Brooke Sanborn, Staff Reporter
Brooke Sanborn, junior, is a Staff Reporter for wlhsNOW, and a member of the Awards Committee. She enjoys writing reviews on books, plays, movies and TV shows. Brooke is also passionate about the environment and animal rights. In her free time she enjoys reading, attending concerts, hiking, backpacking and hanging out with her dog, Hazel. In the future, Brooke aspires to work with books in the publishing industry. You can check out more of her work in her portfolio.
![MORE THAN A GAME. With two diving catches in the outfield, the Lions showed up defensively, aiding in their victory over the Pacers. One catch was made by Atwood, and the other by McGraw. Throughout the game, the Lions knew that it wasn’t just about their victory today. “I think [playing for cancer] makes it bigger than just a game,” McGraw said. “Knowing that you have a bigger impact in this world than just who you are as one person.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/I70A1454-1-1200x800.jpg)
![Students in the National Art Honor Society work on the Mount Hood mural on the window of SouthLake Church. The students brought a variety of paints and mixed their own custom colors. “Instead of brushstrokes, we’re doing more dabbing, because it gives [a] better impression of tree foliage, rather than looking like actual brush strokes, because if we’re painting trees, we need it to look like trees,” Crawford said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_2397-1200x900.jpg)
![Helping hand. Ravenna Talaga, junior and outreach lead for the robotics team, helps replace the robot’s fallen costume. “I think Drive a Robot Day is a really good way to [think about the skill level] and expand that, because we're able to customize every single person's drive to every single kid,” Louis Cekay, junior, said. “We can have [a] kid where all you do is you just go in circles for 15 minutes because we don't want to push [their] boundaries too much.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-18-1200x800.jpeg)