Our Varsity Lady Dons visited College Park on Tuesday night. Freshman Grace Imrie and Senior Lyla Cox scored early, thanks to assists from Senior Grace Gebhardt. The Dons then struggled on both ends of the field for a while until Coaches Bill Fraser and Mark Rurka called a timeout. They had the girls run their own time out to “figure…
After an unexpected transformer failure at Acalanes this Friday, our track team hastily changed plans and headed over to Northgate high school in Walnut Creek. What followed was our team’s most dominant performance of the year. While there were many great individual efforts throughout the day, the story of the meet was our relay teams. On the Girls side,…
The mighty Dons swim team ended their season on a high note with strong performances at both the DAL Varsity & JV Championship meets held this past weekend. Participating teams included Acalanes, Campolindo, Miramonte, Northgate and Las Lomas. After competing on Friday in the prelims, the team had 24 swimmers qualify for the finals on Saturday. Varsity was led by top…
Acalanes swim team ends their season this week with the DAL Varsity and JV Championship meets to be held at Campolindo.On Wednesday Dons Swimming took a break from practice to recognize and celebrate our seniors before their final swim as part of Acalanes swim team this weekend. Congratulations to the following swim team seniors: Luke Watson, Ethan Walker, Liam Stephenson,…
JV Stays Undefeated with Win over Clayton Valley The Lady Dons played at Las Lomas Tuesday. The Dons defense, led by Senior goalie Della Pascucci held up well early in the first half, creating time for the offense to find their rhythm. Sophomore Haley Rurka scored two goals and an assist, Senior Coco Fellner added two more goals and two beautiful give-and-go…
This past Saturday, the Dons Track and Field team traveled to nearby Miramonte High School for their season opening scrimmage and first meet since March 11, 2020 (1 year and 9 days ago, for those of you who are keeping track (pun)). The proud coaching staff would like to salute each and every Acalanes athlete who competed. Due to the…
Friday night the Lady Dons had their rematch against Miramonte. While the Mats came out hot, Acalanes was up for the fight. Sophomore Haley Rurka had 2 goals, Senior Coco Fellner scored a hat trick (3 goals) with 1 assist and Senior Grace Gebhardt added 9 goals and 3 assists in a high scoring battle. Miramonte won 19-14. Next game is…
Boys Varsity Tennis Team Update for the Week of March 15 It’s a busy week for the tennis team with three final matches of the season! Two down and a final Senior Day match against Miramonte at home to go on Friday. Results from earlier this week: March 16 vs. Campo The Dons fell to Campo 3-6 in an extremely close match. 5 matches went…
The girls varsity Dons were out matched at home losing to Miramonte 19-6. Soph. Haley Rurka scored her first goal of the season! Senior Grace Gebhardt added 5 goals. The Dons look forward to a rematch on Friday night as they play the Mats at Miramonte. Acalanes JV Ladies improved to 3 wins and 0 losses on Tuesday evening by…
On Friday night, the Dons varsity girls lacrosse team beat Monte Vista in one of their few non-league games this season. Senior Grace Gebhardt scored 5 of the first 6 goals. Senior Coco Fellner and junior Maya Stelzer each added a goal to give the Dons a comfortable 8-1 half time lead. The home Mustangs came out attacking early in…
