The Acalanes Freshman football team hit the road this week to visit the home field of the Redwood Giants in Larkspur. This was Redwood Freshman Football’s first home game in 5 years, so clearly, they were motivated to impress the abundance of fans in their stands. However, our Dons had spoiler plans on their minds. This freshman team is proving…
Wednesday afternoon, 9/14, Acalanes welcomed the Alhambra Bulldogs for our last pre-season ladies volleyball game. The Varsity Dons started off the first set strong, dominating the Bulldogs with a seemingly endless service run by middle Katelyn Olin. In addition to Olin’s 8 aces as a subset of an 18 point run on serve, Monica Dikova once again demonstrated deft play…
September 14, 2022 Acalanes hosted Sacred Heart Prep Wednesday evening. SHP squeaked by with a goal in the last seconds of the game making the final score Acalanes 6 – Sacred Heart Prep 7. Adrianna Berloui scored the first goal for Acalanes in the first quarter. In the second quarter goalkeeper Hanna Mirzai looked like Elastigirl when she stretched as…
Sept. 14th 6pm. Heaston Aquatic Center Dons vs. Sacred Heart Prep Gators of Atherton The home crowd was sparse and flat to start the match, as the Dons dragged through the first half, allowing the Gators to stay in the game throughout. After the 1st quarter of play, the Dons had a 3-2 advantage, led by a pair of laser…
The varsity Girls Tennis team battled it out on the courts Thursday against rival Campolindo. The Dons had many close matches and had wins with singles Ari Ruczynski (6-4, 6-1) and the doubles team of Emily Berkowitz and Kailyn Broad (6-2, 6-2). Way to go!
Water Polo fans enjoyed a wild weekend of action at the Heaston Aquatic Center for the 10th Annual Acalanes Invitational Tournament. On day one, the host team did not disappoint. Playing in front of the student body & energized by the Acalanes marching band, the Dons rolled through their first two games, controlling the action against both College Park and Menlo H.S. Dominating wins…
Congratulations to the Acalanes Junior Varsity Water Polo Team for coming in third place at the 2022 Acalanes Invitational played at Campolindo High School! The energy was high with hundreds of exceptional female athletes competing amongst 16 teams. Let’s go Lady Dons! Acalanes started the tournament on September 9th playing Northgate under a blazing hot sun. Jenny Haugner and Elyse…
While the weather finally cooled off for today’s College Park match, the Girls Varsity Tennis Team certainly did not as they dominated the host Falcons 8-1. Starting from the top of the ladder, the #1 singles (Ari Ruczynski) and #1 doubles team (Kailyn Broad and Emily Berkowitz) immediately set the tone with quick commanding 6-0, 6-0 victories over College…
Wow, what a long day of awesome volleyball on Saturday! With 16 teams invited, including Campolindo and Carondelet, the field was quite impressive. There were 4 pools with 4 teams in each pool. Top 2 teams of each pool moved on to single elimination match play. In the Acalanes group pool, we had Carondelet, Windsor, and Ukiah. Our girls started…
Avenging last week’s narrow loss to the defending league champion Matadors, the Lady Don’s team of Kendal Geddes (46), Juliet Becker (59), and the Chelemedos trio Makena (43), Haley (42) and Hana (47) brought out the spank towel and beat the Mats by 17 strokes and the Knights by 71. Excellent golf by all five of the Lady Don’s, Haley…
