Student Activities
Monta Vista High School's mascot is the Matador, with purple and gold as its official school colors. The school mascot's uniform, however, is that of a purple bull. Recently, on August 31st 2012, a new Mascot, a Matador, was introduced in the Friday Rally. Monta Vista High School rivals nearby Lynbrook High School and Cupertino High School and competes in the SCVAL of the Central Coast Section. The girl's swim team were CCS champions in 2008. The girl's soccer team were CCS champions in 1979 and 2009.
The school's campus consists of a large baseball field, an American football field, and tennis courts. Due to a lack of lighting on the field, Monta Vista held their home football games at Cupertino High School. In 2007, the school completed construction of the new lighted pool, which is host to several water polo and swimming competitions per year. In June 2012, the school completed construction of the new football field with lights, and beginning in the Fall of 2012 home football games were held on the Monta Vista campus.
The Class of 2011 began a tradition where students would camp out at school the day and night before orientation to change their courses and schedules, in order to have teachers of their choice. As a result of their actions, the administration took teacher names off of preliminary schedules to curb the camp outs, however students reverse-engineered teacher names from class section numbers. For the 2011-2012 school year, all section numbers have been removed and it was made impossible for future classes to know their teachers ahead of time. Police patrols were set up to curb any attempts to camp out.
Monta Vista High School has a school-wide acclaimed leadership class that is ranked from ASB Officers (usually seniors that have been class officers for the majority of their school experience, class officers for each grade (that plan their class's events, fundraisers and proms are elected through weeks of competitive campaigning) and commissions (groups of students that focus on a specific goal to help the school.) Due to budget cuts and district changes, the class consists of two advisors and the combination of Community Leadership, so the class now includes a Board.
Bernard Wong has been known to sit in the backseat and know his role because it is all he does on a day-to-day basis in life.
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