Soccer, Basketball Advance to Playoffs

It’s been an exciting year for OVS sports! The Cross Country and Soccer teams both won Omega League Championships and advanced to the CIF playoffs. The Boys’ Basketball team also advanced to the playoffs at the end of the winter season.

Currently, the OVS Baseball and Golf teams are both undefeated in league play, and the Boys Volleyball team is playing strong in its first competitive season in 12 years as a renewed sport at the Upper Campus. Go Spuds!

Honoring MLK Day with Community Service Projects

Upper and Lower Campus students fanned out on five service trips to commemorate the MLK holiday and improve their community. They removed weeds and trimmed brush at the Ojai Meadows Preserve. They purged invasive ice plant near UC Santa Barbara. They developed a trail on Santa Cruz Island and they began the delicate work of restoring milkweed habitat for Monarch butterflies at the Upper Campus. After two years of pandemic delays, the opportunity to get outdoors and participate in restoration work was embraced by students and faculty alike. The largest group, 22 fourth graders and 16 high school students, ventured to the Channel Islands National Park to continue restoration work started years ago as part of the school’s “Hands on the Land” program.

Stars Align for Upper Astronomy Students

The stars were aligned at Upper Campus this winter! Science teacher Micah Sittig has a daily assignment for his high school Astronomy students to check the Astronomy Picture of the Day, a website hosted by NASA that since 1995 has been posting daily photos or videos of our universe along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The January 12 photo was a telescope capture of Comet Leonard taken from Australia by none other than OVS alumnus Blake Estes (U07), who formerly worked at the Griffith Observatory and is now working for itelescope.net. Thank you Blake for helping our students discover the cosmos!