While the weather finally cooled off for today’s College Park match, the Girls Varsity Tennis Team certainly did not as they dominated the host Falcons 8-1. Starting from the top of the ladder, the #1 singles (Ari Ruczynski) and #1 doubles team (Kailyn Broad and Emily Berkowitz) immediately set the tone with quick commanding 6-0, 6-0 victories over College…
Evening with Arshay Cooper will be held Monday, September 19 at 630pm in the ACAtheater. How do you take the initiative to do things, go places, and to get out of that difficult place?” Cooper’s answer: “It’s about three things: wellness, friendships — or community — and mentors. First, you have to be well to do well. Next, you need…
Wow, what a long day of awesome volleyball on Saturday! With 16 teams invited, including Campolindo and Carondelet, the field was quite impressive. There were 4 pools with 4 teams in each pool. Top 2 teams of each pool moved on to single elimination match play. In the Acalanes group pool, we had Carondelet, Windsor, and Ukiah. Our girls started…
Avenging last week’s narrow loss to the defending league champion Matadors, the Lady Don’s team of Kendal Geddes (46), Juliet Becker (59), and the Chelemedos trio Makena (43), Haley (42) and Hana (47) brought out the spank towel and beat the Mats by 17 strokes and the Knights by 71. Excellent golf by all five of the Lady Don’s, Haley…
A Football Season is a long journey filled with challenges. In order to make it to the Summit, the ultimate goal, a team must face many difficult trials along the way. The Acalanes Dons faced a formidable slope last Friday night, having to travel two hours to Sacramento in record heat to face a much larger D1 school that had…
The boys and girls cross country started their season at the Ed Sias invitational at Hidden Valley Park in Martinez, California. The meet served as a rustbuster to get back into racing shape and see the gains everyone has made through a summer of training. The varsity girls squad got out to a fantastic start to the season finishing 5th…
Thursday, September 8th was a big game for the Acalanes Freshman Don’s football team. It was their debut home game, and on top of that the triple digit heat forced a night game, which meant the freshman got to play under the lights; an honor normally reserved for varsity teams. But the Varsity Dons were happy to share their field and…
Dons Girls’ Volleyball Smokes out the Berkeley High Yellow Jackets! Varsity Volleyball battled heat and the Berkeley High Yellow Jackets to victory Thursday night. Our Dons started out blazing in the first set and kept a steady lead against the Yellow Jackets thanks to strategic kills by Katelyn Olin, Hanna Hageboeck, MaeLin Mason, Sofie Foster and Maya Paul. The Yellow…
The JV/B squad of Hayley Takeshima (10), Jordan Huskins (9), Taylor Baker (9), Osanna Deng (12), Grace Wolpert (9) and Samya Johnson (11) faced off against the Cougars on Wednesday and played proudly through some high temperatures and serious terrain at Moraga Country Club. The team played well and while they beat the heat, they were unable to beat the Cougars.…
Acalanes vs Pittsburg Varsity Volleyball On a very warm Tuesday evening, September 6, the Dons travelled east to face the Pittsburg Pirates. Play was close from the start, but Acalanes pulled away early with contributions from the entire court! Multiple kills from Maylin Mason, Apple Walton, Sofie Foster, Katelyn Olin, and Monica Dikova led the offense; defense just as strong, led…
