The name Melissa Hearlihy is synonymous with excellence in high school sports. With 39 full seasons, 839 career victories">" class="inline-comment collapsed"> and two girls' basketball CIF State Championship with the Wolverines under her belt, Hearlihy announced her retirement from coaching earlier this summer. Hearlihy’s departure marks the end of an era for girls' basketball at the shcool, having been with...

James Platt is the varsity girls golf assistant coach. As a child, Platt excelled on the golf team at Crespi Carmelite High School in Los Angeles. He then graduated from Marquette University and worked a corporate job for a couple of years. Still, Platt decided to turn his passion into a career in coaching golf. He first decided to get...

We are so back!The world seemed bleak, and the school community was distraught after two years without a new print issue of Big Red Magazine; however, thanks to our incredible staff and weeks of hard work, everyone's prayers have finally been answered. This fall issue is the first of four we will publish in Volume XVII—one for each of the...

Black Leadership Awareness and Culture Club (BLACC) participated in their annual retreat at the school Aug. 24. Members of BLACC visited The Broad Museum to see the “Mickalene Thomas: All About Love” exhibit and were later given the opportunity to donate books to The Book Truck, an organization that donates books to disadvantaged teens in LA. BLACC Co-Leader Dashiell Sparks’26...

Marci Reichert began her new position as the Wellness Director at the school for the 2024-2025 school year. In the newly created role, Reichert will curate a wellness curriculum for both campuses and promote student wellness initiatives. Reichert received her master's degree in counseling at Bastyr University and formerly worked as a yoga instructor and family therapist. She then began...

Michael Durant and Jee Won Lee joined the Upper School Dean Team for the 2024-2025 school year. The two additional deans will allow for the student-per-dean average to decrease to 25 for the rising sophomore class. Durant previously worked as a college counselor at Miami Country Day School. Durant said he hopes to influence his students to practice a healthy...

Shiara Navarro ’25 received a Kutler Center Senior Fellowship grant for her project, “The Mayan Train: The Environmental Impacts of Expanding Cultural Tourism in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.” The Mayan train is an intercity railway that traverses the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, constructed to expand cultural tourism and economically support less-developed states. The train's route across Mexico's Caribbean Coast cuts through...

" class="inline-comment collapsed">Sarah Rapaport joined the Upper School as the Coordinator of Jewish Life and Community Engagement, a new office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) [no to whoever made this og comment -- this is the name of an organization at the school so it has to be capitalized, e.g. Jewish Club is still capitalized even when ur not...

For her Kutler Center Junior Fellowship project, Arielle Trakhtenberg ’25 visited Krakow, Poland to work for a number of organizations that help Ukrainian refugees who have fled the country since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. She raised money for the organization Dobro Zawsze Wraca, financially assisting Ukrainian refugees and gathering information on the Ukrainian immigration system. Trakhtenberg said she...

Alumni Ben Hallock ’16 and Johnny Hooper ’15 earned the bronze medal in men’s water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics after they rallied to defeat Hungary 11-8 in a penalty shootout. The bronze medal in Paris was a historic accomplishment for USA men’s water polo, as it was the team’s first medal since they claimed silver in the 2008...