“Santa is real, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Next question.”

No one tell Enzo Crivello the truth about his favorite holiday.

Spending time with his mom, dad, younger sister Charlie and dog Daisy around the Christmas tree is a critical part of his year, as is any of his family time. 

“My dad does like to get involved with me and my sister’s activities like volleyball and weightlifting, and me and my sister like to binge shows with my mom,” Crivello said. “We’re working on ‘The Boys’ right now.”

Crivello spent time this summer with his family in Milwaukee, where he toured colleges and watched a Bucks game at the Fiserv Forum.

“I’ve been obsessed with the Bucks for forever and this is the first game I had ever gotten to see in their Arena,” Crivello said. 

Crivello also got to spend time with his mom during the cross country team’s annual Mammoth Trip this summer. But he’s also been making senior year memories with his friends since school started.

“The coolest memory has been watching my friend Lexi win homecoming queen,” Crivello recalled. “Everyone in my friend group was pretty excited when that happened.”

Crivello is proud of all his friendships. To him, his kindness is a feat in itself.

“I can achieve whatever I want, I don’t really consider it an accomplishment if people would hate me for it,” Crivello said. “I take value in kindness, and treating people how you would want them to treat you.”

The Dungeons and Dragons fanatic fosters more of these friendships through the DND Club. 

“I love what me and the other members of my club have been able to do with it,” Crivello said. “So many activities, and now as the president, I get to see and help other people learn the game I’ve grown up playing.”

Crivello’s love for Dungeons and Dragons goes all the way back to the pandemic, when he started a DND podcast with his friends from Agoura so they could keep in touch.

“We thought it would be a great idea, so we’d meet right after online PE and record for a few hours,” Crivello recalled. “We made it through two or three completed campaigns during the pandemic so I’d say we did pretty good.”

But Crivello wasn’t always a gamer. In fact, he used to be in theater.

“My dad and mom were musical theatre people. I ended up getting the lead male role, Bert the chimney sweep, in 6th grade in my school’s production of Mary Poppins,” Crivello said. “I ended up leaving the production because the company that did musicals at my school got driven out by angry theatre kids who didn’t get the roles they wanted.”

He has now strayed from his theater background, but stays an avid enjoyer of all things cinema—his favorite genre is horror puzzle movies.

“Most recent I watched was Saw X,” Crivello recommended. “It was a pretty good Saw movie, obviously the acting is sometimes scuffed, but if you move past that, the plot wasn’t too bad. I like watching Screenrant videos on how to beat them after as well.”

Enjoying his senior year, Crivello is also turning his attention to the future. 

“I want to go into business in college and hopefully leverage internships and experience into a base level job at a sports agency of some sort,” Crivello said. “I hope I can take some time for myself before settling down. You don’t get your teens and 20’s back.”

As he progresses through this year and into college, Crivello hopes that people remember that he is just as human as any of us.

“I have my own hardships, I have my own struggles. I want to be remembered as someone who motivated somebody else to be better in everything they do, and to have a better outlook on life.