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Class of 2025 heads off to the future!
Arizona State University
Jaelyn Popper
Bay Area Training Academy, EMT
Emily Cooper
Berkeley City College
Shane Cochrane, Karla Gonzalez, Brandon Hopwood, Chaniya Salabao
Boise State University
Kyle Jordan, Jayda Vaz
Boston University
Samantha Jew, Amani Multani, Isaiah Yeh
California Baptist University
Ian Ling
California Institute of the Arts
Stephanie Feng
Case Western Reserve University
Jillian Taylor
Chabot College
Claire Akita, Kaelyn Anderson, Victor Bahng, Xavier BjorkNelson, Rock Bucklin, Toren Cabreana, Damian Caldiero, Katelyn Chang, Laughlin Chen, Phoebe Chiu, Brandon Chung, Adan Contreras, Ashley Cooper, Connor Cooper, Mikaela Critser, Sophia DeMiguel, Charlotte DeWaal, Rogelio Diaz, Olli Dibaba, Emily Duenas, Gabrielle Farias, Dulce Fitzsimons, Avianna Gonzalez, Yonatan Hagos, Ryan Hammonds, Cooper Henselmann, Evan Hepp, Junxi Huang, William Hudson, Emily Huie, Erin Jiang, Christopher Jimenez, Maison Jordan, Asher Krumb, Landon Lai, Weizhe Liu, Kaden Luong, Rico Lupian, Kylie Mei, Malik Munn, Cole Murphy, Lani Ng, Kyle Nguyen, Piper Notari, Sanaa Odetallah, Aiden Olsen, Adam Ornelas, Kikiy Ou, Michael Owen, Fiona Padilla, Violet Patrick, Angie Payhua, Treysi Xiomara Payhua Sulca, Ryan Perez, Alex Perez, Gavin Peters, Anthony Rigo, Xavier Rivera, Giovanni Rodriguez Yanez, Brian Rodriguez Yanez, Matthew Rojas, Bryan Rosales Escobar, Pablo Rubio-Arroyo, Jordan Schneickert, Rachel Shum, Isabel Silva, Parman Singh, Taylor Smith, Luis Solorzano, Monica Sorto, Nikki Steinberg, Austin Tang, Francy Taquire, Johan Taquire, Arthur Tatarkhanov, Annabella Terry, Chase Traylor, Anthony Valverde, Uatesoni Veamatahau, Emma Vu, Dylan Vuong, Nicholas Warren, Kenna Weiland, La’von West, Ayline Wilkinson-Villalobos, Leanne Wu, Rebecca Yeung, Tin Yui Yang, Luciana Zerga
Chapman University
David Bull, Daniel Priem
Chicago State University Hailey Perez
College of Idaho
Kathryn Pereur
College of San Mateo
Jazmine Cortez, Alyssa Green, Yusef Scott
Cornell University Jason Guo
CSU East Bay
Elicia Casto, Natasha Ceja Alvarez, Jillian Epitacio, Joseph Gitonga, Kaitlyn Ilmberger, Jacob Larcina, Wesley Phulps, Jack Portillo, Farhan Sherzad, Brady Tham, Mia Yin
CSU Fresno Angelina Zamora
CSU Fullerton
Amber Ditona, Ayden Janks, Mia Sarno, Peyton Sklut, Verniece Thong, Chloe Tong, Zachary Watson
CSU Humboldt, Cal Poly
Vincent De Alba, Adiyaan Guha, Ethan Morgheim
CSU Long Beach
Qaisarah Kamal Fariz, Halina Nguyen, Megan Tran
CSU Monterey Bay Owen Seidel
CSU Pomona, Cal Poly Mateo Camarena, Vince Jaden Cordova, Valentin Liochev, Matthew Sanchez
CSU Sacramento
Amanda-Grace Kremer, Mason Yamat
CSU San Diego
Solae Chappell, Owen Chen, Indiana Chilton, Sydney Mai, MorganMcColm-deJong,Addison Medcalf, Marley Sepulveda, Emily Tonsberg
CSU San Francisco
Samantha Annuzzi, Anastasia Cacianova, Jocelyn Nguyen, Maria Rizkalla, Nayeli Valdovinos
CSU San Jose
Ethan Alfonso, Maxim Boychuk, Laila Calvillo, Oliver Castrejon, Beraiah Chan, Mina Chen, Steven Dang, Wenfu Deng, Jason Grayson, Muhammad Hassan, Hayden Holmgren, Karla Hurtado Cortes, Andrew Huynh, Kole Johnson, Javon Johnson, Mario Joseph, Demetrius Kuang, Brian Lam, Jaden Lau, Zifeng Lin, Nadia Maciel, Shanelle Joy Manimtim, Zaid Miakhil, Sofia Myers, Jaden Nguyen, Kenny Phouvanh, Jacob Pogers, Catalina Preciado, Jack Pronske, Avishek Rajbhandary, Tessa Rose, Amanda Sauceda, Xilong Sin, Leila Skaf, Kathryn Stanford, Stanley Sun, Alonzo Villafan, Jalen Vongnarith, Matthew Wang, Alyse Wong, Aiden Worstell, Cesar Yunsan
CSU San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly
Kwan Yeung Chan, Justin Chinn, Daniel Huang, Ada Huang, Paisley Kidd, Samantha Leber, Carrie Lee, Simon Li, Zoie Li, Alex Mascio, Sofia Tom, Matthew Wong, Teresa Yu
CSU Sonoma
Dorian Carter
De Anza College
Heidi Chen, Ziyu Li
DePaul University
Amelie Nicolini
Diablo Valley College
Andrew Arias, Tasi-Noelani Blas, Reese Elkaim, Omar Ghanem, Adrian Guzman, Eddy Ho, Sin Yee Lau, Vesemir Pirogov, Cameron Tatum, Andy Wong
Fordham University
Bethel Ephrem
Hawai’i Pacific University
Samantha Mai
Indiana University Bloomington Neel Maitra
JD Academy
Isabella Ericksen-Deschler, Lacey Garrison
John Paul the Great Catholic University
Theresa Cruz
Laney College
Achilles Caro, Ken Galanida, Justin Lee-Cai
Las Positas College
Ali Akbarzadeh, Martin Barragan, Diana Barska, Jorge Benavidez, Kloe Bolido, Kilian Charron, Hazel Chen, Samuel Chow, Gianna Ariel Colon, Ayana Croke, Brody Cumming, AJ Cumming, Apekshya Dhakal, Lucas Dickerson, Jayden Diep, Miranda Doan, Cristiano Duarte, Monroe Edwards, Anas Elshobakey, Ethan Fujimura-Engstrom, Aubreyana Galindo, Alex He, Dominic Hodges, Melissa Huang, Nathan Huang, Tosca Hubbard, Aiden Ip, Diego Izaguirre, Lea Langer, Grace Lassalls, Monique Le, Brandon Lee, Queenie Liang, Samantha Libed, Krista Lopes, Andrew Lowe, Emily McNellis, Josie Mendez, Jeremiah Miller, Yovanni Moreno, Abby Murphy, Ava Ng, Luis Nishikawa, Easton Poulos, Erika Rayo, Zenia Rocha, Max Rodden, Janelle Sarimos, Anthony Savva, Jocelyn Schmeck, Evan Servin, Armaan Sherzad, Damien Tavares, Audrey Taylor, Kenny Thai, Nevin Thomas, Kaelyn Trinh, Scott Van, Alexander Witt, Darrel Wong, Charlene Wong, Mikala Wong, Christopher Xiao, Logan Yang, Natalia Zuniga Rivera
Merritt College
Kennedy Alley, Joselyne Hernandez Morfin, Aliyah Tillotson
Military - Army
Gianna Nappi, Lucas Villegas
Military - Marines
Julian Perez Banke, Roberto
Wong Zelaya
Military - Navy
Tang Huang
New York University
Sydney Yee, Al Lam
New York University, Shanghai
Joy Wong
Northeastern University
Alex Chen
Northern Arizona University
James Massey
Occidental College
Haley Crowell
Ohlone College
Anthony Mares, Zhang Yihan
Oregon State University
Maiya Bachmann, Caitlin Chen, Callan Hsiao-Frates, Sora Louie
Penn State
Sanjana Kumar, Abigail Martin
Pitzer College
Isabelle Nicole
Purdue University
Devin Hidayat
San Francisco City College
Kyle Leung
San Jose City College
Armon Johnson, Diego Rico
Santa Barbara City College
Ethan Lemoine
Santa Clara University
Ryan Thanos
Santa Rosa Junior College
Connor Jeong
School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Ash Ahmad
School of Visual Arts
Jalen Gomez
Sierra College
Maximillian Graf
Stanford University
Sofiia Demianets
Trinity University
Maizy Dangler
UAL - London College of Fashion
Vanessa Long
UC Berkeley
Sophia Chan, Maya Dughi, Anna Dughi, Christina Huang, Jeff Hui, Skye Kidd, Nathan Le, Lanikai Lependorf, Michelle Li, Kevin Parra, Joyce Xu, Ryan Yang
UC Davis
Michaella Bazan, Nahum Biruk, Austin Chan, Marton Chen, Tessa Corley, Huafeng Huang, Sarah Janaway, Haley Johnson, Ava Kim, Jenny Li, Sydney Libed, Jolene Lo, Edison Luis, Aaron Ly, Tyler Mele, Bella Nulph, Arthur Sims, Howie Vorabouth
UC Irvine
James C. Chen, James K. Chen, Alexander Cheng, Abigail Choy, Daniel Lionel, Eric Liu, Tracy Wu, Rayann DeGuia, Angie Deng, Xihe Deng, Kakeru Hirano, Keyan Jazaeri, Elise Ledesma, Frances Lee, Andrew Ma, Hannah Murry, Nancy Nguyen, Alicia Wu, Laina Zhang
UC Los Angeles
Wesley Hon, Alexandra Lu, Ebenezer Mahteme, Naomi Melak, Jaden Otani, Shreyans Regmi, Katherine Siopack, Joshua Wong
UC Merced
Max Bardin, Declan Foley, Nathan Quinby, Nathan Wai
UC Riverside
Joshua Batteate, Artemisia Callas, Jacob Lam, Abigail Leung, Sabrina Zhang
UC San Diego
Matthew Gavin Aguas, Scott Baldwin, Catherine Chen, Terry Deng, Sophia Ireland, Emon Joshi, Cameron Seah, Eric Shao, Jessica Terashima, Jiayuan Wang, Doris Wu, Justin Zeng, Wenzhi Zhao, Max Zhuze
UC Santa Barbara Mordecai Araya, Braelyn Bolles, Jordan Silk, Sophie Levine, Lily Zhou
UC Santa Cruz
Nathaniel Berg, Alex Chen, Arabella DeBakcsy, Haylie Do, Yosef Gezahegn, Jalena Guevara, Lucas Hanson, Peter Hearst, Nataani Hernandez, Gavin Hill, Genevieve Onorad, Naeem Qarshi, Myla Sorel
University of Arizona Sophia Mandish
University of Hawai’i, Hilo Hakuto Kremer
University of Hawai’i, Manoa Lauryn Bailado
University of Mississippi Olivia Chauvin
University of North Carolina
Wilmington Corinne Arakawa
University of Oregon Lukas Montero
University of Pittsburgh
Kate Wierzba
University of San Diego Jalen Madison
University of San Francisco
Nicole Chen, Rasnum Guron
University of Southern California
Louis Fukuda, Bonny Huang
University of Tampa Riley Eagan
University of the Basque Country Oier Barroso Perez
University of the Pacific Susanna Mo, Kiyoshi Sato
Utah State University
Wyatt Franklin
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Connor Sershen, Amelia Caistor
West Valley College
David Colon
Westcliff University
Taryn Pak
Westmont College
Kiana Ayllon
Willamette University
Alexander Wright
Yale University
Hailey Young
A year in review of senior season
Celebrating The Olympian’s seniors!!
Editors:
Hailey Young
Hailey Young has been with The Olympian for two years, leading as editor-in-chief this year. Valuing journalism’s power to highlight humanity, she’s grateful for those who trusted her to share their stories and those who taught her to do so successfully. She has reported on a wide range of topics impacting campus and community, notably immigration, restorative justice, and DEI. Hailey is excited to be attending Yale University, studying political science in the fall.
Maison Jordan
Maison Jordan is a three-year Olympian student and editor who focuses on entertainment and video coverage for the paper. They are forever grateful for the opportunities The Olympian has afforded them, including awards and visits to the state capitol. They will be pursuing acting, writing, and cinematography for film and television in college, and cannot wait to move to Los Angeles and continue their life and career in the heart of the entertainment industry.
Victor Bahng
With three years in journalism, Victor Bahng spent his second as a copy editor and third as an arts & entertainment editor. He always enjoyed attempting to accurately and concisely present people and information in his stories. He will be going to Chabot Community College, majoring in history.
Staff:
Erika Rayo
In Erika’s first year of journalism, she’s worked as a staff writer. She enjoyed discussing editorial topics with the entire class, and in continuing to study communication/relationships between people in terms of psychology, she has decided to major in neuroscience. This will be challenging, especially as she attends Las Positas to fulfill transfer requirements, but her love for science and community will make it all worth it.
Lucas Villegas
Lucas has been in The Olympian for one year, and he is one of our video creators. His favorite thing about the class would probably be the Sacramento field trip. He was behind the creation of the Sacramento video and ran a room he called “the video room” for the school paper.
Yusef Scott
Yusef Scott joined The Olympian his senior year as a staff writer. “I’ve enjoyed learning about how to write articles that others can read and hope to use this skill in the future,” he shared. Yusef is attending the College of San Mateo, majoring in biotechnology with plans to transfer afterwards. Outside of school, his hobbies include movies, traveling, and texting.
Matthew Wong
Matthew Wong has been with The Olympian for three years, serving as a staff writer, news editor, and now editor-in-chief. He has covered a widerange of topics, from school policy to national news. He enjoyed researching and talking to staff and students for his articles. He will be studying mechanical engineering at Cal Poly SLO.
Gavin Peters
“Three years, and all I get is this bio.”
Over Gavin’s time here at The Olympian, journalism taught him that he is not a morning person. He has had fun leading editorials and making videos with Maison. After we graduate, Gavin has no clue where he is going or what he is doing, but he is excited knowing that it won’t be here.
Maxim Boychuk
Maxim Boychuk has been with The Olympian for two years, serving as a staff writer and news editor. He has really enjoyed writing news and opinion stories, and learning more about many current events. He was written stories that range from the presidential election candidates to protests at our state capitol. One of his favorite memories was traveling to Sacramento to meet a state senator. He looks forward to be going to San Jose State to study finance this fall.
Max Zhuze
Max Zhuze only spent a year in journalism, but in that short time, he gained invaluable experience as a staff writer. He covered everything from teacher protests to soccer games, constantly embracing the challenge of each new story. One of his favorite memories was visiting Calaveras Big Trees State Park to write about California’s natural beauty. Max is excited for what’s next: studying political science at UC San Diego.
This is Mikey’s first year in The Olympian, taking the position of staff writer. One of his best memories of the class is interviewing different kinds of people and learning how to be a proper journalist. His biggest takeaway from the class is learning how to meet deadlines and get quotes from people. He plans to go to UC Davis to pursue a communications major.
Angel Chen
Angel Chen joined The Olympian in her senior year as a staff writer. She has written about various topics, ranging from California Proposition 6 to Earth Week. Her takeaway from The Olympian was that news and politics intersect any part of life, inspiring her to involve politics in her future career. She plans to study Earth System Science on a pre-med track in college.
Michael Owen