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The Growling Wolverine

The Student News Site of Aliso Niguel High School

The Growling Wolverine

The Growling Wolverine

2024-2025 Staff

Victoria Baek
Editor-in-Chief

Victoria Baek

Victoria is currently a senior and this is her third year on the newspaper staff. This year she is taking on the leadership role of Editor-in-Chief. She is super excited to take on this position in addition to her other extracurri...

Roxana Bazargani
Senior Editor

Roxana Bazargani

Roxana is currently a senior at Aliso Niguel High School who is looking forward to her third and final year at The Growling Wolverine. In the past years, she was also a photographer and the social media manager for the newspape...

Lucas Rockwood
Senior Editor

Lucas Rockwood

Lucas is in his senior year of high school and his second year as part of the Growling Wolverine. This year, Lucas is one of the Senior Editors for the Growling Newspaper. He enjoys spending time with friends, learning, and working ...

Paige Derenard
Copy Editor

Paige Derenard

Paige is going into her senior year and third year with the Growling Wolverine. In her freetime, you can find her reading, drinking coke, or doing Colorguard. Additionally, Paige loves spending time with her family and cuddling with ...

Mae Villamil
Copy Editor

Mae Villamil

Mae is a senior at ANHS and this is her third year in newspaper. Mae practices color guard and hangs out with her friends and family. Outside of school, she enjoys traveling, listening to music, and watching movies. Mae is excited to s...

Maya D’lima
Copy Editor

Maya D’lima

Maya is currently a senior at Aliso Niguel High School. This is her third year in newspaper and she is excited to continue writing for The Growling Wolverine. In her free time, she enjoys writing poetry, listening to music, an...

Alexa Manning
Copy Editor

Alexa Manning

Alexa Manning is a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High School and excited for her first year in the Growling Wolverine. Alexa is a part of the Aliso Niguel softball team and enjoys baking, hiking, watching TV and going to the beac...

Charlotte Giler
Copy Editor

Charlotte Giler

Charlotte is a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High School. She is a part of Aliso’s Varsity Softball program. She is very excited to be in the school newspaper this year. When she's not playing softball she likes to listen to music...

Evie Scherffius
Copy Editor

Evie Scherffius

Evie Scherffius is a Junior at Aliso Niguel High School in her first year of writing for the Growling Wolverine. She plays softball and is the president of the Philosophy Club. In her free time, Evie enjoys reading books, watching ...

Nicole Aguirre
Copy Editor

Nicole Aguirre

Nicole is currently a junior at Aliso Niguel High School. She is also a part of DA and is very passionate about dancing. In her free time she enjoys crocheting, listening to music, and going to the beach. She is looking forward to ...

Ted Kim
Website/Layout Manager

Ted Kim

Ted is a Junior at Aliso Niguel High School and is excited for his third year here. He spends his free time playing sports, surfing and hanging out with friends. Ted is excited for the upcoming challenges of what The Growling ...

Skyler Flores
Website/Layout Manager

Skyler Flores

Skyler is currently a senior at Aliso Niguel and this is her first year on the newspaper staff. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to music, traveling, watching movies, and hanging out with friends. She is excited to be a...

Olivia Kuhnel
Social Media Manager

Olivia Kuhnel

Liv is currently a senior at Aliso Niguel High School. This is her first year in newspaper and she is looking forward to being a part of the Growling Wolverine. Liv enjoys listening to music, poetry, and spending time with fa...

Neka Jazaeri
Ads Manager

Neka Jazaeri

Neka Jazaeri is a Junior at Aliso Niguel High School and this is her second year with The Growling Wolverines. She is currently the Ads Manager and is the Artistic Director of Aliso Niguel Theatre Company. Neka can’t wait f...

Elaina Liu
Photographer

Elaina Liu

Elaina is currently a senior at Aliso Niguel High School, this is her second year involved with the Growling Wolverine. She is looking forward to taking photos and writing for the school’s newspaper. In her free time, Elaina enjoy...

Atrisa Taghizadeh
Photographer

Atrisa Taghizadeh

Atrisa is a junior at Aliso this year and she looks forward to starting her second year in Newspaper as a Photographer. She looks forward to the new experiences and social atmosphere that come with class. She enjoys working out, ...

Kayla Williams
Photographer

Kayla Williams

Kayla is a Junior this year at Aliso Niguel who loves writing and photography. She is excited for her second year on The Growling Wolverine! 

Andrew Oh
Photographer

Andrew Oh

Andrew is a Junior in his first year being part of Growling Wolverines. He likes to drive, cook, build legos, and play golf while enjoying the scenery. He also loves Christmas. He is very excited to spend this year learning ne...

Rei Amante
Photographer

Rei Amante

Rei is a senior at Aliso Niguel High School, Rei is optimistic for her first and last year involved with The Growling Wolverine. She is an artist independently working through different mediums, having a niche for illustrating, ...

Julia Sepe
Photographer

Julia Sepe

Julia is a freshman at Aliso Niguel High School, and this is her first year joining the Growling Wolverine. She spends most of her time outside or at the beach with friends. She enjoys playing drums, mountain biking, surfing, and s...

Miyako Cros
Comic Artist

Miyako Cros

Miyako is a sophomore this year and is joining the Growling Wolverine for her first time. She is stoked to write articles to expand her involvement with the school and hopes to reach a bigger audience with her writing. During he...

Hope Branham
Comic Artist

Hope Branham

Hope Branham is a senior at Aliso Niguel High School. This is her first year in the newspaper and she is looking forward to writing more often and drawing comics.  She loves oil painting and listening to music as well as stu...

Jacqueline Torres
Staff Writer

Jacqueline Torres

Jacqueline is a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High School and she is thrilled to start her first year in the Growling Wolverine. In her free time she loves to play Roblox with her friends and she enjoys spending time with her famil...

Juliette Ffrench
Staff Writer

Juliette Ffrench

Juliette is a senior at ANHS and she is looking forward to her first year in newspaper. She spends her free time at the beach or with her friends. She also enjoys baking, listening to music, and reading. She is excited to make her ...

Kyle Kakimoto
Staff Writer

Kyle Kakimoto

Kyle is a senior at Aliso Niguel High School, and his second year writing for the Growling Wolverine. Kyle is passionate about journalism, politics, sports, and psychology. He plays varsity soccer and golf for the Wolverines. In his ...

Alissa Coronado
Staff Writer

Alissa Coronado

Alissa is a senior at Aliso Niguel High School and this is her first year doing the Growling Wolverine. She enjoys reading, listening to music, and going out with friends in her free time. Alissa is looking forward to meeting new p...

Ashley Vasquez
Staff Writer

Ashley Vasquez

Ashley is a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High School. She is excited to be a part of the school newspaper for the first time this year. She enjoys spending time with friends and family, watching her favorite movies like Trolls Band To...

Yas Eftekhari
Staff Writer

Yas Eftekhari

Yas is a sophomore at Aliso Niguel high school and this is her first year joining the Growing Wolverine. She spends most of her time with her family and friends and enjoys playing piano and listening to music. She also enjoys...

Kenadi Bachman
Staff Writer

Kenadi Bachman

Kenadi is a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High School and is thrilled to be a part of The Growling Wolverine. In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing basketball, and spending time with friends and family. She’s excited to wr...

Camila Vasquez
Staff Writer

Camila Vasquez

Camila is a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High School and is excited to start her first year at the Growling Wolverine. Outside of school, she likes to spend time with friends and family, reading, and listening to music. She is thrilled...

Marleen Soto
Staff Writer

Marleen Soto

Marleen is currently a Junior at Aliso Niguel High School. This is her second year in the Growling Wolverine. She enjoys reading, listening to music, and drawing.