CHANNEL ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL YEAR RAIDER WEEKLY UPDATE December 9, 2016

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1 CHANNEL ISLANDS HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL YEAR RAIDER WEEKLY UPDATE December 9, 2016 Creating opportunities for our students to be successful while removing barriers of failure Highlight Students from Channel Islands and Rio Mesa came out to build a can tree on Saturday, 12/03/16 at The Collection with FoodShare. They had a great time and built the tree all on their own, working together as a team!

2 Marine Science Academy Here is the Marine Science Academy at the National Steinbeck Center on our trip to the Monterey Aquarium last Friday. We visited the Redwoods in Muir Woods in Marin County and the Marine Mammal Center. Injured or sick animals are brought here from all over California to be rehabilitated at this facility. We adopted a young Sea Otter named Repo. And we all got to walk on the Golden Gate Bridge! CSUMB Tide pool exploration on the Monterey coast. Our adopted Sea Otter "Repo" MSA in Muir Woods with the Redwoods Mr. Haynes with John Steinbeck the current day DOC

3 Mock Trial A few months ago, the Mock Trial team received an invitation to attend a workshop and scrimmage hosted by UC Berkeley as their Cal team was looking for schools who had been extremely successful in their county competitions. The Cal students worked with our team by giving us hands-on training and to test our skills against other schools from other counties. Overall, their goal is to educate high school students on how to be the best mock trial competitor they can be. We diligently sold almost 11,000 pretzels to raise the money we need for tuition, transportation, food, and lodging and soon enough on Dec. 2, we were on our way to UC Berkeley. After an exhausting 8-hour trip, some dinner, and a good night s rest we were ready to attend Saturday s trainings and lectures. We put all our new information to the test on Sunday during 2 rounds of scrimmages. Our prosecution team came out victorious during round 1 and round 2 our defense team tied with their competitor. Overall, our Mock Trial team represented the Islands well. They will not be forgetting our names anytime soon. Special thanks to all the student team members, attorney coaches, staff, and parents that helped us on our journey to get to Berkeley. Go CI Mock Trial!

4 Athletics Last Saturday Valerie Almanza competed in the elite Footlocker West Regional Cross Championships at M Sac which hosted the top runners from California, Washington, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and other western states qualify to Nationals. Valerie ran a great race as always placing 13th overall and 7th in California. Her team mates as shown in the picture competed in the open grade level races. Andrea Contreras placed 10th and Victoria Almanza 15th in the senior race out of 250 runners. Ana Barbosa 18th in the JR race also with over 250 runners. Both Valerie and sister Victoria made first team all county and Ricardo Torres first team all county. Ricardo was also voted as best Ventura County JR Runner of the year and Valerie as best Senior of the year. These athletes will be taking much needed time off and on to track season for more record setting accomplishments.

5 Channel Islands sports had our all fall sports banquet Tuesday evening to a very crowded gym. Here are some highlights from all the fall sports this year: Fall Sports Fall Team MVP s o Girls Golf- is young with increased participation o Boys Water Polo- Another very young team -First time we had an all-league player o Girls Tennis- Solid team performances beating Oxnard twice o Girls Volleyball- Had some great wins against Hueneme and won the Santa Paula Volleyball tournament o Football- Had a good year with a 5-5 record beating Royal HS and a tough Hueneme team o Cross Country: Boys came in 2 nd in League -Girls are our Pacific View League Champions (Back to Back-2015 and 16) -Two PVL Individual Champions (Ricardo Torres and Valerie Almanza) -The girls went to CIF finals (The best we have done since 1993) -Valerie Almanza ended up 7 th in the state -Coach Galindo (Ventura County Coach of the Year) Water Polo- Alexis Lopez Girls Golf- Maria Cortez Football- Wallace Tagata Girls Tennis- Nica Cacayan Girls Volleyball- Alyssa Gonzalez (Defense); Janessa Valoaga (Offense) Cross Country- Valerie Almanza (Girls); Ricardo Torres (Boys) This fall, we had bigger fan support than we ve had in the past and we want to continue this trend. Already our winter sports are doing well. Girls soccer has wins against Carpenteria and Fillmore. Boys soccer has had wins against Agoura and Carpenteria. And, our boys basketball just crushed Grace Brethren last night with a score of Please come out and watch your kids (students) tenaciously compete and join the fun of Channel Islands Sports. By attending our home games, all staff will get complimentary cup of hot chocolate and a complimentary 50 year anniversary athletic t-shirt (while supplies last).

6 Fall Sports Banquet