Look-alike, double, long lost twin, or doppelgänger. It is quite entertaining to find people who look similar, and WS is home to a few doppelgängers.
One set of doppelgängers are two seniors, Isabel Hogg and Leslie Lermo, who have been mistaken for sisters since freshman year, when they started running cross country together. To make things even stranger, the girls ran about the same times in their races.
“There was one guy who asked us like three days in a row if we were twins. We’ve been getting it for so long, we’re just kind of used to it by now,” said Lermo.
Another set of doppelgängers are sophomore boys, Tyler Treasure and Cassius Hernandez, and a freshman, Drew Stephens, who all resemble each other. The two sophomores have been told that they looked similar since they started middle school. Stephens and Treasure even expressed how their resemblance has brought them closer together as friends. Hernandez and Stephens don’t find it bizarre, but Treasure thinks it is unusual.
“I think I look like Cassius. I think it’s really weird,” said Treasure.
Similarities have even been obvious in some teachers, like Stephanie Shimp and Victoria Schnoor, who both happen to teach world history at WS. The teachers have classrooms right next to each other, and students often confuse the two when they are standing outside of their trailers during passing periods. The teachers have learned to joke around with the mix ups, and even wore similar clothes for a spirit week.
“Last year when they had a spirit week for twin day, we wore matching shirts, ‘cause everybody always gets us mixed up,” said Shimp.
Many teachers at WS mix up students names, but for seniors Cate Hennessy and Megan Kraus, this happens all too often.
“We’ve been mistaken by teachers sometimes. We’ve never been able to do anything cool with it, though,” said Kraus.
The girls have been told that they looked similar since eighth grade, but they do not really see the resemblance. They think that people might think they look alike, because they look similar in pictures, dress and do their makeup the same way, and even talk and act alike. The funny thing about doppelgängers is that not everyone can see resemblances, but it is interesting who sees the differences.
“I never thought we looked alike, but we kinda dress similar, and I guess when we’re together we start talking the same way,” said Kraus.