Valencia High

500 N. Bradford Ave.

Placentia 92670

(714) 996-4970

* Enrollment: 1,852

* Established: 1933

* Team name: Tigers

* Newspaper: El Tigre

* Principal: David Verdugo

* Student president: Pablo Serrato

* Famous alumni: Olympic softball pitcher Michelle Granger; author Michael Melcher; state Sen. John R. Lewis

* Winning moments: Academic Decathlon team placed sixth overall and third in the Super Quiz; fourth in Science Olympiad state finals; Digital High School grant; food and gift drive; girls’ soccer Southern Section Division III runner-up; boys’ and girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IIA playoffs; football Southern Section Division IX playoffs; girls’ volleyball Southern Section Division IIA playoffs

* In the works: Six-year full accreditation by Western Assn. of Schools and Colleges

* Graduation: June 18, 7 p.m., at the stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Kathryn W. Yu of Yorba Linda

* Achievements: Earned a 4.47 weighted grade-point average; Science Olympiad; Academic Decathlon; Mock Trial; USC Trustee Scholarship; National Merit finalist; Golden State exams high honors in four subjects; California Scholarship Federation; collegiate scholar; distinguished scholar; four-year perfect attendance; speaks Mandarin, Taiwanese and Spanish

* Connections: Interact and Japanese clubs; drama; homecoming float artist; volunteers at OC Human Relations Leadership Institute, Placentia Public Library, beach cleanups and Placentia Human Services canned food drives; works as an aide to college professor

* Ambitions: Attend Stanford University, majoring in a combination of computer science, multimedia and creative technologies

* Family: Father is Terry T.S. Yu; mother is Margaret; brother is Kenneth

* Aspirations: “I’m going to be a female engineer who makes Web sites, sings in a cappella groups, is a part-time radio deejay, keeps an online diary, travels to the United Kingdom, plays piano bar, discovers a cure for hay fever and watches PBS, becomes very wealthy at the age of 30, retires and pays back every penny of her college education to her parents (without interest, of course).”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 335