Acalanes is excited to announce the addition of two new coaches for Girls’ Varsity Tennis: Coach Janice Metzger, was a competitive junior and college player and is excited to get out on the Acalanes courts with the girls and build on last year’s successes. Acalanes own Social Studies teacher Joe Schottland is also stepping up as the Assistant Varsity coach. JV…
With over 75 competitors representing eight different Acalanes sports, the Acalanes Liftathon Week was a great way to celebrate all the new weight room equipment and the work that our athletes have put in over the summer months. In the end, six athletes successfully completed the 3 rep, 3 lift (bench, squat, deadlift) competition with totals that reached the 500…
Varsity Girls tennis had an epic run in NCS last week. The team made school history by becoming the only team EVER to reach an NCS Team Championship Finals!!! Seeded 9th going into the event, the Dons went on a 3 match winning streak taking out the 8th (Lick Wilmerding), 1st (Bishop O’Dowd), and 5th (College Prep) seeds en route…
The Girls Varsity Tennis Team is going on another notable and potentially historic run in the NCS Team Championships!! Tomorrow, the Dons will play against College Prep in the semi-finals at 9 am (Saturday, 11/13). Even though the team did a nice tour of the Bay Area playing in their first match against Lick Wilmerding in SF and then against the…
What a great day Senior Day yesterday and great match against Miramonte! Thanks to Pam Dawkins for helping bring things together, all the parents for coming out, and to our Seniors Kayli Harley, Ella Morris, and Avery Bahl, for competing well and having a fantastic season! Cheers to them! Even though the Dons lost yesterday it could have gone either…
Dons lose 2-7 vs the Cougars! Overall, it was a much closer match than the final score showed. In singles, Analese Ruczynski and Martha Burns brought home the 2 match wins for the Dons. Martha won her match 11-9 in the 3rd set tiebreaker with lots of cheering from both sides! For her efforts and focus, Martha Burns was named THE DONS…
Dons win 5-4 vs. the Las Lomas Knights. It doesn’t get any closer. In Singles, Kit Scheirer (#3 singles) UNLEASHED and pulled off another slick win, AGAIN, in the 3rd set tiebreaker. If I had dime for every time they won in the third, I’d probably have a dollar. For their performance on the day, Kit earned the DONS PLAYER OF THE MATCH on the singles side!…
MAD PROPS go out to the VARSITY GIRLS TENNIS TEAM! This ACA squad adds a 4th straight shutout to their current winning streak! The Dons win 9-0 vs the College Park Falcons! In singles, Ari Ruczynski and Martha Burns held strong at the number 1 and 2 spots. Kit Scheirer had a battle royal at the 3 spot, edging out a great win…
The Dons travelled to Miramonte last week to face-off against the Matadors for the first time this year. Dons win 8-1! In Singles, a lot of the players had to adjust to the slower court surface because of the Matadors’ new courts. It took a little time for most, but eventually everyone found their timing and started to put some wins…
Dons lose a close one to the Las Lomas Knights, 4-5. Coach Drew is confident that we will beat them next time! In Singles: Analese Ruczynski fought hard at the one spot and played some of her best tennis of the season. Martha Burns had a tough opponent at number 2 singles. Like real tough. Ella Morris hit some fireballs out there…
