Acalanes Varsity Tennis Awards Announced, Post Season Continued with Tyler Toni Playing in the NCS Singles Championships

Even though the league matches have finished, the tennis team has been busy this past week.  The DAL head coaches named first team, second team and honorable mention players.  The team had its season ending banquet where team awards were presented.  Team representatives Will Lofting and Sammy Foster joined me and attended the Acalanes Athletics & Activities event where we met some of next year’s incoming freshmen tennis players.   And then Tyler Toni traveled to James Logan High in Union City to compete in the NCS singles championships representing the DAL-Foothill league and, of course, Acalanes.

The following six players were announced First Team – Singles:

Acalanes: Tyler Toni and Nick Owens

College Park: Dibyam Dikhit

Miramonte: Lucca Zamani

Northgate: Jon Lee and Ioann Timokhin

The following six players were announced First Team – Doubles:

Acalanes: Aaron Brown and Kaya Hoeberechts

Campolindo: James Martin, Aditya Kapur, Tyler Panos and Ivan Zemsky

The following six players were announced Second Team – Singles:

Acalanes: Tucker Brewer

Campolindo: Kuimars Koopah and Edgar Alford

Miramonte: Aaron Lee, Will Stokes and Cameron Berg

The following six players were announced Second Team – Doubles:

Acalanes: Riley Bonner, James Cortez, Will Lofting and Sammy Foster

Campolindo: Viggo Wirstrom, Luke Yan

Honorable Mentions – One Per School

Acalanes: Diego Ledezma

Campolindo: Jake Hammerman

College Park: Dariush Azarkish

Las Lomas: Vaughn Culler

Miramonte: Gavin Dille

Northgate: Romtin Pourzand

At the Acalanes awards banquet, the following players were recognized with team awards.

Coach’s Award: Aaron Brown (senior)

Most Improved Player: Tyler Toni (senior)

Most Valuable Player: Nick Owens (sophomore)

To all the players who won awards, congratulations!

Last but certainly not least, Coach Mike, mom Velia, and I were at the NCS singles/doubles championships to support Tyler Toni.  Toni replaced Dibyam Dikhit as the automatic qualifier (AQ) representing the DAL-Foothill league.  Toni was one of sixteen singles players and landed #3 seed honors.  If you want to view the entire draw and current scores, click on the link below.

2023 NCS Singles Bracket

Toni cruised through the first round defeating Isaiah Valdivia of Richmond High 6-0, 6-0.  He then ran into a stubborn and talented Elijah Cho of San Leandro High who played an incredible match edging Toni 5-7, 7-6, 6-3.  For Acalanes, this concludes singles and doubles post-season play for 2023.  We now move on to post-season team play.  More to come on that early next week – our first round will be Tuesday, May 9, but the draw has not been set yet.  Congratulations go out to Tyler Toni for earning his spot in the singles championships.  He has been such a valuable member of our team all season.  We are really going to miss him next year.  Go Dons.  Coach Rick

Tyler Toni – going after the first serve at the NCS 2023 Singles Championships.
Will Lofting, Coach Rick, and Sammy Foster welcoming 8th graders at the AAA tennis booth.