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...

Members of the Class of 2024 hired a mariachi band to come to campus during lunch as a senior prank May 24. The mariachi band walked around and played throughout the entire campus, including academic buildings...

The boys’ tennis team lost 4-3 to Torrey Pines High School in the semifinals of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Regional Team playoffs on May 17, and they lost 15-3 to Corona Del Mar...

It is June 2020. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Jones ’74 and a group of his former classmates join together on a Zoom call. Almost 50 years after graduating, the men begin to reminisce...

A couple days after the Palestinian militant group Hamas led terrorist attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, Jewish Harvard student Violet Barron ’22 read a letter signed by over 30 Harvard student organizations,...

Suspended 24 feet in the air, the Golden 1 Center’s blinding video board displayed the score for all to see in the arena at the start of halftime: Harvard-Westlake Wolverines: 24, and Colfax Falcons:...

It is 10:45 a.m. Chloe Ferreira ’25 has just left her Precalculus class, and she, along with a crowd of other students, walks down the stairs in Chalmers Hall. At the bottom of the stairs, she passes...

Should there be concern about boys' basketball? The boys' basketball team picked up back-to-back defeats in tight games against Mission League contenders Sierra Canyon and Notre Dame, both teams that...

Christian Horry ’24 looked around the room and saw his dad and his old co-workers. For Horry, his dad’s old co-workers aren’t just friends from the office — they are former players for the Los...

It is testing day for third graders in California. Micah Parr ’25 sits in a classroom full of students as he prepares to take the Educational Records Bureau (ERB) test. Before the exam begins, he fills...

Angel City Football Club (FC), Los Angeles’s National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team, signed soccer player Gisele Thompson ’24 to a three year contract Nov. 28. The deal was signed days before...

Former CBS Middle East Deborah Camiel (Ariel '24) speaks to students and faculty at a meeting Nov. 15. She talked about her experience as a journalist covering the Israeli-Palestine conflict in Gaza despite...

The girls’ tennis team lost 13-5 to Westlake High School in the first round of California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section (CIF-SS) Open Divison playoffs Nov. 3. After starting the season...

It is Community Time on a Friday afternoon, and the entire Upper School student body floods through the entrance of Taper Gymnasium. While students would typically use this period to do homework, get food...

In response to the Israel-Hamas war, the school and Jewish Club held a series of mandatory and optional speakers. History and Middle East Studies Teacher Dror Yaron spoke to all sophomores, juniors and...

Machines whir, blending up pumpkin spice Frappuccinos, and bags crinkle, filled with vanilla bean scones at the Starbucks on Ventura Boulevard. Of the 19 total customers that have made purchases in the...

It is 1:30 a.m. in Palmdale, CA. Head of Upper School Security Earl Saunders’ day just began. Before Saunders hops on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle an hour later, he checks in with his wife about their...

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation selected over 16,000 National Merit Semifinalists across the country, including 34 members of the Class of 2024, based on students’ PSAT/NMSQT scores. To become...

The lacrosse team lost to Temecula Valley High School 11-10 in the quarterfinals of Division II CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) playoffs May 6, ending the season with a 9-8 overall record and a 3-3 record...

USC Public Diplomat In Residence Matthew Asada spoke to students on both the middle and upper school campuses as a part of the HW Works Global Leadership Institute, March 17. Asada joined the U.S. Foreign...

Catalyzing Change: Entrepreneurial Thinking By Nathan Wang and William Liu erdisciplinary Studies and Independent Research course called Catalyzing Change: Entrepreneurial Thinking. According to the...

The girl’s soccer team lost to Hart 1-0 in the Division 2 CIF Southern Section championship at College of the Canyons on Feb. 24 and then lost to San Marcos 2-0 in the Division 2 CIF regional semifinals...

The baseball team began the season 7-6, going 4-5 in league play. The team won two of three games against Loyola and St. Francis but was swept in a three game series against Notre Dame, losing 2-1, 6-3...

Prefect Council and Chess Club partnered to host a school-wide chess tournament on the quad during the week of Jan. 17. 56 students participated in the tournament, and after the first four rounds, 16 advanced...

The school hosted an event to thank community members  for supporting the River Park project  Jan. 25. Participants spoke with the school’s faculty, administration and prefects about River Park, and...

Asian Students in Action (ASiA) hosted their annual Lunar New Year Festival on the Quad on Jan. 23. Lunar New Year is a commonly celebrated holiday in many Asian cultures and is the beginning of the Lunar...

Prefect Council and the Chess Club are partnering to host a chess tournament on the quad starting Tuesday. 56 Upper School students signed up to compete, and after four rounds, the top eight will move...

The boys soccer team began its season 3-0 in non-league play, defeating Palos Verdes High School 2-0, Calabasas High School 1-0 and Camarillo High School 4-1. The team plays its first league match at home...

Six students from the school attended the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) in San Antonio, Texas from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3. On the same trip, 35 faculty members attended the People of Color...

Yoshi Kimura By Zoe Goor Yoshi Kimura ’23 is building a new instrument and composing a piece of music with it for her Senior Independent Study. Kimura said the instrument, which is played with...

Jewish author, educator and DEI specialist Ben Freeman spoke to the Upper School on Oct. 25 following recent incidents of antisemitism. Freeman was brought in to speak soon after several Nazi swastikas...

The girl’s volleyball team led by Girls Volleyball Program Head Natalie Morgan is off to a rocky start in the season after two recent losses: a 3-2 loss to Aliso Niguel on Oct. 26 and a 3-0 loss to Liberty...

Alyssa Thompson ’23 was called up to the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) for the upcoming international window on Sept. 29. Thompson among the USWNT will play friendly matches against...

Research Analyst Rachel Lietzow spoke to students in the Kutler Center course China Studies: Past, Present, Future on Sep. 28. Lietzow discussed how the relationship between Hong Kong and China has impacted...

Prefect Council announced a new partnership between the school and the Los Angeles Kings that will offer every upper school student, faculty and alumnus two free Kings tickets. The announcement, which...

The Varsity Girls tennis team has started the season off 8-1 after falling short to University Irvine in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Open Division Playoffs last season. Varsity Head...

The field hockey team, led by first-year Head Coach Susan Hodgkins, has won two games following their two losses at the start of the season. Megan said after three Division I commits graduated last year,...