Senior year is known to be one of the most fun and stressful years of a student’s high school career. Therefore, there are many specialized events for seniors to celebrate everything they have experienced and everything they are going to experience in the future. One such event is Oviedo High School’s Senior Breakfast event which this year occurred on Wednesday, April 3rd. Being a Senior can be a great experience because of events like this one. “[Being a senior] it’s one of the best years of high school,” senior Aaliyah Montañez Moran said. Some students, like Senior London Cooper, have looke ..read more

The Seminole Athletic Conference is a Individual Based Tournament that includes all the schools in Seminole county. The teams include Hagerty, Winter Springs, Lake Mary, Lake Brantley, Lyman, Lake Howell, Seminole, and Oviedo highschool. This tournament includes jv and varsity boys, and girls varsity. Jv boys competed on friday, and varsity boys and girls competed saturday. The boys jv team consisted of 106 freshman Jackson Cooper, 113 sophomore Joseph Speer, 120 sophomore Gunner Essary, 126 sophomore Lois Melendez, 132 freshman James Lyons, 144 sophomores Asher Williamson and Brandon Bonin, 1 ..read more

Symposium is an annual tradition at Oviedo where AP Seminar, AP Research, experimental research, culinary, photography, and art students have the opportunity to exhibit their work and talents to their peers. The event is held in the school’s media center each year and holds an event during the school day for students to attend during their English classes, and another event in the evening for parents and other members of the community to attend.  This year, Symposium’s student event was held on Thursday Feb. 22, welcoming hundreds of students to observe and learn about the various topics ..read more

“I felt like I was on top of the world for a couple minutes.” — Kiara Hernandez-Crespo   With the addition of flag football to Seminole County, it was expected that there would be a lot of firsts. And at the Oviedo vs. Hagerty game on February 20th, Oviedo took many of those firsts. After about two weeks of practice, Oviedo’s girls faced Hagerty at the first-ever girl’s flag football game with Oviedo’s players. The girls took home their first victory as a team and the first victory for our school when they beat Hagerty with a final score of 20-0. Also during this game, multiple girls ma ..read more

” I’ve been playing music since I was four when I picked up the violin… “ — Ray Kar Oviedo High School is known for excellence in not only athletics and academics but also its band program and the talent that can be found there. An example of a talented student in this program is Oviedo’s senior Ray Kar. As Tri-M President (a musical honors society), section leader, conductor, arranger, Student Band Booster president, and player of six musical instruments, the talent is clearly there for Kar. And according to Kar, music has been an important part of him for almost his whole life. “I’ve been ..read more

Students whisper about ACT scores being released across the AP Biology classroom. Everyone opens their mobile devices quickly, along with Lia Swanson. Hugged in a clean turquoise circle, sits the flawless 36. Realization along with disbelief dawns on Swanson, rushing to excitedly inform the person beside them. Although there have been many cases where ACT scores were released over the past several decades, Swanson may have been the first to have ever seen the pairing between the two numbers on Oviedo High School grounds.  Swanson’s impeccable achievement was broadcast on WESH 2, Fox 35, S ..read more

In a spectacular convergence of glitz, glamour, and musical melodies, the 2024 awards season brought forth a triumphant celebration of excellence across the Golden Globes, Emmys, and Grammys. From the silver screen to the small screen and into the heart of the music industry, the star-studded event showcased the finest talents and creations of the past year. The Golden Globes kicked off the awards season with a bang, honoring outstanding achievements in film and television. The star studded event saw Oppenheimer clinching the Best Motion Picture award, cementing its status as a cinematic maste ..read more

This year, Oviedo’s wrestling team competed against Olympia High School for the annual senior night dual. Oviedo has 9 seniors for the 2023-2024 season, meaning a larger class is going to be leaving the team the following year. Senior night is always a significant night of celebration for all of the hard work these senior athletes have gone through in their sport. The whole experience is distinguished, with a team tradition of dressing up in formal clothing to go to school and to walk down the mat with their parents while the coach announces a brief bio of what the seniors plan on doing after ..read more

In May 2023, Oviedo High School confirmed that they would have a girls flag football team for the spring season of 2024. And with the start of this new school year, Oviedo’s female athletes now have a chance to compete for a spot on the team, and to make history at their school. To prepare for tryouts, Coach Odierno, the head coach of the boys varsity football and girls flag football teams, held conditioning two to three days a week for two weeks. This gave players an opportunity to get back into shape if they were off-season athletes and meet with some of their possible future teammates. Some ..read more

From the addition of a new head coach to acquiring multiple new transfer players, the Oviedo Varsity Boys Basketball team may look a little different this year. Despite having to go through such a substantial transition in the preseason, the Lions – both old and new – have managed to maintain and honor the success of Oviedo’s historical Boys Basketball program in the regular season.  The program welcomed head coach Ian Young, an Auburn University basketball alum and former 13-year overseas professional player, along with players Ethan Diaz, Cameron Bryant, and Caleb Pennyfeather over the ..read more