By Terry Miller At Friday’s Arcadia High School football game, the Executive Vice President of the Tournament of Roses Bob Miller made a surprise announcement at halftime immediately after the 300-plus student marching band performed. The coveted secret was that the marching band has been selected to march in the 2021 Rose Parade. While dressed…
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25 Arcadia High Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
Another year and another impressive Arcadia High showing in the National Merit Scholarship competition with 25 Arcadia High students named as 2020 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. Arcadia High is the leader of all Los Angeles County high schools with the most students named to this year’s semifinalist cohort. While some high schools have less than…
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Arcadia High School Remembers 9/11 Victims and First Responders
Nearly 4,000 students and staff from Arcadia High School packed the football stadium for the 18th annual 9/11 memorial tribute Wednesday morning. Representatives from the Marine Corps, Army, Arcadia Fire Department, and Arcadia Police Department joined the tribute. A bagpiper and Arcadia High student also performed “Amazing Grace.”
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Arcadia Volleyball Has Up and Down Week
By Nathan Foster The Arcadia High School varsity volleyball teams had an up and down week to open their season. Both the JV and varsity squads defeated San Marino but dropped their contests against Flintridge Sacred Heart. The Apaches varsity team dominated the San Marino Titans 3-0 (25-12, 25-8, 25-16) on Tuesday at home. The…
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Arcadia Fall Sports Preview
By Nathan Foster School is back in session and with it, Arcadia High School athletics will soon be in full swing. Here is a preview for the fall sports at Arcadia. Football The Aztecs 2018 season ended in heartbreak as they lost in the CIF-SS D8 Championship to Kaiser, 35-38. While the season didn’t end…
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Dustin Allen Leads On and Off the Field at Arcadia High
By Nathan Foster Senior outfielder Dustin Allen is a leader on and off the field for the Arcadia Apaches varsity baseball team. Allen leads by example with his play where he led the team with a .410 batting average last year. “Last season went really well for me, although it started out rough. I struggled…
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Player Profile: Mikey Easter
By Nathan Foster Mikey Easter wants to play professional baseball one day for his favorite club, the New York Yankees. For now, he’s content tearing it up at the high school level for Arcadia. Easter started playing when he was five years old. His whole family, from his grandparents to his parents, are all huge…
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Preston Howey is Arcadia’s Newest Ace
By Nathan Foster Preston Howey has video game numbers. The staff ace of Arcadia High School’s baseball team won 13 games last year and lost just one. Howey began playing baseball when he was just 4 years old. After 13 years, he has developed elite pitching skills that culminated last season in a 0.75 ERA,…
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How to Become an Arcadia High National Merit Semifinalist
By Arcadia Unified School District Digital Communications Intern Sofia Nagy Over the past 25 years, Arcadia High School has had nearly 600 students, qualify as National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, with an exceptional average of 20 students receiving admittance into this program. This year, Arcadia High’s Class of 2019 had 23 Apache semifinalists. The National Merit…
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Arcadia High School Student Hailey Cheng Creates Climate Change Petition
By Sandi Khine Most high school students may not realize that they have the power to create change, but for Arcadia High School rising senior Hailey Cheng, it goes a little differently: she has actively taken matters into her own hands and is driven to create positive change. Activist and advocate Cheng has created a…
