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LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL

We Won

•Vincent Vestergaard ’24: Santa Barbara County

Spelling Bee Champion

•Shane Lopes: SB All-County Football Coach of the Year
•Two alumni—Chaitanya Mehra ’02 and Lisa Falzone ’03 named to

Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List

•Martha Elliott: 2014 recipient of the Vassar Alumni Time-Out Grant
•Mike Biermann: CIF Southern Section “Champion of Character”
•The Fourth Estate: National Scholastic Press Association

All-American Honor Rating with four out of five Marks of

 Distinction & the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s 
 Gold Medalist Award 
•Violinist Spencer Troise ’22: Highest score in the United States

in Royal Conservatory Music Development Program

•Violinist Ian Bankhead ’14: Invited to play in the SB Symphony
•Trish McHale: Rotary Club’s prestigious Paul Harris Fellow Award
•Girls Varsity Volleyball team: Condor League Champion, CIF Finalist
•Boys Varsity Basketball team: Condor League Champion,

CIF Semifinalist

•Boys Varsity Volleyball team: Condor League Champion, CIF Semifinalist
•Middle School Girls Basketball, Soccer, and Volleyball teams

go undefeated

•Laguna Trustee Mason Farrell ’80: Inducted into Laguna’s

Athletic Hall of Fame

•Laguna’s strength and conditioning program: Strength of America Award

from the National Strength and Conditioning Association

•Laguna’s new parking plaza: Awarded 2014 Top Landscape &

Hardscape by Santa Barbara Contractors Association

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