Freshmen get linked in as new year beckons

Watsonville High School juniors, and Link Crew members, Jorge Garcia (right) and Manny Garcia (left) help welcome incoming freshman Luis Diego Brambila and other freshmen to their campus Friday. (Photos by Tarmo Hannula).

WATSONVILLE — Wide-eyed, giggling, nervous and more than a little excited, more than 400 freshman packed Watsonville High School’s new gymnasium Friday morning for a brief orientation and pep talk from the principal and other administrators.

But perhaps the most important reason they were there was to meet the student mentors who would help get them through their first day at the sprawling school, and ostensibly during their entire first year.

The mentors are otherwise known as the Link Crew, part of the school’s “Bridge to High School Mentor Program.”

With so many new students set to descend on the campus Monday, the Link Crew helps ease the transition to high school for the students and also alleviates the confusion of hundreds of students looking for their classrooms in the first days of school.



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