Girls Tennis organized a parents doubles round robin as a team FUNdraiser. Many thanks to the parents that signed up to test their tennis skills in a rotating session of doubles, and help support Girls Tennis / Boosters and Acalanes Athletics. All showed their ACA pride in blue gear, enjoyed beautiful conditions at the Orindawoods Tennis Club, but make no…
The Girls Varsity Tennis Team fought hard against Northgate on Tuesday and prevailed with a 5-4 win. Line 1 singles player Ari Ruczynski rolled over her opponent, 6-1, 6-1. Martha Burns at Line 2 singles hung on to win 6-4, 1-6, 10-5. Aamena Shipchandler had a tight 7-5, 7-5 win at Line 3, while Cate Condy (Line 4) smashed her…
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!
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…
Thursday, August 11, you may pick up your Acalanes Membership passes or purchase a membership in the PAC before the Fall Sports Parent Meeting. Acalanes Boosters will be there at 630pm, so come get your ACApasses and ACAswag! The next time to pick up your passes will be on Friday, August 26 before the Varsity Home football game from 6pm…
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…