The Acalanes wrestling team started the team dual portion of their season at home Thursday night hosting the DAL Valley Division tri-dual. Acalanes was able to finally use their amazing new wrestling mat in competition for the first time. The mat was a generous donation from Cliff and Anne Olson! Acalanes started the night with one of the favorites for…
Acalanes Wrestling wrapped up the 2023-2024 season this past weekend with 5 wrestlers competing at NCS. The boys were at James Logan High School Friday morning with Sophomore and first year Adam Caicedo, Junior Ian Sanftner and Captain Dylan Potter. Unfortunately, Dylan suffered an injury and had to be pulled early from his last high school career tournament. He finished…
Acalanes Wrestling was at Mt. Diablo High School Saturday for the DAL Championship fighting for spot at NCS on the Varsity Boys side. All three teams were wrestling on Saturday with the Dons bringing 19 wrestlers in total. One the Varsity Boys side we had three get through to NCS next Friday and Saturday at James Logan High School. Junior…
Acalanes Wrestling wrapped up their final weekend of regular season tournaments with all three teams in action. The Girls team was at Goddess of the Vine tournament at Windsor High School. Senior Dakota Goyert finished 4th. The Varsity Boys were at the Hunter Diemert Memorial tournament at Livermore High. The JV boys were in The JV North Coast Championship at…
Acalanes Wrestling was in action Wednesday night at the league duals held at Concord high. The Dons were scheduled to take on Ygnacio Valley and Berean Christian. Unfortunately Ygnacio Valley was unable to field a team this season, so that left the young Dons with just one dual against Berean Christian. The Dons were able to come together and get…
Acalanes Wrestling team had their 3rd dual of the season Wednesday The 17Th at Mt. Diablo high. The young Dons once again had 7 first year underclassman in their Varsity line up. The Dons fought hard splitting the actual wrestling matches 6-6 but forfeiting 2 weight classes gave the Red Devils the 42-30 win in the dual. The Dons had…
On January 10th the Acalanes wrestling team had their first league dual of the season against Concord and Campo. The young Dons were able to fill 12 of the 14 weight classes with 8 of those being filled by 1st year wrestlers. Unfortunately the Dons came up short in both duals losing 64-18 to Concord and 54-30 to Campo. This…
Congratulations to 1st team All-DAL selections for Winter 2022/23: Jake Davis, Karyss Lacanlale, Sophie Chinn, Dulci Vail, Eli Roth, Zach Appel, Jonny Roth, Chloe Quintella, Jacque Peacock, Camryn Salazar, Addie Bailey, Hunter Goyert, and Olivia Banks. Go Dons! Sport 1st Team 2nd Team Honorable Mention Boys Hoops Jake Davis Theo Stoll Girls Hoops Karyss Lacanlale – MVP Emily Du Ariana…
Wrestling has come to an end. With a young team we continue to expand the girls program and rebuild the boys. We sent 4 boys and 4 girls to NCS. Dakota Goyert and Anya HassHollenbeck made it to day 2 in the tournament. We look forward to big things from these two next year. Freshman Kiran Gracie, Bryce Birdsong, and…
Saturday was a long arduous 14 hour tournament. Acalanes wrestlers persevered and 8 of our wrestlers moved on to NCS next week. Senior Hunter Goyert took 1st in the 140 bracket and went undefeated in league this year. Freshman Kirian Gracie took 4th place in the 115 bracket. Junior Dylan Potter took 4th and looked good in all his matches.…