Arts Field Trip
Some of our photography students along with Ms. Crail and Ms. Kudron had the opportunity to go to the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art this week! It served as a great educational trip in which our students learned about other artists, and their journeys and were also inspired to continue creating their own art.
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Athletic Updates
Athletic Director - Coach Joseph Olivas
Asst. Athletic Director - Coach Kikey Ramos
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Softball
Softball opened league play on Tuesday March 28 at Sunny Hills High. The Tribe suffered a minor setback losing 6-0. Your Fullerton Tribe responded with 3 league victories this week against Sonora 5-3 on Monday, La Habra 4-1 on Tuesday, and shutout of Buena Park 5-0 yesterday. Freshman Malaya Majam-Finch started and recorded the victory in all 3 games. Junior Ava Paquin came in yesterday to preserve the shutout of Buena Park, pitching 2 scoreless innings. Fullerton softball recorded their first victory over perennial league champion La Habra on Tuesday for the first time in 9 years. After being held scoreless in the first league game of the season, the Tribe responded with 14 runs in route to the 3 victories. Extra base hits on the week were recorded by: Home Runs (Junior captain Zoey Bautista with her first career over the fence home run, Freshman Andrea Montes De Oca with her team leading 4th homerun of the year. Doubles (Majam-Finch (2), Bautista (1), Senior Captain Hailee Nelson (1), Junior Maiah Rodriguez (1), Freshman Analise Barrios (1). The Tribe defense closed out the week against Buena Park with 0 errors in the game. Freshman shortstop Melia Vera and sophomore 3rd baseman Emma Thorson made a few spectacular plays. The Tribe closes out the first round of league next Tuesday @ Troy and then a rematch with undefeated Sunny Hills on Thursday at home. Roll Tribe!
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Baseball
Last Friday Fullerton started the Freeway League facing Sunny Hills. With rain outs on Wednesday and Thursday, the Tribe takes the field today with an 8-4 record. For Fullerton, starting senior George Papadatos will take the bump. Bottom of the 1st inning, Malachi Meni singled to right field, scoring Nate Norman to take the lead 1 to 0. Bases loaded, Kyle Kim drew a walk scoring Fullerton's 2nd run. Miguel Velazquez doubles off the centerfield fence clearing the bases, Fullerton 5 to 0. Niko Savage singles to center scoring Velazquez, Fullerton 6 to 0. Bottom of 2nd, Nico Mendez reaches on an error and Meni walks, Papadatos doubles to deep left field scoring Mendez. Kim doubles to left, scoring Meni and Papadatos. Velazquez and Fany drew walks and Sunderland singles to right, a pass ball scored Velazquez, Fullerton 10 to 0. Top of the 4th, Fullertons's Eddie Avita takes the mound and silences the Lancers. In the bottom of the inning, Savage singled to left with 1 out, Fany drew a walk, Norman singles to the left side scoring Savage and Fany. Fullerton up 12 to 0. Top of 6th, Freshman Declan Fitzgerald enters as a pitcher and retires the Lancers. Fullerton's Sunderland homers deep to right for another run. 13 to 0. Top of the 7th, Junior Logan Davis takes the mound to close out the game and shuts them down...1...2...3. Fullerton WINS!!! The boys continued the winning on Saturday with another 14-5 win over Sunny Hills.
Fullerton continued league play this week vs. Sonora. On Tuesday, the Tribe jumped to an early lead when Senior Conor Sunderland homered in the bottom of the 1st Inning to take the lead, 1 to 0. In the bottom of the 2nd inning, the team scored another 4 unanswered runs to take the lead 5 to 0. Senior George Papadatos threw 5 2/3 innings allowing only 1 Sonora run in his solid outing. Junior Carlos Barrios entered as the relief pitcher and shut down Sonora in 1 1/3 innings. Fullerton rallied for 5 more runs (with hits from Miguel Velasquez, Niko Mendez, and Kyle Kim) in the bottom of the 4th and 6th innings to secure the WIN 10 to 1.
On Thursday, the boys took on Sonora for game #2 and earned an 8-1 victory. With this win, Fullerton sweeps Sonora out scoring them 18-2. Mathew Carbajal pitched for 6 innings with 3-K’s. Zach Fany went 3-4 with 2 RBI’s and George Papadatos went 2-4 with a HOMERUN. The team is currently at 12-4 overall and 4-0 in league.
Saturday the team will be playing Summit H.S. here at FUHS at 11:00 am. Next week we play two games with La Habra. Wednesday we are at La Habra and on Friday we will be home in our beautiful stadium.
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Boys Volleyball
This week we had two tough matches with Troy and Sunny Hills. The boys fought for every point but came up just short of a win in each set. Although we lost both matches this week, the boys are improving with every game. Our overall record is 12-4 and 3-3 league. Currently we are sitting at 3rd place and striving to inch our way to the top. This Saturday we will be in the Kennedy Tournament at Kennedy H.S. and next week we are at Sonora on Tuesday and home vs. La Habra on Thursday. Come out and join the fun and cheer on our boys as they fight fo a league championship and a birth in the playoffs.
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Swim and Dive
Swim: Good times for the swim team this week as we faced off against La Habra. Boys and girls varsity came home with a win as did boys Frosh-soph.
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Track and Field
The track team competed in their first league quad meet against Troy, Sunny Hills, and La Habra this past Tuesday. The meet was scored as three separate dual meets against each team and the girls came away with a 2-1 record. The girls defeated Sunny Hills by a score of 78-48 and La Habra by a score of 93-24. The Troy girls defeated Fullerton with a score of 83-44. Teams are awarded points for their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers in each event. A 1st place finisher scores 5 points, 2nd place scores 3 points, and 3rd place scores 1 point. Layla Thornton was a double winner in the shot put and discus with a throw of 35-09.50 and 83-11.00. Morgan McAndrew scored in the 400m (1:03.07), 1600m (5:37.90), 800m (2:31.94), and ran a leg on the 4x400 relay. Other scorers included Haley Won (TJ- 32-10.25, LJ - 15-02.00, 100 hurdles - 19.53), Lana Flynn (HJ - 04-00.00, LJ - 14-04.25), freshman Melina Sibal (4x100, 100m - 13.02, 200m - 27.56, 4x400), Martiyana Stiger (SP - 28-00.00, Discus - 66-03.00, Leah Nunez (Discus - 64-07.00, SP - 26-01.50), Matia Ornelas in the 100 hurdles (19.86) and triple jump (28-11.00), Ansal Esquivias in the 3200m (13:49), and Gina Arevalo in the long jump (13-06.00).
On the boys side, the team defeated La Habra by a score of 93-24. The team lost a couple nail biters to Sunny Hills (62-65) and Troy (60-62)) which gives them a current league record of 1-2. The boys' scorers included double winner Dorian Yepez in the 110 high hurdles (15.84), 300 hurdles (42.85), long jump (18-06.50), and ran a leg on the winning 4x400 team. Sophomore Jack Golla was victorious in the 1600m (4:52.3) and placed 2nd in the 800m (2:09.65), freshman Dylan Cobbs impressed in the 110 hurdles (20.66) and 300 hurdles (46.66), sophomore Ryan Leitner scored in the 400m (53.94) 200m (24.18), and ran a leg on the winning 4x400 team, newcomer Umar Abdull Karim scored in the 100m (11.84), Nathan Karcher scored in the 800m (2:16.59) and 3200m (12:29.76), Tyoy Fernandez in the 800 (2:10.14) DJ Cobbs scored in the long jump (18-06.00) and triple jump (35-08.00), Dallas Padron in the triple jump (37-08.00) and long jump (18-06.00) Nicholas Kimoto scored in the triple jump (35-06.00), Andrew Ayon helped in shot pot (38-00.00) along with Victor Perez (37-05.00), and Jaden Pusifer contributed in the discus (93-02.00) along with Chris Rasmussen (86-06.00).
In frosh-soph action, both the boys and girls team finished with 2-1 records. Sofia Tabbal impressed by winning the 1600m, 800m, and 3200m for the girls. Gavin Ledbetter led the boys with wins in the 200m, 400m, and anchored the winning 4x100 team. The team will compete at the Irvine Distance Carnival and Ocean View Invitational on April 8th and will continue league competition on Tuesday, April 11th where they will score duals against Sonora and Buena Park.
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Boys Golf
Last Thursday our Boys Varsity Golf team defeated Sonora 194 - 243. Sangat Grewal led all golfers with a one under par. The boys as a team score their all-time best with a ### on the Fullerton Golf Course. This week the boys team picked up two more victories against La Habra and Buena Park. The TRIBE beat La Habra 225-237 and beat Buena Park 194-323. Next week the boys will have two tough matches against Troy on Tuesday and Sunny Hills on Thursday.
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Boys Tennis
FUHS Boys Varsity Tennis came up short against Troy on Tuesday, losing 6 to 12. It was a rough outing for most of the team. Tim Chung won 2 of 3 contests in singles, and the doubles team of Josh Balarie and Ibrahim Tabbah won 2 of 3 contests also. Ben Vaillalobos and Nick Vo each scored 1 point for the team. This match marks the halfway point of the season. On Thursday, the Varsity team took on Sunny Hills in the second match-up of the year and fell short in a 3-15 loss. Our boys competed well and fought for every point. Tim Chung was the bright spot for the team this week by winning 2 of 3 matches from Troy and Sunny Hills. Great job from the team’s captain. Next week we take on Sonora and La Habra.
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Boys Basketball
The Fullerton boys basketball program celebrated their season the week before spring break at their awards ceremonies. Thank you to all of the players, families, coaches, and staff at Fullerton for their support this season. Here are some of their accomplishments.
- 83% of all players in the program achieved a 1st semester GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Freshman Team - 3.6 average GPA
- Frosh/Soph Team - 3.5 average GPA
- JV - 3.6 average GPA
- Varsity - 3.5 average GPA
Congrats to our award winners!!
- IFL & Top Scholar Athlete - Christian Hubbard
- Most Improved - Ethan Kim
- Mr. Defense - Josh Welch Tribe on the Rise - Elijah Sanchez & Caleb Sun
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1st Team All-Freeway League
Orange County
All-Star Game
Josiah Reed
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2nd Team All-Freeway League
Heaven Hardwood
All-Star Game
Christian Hubbard
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Honorable Mention
All-Freeway League
Josh Welch
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Visual and Performing Arts | |
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
"Fullerton Union High School has been honored with the distinction of being named a Premiere Community for Theatre Education for its outstanding commitment in the field. The Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) recognizes individual schools that demonstrate outstanding achievement in efforts to provide theatre access and education to all students."
We are very proud of the accomplishments of our staff and our students. We have an amazing arts community and I am honored to be a part of it. This is a well-deserved recognition for our Academy!
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Music in Schools Month
In honor of Music In Schools Month, Mr. Trimble had his students do an assignment in which they help promote the importance of music in schools. Sam Snyder decided to reach out to the City of Fullerton and it worked! Sam and Mr. Trimble were recognized at the last City Council Meeting and it also included recognition from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva's Office! Congratulations!
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Winter Guard
The Winterguard and Drumline Teams competed last Saturday, April 1st. Winterguard placed 2nd place at Pacifica High School. They scored 65.825, improving their score by 4 points. Drumline continues to move up in rankings with their last two competitions. They improved their score by 6 points, scoring 67.9 points, earning them a third place finish at Bolsa Grande High School. Congratulations Team!
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College & Career Announcements | |
Superintendent's
April Newsletter and District News
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FUHS PTSA
Stop by our PTSA Meetings and get inside information on activities and events. Learn how to get involved to support our school community. Our next meeting is on Monday, April 24, 2023, @ 6:30pm in our Staff Cafeteria.
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District Resources
The district has many mental health resources, including Care Solace. Please follow the links to learn more.
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It's that time of year when prospective FUHS students and parents can choose Fullerton! If you know of any families that are interested, please direct them to our website so they can learn about our wonderful school. | | |
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School Calendar and Bell Schedules
For those of you who like to plan ahead, please follow this link for important district and school site calendars.
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Important Dates and
Upcoming Events
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April 20, 2023
Early Dismiss
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Please call 714-626-3803 for questions or more information on anything shared in this newsletter.
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