Scholar athlete looking forward to bright future at next level

Kristen Lago and Daniel Longoria • April 22, 2022

Spectrum News 1, Kristen Lago

LOS ANGELES — Daniel Longoria is a standout senior at Hawkins High School who’s involved in a wide variety of extracurriculars — from football, basketball, journalism and everything in between.

This coming fall, he will become the first in his family to attend college, accepting admission to UCLA.

Daniel Longoria, Scholar athlete looking forward to bright future at next level (Spectrum News 1)

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Daniel Longoria, Editor-In-Chief

Daniel Longoria (class of 2022) is a scholar, an athlete and a decent human being. As editor-in-chief of the school newspaper (Advocate News), he would spend time motivating the staff, checking in with the adviser after football practice to make sure the paper was ready for print and yet he still found time to assist fifth graders to show off their homemade robots during the monthly competitions at Augustus F. Hawkins High School for Community Action. Every one of his teachers can tell you a similar story where he demonstrated humanity towards others. He works hard to meet deadlines and takes his work seriously. Daniel will be the first in his family to attend college and he won a $1,000 Spectrum Athletic Scholarship award which will help Daniel to attend one of his dream colleges, UCLA or Berkeley. (Update: Daniel was accepted to UCLA) GPA 4.064 The news segment about Daniel aired on Spectrum News, April 21, 2022. This was the first full year of school after the COVID19 shelter-in-place orders were lifted.