Saturday was hard hitting smashmouth old school football versus a big and aggressive Monte Vista Mustang team from the ultra-competitive EBAL. Ultimately though, the Dons emerged victorious with a convincing 28-7 win. With plenty of big hits on both sides, the story of the game was the Don’s dominating defense effectively pitching a shut-out, with the Mustangs only score coming…
The Acalanes Freshmen Don’s Football Team kicked off their first game of the season on Saturday with a BIG WIN against Monte Vista! The Don’s started out on Defense and showed that a week of tackling practice helps! The squad was wrapping up the opposing offense, and showed much better results – Joe Colachico and Everett Glass both had solid…
All three Football teams defeated the Monte Vista Mustangs Varsity 33 to 27 JV 28 to 7 Frosh 20 to 14 Highlights tomorrow of all three games. GO DONS!
I’m super excited to show the work the team has put in! We’ve been waiting for this game for 9 months and we are all ready to prove to everyone that we are a championship team—Senior #11 Brady Huchingson Acalanes is ready for their first football game of the season. A team sport such as football teaches the importance of…
Are You Ready for Some JV Football? A Saturday paaaaarty! Yes, sir, Acalanes is here… ready to get the good time started! We got Granada on the field and we’re crankin’ up the heat, all the rowdy Dons are back and can’t be beat! It’s been a long ten months of masks, distancing and no pads, but thanks to the…
The Acalanes Don’s Freshman team FINALLY got to suit up for a scrimmage vs California High School on Saturday. It was great to see these boys put on pads and play full contact football – Nothing says Football Season like a Beautiful Spring Day… but we will take whatever we can get. This is a “bumper crop” year for Freshman…
Nothing feels more like football weather than a beautiful Spring Day… reminds me of the USFL Football league. The Acalanes Varsity Football team played a scrimmage against Granada this past Saturday and the excitement of some normalcy, and of getting to finally see the team suited up, was palpable starting from about 4 days ago. It was great to see…
It is a GREAT Day to be a Don. The Dons have stuck it out and now they are ready to bring it on. Dons football players and coaches have made it clear that obstacles and challenges from the past months and whatever issues there will be in the future don’t matter. They are focused on finally getting a delayed…
“To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.” -Tom Brady, 6-time Super Bowl Champion No one could have known what it would take to get Football back in a pandemic, but due to the…
In Conversation with Arshay Cooper Tuesday, February 23 from 6:30-7:30pm sponsored by Acalanes Parents Club and Acalanes Student Body. With our first sports season kicking off this week, this is a great opportunity for teams to join the event together, bond and get inspired! ARSHAY COOPER is a Rower, Benjamin Franklin award-winning author, the protagonist of the critical acclaim film…
