Natalie Yang ’24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She is a member of the Knights of Riordan. In her free time, she enjoys playing and coaching volleyball, watching movies, and spending time with her family and friends.

Crystal Wei '26 is a Staff Reporter for The Crusader. She joined The Crusader her sophomore year proudly being a part of Journalism. She has interests in sports as well, participating in both wrestling and track and field short...

Brendan Shanahan '24 is a transfer student in his second year at Riordan High School. His interests include Illustration, creative writing, and helping out at second harvest food bank in San francisco. This is Brendan's first...

Savannah Sapalo '24 is a staff reporter for TheCrusader. She is part of the Senior committee, PAC (Philippine American Club), BSU and Campus Ministry. She joined Journalism to express her writing skills and she loves taking...

Andres Roca '25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He is a first year reporter for the Crusader who joined with the goal of improving his journalism skills. Andres participates in baseball for the school. Outside of school...

James Peakes '24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He is part of the Crusaders Varsity Football Team. During his free time he runs a shoe customizing business Called JPSF_Customs, plays guitar, and plays sports with his friends...

Aliyah Pasion '26 joined The Crusader during her sophomore year. Aliyah is part of many clubs including Spirit, Knights of Riordan, PAC, yearbook, and campus ministry’s S.A.L.T group. Outside of school she enjoys swimming, going to...

Colton Parenti '25 is a staff reporter for the crusader. He has been playing baseball since his freshman year. He is also a member of Knights of Riordan, fishing club, and a part of the yearbook club. In his free time he enjoys...

Zion McGuire '26 is a writer for the crusader. She is also involved in varsity girls basketball and is apart of the BSU club.

Ivana Maldonado '26 is a Staff Reporter for The Crusader. She is also involved in other school extracurriculars such as Stage Crew and Student Parliament. She joined Journalism to enhance her writing skills and stay informed...

Tory Lu '24 is a staff reporter for the Crusader Newspaper. He joined the Journalism course after having friends and classmates recommended he take the course which could help enhance his writing skills. He is the Assistant Stage...

Chloe Leotta '24 is a Staff Reporter for The Crusader newspaper. She is a member of Knights at Riordan and the Senior Committee. In her free time she enjoys playing softball and coaching. New to journalism and encouraged to...

Saige Rose Key '24 is a first-year staff reporter for The Crusader. She is heavily involved in the Spirit Club, Wellness Club a and assumes one of the positions as a Russi Rabble Rouser. She currently serves as a manager for the...

Sandra Gamez '24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She is part of the Executive Committee for the Wellness Club and is a member of the campus ministry’s S.A.L.T team. Outside of school, she loves going out for hikes,...

E’moni Ferdinand '26 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She is involved in track & field, dance, and the BSU club at Riordan. She is an aspiring writer who hopes to continuously improve and to one day make it her career....

Natalie Dueber is a staff reporter for The Crusader who enjoys history, poems, and the macabre. She is a member of the Riordan varsity girls soccer team as well as the TEA club. She aspires to write interesting and compelling...

Terri is in her first year writing with The Crusader. She is graduating class of ‘24 and is excited to get as much experience as possible before leaving for this next chapter in life. She has been swimming with the Riordan...

Xochitl Churchill '24 is a staff reporter for the Crusader. She is also involved in Art Club and Stage Crew, and enjoys surfing, hiking, and reading.

Paolo Caracciolo '24 is a reporter for the crusader, he is a member of the DnD club and one of event planners for the T.E.A club. Paolo is the current stage manager for Riordan’s very own Linland theater and is heavily involved...

Daniel Barrett ’24 is a staff reporter for the Crusader. He has participated in Riordan theater ever since he was a freshman performing in several shows over the years and is also the percussion captain in the Riordan band, be...

Nathaniel Antetomoso goes by Nate. He is involved with sports medicine and enjoys working out and driving his motorcycle on curvy roads in Santa Cruz.

Julian Amann '26 is a first year staff reporter for The Crusader. He joined because he wants to be able to write with more detail and learn the ways of being a journalist. He wants to be a good reporter, and is excited to meet...

Alyssa Abaunza '26 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She joined Journalism in order to connect with others through her stories as well as sharpen her writing skills. Other than writing, Alyssa is a part of Latinos Unidos,...

Belle Abad '26 is a Staff Reporter for The Crusader. Since her freshman year, she has been a part of the Riordan girls volleyball program and in this past season, she played on the junior varsity team. Not only does she participate...

Aiden Pavon ’25 is the boys sports editor for The Crusader. He joined The Crusader his Sophomore year to express his passion for sports as well as journalism. Aiden loves telling the unseen stories and journeys of people around t...

Lincoln Maloney ’25 is a journalist for the Riordan newspaper. He is a part of the Riordan varsity Lacrosse program and soccer program. He is also a big supporter of the Chess Club and hopes to become president next school ...

Jordan Mckenzie ’24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He is a part of the Varsity Basketball Team. Jordan loves playing video games, being with family and friends, Music, and Netflix. ...

Myles Yan ’25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He is a prominent member of both the lacrosse and soccer teams and has been a part of and has founded a variety of clubs. Myles is also very fond of architecture and interi...

Ashley Villing ’25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She is a part of Campus Ministry and does her best to be involved in school activities. She loves animals and listening to music.  ...

Emma Rocha ’25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She is part of Campus Ministries Core Team, Parliament, and Latinos Unidos. She joined journalism to learn how to better expand her writing skills and to try something new. Ou...

Sean Reyes ’25 is a Photo Editor for The Crusader. The sports he plays include baseball and swimming. Outside of journalism, he is a member of the SALT, Knights of Riordan, and the Spirit Club. Some activities outside of scho...

Thomas McGivern ’25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He is currently a part of the Riordan Lacrosse team, the Rocketry Club, and the Saint Francis Scholar Society. In his free time, he enjoys surfing, hanging out with friend...

Karlo Manglona ’25 is a Staff Reporter for The Crusader. He hopes that being a part of The Crusader will help him further both his skills and passion for writing. Karlo has played football, basketball, baseball, and volleyb...

Diane Lai ’24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She participates in many extracurriculars at school, including being the third year color guard captain for the Riordan Band, the social media manager for the band, the Cru...

Polina Kozlenko ’24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. She is also a member of the Environmental Club. Polina is an exchange student from Ukraine who loves making international connections and uniting the world. She enjoys ...

Malcolm Jones-Smith ’25 is a first year staff member at Archbishop Riordan High School’s The Crusader Newspaper. Joining the paper due to his interest in journalism, Smith has hopes to expand his writing skills, and a chance a...

Maxim Ivanov ’25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He is a part of the Cross Country program, BBQ club, and the Riordan Rocketry team. In his free time, he enjoys swimming, reading, and playing with his dog....

Ana Hernandez ’25 is a first-year staff reporter for The Crusader Newspaper. She is also a member of NSHSS. During her free time, she does volunteer work at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living. She loves art, music, an...

Gregory Gonzales ’25 is staff reporter for The Crusader. He plays baseball for Riordan’s team. In his free time, he likes to play sports and play the guitar.

Isaac Garcia-Zuro ’24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He is part of the Achieve Program here at Riordan. He also has an interest in writing, which led to joining Journalism. He is looking forward to reporting for the schoo...

Hailey Kirsten Ferrer ’26 is a first-year staff reporter for The Crusader. At Riordan, she is a part of Philippine American Coalition, Knights, and Liturgy Team. Outside of school, she enjoys figure skating, spending time w...

Sasha Feliciana-Chan ’26 is a first year staff reporter for The Crusader. She enjoys playing with her dog, playing video games, listening to music, playing soccer, reading books and writing. Sasha is currently a part of the art ...

Chris Dilag ’25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He decided to join The Crusader as a junior after reading an issue of the paper as a sophomore. He wanted to be involved in a community in Archbishop Riordan that brings...

Eva Bennett ’25 is a staff reporter for the Crusader Newspaper. She is excited to improve her writing skills and learn more about journalism. Eva is part of NHS, the Riordan girl's soccer team, the engineering program, and th...

Jake Beeman ’24 is the Local and State News Editor for The Crusader. He’s involved in a variety of groups around the school, but most notably, he attended a Model United Nations conference, and assisted the engineering depa...

Rose Baik ’26 enjoys writing, spending time with her friends and family, sunny weather, and traveling. She is class of 2026 and is part of the school newspaper club, as well as Rriordan Kknights, stage crew, and Sspirit Cclub....

Anthony Chan ’24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader, starting as a club member nearly three years ago. Amongst his various works published, his favorite is “Crypto Giant FTX Collapses.” Dedicated to a resurgent fervor of po...

Aliana Urdaneta-Rodas ’25 is the Features Editor for The Crusader Newspaper. Aliana is also on the executive board for the Latinos Unidos club, a member of Parliament, and campus ministry's S.A.L.T team. Her favorite story of he...

Caitlin Dowd ‘25 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. Caitlin is a part of the girls soccer team and N.H.S. She is also a part of the Knights of Riordan. She also loves to row and hike outside of school. Caitlin is a new...

Griffin Doeff '25 is a reporter for The Crusader. He is also a member of NHS and part of Riordan's fledgling Speech and Debate Club. Griffin loves paleontology, zoology, and geography.

Ishaan Gupta ‘26 is the Sports Features Editor for The Crusader. He initially joined journalism as a way to improve his writing and it is now one of his passions. He is extremely passionate about sports and participates in...

Hazel Nagata-Rampata ‘26 is the Features Editor for the Crusader Newspaper. She is a member of NHS, a part of Campus Ministry, in clubs such as Riordan’s Sports Medicine club, the Asian Student Association, and the Environmental...

Vee Chen '25 is a staff reporter and artist for The Crusader, and Art Director for The Shield. They joined the staff because they thought writing and illustrating for a newspaper would be a unique and fun experience. Their favor...

Helena (Kai) Murguz '25 is a staff reporter and artist for The Crusader and art director for The Shield. Her favorite drawing that she’s done for The Crusader is the editorial cartoon in Take a Break from Stress of Social Media ...

Katelyn Leong '25 is the current Arts and Entertainment Editor for the Crusader. She joined the newspaper team her freshman year to learn more about journalism and develop her overall writing skills. Beside newspaper club, she is a...

Julia Yamsuan ’25 is a Photo Editor for The Crusader. She is a part of the girls volleyball program and is on the varsity team. She participates in Newspaper, Knights of Riordan, PAC (Philippines American Club), and the Wellnes...

Julien Untalan’24 is co-Campus News Editor for The Crusader. He joined the newspaper club out of curiosity during his freshman year. He is a renaissance man, being involved in and leading countless groups and clubs around campus;...

Angela Jia ’25 is the Editor in Chief of The Crusader Newspaper. She is passionate about the importance of journalism in conflict zones and enjoys reading investigative pieces from the Washington Post by Caroline Kitchener. She...

Bo Wyatt ’24 is a fourth year staff reporter for The Crusader, having joined freshman year by recommendation of her English teacher. Following this decision, her passion for journalism quickly flourished, and her favorite personal...

Julian Serrano ’24 is a Student Reporter. He likes reading, as a nerd of his kindred would – particularly books by Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other cool authors. Of course he finds time to write, write, and w...

Gigi Richardson ’24 is a second-year staff reporter for The Crusader. She is also involved in BSU. She is a member of the Riordan track team. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, online shopping, and reading mystery and ro...

Nick "Photo Guy" Nye ’25 is a Photo Editor at The Crusader. He is an avid scouting (aka Boy Scouts) leader, cat lover, and football fan. Nick grew up as a 49ers and Warriors fan, and watches every single game of those teams. ...

Talisha Flores ’24 is the Layout Director and a graphic artist for The Crusader and The Shield. Apart from being a part of the news team, Talisha is also involved in the Knights of Riordan and Art Club. She is deeply intere...

Sarah Cai ’24 is the Health Editor for The Crusader. She joined because of her interest in journalism and wanting to improve her writing skills. She is a member of the ASA club. During her free time, she likes to bake and pl...

Normay Arriola '24 is the Science for The Crusader. She also runs track and field, participates in martial arts outside of school, and is a member of National Honor Society, PAC, and ASA club. Her favorite story is the one about...

Rhys Appleby ’24 is a second year staff reporter and copy editor for The Crusader. He has been playing baseball since his freshman year. He is also a member of the ASA and founded the Fishing Club this year. He also enjoys r...

Joshua Aguilar ’24 is a staff reporter for The Crusader. At Riordan, he is a part of the LIFE Team in Campus Ministry and the PAC Club. Outside of Riordan, he plays instruments such as the guitar, ukulele, and piano and enjoy...

Mario Perez de Leon '24 is the Campus News Editor for The Crusader, and is set to graduate in 2024. He is also the leader of the Auto Shop Club, an Achieve scholar, a High School Explainer for the Exploratorium, and a regular volunteer a...

Matteo Matteucci '24 is a 3-year staff reporter for The Crusader. He chose this class at the end of freshman year with the thought that being a journalist would help him further his writing and possibly pursue it in college. H...

Naomi Lin ’24 is a reporter the first female Editor-in-Chief for The Crusader. She joined the newspaper club and Journalism course to not only immerse herself in a different style of writing, but to keep others informed abo...

Addison Hwang '24  is a staff reporter for The Crusader newspaper. She is also the captain of the girl’s varsity tennis team and a leader of PAC club. Outside of school she enjoys hanging out with friends and dancing. He...

Talia Bumanglag '24  is a reporter and the Managing editor for The Crusader. She joined her sophomore year to immerse herself in the world of  journalism and become a better writer. She is also a part of the Knights program, ...

Sophie Bucker '24 is the Local & State News Editor for The Crusader. She is a member of the Riordan sailing team, National Honors Society, St. Francis Scholars Society, and Robotics Club. When she's not writing for The Crusa...

Brandon Saavedra is a staff reporter for The Crusader. He has been an active part of the Riordan Community since sophomore year, including participating in sports such as wrestling. He loves to have discussions and debate with others, a...

Finnbarr Harrington is a fourth year reporter for The Crusader newspaper. A native San Franciscan, he has had three years of prior experience with Riordan journalism writing articles for The Squire, which is the summer newspap...

Angelo Coletti '24 is a staff reporter and athlete who participates in football at Riordan and basketball outside of school. Angelo likes golfing and spending time with my family and friends. He is a big food lover and loves l...

Charles Chu, member of the Class of 2024, is a reporter/photographer for The Crusader newspaper. He also plays Varsity Football here at Riordan. He joined Riordan's journalism program immediately following his transfer from L...

Hoorain Farooq '25 is the Sports Features Editor for The Crusader. She is part of the Student Parliament Apprenticeship Program and on the volleyball team. In her free time she enjoys playing basketball and reading.   ...