Foothill High

19251 Dodge Ave.

Santa Ana 92705-2298

(714) 730-7464

* Enrollment: 2,169

* Established: 1963

* Team name: Knights

* Principal: Dan Brooks

* Student president: James Weir

* Valedictorian: Elisabeth Rhoads

* Famous alumni: Olympic swimmers Bruce and Steve Furniss; actor Matthew Lillard

* Winning moments: Order of the Knight luncheons; Awards of Excellence; Digital High School grant; Knight of the Year awards; boys’ and girls’ basketball playoffs; boys’ and girls’ soccer playoffs; boys’ and girls’ cross-country championships; girls’ golf playoffs; girls’ tennis playoffs; girls’ volleyball playoffs; Southern Section girls’ water polo champions; boys’ water polo playoffs

* In the works: Safety counselor; Peer Assistance Leadership; Conflict Management Team; Intensive Instructional programs

* Graduation: 4 p.m. June 16 at Tustin High stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Geoffrey Tison of Santa Ana

* Achievements: Earned a 4.76 weighted grade-point average; Bausch and Lomb honorary science award; Orange County Youth Leadership Council outstanding service award; Irvine Co. scholarship and leadership award; named Bank of America plaque winner in liberal arts; National Merit scholar; National Honor Society events coordinator; Siemens Westinghouse science competition regional finalist; Presidential scholar; California Scholarship Federation president; newspaper co-managing editor; SITE council representative; competed in the Junior Statesmen of America program; Academic Decathlon; served UC Irvine molecular biology research internship; Harvard Institute of Medicine research internship

* Connections: Performed with the La Primavera Orchestra; Irvine Youth Orchestra; plays violin; tennis; volunteered for YMCA ARK abused children; St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange

* Ambitions: Attend Brown University; earn medical degree

* Family: Father is Joseph; mother is Karen

* Philosophy: “I am a student of life, love to learn. Science is my passion”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 452