- The following students are varsity Ocean League Champions:
Jordan Keslow 1600m & 3200m
David Martinez and Ellis Izumote in Pole Vault.
Lisa Staugaard in the Long Jump
Kaiya Baily in the Triple Jump
Katy Keating in the Discus
Kopper Overton in the Shot Put
The following students are Frosh/Soph champions:
Sohrob Raja 1600mm
Jennie Harding 1600m
Jackson Knox 400m
Jarvon Greer 800m
Ezana Tesfu 3200m
Dona Davoodi in the Shot Put
Harris Roussos and Kat Semel in the Pole Vault
Jared Onouye and Thea Lemberger in the High Jump
Kate Ajnassian in the Triple Jump
- Congratulations to the CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) Qualifiers from Samohi:
Diane Coote 400mRelay
Omid Adami 800m
Jordan Keslow 1600m 3200m
Alex Spence 110mHH
Robbie Paris 300mIH
David Martinez PV
Daisy Feder HJ
Lisa Staugaard LJ TJ
Kaiya Bailey TJ
Ellis Izumoto PV
Katy Keating DT
Kopper Overton SP
Suzanne Coote 400mRelay
Brianna Davis LJ 400mRelay
Hannah Minderhout 400mRelay (5/9/07)
- Congratulations to the varsity cheer team. They took 1st at the UCA west coast championships! They also recently were a national USA finalist placing 6th out of 33 teams! If you have any of the girls on the team and would like to see what they have worked so hard on, click on the link below to see their routine featured on varsity.com!
link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid627267034/bclid626894313/bctid686944080 (3/25/07)
- Congratulations to the ROP SAGE (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship) Team
As national champions representing the United States of America, they have just returned from the World Cup competition in Shanghai China. They were named the World Cup Champions!
Our world champion students and teacher/advisors are listed below:
Students: Carlton Fortenberry, Doug Monroy, Erick Burger, Malik Moosa, Anthony Campbell, Elizabeth Munoz, Chris Campbell, Sabrina Marin, Jasmine Coker
Teachers/Advisors: Teri Jones, Anita Kemp (8/6/06)
- Congratulations to the Kiwanis Solo Orchestra Competition Winners! Freshman and Sophomore Division awards are as follows: 1st place James Hodges, 2nd place Ben Bartelt, 3rd place Jessica Marot, 4th place Richard Dobeck. Junior and Senior Division awards were: 1st place, Henry Samuels, 2nd place Julianne Bruce, 3rd place Devon Pratt, 4th place Theodosia Roussos.
- Congratulations to the Santa Monica SAGE team! Samohi took first (1st) place in the Nation in the Civic & Environment Conscious Entrepreneurship competition. Students in the Project ECHO and Virtual Enterprise classes who participated will be representing the USA in Shanghai, China.(6/1/06)
- Santa Monica High today placed 3rd in the 2006 National Ocean Sciences Bowl.
The SaMoHi team, coached by Mr. Ingo Gaidas, advanced to the national event after winning the Los Angeles Surf Bowl at JPL. Our team faced 24 other teams that also won regional bowls which, all told, attracted more than 2,000 top scientists from more than 400 high schools.The event is sponsored by the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE), an association of oceanographic research institutions, universities, laboratories and aquaria, along with 15 federal agencies.
Last year SaMoHi placed 7th in this competition. (5/16/06)
- Congratulations to senior Alice Ollstein for being a winner of Oprah's National High School Essay Contest on the book "Night". Alice will be taped on the Oprah show on Monday, April 25th and the show will air sometime in May!
- Congratulations to the following Samohi students for a "Successful Finish" in the Los Angeles Marathon held Sunday, March 19th. James, Nani and Samual Barr, Lynette Bonilla, Andrea and Freddy Cruz, Luis Evangelista, Carmen Fernandez, Christian Franco, Monique Gutierrea, Daisy Hernandez, Cherise McDonald, Sabastian Pacheco, Amado Sernas and Leo Zaldivar. And give an extra congratulation to Julio Alba who finished the marathon in 19th place in the 18 and under division. Julio ran in a Thursday and Friday track meet representing Samohi, worked Saturday and ran the marathon on Sunday.
- Academic Decathlon: ZeNan Chang's score on the Chemistry Olympiad qualifying exam has earned him the right to move on to the next round of the competition. As one of the top 200 chemistry students in the country, he will now compete for one of the 4 spots on the U.S. Chemistry Olympic Team. Go ZeNan!
- Congratulations to ROP Business and Marketing students who competed in the DECA State Competitions. Special congratulations to: Jenny Chuan who achieved first place in Food Marketing and qualified for DECA's International Competition, Marvin Mendez who was a finalist in the Competitive Series and Natalie Ortega who placed top in Role Play A. (3/17)
- Congratulations to the following Samohi students for being selected to represent Samohi at Chapman University's "Moments of Decision" contest. Alex Hoffman for art, Ariana Nedelman for poetry and Katherine Semel for essay.
- Congratulations to the Samohi Ocean Science Bowl Team, who over the weekend won the Los Angeles / Orange County Science Bowl. The team, composed of junior Bennett Rankin and Ben Lucus, and sophomores Dimitry Petrenko and Sasha Boulgakov, won their nine games by an all-time record. They topped 100 points in 3 games. They have earned the right to represent Los Angeles County at the National Competition in May. (3/6/06)
- Congratulations to the Samohi Science Bowl A Team. They won the JPL Los Angeles Country Science Bowl. The team, composed of ZeNan Chang, Bennett Rankin, Ben Lucas and Dimitry Petrenko, won all 9 of their matches by an average score of 210 to 36 (a record margin!) The team earned the right to represent Southern California in the National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C. (2/15/06)
- Samohi's Symphony Orchestra took 1st place in the 2005 National Orchestra Competition and because of that the Symphony Orchestra has been invited to the Los Angeles Philharmonic to play in the world's premier concert venue. They will perform at the Disney Concert Hall on Sunday, February 18th at 7:30 p.m.(2/15/06)
- Congratulations to Alice Ollstein who won the student runner-up prize in the "Write Like the Dickens" for her essay on Oliver Twist. Click here to read the essay: http://www.samohi.smmusd.org/library/dickens/index.htm (2/6/06)
- The Samohi Songs Team had their first competition Saturday January 7. They placed first in the Hip Hop Division and took home the Overall Showmanship Award! Great job Girls. (1/10/06)
- On November 12 the SAMOHI Marching Band, under the direction of Terry Sakow and Dr. Abel Ramirez, traveled to Bakersfield, CA, to participate in the Stockdale Field Tournament there. They were very successful and won the "High Woodwind," the "High Brass," and also the "High Music" awards. But their finest recognition was the Sweepstakes Award for being the best field show band in the entire competition. Many congratulations to the band members and to Mr. Sakow and Dr. Ramirez for all their hard work and their excellent accomplishment.(11/14/05)
- The National Council of English has presented a 2005 commendation to the Santa Monica High School English Department "for excellence in its instructional program, as revealed by its evident contribution to the high quality of writing of its students honored with NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing." (10/05)
- A House Divided Makes the Grade -- Santa Monica High School's process of redesigning its large campus is begining to foster positive results. SMDP (8/16/05)
- Santa Monica High School student Emily Bennion has been selected to participate in the Foundation of the State Bar of California's Legal Heritage Institute, a one-week, all-expenses paid legal literacy summer program for high school seniors. http://smmirror.com/ (7/6/05)
- Santa Monica High School Advanced Choirs: Samohi Chorale, Madrigal Ensemble, Chamber Singers, Samohi Vocal Jazz Singers went to Honolulu, HI and recived:
- Samohi Chorale - Large Choir Division: 1st Place, Gold
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Madrigal Ensemble - Chamber Choir Division: 1st Place, Gold
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Chamber Singers - Womens Chorus Division: 1st Place, Gold (Got a Perfect Score)
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Samohi Vocal Jazz Singers - Open Divsion: 1st Place, Goldxxxxxxxxxx
Samohi was then awarded the Grand Champions.
- Congratulations to 10th grader, Christopher Pratt, selected to participate in the National Student Leadership Conference. He will spend 10 days in Washington, D.C. this summer meeting with elected and appointed government officals as well as leaders in the field of medicine and health care. (4/15/05)
- Congratulations to the winners of the Education Foundation of Santa Monica's "Pier Poetry" Contest: First place Ava Tramer, second place Alice Ollstein and Sanyu Nagenda. Read their poems at http://www.samohi.smmusd.org/library/poetry/ (4/8)
- The Samohi Symphony Orchestra participated in the National Orchestra Festival this past weekend in Reno, Nevada and won the Grand Championship. Additionally, the Samohi Chamber Orchestra received a Superior rating. The festival brought together sixteen ensembles from throughout the United States, which were selected to be in this festival. Congratulations! (3/3/05)
- Congratulations to the Samohi Oceans Sciences Bowl teams who placed first and fifth at the L.A. County Regional competition. The "A" team composed of Courtney Borden, Areeb Pirani, Doug Matsunaga and Eileen Wong won the competition earning the right to represent L.A. County at the National Competition in Biloxi, Mississippi in April. The “A” team won all nine of the matches and showed great nerve by coming back from double digit deficits to win five of those games. Go Samohi! (3/3/05)
- At the recent 2004-2005 Santa Monica High School Viking Band awards banquet Ryan Barr was honored with three trophies and two Certificates. He received trophies for "Most Outstanding", "Most Dedicated", and "Most Outstanding Musician". His Certificates included the "Section Leader Award" and the "Most Likely to Excel in the Military Award". Way to go Ryan!!!(2/20/05)
- Santa Monica High School senior Elan Samuel designed the 10,000 Kites website at www.10000kites.org. 10,000 Kites is the largest scale art for peace project ever to take place in the Middle East. Israelis and Palestinians are going to fly 10,000 Kites with their messages of peace to each other on April 27, 2005 at 4:00 pm in hundreds of locations on both sides of the 500-kilometer long barrier separating them. Elan's mother, Yael Samuel, is Executive Director of 10,000 Kites, and hired Elan to design the website not only because he has incredible design sense, but because Elan is representative of the future generation to whom 10,000 Kites ultimately belongs. As 10,000 Kites visionary and Artistic Director Adi Yekutieli says, "To ensure a brighter future for our children, it is our duty as activists to provide opportunities for collective expressions of peace and civility as an initial step for ending cycles of hate and violence." Read more about Elan in the 10,000 Kites newsletter on the homepage of www.10000kites.org. (2/15/05)
- Congratulations to all the Samohi athletic teams that made the playoffs!
Girls Soccer playoffs will take place Friday, February 18th at 3:00 p.m. on the North Field.
Girls Water Polo playoffs will also happen on Friday, February 18th at 3:00 p.m. in Drake Pool.
Boys Soccer playoffs will take place Saturday, February 19th at 2:00 p.m. on the North Field. (2/14/05)
Varsity Wrestling team qualified to move on to CIF championships.Congratulations to Dylan Giagni, Al Kinslow, Alex Darkhovsky, and Sindar Mims who won the Ocean League Championships in their weight class.
- Congratulations to our district winners of the ROP Annual Student Recognition Competition. The following students have been selected to represent SMMUSD and will compete against 21 other school districts at the Los Angeles County ROP Competition on Monday, February 28th. They are:
Cindy Soltero – Careers w/Children,
Ashkan Zarnighian – Banking & Financial
Occupations, David Fisher – Digital Video,
Zehra Karim – Small Business Management (ECHO),
Alex Rodriguez – Auto Technology(2/14/05)
- The Varsity Cheer Squad won the first place trophy at a USA regional on January 23rd, and qualified for nationals! Nationals will be held on Thursday, March 3rd and Friday, March 4th in Anaheim. Congratulations!
- Congratulations to tenth grader Jasmine (Jazzy) Green who won the Wrestling State Championship! (January 2005)
http://smmirror.com/volume6/issue34/girl_is_samohi.asp
- Samohi Volleyball Coach, Liane Sato was named Ocean League Coach of the Year.
- Samohi English Teacher Merdith Louria is back from a 3- week exchange program in Russia. Meredith was one of 36 winners of the United States-Eurasia Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Read more at www.samohi.smmusd.org/About/news/
- Samohi teacher and coach, Tania Fischer is a National Champion. In December in Portland, Oregon, Tania Fischer led her team, See Jane Run, to the USA Track and Field Club Championships in Cross-country. (December 2004)
- Members of the Santa Monica High School orchestras have taken top state and national honors. 45 members of the Samohi orchestras participated in the California Orchestra Directors Association Honor String Orchestra and Honor Symphony in Visalia. (December 2004)
- Congratulations to Student Allen Goolsby for being selected for membership in the National Society of High School Scholars.
- Student, Justin Dean’s film review was a winner at the AFI Film Fest, a city-wide celebration of film at the Skirball Cultural Center.
- The following Samohi teachers have successfully completed the rigorous National Board certification process in 2003-2004: Amy Bisson, Adrienne Karyadi, LaSonya Roberts, and Rob Thais. National Board Certification is the highest credential in the teaching profession.
- Andre Konoplev, Samohi Freshman Seminar student wrote the winning essay in the contest "Smoking Stinks" in celebration of the American Cancer Society's annual "Smokeout". The other winning essays were written by Dean Schnieder and Jameon Fearon. The winning essay is online at www.samohi.smmusd.org/library/winners/
- The MEChA toy drive was a huge success, with 168 gift wrapped toys given to 168 children from Juan Cabrillo, Franklin, Grant, McKinley, Edison, Will Rogers, and Roosevelt elementary schools!!
- Congratulations to Alice Olstein, winner of the 2005 California Association of Teachers of English Creative Writing Contest. Her essay on "The Power of One" was the best in the entire state in the 11th/12th grade category. Alice is in the 11th grade at Samohi.
- Samohi recently took first place in DECA's Regional Business and Marketing Competitions in Apparel and Accessories, Business Services Marketing and Food Marketing. Congratulations to Meaghan Lykins, Etay Orlander and Jenney Taran. We also took second and third place in the Food Marketing and Apparel and Accessories. Congratulations to Lilly Castillo and Holly Naglich. Samohi's Quiz Bowl team came in second place. Congratulations to Etay Orlander, Jenny Taran, Daniel Hernandez and Martin Garcia. DECA's written Business plan (Floral Business) took third place. Chris Peterson, Sandra Lopez, Gwendolyn Lopez and Ian Maple were among the top ten finalists in the competitions.
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