The month of March is officially known as the National Athletic Training Month, and it is held to help spread awareness about the important work athletic trainers do. Micheal Avelar, more commonly...
Westridge Athletics can often turn into a sisterhood, bringing student athletes from all grades of Upper School close together through wins, losses, practices, and more. But within some teams at Westridge...
From October 2023 to January 2024, the Tigers fielded basketball, water polo, and soccer teams for another winter sports season. None of the Tigers’ three varsity teams made it to CIF playoffs, but through...
Wearing their In-N-Out hats, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors come together to rehearse singing “Feliz Cumpleaños” outside. They are practicing their singing so they can play a lighthearted...
It was the start of tennis season and the first rainfall of autumn had left the John Muir tennis courts full of puddles. Spyglass staffer Emily L. ’26, a member of the JV tennis team, walked onto the...
You’re never going to believe what I did a couple weeks ago. I can barely believe it myself. I tried out for the middle school soccer team. It was definitely a spur of the moment thing. I had heard the...
Every school can be defined by a few prominent elements of its culture. For Westridge, it’s undeniably the academic rigor. Even the Director of Athletics Coach Melanie Horn agrees: “At Westridge, we...
“Motion,” yells the quarterback behind me. I catapult a football between my legs and take off on a straight route ahead. The quarterback locks eyes with me, slings her arm back, and hurls a football...
This fall sports season was filled with rarities from the inaugural season of CIF-sanctioned sports to two different individual athlete championships. Although not every team walked away with many wins,...
I’ll never forget the day the United States Women’s National Team won their fourth World Cup. I was one of many young children at the La Cañada sports camp, Spartan Allstars, who watched the USA capture...
On the third down, with only one chance left to score, Ariana E. ’25 runs down the field with the ball. She looks around to pass before spotting an opening. Seeing her opportunity, she sprints in and...
“There’s no reason why girls can’t play any sport. So, [to take] a sports opportunity that’s been historically a male sport and to offer it to girls is awesome,” Director of Athletics Melanie...
![Ms. Heydorff in her office explaining her role when working with ASB. ASB really took the lead on [ASD] and I was just there to support and give them assistance in any way they needed, said Ms. Heydorff.](https://westridgespyglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Image-e1713072272110-828x1200.jpg)
