At 3:27 p.m., Amelia Chu was sitting in Mr. Joel Williams’ seventh period Integrated III waiting for ASB President Audriana Boyce to announce the 2025-26 ASB elected positions. Chu ran for Secretary and made nine advertisements for election week March 31-April 4.

“I was pretty nervous, but I was pretty confident in my campaign,” Chu said. “I was really interested in [Secretary] ever since I was a freshman and I was really hoping that I got that position.”

At 3:30 p.m., Boyce announced next year’s ASB positions over the intercom and through a graphic on the @whatsupwhitney instagram account. The positions are as follows:

ASB President: Lucas Marquardt

ASB Vice President: Austin Banchieri

ASB Secretary: Amelia Chu

ASB Treasurer: Sophie Gallagher

Voices of Whitney: Joe Ligas and Lukas Tallent

Senior Class Officers: Carmela Benson, Kiera Gregory and Keira Ngo

Junior Class Officers: Sanjana Singh, Elena Surber and Addie Tinkler

Sophomore Class Officers: Adeline Arcuri, Kamryn Begley and Kailey Nham

Out of the 2053 students in school, 740 students voted next year’s ASB positions. Eligible voters cast their ballots during PAWS and Lunch April 1-3. Voting was done using Scantron ballots.

“A lot of students are unfamiliar with how to bubble in a Scantron, so that was a challenge there,” Activities Director Jesse Armas said. “Luckily we’re very proactive and we had helpers there so that we [could] kind of guide them.”

In addition to creating video campaigns that aired on WCTV19 during election week, candidates explained what improvements they would establish if they were elected for their position. After being elected for Voice of Whitney, Joe Ligas expressed his plans to bring school spirit to less frequented sports around campus, similar to student sections at football games. 

“If you’re going to go to a student section, [you] shouldn’t just go there to sit down,” Ligas said. “I think it’s a huge responsibility of the Voices, to make it energetic and fun for everybody and I’m hoping we can bring that same energy [and] crowd to different sporting events.”

Upcoming Voice of Whitney Lukas Tallent and Ligas met their freshman year in P.E., beginning their relationship. They discussed running for the position in the past and decided to follow through with the idea.

“We share similar ideas of how we want to run things and make sure everyone’s included,” Tallent said.

In total, there were four possible candidates for ASB President. When the announcement came while Annie Zurn was in P.E., she had anticipated a win but received the opposite news that she had lost the election to Lucas Marquardt. Her campaign included creating plans that would satisfy the student body by bringing food trucks to games and a greater level of inclusion through featuring clubs.

“When I found out that I didn’t win I wasn’t too mad because I am friends with Lucas,” Zurn said. “I was a little upset obviously, because I did want to be president.”

As the current ASB President will be graduating, Boyce has learned many life skills in her time as president.

“It truly was such an honor to be put in this position and given the opportunity to make students’ voices heard,” Boyce said. “[Serving] as the liaison between the student body and staff faculty, and just to be able to make sure that everyone has a really memorable high school experience.”

Even though it was an experience for Boyce, there were some challenges she faced, such as a big part of it being public speaking. “I served on the Rocklin Unified School Board as a student representative,” Boyce said. “All these opportunities gave me chances to be able to practice public speaking, which just made me more comfortable doing it.”

by LEILA ALEXANDER, RHAYMARK NAZARENO, SIERRA OROSCO AND NAVNEET THANDI