SAN MARCOS SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR - JOHNNY MANZO San Marcos super-student Johnny Manzo stole the show at Monday's luncheon before he even said a word. Jaws were dropping in the room as award presenter Bob Huhn went over some of his accomplishments. The senior basketball/volleyball captain carries a 4.78 GPA and is the ASB President. He won the Phil Womble Ethics Award from the Round Table last year, and is a National Merit Scholar as well as AP Scholar with Distinction. He is a volunteer tutor … [Read more...]

SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR, SANTA BARBARA HIGH Dons senior Kai Miller is the complete package when it comes to a student-athlete. She is a star on the SBHS girls soccer team, earning MVP honors the last two years while also being named an all-Channel League first-teamer last season, among other athletic achievements. She plays with a club team in L.A. In the classroom, she carries a 4.71 GPA and is in the top one percent of her class. She is taking AP Calculus, AP Physics, American Sign … [Read more...]

SCHOLAR ATHLETE OF THE YEAR - BISHOP DIEGO Kelsey Stimson is a dynamo on the basketball court for Bishop Diego, and it doesn't stop once she steps off the hardwood. She carries a 4.5 GPA with a slate of classes including AP Calculus BC, AP Government, AP Spanish, AP English, AP Art and Campus Ministry. As previously mentioned, she also resurrected the Bishop Diego school newspaper Not surprisingly, she enjoys writing and hopes to be an author of children's books one day. … [Read more...]

For the second week in a row, the Scholar-Athlete Award was given to a senior who won the Phil Womble Ethics Award as a junior (it's no surprise that ethics and academics correlate). Laguna Blanca's Seth Judson will be attending Stanford next year after a phenomenal high-school career. He currently holds a 4.64 GPA with a course-load including AP Calculus BC, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, AP Biology, Greek and Illustration. He is an AP Scholar with Distinction, a member of the Cum … [Read more...]