Westminster High

14325 Golden West St.

Westminster 92683

(714) 893-1381

* Enrollment: 2,449

* Established: 1959

* Team name: Lions

* Newspaper: Buckingham Press

* Principal: Kathy Miller

* Student president: Eric Quintana

* Valedictorian: Minh Luu

* Famous alumni: Former boxer Carlos Palomino; Atlanta Braves outfielder Ryan Klesko

* Winning moments: Academic Decathlon Team placed first in overall team competition; Every 15 Minutes alcohol awareness program; students collected more than $5,500 for the Leukemia Society of America; junior varsity cheer came in first at nationals; Western Assn. of Schools and Colleges report completed; campus cleanup day; girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IAA playoffs; girls’ soccer Southern Section Division I playoffs; girls’ water polo Southern Section Division IV playoffs

* In the works: Celebrating the 40th anniversary; updating school’s strategic plan; improving facilities

* Graduation: June 16, 5 p.m., at the stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Alicia Lanz of Huntington Beach

* Achievements: Earned a 4.52 weighted grade-point average; School District Board student representative; Congressional Youth Leadership Conference; Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Conference; National Merit finalist; Girl Scouts gold award; Bank of America achievement awards plaque; Orange County Community Service Award; student council; Westminster Science Renaissance project committee

* Connections: Physics intern at UC Irvine; yearbook; soccer; marching and symphonic band; speech and debate; Advanced Placement Club; Web page author and server programmer; day-care assistant

* Ambitions: Attend UC Berkeley as a Regents scholar, majoring in physics; attend graduate school to study astrophysics

* Family: Father is Robert Lanz; mother is Elaine; brother is Justin; grandmother is Julia Bronejko; uncle is Ed Bronejko

* Claims to fame: “I’ve met Bill Nye the Science Guy; ‘School House Rock’ taught me the magic number; I carry an Easy Bake Oven with me everywhere I go.”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 524