Santa Margarita High

22062 Antonio Parkway

Rancho Santa Margarita 92688-1993

(949) 858-3350

* Enrollment: 1,856

* Established: 1987

* Team name: Eagles

* Principal: Merritt Hemenway

* Student president: Vincent L. Prietto

* Valedictorian: Christina Marie Von der Ahe

* Famous alumni: Soccer players Seth George, Matt Reiss and Danny Sparks

* Winning moments: Outstanding senior spirit; record attendance at senior retreats; senior class pilgrimage; boys’ and girls’ basketball playoffs; Southern Section boys’ soccer champions; girls’ soccer playoffs; boys’ and girls’ cross-country championships; football playoffs; girls’ golf playoffs; girls’ tennis playoffs; girls’ volleyball section champions; boys’ water polo playoffs; Southern Section girls’ water polo champions

* Graduation: 10 a.m. June 3 at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove

SENIOR STANDOUT

Shylene Roselyn Weber of Trabuco Canyon

* Achievements: Named Associate Student Body commissioner; yearbook page designer; writing and illustrations published in the Mandala; National Hispanic organization winner; overall top visual arts student; received advanced painting honors; national art award; speaks Spanish “pero solamente un poco”

* Connections: Participated in karate seven years; Girl Scouts 10 years; water polo; Spectrum club; enjoys “learning about subjects not offered at school including astronomy, psychology and zoology”; music, “it’s a necessity of life”; reading prose and poems; volunteered at the Mission Hills Community Church in Rancho Santa Margarita; Welcoming Committee; Retarded Children’s Fund; worked at a pet store in Laguna Hills; Pavilions; Wet Seal

* Ambitions: Attend University of San Francisco, study art and science; earn a doctorate in biological sciences and experience field studies in rain forests “because I love the biodiversity”

* Family: Father is Vince; mother is Alice; brother is Jeffrey; two dogs; a cat; bird; two turtles “that are definitely a part of our family”

* Claims to fame: “My artistic achievements and the smile I flash even on my worst days”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 427