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The Purple Tide

The student news site of Chantilly High School (Chantilly, VA)

The Purple Tide

The student news site of Chantilly High School (Chantilly, VA)

The Purple Tide

2023-2024 Staff

Haley Oeur
Online Managing Editor

Haley Oeur

Haley Oeur is a senior in her third year with The Purple Tide. She loves walking into random clubs, and is part of the quiz bowl team, Reader's Club, Photo Club, MHS and more. In her free time, she likes to experiment with songs...

Anjali Ashok
Editor-in-Chief

Anjali Ashok

Anjali is a senior in her fourth year with The Purple Tide. Outside of school, she is heavily involved in dance and often experiments with new styles to broaden her interest. She often spends her free time binge-watching shows,...

Gaby Gutierrez
Editor-in-Chief

Gaby Gutierrez

Gaby Gutierrez is a senior in her third year with The Purple Tide. Gaby loves to watch reality TV with her brother, play Scattegories with her family, watch rom-coms, discover new hobbies and listen to Billy Joel and the Smiths....

Abhigna Koochana
Arts & Entertainment Editor

Abhigna Koochana

Abhigna is a senior in her second year with The Purple Tide. Outside of school, she likes to go biking with her friends, bake really chocolatey treats and read for fun. In her free time, she likes to win at card games, make terrible...

Delaney Brooks
Features Editor

Delaney Brooks

Delaney is a junior in her third year with The Purple Tide. She’s thrilled to edit the features section this year and plans to pursue journalism as a career. When she’s not writing articles or working on broadcast segments...

Advik Sood
News Editor

Advik Sood

Advik is a sophomore in his second year with The Purple Tide. He is a part of the CHS debate team and Key Club. In his free time, he competitively plays board games with his friends and enjoys watching the newest movies.

Tyler Ellison
Opinions Editor

Tyler Ellison

Tyler is a senior in his second year with The Purple Tide. He's a part of the CHS Marching Band, school and community theater and Food for Neighbors. He also enjoys piano and photography. Finally, Tyler believes that ABBA is the...

Claire Baek
Sports Editor

Claire Baek

Claire is a sophomore in her second year with The Purple Tide. Outside of school, she enjoys doing rhythmic gymnastics and hanging out with her friends on the weekends. She is part of the Class Board of 2026 and tries her best...

Sakina Tahir
Copy Editor

Sakina Tahir

Sakina is a senior in her second year with The Purple Tide. In her free time, you can find her reading, gardening, making jewelry or doing crosswords. She is also an absolute whiz at checkers, and enjoys baking for the people...

Cedric Tchommo
Copy Editor

Cedric Tchommo

Cedric "Barack" Tchommo is a sophomore in his second year with The Purple Tide. Other than revolutionizing the entire concept of the newspaper industry and practically splitting the fabric of reality with every article he writes,...

Alexine Cornelio
Social Media Editor

Alexine Cornelio

Alexine is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She loves listening to music and watching shows in her free time. In addition, Alexine always loves a good laugh, may it be a comedy movie or relatable reel and reading...

Hansika Gautama
Business Manager

Hansika Gautama

Hansika is a sophomore in her second year with The Purple Tide. In her free time, she loves to create art and read books with her sister. Hansika also enjoys binging movies and TV shows, spending time with her cousins in Philadelphia...

Logan Earle
Staff Writer

Logan Earle

Logan is a senior in his second year with The Purple Tide. He is a captain for the Chantilly Swim & Dive team (district champs) and a recreational basketball coach. Outside of organized activities, Logan watches a large amount...

Grant Stables
Staff Writer

Grant Stables

Grant Stables is a senior in his second year with The Purple Tide. He spends his time outside of school writing, talking about and watching movies. Outside of movies, he also plays video games in his free time.

Delya Aboul-Hosn
Staff Writer

Delya Aboul-Hosn

Delya is a senior in her first year with The Purple Tide. She loves to go on drives with her friends, blasting music. She has been playing basketball since she was seven years old, and she now plays for the Chantilly High School var...

Nadia Corea
Assistant Online Sports Editor

Nadia Corea

Nadia is a junior in her first year with The Purple Tide. In her free time, you can find her editing videos, playing basketball,and going thrifting with her friends. She loves making cute decor for her room and enjoys spending...

Lizzie Sun
Assistant Online News Editor

Lizzie Sun

Lizzie Sun is a sophomore in her first year with The Purple Tide. She enjoys writing fiction, poetry and other forms of creative writing. She loves cooking food for herself, reading all types of books and genres (historical, tragic,...

Pariya Naderi Abadi
Staff Writer

Pariya Naderi Abadi

Pariya is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. This year, she is excited to make new friends and learn more in her classes. In her free time, she likes to watch movies, listen to music and hang out with friends and...

Pranav Baskaran
Staff Writer

Pranav Baskaran

Pranav is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. He likes to play basketball in his free time as well as hang out with his friends. His hobbies are listening to music, playing with his dog and Facetime-ing his friends....

Asmin Cakir
Staff Writer

Asmin Cakir

Asmin is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She likes to read books, write articles, stories, poems, listen to music and watch Netflix (especially Gilmore Girls). She loves hanging out with her mom and friends....

Athula Cheboli
Staff Writer

Athula Cheboli

Athula Cheboli is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. Outside of school she does dance and enjoys reading. In her free time, she hangs out with her friends and watches Dance Moms.

Sahar Ejaz
Staff Writer

Sahar Ejaz

Sahar is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She enjoys binge-watching Netflix, shopping with her friends, baking with her cousins and listening to music.

Owen Guzman
Staff Writer

Owen Guzman

Owen Guzman is a freshman in his first year with The Purple Tide. He asks many questions and tries to find answers for new questions. He also is EXTREMELY inspired by people, like, literally anybody, and also likes video games...

Mark Hessel
Staff Writer

Mark Hessel

Mark is a freshman in his first year with The Purple Tide. He enjoys basketball and football, and likes to spend time with his friends whenever he can. When he's not playing sports or spending time his friends and family, he likes...

Ariya Lee
Staff Writer

Ariya Lee

Ariya is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She spends her free time reading, swimming and playing the piano. She's involved in climate activism, so whenever she's online, she's either doing homework or organizing...

Huda Noorzai
Staff Writer

Huda Noorzai

Huda is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She loves to listen to music. Some genres she listens to include R&B, rap and hip hop. She enjoys playing soccer and is also a Madrid fan. She is interested to learn...

Camila Rodriguez-Marrero
Staff Writer

Camila Rodriguez-Marrero

Camila Rodriguez is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She is interested in joining the French club. Outside of school, she dances and runs.

Gabby Roper
Staff Writer

Gabby Roper

Gabby is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She spends the majority of her free time pursuing her love for the sport of volleyball. Gabby enjoys listening to music, spending time with friends and watching baseball.

Nandini Sattineni
Staff Writer

Nandini Sattineni

Nandini Sattineni is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She loves to watch movies in her free time and binge watch TV shows. She enjoys spending time with her friends and loves to go out. When Nandini does most...

Aniket Saxena
Staff Writer

Aniket Saxena

Aniket is a freshman in his first year with The Purple Tide. He plays tennis, but his favorite hobby is basketball. He spends his time drawing insulting cartoons of his little brother, playing basketball and tennis and hanging...

Olivia Shen
Staff Writer

Olivia Shen

Olivia is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. In her free time, she likes to dance, cook and hang out with friends! Olivia is also on the Chantilly Dance Team! She's a big fan of Taylor Swift and hopes to see her...

Emaan Yousaf
Staff Writer

Emaan Yousaf

Emaan Yousaf is a freshman in her first year with The Purple Tide. She is interested to join new clubs, such as MSA and Fashion Club. She's also excited to make new friends this year and learn more about her classes. Outside of...

Kristine Brown
Adviser

Kristine Brown

Kristine Brown, MJE, has been advising publications for 18 years. In addition to advising CHS's newspaper and broadcast staff, Brown teaches at Indiana University's High School Journalism Institute and presents at various journalism...

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