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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Seniority Over Merit Hurts Performance

Jean Park, Layout Assistant
February 8, 2025

You finally come home from varsity tryouts feeling confident that your hard work will get you a position on the team. Remembering all the work that's been put in over the summer, you feel proud until your...

THEN: Hallock and Hooper pose for a photoshoot in 2014 after leading
the Wolverines to two Southern Section titles, the first in over 20 years.

How Hooper and Hallock Won Bronze for Team USA

Johnny Hooper ’15 and Ben Hallock ’16 have been playing water polo together since they were eight years old. For their school, they won back-to-back Southern Section titles. For their country, they won a bronze medal in Paris.
Alex Dinh and Jonah Greenfeld
October 2, 2024

124 years to the day after Olympic water polo debuted in the River Seine, Team USA led Hungary 3-0 in a penalty shootout during the bronze medal match, in the same city where the sport first made its...

The Boys' Water Polo team poses for a photo with their plaque after defeating Newport Harbor High School 6-4 Nov. 16 to win its second CIF Division I title in a row. Printed with permission of Jonathan Joei.

Clubs and Dubs

Jaidev Pant
December 9, 2019

The CIF Championship is a game that few high school athletes compete in, however, for the boys’ water polo program, CIF Championships have become a common occurrence, attacker Shay Gillearn ’21 said....

Credit: Keila McCabe/Chronicle

Watch the Throne

Jaidev Pant
December 9, 2019

It was Sunday morning and his 9:45 a.m. alarm went off. Alec Reece ’20 walked into his closet, threw on his Indianapolis Colts jersey, and immediately checked Twitter for fantasy football updates. For...

Fans, wake up for halftime!

Chloe Kim, Reporter
January 28, 2025

For years, the bleachers at Ted Slavin Field have never reached full capacity. In the past, the school and its fanatics have continuously made an effort to entertain the student section with irregular...

Nikolas Khamenia dribbles the ball in the gold medal match against Spain. Khamenia led the team with nine points to win the FIBA U18 3x3 World Cup.

Chasing Gold

Nikolas Khamenia is a two-time state champion. He's also a two-time gold medalist.
Justin Tang and Kasra Maghami
October 1, 2024

For Harvard-Westlake students, the summer after junior year is often known as one of the busiest. Some attend pre-college programs, others apply for internships and everyone works on their college applications....

Illustration by Alexa Druyanoff

The Issue: Mental Illness

Kyle Reims
February 27, 2020

The increased awareness of mental illness in professional sports has changedthe way athletes talk about mental healthas a societal issue. Addressing the Stigma: In the early months of 2018, two NBA...

Coaching Culture

Coaching Culture

Kyle Reims
December 9, 2019

It’s 7:45 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5, the first day of “Hell Week” for the football team. There arguably isn’t any time more important for the team, as this is the week when, as one player put it, “you...

Meet assistant girls golf coach James Platt

Chloe Kim, Reporter
October 4, 2024

James Platt is the varsity girls golf assistant coach.  As a child, Platt excelled on the golf team at Crespi Carmelite High School in Los Angeles. He then graduated from Marquette University and worked...

Former Program Head of the Girls' Basketball Program Melissa Hearlihy raises the 2024 CIF Girls' Basketball State Championship trophy after a 60-45 win over Colfax High School from Northern California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG)

The Final Whistle

Nathan Wang and Evalina Gerencher
October 1, 2024

The name Melissa Hearlihy is synonymous with excellence in high school sports. With 39 full seasons, 839 career victories and two girls' basketball CIF State Championships with the Wolverines under her...

Illustration by Evie DeRubertis

Numbers Never Lie

Jaidev Pant
March 4, 2020

In 2017, the football program made news by making an $8000 investment into a remote-controlled tackling dummy created by Rogers Athletic, which specializes in creating football practice equipment. The...

The team celebrates after winning their third consecutive Los Angeles Field Hockey Association Title in a row. Credit: David Moriarty

Dawn of a Dynasty

Lucas Lee
December 9, 2019

As the buzzer went off, captain and forward Astor Wu ’20 realized that the LAFHA Championship game was over. Looking up from her stance, she locked eyes with captain and midfielder Rachel Brown ’20...

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