Avallone, Richard de Aguiar, Nicholas Besada, Danny Ferro, Alejandro Mejer, Mario Perez, Lucas Zumpano, Guillermo Najera, and Christian Salazar. Moderator: Ms. Marisol Sosa
Computer Science
Roster: Michael Gonzalez (President), Daniel Silva (Vice President), Angel Aguilar, Andres Artime, Ivan Barral, Francisco Barrera, Andrew Burch, Carlos Echenique, Gabriel Gallardo, Rafael Gallardo, Andres Gutierrez, Justin Izquierdo, Andres Krikorian, Erick Labrador, Norberto Menendez, Rodrigo Nieto, Zachary Paula, Sebastian Rivera, and Roger Torres. Moderators: Mrs. Maria I. Sanchez-Gallardo and Mr. Carlos Beaton
Sailing Team
Roster: Pablo Puga, Andres Garcia-Chacon, Justin Louden, Timothy Mackle, and Lucas Cardona. Moderator: Mr. Jorge Munoz-Bustamante.
Mock Trial H.S.
Mock Trial M.S.
Ateneo
Roster: Kevin Lemus (President), Daniel Romero, Placido Valdes, David Andreu, Nicolas Munoz, Roberto Pupo, Jon Lemos, Estaban Guio, and Alexander Pusch. Moderator: Dr. Maria Cristina Reyes-Garcia
Alberto Romero, Michael Fresco, Luis Mendez, Christopher Alvarez, Alexander Suarez, Roberto Suarez, Matthew Johnston, Luis Rafael Gonzalez-Pella, and Lucas Fernandez. Moderator: Mr. Guillermo Ramos
Roster: Zane Todywala, Gabriel Tozo, Antonio Valencia, Peter Prieto, Gabriel Jimenez, Aaron Muriedas, Andres Jimenez, Ivan Cabrera, Max Salazar, Jon Lemos, Daniel Ferro, Gabriel Abril, and Kevin Fernandez. Moderator: Ms. Kelly Garganta
Matteo Ricci
Roster: Anthony Abinader, Luis Andujas, Raul Banos, Nicolas Bosch, Andre Caputo, Kyle Castellanos, Miguel Cobas, Gabriel Cobas, Alejandro Conception, Andres Conception, Robert Curbelo, Anthony Duarte, William Elias, Manuel Estrada, Jonathan Garcia, Roberto Gonzalez, Santiago Gonzalez Irigoyen, Daniel Jimenez, Gabriel Kasabdji, Jonathan Larios, Luis Larios, Kevin Lemus, Robert Marazita-Espinosa, Jorge Moscoso, Alejandro Moscoso, Manuel Mejia Gomez, Alejandro Pardo, Gabriel Pardo, Carlos Perez, David Raez, Daniel Raez, Sebastian Rafuls, Francisco Rodriguez, Alejandro Villareal, Kevin Schaeppi-Souza, Brandon Vila, and Raul Sague. Moderator: Mr. Charles Cleveland
French Club
Roster: Christopher Billoch (President), Ernesto Ruiz Sierra (Vice President), Marcelo Mion, Joshua Sliva, Andres Echeverria, Eduardo Fidalgo, Tomas Gonzalez, Carlos Somarriba, Alejandro Iduate, Daniel Garrastazu, John Farrach, Angelo Borges, Gabriel Estrada, Nicolas Besada, Oscar Ortega, Gabriel Kasabji, Christian Winch, Pedro Garcia, Nicolas PerezBlanco, Alejandro Falcon, Manrique Iriarte, Nicolas Arias, and Harrison Stoker. Moderator: Ms. Maria I. Alonso
Photography Club
Roster: Connor Mullins, Julian Caballero, Joshua Sliva, and Giancarlo Mesa. Moderator: Mr. Ignacio Font Academic Clubs
Production Club
Roster: Alec Castillo (President), Kevin Fernandez (Vice President), Kevin Alpizar, Nicholas Besada, Francisco Blanco, Daniel Brown, Steven Calles, Carlos Cristobal, Joaquin de Goytisolo, Eddie Francia, Eric Gordon, Alejandro Guerrero, Justin Hernandez, Jorge Iglesias, Nicholas Krikorian, Thomas Kurzan, Luis Larios, Brandon Lubian, Timothy Mackle, Francisco Menendez, Chistopher Montero, Matthew Morales, Michael Morin, Marc Novas, Mario Perez, Diego Planas, Adrian Ponce, Matthew Powell, Max Quibet, Guillermo Quintero, Nicholas Roca, Andres Rodriguez, Manuel Rodriguez-Lapido, Gustavo Roig, Diego Romero, Virgilio Sanchez, Enrique Sori, and Sebastian Valencia. Moderator: Mr. Johny Calderin
Model U.N.
Roster: Daniel Eduardo Romero (Director General), Oscar Berlanga (Director General), Edward Briscoe, Jon Lemos, Daniel Martinez, Nicholas Ordieres, Allan Navarro, Nicholas Curry, Andres Marquez, Alberto Romero, Peter Morales, Andrew Lamela, Christopher Menendez, Eduardo Hernandez, David Raez, Sebastian Guinot, Juan Fernandez de Castro, Sebastian Rivera, Manuel Gil, Daniel Oliva, Ehren Fernandez, Kyle Castellanos, Michael Menendez, Nicholas Perez, Adrian Ponce, Sebastian Arriola, Kevin Lemos, Ricardo Perez, Andres Larrea, Connor Smith, Federico Diago, Lucas Fernandez, Daniel Martinez, Donato A. Gonzalez, Jordan Hiers, Francisco Sanguino, Augusta Moreno, Ryan Bermudez, Andres Dones, Tomas de la Huerta, Javier Mederos, Matias Nieto, Marco Lanz, and Matthew Cardoso-Abreu. Moderators: Mr. Gehovanny Perez and Mr. Octavio Ramos
NOTE.ables and Vocatones
Richard Fernandez, Gianluca Mejia, and Jose Gonzalez.
Operation Smile
Roster: Albert Perez-Abreu (Co-President), Michael Prado (Co-President), Christopher Alvarez, Joseph Balerdi, Luis Balerdi, Victor Bisbal, Jacob Collins, Daniel Corzo, Damian Cuesta, Thomas Cuesta, Joshua Ferrer, Orlando Galindez, Brandon Gancedo, Sebastian Jorge, Federico Lozano, Alejandro Mejer, Guillermo Molero, Richard Morales III, Nicholas Oyarzun, Albert Perez-Abreu, Javier Pita, Gabriel Polo, Michael Prado, Diego Romero, Nicolas Smith, Sebastian Spencer, Kevin Steel, Harrison Stoker, Diego Yaffar, and Julian Zulueta. Moderator: Ms. Maria D. Alonso
Roster: Daniel Calvache (President), Ethan Silva (Vice President), Frankie Garcia Montes, Collin Pallissery, Alec Vizoso, Daniel Oliva, Kevin Calgone,
Moderator: Ms. Karen Ortiz
Roster: Javier Mederos, Gustavo Gonzalez, Brandon Moran, Christopher Font, Oscar Berlanga, David Andreu, Jonathan Garcia. Moderator: Ms. Karen Ortiz
Roster: Michael Cairo (Sovereign), Christian Gonzalez (Vice-Sovereign), Javier Fonseca, Oscar Berlanga, Orestes Garcia, Alejandro Pardinas, Juan Fernandez de Castro, Luis Lopez-Cabrera, Christopher Quintero, Nicholas Ordieres, Rodrigo Nieto, Manuel Gil, Adrian Hernandez, Alfredo De Zayas, Justin Hernandez, Christian Gonzalez, Alexander Iduate, Alexander Alepuz, Eduardo Hernandez, Sebastian Rivera, Gabriel Tozo, Francisco Odon, Christian Tinoco, Kevin Fernandez, Andre Cozier, and Emilio Mascaro. Moderator: Dr. John Gustavsen
Science National Honor Society
Roster: Alexander Alepuz, Alexander Boza, Orlando Calas, Juan Carabeo-Nieva, Benjamin Cardenas, Alfredo Cepero, Sebastian Chamorro, Christian Collazo, Alfredo Consuegra, Christian Del Castillo, Robert Espinosa, David Fager, Benjamin Frisbee, Joseph Fuentes, Benjamin Gilbert III, Jorge Gomez, Alejandro Gonzalez, David Gonzalez, Gabriel Gonzalez, Kevin Gonzalez, Alberto Gonzalez del Valle, Adrian Hernandez, Christopher Hernandez, Luke Hernandez, John Hyland, Manrique Iriarte, William Kindelan, Kevin Lemos, Rafael Marmol, Joshua Munoz, Ryan Navarro, Lucas Osorio, Alexander Parekh, Alexander Piccolo, Adrian Rey, Gabriel Rigueiro, Diego Rivera, Nicolas Roca, Alejandro Ruiz, David Salazar, Kyle Schaeppi Souza, Nicolas Thompson, Kevin Valdes, Pablo Venegas, and Julio Yanes. Moderator: Dr. Lucila Espinosa
Nicolas
Adrian Carmona, Alessandro
Andres Jimenez, Lucas A. Leon, Joseph Mackle, Jorge Mesa, Max Munoz, Benjamin Pasternac, Salvatore Pizzi, Alejandro Sanchez, Alec Schneider, David Swisstack, Andres Torrente, Nicolas Alarcon, Mateo Garcia, Gavin Gonzalez, Jose Gonzalez, Carlos Monge, Gilberto Oliva, Brandon Lucas Perez, Eduardo Ramirez, Alec Vizoso, Adrian Cicero, Adolfo Valencia, Andres Alfonso, Andrew Arriola, Justin Rubio, Sebastian Garcia, Carlos Huembes, Ivan Barral, Francisco Barrera, Alan Fernandez, Andres Gutierrez, Andres Krikorian, Gabriel Krikorian, Nathaniel Munoz, Sebastian Rivera, Robert Espinosa, Patricio Garzon, Rafael Marmol, and Orlando Calas. Moderator: Ms. Carolina Rodriguez & Mr. Julian Rodriguez
Cangrejos
Roster: Andres Marquez (President), Andres Borroto, Sebastian Leiter, Ryan Perez, Christopher Menendez, Jason Egusquiza, John Egusquiza, Daniel Bogardus, Ryan Navarro, Dylan Pareja, Frederico Vivacqua, Michael Borell, Richard Munoz, Santiago Ugas, Michael Prado, Joseph Parlade, Marc Novas, Mateus Tordin, Anthony Ebbage, Harrison Stoker, Andres Dones, Brandon Lubian, Matthew Martin, Nicholas Krikorian, Luis Larios, Robert Fernandez, Christopher Moustafa, Zachary Jimenez, Michael Menendez, Robert Curbelo, Joseph Rubio, Brandon Moran, Jonathan Micali, Alex Suarez, Sebastian Roa, Dustin Duprey, Jose Rodriguez, Lucas Blanco, Henry Noy, Victor Rivera, Kristian Perez, Victor Bisbal, Orlando Galindez, Francisco Aguero, Nicolas Marquez, and George Rodriquez. Moderator: Ms. Karen Ortiz
Honor Society & Academic Clubs
Roster:
Bosh,
Di Marzo, Alexander Gonzalez, David Gonzalez, Alfredo Hernandez, Matthew Huembes,
Society of Worship
Roster: Cesar Aguzzi, David Andreu, Andres Artime, Nicholas Augustin, Oscar Berlanga, John Broe, Robert Curbelo, Gabriel Gallardo, Santiago Gonzalez Irigoyen, Eric Lastres, Timothy Mackle, Daniel Marsh, Michael Morera, Nathaniel Munoz, Daniel Raez, David Raez, Alex Suarez, Robert Suarez, Waldo Toyos, and Daniel Wallace. Moderators: Ms. Kathleen Mackle and Deacon Robert O’Malley
Spanish State Team
Roster: Javier Guerrero-Vicente, Frank Castanos, Daniel Romero, Jorge Miro-Quesada, Carlos Sosa, Francisco Barrera, Roger Torres, David Velasco, Bernardo Poulat, Pablo Kurzan, Esteban Guio, Nicolas Tobon, Diego Yaffar, Rodrigo Marin, Max Llorente, Juan Pereira. Moderator: Mrs. Annette Anton
Aviation
Roster: Alejandro Hillman (President), Daniel Puente (Vice President), Peter Lopez, and Andrew Arriola. Moderator: Mr. Timothy VanScoy
Speech and Debate
Roster: David Andreu, Jonathan Avila, Andres Balcazar, Alain Bonvecchio, Thomas Borell, Andres Casariego, Alec Castillo, Daniel Dager, Christian Delgado, Jorge Escobar, Manuel Fernandez, Daniel Ferro, Alejandro Gonzalez, Michael Gonzalez, Esteban Guio, Fernando Guruceaga, Albert Gutierrez, Daniel Halphen, Ariel Jimenez, Gabriel Kasabdji, Daniel Lage, Joshua Lara, Sebastian Leiter, Kevin Lemus, Luis Marquez, Thomas Mas, Emilio Mascaro, Javier Mederos, Christopher Menendez, Giovanni Menocal, Nicholas Milton, Carlos Moreno, Nicholas Munoz, Nicholas Ordieres, Daniel Pacios, Dylan Pareja, Mario Perez, Albert Perez-Abreu, Adrian Pombo, Roberto Pupo, Dajour Resiere, Justin Rodriguez, Daniel Romero, Teobaldo Rosell, Stefano Santamaria, Matthew Schultz, Kevin Simauchi, Alejandro Smith, Christian Tinoco, and Maximo Ulloa. Moderator: Mr.Luis Dulzadies
Student Advisors Program
Roster: Joey Luzarraga (President), Robert Espinosa (Vice President), Jorge Miro-Quesada, Joshua Munoz, Julian Caballero, Brandon Moran, Robert Curbelo, Nicholas Mullis, Sebastian Prieto, Joshua Salandy, Armando Albert, Alejandro Torres, Waldo Toyos, Eduardo Hernandez, Jose Chaviano, Henry Gonzalez, Alessandro Billau, Hugo Garcia, Eric Lastres, Sebastian Chamizo, Jason Rodriguez, James Mullis, Andres Perez, Andres Poveda, Antoine Brandt, Christian Winch, Felipe Sequiera, Gabriel Trastoy, Gus Gonzalez, Joshua Lara, Raphael Perez- Blanco, Alejandro Falcon, Carlos Machado, Richard De Aguiar, Pedro Garcia, Basilio Garcia, Christian Perez, and Erik Masis. Moderator: Ms.Teresa Gutierrez
Statistical Analysis
Roster: David Gonzalez (President), David Romeu (Vice President), Claudio Laratelli, Andres Artime, Andrew Cecol, Christian Del Castillo, David Gonzalez, Claudio Laratelli, Joshua Munoz, Daniel Romeu, and Alejandro Ruiz. Moderator: Ms. Olga Ramon
National Honor Society
Roster: David Gonzalez (President), Daniel Sixto (Vice President), John Powell, Francisco Marcos, Ian Anderson, Raul Banos. Ivan Barral, Francisco Barrera, Maxwell Belisario, Jeremy Bencomo, Alvaro Bodero, Andrew Burch, Javier Bustamante, Ivan Cabrera, Ignacio Cardenal, Kyle Castellanos, Robert Castro, Alejandro Cepero, Gerald Chang, Paul Charpentier, Jose Chaviano, Lucas Christie, Sebastian Clark, Gabriel Cobas, Rogelio Consuegra, Daniel Corrada, Alejandro Corzo, Nicholas Cuesta, Anthony Delgado, Luis Diaz, Andres Dones, Alex Doval, Anthony Ebbage, Ricardo Espina, Gabriel Estrada, Daniel Fager, Antonio Felipe, Alejandro Fernandez, Ehren Fernandez, Lucas Fernandez, Manuel Fernandez, Roberto Fernandez, Alberto Fraga, Antonio Fraga, Thomas Gallinar, Joseph Gambin, Carlos Gamez, Christopher Garcia, David Garcia, Francisco Garcia, Hugo Garcia, Fernando Garcia-Chacon, Mark Garrigo, Daniel Giacosa, Kyle Gomez, Matthew Gomez, Cristian Gonzalez, David Gonzalez, Carlos Grande, Javier Guerrero Vicente, Andres Gutierrez, Jared Hart, Andrew Hernandez, Eduardo Hernandez, John Herrera, Jorge Iglesias, Justin Izquierdo, Andres Jimenez, Carlos Jimenez, Sebastian Jorge, Jason Khoury, Andres Krikorian, Gabriel Krikorian, Nicholas Krikorian, Eric Labrador, Roberto Lacasa, Juan Lam, Luis Larios, Eric Lastres, Jon Lemos, Claudio Leyva, Rafael Llaneza, Sebastian Llano, Maximiliano Llorente, Israel Lopez, Ignacio Lopez-Castro, Robert LopezIrizarry, Justin Louden, Brandon Lubian, Timothy Mackle, Hugo Marin, Rodrigo Marin, Christopher Marrero, Emilio Mascaro, Ricardo Mayo, Alejandro Mejer, Michael Morales, Richard Morales, Bernardo Moro, Jorge Moscoso, Rodrigo Munoz, Allan Navarro, Tyler Newlin, Diego Nunez, Matthew Olesen, Ivan Pachon, Felipe Pardo, Juan Pereira, Andres Perez, Mario Perez, Daniel Pinto, Jose Plasencia, Bernardo Poulat, Javan Rice, Andres Rodriguez, Evan Rojas, Andres Ros, Juan Rubio ,Daniel Salinas, Javier San Martin, William San Pedro, Daniel Sanchez, Jacob Sanchez, Javier Saumell, Nicolas Smith, Anthony Soler, Carlos Sosa, Nicolas Sosa, Harrison Stoker, Christian Tinoco, Nicolas Tobon, Roger Torres, Carlos Vela, David Velasco, Ignacio Villasmil, Diego Yaffar, Conner Yurkon, Lucas Zumpano, Nicolas Aguilar, Cristian Alonso, Carlos Arazoza, Andres Arenas, Francesco Armstrong, Christopher Avallone, Michael Balbuena, Andres Balcazar, Jerry Balepogi, Kevin Baloyra, Alejandro Barnola, Matthew Bec, Oscar Berlanga, Francisco Blanco, Michael Borell, Matthew Bravo, Edward Briscoe, Daniel Brown, Christopher Caballero, Lucas Cabrera-Ramon, Lucas Caicedo, Steven Calles, Nicholas Carvajal, Bill Chan, Daniel Chavez, Jun Hyung Cho, Christian Cognigni, Mathew Crespo, Daniel de la Fe, Carlos de la Nuez, Christian Delgado, Marcus Diaz, Richard Diaz, Austin Dominguez, Carlos Dominguez, Alejandro Falcon, John Farach, Guillermo Fernandez, Juan Fernandez de Castro, Manuel Ferrer Simo, Rafael Gallardo, Orestes Garcia, Maximiliano Garcia del Pozo, Daniel Garrastazu, Luis Gomez, Gustavo Gonzalez, Esteban Guio, Adrian Hernandez, Miguel Hernandez, Nicolas Hernandez, Alejandro Hunter, Jovier Jimenez, Pablo Kurzan, Erick Labrador, Carlos Lara, Kevin Lemus, Agustin Leos, Joseph Luzarraga, Carlos Machado, Patrick Maher, Carlos Marin, Tristen Marin, Daniel Martinez, Luis Mathison, Francisco Melo, Carlos Menendez, Francisco Menendez, Jonathan Menendez, Norberto Menendez, Maurice Milton, Nicholas Milton, Jorge Miro-Quesada, Carlos Moreno, Michael Moreno, Nicolas Munoz, Santiago Munoz, Richard Munoz, Nicolas Obeso, Daniel Otero-Pfaeffle, Alejandro Pardinas, Andres Pena, Cesar Perez-Erminy, Andres Pinate, Lucas Pola, Michael Prado, Roberto Pupo, Alexander Pusch, Daniel Riveron, Alfonso Rodriguez, Gustavo Roig, Daniel Romero, Juan San Martin, Daniel Sarmiento, Eduardo Scheuren, Gabriel Seda, Nicholas Senior, Nicholas Silva, Kevin Simauchi, Daniel Simpson, Andres Solares, Sebastian Suarez, Michael Sueiro, Federico Tamborrel, Andres Taquechel, Mateus Tordin, Javier Torres de Navarra, Brandon Torricella, Maximo Ulloa, Jorge Valdes, Daniel Velasquez Neira, Lucas Venegas, Kristian Ventura, Nicolas Vila, Erick Wilson, Erich Aguilar, Julio Aira, Alexander Alepuz, Wilfredo Allen, Victor Alvarez, David Andreu, Andres Artime, Andres Borroto, Alexander Boza, Daniel Brennan, Rodrigo Bustamante, Michael Cairo, Orlando Calas, Juan Carabeo-Nieva, Emilio Cardenal, Benjamin Cardenas, Anthony Castro, Andrew Cecol, Alfredo Cepero, Sebastian Chamorro, Christian Collazo, Andres Concepcion, Daniel Dager, Francisco De la Camara, Luis De Zayas, Christian Del Castillo, Gabriel Diaz, John Egusquiza, Jorge Escobar, Roberto Espinosa, David Fager, Alexander Falla, Alexander Fernandez, Javier Fonseca, Benjamin Frisbee, Joseph Fuentes, Jonathan Garcia, Joseph Garcia, Joseph Garcia, Nicolas Garcia, Patricio Garzon, Benjamin Gilbert, Jorge Gomez, Alejandro Gonzalez, David Gonzalez, Gabriel Gonzalez, Kevin Gonzalez, Tomas Gonzalez, Alejandro Guerrero, Fernando Guruceaga, Albert Gutierrez, John Hermida, Adrian Hernandez, Alexander Hernandez, Christopher Hernandez, Justin Hernandez, Luke Hernandez, Daniel Hondal, John Hyland, Antonio Iriarte, Christopher Jauregui, Gabriel Jimenez, Jose Jimenez, William Kindelan, Claudio Laratelli, Kristian Lastre, Kevin Lemos, Jaime Lopez, Luis Lopez-Cabrera, Alfredo Lopez-Sotillo, Francisco Marcos, Rafael Marmol, Andres Marquez, Luis Marquez, Roberto Martell, Albert Maury, Conor Meagher, Luis Mejer, Enrique Mendia, Christopher Menendez, Marcelo Mion, Santiago Molero, Joshua Munoz, Ryan Navarro, Francisco Odon, Nicholas Ordieres, Lucas Osorio, Francisco Palacios, Alexander Parekh, Brian Pascual, Ryan Perez, Alexander Piccolo, Fernando Pinera, Giancarlo Pinto, Daniel Portuondo, John Powell, Peter Prieto, Ghulian Ramos, Adrian Rey, Tavish Rice, Gabriel Rigueiro, Diego Rivera, Nicolas Roca, Carlos Rodriguez, Francisco Rodriguez, Ryan Rodriguez, Daniel Romeu, Alejandro Ruiz, David Salazar, Ignacio Sapetnitzky, Renato Scerpella, Kyle Schaeppi Souza, Andres Signoret, Daniel Silva, Daniel Silva, Daniel Sixto, Joshua Sliva, Nicolas Tamborrel, Nicolas Thompson, Nicholas Tootle, Kevin Valdes, Antonio Valencia, Nicolas Vega, Pablo Venegas, Frederico Vivacqua, Nicolas Waterhouse, Dominic Wermuth, Julio Yanes, and Manuel Zuniga. Moderator: Ms. Dolores Toledo
Mu Alpha Theta
Roster: David Fager (President), Andres Concepcion (Vice-President), Julio Aira, Alexander Alepuz, Rodrigo Bustamante, Benjamin Cardenas, Joseph Fuentes, Jonathan Garcia, Nicolas Garcia, Alejandro Gonzalez, David Gonzalez, Gabriel Gonzalez, Kevin Gonzalez, Tomas Gonzalez, Fernando Guruceaga, Adrian Hernandez, Jose Jimenez, William Kindelan, Claudio Laratelli, Kevin Lemos, Jaime Lopez, Luis Lopez-Cabrera, Alfredo Lopez-Sotillo, Francisco Marcos, Roberto Martell, Andres Marquez, Luis Marquez, Luis Mejer, Christopher Menendez, Santiago Molero, Joshua Munoz, Francisco Odon, Fernando Piñera, Daniel Portuondo, Adrian Rey, Nicolas Roca, Daniel Romeu, Alejandro Ruiz, David Salazar, Andres Signoret, Daniel Silva, Kyle Schaeppi Souza, Nicolas Tamborrel, Nicholas Tootle, Frederico Vivacqua, Daniel Dager, Wilfredo Allen, Alexander Boza, Christopher Hernnadez, John Powell, Mario Robaina, Nicolas Thompson, Christopher Caballero, Daniel de la Fe, Luis A. Gomez, Esteban Guio, Miguel Hernandez, Jovier Jimenez, Erick Labrador, Maurice Milton, Javier Torres de Navarra, Daniel Velasquez, Carlos Arazoza, Francesco Armstrong, Christopher Avallone, Michael Balbuena, Alejandro Barnola, Matthew Bec, Michael Borell, Edward Briscoe, Lucas Cabrera-Ramon, Bill Chan, Jun Hyung Cho, Christian Cognini, Mathew Crespo, Christian Delgado, Richard Diaz, Carlos Dominguez, Alejandro Falcon, Guillermo Fernandez, Manuel Ferrer, Rafael Gallardo, Maximiliano Garcia del Pozo, Daniel Garrastazu, Kevin Lemus, Agustin Leos, Patrick Maher, Carlos Marin, Tristen Marin, Luis Mathison, Francisco Melo, Francisco Menendez, Johnathan Menendez, Norberto Menendez, Carlos Moreno, Michael Moreno, Alexander Pusch, Daniel Romero, Juan San Martin, Alejandro Smith, Sebastian Suarez, Michael Sueiro, Federico Tamborrel, Andres Taquechel, Mateus Tordin, Maximo Ulloa, Jorge Valdes, Kristian Ventura, Nicolas Vila, Ivan Barral, Francisco Barrera, Alvaro Bodero, Andrew Burch, Ignacio Cardenal, Kyle Castellanos, Gerald Chang, Paul Charpentier, Jose Chaviano, Alejandro Corzo, Anthony Delgado, Andres Dones, Ricardo Espina, Daniel Fager, Joshua Ferrer, Lucas Fernandez, Thomas Gallinar, Christopher Garcia, David Garcia, Fernando Garcia-Chacon, Mark Garrigo, Carlos Grande, Javier Guerrero-Vicente, Andres Gutierrez, Justin Izquierdo, Andres Jimenez, Carlos Jimenez, Jason Khoury, Andres Krikorian, Gabriel Krikorian, Roberto Lacasa, Eric Lastres, Jon Lemos, Claudio Leyva, Maximiliano Llorente, Justin Louden, Rodrigo Marin, Ricardo Mayo, Justin Milton, Richard Morales, Rodrigo Munoz, Jorge Moscoso, Ivan Pachon, Felipe Pardo, Juan Pereira, Daniel Pinto, Bernardo Poulat, Deiter Prussing, Sebastian Rivera, Evan Rojas, Javier San Martin, William San Pedro, Jacob Sanchez, Kearan Singh, Nicolas Sosa, Harrison Stoker, Nicolas Tobon, Roger Torres, Carlos Vela, David Velasco, Diego Yaffar, and Conner Yurkon. Moderator: Mr. Jose Roca & Mr. Carlos Beaton
Rho Kappa
Roster: Jon Lemos, Robert Lopez-Irizarry, Sebastian Jorge, Lucas Fernandez, Kevin Azpiri, Bernardo Poulat, Carlos Jimenez, Andres Jimenez, Fransico Garcia, William San Pedro, Carlos Sosa, Jorge Moscoso, Allan Navarro, Christopher Garcia, Gabriel Cobas, Javier Guerrero-Vicente, Luis Larios, Michael Menendez, Edward Rodriguez, Nicholas Perez, Julian Zulueta, Rafael Llaneza, Anthony Vadell, Juan Lam, David Garcia, Franky Barrera, Ivan Barral, Kyle Castellanos, Eduardo Hernandez, Andres Krikorian , Gabriel Krikorian , Nicholas Krikorian, Andres Dones, Marlow Marimon, Angel Aguilar, Ryan Bermudez, Sebastian Rivera, Tyler Newlin, Anthony Soler, Thomas Gallinar, Javier Rodriguez, Michael Penaranda, Alejandro Villarreal, and Daniel Fager. Moderator: Dr. Francisco Tudela
Quill and Scroll
Roster: Antonio Valencia, and Nicolas Roca. Moderator: Mrs. Sujayla Collins
Music Appreciation Society
Roster: Peter Prieto
Briscoe, Antonio Valencia,
Joshua
(President),
Sliva, Patricio Garzon, Cristian Gonzalez, Giancarlo Mesa, Edward
Joseph Fuentes, Gabriel Tozo, and Mario Perez Moderator: Mr. Tony Alexander
National Senior Beta
Roster: Andres Echeverria (President), Alexander Fals (Vice President), Guillermo Amore, Michael Aparicio, Patrick Arean, Pablo Arevalo, Nicholas Arias, Alec Arrizurieta, Jason Belisario, Nicholas Besada, Alessandro Billau, Antoine Brandt, Michael Cabeza, Lucas Cabrera-Ramon, Mark Candela, Daniel Chavez, Alfredo Consuegra, Eric Cruz, Richard De Aguiar, Marcos De la Hoz, Jared Diaz, Jossan Elias, Leunam Escarras-Lola, Alan Fernandez, Eloy Fernandez, Eduardo Fidalgo, Christoper Font, Benjamin Frisbee, Kevin Galego, Brian Garcia, Cristian Garcia, Gabriel Garcia, Patricio Garzon, Michael Gonzalez, Nicolas Gonzalez, Alberto Gonzalez del Valle, Daryel Guerra, Sebastian Guinot, Javier Hernandez, Justin D. Hernandez, Ariel Jimenez, Adrian Lazo, Francisco Leon, Alejandro Maduro, Francisco Melo, Giovanni Menocal, Brenton Mullis, Nathaniel Munoz, Richard Muñoz, Marc Novas, Andres A. Perez, Christian A. Perez, Richard Perez, Raphael Perez-Blanco, Alexander Piccolo, Julian Piedrahita, Adrian Pombo, Andres Poveda, Juan Ramirez, Gabriel Rigueiro, Mario Robaina, Nicolas Rodriguez, Max Salazar, Carlos Somarriba, Diego Somarriba, Carlos E. Sosa, Daniel Tejada, Gabriel Trastoy, Placido Valdes, Carlos Vazquez, and Enrique Vila. Moderator: Ms. Marisol Sosa
National Art Honor Society
Roster: Antoine Brandt, Gabriel Cobas, Carlos Machado, Andres Rodriguez, Javier Saumell, Christopher Caballero, and Matias Vasquez. Moderator: Mr. Ignacio Font
French Honor Society
Roster: Marcelo Mion, Joshua Sliva, and Manrique Iriarte. Moderator: Ms. Maria I. Alonso
National English Honor Society
Roster: Santiago Molero (President), Claudio Laratelli (Vice-President), Alexander Alepuz, Wilfredo Allen, Victor Alvarez, Alexander Boza, Daniel Brennan, Rodrigo Bustamante, Emilio Cardenal, Danny Dager, John Egusquiza, Jorge Escobar, Robert Espinosa-Marazita, Alexander Fernandez, Joseph Fuentes, Jonathan Garcia, Joseph Garcia, Nicolas Garcia, Jorge Gomez, David Gonzalez, Gabriel Gonzalez, Kevin Gonzalez, Tomas Gonzalez, Adrian Hernandez, Daniel Hondal, Gabriel Jimenez, Jose Jimenez, William Kindelan, Kristian Lastre, Kevin Lemos, Jaime Lopez, Luis Lopez-Cabrera, Alfredo Lopez-Sotillo, Rafael Marmol, Andres Marquez, Luis Marquez, Luis Mejer, Enrique Mendia, Christopher Menendez, Marcelo Mion, Joshua Munoz, Nicholas Ordieres, Ryan Perez, Fernando Pinera, Daniel Portuondo, John Powell, Peter Prieto, Chris Quintero, Adrian Rey, Tavish Rice, Ryan Rodriguez, Daniel Romeu, Alejandro Ruiz, David Salazar, Renato Scerpella, Kyle Schaeppi Souza, Andres Signoret, Daniel Silva, Daniel Silva, Daniel Sixto, Nicolas Tamborrel, Nicolas Thompson, Nicholas Tootle, Antonio Valencia, Federico Vivacqua, Nicolas Waterhouse, and Dominic Wermuth. Moderator: Mr. Carlos Maza
National Junior Honor Society
Roster: Rodrigo Barquero, Andre Hall, Cesar Aguzzi, Gabriel Gallardo, Gabriel Polo, Dominic Abreu, Ignacio Aguilar, Luis Balerdi, Daniel Bustos, Julian Caballero, Jorge Lopez-Cabrera, Daniel Cantens, Nicholas Casariego, Eduardo Cordonne, Daniel Corzo, Robert Curbello, GianPaolo DeFelice, Carlos Echenique, Brian Feal, Gregory Gallinar, Orlando Garcia, Manuel Gil, Carlos Gonzalez, Daniel Gonzalez, Luis Gonzalez, Sean Hickey, Jorge Jimenez, Ryan Jimenez, Thomas Kurzan, Marco Lanz, Andres Larea, Rodrigo Madiedo, Matthew Martin, Kevin Martin, Michael Menendez, Jonathan Micali, Juan Miguez, Lucas Miguez, Guillermo Molero, Matthew Morales, Peter Morales, Richard Morales, Gabriel Moreno, Michael Morera, Rodrigo Nieto, Alejandro Pardo, Gabriel Pardo, Nicholas Patricios, Christian Paz, Nicholas Andres Perez, Guillermo Quintero, David Raez, Mario Fernandez-Riera, Sebastian Roa, Edward Rodriguez, Francisco Rodriguez, Jorge Rodriguez, Joseph Rubio, Raul Sague, Joshua Salandy, Alejandro Salas, Eric Silva, Henry Souza, Nicholas Suarez, Guillermo Najera-Sweeny, Jacob Wutzler, Julian Zulueta, Anthony Zvadell, Andres Alfonso, Christopher Alvarez, Juan Lucas Alvarez, Nicholas Alvarez, Andrew Arriola, Nicholas Agustin, Michael Barany, Tomas Bayona, Sean Luc Beaubien, Diego Belfort, Gianmarco Billau,Victor Bisbal, Kevin Bjorkman, Stephan Brennan, Matthew Bryan, Carlos Caballero, Javier Canten, Dominic Chiappone, Mario Cobo, Jonathan Cosio, Alejandro de Feria, Patricio de la Guardia, Tomas de la Huerta, Ray de Logorburu, Alejandro Echevarria, Alexander Eckstein, Antoni Estopinan, Nikolas Fernandez, Cristian Fernandez de Castro, Orlando Galindez, Brandon Gancedo, Andres Garcia-Chacon, Alexander Gomez, Eddie Gonzalez, Luis Gonzalez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Christopher Klemick, Christopher Krause, John Lee, Carlos Maribona, Michael Mesa, Nico Molina, Alejandro Morales, Benjamin Morales, Jorge Morasso, Connor Mullins, Mario Osorio, Nicholas Oyarzun, Javier Pardo, Joseph Pereira, Kristian Perez, Nicolas Poveda, Gabriel Pupo, Rafael Queiroz, Matthew Quintero, Esteban Rincon, Victor Rivera, Adrian Rodriguez, Alexander Rodriguez, Christopher Rodriguez, Nicolas Rodriguez, Justin Rubio, Stefano Sanchez, Vicente Sanchez, Sebastian Spencer, Kevin Steel, Luke Swisstack, Anthony Trujillo, Juan Ulloa, and Kevin Valido. Moderator: Raquel Garcia
Spanish Honor Society
Roster: Erich Aguilar, Nicolas Aguilar, Alexander Alepuz, David Andreu, Francesco Armstrong, Michael Balbuena, Andres Balcazar, Kevin Baloyra, Matthew Bec, Oscar Berlanga, Rodrigo Bustamante, Christopher Caballero, Michael Cairo, Juan Carabeo-Nieva, Andres Concepcion, Daniel Dager, Daniel de la Fe, Christian Delgado, David Fager, Guillermo Fernandez, Manuel Ferrer-Simo, Rafael Gallardo, Nicolas Garcia, Christian Gonzalez, Esteban Guio, Adrian Hernandez, Miguel Hernandez, Alexander Hernandez, Christopher Hernandez, Justin Hernandez, Alejandro Hunter, Javier Jimenez, William Kindelan, Pablo Kurzan, Ricardo Labrada, Erick Labrador, Kevin Lemus, Agustin Leos, Kevin Lemos, Jaime Lopez, Patricio Lopez, Joseph Luzarraga, Luis Lopez-Cabrera, Alfredo Lopez-Sotillo, Carlos Marin, Andres Marquez, Luis Mathison, Francisco Menendez, Jorge Miro-Quesada, Santiago Munoz, Luis Mejer, Enrique Mendia, Francisco Menendez, Marcelo Mion, Santiago Molero, Daniel Velasquez Neira, Francisco Odon, Daniel Otero-Pfaeffle, Fernando Pinera, Giancarlo Pinto, Daniel Portuondo, Alex Pusch, Christopher Quintero, Tavish Rice, Daniel Riveron, Daniel Romeu, Daniel Romero, Jose Rubio, Alejandro Ruiz, Adrian Santana, Ignacio Sapetnitzky, Daniel Simpson, Alejandro Smith, Renato Scerpella, Juan San Martin, Adrian Santana, Eduardo Scheuren, Nicholas Silva, Kevin Simauchi, Daniel Simpson, Andres Solares, Sebastian Suarez, Alejandro Smith, Andres Solares, Nicolas Tamborrel, Nicholas Tootle, Mateus Tordin, Brandon Torricella, Jorge Valdes, Lucas Venegas, Daniel Velazquez, Frederico Vivacqua, Eduardo Scheuren, Nicolas Waterhouse, and Julio Yanes. Moderator: Mrs. Annette Anton
Tri-M Honor Society
Roster: Sebastian Arriola-Alberti, Carlos Carta, Victor Cobas, Santiago Cortabarria, Julian DeCollibus, Jonathan Gomez, Julian Hernandez, Nicolas Hidalgo, Andres Incera, Jesus Labrador, Jose Pereira, Connor Smith, Felipe Arenas, Antonio Cortabarria, Lucas de la Guardia, Daniel Del Riesgo, Rafael Esparragoza, Eduardo Francia, Daniel Garmendia, Diego Gomez, Andres Grande, Arshis Marfatia, Michael Mestre, Roberto Ochoa, Anthony Patricios, Oliver Romanach, Nicolas Ruiz, Daniel Sanchez, Erick Torres, Nicholas Amaya, Nicholas Augustin, Michael Barany, Tomas Bayona, Alejandro Castro, Thomas Cuesta, Christopher Fraga-Vasquez, Michael Mesa, Eduardo Morasso, Jorge Morasso, Alejandro Moscoso, Jose Moya, Nicholas Oyarzun, Guillermo Pardo de Zela, Nicolas Poveda, Gabriel Pupo, Adrian Rodriguez, Diego Belfort, Kevin Bjorkman, Ramon de Legorburu, Robert Gutierrez, Justin Rubio, Kevin Rui Chen, Kevin Steel, Agustin Arriola-Alberti, Matthew Bryan, Alexander Rodriguez, Ethan Silva, Sebastian Alonso, Adrian Carbajales, Joshua Cecol, Daniel Comas-Sanchez, Lucas Deeb, Anthony DeRosa, Daniel Feal, Gabriel Fortuny, Nicholas GomezBello, Justin Jarro, Matthew Johnson, David Leiva, Alejandro Melo, Daniel Oliu, Gilberto Oliva, Collin Pallissery, Matthew Pancorbo, Brandon Perez, Dylan Perez, Aidan Bravo Pevida, Anthony Trujillo, Adolfo Valencia, Jorge Vigil, Alec Vizoso, Dominic Abreu, Ignacio Aguilar, Lucas Blanco, Damian Cuesta, Santiago Gonzalez Irigoyen, Andres Lara, Sebastian Perez, Jose Rodriguez, Daniel Corzo, Brian Feal, Gabriel Gallardo, Andre Hall, Rafael Llaneza, Juan Miguez, Christian Trastoy, Ian Anderson, Gerald Chang, Ricardo Espina, Ehren Fernandez, Lucas Fernandez, Diego Perera, Placido Valdes, Manuel Bruzos, Andre Caputo, Daniel Corrada, Robert Curbelo, Jossan Elias, Javier Fraga-Vasquez, Carlos Gamez, Eduardo Hernandez, Roberto Martell, Jonathon Micali, Nicholas Patricios, Mario Perez, Carlos Romero, Juan Rubio, Rafael Ruiz, Raul Sague, Alejandro Salas, Alejandro Villarreal, Julian Zulueta, Wilfredo Allen, Francisco Barrera, Alan Fernandez, Gabriel Garcia, Andres Perez, Jose Rubio, Ignacio Sapetnitzky, Cristian Alonso, Sebastian Chamorro, Carlos Dominguez, Harry Formoso-Murias, Ryan Navarro, Andres Perez, Eduardo Scheuren, and Daniel Tejada. Moderator: Mrs. Karen Ortiz
SPORTS
Top potential among the young talent
By: Justin Rodriguez and Javier Hernandez
Scrambling out of the pocket, sophomore Santiago Venegas, stiff arms the defender in order to gain some yards. Venegas was the quarterback for the team and even played a little fullback on some plays, showing his diversity and willingness to sacrifice for the team.
J.V. Football
Sprinting down the sidelines, eighth grader Nathaniel Payne, makes a big play for the team’s offense. Payne was one of only three eighth graders who started for the JV team.
Bringing down the runner, sophomore Roberto Martinez makes the tackle. Martinez was one of the defense captains with one game-sealing interception against Pace.
Returning the kick, sophomore Ivan Pachon brings the ball out for the team. Pachon played three different positions including defense and offense.
Roster: Alberto Arazoza, Andres Maza, Jeremy Bencomo, Jonathon Micali, Ryan Bermudez, Matthew Moreno, Julian Calas, Bernardo Moro, Javier Canto, Nicolas Muniz, Aramis Castano, Lucas Otero, Victor Castro, Ivan Pachon, Donald Chaney, Nathaniel Payne, Drew Chinigo, Juan Perez, Jacob Collins, Stefano Pinto, Joseph Cruz, Ethan Ramirez, Damian Cuesta, Javan Rice, Gabriel de Zendegui, Sean Riera, Daniel Esteban, Raul Rodriguez, Eloy Fernandez, Joseph Rubio, Ryan Fernandez, Rafael Ruiz, Antonio Fraga, Max Salazar, Andres Garcia, Nicolas Salvat, David Garzon, Joseph Schultz, Andres Gomez, Matthew Schultz, Roberto Lacasa, Kearan Singh, Michael Lopez, Andres Smith, Matthew Martin, Jose Toledo, Christian Martinez, Santiago Venegas, Robert Martinez, and Jorge Vizcarrondo. Coaches: Mario Pino, Eddy Crespo, Hector Rodriguez, and Fausto Diaz.
Roster: Nicholas Gonzalez, Eduardo Gonzalez del Valle, Mark Adams, Victor Hidalgo, Francisco Aguero, Justin Jarro, Sebastian Alonso, Maxwell Kelley, Sean Beaubien, Jacob Lazo, Andres Bello, Jose Carlos Lopez-de Cespedes, Alexander J. Blanco, Jacob Marrero, Alexander R. Blanco, Nikolas Mora, Luis Briones, Arsenio Moussa, Mariano Brito, Mario Osorio, Rafael Bru, Nicholas Oyarzun, Kevin Calonge, Francisco Paredes, Gavin Cancio, Wadih Pazos, Pablo Carreno, Lucas Pentenero, Antonio Castano, Nicolas Perez-Abreu, Rafael De la Torre, Aidan Pevida, Brandon Deeb, Jack Powell, Daniel Del Riesgo, Hayden Puente, Daniel Delgado, Breton Rice, Edward Delgado, Victor Rivera, Ralph Desantis, Adrian Rodriguez, Michael Dominguez, Lucas Rodriguez, Diego Feijoo, Marc Salazar, Alexander Fernandez, Eddie Silva, Nikolas Fernandez, Joshua Sloan, Angelo Garcel, Enrique Sori, Brendan Golden, Zachary Sotomayor, Christian Gomez, Mark-Edward Trapp, Dorian Gonzalez, and Andres Vila. Coaches: Eduardo Fraga, Charlie Salazar, and Alex Navarro.
Running a bootleg, eighth grader Dorian Gonzalez sprints to the end zone for a touchdown. Gonzalez was a dual threat for the team since he was able to both pass and run the ball consistently.
Throwing the ball down field, sixth grader Fernando Mendoza completes a pass to the receiver down field. Mendoza, who played his first year on the team, looked to have a promising future in the sport.
Roster: Gabriel Baez, Ian Johnson, George Balepogi, Daniel Marsh, Angel Bueres, Fernando Mendoza, Ethan Concepcion, Juan Miro-Quesada, Jorge Coronado, Adrian Navarro, Alfredo Diaz, Aaron Rodriguez, Christopher DiFilippi, Raul Rodriguez, Eduardo Durand, Tomas Rodriguez, Diego Espin, Marcos Ruiz, Enzo Fernandez, Francisco Sanchez, Marc Fuentes, Nicolas Soute, Aidan Girado, Alfredo Huete, Andres Torrente, Joseph Parlade, Gabriel Valladares, Matthew Jalil, and Daniel Wallace. Coach: Mario Martinez.
Evading defenders, eighth grader Alex Blanco runs for the first down. Blanco led the team in rushing yards and was a constant threat for the team on offense.
Rounding the
alternate for the state series and pushed the top seven at every practice.
for an opportunity to make up ground. Roca was one of the most consistent runners on the team throughout the season.
his last state meet and help the team by placing fourth.
Far ahead of the pack, senior Jaime Lopez sets the pace on the course. Lopez, who suffered from a season-long injury, was the captain of the team and ran through the physical pain all the way to States, where he came in tenth place overall.
Keeping his stride, senior Rodrigo Bustamante makes an effort to keep the other runners in the rear view. Bustamante ran some of the varsity races last season.
corner, senior Nicolas Roca looks
Running with the pack, senior Jorge Gomez conserves his energy for the last mile of the race. Gomez was the first
Finishing the race, senior Bruno Zayas cruises to the line. Despite an injury, Zayas was able to run
At the Appalachee Regional Park course, sophomore Christopher Garcia pushes the pace at the last part of the race. Garcia was a part of the top seven runners throughout the entire season.
At the Estero DDD Invitational, senior David Fager pushes himself into a good position. Fager’s hard work and dedication during the season led him to run with the varsity team at several meets.
Running as a pair, freshmen Sebastian Roa and Henry Souza try to use a ditch in the course to gain momentum at Regionals. Roa and Souza ran as a duo in several races, and were the only freshmen to run at States.
A couple strides in front of his opponents, freshman Giancarlo Benitez gains a lead on the runners behind him. Benitez was one of the many freshmen on the team to contribute greatly.
Roster: Jorge Gomez, Jaime Lopez, Roberto Martell, David Fager, Andres Signoret, Nicolas Roca, Rodrigo Bustamante, Bruno Zayas, Daniel Velasquez-Neira, Christian Alonso, Joshua Collins, Alejandro Corzo, Thomas Gallinar, Christopher Garcia, Daniel Fager, Albert Fraga, Eric Labrador, Michael Aparicio, Sebastian Duenas, Giancarlo Benitez, Sebastian Roa, Henry Souza, Lucas De La Hoz, Carlos Avila, Cesar Aguzzi, Juan Miguez, Lucas Miguez, Nicholas Lobato, and Rodrigo Madiedo. Coaches: Frankie Ruiz, Juan Rodriguez, Victor Arrieta, Rene Medina, and Carlos Barquin.
Fight and Close
Runners fight for state title
By: Bruno Zayas
Varsity XC
Park Vista Cobra Invitational 1st DDD Invitational 1st
King of the Hill Invitational 1st UF Invitational 1st FL Runners 3rd
FSU Invitational 7th
Jr. Orange Bowl Invitational 1st
Celtic Invitational 2nd
District Championship 1st
Regional Championship 1st
State Championship 4th
Clearing the hay stack at the Estero DDD Invitational, sophomore Joshua Collins takes on the sand pit. Collins was the top runner for the Wolverines and placed third at the State Competition.
State bound from the very start
By: Bruno Zayas
At the FLYRA State Championship, seventh grader
Austin San Juan places first for the team. San Juan’s personal best for the season was 11:20 for the two mile.
At the Catholic State Meet, eighth grader
Matthew Bryan places first individually and helps to secure the team’s win. Bryan’s performance towards the end of the season gave the team the extra push to become State Champions for the second year in a row.
M.S. X-Country
Blazing through the course, eighth grader Vicente Sanchez focuses on catching the front pack. Sanchez has been running for the team since the sixth grade.
Attacking the hill, eighth grader John Lee sees an opportunity to take advantage of the competition. Lee was a consistent runner throughout the season.
Roster: Eduardo Morasso, Dominic Chiappone, Christian Fernandez, Austin San Juan, Vincenzo Fuentes, Carlos Bailey, John Lee, Luis Salazar, Sebastian Castillo, Matthew Bryan, Adam Magoulas, Vicente Sanchez, Brian Black, Carlos Barquin, Diego Belfort, Nicolas Marquez, Manny Morin, Julian Decollibus, Felipe Cueto, Diego Gomez, Daniel Oliu, Nicolas Hidalgo, Ryan Linares, Sergio Rivera, Alexander Caldwell, and David Jimenez-Pinilla. Coaches: Victor Arrieta, Gabriel Von Der Osten, Alexander Isaac, and Carlos Jimenez.
Running up the Nike Hill, sixth grader Adam Magoulas takes the lead at the All Catholic Conference Championship. Magoulas placed first in all of the ACC races last season and even had the chance to run with the middle school team and compete at the FLYRA State Championship as a sixth grader.
With a strong finish, sixth grader Benjamin Pasternac romps the competition at the Holy Rosary Invitational.
At Larry and Penny, sixth grader Lucas Morales out paces his competition and places twenty-forth. Morales was one of the team’s most consistent runners, always placing within the top three for the Wolverines.
At Tropical Park, sixth grader Alejandro Herrera attempts to stay in front of the competition at the St. Theresa Invitational.
Lucas Morales, Michael Hernandez, Adam Magoulas, Enrique Mackinlay, Jorge Hernandez, Maximo Salazar, Thomas Duque, Alexander Kuhn, Andres Jimenez, Andrew Lamela, Jose Zarraluqui, Andres Morasso, Frankie Aira, Sebastian Wallace-Perdomo, Alejandro Herrera, Adrian Carmona, Peter Lopez, Bryan Bjorkman, David Gonzalez, Daniel Cuesta, Lucas Leon, Gabriel Velasquez-Neira, and Benjamin Pasternac. Coaches: Victor Arrieta, Gabriel Von Der Osten, Alexander Isaac, and Carlos Jimenez.
At their last meet of the season, sixth graders Enrique Mackinlay and Thomas Duque give it their all at the All Catholic Conference Championship.
6th X-Country
Catholic Conference 2nd
Roster:
A hole-in-one
3 time district champs
By: Daniel Chavez
Walking into the putt, eighth grader Leopoldo Herrera looks to sink the putt for birdie on the seventh hole at the Biltmore golf course. Herrera went on to be one of the lowest scorers for the match.
Meeting with the team after a win against a long time rival, Coach Brando Tommasi congratulates all the players with a fist bump. This particular win greatly boosted the team’s morale.
Varsity Golf
Westminister Christian Tournament 2nd
Columbus W
Columbus L
Palmer Trinity/Columbus L/W
Dade County Youth Fair 1st
Doral W
Gulliver Canceled
Palmer Trinity L
Ransom/Palmer Trinity W/W
Gulliver/Columbus L/W
Archbishop McCarthy W
District Tournament 1st
Regional Tournament L
Visualizing his bunker shot, sophomore Enrique Vila prepares to blast his ball out of the sand pit.
After narrowly avoiding the water, senior Andrew
onto the
on the ninth
Roster: Kevin Azpiri, Andrew Cecol, Daniel Chavez, Leopoldo Herrera, Jorge Iglesias, Kristian Lastre, Alfonso Martinez, Guillermo NajeraSweeney, Marc Novas, Andres Perez, Jose Perez, Bryan Reyes, Alejandro Smith, Nicolas Vega, Enrique Vila, and Joel Yanez. Coaches: Brando Tommasi, Grayson Zacker, Johnny Bloomfield, and Adam Farabaugh.
Cecol hits one
green
hole of the Red Tiger course in Doral.
Hitting the ball out of the rough, eighth grader Andres Ludert is able to make good contact and scramble for a par. Ludert was well known for his high scrambling percentage.
Punching out of the hazard, seventh grader Carlos Iglesias hits it onto the green. Iglesias went on to make an up and down.
M.S. Golf
Palmer Trinity W
Ransom Evergaldes W
Flordia Christian
Gulliver
Palmer Trinity W
Flordia Christian W
Ransom Everglades W
Rolling the ball to the hole, seventh grader Andres Grande looks to keep it near the hole. Looking on, sixth grader Roberto Lizama holds the pin for Grande.
At the top of his backswing, sixth grader John Bohatch is about to make contact with the ball.
the ball land
Roster: John Bohatch, Alejandro Garcia, Andres Grande, Carlos Iglesias, Robert Lizama, Andres Ludert, Michael Mesa, and Carlos Perez-Abreu. Coaches: TJ Bullock and Jon Schoepf.
Watching
in the fairway, seventh grader Andres Grande tees off on the fifth hole at Briar Bay.
Swimming the 500 yard freestyle, sophomore Aitor Fungairino places first and secures the win for the Wolverines. Fungairino was the state runner up in the 200 yard freestyle.
Propelling off the wall, junior Christopher Avallone jets into his final lap of the 100 yard freestyle. Avallone has been a part of the swim program since he was in seventh grade.
Diving into the 100 yard butterfly, swimmer junior Max Garcia Del Pozo swims to first place against the competition. Garcia Del Pozo was part of the State Champion 200 medley relay team.
At the state competition, sophomore Javier Saumell performs a dive for the judges. Saumell placed at the state meet giving valuable points to the team’s results.
Setting off from the wall, sophomore Hugo Marin starts off the 100 yard backstroke at the regional meet. Marin came in fifth place at the District Championship.
Swimming & Diving
Terra W Archimedian W
Columbus W
FSPA Invitational 2nd
Mater Academy W
Woodson Invitational 3rd
Districts 2nd
Regionals 3rd
States 4th
Diving into the 50 yard free style, junior Andres Solares shows off a perfect dive. Solares placed third at the District meet in the 50 yard freestyle. The team’s top swimmer in the breaststroke category, junior Juan Ramirez completes his leg of the race at a local dual meet. Ramirez was part of the State Champion 200 yard medley relay.
‘Bout to dive in
Athletes take a shot at States
By: Lucas Cabrera-Ramon
One of the top swimmers in the state, junior Alejandro Carriazo displays his dominance in the 100 yard butterfly. Carriazo helped carry the team to place fourth in states, where he was also part of the 200 yard medley relay that won States.
Preparing to dive into the 50 Yard freestyle, junior Daniel Simpson climbs onto the diving board. Simpson was one of the team captains and swam the anchor leg of the State Champion 200 yard medley relay.
Roster: Juan Ramirez, Max Garcia del Pozo, Daniel Simpson, Christopher Avallone, Andres Solares, Aaron Muriedas, Javier Saumell, Aitor Fungairino, Nicholas Aguilar, Alex Menedez, Alvaro Bodero, Ivan Barral, Luis Casas, Anthony Delgado, Robert Curbelo, Gabriel Ortega, Daniel Salinas, and Hugo Marin. Coaches: Kirk Peppas and Gio Perez.
Just keep swimming
By: Lucas Cabrera-Ramon
Swimming freestyle sixth grader John Fanjul rises to the ocassion at his first swim meet. Fanjul was able to place first in the freestyle category that secured the win over Doral.
Diving in to begin the 100 meter breaststroke, sixth grader Alfredo Hernandez led the team in their meet against the competition.
MS Swimming
Country Day Cancelled
Doral W
Riviera Prep. Cancelled
Keyes Gate, Doral Cancelled
Ransom Invitational Cancelled
Ransom Invitational Cancelled
Displaying dominance in the butterfly, seventh grader Mathew Torres helps the team secure a win.
During practice, seventh grader
Roster:Sebastian Arriola-Alberti, Zachary Callejas, Andres Castillo, Martin Chang, Patricio de La Guardia, Nelson de Leon, Hugo Dorta, Jack Fanjul, Rafael Fernandez, Mateo Garcia, Jaime Garcia-Oliver, Evan Gonzales, Alfredo Hernandez, Alex Melo, Thomas Mojena, Alex Perez, Daniel Perez, Alejandro sanchez, Thomas Socorro, Kevin Steel, Mathew Torres. Coach: Sofia Vives
Sebastian Arriola improves his speed. Practice was a crucial element of the team’s success.
Pin him down
By: Gabriel Abril
During a practice session, senior Basilio Garcia pins his opponent by locking up his grip. Garcia’s signature move was the head and arm botello
Holding his opponent down, senior Ariel Jimenez pins his opponent and takes the win at the regional championship. Jimenez set the record last season for fastest pin in a mere 3.5 seconds.
Wrestling
H-Town Throw Down 29th place
Doral Academy Tournament 4th place
Arch. McCarthy Invitational 20th place
District Duals 1st place
Tampa 15th place
Coral Park 1st place
John Raich Memorial 23rd place
District Championship 9th place
Regional Championship 18th place
State Championship 52nd place
Roster: Basilio Garcia, Ariel Jimenez, Damian Cuesta, Jonathan Avila, Rafael Ruiz, Thomas Cuesta, Eddie Silva, Ryan Jimenez. Coach: Fidel Albelo
Playing lock down defense,
patiently to steal the
During last season, the team played off their strong defense.
from the field.
As all his team mates rise from the bench senior Alfredo Consuegra fires a three. Consuegra was one of the team’s top playmakers throughout his varsity career with an average of 10 points, 3.5 assists, and 3 rebounds per game.
With his focus locked on the basket, junior
sinks the free throw. Carillo averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds per game.
Juan Carillo
Taking it to the hoop, senior Gabriel Cabrera goes into the lane for a tough lay up. Cabrera shot 45 percent
senior Daniel Puente waits
ball.
Slashing to the basket, freshman Alec Rodriguez drives in the lane for yet another two points. Rodriguez averaged 9.5 points per game.
Going up for the three, senior David Salazar makes the shot for the team. Salazar was one of the highest scoring players on the team with an average 8 points per game and making 40 percent of his three pointers.
Don’t sleep on us
By: Javier Arazoza & Jose Toledo
V. Basketball
Weaving through the defense, junior Alejandro Barnola goes in for an easy score. Barnola was an outstandding rebounder and shot-blocker.
Preparing for a quick basket, seniors Daniel Puente, David Salazar, Daniel Romeu and junior Maurice Milton set up for the inbounds play. This specific group of players worked as one unit throughout the season.
Getting off to a good start, senior Daniel Romeu wins the jump ball against Miami Jackson High School. Romeu was a great contributor to the team on both sides averaging 13 points per game, 9 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks per game.
Trying to get open for a pass, senior Luis Mejer works hard to get a clear shot. Mejer was an aggressive rebounder and defender for the team.
Roster: Alejandro Barnola, Matthew Bravo, Gabriel Cabrera, Juan Carillo, Alfredo Consuegra, Luis Mejer, Maurice Milton, Daniel Puente, Alec Rodriguez, Daniel Romeu, David Salazar, and Javier Torres de Navarra. Coaches: Jose E. Roca, Ruben Marrero, Christian Marrero, Eugene Cruz, and John Paul Mendez. This was coach Roca’s last season after 19 years as the varsity head coach. He retired with 341 wins.
Overcoming obstacles
By: Eric Mena
J.V. Basketball
Taking it up strong, sophomore Christian Tinoco contributed to a great win. Tinoco
Taking the shot, junior Teobaldo Rosell shoots the three pointer. Although Rosell had an early season injury, his leadership helped the team achieve the 22-3 record.
Sizing up the defense, sophomore Luis Diaz looks to score. Diaz was best known for his unselfish plays, and his defensive capabilities.
Driving down the lane, sophomore Marcos Dajer takes it in against the Explorer rival at the Bank United Center. Dajer led the team with an average of 14.5 points per game.
Roster: Teobaldo Rosell, Marcos Dajer, Nicholas Gonzalez, Christian Tinoco, Jose Plasencia, Lorenzo Luaces, Andres Ros, Jared Hart, Jorge Vizcarrondo, Johnathan Barditch, Luis Diaz, and Jose Toledo. Coaches: Ruben Marrero and Christian Marrero.
Passing the defender, freshman Manuel Becerra looks to find an open teammate. Becerra was one of the team’s top players leading in both points and assists.
Bringing up the ball, freshman Sebastian
sets up the offense.
led the team in rebounds.
Facing the opposition, freshman Joaquin Novoa looks to get by the defender. Novoa was one of the two point guards for the team.
Looking for a break
By: Jared Hart
Gathered in a team huddle, the freshmen go over strategy with the coach. The freshman team included some ups and downs; however, they did face a difficult schedule.
Roster:Manuel Becerra, Pietro Buzaneli, Daniel Cantens, Sebastian Lezcano, Robert Lopez, Kevin Martin, Christopher Maza, Nicholas Mullis, Joaquin Novoa, Stefano Pinto, Andre Rodz, Nicolas Salvat, and Daniel Sueiro. Coach: John Paul Mendez.
Lezcano
Lezcano
Working hard to make it to the top
By: Jared Hart
MS Gold Basketball
St, Timothy
St. John Nuemann
St. Agatha
St. Agatha
9
14
11
4 Ransom
St. Timothy
27
16 St. Kevin
5 Ransom
26 American Heritage
Epiphany
Westminster Christian
ACC Playoff (OLL)
Westminster Christian
ACC Playoff (St.Louis)
Gulliver
MS Blue Basketball
24
25
24
18
Setting up the offense, eighth grader Sean Beaubien dribbles up the court. Beaubien facilitated and led the offense as point guard last season.
Shooting a three-pointer, seventh grader Andy
pulls up to close the gap against St. Brendan.
plays made a difference offensively.
4
Ransom
13 Key Largo
19 St. Thomas
34 Epiphany
17
Ransom
Gulliver
Westminister Christian
Gulliver
Florida Christian
12
18
24
17
23
Roster: Sean Beaubien, Alexander Blanco, Joshua Cecol, Mario Cobo, Christian Eiroa, David Fernandez, Sal Stewart, Dorian Gonzalez, Christopher Klemick, Tomas Puente, and Diego Segurola. Coach: Patrick Houlihan.
Roster: Alexandre Beaubien, Daniel Del Riesgo, John Hernandez, Justin Jarro, Sebastian Lazo, Mariano Brito, Victor Mejer, Sebastian Padilla, Marcos Pastor, Luke Pennie, Alec Rodz, Sebastian Rigueiro, Andy Chavez, and Michael Zaharas. Coach: Bruce Teachey
Chavez
Chavez’s
Manning the point, sixth grader Luke Pennie dribbles his way passed his defender. As the point guard, Pennie helped lead the offense and score points.
Hustling the extra points, sixth graders Michael Zaharas and Michael Corral fight for possession. These two players gave the team an edge over their opponents.
Pushing himself past half court, sixth grader Sal Stewart makes his way through the defender. Stewart played a major role on the team and was one of the team’s lead scorers.
Undefeated... again
By: Jose Arevalo and Michael Cabeza
6th Basketball
Focused on the defender, sixth grader Alec Rodz tries to prevent the opponent from passing the ball. Rodz was an essential piece to the team’s press defense.
Roster: Roberto Castro, Michael Corral, Andrew Diaz, Kevin Freyre, Evan Garcia, Gabriel Marrero, Michael Martelly, Carlos Morales, David Ortiz, Luke Pennie, Alec Rodz, Sal Stewart, and Michael Zaharas
Coach: Patrick Houlihan
Backhand Boys
by: Lucas Cabrera-Ramon and Eloy Fernandez
Roster: Andres Balcazar, Daniel Martinez, Juan Rodriguez Verde, Eduardo Scheuren, Alain Bonvecchio, Sebastian Duenas, Carlos Grande, Sebastian Velez, Carlos Moreno, Christopher Siu, Lucas Venegas, Guillermo Amore, Mark Garrigo, Javier Guerrero Vicente, Francisco Leon, Justin Louden, Felipe Pardo, Bernardo Poulat, Martin Caicedo, Rodrigo Nieto. Coach: Juan Diego Barbosa
Varsity Tennis
Positioning his body for a low ball, junior Daniel Martinez gets ready to strike back over the net. Martinez was ranked the number 145 tennis player in the state of Florida.
Going for the slam, sophomore Charlie Grande goes for the hard serve to secure another season win. Charlie Grande has been part of the tennis team since middle school.
Going for the underhand stroke, junior Juan Rodriguez Verde prepares to deliver a powerful hit. Rodriguez Verde was able to upset one of Doral’s best player which secured our district playoff win.
M.S. Tennis
Roster: Diego Belfort, Dominic Chiappone, Sebastian Velez, Miguel Camacho, Andres Incera, Kevin Rui Chen, Mateo Venegas, Nicolas Augustine, Alejandro Villareal, Alejandro De Feria, Fernando Mendoza, Guillermo Pardo de Zela, and Alessandro Di Marzo. Coach: Juan Diego Barbosa
Roster: Gabriel Otero, Felipe Pardo, Andres Caballero, Eduardo Alvarez, Alejo Beteta, Francisco Prio, Manuel Estrada, Marcos Leon, Alejandro Herrera, nrique Mackinalay, Ignacio Bru, Samuel Bayona, Lucas Rey Leon, Javier Zaragoza, Oscar Echegarray, Jeronimo Pedevilla, Sebastian Shaw, Daniel Marsh, Kevin Schaeppi Souza, Tomas Saudino. Coach: Julio Mendoza
On the green, sixth grader Francisco Prio dribbles past the defender. Prio scored three goals in the season.
Starting fresh
By: Lucas Verdeja, Carlos Diaz & Jorge Vizcaarrondo
6th Soccer Gold
Louis Red
Rosary
Agnes
Setting up an attack, sixth grader Manuel Estrada looks to pass the ball closer to the goal. Estrada was one of the top defenders on the team.
Roster: Manuel Dominguez, Lucas Elias, Diego Espin, Benjamin Romanach, Daniel De Lamar, Sergio Ruano, Alejandro Villareal, Alberto Carrillo, Javier Labarta, Lucas Erran, Yair Bernardo, Jorge Hernandez, Andres De Solminihac, Tomas Duque, John Anguita, Antonio Ponte, Victor Tunon, and Daniel Acebal. Coach: Marlon Abreu
Receiving the pass, sixth grader Marcos Leon tries to take control of the ball. Leon’s persistence over attacks made him a tough contender. St. John Neumann
St. Brendan
St. Theresa
6th Soccer Blue
Our Lady of the Lakes
After receiving a throughball, sophomore Franciso Castanos looks to put one in the back of the net. Although Castanos was only a sophomore he stepped up to the plate at the varsity level.
With a one-two play, senior Diego Puig-Corve dribbles down the field. Puig was a leader on the field and a major part in the team’s morale.
Putting an end to a dangerous fastbreak, senior Anthony Castro leaps into the air. Castro showcased his defensive qualites throughout the undefeated season.
Chasing down the line, senior Frankie De la Camara gets out ahead to take a shot on goal during the 2016 4A State final game. De la Camara led the team with 59 goals on the season, two shy of the county season-scoring record. De la Camara won the 4-A Player of the Year Award.
Seizing a golden opportunity to score, senior Alexander Parekh fires at the goal. Parekh played the mid-fielder position and showed his ability to score and assist.
After winning the state competition, the team gathers to celebrate with their medals and trophy as the 2016 4A State Champions. The team went undefeated throughout the season and finished with the school’s first State Championship in soccer.
State Champions
The Undefeated Season
By: Alfred Perez & Lucas Verdeja
Outrunning the defense, senior Tavish Rice hopes to put one in for the team. Rice led the team in assists and was a vital member when it came to putting points on the board.
Taking the ball down the field, sophomore Juan Pereira speeds away from the defense. Being a sophomore, Pereira provided a spark to the offense and was able to start in the state final game.
Showing control, junior Mateus Tordin passes his defender. Tordin demonstrated skill and passing ability throughout the season.
Through passion, intelligence, and persitence Coach Tanger Mendonca led the team to its first soccer State Title in the school’s history. Mendonca also won the Coach of the Year award.
Roster: Dorian Acosta, Alain Bonvecchio, Francisco Castanos, Anthony Castro, Robert Castro, Francisco De la Camara, Joseph Fuentes, Cristian Garcia, Adrian Hernandez, Nicolas Hernandez, Jose Jimenez, Claudio Laratelli, Maximiliano Llorente, Rodrigo Madiedo, Santiago Molero, Rodrigo Munoz, Alexander Parekh, Juan Pereira, Diego Puig-Corve, Alejandro Pujals, Fernando Pujals, Jayson Repine, Javan Rice, Tavish Rice, Daniel Riveron, Ignacio Sapetnitzky, Nicolas Sosa, Harrison Stoker, Mateus Tordin, David Velasco, and Frederico Vivacqua. Coach:Tanger Mendonca
Building a dynasty
By: Joseph Cruz & Carlos Diaz
Preparing to deflect the free-kick sophomores
Julian Piedrahita, Carlos Sosa, and Carlos Vela, along with freshman Carlos Gonzalez, form a wall to deflect the opponent’s kick.
J.V. Soccer
by
Looking up field to get the ball in, sophomore Diego Nunez uses all of his power to get it to his teammate. Nunez filled the important right defense spot for the team.
De La
Eduardo
Fernandez, Gregory Gallinar, Jose Garces, Lucas Garcia, Victor Giorgini, Carlos Gonzalez, Javier Guerrero Vicente, Matthew Hernandez, Charles Lamela, Agustin Leos, Claudio Leyva, Sebastian Llano, Jorge LopezCabrera, Ricardo Meneses, Guillermo Molero, Gabriel Montero, Juan Moreno, Christopher Moustafa, Diego Nunez, Julian Piedrahita, Christopher Ponce, Guillermo Quintero, Alejandro Salas, Javier San Martin, Juan San Martin, Virgilio Sanchez, Carlos Sosa, Patrizio Trippetti, Carlos Vela, Nicolas Vurgait, and Matthew Watkins. Coaches: Ricardo Gomes, and Tanger Mendonca
Dribbling the ball, freshman Lucas Fernandez looks to pass the ball to his teammate. Fernandez’s used his size to deceive and surprise opponents.
Grabbing the ball, junior Alejandro Chalela does his job as team goalie
stopping the opponent’s pass. Chalela was the starting goalie for the defense.
Roster: Juan Lucas Alvarez, Michael Barany, Tomas Bayona, Gianmarco Billau, Daniel Comas-Sanchez, Daniel Diez, Alejandro Echeverria, David Fernandez, Julian Godoy, Christopher Krause, Andres Ludert, Gianluca Mejia, Niko Molina, Gabriel Montero, Jorge Morasso, Javier Pardo, Alexander Perez, Daniel Piedrahita, Sebastian Restrepo, Breton Rice, Manuel Rodriguez-Lapido, Maximo Roman, Nicolas Ruiz, Jose Torres, Juan Ulloa, Jorge Vigil, and Aiden Villasuso. Coach: Julio Cesar Mendoza
Running down the sideline, eighth grader Niko Molina prepares to cross the ball to his teammates. Molina was a constant threat for opposing defenses.
Setting up to receive a corner, eighth graders David Fernandez and Michael Barany size up their defenders. Corner kicks often set up goals for the team.
Roster: Alejandro Acosta, David Alaron, Sebastian Arrizurieta, Brian Black, Daniel Calvache, Rafael Esparragoza, Kevin Ferguson, Daniel Garmendia, John Lee, David Leiva, Alejandro Llorente, Eduardo Morasso, Alexander Munoz, Roberto Ochoa, Collin Pallissery, Sebastian Parada, Daniel Raez, Miguel Rodriguez, Ricardo Rodriguez, Erick Torres, and Martin Victoria. Coach: Laurent Cruz.
Splitting two defenders, eighth grader Brian Black looks for an opportunity to score. Black played Center Midfielder on the team.
M.S. Soccer blue
Roster: Alejandro Pujals, Carlos Cristobal, Christopher Jauregui, Francisco De la Camara, Lucas Osorio, Joseph Garcia, Sebastian Paoli-Torres, Alejandro Guerrero, Fernando Pujals. Coach: Juan David Zapata, Jeannell Franceschi
V. Volleyball
Westwood Christian W
Archimedean W
St. Brendan L
Killian L
Riviera Prep. W
SLAM Tournament 5th
Greater Miami Academy W
Sunset W
Msgr. Pace W
Braddock W
Ferguson L
Varela L
Florida Christian Tournament 1st
Columbus L
District Semis vs Sunset W
District Final vs Varela W
Regionals vs Killian L
J.V. Volleyball
St. Brendan L
Killian W
Riviera Prep. W
Sunset W
Mourning Tournament 1st
Msgr. Pace W
Braddock L
SLAM Tournament 3rd
Ferguson W
Varela L
Fighting for the ball over the net against rival Columbus, senior Sebastian Paoli-Torres scores a point for his team. Paoli-Torres was one of the team captains and his athletic ability made him an important player on the roster. Paoli-Torres played volleyball at the school since the seventh grade.
Jumping as high as he can, senior
Preparing to serve the ball, senior Christopher Jauregui sends a hard serve over the net. Jauregui’s powerful serves helped lead the team to victory.
over the
Sunset Tournament 1st Place Silver
Columbus L
Receiving a serve, ninth grader Eric Diaz passes the ball to set the team up for a point. Diaz was the team captain and was later moved to the varsity squad.
Roster: Daniel Cantens, Javan Rice, Alejandro Chalela, Nicolas Sosa, Daniel de la Fe, Gabriel Suarez, Eric Diaz, Herman Suarez, Joseph Luzarraga, Daniel Venerio, Jorge Miro-Quesada. Coach: Jeannell Franceschi
Going
blockers, senior Lucas Osorio tips the ball over the net to score a point. Osorio was best known for his high jumps and smart plays.
Alejandro Guerrero spikes the ball over the net. Guerrero was one of the team captains and played volleyball all four years.
Spiking their way to Success
During an impressive victory, seventh grader Joseph Pereira saves a point for the middle school blue team against Holy Rosary. Pereira contributed to the team with his consistent play.
By: Sebastian Paoli-Torres
M.S. Volleyball Gold
St. Hugh W
St. Theresa W
St. Peter and Paul W
Epiphany W
St. Hugh W
St. Theresa W
Sts. Peter and Paul W
ACC Tournament 1st
Epiphany W
Against rival Epiphany, eighth grader Jonathan Cosio spikes the ball. Cosio’s quality play around the net and timely scoring helped the team win several games.
In a tough game against St. Peter and Paul, eighth grader Nicholas Poveda receives valuable advice from his coach. He was one of the team’s most consistent servers.
M.S. Volleyball Blue
St. Kevin W
St. Brendan Cancelled
Holy Rosary Cancelled
St. Timothy L
St. Agatha W
St. Kevin L
St. Brendan L
St. Timothy W
Holy Rsoary Cancelled
ACC Tournament 5th
St. Agatha W
Roster: Julian-Cesar Bueres, Christopher Carter, Jonathan Cosio, Eduardo Gonzalez, Christopher Klemick, Daniel McAuliff, Diego Planos, Nicolas Poveda, Herman Suarez, and Daniel Venerio. Coach: Jeannell Franceschi
Roster: Javier Baca, Alexandre Beaubien, Diego Canto, Anthony DeRosa, Matthew Diaz, Alexander Eckstein, Kyle Guso, Michael Navarro, Joseph Pereira, Alberto Romero, Alexander Suarez, Gabriel Suarez. Coach: Juan David Zapata
Sending a fast-ball to home plate, senior
strikes out the opposing team.
converted to a pitcher his senior year and made an immediate impact.
Waiting to get back in the box, junior Carlos Vazquez gets ready to face the pitcher. Vazquez hit second and was one of the team’s top averaging hitters.
Sending fire to the catcher, senior Albert
warms up before entering the game. Last year was Maury’s first year pitching, and he topped out at 91 MPH with his fast ball.
Fielding the
for half of the season, and was starting as soon as he recovered.
ball, junior Carlos Lara sets his feet to get the ball. Lara was injured
Maury
Gabriel Gonzalez
Gonzalez
Making contact with the ball, senior Cristian Del Castillo rips one into left field. Del Castillo was in the voting for top Hispanic athlete in Miami Dade County.
Trying to frame the pitch, sophomore Andrew Hernandez tries to get the call from the umpire. Andrew was the starting catcher and excelled both behind the plate and in front as a hitter.
Waiting for the pitch to come, senior Mario Robaina stares down the pitcher. Robaina was a very versatile player, playing both designated hitter and outfield.
On the way to the big show
Varsity team hits last minute streak
By: Javier Arazoza & Andres Maza
Varsity Baseball
At the windup, senior Pablo Arevalo prepares to throw for a fast ball. Arevalo started off the season with an injury, but as soon as he healed he became the ace of the pitching staff with a 0.54 ERA.
Rounding third and on his way home, junior Eric Wilson runs in and scores. Wilson was the first batter for most of the season because of his speed and ability to bunt.
Getting ready to swing, senior Alex Falla keeps his eyes on the ball. Falla was the team leader in home runs and gave the team a major power bat in the lineup.
Roster: Christian Winch, Eric Wilson, Christian Del Castillo, Tomas Bello, Carlos Lara, Albert Gutierrez, Jose Arevalo, Pablo Arevalo, Albert Maury, Gabriel Gonzalez, Gabriel Trastoy, Daniel Brown, Alex Falla, Michael Cabeza, CJ Vazquez, Rafael Hernandez, Humberto Torres, Mario Robaina, Marcus Diaz, Julio Aira, Jonathan Barditch, Alejandro Cicero, Andrew Hernandez, and Andres Perez. Coaches: Jerry Albert and Ivan Montane
Batting their way to sucess
By: Jose Toledo, Andres Gomez and Eloy Fernandez
Slinging the ball to the plate, sophomore James Mullis throws a perfect strike. ”An excellent young man on and off the field”, said Coach Shane Walker about Mullis.
J.V. Baseball
Stepping up to the plate, seventh grader Dorian Gonzalez hits a shot to right field.
Waiting patiently for the pitch, freshman Robert
completes the play for a strike.
was the team’s starting catcher.
Getting low to the ground to stop the hit, sophomore Alec Arrizurieta makes the save and throws the runner out at first base. Arrizurieta was the starting third baseman.
Curbelo
Curbelo
Roster: Nicholas Mullis, Alec Arrizurieta, Robert Curbelo, Dorian Gonzalez, James Mullis, Kevin Martin, Joshua Salandy, Hugo Garcia, Aaron Ramirez, Alejandro Torres, Nicholas Quintero, Armando Albert, Christian Bayo, Alexis Agreda, Eric Blanco, Mario Fernandez-Riera, Henry Gonzalez, Kyle Gomez, Hugo Garcia, Sean Riera, and Jason Rodriguez. Coach: Shane Walker
Roster: Luis Aparicio, Andres Bello, Ryan Betran, Roger Cainzos, Adrian Carbajales, Roberto Fernandez, Alexander Gomez, Luis Gonzalez, Andres Gutierrez, Carlos Iglesias, Nicholas Llanes, Daniel McAuliff, Alejandro Morales, Alexander Munoz, Mario Osorio, Daniel Perez, Diego Prieto Caro, Sebastian Rigueiro, Esteban Rodriguez, Diego Romero, and Jack Sampedro. Coach:David Guevara and Michael Gomez
Getting into position, seventh grader Daniel Perez gets ready to field the groundball. Perez played a key role on the team and contributed to the many wins of the season.
Throwing the ball down field, sixth grader Fernando Mendoza completes a pass to the receiver. Mendoza played his first year for the team.
Roster: Nicholas Alonso, Michael Cruz, Kevin Alpizar, Christopher DiFilippi, Eduardo Arevalo, Marc Fuentes, Raul Aspuru, Matthew Huembes Christopher Bayo, Roberto Lizama, Ryan Cainzos, Carlos Mas, Kevin Castro, Juan Miro-Quesada, Michael Corral, and Gabriel Valladares. Coaches: Nate Goldstein and David Guevara
6th Baseball
As he lands in the pit, freshman Luciano Bettocchi triple jumps his way to a personal best of 41’4”. Bettocchi won the District Championship in that specific event.
In the 3200m, senior Jaime Lopez stays with the front pack. Lopez was also a part of the 4x800m relay team, and ran the 3200m race at States where he came in eighth place.
At the Dade County Youth Fair High School Championship, senior Nicolas Roca places third and gets a season best of 9:53. Roca consistently placed in the 3200m run.
At the IMG Invitational, freshman Sebastian Roa takes the inside lane to get past the competition. Roa was only a freshman and already competed at the elite level in the 3200m.
Running the 3200m, sophomore Joshua Collins breaks away from the pack. Collins was the State runnerup in the 3200m with a time of 9:17.39, and also placed fourth in the 1600m.
The horses are in the shoot
By:Jorge Vizcarrondo and Lucas Verdeja
V. Track and Field
At the Bulldog Invitational, senior Bruno Zayas dominates in the 1600m run. Zayas greatly contributed to the team with an all time career best of 4:22.99 in the 1600m.
Hurdling past the competition, senior Daniel Mejia, earns first place at the Ferguson Meet. Mejia was a top tier hurdler due to his speed and agility.
Clearing 6’4”, eighth grader Don Chaney shocks onlookers. Although Chaney was only in middle school, his speed in the 100m event, high jump and long jump scores contributed points to the team.
Finishing first at home, sophomore Carlos Vela sprints past the competition. This was Vela’s first season, and he showed great ability, especially in the 400m dash.
Roster: Roster: Gabriel Abril, Rodrigo Bustamante, Jorge Gomez, Jaime Lopez, Roberto Martell, Daniel Mejia, Nicolas Roca, Juan Bruno Zayas, David Fager, Michael Aparicio, Kevin Valdes, Francisco Barrera, Joshua Collins, Daniel Fager, Alberto Fraga, Javier Fraga-Vasquez, Christopher Garcia, Eric Labrador, Carlos Sosa, Conner Yurkon, Luciano Bettocchi, Basilio Garcia, Christopher Avallone, Christian Rodriguez, Juan San Martin, Brandon Torricella, Eduardo Fidalgo, Carlos Vela, Giancarlo Benitez, Lucas de la Hoz, Brandon Delgado, David Meza, Juan Miguez, Lucas Miguez, David Raez, Sebastian Roa, Henrique Souza, and Donald Chaney. Coaches: Victor Arrieta, Carlos Barquin, Joey Scott, Don Chaney, and Carlos Jimenez
From crawl to sprint
By: Jose Toledo
At the ACC All Saints Invitational, eighth grader Daniel Venerio clears the final hurdle in the 100m hurdle. Venerio came in first place in this race.
At the Dade County Youth Fair, seventh grader Austin San Juan and eighth grader Matthew Bryan place 4th and 5th in the 1600m run. Both runners qualified in the 3000m for the FLYRA State Championship.
MS Track and Field
Dade County Youth Fai 11th
ACC Relays 2nd
Respect Life Inv. 1st
Fr. Sardina S.J. Inv. 1st
All Saints Invitational 1st
ACC Championship 1st
Westminster Academy Inv. 3rd
Miami Elite Inv. Qualifier
FLYRA South Regional 2nd
Pine Crest MS Qualifier Qualifier
At the Miami Elite Invitational, eighth grader Sean Luc Beaubien places third in the 800m. Beaubien’s season best in the 800m was 2:12.
Coming off the blocks, eighth graders Gabriel Montero and Adrian Rodriguez place 2nd and 3rd at the ACC All Saints Invitational.
Gabriel
Roster: Carlos Bailey, Sean Luc Beaubien, Matthew Bryan, Dominic Chiappone, Diego Feijoo, Christopher Fraga-Vasquez, Daniel Giorgini, John Lee, David Leiva, Eduardo Morasso, Adrian Rodriguez, Vicente Sanchez, Daniel Venerio, Austin San Juan, Javier Baca, Mario Cobo, Daniel Comas-Sanchez, Domingo Cortinez, Rafael de la Torre, Carlos Garcia, Gabriel Montero, Michael Navarro, Adrian Ponce, Joshua Sloan, Sebastian Castillo, Julian DeCollibus, Christian Fernandez, Diego Gomez, Nicholas Hidalgo, Nicolas Marquez, Daniel Oliu, Sergio Rivera. Luis Salazar, Alec Vizoso, and Adam Magoulas. Coaches:
Von der Osten, Alexander Isaac, Nelson Garcia, Victor Arrieta, and Carlos Jimenez.
Pushing forward, sixth grader Michael Martelly places second in the shot put at the ACC All Saints Invitational with a distance of 27’3.75”. Martelly was an active participant in the discus.
Leaping over the hurdle, sixth grader Aidan Girado pushes himself to the finish line at the ACC Championship. Girado also ran in the short distance relays.
Leading the race, sixth grader Adam Magoulas wins the 1600m at the ACC All Saints Invitational. Magoulas competed with the middle scool team and qualified for the FLYRA State Championship in the 3000m. His all season best in the 3000m was 10:15.66.
At the All Catholic Conference Championship, sixth grader Carlos Morales clears 4’2 in the high jump. Morales also ran short distance races and participated in the long jump,
Roster: John Anguita, Bryan Bjorkman, John Bohatch, Angel Bueres, Ruben Chavez, Andres De Solminihac, Nicholas Diaz, Tomas Duque, Rafael Fernandez, Aidan Girado, Alexander Gonzalez, David Gonzalez, Alfredo Hernandez, Jorge Hernandez, Alejandro Herrera, Alfredo Huete, Alexander Kuhn, Andrew Lamela, William Lima, Peter Lopez, Adam Magoulas, Michael Martelly, Jorge Mesa, Alejandro Minoso, Carlos Morales, Benjamin Pasternac, Rolando Rodriguez, Kevin Schaeppi Souza, Alec Schneider, Daniel Suarez, Matthew Valdes, and Gabriel Velazquez-Neira. Coaches: Gabriel Von der Osten, Alexander Isaac, Nelson Garcia, Victor Arrieta, and Carlos Jimenez.
At the All Saints Invitational, sixth graders Alfredo Huete and Jorge Mesa gain valuable points in the 200m for the team. Both runners were essential to the team’s winning season.
Protecting the goal, senior Mathew Salas gets ready to stop the incoming shot. Salas achored the defense with another impressive season in the goal with 114 saves.
Going around the crease, senior Daniel Dager looks to pass the ball to an open shooter. Dager proved himself to the team with an excellent performace against Ransom with 9 goals and 5 assists.
Running towards the cage, senior Brian Pascual gets ready to release a bounce shot. Pascual was a three-year varsity player and also one of the captains of the team. He played midfield position throughout his high school career.
Taking the ball down field, senior Oscar Ortega tries to push the tempo to start a fast break. Ortega was one of the top defenders with 112 ground balls last season.
Looking to move the ball junior Maurice Milton gets ready to initiate the offense. Milton contributed to the team with his great speed and defensive ability.
Getting past his man, senior John Powell runs the fast break against St. Brendan. Powell was one of the team’s leading scorers and was a key contributor during historic playoff run.
District Champs
Putting the moves on his defender, sophomore Robert Fernandez settles the ball during the distric semi-final. Fernandez was a consistent contributor using his speed and agility to make key plays.
After picking up the ground ball off a face-off, sophomore Richardo Mayo sets up the offense. Mayo started and led the team to a District Champioship going 19-4 on face-offs in that game.
After a shot, sophomore Rogelio Consuegra finishes his opportunity against rival Columbus. When needed, Consuegra came off the bench and contributed with his goal giving the necessary momentum to to win the game.
By: Andres Gomez and Eric Mena
Varsity Lacrosse
Beating his man to the ball, team captain senior Luis Corps regains possesion for the team. Corps was a vocal leader and a starter of one of the top defenses in the state.
Daniel Dager, Carlos Rodriguez, Patrick Arean, Gabriel Garcia, Rogelio Consuerga, Ted Huertas, Daniel Martinez, Eloy Fernandez, Daniel garcia-Tunon, Maurice Milton, Matthew Salas, Joshual Lara, and Carlos Romero. Coaches: Alen Bellando, Joey Bellando, Angel Diaz, Chris Biaco, and Roger Lara.
Roster: Oscar Ortega, Richard Perez, Brian Pascual, NIcholas Smith, Adrian Rey, John Powell, Richardo Mayo, Alejandro Gonzalez, Danial Hondal, Nicholas Arias, Diego Rivera, Luke Hernandez, Ignacio Lopez-Castro, Lucas Verdeja, Roberto Fernandez, Rafael Perez-Blanco, Luis Corps, Nicholas Perez-Blanco, Deiter Prussing, Joseph Cruz,
Defending the goal, sophomore Alejandro Candela, makes a clutch save against rival Gulliver. Candela was pivotal throughout the season, because of his quick reaction, and defending skills.
On the way to the top
By: Andres Maza and Jorge Vizcarrondo
After redirecting the offense, junior Patrick Perez scores his second goal of the game against Ransom. “For most lacrosse is just a game but for me, lacrosse is a lifestyle,” said Perez.
Stopping on a dime, sophomore Nicholas Perez-Blanco bullets past his defender. This was Perez-Blanco’s first year on the lacrosse team.
J.V. Lacrosse
Putting a stop to the fast break, junior Adrian Hernandez, makes a pivotal defensive move. Hernandez was able to play for both the JV and varsity teams.
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Roster:
Briscoe, Julian Calas, Alejandro Candela, Xavier Cerrate, Carlos Diaz, Carlos Gallo, David Garcia, Adrian Hernandez, Justin Hernandez, Matthew Hernandez, Diego Horta, Zachary Jimenez, Javier Mariscal, Eric Mena, Jonathan Micali, Brandon Moran, Marc Novas, Luke O’Flaherty, Joseph Parlade, Michael Penaranda, Carlos Peralta, Patrick Perez, Ricardo Perez, Franco Rivera, Jose Rodriguez, Michael Rodriguez, Nicolas Sanchez, Jorge Suarez, Jose Toledo, Alejandro Toyos-Sitjes, Matthew Villalba, Alejandro Villarreal. Coaches: Michael Rodriguez and Alejandro Portela
Roster: Kyle Guso, Andres Bello, Brendan O’Flaherty, Eddie Gonazlez, Enrique Sori, Francisco Aguero, Francisco Paredes, Jonathon Cosio, Joseph Pereira, Lucas Rodriguez, Nicholas Alvarez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Nicholas Oyarzun, Nicolas Poveda, Rafael Bru, Ralph Desantis, Ramon De Legorburu, Stefano Sanchez, Tomas Puente, Alejandro Acosta, Andres Vila, Carlos Barquin, Diego Canto, Jack Powell, Manuel Rodriguez-Lapido Mariano Brito, Mark Adams, Oscar Fernandez, Tommy Rodriguez, Ryan Linares, Victor Mejer, Zachary Sotomayor, Frankie Sanchez, and Tommy Rodriguez. Coaches: Joey Bellando and Jose Garcia
Searching for an open teammate, eighth grader Jacob Marrero is ready to make the pass. Marrero scored three goals this past season.
Saving a goal, eighth grader Tomas Puente makes a clutch save to keep the lead. This was Puente’s first year playing goalie and he was already starting at this position.
Roster: Alberto Romero, Christopher Carter, Diego Planos, Esteban Rincon, Jacob Marrero, Julian Bueres, Nicholas Augustin, Anthony De Rosa, Christopher Martel, Eduardo Del Valle, Eduardo Francia, Jacob Lazo, John Broe, Julian Riera, Kevin Calonge, Adrian Quintero, Alfredo Diaz, Christian Bargueiras, Gabriel Buigas, Ignacio Bru, Jonathan Larios, Kevin Freyre, Lucas Leon, Lucas Morales, Manuel Dominguez, Max Munoz, Michael Morin, Nicholas Fonseca, Nicholas Price, Oscar Echegaray, Sebastian Wallace, Antonio Castano, and Alejandro Castro. Coaches: Joey Bellando and Jose Garcia
Making a clean pass to his teammate, seventh grader Jack Powell completes a throw to eighth grader Nicholas Gonzalez. Middle school players often went on to the JV and varsity level.
Speeding away from the opponent, junior Federico Tamborrel tries to prevent turning the ball over at all costs.
was one of the top scorers with over 60 goals in the season, including a goal in the state championship.
Showing his fearless attitude to the opposing team, junior Pablo Kurzan aggresively hunts the ball down. Kurzan led the team in both goals scored and steals midway through the season. He also scored twice at the state championship.
Leaping out of the water, junior Erick Labrador forcefully swats the ball out of the air preventing a goal. Labrador acted as a wall saving over 150 goals averaging about 6.6 saves a game. He blocked two solid shots at the state championship.
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Looking for an open teammate, senior Adrian Hernandez reaches back and gets ready to launch the ball down pool. Hernandez contributed greatly towards the team’s goals with an average of more than one goal per game. He also scored three goals at the state championship.
The perfect season
Team wins state title with an undefeated season
By: Michael Cabeza
Varsity
Water Polo
Looking for the open man, senior Ryan Rodriguez looks to capitalize after stealing the ball. Rodriguez chose to focus more on the defensive side of the game, which was one of the keys to the team’s success.
Making space between him and a defender, junior Sebastian Melendez looks to launch the ball for the score. Melendez had been on the team for five years and won his second state championship title.
Ignacio Aguilar, Nicolas Aguilar, Alexander Alepuz, Joseph Balerdi, Jason Belisario, Maxwell Belisario, Alexander Boza, Emilio Cardenal, Ignacio Cardenal, Jose Chaviano, Andre Cozier, Alejandro Falcon, Benjamin Frisbee, Christopher Galliano, David Garzon, Adrian Hernandez, Gabriel Jimenez, Jovier Jimenez, Pablo Kurzan, Thomas Kurzan, Erick Labrador, Sebastian Melendez, Norberto Menendez, Aaron Muriedas, Andres Puello, Matthew Pulles, Roberto Pupo, Ryan Rodriguez, Andres Solares, Federico Tamborrel, and Nicolas Tamborrel Coach: Jimmy Aguilera.
Throwing the ball to a teammate, senior Alexander Alepuz adds another steal to the stat book. Alexander led the team in steals with about 47 steals, 5 of them recorded in the state championship.
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Raising the bar
By: Michael Cabeza
Looking for an opening in the defense, eighth grader Carlos Caballero passes the ball to a teammate for a score.
Surveying the water, eighth grader Antoni Estopinan looks to get closer to the net. This was Estopinan first year in water polo.
Roster: Andres Alfonso, Carlos Caballero, Andres Castillo, Nelson de Leon, Antoni Estopinan, Orlando Galindez, Luis Mendez, Alexander Perez, Gabriel Pupo, and Kevin Steel. Coach: Lazaro Fernandez
Shooting the ball, eighth grader Luis Mendez attempts to score in the opening minutes against Ransom. Mendez was the team captain for the season.
Blocking the shot, eighth grader Kevin Steel helps defend the goal. Steel began playing water polo in the sixth grade.
Following through with his bowl, senior Jerry Trujillo attempts to hit the last pin still standing. Trujillo had a beneficial year coming out everyday ready to play with a focused mindset. Trujillo averaged a score of 166 throughout the past season.
Staring down the pins, junior Jerry Balepogi focuses to ensure a good score. Balepogi was a valuable addition to the team coming to play during key moments.
Before releasing the bowling ball, junior Michael Ahearn looks to put the team on top with a strike. Ahearn’s consistency helped the Wolverines put points on the score board.
Before letting the bowling ball go, senior Claudio Laratelli hopes for a strike. Laratelli was one of the best players on the team with the highest average score of 169.
Roster: Jerry Balepogi, Jerry Trujillo, Kevin Fernandez, Micheal Ahearn, Claudio Laratelli, Jacob Wutzler, and Justin Eckstein. Coach: Jorge Martinez
Strike!
By: Ted Huertas
Bowling
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Entering the last 250 meters, senior Joseph Garcia fights for a medal at the 2016 FSRA Sculling Championships. Garcia finished the weekend with a silver medal and a scholastic state trophy in the men’s varsity 1x.
Crossing the finish line, the Lightweight 8+ wins the race at the 2016 San Diego Crew Classic. Winning this prestigious race put the Wolverines at the number one seed in the nation. The crew team also earned a total of six medals at the FSRA Regatta in Sarasota.
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their distance from rival Miami Rowing Club. Once again, the Wolverines came out on top and took the gold medal at the 2015 Head of the Indian Creek Regatta.
Sweeping the nation
By: Christian Norniella-Burke
Getting the blades in quickly, the Lightweight 4+ finishes up their first practice of the day in Sarasota, FL during spring training. The team trained two to three times per day to get ready for the upcoming regattas.
Raising the stroke rating for the sprint, sophomore Ian Anderson mans the JV 8+ to a victory over long time rival Miami Rowing Club. The Varsity 8+ went on to win their race against MRC as well.
Reaching at the catch, the freshman 4x gets in their last few strokes of the sprint to finish their race at the Novice Regatta. Stroked by freshman Julian Rodriguez, the boat finished in second place behind Ransom Crew.
Roster: Alejandro Pardo, Alejandro Acosta, Alejandro Maduro, Alejandro Pacios, Alejandro Pardinas, Alejandro Vasquez, Alex Doval, Alex Brennan, Alexander Emmanuel Fox, Alexander Fals, Alexander Ferreiro, Andres Artime, Andres Dones, Andres Gomez, Andres Marquez, Andres Pacios, Andres Pena, Anthony Abinader, Anthony Duarte, Ben Gilbert, Brian Feal, Carlos Perez, Carlos Andres Ortega, Carlos Arazoza, Carlos Dominguez, Carlos Gamez, Carlos Huembes, Carlos Maribona, Carlos Marin, Cesar Perez-Erminy, Christian Norniella-Burke, Christian Ramos, Christopher Rodriguez, Connor Mullins, Conor Meagher, Dane Morrissey, Daniel Sanchez, Daniel Brennan, Daniel Giacosa, Daniel Suels Ochoa, David Gonzalez, Enrique Martin, Evan Rojas, Evan Gonzalez, Fernando Guruceaga, Fernando Pinera, Francisco Blanco, Gabriel Pena-Aleman, Gabriel Nguyen, Gabriel Pardo, Gustavo Roig, Heinz Luedeking, Hunter Prindle, Ian Anderson, Ignacio Felix, Israel Lopez-Morillo, Ivan Cabrera, James Figueroa, James Wu, John Goble, Jonathan Menendez, Jorge Padron, Jose Daniel Cil, Jose Garcia-Sarraff, Joseph Garcia, Joseph Martinez-Dubouchet, Julian Hernandez, Julian Zulueta, Julien Rodriguez, Jun Hyung Cho, Kasser Ismail Kevin Bjorkman, Kevin Valido, Kristian Ventura, Lucas Blanco, Lucas Deeb, Lucas Lorenzo, Lucas Zumpano, Marcos Blanco, Matias Gandarias, Matthew Olesen, Michael Balbuena, Michael Mestre, Nicholas Casariego, Nicholas Price, Nickolas Garcia-Amandi, Nicolas Waterhouse, Orlando Baella, Patrick Maher, Ricardo Labrada, Ricardo Silveira, Rodrigo Marin, Ryan Navarro, Ryan Ruz, Santiago Gonzalez-Irigoyen, Santiago Ugas, Sebastian Hernandez, Sebastian Lara, Sebastian Rafuls, Stephen Calles, William Lleonart, and William San Pedro. Coaches: Yunian Cabrera, Rolando Gamon, Yasser Vasquez, Randy Fraga, and Jorge Acosta
Lock-In
By: Lucas Lorenzo
Staying the Night
One much anticipated school tradition for the sixth grade class has always been the Lock-In. During the Lock-In, sixth graders and seniors spend the night in the school gym while participating together in different activities such as laser tag, video games, and campfires.
1. Class president and senior Daniel Dager teaches a group of students a song and dance during the campfire. The campfire was a new addition to last year’s sixth grade Lock-In.
2. While sitting around the campfire senior Jonathan Avila talks to a group of sixth graders as they make their s’mores. The campfire also included dancing and singing.
3. Sixth graders and seniors compete against each other in friendly video tournaments that included FIFA, NBA 2K and Madden. The video game competitions were held inside classrooms throughout the school.
4. Looking through his scope, sixth grader Daniel Fasanella takes aim at the opponent. While the sixth graders enjoyed their dinner, the seniors transformed the gymnasium into a laser tag field, including inflatable obstacles to hide behind.
5. Sixth graders and the supervising seniors celebrate after USA scores a goal during one of their televised soccer games. The same night of the Lock-In, the United States National Soccer Team played St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which ended in a 6-1 lead for the United States.
6. At the Lock-In, Mr. Ed Gerety speaks to the sixth grade class about family values and the recipe for success. The speaker kicked off the Lock-In and set a positive tone for the event.
Grandparents’ Day
By: Michael Cabeza
Ol’ Time Fun
On Saturday, September 26, the class of 2021 came together for Grandparents’ Day. The seventh graders spent a joyful day hanging out with their grandparents and participating in activities such as Bingo and Dominoes. After attending a Mass together, grandparents shared breakfast and lunch with their grandchildren, as they spent a day together closing in the generational gap.
1. Bingo! At the bingo table, seventh grader Jack Powell competes in a friendly game of bingo with his grandmother.
2. Seventh graders and their grandparents fill the school gym, which had been set up with tables, chairs, and sets of dominoes. All the seventh graders had the opportunity to play at least one set with their grandparents.
3. At the domino station, seventh grader Victor Mejer spends quality time bonding with his grandparents. After losing the first set, Mejer quickly requested a rematch.
4. All the seventh graders clapped and cheered along with their teachers as they kicked off the seventh grade event with a breakfast. The grandparents also took a short tour of the school to get to know their grandkids’ schedules.
5. At the Roca Theater, Father Eduardo Barrios, SJ, presides over the Mass for the seventh graders and their grandparents. The mass kicked off the event that ended with a lunch for all attendees.
Father & Son
By: Lucas Lorenzo
Staying the Night
Father and Son day has been a school tradition in which eighth grade students and their dads spend a Saturday at the school participating in different activities and doing some father and son bonding.
1. In the school gym, students and their fathers take part in a competitive game of basketball. In most of the events that day, teams were split into students versus fathers.
2. Outside, by the tennis courts, students strategize their game plan during an intense game of dodgeball against their dads. Dodgeball was one of the more popular events of the day since it sparked some serious competition between the dads and the students.
3. In the middle of a game of sports trivial pursuit, eighth grader Gabriel Paula and his father listen to the questions being asked and try to beat the clock with the right answer. The eighth grade moms set up this game in the Roca Theater.
4. Hanging out in the cafeteria, students and their dads wait for the lunch to be served. In addition to lunch, the students and their dads were also treated to a continental breakfast, prepared by the cafeteria staff.
5. On the tennis courts, eighth grade students and their dads take aim at each other in a very intense game of dodgeball. Despite the bad weather that day and the heavy rains, the dodgeball game, as well as all other outdoor activities, went on as planned.
Family Day
By:Lucas Lorenzo
Full of Family Fun
Last year, the freshman class along with the other members of their families came to school on a Saturday to participate in Family Day. Activities during Family Day included dodgeball, rock climbing, bounce houses, and most importantly, taking the time to serve the less fortunate.
1. The freshman class and their families take the time to prepare sandwiches for the less fortunate during Family Day. The meals were later distributed to the homeless population.
2. Inside the gym, freshman Marco Lanz and his dad try to help his little brother get into the costume to run the relay race. The addition of costumes to the relay races was intended to make the event even more challenging.
3. Running the court during a game of dodgeball, freshmen Matthew Hernandez, Ethan Ramirez and his brother Alec attempt to score the goal. Teams in this event where separated into kids versus parents.
4. In the Roca Theater, the Lopez and the Hernandez family go head to head during a round of Family Feud. Members of the school’s Student Council asked the questions and supervised this event.
5. Outside of the Administration building, freshmen and their families take on the massive rock climbing wall. Many students raced each other to the top of the wall, turning this challenging event into a competitive race.
Mom & Son
By: Gabriel Aparicio
A date with mom
Mother and Son Day was the day designated for the sophomore class to escort their mothers on a date. The event took place in March and was kicked off by a mass officiated by Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ. The mass was followed by a dinner in the school gym and dance lessons for all. Later in the evening, the sophomores danced the night away with their moms.
1. Practicing the salsa moves, sophomore Sebastian Llano and his mother attempt to get the stepping down right.
2. Double trouble, sophomore Matthew Schultz and his twin brother Joseph (not pictured) attended the much anticipated event with their mom who took turns on the dance floor with each twin.
3. Before getting up to get their meals, a group of sophomores socialize with each other and their moms at the table.
4. Waiting for their dinner, sophomores Drew Chinigo, Max Salazar, and Sebastian Chamizo, with their mothers, get to know each other better at the table.
Foreign Exchange
By: Eloy Fernandez
A change of hemisphere
The foreign exchange program allowed students from Saint Ignatius High School, a Jesuit school in Taiwan, to come here and experience the culture of life and Jesuit education in the United States. This was the second year of this program, and it continued its successful tradition with a brief taste of the Asian culture, and a glimpse at the similarities and differences shared with fellow Jesuit students.
1. Shaking hands with the new exchange students, program director Mr. Charles Cleveland and the local students greet the new foreign students from Taiwan and welcome them to the United States.
2. Welcoming them into the school, principal Dr. Maria Cristina Reyes-Garcia greets the new exchange students and gives them a welcoming gift on behalf of the local community.
3. Drawing with intense precision, local Chinese calligraphy artist, Paul Yan, decorates a Chunlian, a traditional red banner commonly used during the Chinese New Year celebrations. An assembly was held in the Cosculluela Hall to demonstrate students the history and importance of the Chinese New Year and the Chinese culture.
By: Jose Toledo, Andres Maza, Gabriel Aparicio, and Joseph Cruz
Tombola
It’s more than a Party!
Tombola has always been the highlight of the school year, with hundreds of students, teachers, staff, parents, alumni, and neighbors visiting the school and helping to raise funds for the scholarship fund that allows so many students to receive a Jesuit education. Whether it was the food or the rides, this event brought out the crowd to have fun, enjoy the camaraderie, and help out a worthy cause.
1. Fearing for their lives, students and friends experience one of the most terrifying rides in Tombola: The Fireball. There were many other rides to choose from such as swings, and bumper cars.
2. Eager to receive his food, freshman Kevin Martin waits to feast on the delicious Pan con Lechon perpared by a volunteer parent. Mr. Eugene Zoller has been running this popular booth for many years now.
3. Rocking out some jazz tunes, sophomore Mario Perez plays electric guitar while sophomore Andres Perez backs him up on the drums. Both students were members of the music appreciation club led by Mr. Tony Alexander.
4. Focusing on the shot, sixth grader Francisco Sanchez takes his turn at the dart booth. The dart booth has always been present at the festival, and most popular for the prizes offered to all winners.
5. The school concert band puts on a performance for the crowds in the Garrido Family Plaza. Musicians played a variety of songs for the onlooking crowd that congregated in this festival hub.
6. Taking center stage in the school’s central patio, seventh grader Jose Gonzalez sings for the crowd. There were numerous acts throughout the day including a brief scene from the school’s spring musical Little Shop of Horrors, and other performances by a variety of neighboring dance schools.
7. Bumper to bumper, eighth grader Alexander Eckstein goes for a bumpy drive on the revamped bumper cars ride. Festival attendees were able to purchase bracelets that allowed them to ride every ride as many times as they wanted.
Senior Encounter
By: Christian Norniella-Burke
Walking the Crossroads
The 2016 Senior Encounter stood out from previous years and followed the new theme of Crossroads. Seniors gathered as a class and disconnected from the outside world for one night while locked in the school. The theme Crossroads represented the class of 2016 while they reached a point in their lives before everyone separated and headed in different directions.
1. With their candles lit, the class of 2016 shows their unity while led by motivational speaker Ed Gerety. Mr. Gerety used different approaches to teach the class the importance of their future and how to structure themselves. Seniors lit one candle and then used it to light each other’s candle.
2. After the seniors gathered for breakfast, school president Father Willie Garcia-Tunon led the class in a morning mass in the Cosculluela Dining Hall. The mass was the perfect way to start the day by putting God in the center of everyone’s lives.
3. After breaking off from the small groups, the seniors gathered in the Garrido Family Plaza by the fires to have group sharings. The group sharings really allowed individuals to speak freely and use their lives as an example to teach others a lesson. “The encounter really brought the class of 2016 together like never before. We learned a lot about each other that we never knew and really became a brotherhood that is 227 strong” said senior Nicholas Garcia.
4. After a moving speech, senior David Andreu presents the alumni guest speaker with a gift. The alumni speaker for this event was Mr. Rolando Diaz, who was the valedictorian of the class of 1987.
Service
By: Gabriel Aparicio
Giving back to all
At this school, service was a huge part of every student’s life. The required number of hours for the middle school students was 15 hours and 25 for the high school students. Even though there was a minimum requirement, many students did the Magis by exceeding the required number. This was a true testament to what it took to be a man for others.
1. Helping out the local community, sophomore Christopher Moustafa plays with a young boy from Blue Lakes Elementary during the Blue Lakes field day.
2. Helping a young boy from San Juan Bosco center, sophomore Joshua Ferrer does his part to help those in need. Students took a school bus to San Juan Bosco every Monday and Wednesday after school to work with elementary school students from the parish who needed help with their homework.
3. Getting ready at the starting line, students, families, and friends prepare to get going in the Battle Like a Wolverine 5K. This race helped to raise money for cancer research.
Ignatian Week
By: Joseph Cruz
Jesuit Teachings
Ignatian week is a celebration to commemorate one of the most well known saints as well as the founder of the Society of Jesus, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. During this week, the students participated in special events such as Ignite the Night, Magis Walk, and the Ignatian Bash.
1. Lifting their intentions for prayer, a group of sophomores walked around the school track during their theology classes. In their hands they held white papers with the name of someone for whom they wanted to pray. The students and teachers walked around the track in reflection while they focused on prayer.
2. During the Ignite the Night Event, senior Dylan Pareja practices his speech about the promotion of the I am Second campaign. This campaign was started by senior theology teacher Mr. Roberto Artiz.
3. During the Ignite the Night event senior Rodrigo Bustamante recites the poem titled “Marked”. Bustamante was very active in the role of spiritual leader among his peers.
4. To kick off Ignatian Week, the sixth grade class headed to Bill Baggs State Park to help clean up the beach. Taking care of the earth and performing community service were both integral parts of the Jesuit education.
5. For Ignatian Week, sophomores Andres Dones, Javier Saumell, Andre Caputo, Carlos Sosa, and Manuel Fernandez from Ms. Angie Fernandez’s homeroom decorate their classroom door to demonstrate their school spirit.
By: Andres Maza
Preparing for Jesus
Lent is a forty day event when everyone reflects on his/ her personal life and his/her relationship with God. Students and faculty came together Ash Wednesday and officially kicked off the Lenten season by receiving ash on their foreheads. After school, students and teachers experienced The Stations of The Cross, to help them better understand the significance of the passion of Christ.
1. Carrying the cross, seventh grader Michael Mestre takes an active role in the Stations of the Cross. This event took place every Friday after school and sometimes during the homeroom period.
2. During the Ash Wednesday mass, sophomore Bernardo Moro receives the ashes on his forehead from government teacher Mr. Patrick Collins. This mass kicked off the Lenten season.
3. Gathering around the central patio, students and teachers kneel during the stations of the cross. Students from all grade levels, as well as faculty and staff attended this most solemn event.
Close Up
By: Joseph Parlade
Museums, monuments, and so much more
As students arrived in Washington, D.C., they had no idea what was in store for them. What may have seemed like a simple trip to the nation’s capital, turned out to be the experience of a lifetime with visits to museums, monuments, real life experiences, and a one on one with some of the nation’s top men.
1. Close-Up veteran and US government teacher Mr. Patrick Collins helps to organize a group photo in the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee room. In this room, students had the opportunity to speak directly to school alumni working in the D.C. area.
2. During their tour of the Capitol building, the juniors took a moment to admire Statuary Hall. The guided tour took students through the office of the Speaker of the House, the old Supreme Court, and the room where the original senate sat.
3. The day after the blizzard, juniors Peter Martin and Manuel Barreto, along with other students engage in a friendly snowball fight. Last year the Close Up group, along with the chaperones, were stuck in the city during what was referred to by the media as the blizzard of the century.
4. Feeling the excitement of being in the room, juniors Franco Rivera and Patrick Perez get a feel for what is like to be a member of a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. “Since I was born in Cuba, it means the world to see people going to work to help immigrants,” said Rivera.
Plays
By: Javier Arazoza
Center Stage!
When it comes to productions at the school, the thespian community never disappointed. Last year, the group of young actors put on a production of the Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors. The play was directed by the school’s drama teacher Mr. Francisco Padura. During the first semester, Mr. Leo Williams directed the play Thespians 101.
1. Taking center-stage, juniors Oscar Berlanga and Javier Mederos finish their musical number by joining back-to-back. This was both Mederos and Berlanga’s second production in their acting career at the school.
2. Playing the part of two homeless men, freshman Dustin Duprey and eighth grader Kristian Perez perform for the audience. The play ran for two weeks in the Roca Theater, including Sunday matinees.
3. Holding the plant known as Audrey Two, junior Javier Mederos performs a musical number with sophomores Katrina Moreira, Tiffanay Jou, and Delaney Ager. This was Moreira’s and Jou’s first productions at this school. The play included a total of 17 musical numbers. Thespians were in rehearsal everyday until 10 pm to perfect the intricate moves and songs.
Choir
By: Ted Huertas & Javier Hernandez
Pitch Perfect
The school choir consisted of students from every grade level who volunteered to sing at the Mass celebrations. Before every event, the group got together after school for a few hours to rehearse. The choir has been one of the most important parts of the Mass, as it was their job to liven up the mood and encourage the attendees to sing along in prayer.
1. Performing in front of the entire high school, juniors Javier Mederos and Gustavo Gonzalez sing in the first Mass of the year. Mederos and Gonzalez have been part of the choir since middle school and they are now leaders of the group.
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Volunteering to be a part of the choir, the entire junior peer ministry class sang for the first time during the annual Thanksgiving Mass. The eleventh grade peer ministry class led students in song in several masses throughout the year.
3. During the Ash Wednesday Mass, seventh graders Alec Vizoso and Jose Gonzalez, and eighth grader Daniel Calvache sing in the choir. The middle school students used their young and soothing voices to balance out the range of the choir.
4. Led by theology teacher Dr. Josefina Chirino, the choir sings the opening hymn as the priests prepare to begin the Mass.
5. Leading the congregation, freshmen Gabriel Lugo and Brandon Moran sing the responsorial hymn during the Mass of the Holy Spirit.
Band
By: Andres Gomez
Getting Jazzy
The school bands had an amazing year, with performances at several events including the Halloween Show and the Festival Disney Music Competition. Aside from the big shows and contests, the bands were always on hand at the pep rallies and other school functions to get the crowd moving and on their feet.
1. The Battle Like a Wolverine Breast Cancer Fundraiser took place October 24. On hand to perform and bring excitement to the crowd was the school’s drum line, which gave it their all on a hot day. Their cadences pumped up those who attended and helped raise money for a worthy cause.
2. Just in time for Christmas, the band puts the audience in the spirit of the season with their annual Christmas show. Last year, the show was an immediate hit, selling out almost immediately.
3. Taking first place and the Outstanding Soloist Award, sophomore Ian Anderson plays along with his peers at the Festival Disney Music Competition. The concert band won the Gold Award at this specific contest.
4. At the End of Year Show, the concert band rocks out the tunes in the Roca Theater. This concert showcased all the hard work and dedication that the musicians put into the program throughout the school year.
Dance
By: Joseph Cruz and Jose Toledo
Ends Meet New Beginnings
Every year the eighth grade class anticipates the special activities held at the end of the school year. These activities include the class trip to Universal Studios, a churrasco lunch, and the eighth grade formal. This past year’s formal dance was made possible by the delegate parents of the eighth grade class who spent countless hours decorating. They transformed the school gym into a ballroom and gave the students a night that they will never forget. With great music, a dance floor, food, and seating for social gatherings, the memories of this dance will be with the class of 2020 for years to come.
1.Signing in with middle school disciplinarian Ms. Maria Elena Cartaya, eighth grader Brendan O’Flaherty and his date check in to the dance.
2. Breaking it down on the dance floor, eighth grader Sean Luc Beaubien shows off his dance moves. DJ Rhythm City was hired for the night to keep the feet moving on the dance floor.
3. Walking towards the gymnasium, eighth grader Alexander Blanco escorts his date to the event.
4. To start the night off, eighth graders Jose Perez and Donald Chaney compete in a dance battle on the floor while his friends look on.
5. After exiting the car, eighth grader Noah Torres leads his date to the dance. The dance lasted through midnight.
6. Enjoying the snacks, eighth graders Nathaniel Payne and Nicholas Gonzalez grab some sweets from the candy bar.
8th Grade Pin Ceremony
By: Carlos Diaz
Passage to the next level
Eigth grade pin ceremony celebrates the eighth graders transition to the high school level. As the seniors of the middle school, many of the members of the eighth grade class move on to different things once they begin their high school years. The pin ceremony not only marks the transition, but prepares them mentally for the phase of their lives and the beginning of their preparation for college and their future overall.
1. Shaking hands with school president Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ, eighth grader Francisco Aguero receives his pin.
2. During the Pin Ceremony Mass, eighth grader Nicolas Oyarzun reads with the crowd the Responsorial Psalm.
3. Eighth grade spiritual counselor Father Lionel Lopez and school chaplain Deacon Jorge Prieto bow before the altar during the procession at the beginning of the Mass.
4. In the Garrido Family Plaza, eighth grader Matthew Cardoso-Abreu and his parents enjoy drinks and snacks at the celebration after the official ceremony.
5. Joining Father Willie and homeroom teacher Mr. Octavio Ramos, eighth grader Nathaniel Payne receives his pin.
6. A group of eighth graders line up to enter the bus that will take them to Gradventure at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. This trip took place the day after the pin ceremony.
Junior Prom
By: Michael Cabeza
A night to remember
The Junior Prom was definitely a night to remember for the class of 2017. The dance was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Coral Gables. The juniors arrived at the event in vehicles ranging from school buses to stretch limos. The night included an inspirational talk from Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ, a steak dinner, and plenty of music and dancing. The dance ended at midnight.
1. Dancing the night away, junior Oscar Berlanga shows off his moves. Berlanga was one of the first people on the dance floor enjoying the music played by DJ Rhythm City.
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Addressing the crowd, Father Willie GarciaTunon, SJ expresses his gratitude to those who attended the dance. Father Willie’s speech kicked off the event which lasted through midnight.
3. While waiting for their meals, juniors Patrick Perez and Daniel Sarmiento entertain their dates at the table. The juniors enjoyed a three course meal that included churrasco.
4. Meeting by Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ at the entrance of the ballroom, junior Erick Wilson introduces his date to him. Juniors and their dates also had time to pose for professional pictures before entering the main room.
5. Enjoying the music, juniors Matthew Bravo, Adrian Hernandez, and Ricardo Diaz and their dates show everyone how it’s done. There was no doubt that the highlight of the event for the juniors was definitely the dance portion of the night.
Senior Prom
By: Lucas Verdeja and Joseph Cruz
One more dance
Senior prom was by far one of the most anticipated events during the senior year. Senior Prom was a spectacular night held at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Their night began with a welcoming party consisting of teachers and staff, who greeted each and every senior and his date as he arrived to the hotel. This was followed by a dinner in their grand ballroom, and later a party on the dance floor that got started with a routine from the dancing waiters, courtesy of the Biltmore.
1. Strutting to the entrance of the venue seniors Zane Todywala, Daniel Silva, and Andrew Cecol with their dates make a grand entrance into the front of the historic Biltmore Hotel. Many seniors arrived in limos or party buses to the event.
2. Lighting up the crowd was activities director Mr. Luis Dulzaides who covers the crowd with fog. Mr Dulzaides, along with Mrs. Graciela Garcia-Chang made all the arrangements for this memorable night.
3. At the entrance of the hotel, Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ welcomes senior Juan CarabeoNieva and his date to the event. A red carpet led the seniors all the way to the ballroom.
4. Enjoying the food served, senior Luke Hernandez accompanies his date at the dinner table. The main course for the evening was the chicken breast on a bed of mashed potatoes.
5. Adding their own moves, the class of 2016 unites on the dance floor. The party went on through midnight.
Baccalaureate Mass
By: Joseph Cruz
Final reflections
Last year’s Baccalaureate Mass was celebrated in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, in Doral. Although this was the first time this Mass had been celebrated there, many of its annual traditions were still held. For example, seniors walked in with their mothers and placed a yellow rose at the altar. The seniors sat next to their mothers during this mass that marked their last gathering as a class before their commencement exercises.
1. Walking down the aisle, senior Alfredo Cepero escorts his mother to the church’s altar, where she laid down a yellow rose. The roses were a homage to Our Lady, and were also used to decorate the area around the altar.
2. The graduating class of 2016 accompanies their mothers, as well as other members of their families, faculty, and staff in the Baccalaureate Mass. The Mass took place May 25, 2016, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.
3. As a member of the peer ministry class, senior Andres Artime reads one of the readings of the Mass. Artime was a part of the peer ministry program during high school.
4. At the pulpit, Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ, gives the Homily. The Homily included a listing of all the great things that took place in the twentieth century and how they related to the graduating seniors.
5. Leading the congregation, senior Dylan Pareja reads the Responsorial Psalm. The Responsorial Psalm was sung by members of the school’s band and choir. Eleventh grade peer ministers were also on hand to usher in the crowd.
Graduation
By: Gabriel Aparicio, Javier Arazoza and Andres Maza
Next steps
A total of 227 seniors walked across the stage of the James L. Knight Center June 1st as they took their final steps as high school students and officially began their college careers. School president Father Willie GarciaTunon, SJ, led the graduation ceremony, which included keynote speaker Cesar Conde from the class of 1991. All faculty and staff were on hand to watch the graduates make the transition to the next phase of their lives. The commencement exercises were followed by a reception in the ballroom that included a dinner and dance.
1. On the main stage, senior Benjamin Gilbert receives his diploma from school president Father Willie Garcia-Tunon, SJ. Gilbert graduated Cum Laude and was headed to the University of Delaware.
2. During the graduation, members of the class of 2016 anxiously await their turn to receive their diplomas. The faculty and staff joined the graduates on stage.
3. Members of the graduating class listen attentively to keynote speaker Mr. Cesar Conde, from the class of 1991. Mr. Conde spoke about the things that have changed since he graduated, and those that remain constant such as family values and being a man for others.
4. During his speech, class valedictorian senior David Fager recounts his years at the school starting with the sixth grade Lock-In and ending with the senior year.
5. Reminding the graduates of the brotherhood they built over the years at the school, class salutatorian senior Nicolas Garcia delivers his speech.
GRADUATION AWARDS
Nicholas Tootle SENIOR OF THE YEAR
Daniel Portuondo ALBERTO HURTADO, SJ Communications
Marcelo Mion
JOSE RUBINOS, SJ Modern Languages
Daniel Silva MATTEO RICCI, SJ Computer Science
Adrian Hernandez ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, SJ Scholar Athlete
Rodrigo Bustamante JSEA AWARD
Daniel Romeu GERARD M. HOPKINS, SJ English
Andres Concepcion PIERRE T. DE CHARDIN, SJ Science
Jaime Lopez ARCHBISHOP AWARD
Daniel Tejada ANDREA POZZO, SJ Humanities
Daniel Brennan JOHN CARROLL, SJ Social Studies
David Fager CHRISTOPHER CLAVIUS, SJ Mathematics
Kevin Lemos KARL RAHNER, SJ Theology
David Fager VALEDICTORIAN
Nicolas Garcia SALUTATORIAN
Silver Knight Nominees
Rodrigo Bustamante WORLD LANGUAGES
Daniel Brennan ATHLETICS
Michael Cairo SPEECH Honorable Mention
Daniel Romeu ENGLISH AND LITERATURE
Jonathan Garcia JOURNALISM
Andres Marquez GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP
Alexander Alepuz MATHEMATICS
LAST PAGES
BrunoZayas
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” - Steve Prefontaine
Bruni, you are a wonderful man and you have a whole life of possibilities ahead of you. Congratulations on your graduation. Your whole family is very proud of you, especially your mother! We love you,
De Aguiar, Nicolas 90, 121 De Aguiar, Richard 71, 118,
121, 123, 131, 135
de Castro, Cristian Fernandez 90, 136
De Castro, Gabriel Fernandez
84
de Castro, Juan Fernandez 72, 117, 118, 126, 128, 132 de Cespedes, Jose Lopez 115 De Feria, Alejandro 90, 136, 160
De Goti, Jorge 95 de Goytisolo, Joaquin 55, 126 de la Camara, Francisco 55, 132, 162, 163, 166 de la Fe, Daniel 71, 119, 132, 133, 137, 166 de la Guardia, Lucas 95, 120, 137
de La Guardia, Patricio 90, 117, 136, 152 de la Hoz, Lucas 83, 145, 173 de la Hoz, Marcos 78, 135 de la Huerta, Tomas 90, 126, 136
de La Martin, Ernesto 164 de la Nuez, Carlos 71, 118, 132 de La Nuez, Christopher 78 de La Osa, Ryan 90 de La Riva, Matthew 41, 101 de La Roza, Maria 107 de la Torre, Rafael 90, 119, 143, 174 de la Vega, Diego 78
De Lamar, Daniel 101, 161
De Legorburu, Ramon 90, 137, 179
De Lemos, Rosari 108 de Leon, Nelson 102, 122, 152, 182 de Logorburu, Ray 136
De Los Santos, Christian 78
De Luca Martin, Ernesto 83 de Mendoza, Victor Lopez 73, 141
De Quesada, Thomas 108, 384
De Rosa, Anthony 179
De Solminihac, Andres 102, 103, 161, 175
De Zayas, Alfredo 56, 122, 128
De Zayas, Luis 132 de Zendegui, Gabriel 83, 142 DeCollibus, Julian 94, 95, 119, 137, 146, 174 Deeb, Brandon 95, 143 Deeb, Lucas 95, 115, 120, 137, 185
DeFelice, GianPaolo 83, 136 Deiters, Andrew 83
Del Castillo, Christian 9, 56, 115, 128, 131, 132, 168, 169 Del Dago, Jose 108
Hernandez, Michael 103, 122, 147 Hernandez, Miguel 72, 114, 115, 132, 133, 137 Hernandez, Nicholas 39 Hernandez, Nicolas 72, 132, 163 Hernandez, Pedro 108 Hernandez, Rafael 60, 169 Hernandez, Sebastian 185 Hernando, Andres 91 Hernnadez, Christopher 133 Herran, Lucas 103
Zantua, Tatiana 111 Zapata, Juan David 166, 167 Zaragoza Neira, Javier 105, 161
Zarraluqui, Jose 105, 147 Zayas, Juan Bruno 69, 144, 145, 173, 368, 381, 382 Zequeira, Milagros 111
Zoller, Eugene 111, 194
Zuloaga, Pedro 28, 102, 105
Zulueta, Julian 87, 127, 134, 136, 137, 185
Zumpano, Lucas 81, 123, 132, 185
Zuniga, Andres 87 Zuniga, Daniel 87
Zuniga, Manuel 69, 132
Zvadell, Anthony 136
Leopoldo Nuñez
1975-1981
Dean of Students and Disciplinarian of Juniors and Seniors Teacher of Government and Theology
1981-1990
Principal of Academics Teacher of Theology and Humanities
1990-2003
Executive Assistant Principal Teacher of Humanities and World History
2003-2016
Director of Ignatian Center for the Arts Teacher of Art History and AP Art History
Thank you for your 41 years of service!
ECHOES Volume 54 was produced by the yearbook class at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in the New Cuba, a.k.a. Miami, Florida and printed by Herff Jones, Inc. in “this ain’t” Kansas City, Kansas. The account was serviced by representatives Patty Posey, Vicky Aguirre, Jordan Elder and Jose Otero and the customer service advisor at the plant was Lisa Merino.
Our theme was developed thanks to our very own Yoda Coach Carlos Barquin, who always encourages us with his various sayings from his distant cousin’s brother’s sister’s cousin twice removed brother, Vince Lombardi. Editor-in-Chief Bruno Zayas, and Senior Editor Gabriel “April” Abril developed the theme Expect the Unexpected in July at SuePalooza after exhausting all other possibilities and not been able to come to an agreement.
The cover was designed by the senior yearbook class of 2016 and incorporated a bajillion color designs which was lithographed onto the bluish looking background. Applied colors on the cover were 82, 41, 32, 5 and plain white. The endsheets were printed on 80# gloss paper using 4-C inks. The book’s 368 pages were printed on 80# gloss stock.
The 2016 volume includes 368 pages in full color. All body copy was set in AHJ Letter Gothic size 10 and the captions were also AHJ Letter Gothic size 8. Headline fonts included Britannic Bold and AHJ Imperial. Pages were submitted to the plant via epage, and often accompanied by a prayer. Expect the Unexpected was produced using Adobe InDesign CS6 and Adobe Photoshop on Macs. More than 80% of the shots were taken by the yearbook staff members using Canon Rebel T3is whenever they could be found with a matching battery and memory card. Processing and printing of portraits was performed by Herff Jones Photography and the man we call Uly. The 1550 copies of the book were distributed to the entire student body at the beginning of the school year. The yearbook fee is included in the school registration fees. The yearbook staff consisted of 13 student editors, until a quarter into the year when a wild Burke appeared, making him our class mascot. There were 13 newbie staffers, willing and ready (not all) to take the reigns of editorialship next year.
COLOPHON
Editorial Board: Jose Arevalo, Sebastian Paoli Torres, Christian Norniella Burke, Justin Rodriguez, Ted Huertas, Michael Cabeza, Gabriel Abril, Lucas Cabrera Ramon, Lucas Lorenzo, Javier Hernandez, Daniel Chavez, and Joseph Parlade.
Staff: Carlos Diaz, Jorge Vizcarrondo, Javier Arazoza, Joseph Cruz, Andres Gomez, Jared Hart, Alfred Perez, Gabriel Aparicio, Lucas Verdeja, Andres Maza, Eric Mena, Jose Toledo, and Eloy Fernandez.
“Expect the Unexpected” was the theme we chose over the summer when we got together to work on the yearbook at SuePalooza. We decided to use the famous words of Coach Carlos Barquin, which he often mentions to us in speeches and daily conversation. Little did we know when we chose that theme of the many surprises and unexpected events that the 2015-2016 school year had in store for us.
With the return of Father Willie GarciaTunon, SJ, in January as school president, many unexpected changes occurred within our community. Mr. Jose E. Roca was named school principal, and Mr. Ramon Nicosia and Mrs. Patricia Bustamante were asked to be the new assistant principals. The Counseling Center was moved to the CRC, the principal and assistant principals’ offices were moved to the previous Counseling Center, and the Wolverine Den found a new home in the entrance of the main office. Mr. Leopoldo Nunez announced his retirement after 41 years of service to the school, Mr. Luis Dulzaides was named new director of the Ignatian Center, and Mr. Thomas De Quesada returned to his previous position as Dean of Men, taking care of student discipline and activities.
Barq had it right all along. As we journey into our futures, we too must learn to expect the unexpected, because you never know where life will take you.