Ruby Cochrane, a rising junior at Mira Costa, will be traveling to Shangliou, China, to represent Team Canada in the U19 Beach Volleyball World Championships with partner Sophie Hancock. As a blocker on the Mira Costa Beach team, the six-foot-tall Cochrane helped secure the CIF-SS Championship this past April for the second consecutive year. 

Audrey Flanagan, a rising senior at Mira Costa, represented the United states as part of USA Volleyball's U19 team. The U.S. Girls U19 Team captured the gold medal at the 2024 NORCECA Continental Championship with a 3-1 (25-17, 20-25, 26-24, 25-14) win over the Canadian team in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Flanagan led all scorers with 18 points on 14 kills, a block and three aces. Leading all players with seven successful receptions, she was named the tournament’s Best Outside Hitter, Best Server and Best Receiver.

Zachary Fratello, a rising senior at DaVinci Science High School, has been selected by the Southern California Academy of Sciences (SCAS) to present his marine research project at the national meeting of the American Junior Academy of Sciences in Boston in February 2025. The American Junior Academy of Sciences is the only U.S. honor society recognizing America's high school students for outstanding scientific research.

Sophie Guitron, a rising senior at Mira Costa, played for the U.S. in the Junior International Flag Football Cup this summer. She was discovered at a talent ID camp last summer, where she was selected from among 800 other girls in the Los Angeles area. She was invited by the USA national team to compete in North Carolina along with 36 girls from around the country, and made the 18U girls flag roster. From there, she was among 12 girls selected to represent the U.S. in the Junior International Cup, where she played starting wide receiver. Her team won the gold medal against teams from Canada, Japan, Panama, and Mexico. (Sophie Guitron photo credit: USA Football.)

Winston Iskandar, a rising senior at Mira Costa, was one of 50 high school coders worldwide to be invited by the global non-profit Hack Club and VIA Rail Canada to join a "Hackathon" on a cross country journey aboard the Canadian Rail. The young coders used the journey to build hands-on projects focused on sustainability, ecological science, and environmental challenges, with the stunning Canadian countryside as a backdrop. 

While the plan had been to travel from Vancouver to Montreal, the danger of wildfires prevented the train from completing the trip, but the "hackers" stayed on board continuing their work.

Sofia Williams, a 2024 Mira Costa graduate, has earned a prestigious $10,000 Milken Family Foundation Scholars award. The national scholarship program, a joint initiative of the Milken Institute and the Milken Family Foundation, honors high school seniors in Los Angeles County, Washington, D.C., and New York City each year with a $10,000 cash prize and lifelong access to college advising, career counseling, internship assistance, community service opportunities, and a fund to help with graduate school applications, unpaid internships, study abroad programs, and other costs associated with their pursuit of a career. Past recipients of the scholarship include inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.