On Saturday night, the Sharks took on the defending CIF 2022 champs Aliso Niguel. The Sharks previously lost to the team 7-8 during regular season. Key adjustments made by the coaching staff, David Janoski and Jim (aka Jimbo) Brower, set the stage for our victory. Defense, led by Cayden Penna (Senior), Matt Pronio (Senior), Zaiven Smith (Junior) and Logan Marks (Junior), held the Wolverines to only 3 goals! Goalie, Tommy Mazzetti (Junior) had an incredible 15 saves for the night! The offense was also no match for Aliso. Cody Warchuck (Senior) scored 4 goals, Carlos Barrientos (Junior) had a hat trick with 3 goals, Brendan Gargalis (Senior) had 2, and one each for Brendon Brower (Senior) and Nathen Le (Junior). Shout out to Jordan Janoski (Senior) with 3 assists! The boys worked hard for this achievement and like their uniform says, it was earned and not given. Thank you to our amazing coaches, family and fans for your support! Go Sharks!

The following people have been elected to be on Santiago HS’s 2023 - 2025 School Site Council committee:

Student Representatives

Jared Alano

Nicole Choi

Parent Representatives

Brenda Gonzalez

Kelly Plewe

Lisa Puckett

Other Staff Representative

Lisa Giles

Teacher Representatives will be nominated and voted in at a future date.

Congratulations to our committee members. Those nominated and anyone interested may serve as an alternate in their group. If you are interested in being an alternate, please send your information to our school secretary, Lisa Giles at lgiles@cnusd.k12.ca.us.

Santiago’s literacy campaign #SantiagoReads seeks to build classroom libraries to each classroom on campus. As of today, we, with the help of students, parents and community organizations, we’ve supplied roughly 450 books in 33 libraries in 8 department across campus. Right now we’re humbly asking for a few more donations that we’ve denoted on our Amazon Wishlist with the *highest* priority. Click on our Wishlist and in upper right hand corner you can sort the list by priority. We are in desperate need of books for our PE, Special Education, Spanish, and French classes, but any donations will be accepted and appreciated.

Academic Signing Day Sign Up Link:

https://forms.gle/ZidLnu7UmGKNgPAr5

Our 5th annual Academic Signing Day will be held on campus Tuesday May 23rd, and we need your help. We want to reward our students with needed items to start the next chapter of their lives. If you can support us by donating we'd love the support, please check out our Amazon wish list link below.

Amazon Wish List:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/129COZX3E41LZ?ref_=wl_share

Intermediate and high school students can sign up for a chance to get involved in different areas of interest:

• Developing leadership skills
• Promoting Drug Free Communities
• Pursuing a career in the health or helping professional field
• Connecting with other youth in their area
• Seeking an internship

Here is the form for your students, please pass it along as you see fit:

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=qJZlKo7GxUOcFz-cAwP47ujog27mlIVLmiBERNgMptxUOFE1NFJLTjNGTDkwQ01DNVlIVFROQlZaWS4u

SWIM: Ryder Amancio (Senior) is a CIF individual CHAMPION as he won the 50 free in Division 1 CIF with time of 50.51, his fastest time ever!!!CONGRATULATIONS to Ryder and Coach Kenny Clements

TRACK: Sophomore sensation, Rylee Blade, became a double individual CIF champion running the 1600m & 3200m (that is a mile and 2 mile in laymen's terms). Congrats to of course, Rylee, Coach Boggio, distance coach Coach Etheridge, and the entire track program-

SOFTBALL- The girls won their semifinal contest in a nailbiter 5-4 over El Toro. Multiple great performances allowed our girls to advance to the CIF Final game (1st time since 2013) to play for the ring against Capistrano Valley this Saturday May 20th @ 3:30pm at Deanne Manning stadium in Irvine.

LATE NCAA SIGNING DAY- Last Wednesday we added to the list of NCAA scholarship students (17 signed in the February ceremony) with 3 more fantastic athletes:

Queen Ruffin- Girls Basketball- signing with St. Johns University

Van Filek- Track & XC- signing with Univ. of CA-Santa Barbara

Matt Pronio- Boys Lacrosse- signing Dominican University in San Rafael, California

The Gene Haas Foundation awarded us a grant check for $16,000 to support scholarships and student competition teams. Scholarships are to be awarded to students who are currently enrolled or will be enrolling in a CNC Technologist training or CNC machining-based engineering program at the post secondary level.

Students will receive the scholarships at the Senior Scholarship Night here at Santiago.

(click on image to access the Counseling Newsletter)

• Care Solace is an online resource with a live 24x7 concierge line meant to assist individuals in finding local mental health-related programs and counseling services.
• To use Care Solace, individuals answer ten basic questions in order to receive an extensive list of referrals to applicable care providers. Care Solace takes into account all types of private insurance including Medi-Cal, Medicaid, and Medicare and those that have no insurance. The system also filters by age, gender, zip code, and special request.
• Care Solace is now available for use by CNUSD students, staff, and families at no cost. Please note, this service is an optional resource available by choice and is not mandatory in any way. Care Solace does not require a user’s name, address, phone number, or date of birth.

Website: https://caresolace.com/CNUSDfamilies

https://www.facebook.com/SantiagoHighSchoolPTSA

A HUGE thank you to all of our staff, parents and community who bought gifts for students!!!

We are all truly blessed to be part of the Shark Family!!