California Institute of Regenerative Medicine chair, Jonathan Thomas, (Lizzy ’14, John ’16, Matt ’17) spoke about stem cell research and regenerative medicine May 23 during third and fourth periods...
I’ve had two loves all throughout high school. Okay, whatever, right? But I’ve been with both of them, at the same time. DUN DUN DUN.
It wasn’t what it sounds like. They both knew of the other, and...
ABC News President Ben Sherwood ’81 will be the next president of Disney/ABC Television Group and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, the company announced last month.
Sherwood will replace Ann Sweeney,...
A tech council aiming to maintain current campus-focused apps, create new apps for the use of the student body and design digital posters to be displayed on the TVs in the library and lounge for clubs...
Seniors will have more opportunities to pursue transitional and enrichment-type learning in coming weeks than in previous years, Head of Student Affairs Jordan Church said.
The administration will offer...
Former teen sitcom star and author of a series of New York Times bestselling math books Danica McKellar ’93 is competing against opponents that include two gold medal Olympians, one Real Housewife and...
Eight seniors received callbacks for a commercial after a casting director contacted the school looking for “real science kids,” Director of Student Affairs Church said.
Patrick Angelo ’14, Donhem...
Jason Collins ’97 attended the State of the Union Address as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama Jan. 28.
The first lady has, in recent years, invited guests relevant to policy issues emphasized in...
One of the things that makes the Hunger Games not just palatable but wildly successful is the just large enough difference between the world of Katniss and the one we inhabit. The government is far worse:...
Jason Collins '97 attended Tuesday night's State of the Union Address as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama.
The first lady has in recent years invited guests relevant to policy issues emphasized in...
Association of Fundraising Professionals, an international charity fundraising organization, honored Jack Stovitz ’16 with its Outstanding Youth Volunteer award last month for his work with the book...
Bee-keeping, teaching at-risk youth and building projects for public parks and churches helped seven students earn the highest honors offered by the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the...
Readings from the Bible and choral offerings from the middle school Madrigals highlighted Sunday night’s traditional Christmas service in St. Saviour’s Chapel.
One student council member from each...
A group of 20 students and teachers will have the opportunity to hear billionaire business magnate Elon Musk speak Monday, Nov. 18.
The SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO and PayPal co-founder is slated to...
Looking around the sixth period AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism class, something is missing. It’s not equations — the two whiteboards at the front of the room are scrawled full of Es and dqs....
Construction on a parking garage on the west side of Coldwater Canyon and a pedestrian bridge to the main entrance could begin by the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year, Vice President John Amato said.
In...
Last month’s Homecoming Formal was likely the first of many, prefect Sarah Winshel ’15 said.
“It was absolutely as successful if not much more so than we expected it to be,” Winshel said. “I...
Sports magazine and website Baseball America recently named former Wolverine standout Max Fried ’12 one of its Midwest League Top 20 Prospects.
The left-handed Fried scored a number eight ranking for...
Four former Wolverines will be inducted into the Harvard-Westlake Athletic Hall of Fame during halftime of the Homecoming football game, including the first two football player inductees ever.
Cara Bickers...
Head librarian Shannon Acedo’s first book is slated for publication sometime this fall by the American Association of School Libraries.
Her book, entitled "E-books in School Libraries: A Handbook for...
Instructions instead of a teacher greeted the Unconventional Leadership students today.
The class was tasked with three objectives: to retrieve an object suspended in the pool without getting wet, to have...
At Dodger Stadium, in May of 1981, Doug Urbach and his Kennedy High School baseball teammates won the Los Angeles City Championship.
Thirty-two years later, his son, Tyler Urbach ’14, has the chance...
Three runs in the top of the first inning Tuesday night were enough to give the baseball team a legitimate shot at something that has eluded the program up until now: a CIF championship.
The Wolverines...
A single game now stands between the varsity boys' baseball team and the May 31 CIF Finals, to be held at Dodger Stadium.
The Wolverines 5-0 quarterfinals victory over Santa Margarita Friday was not...
In spite of its high playoff seed, the varsity boys' baseball team found themselves trekking out to Orange County Tuesday for a second-round playoff game against El Dorado.
The long drive seemed to have...
With a decisive 14-0 Friday night victory over St. Francis, the varsity baseball team secured its third straight Mission League championship.
Pitchers Conor Cuse '13 and Hans Hansen '13 combined for the...
After two days of cancelled, delayed and rescheduled games, the varsity baseball team finally played St. Francis at home Thursday in its Senior Day game, and beat the Golden Knights 6-1.
Jack Flaherty...
At the end of every quarter, a pile of small white sheets of paper amasses atop Latin teacher Paul Chenier’s desk. The contents of these slips of papers, made all the more diminutive by the way students...
On the road to a possible CIF championship, the varsity baseball team is struggling to secure its third straight Mission League championship.
The Loyola Cubs are poised to thwart the Wolverines’ would-be...
Different year, but it’s the same story for the varsity baseball team, who once more made it the finals of the USA Baseball National High School Invitational in North Carolina only to fall to Mater Dei...
Competition in the Prefect Council-sponsored March Madness bracket challenge began yesterday.
The challenge, open to students and teachers, goes through the NCAA championship game on April 8, at which...
Former Wolverine track standout Amy Weissenbach ’12 set the Stanford indoor 800-meter record with a time of 2:05.56.
The time was good enough for a berth in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships...
After losing in the championship game the year before, the boys’ baseball team won all five of its games at the Easton Tournament to finish in first place. While Jacob Pardo ’14 said the team’s performance...
One day after its first loss of the season, the varsity team resumed its winning ways with a 4-0 victory over Buckley on Saturday.
Logan Simon '14 pitched four innings against Buckley while Michael Vokulich...
In wrestling, moving up a weight class can spell disaster, as competition against heavier, stronger opponents makes winning harder and losing more likely.
That’s not the case for Henry Schlossberg ’13,...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is "the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes," according to Tamara Horwich, M.D., a cardiologist at the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center.
It accounts for 35...
Former Wolverine track standout Amy Weissenbach ’12 set the Stanford indoor 800-meter record with a time of 2:05.56.
The time was good enough for a berth in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships...
By Lizzy Thomas
After losing in the championship game the year before, the boys’ baseball team won all five of its games at the Easton Tournament to finish in first place. While Jacob Pardo ’14 said...
Johan Santana has one. Lucas Giolito ’12 has one and Tim Lincecum has none. Sandy Koufax had four and Roy Halladay and Justin Verlander both have two. And now Jack Flaherty ’14 and Chloe Pendergast...
In its first League game, the varsity baseball team did what its done every other game this season: win.
The Wolverines improved to 7-0 on the season with their 5-0 victory at Loyola. Jack Flaherty '14...
In the championship game of the Easton tournament, the varsity baseball team stretched a 5-0 first inning lead to an 11-0 win over Chaminade.
Conor Cuse '13 started the Tuesday night game held at Birmingham...
Coming off of wins against Rio Mesa and Cleveland, the varsity baseball team beat Oaks Christian and its star pitcher Phil Bickford on Thursday at O’Malley Field. Bickford committed to play baseball...
It’s an elite club that Henry Schlossberg ’13 now joins.
Schlossberg is only the third wrestler in school history to make it to the State Championship, a feat he accomplished Saturday by finishing...
The members of the varsity baseball team opened their season with a 7-0 win over Cleveland, buoyed by the 3-4 batting of Ezra Steinberg ’15 and the pitching of Jack Flaherty ’14 and Hans Hansen ’13.
Flaherty...
Six students placed in the top three for their categories in the Southern California League individual Epee/Saber tournament on Jan. 13.
Jack Graham ’15 took gold for men’s high school saber, and...
Even a team that enters the season nationally ranked in the top 10 has room for a Cinderella story.
The varsity baseball team is the 10th best in the country, according to high school baseball website...
In spite of their team’s 0-4 League record, five wrestlers advanced to CIF competition with their performances at Saturday’s League Finals.
Jake Bracken ’14, Patrick Halkett ’14, Henry Schlossberg...
While after school dual meets are over within a few hours, wrestling tournaments like last weekend’s Rosemead High School tournament can last all day.
"Last year we had guys wrestling into the a.m.,"...
Five seniors signed National Letters of Intent on Nov. 14. Wednesday marked the first day of the early signing period that goes from Nov. 14 to Nov. 21 during which athletes can sign Letters of Intent,...
A minor accident caused serious problems for the varsity girls’ tennis team when a textbook dropped on Arin Schwimmer’s ’15 toe, relegating her to the sidelines of the team’s matches in both the...
In the case of this year’s wrestling team, weight does matter.
Unlike the past few years, the Wolverines have members in every weight class, an auspicious sign for their success in the next few months.
“In...
In both the singles and doubles Mission League tennis championship matches, Wolverines found themselves playing their teammates. Julia Goldberg ’16 beat defending singles champion Savannah de Montesquiou...
The past week proved to be a winning one for the varsity girls tennis team as they beat Louisville 16-2 on Tuesday, Notre Dame 18-0 on Wednesday and Alemany 18-0 on Thursday. The Wolverines are now 16-1...
For its seventh consecutive win, the girls' varsity tennis team defeated Louisville 16-2 in a league match Thursday to improve to 9-1 overall and 4-0 in league play.
The Wolverines, in their third match...
Five of the lesser-watched fall sports teams put on a show in front of faculty, students and prospective students as part of the Games of the Trimester on Oct. 4.
All five teams won their games, as field...
Five teams were featured Thursday as part of the “Games of the Trimester” initiative, an effort to boost viewership of sports other than basketball and football, Athletic Director Vince Orlando said....
Extending what is now a four-game winning streak, the girls' tennis team had two wide-margined victories this week against Los Alamitos and league opponent Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy.
After beating...
ESPN hired a former Chronicle Sports Editor this past summer to be an anchor for the network.
Doug Kezirian ’95 played water polo at Harvard-Westlake and Brown University before moving to Las Vegas to...
Starting with tomorrow’s match against Marlborough, girls’ tennis looks to break a habit that has become familiar to them – smashing success in the Mission League tempered by speedy exits from CIF...
