Alumni News

Joshua Curl Set To Graduate From Chico State

Joshua Curls (‘12) is currently a senior at Chico State majoring in business marketing and will be graduating in May 2022. He was granted a final year of NCAA eligibility to play on Chico’s basketball team after the 2020-2021 season was canceled due to Covid-19. During his time at Chico state he was on the Dean’s Honor List for 5 semesters and a two time CCAA All-Academic recipient. Though he has always strived to be the best student athlete he can be, he knows his time playing basketball will soon come to an end once this final season is over. He is currently in the process of applying to several law schools in California and will be taking the LSAT this November.

Brendan Craig makes waves at LMU & on the Red Carpet

Brendan Craig (‘14) is currently a junior journalism major at Loyola Marymount University and was recently featured in the student newspaper of LMU called, The Los Angeles Loyolan. The headline reads, Meet Brendan Craig: LMU student, sports broadcaster and Oscars production assistant. The article highlights his recent work at the university producing Lions Athletics on the WCC Network, calls play-by-play for the women’s basketball team, organizes staffing and logistics for the broadcast department and has even led production for the Iggy Awards. He has also gotten to work on events like NFL Kickoff, the 2020 Academy Awards and the iHeartRadio Music Awards. He has even done stage management on movie premieres for “Booksmart,” “The Lion King” and “Avengers: Endgame.” Most recently, he started working part-time as a stage manager for the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) of Major League Soccer. In the article it states that Brendan got his start in stage production during his middle school days (at WNS) where he was a part of the Spring Musical Elective for the Little Mermaid Junior. To read the full article, click here.

Ella Parker to play Sooners Softball!

Ella Parker (‘19) is a Junior at Notre Dame High School where she plays for their varsity softball team. During the 2021 season she was named the League MVP, All-CIF, All-State and made the All-LA Times team. Ella just recently announced she has committed to playing for The University of Oklahoma on a softball scholarship after she graduates high school. She is beyond grateful for this opportunity. She had other scholarship offers from the University of Florida, Duke, and UCLA, and had a trip lined up to the University of Arizona. While Ella was a student at WNS, she was the starting pitcher who helped take her team to 3 Pacific Basin League titles and 2 Delphic League titles. Ella was the first player to hit a home run out of our home field. Congratulations to Ella! We can’t wait to watch you play at OU!

Ceyair Stars On The Screen And The Field!

Ceyair Wright (‘17) – was recently featured in a LA Times article about his time at Loyola high school, being a USC football recruit and playing Lebron James’ son in the new movie, Space Jam 2. See the published article, here. Ceyair played flag football among other sports while attending WNS!

We were thrilled to have recently welcome Ceyair and his fellow classmates back onto campus at a recent Class of 2017 Alumni event!

Arjun Takes The Championship!

Arjun Vadgama (’17) won the 1600m championship for CIF back in June 2021. Arjun started running track at WNS in 8th grade, setting the school record here in the 800m and went on to run at Loyola High School. Arjun will run cross country and track this year at UC Berkeley.

We recently welcomed Arjun and his fellow WNS classmates back to campus for our Class of 2017 Alumni event!

Anilee wows us on American Idol!

Anilee List (‘14) was one of the Top 24 contestants on American Idol, Season 19, in April 2021. Read her feature article Meet Anilee List from American Idol Season 19 | Idol Chatter & Voice Views! Anilee currently studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she has performed with acclaimed A Cappella group Pitch Slapped. She was named a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a 2017 Youngarts Finalist.

Anilee courageously found her voice on stage after being diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome while a student at WNS. Anilee starred in many of our shows and most recently performed at WNS during her alumni class reunion with her fellow alumni classmate, Emily Dietz (who is a USC student in the vocal jazz department) back in 2018.

True’s debut album is out now!

True Jackson (‘18) has released her first album! Here is the link to check it out! True is just 16 years old and has been writing music since she was 10. Over this past summer, she decided to finally start releasing it. She recorded 12 songs in 9 days with her friends from Missouri. They chose 8 to focus on and those were the ones for her new album which was released on October 24, 2020. Her goal is to keep releasing music that helps people through their struggles or when they just want to have fun! Check out her featured album in Forbes Magazine, here!

Zoie wins multiple awards for her artwork

Zoie Brogdon’s (‘19) original artwork has graced the cover of the Cross Sections Summer 2020 magazine, Black Lives Matter issue. Her artwork has recently won the following awards:  

• GOLD  in the InspirED School Marketers Brilliance Awards! Here is one of the judge’s comments: “I love that a student’s art is used to illustrate this very powerful and important subject. The cover is striking. The artist’s portrait engages the reader eye to eye and dares them to look away from the subject at hand.”

• SILVER in the CASE District VII Circle of Excellence Awards. District VII represents Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands and Utah; the competition is open to not just independent schools, but also to colleges and universities, which typically sweep most of the awards. In fact, this is the first time in Crossroads history that they’ve ever placed in this competition.

Here is a story about Zoie’s wins (along with two other student artists) in a recent news story.

Daryn heads to UCSB

Daryn Siegel ‘17 received a D1 softball scholarship to UCSB! 

Daryn was a part of the first championship softball team during her 6th grade year at WNS. She then led the team to another banner the following year. During her 8th grade season, the WNS softball team went on to win both the Pacific Basin League and Delphic League!

We are so proud and wish her many great seasons ahead!

Brendan Plays For Michigan

Brendan Brisson (‘15) was featured in a South Bay magazine recently sharing that he will play hockey for the University of Michigan’s 2020-21 season.