Winter Sports Wins - Three League Champion Titles, State Playoff Action
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Winter Sports Wins - Three League Champion Titles, State Playoff Action
Go, Mariners! Congratulations to all of our student athletes and coaches on a strong showing for winter sports at Saint Monica Preparatory. Girls Soccer had an undefeated regular season, and along with both Girls and Boys Basketball teams, secured their respective League Champion titles! All four varsity teams - Girls and Boys Basketball, as well as Girls and Boys Soccer - made the playoffs this season with Girls Basketball going all the way to the CIF Division III State playoffs. Way to represent! Boys Basketball had four First Team selections - EJ Andrews, Pierre Malone, Jaedyn Patterson and Micah Williams, and two Second Team - Aidyn Caveness and Luke Griffin. SMPREP Cheer placed third in the SHARP competition at Sierra Vista High School, receiving a judges' award for Most Enthusiastic Overall team. That's the Mariner spirit!
At the Lower School, seven basketball teams competed through March, with both 3rd/4th Grade Girls (undefeated) and 3rd/4th Grade Boys (undefeated in league) in particular dominating into the final weeks. Spring sports at SMPREP have sprung into action - with Baseball, Beach Volleyball, Boys Golf, Cheer, Softball, Boys Tennis, Track, and Boys Volleyball seasons all underway at the Upper School; while Lower School athletes compete in Soccer, Track & Field and Boys Volleyball.
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Saint Monica Preparatory was honored again by The Argonaut readers this month as the Reader Recommended Best Elementary and Middle School in its annual "Best of the Westside" edition. View the full Best of the Westside issue here. This follows our Best Private High School recognition by HomeTown News last month.
We loved hosting over 200 families at our TK-12 Open House this past weekend. Our campus was buzzing as SMPREP student tour guides showed off our welcoming classrooms and facilities, including our beautiful new state-of-the-art STEM laboratories. SMPREP application deadlines for the 2026-2027 school year are approaching: December 15 is the priority deadline for grades TK-8 and January 15 is the deadline for grades 9-12.
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The College Board announced that nine Saint Monica Preparatory students earned the AP Capstone Diploma last year, based on the scores released from the 2025 AP Exam administration. An additional 18 SMPREP students received the AP Seminar and Research Certificate. Congratulations, Mariners!
Dr. Janelle Peters, SMPREP English Teacher, designed our school's multi-year AP curriculum herself and is proud of our students for this outstanding achievement. They represent SMPREP and its project-based learning experience among the only 27,650 students who earned the AP Capstone Diploma and the 12,430 students who earned the Certificate at participating schools worldwide.
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Mr. Roland Labana, CTO of Altafid and SMPREP's STEM Academy Dean/Computer Science teacher, hosted a LA Tech Week session at SMPREP last week with the help of his Engineering students. The workshop, "AI Tools for Building Apps with Lightning Speed," took place in our new Engineering classroom and was full of a variety of ideas for new apps — from how to report potholes and other road issues, to a study guide for the HSPT with AI-generated quizzes, to researching different car models by searching reviews.
His takeaway from the event, which he thought fit in well with other Tech Week events he attended: "Things are moving super fast and all of us, if we want to survive, have to know about these tools."