It was a cold morning at Campo as swimmers from across the league gathered for the DAL Finals! The meet started off well with a 4th place finish for the Girls Medley Relay and an 8th place finish for the boys team. Avery Tanimura finished 18th overall in the 200 Free with a seasons best time of 2:08.94. Braden Dunton…
It was a perfectly warm day for a swim meet as the 12 DAL teams gathered at Campo for the preliminaries of the season-ending meet. NCS is next weekend, but only for those who qualify! The meet started off with a huge achievement by the 200 Medley Relay Girls A team – Malin Stone, Anna Motes, Tess Veronda and Sadie…
The last two meets of the season took place on 4/16 and 4/21. The Dons faced El Cerrito and Clayton Valley last Wednesday, and hosted Las Lomas on Monday, 4/21 for AHS Senior Night. On 4/16: Jay Shoenhair shaved almost a second off his 200 Free time! Audrey Tugade, Jonathan Judson and Graham Moroney improved their 50 Free times in…
If we had to venture across town, at least it was for some good swimming! The Dons were looking to get back into shape as the season winds down with three weeks left! Facing the Cougars at Campolindo High School last Friday, there were a lot of solid swims put forth by our Dons! The Varsity Medley Relays both put…
Acalanes Swim faces Miramonte on Friday, 3/21 It was a lovely Friday afternoon as the Dons headed over to the green school to face the Mats in their pool. Here are some highlights! The Varsity Girls 200 Medley team of Sadie Suppiger, Audrey Martin, Evya Smyth and Jessica Gerhardt took 1st with a CONS time of 1.57.97. Charlie Holmes dropped…
I wasn’t there for this meet (I was on the bus to Mission Viejo), but here is what went down! The prelims started off with the 200 Medley Relay. Malin Stone, Adelyn Horciza, Sophia Schwartz and Ella Del Rosario went 1:56.84 (NCS Automatic time is 1:55.07), finishing in 7th place. The B team of Lucy McShane, Lily Briones, Sophia Hwang…
After driving down to Mission Viejo in the rain on Friday, it could not have been a more beautiful day on Saturday as the Dons rolled into the Marguerite Aquatics Center for the 50th Annual Mission Viejo Invitational. The preliminaries started off at 9:15am with the Women’s 200 Free. Olivia Whipple finished 19th place with a season best of 2:10.12,…
The Dons’ second swim meet of the season took place on Tuesday, 3/11. It was a lovely afternoon with an extra hour of sunshine thanks to the time change! Northgate is a very large and very strong swim team, but there were still plenty of great swims by the Dons! To start things off, Sadie Suppiger, Anna Motes, Tess Veronda…
It was a cool afternoon at Heaston Aquatic Center – and then got downright cold once the sun went down! Let’s just say that swim team is VERY MUCH looking forward to the time change this weekend! An extra hour of sun will make all the difference to our swimmers! The meet started off with Acalanes winning three of the…
It was a BEAUTIFUL afternoon on Wednesday – sunny and warm – just perfect weather for a swim meet! The Acalanes Swim Team held their time trials after school. This is the meet where swimmers can swim up to five races to get base times for entries into the competitive meets starting in March. Coach Brett and Coach RJ were…