Academic All-Stars

AUDRA AINLEY

GPA: 4.04

Honors: Academic honors -- honor wall for three years, principal’s

honor roll, academic letter, two Governor’s Scholarship Awards and Honors

Golden State Exam in history

Activities: Senior editor of the yearbook, Key Club and 50 hours of

volunteering each month in Bible education

Future plans: After a year off to do missionary work with Jehovah’s

Witnesses, plans to attend Orange Coast College

LEA ALFI

GPA: 4.30

Honors: National Merit finalist, Golden State Scholar, Literary Guild

of Orange County Scholar, CSF and California Girls’ State

Activities: Editor in chief of the school newspaper, ASB vice

president, Newport-Mesa Unified School District school board student

liaison, candy striper at Hoag Hospital for two years and Daily Pilot

student columnist

Future plans: Attend UCLA as a biology major

DENIZ AKANSEL

GPA: 3.97

Honors: CSF, Golden State honors in math and science, Governor’s

Scholarship and academic letter

Activities: Basketball, track and tutoring

Future plans: Attend UCLA with a dual major in economics and

international studies

BRENDA BUTLER

GPA: 4.12

Honors: Two Governor’s Scholarship Awards, three years on principal’s

honor roll and National Hispanic Recognition Award

Activities: Secretary of Advocates for Student Rights, Key Club and

Humorous Artists-Happy Authors Club

Future plans: Attend Humboldt State University

SOCRATES CRUZ

GPA: 4.30

Honors: None listed

Activities: Academic Decathlon, MESA Club, Jazz Band, ASB, co-founder

of Junto Club, editor of newspaper and yearbook, and captain of varsity

soccer

Future plans: Attend Harvard University

JASMINE K. GREWAL

GPA: 3.97

Honors: Newport Beach Exchange Club Youth of the Year for Costa Mesa

High School, scholar athlete, honor roll and honor wall

Activities: ASB president, junior and sophomore class president,

School Site Council, Key Club, editor for school newspaper, two years of

varsity basketball, Neighbors for Neighbors and Inter Coastal Cleanup

Future plans: Attend UC Santa Barbara

WILLIAM HALVERSON

GPA: 3.80

Honors: California Boys’ State representative, History Medallion

recipient and PCL honorable mention in baseball

Activities: Lettered in varsity tennis and twice in varsity baseball,

features editor for newspaper, and Key Club

Future plans: Attend Chapman University

KELLIANNE KASELL

GPA: 4.0

Honors: Two Governor’s Scholarships and principal’s honor roll

Activities: Cheerleading, Key Club, drama, choir, community theater

and Student Venture youth group

Future plans: No college selected, but plans to major in film

production

DAVID NGUYEN

GPA: 4.3

Honors: AP Scholar, Auxiliary of Hoag Hospital Scholarship and Science

Medallion nominee

Activities: Key Club, Asian Club, Karate Club, tennis, tutoring,

catechist aide at St. John the Baptist Church and candy striper at Hoag

Hospital

Future plans: Attend UCLA and major in cellular biology

SANDY NGUYEN

GPA: 4.32

Honors: National Merit semifinalist, academic letter, honor roll,

Governor’s Scholar, UC Irvine Regents Scholar and valedictorian scholar

Activities: Math Team, Vietnamese Students Assn., Key Club, Asian

Club, MESA, Advocates for Students’ Rights, ASB and Catholic Youth Scouts

Future plans: Attend UCLA

DIANET TORRES

GPA: 4.02

Honors: Principal’s honor roll for four year; Who’s Who Among American

High School Students, 1999-00; and Golden State Examination Academic

Excellence Awards (high honors) in Spanish and (recognition of

achievement) for English and foreign language

Activities: Key Club, Peer Assistance Leadership and volunteer at

Someone Cares Soup Kitchen

Future plans: Likely attend Cal State Long Beach

BRIAN ZINGG

GPA: 4.2

Honors: American Chemical Society School Plaque winner; Scholastic Art

and Writing Awards; and Gold Key recipient (regional level) for visual

arts portfolio, and Silver Award at the national level

Activities: Key Club, MESA Club, four years of soccer, two years on

varsity, and ASB; lab assistant at UC Irvine in the lab of cell and

developmental biology

Future plans: Attend UC San Diego