EVENTS
Skechers Pier-to-Pier Friendship Walk 2026
Thanks for Walking With Us Hermosa Beach
Check out the class winners below!
Celebrating Our Walk Winners
To every family, friend, volunteer and sponsor who joined us: a huge thank-you for showing up for friendship, community, and our Hermosa students!
- 2,748 registered walkers and counting!
- 160% of our Skechers Friendship Walk goal achieved
- 1.9× our entire student enrollment in walker registrations!
Click to review the event photos courtesy of Ashley So’Oto.
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SKECHERS FRIENDSHIP WALK 2026
Big steps. Amazing community.
Congratulations to our winning campuses, teachers, classes and students!
Campus rankings
Goal: 1.5× student enrollment in walker registrations
registrations · 2.6× enrollment
EXTRA RECESS WINNER!
registrations · 1.2× enrollment
registrations · 1.7× enrollment
EXTRA RECESS WINNER!
Top principals & teachers
View / Dr. G
Butcher · PE
TOP CAMPUS TEACHERS
VIEW
Crenshaw · TK
VISTA
Aranda · 4th
VALLEY
Hruska · 5th
Classroom celebrations
These classes reached 2× enrollment in registrations!
TK
Bradley · Champlin · Crenshaw · Hunter · Peng
Kindergarten
Ahrens · Corman · Foster · Lange
1st Grade
Ager · Hamilton · Ishii · Lankford · Murtha · Waslefsky
2nd Grade
Cederquist · Baldocchi · Manderscheid
3rd Grade
Chien · Sanchez
4th Grade
Aranda
5th Grade
Hruska
Principal for the Day!
Celebrating the student with the most registrations at each campus
VIEW
Jordan Irizarry
Crenshaw’s class
VISTA
Makenzie Obrand
Chien’s class
VALLEY
Julianna Harris
Overbeck’s class
Thank you, Hermosa Beach, for walking with us!
THE RESULTS...
REGISTRATIONS: 1,099
EXTRA RECESS? YES!
POPSICLE & PJ PARTY
- Caravan (Preschool)
- All TK classes!
- Ahrens (Kinder)
- Corman (Kinder)
- Foster (Kinder)
- Lange (Kinder)
- Martinez (Kinder)
- Munson (Kinder)
- King (1st)
- Murtha (1st)
- Vizzi (1st)
PRINCIPAL FOR THE DAY
- Charles Liu (Caravan) with 32 registrations!
TOP TEACHER
- Ms. Peng
TOP PRINCIPAL at HBCSD
- Dr. Ghobrial
REGISTRATIONS: 659
NO HOMEWORK? YES!
POPSICLE & PJ PARTY
- Bajaj (2nd)
- Jones (2nd)
- Trevino (2nd)
- Busse (3rd)
- Sanchez (3rd)
PRINCIPAL FOR THE DAY
- Makenzie Obrand (Jones) with 25 registrations!
TOP TEACHER
- Ms. Jones
REGISTRATIONS:
231 (5th) & 658 (6th–8th)
POPSICLE PARTY
- Hruska (5th)
PRINCIPAL FOR THE DAY
- Jack Schlosser (Shin) with 34 registrations!
TOP HOMEROOM TEACHER
- Ms. Hruska
TOP SPECIALS TEACHER
- Mr. Butcher
TOP TEACHER at HBCSD
- Mr. Butcher
Final HVS Class Standings
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Thank you to the following businesses and community members for their generosity:
Elizabeth Ashmun with Phlur, Monica Saracino with Janessa Leoné, Valentina Brum with Brum Aesthetics, Jenna Gulick with Hammitt, and the Bove-Lamonica family for Skechers donations.
We also wanted to thank Dr. Wildes, Dr. G, Principal Yang, Principal Bledsoe, Rob Chong, Addy Williams, Shauna Wiley, Taylor Martin, Amanda Neale, Lauren Merriam Sprague, Kristen Luna, Ashley Staszak, the PTO, the front office staff at each campus, all the room parents and teachers for your time and efforts to make this event a success!
And lastly, we want to thank the HVS parents for supporting your kids and our school. It takes a village and we appreciate your commitment to the Skechers Walk!
Questions?
Please contact our HBEF Skechers Co-Chairs, Renee Obrand & Elma Panagaki