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…
Every New Year brings with it fresh energy and a renewed spirit. New Year is the best time to inspire ourselves with resolutions, hopes and wishes. Let us share the happiness and dreams 2021 brings to our Dons Community. Celebrate every day to the fullest!
We can all agree that we need more positivity, joy and happiness in 2021. Our Dons will be a beacon of hope, team spirit and perseverance. We look forward to moving closer to the bright light at the end of the long labyrinth of the COVID-19 tunnel of 2020. 2020 did not work out as any of us planned. So many had great…
Good Luck to all the Dons! Tackle Your Finals! Big big BLUE-tiful shout out to our Acalanes teachers! Teachers and coaches work with students that have a wide variety of skills and abilities. It is the job of the teacher ( classroom coach) to find a student’s strengths, and also work on their weaknesses. The ability for a student to…
Family, feast and football! Thanksgiving is a chance for family and friends to gather and give thanks for all that they have. However…this year is different. Thanksgiving is unlike any other with a covid still looming. Yet, the Dons Football family is grateful for our Acalanes football program and OUR COACHES! Coaching football in the age of Covid brings an…
But the countdown has begun… No Friday night lights? No chants, no cheers, no superstitions? No standing up for the kick-off and no high fives after every touchdown? No team meals. No checking the weather on Monday to prepare for whatever climates we will sit in come on Friday. No Dons shirts, no Acalanes Football hats. No looking for parking…
#1 FOOTBALL FANS: COM-MOM-ITTED TO THE DONS Don Moms eat, drink, think live for Acalanes football. When Friday night rolls around Don Moms are prepping for the game: Dons swag ready to go, resting up for cheering, eating a good meal for energy and fired up to hit the stands. Moms are a crucial part of any high school football. We…
And you thought coaching high school football was all about Xs and Os, blocking, tackling and making sure these kids begin to learn something about what it means to be young men . That’s all true. But Coach Bill Hansen wants the Freshmen players to remember something about the year besides the final scores, the big plays…and that is friendships…
Before games, in the stretching line, Coach Young would walk down and hug every single player telling them that they would do great and that he loved them. This would really make a connection between the player and Coach Young. Players know Coach Young was going out of his way to let us know he believed in us: #4 Evan…
In 2017 when Coach Burnsed joined the Dons family, AHS quarterback Robby Rowell (now a quarterback for the California Bears) stated, “Coach Burnsed is a legend around Lamorinda”. When you have over 40 years of coaching football, you have a coach with knowledge, a level-headed approach and experience. Our Acalanes varsity coach has all that and more. Throw in other adjectives like…
