Dana Hills High

33333 Golden Lantern

Dana Point 92629

(949) 496-6666

* Enrollment: 2,600

* Established: 1973

* Team name: Dolphins

* Newspaper: The Paper

* Principal: Kay Rager

* Student president: Robert Leon

* Winning moments: Student government elections via video; Jostens Publishing yearbook graphic design recognition; record number of students took Advance Placement tests; Digital High School grant; three Color it Orange scholarships; wrestler Grant Entsminger won Division II championship in 171-pound weight class; girls’ basketball Southern Section Division IAA playoffs; girls’ soccer Southern Section Division I playoffs; girls’ tennis Southern Section Division I playoffs; wrestling Southern Section playoffs; girls’ water polo Southern Section Division I playoffs

* In the works: Environmental Education Center with an outdoor amphitheater, redwood trail and fossil walk

* Graduation: June 22, 4 p.m., at the school

SENIOR STANDOUT

Yousuke Hamai of Dana Point

* Achievements: Earned a 4.56 weighted grade-point average; regional and state Science Olympiad first-place winner; Kiwanis Bowl; Academic Decathlon team; National Honor Society; Boys’ State delegate; varsity swimmer; speaks Japanese

* Connections: Key Club; played cello at the Laguna Beach Winter Festival; volunteers at homeless shelters, beach cleanups, Rose Parade, Turkey Trot, Rudolph Run, children’s expo

* Ambitions: Attend UC Irvine, majoring in biochemistry; complete medical school to become a cardiologist

* Family: Mother is Kazumi Hamai; brother is Eugene; sister is Madoka

* Aspirations: “To patent my working ellipse compass, to find the cure to a disease and perhaps invent a new surgical procedure.”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 560