Sophia Yoshimura, Staff Writer
Sophia Yoshimura is a writer for West Signals. This is her first year on the team, and Sophia is a freshman. Aside from lugging around shopping bags, Sophia passionately esteems her outside interests: creative and music arts, fawning over fiction novels, devouring Doritos, and chilling with a lovely mug of tea. Determined to give her all in every step, she looks forward to growing as a narrator and storyteller through Signals to pursue her dream of becoming a live news anchor.
![West High’s Cheer team poses at a football game. Cheerleaders typically perform for football games, occasionally at basketball games, or even for soccer. A lot goes into practicing for these big games: “People get thrown up in the air… we practice our cheers, we’ll do some stunts, [and] we’ll throw in some tumbling.” Photo courtesy of Natalie Foronda (9).](https://whssignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/sophia-m1.jpeg)
![Peter Emmanuel Fabie IV (12), mask on, stops to pass the ball to a teammate. Because of the new cases brought on by Omicron, safety precautions that were previously lenient are strict again. Protocols called for extra health checks and a wave of canceled games. “It was one of [the] hardest things I’ve ever faced,” Mason Nishikawa (11) on Boys’ JV expressed. Photo courtesy of Kami Kwong (12).](https://whssignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Sophia-J2-601x900.jpeg)
![JCC President Fusako Maekawa (12) and Vice President Julie Kimura (12) show off their spooky, bi-cultural door that won first place in the Halloween Door Decoration Contest. Maekawa explained that their goal was to use “Japanese crafts like origami to show [the] American culture [of] Halloween.” The club meets in Room 4105. Photo courtesy of Fusako Maekawa (12).](https://whssignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Halloween-JCC-Door.jpg)
