At Verdugo, I can proudly say swim is a sport of dedication and vigor.
“We bus to a different school with a pool, since our pool is not accessible to us … and we basically swim laps and do drills,” says swimmer JoAnna Yortis.
They practice for about two hours with the usual warm-up, main set,…

Pulling focus on Ariana Hoshino
While other students were typing up their essays, a then thirteen-year-old Ariana Hoshino was bent over a stop motion animation of "Flowers for Algernon". With her mom’s old still-life camera, Hoshino was coaxing movement out of still images and stories out of clay. ...