Vikings excel in the classroom in spring 2023

West Valley athletic teams won five Coast Conference championships in 2022-23 (women's water polo, volleyball, tennis, men's water polo, women's swimming), to give WVC 11 Coast titles in two years. Viking teams have dominated between the lines and, equally if not more impressively, complied a 3.18 department-wide GPA in spring 2023, after logging a 3.10 in fall 2022. 21 athletes earned a perfect 4.0 GPA (12 or more units) and 88 Vikings earned a 3.0-3.99 (also 12 or more units) for the spring semester. In the fall, 14 Vikings achieved 4.0, while 91 came in at 3.0-3.99. That's 35 perfect report cards and an astonishing 179 3.0-3.99 marks in a single academic year.

Tennis took top academic honors in the spring with a 3.8 GPA, the fourth consecutive term with a 3.0 or higher, and five 4.0 scholars: Angelica Harlan Aparicio, Sonya Hu, Lindsay Lee, Abigail Prokter and Tal Volinsky. Basketball posted its 2nd straight 3.0 or higher with a 3.52 and a 4.0 scholar in Ignacio Bettinelli.

Baseball's 3.43 was it 6th straight 3.0 or higher. Six Vikings - James Bose, Cae Cox, Ryan Lordier, Daniel Major, Mitchell Nagel and Colin Trizuto - notched 4.0s. Men's aquatics (swimming and water polo), which sent nine graduating athletes to four-year schools, also posted its 6th consecutive 3.0-or-higher term, came in at 3.29 with five perfect 4.0s: Luca Antonino, Bendeguz Aubeli, Hammish Bonnar, Lucas Romaguera and Kai Seed. Volleyball earned a 3.25, also its 6th straight term. Women's soccer earned a 3.0, its 6th straight, with Katherine Meck posting a 4.0.

Women's aquatics (swimming and water polo) posted a 3.15, with Taylor Hendricks earning a 4.0. Softball earned a collective 3.14 and Larissa Higgins completed a 4.0 semester. Men's soccer player Dylan Ferrato earned a perfect 4.0.