Early tennis balls were made of a variety of materials including leather stuffed with wool, a wool-wrapped stomach of a sheep or goat tied with rope, and putty and human hair. Today, they are surfaced by a felt-covered rubber compound and filled with a nitrogen and oxygen mixture. They are 2.57–2.70 inches in diameter and weigh 1.98–2.10 ounces. In 1972,…
The girls golf team moved to 4-1 after their first loss of the season at Boundary Oaks golf course. Despite some great play and spectacular shot-making, Boundary Oaks has never been the favorite course of the Lady Don’s, and thankfully we’re done with it for the year. The Lady Dons final matches will all be played at our home course,…
On a beautiful night for football, the Dons took on the College Park Falcons on Friday. It was all gas and no break for the boys in white entering the Falcons home opener. The Dons exercised the demons from their early season losses and showed why they are still ranked #2 in Division 4 football. The YAC (yards after catch) Brothers where…
The Cross Country team has completed 2 meets so far this season, here are the highlights! Farmer Invitational in Hayward, Sept 16th: The Men’s Cross Country team started out their season at the Farmer Invitational. They placed 7th overall as a team, led by Logan Farzan who finished in 4th place overall with a time of 15:28.53. In the Frosh-Soph…
Congratulations to our Acalanes Lady Dons! The Lady Dons headed down to Menlo-Atherton High School to defend their title from last year’s Amanda McDonald Tournament. The time was 12pm and the opponent was the Archbishop Mitty Monarchs of San Jose. The Dons were fired up! Senior Brooklyn Plomp scored the first goal of the game in less than 30 seconds.…
The Freshman football team continues to dominate as they walked away with a 38-8 win against College Park last Thursday night. The Dons are undefeated thus far with a 5-0 record. Let’s go Dons! Getting right down to business, Acalanes scored on the first drive of the game and successfully converted for 2-points immediately putting the Dons up 8-0. Between…
In front of the largest home crowd the season, the two teams put on an amazing show, with both teams getting to large leads in different sets and comebacks galore. You could feel the tension in the gym in warmups with first place in league at stake. This was set to be a battle of wills, and everyone had a…
The Acalanes Dons Girls’ Football team decided to throw a party on the field, hosting the Miramonte Matadors and the Clayton Valley Ugly Eagles for their home opener. Miramonte brought their A-game with a small but talented team, while the Ugly Eagles arrived with what seemed like half the bird population, boasting over 30 players. The opening kick-off at 5…
Throughout most of tennis history, rackets were made of wood. Heads were around 65 square inches, and some rackets came with fashionable trapezoid-shaped “cases”. Although graphite composites rackets came out in the early 1980s, Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg tried to stage a comeback in 1985 in Monte Carlo with his standard small-headed wood racket because “he hadn’t tried the…
Acalanes v. Campo To say the air was filled with anticipation is an understatement. Our home gym was cool in the late summer evening as the freshman Dons fought tooth and nail, point for point against a tough Campo team. Ultimately falling in 2 sets, but what an effort! All eyes were on the JV squad as they warmed up…