Aliso Niguel High

28000 Terrace View Drive

Aliso Viejo 92656-3385

(949) 831-5590

* Enrollment: 2,700

* Established: 1993

* Team name: Wolverines

* Principal: Steven Lawrence

* Student president: Lauren LeFrance

* Valedictorians: Students with a 4.0 grade-point average or higher

* Winning moments: New American High School nominee; district Teacher of the Year Deni Christensen; dance team national champions

* In the works: Link Crew program; implement Digital High School grant

* Graduation: 5:30 p.m. June 21 at the stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Alex Simma of Aliso Viejo

* Achievements: Earned a 4.75 weighted grade-point average; 1530 SAT; 800 on physics

and U.S. history SAT IIs;

top score on five Advanced Placement tests; Golden State exams awards; named Advanced Placement

scholar with distinction; California Scholarship Federation; competed in

the Junior Statesmen of America program; speaks Russian and Spanish

* Connections: Member of the science club; computer programming, Web design and hardware design; karate; politics; enjoys “heated debates about random topics”; tutored high school students; volunteered at the public library; beach clean-ups

* Ambitions: Attend a UC school, major in computer science; start an artificial-intelligence company

* Family: Father is Fred; mother is Galina; grandmother is Aysa

* Claims to fame: Petitioned the American Medical Assn. to declare senioritis a real and incurable disease; remembers “some of what I learned freshman year”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 40