Acalanes Ladies Varsity Volleyball: Dons take on the Knights at Las Lomas This past Tuesday night, 10/18, the Dons played Las Lomas on their home turf, also celebrating the Knights’ Senior Night!The Knights were so thoughtful to honor our 9 graduating seniors with a bouquet for each player tied with blue and white ribbon! Love the camaraderie and sportsmanship of our…
The Acalanes Girls Varsity Team ended their regular season play at home Tuesday with a loss to Miramonte. The Dons solo match won was by Senior and Captain Analese (Ari) Ruczynski in a thrilling three setter. After going down 1-6, she flipped the script against her opponent and won the second set 6-1. That took it to a narrow 12-10…
The JV Girls Tennis team wrapped up a successful season on Tuesday against Miramonte winning the top 6 matches of the day. After beating Northgate last week with some amazing singles and doubles play, Tuesday was a day of all doubles matches and the Dons came out strong once again. At Line 1, Tea Smith and Georgia Wilson took the…
Please join us in the gym this Thursday, October 20th, at 6 pm for a short Senior Night presentation honoring the players of the Class of 2023. Stay to cheer on Varsity against MIRAMONTE @ 6:30 pm. The last league game of the season! Let’s Go Think Pink! A HUGE thank you to all who contributed to a successful Think…
The Dons traveled to Soquel to compete in the 2022 JV NorCal Invitational on October 14 – 15. With some players out due to sickness, the depleted team finished in 8th place. The team started the tournament looking strong. They won their first game against St. Francis. The final score was Acalanes 6 – St. Francis – 3. They lost…
Can’t say enough about the senior Lady Don Golfers! Outstanding golfers, outstanding representatives of Acalanes High School, and finished their varsity season with best record at Acalanes in 20 years. Nice to go on top! Honored at the DAL Championships were seniors Makena Chelemedos (4 year varsity golfer, 4 year all-league honors), Kendal Geddes (4 year varsity golfer, 4 year…
Capping a stellar 9-1 season, the Lady Don’s took on a tough golf course and stiff competition to finish in second place by a mere 11 strokes to earn an almost certain birth to the North Coast Section Championships. As usual, all of the Lady Dons contributed and the day was especially noteworthy as the DAL Tournament was dedicated to…
It stinks. No other way to look at it. It stinks to high heaven. Losing a game to a rival when there were chances to win never feels good. The Dons fell to their cross-town rivals last Friday night, 24-27 after a last-minute drive ended with their fourth turnover of the game. That’s right, four gifts that the Dons gave…
This past Thursday evening, October 13, the Varsity Dons had a rematch against the Broncos, who had beaten them in 3 sets at Northgate 2 weeks ago. Acalanes came out strong on offense, with Hageboeck, Olin, Jones, Walton, & Paul racking up countless kills, thanks to lofty sets by Korzeniowska. Jones, Korzeniowska, & Mason set the bar high on service, while…
A pun is a joke exploiting the possible different meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings, such as when a kid says “I need some new jeans” and the parent responds “Why? You don’t like the great genes I gave you?” So why the theme of puns on a…