Little by little, an increasing number of girls in the USA are breaking through invisible barriers of perhaps the most traditionally male-dominated sport, football. In assuming key roles kicking for their school’s football team, they’re blazing trails for the young women behind them. In 1997, Christal Cook was the first girl to play on her high school’s football team. She was…
Welcome to the Acalanes Dons Boosters Articles for JV football! I wish I could say that I volunteered to do these write ups, but the truth is that Jane Smith “volun-told” me that I was doing this job despite the objections of many who suffered through reading my Freshman Baseball Articles this past Spring. As part of the role, Jane asked…
The Acalanes athletic community is fortunate to have Bill Fraser coaching and mentoring so many of our student-athletes. Bill’s extensive volunteer work across the community for many years led the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce to recently honor him as Co-Citizen of the Year. As the city’s official proclamation declared, “Bill Fraser, through his coaching, creates community on and off the…
The JV Dons Football Team took on the Alhambra Bulldogs on Friday night and had an almost perfect game! There was some sort of transportation snafu with the Bulldogs bus, and they arrived 2 hours after they were supposed to be there, probably could have walked there in the amount of time we waited for them! After the JV team…
The JV and Freshman Football Don’s took on Miramonte Frosh / Soph Team in Orinda on Friday Night – It is a testament to the strength of the Acalanes Football program when you can physically see just how any kids are in our program… vs. seeing a list of names on a roster – The Dons suited up around 75…
The JV Don’s Football team was in action on Friday vs the Knights of Las Lomas. The 10 min car ride from Acalanes to the home team’s stadium in Walnut Creek took longer than it did for the Don’s to put away the Knights! Mason Zirkel took the opening kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown to start the game, and…
The JV Don’s continued to roll this week shutting out Castlemont High School with the score of 56 to 0. What a great way to cap off a amazing Homecoming Week! Everyone was wondering if the opposing team was even going to show up at first – Game time was scheduled for a 4:30 start, but because of a transportation…
The Acalanes JV made the long trip to Seaside to take on the Marina High School Mariners on Saturday. Marina is a newer high school that has only one football team. They are loaded with juniors and seniors and were also undefeated, before Saturday. As usual, the coaches had the boys ready to play. The scoring started early when quarterback Jake Boselli threw a 50 yard…
Stanley Middle School has 545 students. Marina High School has 587 students. Acalanes has 1384 students. Some cool numerical trivia before the Dons head out on Saturday to play the Marina Mariners with a 2pm kick off. 33 students of the 587 play Marina JV football. Those 33 Mariners will face 44 Dons football players. Marina’s record is 1-0 and…
Balboa won the toss and elected to differ to get the ball first after halftime. After their kicker put the ball in the end zone for a touchback. The Acalanes offense took the ball on the 20 yard line. Acalanes Starting QB this week was left hander, Sully Bailey – Who ran a quick pitch to Speedster Paul Kuhner towards…
