FEAR THE BLUE ON THE COURT On Thursday, October 7, the Acalanes Girls Varsity volleyball team traveled to Las Lomas High School to face the Knights. In game one, senior Bela Yanakieva got the Dons started off with a kill, and junior Mara Korzeniowska rattled off three aces to put the Dons up early 5-0. Junior Hanna Hageboeck delivered a…
Freshman Women’s Volleyball team got off to a sluggish start against the Las Lomas Knights on Thursday, October 7th. After a long set of back and forth trading points, the Dons were able to pull out the win 27-25 thanks to the starting line up of Fiona Roux, Emma Seelenbacher, Grace Gallacher, Lily McKinney, Addie Ames, and Emme Cain. The…
On Saturday, October 9, the JV Girls’ Volleyball Team played hard with exceptional camaraderie throughout a 10-hour day to finish 5-1 and at second place! Congratulations to Junior Sofie Foster who was honored by being named to the All-Tournament Team! 16 schools participated in the highly competitive tournament. The Dons played 6 matches as follows: AHS vs. Windsor High School: 25-22 and…
On Thursday 10/7, the JV Girls battled The Knights at Las Lomas and despite a raucous home crowd, the Dons demonstrated their grit and won in 2 sets: 25-19 and 25-22! Great team effort all around! Fear the BLUE!
Cougars could not handle the Dons! The Freshman Girls Volleyball team maintained their undefeated status this week, handily beating Alhambra in two quick games on Tuesday and crushing the Campolindo Cougars, also in two games on Thursday. At Campolindo on Thursday, the girls brought their A game and an enthusiastic cheering section amplified by the Acalanes Boosters own Jane Smith. …
On Tuesday September 28, the Acalanes Girls Varsity volleyball team traveled to Alhambra High School to take on the Bulldogs. In the first game, the Dons pulled away early: 4-3 Junior Ryann Jones’ kill gives the Dons the lead, which they never relinquish 5-3 Sophomore Jade Profilio passes to Monica Dikova who sets Senior Aly Kirke for the kill 7-5 freshman Maelin Mason kill 8-6…
The JV Women’s Volleyball headed into Bulldog territory on Tues. evening to face Alhambra for league game #3. The first set was a satisfying 25-8 victory. The second set saw the Dons trailing the entire way. We saw some good serves by designated hitter/server Jasmine Frost and some strong rallies during setter Eva McGrath’s serving runs but the girls couldn’t…
The Broncos tried to buck our JV Women off their game on Thurs. night at Northgate. It was the second league game of the year and the Dons got off to a shaky start down 0-3. Middle blocker, Tea Smith served the Dons back to 3-3 with the help of fellow middle blocker, Sammie Thompson who gave a great performance in both sets. …
On Thursday the Acalanes Girls Varsity volleyball team traveled to Northgate -Varsity Team Bucks the Broncos for the WIN The Dons came ready to play in game 1: 1-0 Senior Rachel Zhang ace 2-0 3-0 Zhang ace again 4-0 5-4 Junior Hanna Hageboeck kill stops the Northgate rally 8-6 Junior KatelynOlin ace 9-6 Hageboeck Kill 11-7 Senior Aly Kirke block 12-8 Kirke kill 13-8 freshman Maelin Mason kill…SHE’S A…
Frosh Dons Storms Back for a ‘W’ Against Northgate In what can only be described as an intense battle, the Freshman girls volleyball team overwhelmed Northgate to take the win on Thursday afternoon. After losing the first set 21-25, the Dons fought their way to victory in overtime for the second set, winning 27-25. Acalanes won the tiebreaker handily 15-7…
