From the lights on the stage, to the desks in the wellness room during FNL meetings, this outstanding Bearcat has leadership and acting skills that carry her to her success in all of her extracurriculars as well as her future.
Divyana (Divy) Emmons has influenced over seven various activities while at PRHS ranging from being the President of the Friday Night Live Club, to attending the Santa Cruz Island Field Studies Collaborative trips to starring on stage of the Performing Arts Center. Emmons has been involved in the acting program for all four years of high school, with her latest role of playing the independent, tragic Eurydice in Paso High Theater Company’s Teen Version of Hadestown.
While being in a prominent leadership role as an Acting I Student Director, she is also President of the Friday Night Live club and has held that position for the last three years, on the Youth Commission Board, Superintendent’s council, on the yearbook staff in 2022-23, volleyball and beach volleyball her sophomore year, while also taking a total of six AP classes and 11 honors classes in her high school career.
Being in the program the last four years has made her able to strengthen and enhance her own personal skills as well as become closer with her fellow actors.
“I think one of the biggest things I’ve gained from this pathway is the amount of friends that I’ve made. I’ve been really fortunate to meet some of my best friends, and I think it is so fun to be able to do this thing that we love,” Emmons said.
As Emmons reflects on her final weeks as a Bearcat, she realized that her older sister Grace, who now teaches middle school English near her alma mater Santa Clara University, has been her biggest inspiration throughout her high school years.
“We’re very similar in a lot of different ways and both very ambitious when it comes to school and like to be involved in a lot of different areas. I think she’s really helped me navigate high school and really pushed me to do what I want for myself and not for anyone else,” Emmons said.
In the fall of 2025, Emmons will be attending UC Berkeley where she will be majoring in Biology. After college, she hopes to be a high school teacher, field researcher, or be involved in the performing arts.
