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# Samohi rides wave of Bowl success
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/samohi-rides-wave-of-bowl-success/
- Published: 2005-03-10T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:12:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

For the second straight year, Santa Monica High School has won the LA/Orange Counties competition in the regional Ocean Sciences Bowl. The competition is held each year at USC, and is sponsored by the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Sciences and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory By winning the regional competition against 17 other teams, Samohi now advances to the national competition held late in April in Biloxi, Miss. Last year, Santa Monica’s team finished in fifth place during the national Ocean Sciences competition held in Charleston, SC.

Santa Monica’s team went undefeated in the first five head-to-head matches of pool play. Their team also went undefeated in the next three rounds of double elimination play, beating Woodbridge High School of Irvine, 79-50, in the final match.

The winning team includes Courtney Borden, Areeb Pirani, Douglas Matsunaga and Eileen Wong. The academic decathlon team is instructed and coached by Ingo Gaida. Carnevale! announces poster competition

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 10, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/031005.pdf?ref=smdp.com)