Cypress High

9801 Valley View St.

Cypress 90630

(714) 220-4144

* Enrollment: 1,908

* Established: 1974

* Team name: Centurions

* Newspaper: The Centurion Scroll

* Principal: Tracy Brennan

* Student president: Dustin O’Malley

* Winning moments: Speech and debate team qualified 12 to state championships and six to national championships; Digital High School grant; Ryan Bishop won Congressional Art Contest; Random Acts of Kindness Week; Senior Night at Medieval Times; girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IIAA playoffs; football Southern Section Division I playoffs; girls’ soccer Southern Section Division II playoffs; girls’ volleyball Southern Section Division IIAA playoffs; girls’ water polo Southern Section Division IV playoffs

* Graduation: June 17, 4 p.m., at the Anaheim Convention Center

SENIOR STANDOUT

Walter Dan Nguyen of Cypress

* Achievements: Earned a 4.62 weighted grade-point average; ranked first in his class; Advanced Placement scholar with distinction; Junior Honor Guard; academic honors; California Scholarship Federation gold seal bearer; Edison International scholarship finalist; National Honor Society gold seal bearer; D.E.C.A. district competition winner; president of the Interact Club

* Connections: Physics, calculus and Key clubs; Model United Nations; sales associate at Prints Plus in Santa Ana; volunteers at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer’s Research; automated the library at Cawthon Elementary School in Cypress

* Ambitions: Attend UC Berkeley, majoring in biology; attend medical school to become a pediatrician; earn a master’s in business administration to become a hospital administrator

* Family: Father is Richard; mother is Anne; sister is Clara; brother is Alan

* Claim to fame: “My skills or lack thereof with Stryder Hiryu,” a character in an arcade game

THE SENIOR CLASS: 431